MacArthur and the Monsters

MacArthur and the Monsters is a fictional animated series.
== Summary ==
MacArthur goes on adventures around a scary-looking but surprisingly awesome island known as Monster Island, where she becomes a mad scientist and is accompanied by her Shiny Lucario sidekick, Stella, and her pets, the Pokémon Crew.
== Description ==
In this horrifically comedic and adventurous science fantasy children's series, MacArthur goes on adventures around Monster Island, an island that is scary-looking but surprisingly awesome, as a mad scientist and is accompanied by a Shiny Lucario named Stella and Pokémon pets known as the Pokémon Crew. Each episode features a monster, ranging from the animatronic puppet of a fictional children's television program to mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats, that MacArthur, Stella and the Pokémon Crew meet and befriend. Every episode begins with a cold open showing the biography of the featured monster and ends with MacArthur and Stella giving the viewers the Monster Quiz before bidding farewell. Also, MacArthur can transform into different monsters via Monster Potions and some episodes feature an original song sung by MacArthur and Stella.
== Characters ==
=== Main ===
* MacArthur (Voiced by Evany Rosen) - The titular character of the show. She becomes a mad scientist when on Monster Island. Her sidekick is Stella and her pets are the Pokémon Crew. MacArthur has a lot of monster friends on Monster Island.
* Stella (Voiced by Nicole Stamp) - A Shiny Lucario who is MacArthur's sidekick. Despite being a shiny Pokémon, Stella lives on Monster Island alongside the Pokémon Crew. Stella shares the same behavior and personality traits as Sanders, while her arms and legs are the same size as MacArthur's.
* The Pokémon Crew - A group of Pokémon who are MacArthur's pets. This group is consistent of Isabelle the Arcanine, Larry the Luxray, Gilbert the Gliscor, Derek the Druddigon, Henry the Haxorus, Talon the Talonflame, Sam the Simisear, Bowser the Mega X Charizard, Vector the Krookodile, Cindy the Cinderace, Edward the Electrive, Bella the Braixen, Sandy the Sandshrew and Gabby the Galvantula. Despite being Pokémon, the Pokémon Crew lives on Monster Island alongside Stella.
* Cosmo (Voiced by Tara Strong) - A Cosmog-Zorua fusion who is good friends with MacArthur and Stella. She is very playful and loves to cause mischief. Despite being a prankster, Cosmo is always ready to help Stella and MacArthur. Cosmo is also extremely ticklish and her favorite game is hide and seek. She debuts in Season 2.
* Wilma (Voiced by Stacey DePass) - A shiny Weavile who is best friends with Stella. She loves to help her friends and is mostly in charge of keeping an eye on Cosmo. Wilma debuts in Season 2.
=== Supporting ===
# Feverman - A big, chubby and slimy white monster who is one of MacArthur's monster friends. He uses his yummy milk-like substance to heal many illnesses. He debuts in The Feverman.
# Bee Monsters - A group of bee-like monsters who work at Monster Food Incorporated. They make the best honey on Monster Island. They debut in New York Honey.
# Vincent - A male vampire who is one of MacArthur's monster friends. Like the rest of his species, his teeth are not very sharp and his bites cause ticklish sensations instead of pain. He debuts in The Vampire Hunter.
# Bobby - A zombie who is one of MacArthur's monster friends. He looks exactly like Brody, causing MacArthur to have a secret crush on him. He debuts in My Zombie Lover.
# Herbert - A swamp creature who is one of MacArthur's monster friends. He debuts in The Match Game.
# Manny - A mandrake root who is one of MacArthur's monster friends. He lives in the garden of MacArthur's house, loves to play hide and seek and has the ability to turn into a handsome man at any time but the only way he can remain alive is by drinking a special red juice called Mandrake Juice, which is very poisonous to other monsters and humans and extremely scrumptious to other mandrake roots, from a pint, quart, gallon or glass. He debuts in The Mandrake Root.
# Wendy - A female werewolf who is Stella's very snooty blood relative. She lives in a haunted mansion and is known for her greed, her rich family and hosting parties that only other rich people are invited to. She debuts in One Wolf's Family.
# Wally - A male werewolf who is one of MacArthur's monster friends. He dreams of becoming a celebrity and achieves his dream with help from MacArthur, Stella and the Pokémon Crew. Wally later mails his friends sixteen tickets to the premiere of his very first movie as reward for helping him, exciting MacArthur, Stella and the gang. He debuts in Werewolf of Hollywood.
# Sully - A skeleton who is one of MacArthur's monster friends. He gets caught in a car accident and his body parts are scattered around Monster Island, but he is eventually put back together with help from MacArthur, Stella and the Fakemon Crew. He debuts in Where is the Rest of Me?.
