Top 10 Halloween Episodes From Your Favorite TV Shows
Halloween at home doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
While many of us have spent the spooky season enjoying the fun and frightening festivities that ensue this Halloween, more low-key celebrations are sure to be favored, too. Sure, there are a lot of fun Halloween activities from dressing up to giving out candy to going to your local Halloween party, but for those who want to stay in, there's plenty of festive Halloween-themed TV to binge.
Modern Family: "Halloween" Season 2 Episode 6
No one does Halloween parties better than the Pritchett-Dunphy household. With Claire's extravagant and seemingly over-the-top haunted house decor, trouble and mishaps are bound to occur for each Modern Family character, from costume malfunctions, claiming holiday ownerships, and more.
New Girl: "Keaton" Season 3 Episode 6
In true Jess style, she and Nick team up to throw a Halloween party in an effort to help Schmidt reconnect with Cece. The gang also decides to help Schmidt change his sullen behavior post-breakup: by catfishing his childhood idol Michael Keaton.
The Office: "Halloween" Season 2 Episode 5
There have been numerous Halloween episodes from The Office, and if there's one character that never fails to deliver it's Dwight. Dressing as a Sith Lord for Halloween, Phyllis hilariously mistakes his costume for a monk.
The Simpsons: "The Treehouse of Horror V" Season 6 Episode 6
An homage to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, Season 6 Episode 6 of The Simpsons titled "The Treehouse of Horror V" shows a different side of Homer Simpson where he spirals out of control in an effort not to murder his family.
Friends: "The One With The Halloween Party" Season 8 Episode 6
In Friends' "The One with the Halloween Party," each character enters a mishap of their own: with Chandler unwillingly dressed as a pink bunny, Ross' "spud-nik" costume that no one understood, Rachel's maternal instinct shining through her candy-handing activities, and many more.
Gossip Girl: "How to Succeed in Bassness" Season 3 Episode 7
On Halloween, do as the Upper East Side elites do: throw a 1920s flapper-era-themed Halloween party complete with scheming, drama, and betrayal.
The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air: "Hex And The Single Guy" Season 4 Episode 7
With a fresh set of fangs and a line-up of spooky festivities coming Will's way, Halloween at the Banks household went from fun to frightening as he tried to undo a hex that was cast on his family.
Scream Queens: "The Pumpkin Patch" Season 1 Episode 5
The short-lived horror-satire hit Scream Queens by Ryan Murphy is a whole ode to Halloween in and of itself. In the notorious Chanel-o-ween style during a Season 1 episode titled "The Pumpkin Patch," we get a glimpse of hell week at Kappa Kappa Tau.
Grey's Anatomy: "Haunt You Everyday" Season 4 Episode 5
One of the most gruesome and chilling Grey's Anatomy episodes to date, doctors at Seattle Grace Hospital find themselves overwhelmed with several mutilated patients from a chainsaw pumpkin carving contest.
How I Met Your Mother: "Slutty Pumpkin" Season 7 Episode 8
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TV's favorite hopeless romantic Ted finally meets the mystery girl in a slutty pumpkin costume, all while Barney faces an identity crisis after discovering he is part Canadian and Lily suffers a severe case of "pregnancy brain."