The network filmed special Halloween bumpers for its family-oriented Friday night programming block, with hit shows like Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Family Matters, and Full House all running Halloween-themed episodes. Sitcoms from Friends to Frasier got in on the fun, but none went as hard as ABC’s beloved TGIF. The ‘90s were an especially fruitful time for the sitcom Halloween episode. It’s the season 5 Boy Meets World slasher parody “And Then There Was Shawn,” which originally aired on Feb. But my favorite Halloween episode - the one that both evokes those feelings and holds up as a good episode of television - actually wasn’t intended to be a Halloween episode at all. The heady rush of nostalgia seemed more potent as we remembered not only the TV show itself, but also the nervous anticipation that Halloween season would bring us as children.
Before the pandemic cancelled large gatherings, I used to host a Halloween party where we’d watch Halloween episodes of TV from our childhoods.
Showrunners tend to go all-out for the holiday, often throwing tone, internal logic, and continuity out the window in favor of a silly, spooky time.
Halloween episodes of sitcoms are an especially fun form of media.
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