- Many TV shows do Halloween-themed episodes that can be spooky and sometimes sweet.
- “Friends” gave us Chandler as a pink bunny and other funny costumes.
- “The Office” is filled with costume inspiration and it has multiple Halloween-centric episodes.
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What better way to get in the Halloween spirit than by re-watching the scariest, spookiest, and sometimes funniest episodes of your favorite shows?
Here are some of the best Halloween-themed episodes on TV.
Jess works at a haunted house on Fox’s “New Girl.”
On season-two episode, “Halloween,” Jess is working at a haunted house and ends up getting punched by Nick when she jumps out and scares him.
And as if that’s not enough to convince you to watch, Schmidt shows up dressed as Abraham Lincoln.
NBC's "Friends" gave us Chandler as a pink bunny.
On season eight, episode six, "The One With The Halloween Party," everyone gathers at Monica's for a Halloween party in costume, including Chandler as a bunny when his "Velveteen Rabbit" costume didn't work out.
Joey also dresses and Chandler, but the best part of the episode might be how everyone can't stop making fun of Ross' spud-nik costume.
ABC's "Boy Meets World" does a decent job at merging scary and funny
Taking place during that insufferable period of time when Cory and Topanga are broken up, season-five episode "And Then There Was Shawn," finds the gang trapped in the school after they've been given detention.
A series of campy (and sometimes bloody) scares follow until Shawn is finally revealed as "the killer," all because he just wants his best friends to get back together.
NBC's "The Office" is filled with costume inspiration.
On season two, episode five, "Halloween," Michael is faced with a real-life scary problem: figuring out which of his employees he has to fire by the end of the day.
In the meantime, everyone shows up to the office in costume, including Jim as "Three Hole Punch Jim." That said, what really stands out is Michael's genius paper-mache second head.
The series had more than one Halloween episode, too.
Pin the employees of Dunder Mifflin against each other in a competition for a coupon book for businesses around Scranton, and you get one of their best Halloween episodes ever.
"Costume Contest" (season seven, episode six) is perhaps one of the show's funniest episodes of all time.
Fox's "The Simpsons" is always a classic.
It's impossible to decide which one is the best, but the entire "Treehouse of Horror" series from "The Simpsons" is perfect for fans who need to get just a little bit scared… or, OK, a lot scared.
Leslie dressed up as Rosie the Riveter on NBC's "Parks and Recreation."
The season-five episode, "Halloween Surprise," has scenes with Leslie and Ann as Rosie the Riveter and Gabby Douglas, respectively.
But as much fun as the Halloween goodness of this episode is, the true best moment is when Ben proposes to Leslie.
NBC's "Freaks and Geeks" perfectly explains how Halloween changes as you get older
On "Tricks & Treats," the third episode of the show and the only Halloween episode of this unfortunately short-lived series, Sam just wants to trick-or-treat like he's always done and his sister, Lindsay, just wants to be grown up.
Instead, chaos ensues and Lindsay accidentally eggs Sam and his friends.
No show does scary better than FX's "American Horror Story."
On the very first season of "AHS" - "Murder House" - the show pulled out all the stops for Halloween. The two-part episode is not only horrifying but also shocking, since it reveals some major plot points of the season.
The WB's "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" gets more sweet than scary.
The show's very first Halloween episode, "A Halloween Story," showcases some humor when Sabrina creates a clone of herself. But then, it turns sweet when she finds out she can speak to a deceased loved one every year on Halloween, and she gets to reunite with her grandmother.
J.D. and Turk sport pig heads on ABC-NBC's "Scrubs."
Season two, episode six, "My Big Brother," brings J.D.'s older brother to town with unexpected consequences. Plus, everyone in the hospital is dressed up in silly costumes.
The gang gets inspired by "Ghostbusters" on Netflix's "Stranger Things."
On the second episode of season two, "Trick or Treat, Freak," Mike and his friends show up in their "Ghostbusters" costumes as the only people who wore costumes to Hawkins on Halloween, dealing out the perfect amount of nostalgia to anyone who misses trick or treating.
Lorelai wants Luke to pull sausages out of his body on The WB's "Gilmore Girls."
Lorelai and Rory are estranged during season six, episode seven, "21 Is The Loneliest Number," so Lorelai instead tries to get Luke in on all of her Halloween schemes.
After they end up going to the birthday party Emily and Richard throw for Rory, Luke tries to cheer Lorelai up by agreeing to get spooky with her.