# Draco - A dragon who is one of MacArthur's monster friends. He is first found in an egg by MacArthur during a game of hide and seek with her friends and later comes out of his egg after being hatched by MacArthur and her crew. He has a very big appetite and will eat anything given to him by the one who hatches him. He debuts in Sleeping Dragon.
# Natasha - A female vampire who is one of MacArthur's monster friends. She enjoys playing pool and loves being challenged to a game. She debuts in Pool Sharks.
# Monster Bed - A monstrous bed that MacArthur purchases from the monster store. It likes to use its tongues to lick and tickle anyone who is lying on it. It is one of MacArthur's house monsters. It debuts in Pillow Talk.
# Babe - A shark monster who is one of MacArthur's monster friends. He is a pool shark and challenges Natasha to a game of pool. He debuts in Pool Sharks.
# Clancy - A demon who is one of MacArthur's monster friends. He lives in Scary Suburbs and has the head, hands and feet of a Houndoom. He is very good friends with MacArthur and becomes excited whenever she visits him. He is very friendly to all Scary Suburbs visitors, but can't resist pulling some small pranks on them every now and then. Clancy enjoys using tickle torture, the most popular torture method on Monster Island, and has a family, as revealed in The Demon Family. He debuts in Satan in the Suburbs and makes a return in the Season Two episodes, Love Hurts and The Demon Family.
== Episodes ==
=== Season 1 ===
# The Feverman - Stella comes down with Monster Fever and turns half monster, so MacArthur and the Pokémon Crew call The Feverman, the most popular doctor on Monster Island, to help get Stella better. What they don't know is that The Feverman is actually a big, chubby and slimy white monster who uses his yummy milk-like substance to heal many illnesses. (Monster Transformation: Blob)
# Holly's House - MacArthur is hired to play as Holly the robot doll in Holly's House, the popular TV show on Monster Island. However, Stella and the Pokémon Crew cause ticklish trouble for MacArthur and Holly begins to malfunction. (Monster Transformation: Robot)
# New York Honey - MacArthur, Stella and the Pokémon Crew visit the Bee Monsters and learn that they are very professional at making the sweetest honey on Monster Island. (Monster Transformation: Bee)
# The Vampire Hunter - A veteran vampire hunter is determined to banish Vincent the vampire from Monster Island, so MacArthur, Stella and the Pokémon Crew work together to defeat the vampire hunter and save Vincent. (Monster Transformation: Vampire)
# My Zombie Lover - A zombie named Bobby comes to MacArthur's house to spend the night and MacArthur develops a secret crush on him. (Monster Transformation: Zombie)
# Where's the Rest of Me? - Sully the skeleton's parts are scattered around Monster Island after he gets caught in a car accident, so MacArthur, Stella and the Pokémon Crew must help him get his parts back so he can be put back together. (Monster Trasformation: Skeleton)
# The Legacy - MacArthur's favorite monster friend, Craig the Kraken, comes to visit and MacArthur is determined to get a lot of playtime with him. (Monster Transformation: Kraken)
# Sleeping Dragon - During a game of hide and seek with her friends, MacArthur finds a dragon egg. When she and the gang hatch the egg, however, they unleash a very hungry dragon. (Monster Transformation: Dragon)
# Pool Sharks - MacArthur, Stella and the Pokémon Crew visit Natasha, a female vampire who loves to play pool. When Natasha gets challenged by pool shark Babe the Shark, MacArthur, Stella and the Pokémon Crew must figure out a way to help her win. (Monster Transformation: Vampire, again)
# Pillow Talk - After MacArthur buys a monster bed, the monster bed tickles and licks MacArthur and Stella whenever they lie on it. What MacArthur and Stella doesn't know is that their monster bed is one of their many house monsters. (Monster Transformation: Cat)
# Rouse Her Not - MacArthur takes Stella and the Pokémon Crew to a haunted house owned by her friend, Gina the female ghost. (Monster Transformation: Ghost)
# Fools Gold - MacArthur, Stella and the Pokémon find a cave full of gold, but the gold is guarded by MacArthur's friend, Timmy the Troll. (Monster Transformation: Troll)
# Glim-Glim - An alien named Glim Glim crash lands near MacArthur's laboratory because his spaceship ran out of fuel, so MacArthur and her friends decide to help Glim Glim get enough fuel to make him airborne again. (Monster Transformation: Alien)
# Friends from Space - MacArthur is feeling very lonely because she has no friends to play with. Luckily for MacArthur, her friends, the Alien Rat Trio, come to Monster Island to have a playdate with her. (Monster Transformation: Alient Rat)
# The Mother Instinct - When MacArthur is asked