What Is All Hallows' Eve? A Miserable Little Pile of Peanut Butter Kisses

As is tradition here around the Base, as the season comes to a close, I share my favorite Halloween special again.
The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (or The Night Dracula Saved the World, depending on which way you watch it) is pure Halloween. The silly acting, the low-rent costumes that look more like Halloween costumes than they probably should, the kind of plot they just don't write anymore. It's literally what Halloween looks like to me.

When I was a kid, they'd show it on the Disney Channel all October. I even had it and Witches' Night Out taped on a VHS cassette that eventually would only play from just before The Halloween That Almost Wasn't through the end of  Witches' Night Out. I'd watch it all year, and somehow the cheap tape survived.

Good thing my older brother forgot about the Rankin/Bass The Return of the King cartoon he had recorded just before I taped the specials after it. Because eventually it wouldn't even play anymore. The tape only worked in the spot where the Halloween specials lived.

Stuff like this is partially where cursed VHS tape urban legends come from. Worn-out video cassettes that selectively worked only in certain spots, with the rest full of static and bleed-through.

However, instead of dying in seven days, the curse from this one was me forcing it on everyone every Halloween. Of course, it's a good curse.

How could you not like watching an obviously high cast stumble through the set while delivering their lines like it was the most important gig they'd ever worked on? It's the most punk rock Halloween thing ever made.

Happy Halloween. Dracula saved it for you and me.