Nostalgic Halloween Episodes On Disney+ That Instantly Take You Back To Childhood

This bottle episode does almost everything an episode of Boy Meets World could do: it has angst over Corey and Topanga's relationship, Shawn being too involved in that angst, Eric making foolish choices, and, of course, a lesson from Mr. Feeny. 

Crucially, it's also a squeaky-clean introduction to slasher tropes, as a masked villain stalks the group during a detention gone awry and they all try to figure out who's under the mask. It's a sly, smart, all-ages riff on a horror movie, complete with a very 1998 role for Jennifer Love Hewitt and even a twist ending.

Many fans consider this one of the finest half-hours in the show's history, and it's easy to see why, though Feeny's gruesome fate is almost too effective for some Feeny fans. But even they know it's all in good fun.

Way back in 2001, this episode introduced a lot of kids to the idea of Día de Muertos. The Day of the Dead is new information for Lizzie's status-obsessed rival Kate Sanders, who casually disrespects Miranda, Miranda's parents, and the Mexican holiday itself. To teach Kate a lesson, her peers turn their middle school's fright night festivities into a series of elaborate pranks that terrify and embarrass Kate.

The whole episode is a time capsule for the early 2000s, but it's also timeless enough to make anybody fondly remember the days of jealousy over someone else's costume, good-natured pranking, babysitting a little sibling during social events, surly teenagers trick-or-treating in bad faith, and learning about other cultures. Some things are timeless, like getting revenge on a classmate because she won't let you be a vampire dungeon mistress during a holiday event at school.

Pranks are a big theme in Halloween episodes from any era, and this 1992 installment of Dinosaurs using a mean-spirited prank to leap into an unconventionally festive story.

When fan-favorite character Baby Sinclair horrifies his older bother and babysitter Robbie by pretending to choke on a cookie, Robbie tells Baby a tale to terrify: Robbie was bitten by a caveman, turning him into a “wereman.” According to the world's oldest dinosaur, Robbie's cursed to turn into a caveman every full moon, unless he can eat the toes of an infant dinosaur who ignores his bedtime.

Dinosaurs is a time capsule in so many ways. With its impeccable puppetry, of-the-moment references, and old-fashioned yarn-spinning, this particular episode is guaranteed to transport you back to the early '90s.

The annual Halloween-themed episodes of The Simpsons all hold up to repeat viewings during the Halloween season, but for an especially nostalgic kick, you can't go wrong with “Treehouse of Horror VI,” the installment that aired in 1994.

The first two stories in this episode are fairly straightforward: in the first, advertising mascots come to life and behave like monstrous kaiju, and in the second, Lisa and Bart face off against Groundskeeper Willie within their own dreams.

It's the third story that will transport you back to the mid-'90s: Homer enters a 3D world via a portal behind a bookshelf, and the 3D effect is achieved with computer animation, offering up a glimpse at a very different time in animation, long before seemingly every animated movie (or, at this point before Toy Story, really any animated movie) was created digitally.

If you ever inherit a mansion, make sure to check if it's haunted before trying to convert it into a hotel, because the ghosts of three musicians may have been haunting the place for over 60 years. Good advice for Goofy's pal Pete, whose new hotel just looks like a haunted mansion. It is, but when Pete and Goofy try to prove otherwise, it's up to Max Goof and his buddy PJ to save the day.

This classic Halloween tale is from all the way back in 1992, and it's guaranteed to kick up some fond memories for anybody who wore out their VHS copy of A Goofy Movie, which hit theaters a few years later. And thanks to the ghosts in this episode, the nostalgic possibilities go much deeper: the ghosts are an old-timey ’20s band called "Fingers McFee and his Ragtime Band." Oh, and Goofy’s great-great grandfather Gooferamus T. Goofy makes a ghostly appearance, too.

Halloween episodes can be perfect opportunities for any show to break its established rules and have some fun with more fantastical ideas. That's exactly what Even Stevens did with a 2001 holiday episode that turns up the dial on the show's low-simmering absurdity and imagination. Speaking of which, Louis intends to use Halloween for a massive prank, but he's stumped by an eye exam that appears to be turning everyone he knows into straight-laced rule-followers who drink too much milk and think about their permanent records too often.

Ren, meanwhile, is not a fan of the holiday, because it gives jerks like Louis an excuse to be jerks like Louis. Rather than partake in prankery, Ren assists Principal Wexler and Coach Tugnut as they administer the all-important eye exams. The episode runs through multiple twists, inverting the show's usual dynamics while staying true to both Louis and Ren as characters. And when it all starts to feel too absurd, a final reveal makes sense of the whole thing.