to babysit the child of her friend Bertha the Brazilian bloodworm monster, her motherly instinct is put to the test. (Monster Transformation: Brazilian bloodworm)
# Her Divided Self - MacArthur uses her clone machine to create clones so her chores can be done quicker, but when everyone else later becomes confused on who is the real MacArthur, MacArthur must put an end to the confusion with help from her friend, Harley the Harpy. (Monster Transformation: Harpy)
# Monster Taps - MacArthur, Stella and the Pokémon Crew visit Gary the Griffin, who is the most famous tap dancer on Monster Island and one of MacArthur's monster friends, and MacArthur competes with him in a tap dance battle. (Monster Transformation: Griffin)
# The Match Game - MacArthur and her friends go to a house at Spooky Swamp to play a game where they tell each other a ghost story. Unbeknownst to the gang, MacArthur's ghost story attracts her friend, Herbert the Swamp monster. (Monster Transformation: Swamp)
# Rain Dance - When Monster Island becomes dry because of having no rainstorms in a month, MacArthur and the gang must visit MacArthur's friend, Carrie the Cloud monster for help. (Monster Transformation: Cloud)
# The Cocoon - MacArthur takes Stella and the Pokémon Crew to the Bug Forest, where they meet Bea the Butterfly monster, MacArthur's butterfly friend. (Monster Transformation: Butterfly)
# All in A Day's Work - Fiona, MacArthur's witch friend, needs MacArthur and the gang's help to fight her evil cousin Belphamelech before she destroys Witch City. (Monster Transformation: Dragon, again)
# Satan in the Suburbs - When MacArthur and the gang visits the Scary Suburbs, they meet Clancy the demon, MacArthur's demonic friend. After Clancy tickle tortures MacArthur and makes her drink her Demon Monster Potion, MacArthur must help Clancy win the Scary Games in order to be changed back to normal. (Monster Transformation: Demon)
# Mannikins of Horror - When MacArthur invites her friend Millie the Mannikin to her house for the weekend, Millie starts pulling pranks around the house. (Monster Transformation: Mannikin)
# La Strega - MacArthur takes Stella and the Pokémon Crew to visit her friend Lia, who is Italian-American and fluently speaks Italian. (Monster Transformation: Dragon, again)
=== Season 2 ===
# The Face - After Stella, MacArthur, Wilma, Cosmo, the Pokémon Crew and MacArthur's friend Gavin the Goblin create a face out of special clay, the face comes to life after MacArthur pours juice on it. The group have to get rid of the face before things get ugly. (Monster Transformation: Goblin)
# Portrait of the Artist - MacArthur, Stella, Wilma, Cosmo and the Pokémon Crew go to the Monster Museum, where they meet Stella's idol and MacArthur's artistic friend Poco the Peacock monster. (Monster Transformation: Peacock)
# A Bond of Silk - MacArthur, Stella, the Pokémon Crew, Wilma and Cosmo visit Sylvia the spider monster, a friend of MacArthur who is a professional at making spider webs. (Monster Transformation: Spider)
# Rerun - While watching on the monster television, MacArthur hears an announcement that an all new episode of her favorite show, The Monster Show, will air in a few days, so reruns will be aired until the day of the new episode. Fortunately, however, MacArthur's friend Tony the Clock Monster shows up to lend the gang a hand and let MacArthur see an all new episode of her show. (Monster Transformation: Clock)
# Love Hurts - Stella has a crush on Clancy's friend Dennis the demon dog, but she is too shy to confess, so Wilma, Cosmo, the Pokémon Crew, MacArthur and Clancy decide to help her gain confidence. (Monster Transformation: Demon, again)
# The Farmer's Daughter - MacArthur, Stella and the gang visit Howard the duck monster, who introduces them to his shy but friendly daughter, Lucy. (Monster Transformation: Duck)
# The Jar - Hamlet the pig monster offers MacArthur and the gang a big jar that contains a special monster pig that, whenever released, spends fun time with its owners and eats its favorite foods, carrots and potatoes, before returning to its jar to rest. (Monster Transformation: Pig)
# The Demon Family - Clancy introduces MacArthur, Stella and the gang to his family, consistent of his mom Claire, his dad Dan, his little brother Charlie, his little sister Chloe and his dog Duke. (Monster Transformation: Demon, again)
# MacArthur & the Reaper - When MacArthur takes Stella, Wilma, Cosmo and the Pokémon Crew to the Monster Hotel for a vacation, the Grim Reaper decides to accompany them. (Monster Transformation: Shark)
# The Mandrake Root - Manny the Mandrake Root is MacArthur's favorite monster plant because he has the ability to transform into a handsome man. To survive, Manny must drink Mandrake Juice from a glass, pint, quart or gallon. When MacArthur runs out of Mandrake Juice, she and the gang must visit Hamlet to get more. (Monster Transformation: Mandrake Root)
# Half as Old as Time - MacArthur, Stella, Wilma and the Pokémon Crew find out that Cosmo is old as half of a million years, so they visit Shirley the Shamin to get the reason why Cosmo has such an unbelievable age. (Monster Transformation: Alien, again)
# Museum Hearts - MacArthur and the gang revisits the Monster Museum to participate in a scavenger hunt. During the search for the final item on their list, MacArthur, Stella and the gang find a Druid mummy named Dummy Mummy, who was trapped in the basement of the museum by her past boyfriend. (Monster Transformation: Mummy)
# The Habitat - MacArthur, Stella, the Pokémon Crew, Wilma and Cosmo go to the Monster Zoo and meet MacArthur's friend Zelda the dinosaur monster, who is the only zookeeper in the Monster Zoo. (Monster Transformation: Dinosaur)
# Bed & Boar - MacArthur and her friends stop by the Monster Motel for a weekend of relaxation. However, MacArthur's childhood monster friend Bella the boar monster competes with Stella when she finds out that Stella is MacArthur's sidekick. (Monster Transformation: Boar)
=== Season 3 ===
=== Season 4 ===
== Trivia ==
* This show is based on Monsters, although the fourth season is created originally.
* The show is rated TV-Y7 for slapstick cartoon violence and family-friendly horror.
* There are up to three commercial breaks during each episode to create suspense for the viewers.
* There is also a three-question Monster Quiz segment at the end of each episode that features MacArthur and Stella quizzing the viewers on the monster featured in each story before bidding farewell.
* Every episode has a good ending and no characters get killed, regardless of each storyline's scariness.
* Each episode is twenty-two minutes long and feature a monster.
* In all episodes, MacArthur can use Monster Potions to transform into different monsters.
* Each season is twenty-four episodes long.
* This show airs on Cartoon Network, with new episodes airing on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
* On weekdays, this show normally airs after Scooby Doo and before Sanders Explains It All, though it also airs one-hour marathons on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
* On weekends, MacArthur and the Monsters airs after Total Drama Island and before Scooby Doo, though it airs a one-hour marathon on Saturdays, usually to start off the Cartoon Network Saturday Morning Party block with a pair of spooky, monstrous episodes selected by MacArthur herself.
* MacArthur and the Monsters is one of the Total Drama spin-off shows to appear on the Cartoon Network Morning Show, a block that airs every weekday morning and ever Sunday morning.
* On Halloween, this show airs a two-and-a-half hour marathon that counts down MacArthur's top five best episodes from each season and starts off Cartoon Network's Big Halloween Party.
* The episode Museum Hearts is a parody of the video game series Kingdom Hearts.
* In a tickle scene from New York Honey, the bee monsters swarm MacArthur and tickle every inch of sensitive skin they can find on her body, making her giggle.
* In a tickle scene from The Vampire Hunter, Vincent bites MacArthur's neck as reward for saving him from the vampire hunter, making MacArthur giggle due to his not-so-sharp teeth and harmless bite.
* In a tickle scene from Pillow Talk, MacArthur's monster bed uses its tongues to lick her armpits, waist and feet while she's lying on it, making her laugh and squirm.
* In another tickle scene from Pillow Talk, the monster bed uses its tongues to lick Stella's belly, sides, ears, armpits and feet while she's lying on it, making her laugh and wiggle.
* In a tickle scene from The Match Game, Herbert digs his hands into MacArthur's sides and tickles her, making her laugh.
* In a tickle scene from Where's the Rest of Me?, one of Sully's hands tickles one of MacArthur's armpits, making her giggle.
* In a tickle scene from Pool Sharks, Natasha bites MacArthur's neck and it tickles her.
* In the opening scene of Sleeping Dragon, MacArthur and her gang is seen playing hide and seek, as MacArthur is finishing up counting to twenty while her friends are looking for hiding places. MacArthur says "Ready or not, Here I come!" and starts looking for her friends.
* In the opening scene of The Mandrake Root, MacArthur is seen playing hide and seek with Manny, as she is looking for him. After looking around the greenhouse, MacArthur comes across a very handsome man. MacArthur stares at the man for a few seconds and then becomes tickled by a pair of vines that sprout out of the man's back. After the tickling, MacArthur says "Found you, Manny! I saw a couple of your vines poking out of your back!" and Manny, turning back to normal, says "Aww man! I almost had you stumped!".
* In a scene from Rain Dance, MacArthur, Stella and the Pokémon Crew arrive at the Cloud Central and Carrie flies over to them. Carrie says "Hi, MacArthur!" and MacArthur says "Hey, Carrie! Great to see you!". Carrie and MacArthur hug each other for one minute and then separate. Carrie asks "Is there a problem?" and Stella says "Yeah. Monster Island is on a drought because it hasn't rained for a whole month!", to which Carrie responds by saying "Oh, that's terrible!".
* In a tickle scene from Rain Dance, MacArthur tickles Carrie with a feather-shaped cloud until she tears up enough raindrops to cure Monster Island of its drought.
* In a tickle scene from Rouse Her Not, Gina uses her ghost powers to make her plants tickle MacArthur's belly. Afterwards, MacArthur gets revenge on Gina by pouncing on her like a lion and tickling her sides until she cries out "Okay, okay! I'm sorry!".
* In a scene from Rouse Her Not, MacArthur introduces Gina the ghost to her friends and Stella becomes amazed.
== Bumpers ==
=== When the show is coming up next ===
==== Weekdays ====
MacArthur: "Coming up next, it's MacArthur and the Monsters, followed by Sanders Explains It All! Right here on Cartoon Network!"
==== New Episodes (Mondays, Wednesday and Friday only) ====
MacArthur: "Coming up next on Cartoon Network, it's a brand new episode of MacArthur and the Monsters, followed by Sanders Explains It All!"
==== Weekends ====
MacArthur: "Up next, it's MacArthur and the Monsters, followed by Scooby Doo! Only on Cartoon Network!"
==== One-Hour Marathons (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday only) ====
MacArthur: "Coming up next, it's a full hour of MacArthur and the Monsters, followed by Sanders Explains It All/Scooby Doo! This is Cartoon Network!"
=== When the show is coming up later ===
==== Weekdays ====
Announcer: "Coming up next, it's Scooby Doo!"
MacArthur: "Followed by MacArthur and the Monsters!"
Announcer and MacArthur: "Only on Cartoon Network!"
==== New Episodes ====
MacArthur: "Scooby Doo is next on Cartoon Network, followed by a brand new episode of MacArthur and the Monsters!"
==== Weekends ====
MacArthur: "Coming up next, it's Total Drama Island, and then, MacArthur and the Monsters!"
==== One-Hour Marathons ====
Announcer: "Coming up next, it's Scooby Doo/Total Drama Island!"
MacArthur: "Followed by a full hour of MacArthur and the Monsters!"
MacArthur and Announcer: "On the one and only Cartoon Network!"
=== When the show is on now ===
==== Weekdays ====
MacArthur: "Now it's time for MacArthur and the Monsters and stay tuned for Sanders Explains It All! Only on Cartoon Network!"
==== New Episodes ====
Announcer: "Right now on Cartoon Network, it's time for a new MacArthur and the Monsters episode!"
MacArthur: "And if you want to have fun with my best friend Sanders and get the daily scoop on her life as a cop, keep watching for Sanders Explains It All!"
==== Weekends ====
MacArthur: "Now, it's MacArthur and the Monsters, and for more monsters with some mysteries, stay tuned for Scooby Doo, because he's coming up later!"
==== One Hour Marathon ====
MacArthur: "It's time for a full hour of MacArthur and the Monsters! That's right! I'm showing two back-to-back episodes of my monstrous show, baby! Also, if you want more Cartoon Network fun with my best friend Sanders/my old toon college friend Scooby, stay tuned and keep watching for Sanders Explains It All/Scooby Doo!"
=== When the show is going to a commercial break ===
==== Break One ====
MacArthur: "Don't change the channel! MacArthur and the Monsters will be right back after these commercials! In the meantime, I gotta feed my monster plants!"
==== Break Two ====
MacArthur: "I gotta go refill my potions. Keep those butts on your seats, because MacArthur and the Monsters will be back on after the break!"
==== Break Three ====
MacArthur: "No need to worry, kids! Yours truly and my monster buddies will be back after the break, on Cartoon Network!"
=== When the show is back on ===
==== Break One ====
MacArthur: "Now that my monster plants are properly fed with food, let's get back to MacArthur and the Monsters!"
==== Break Two ====
MacArthur: "My monster potions are refilled, so it's back to MacArthur and the Monsters!"
==== Break Three ====
MacArthur: "Now it's back to me, MacArthur, and my scary but awesome monster friends, for more monstrous comedy and action!"Category:Series
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