Octopus/Squid

Octopuses and squid are sea-dwelling mollusks with no external shells. They have tentacles that they use to grasp their prey. They are also capable of squirting ink that enables them to escape from predators.
Hanna-Barbera had octopi and squid in many of their animated series.
== Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School ==
* There is an octopus butler at Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Ghouls.
== Snorks ==
* Occy is the octopus in this series.
== The Magilla Gorilla Show ==
* "Camp Scamps": At the beginning of the episode, Mr. Peebles calls the aquarium, saying that he's donating an octopus to them.
== The Flintstones ==
* In several episodes, octopuses are used to wash dishes.
* The Gruesomes have a pet octopus called Octi.
* "Adobe Dick": Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble mistake an octopus for an anchor.
* "Time Machine": At the World's Fair, the Flintstones and Rubbles leave Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm in the care of a female octopus.
* "Dripper": An octopus shakes Fred and Barney down when they pretend to be babies. Later, after Fred gives another octopus a peanut, it decides there are more peanuts where that one came from, and hitches a ride with the men, saying, "Well, here we go again."
== Touché Turtle and Dum-Dum ==
* In the show's intro, Touché Turtle defeats an octopus by tying its tentacles in knots.
== Jonny Quest ==
* "Forty Fathoms into Yesterday": The Quest team's sub is caught by an octopus or squid just before they go back in time to 1944.
== The Secret Squirrel Show ==
* Squiddly Diddly stars in one of the segments of this series. Squiddly would go on to be part of the crew in Yogi's Ark Lark and Yogi's Gang.
== Birdman ==
* "Serpents of the Deep": Dr. Shark sends a shark and octopus to capture Birdman....
== Moby Dick ==
* A bumper shows Moby Dick, Tom, Tub, and Scooby passing a sunken ship when an octopus grabs hold of Moby. He ties its tentacles into knots.
* "The Electrifying Shocktopus": Moby pits himself against Captain Squid's Shocktopus.
== Frankenstein Jr. ==
* "The Incredible Aqua Monsters": Dr. Hook shrinks an octopus, crab. and lobster. and then enlarges them so that they can take out Buzz Conroy and Frankenstein Jr.
== Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! ==
* "Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright": A mother octopus at the aquarium taps Scooby-Doo when he gets hold of her baby.
== The New Scooby-Doo Movies ==
* "Wednesday Is Missing": During Gomez and Morticia's vacation in the Okefenokee Swamp, Gomez is grabbed by an octopus.
== Josie and the Pussycats ==
* "Don't Count on a Countess": In one scene, Alexander Cabot III fights an octopus, and says, 'I'm outnumbered eight to one!"
== Sealab 2020 ==
* A squid is seen in the show's intro. There are also octopi and squid in some episodes as well.
== Jeannie ==
* "The Sailors": Oscar the octopus is one of the sea creatures Jeannie uses to make it look like she's in danger.
== The Addams Family (1973) ==
* Ocho is the Addams Family's pet octopus.
== Hong Kong Phooey ==
* In one episode, Rosemary alerts the police about an escaped octopus, stating that the suspect may be armed.
== Jabberjaw ==
* In the show's main title, Jabberjaw defeats an octopus by tying its tentacles in knots, as Touché Turtle did.
== CB Bears ==
* "Island of Terror": The CB Bears have to deal with an octopus.
== Challenge of the Superfriends ==
* The show's intro shows Aquaman using an octopus or squid to tie up Black Manta.
== The All-New Popeye Hour ==
* "Popeye's Aqua Circus": Popeye and Olive Oyl dance with an octopus.
== Laff-a-Lympics ==
* Orful Octopus is the Creepleys' pet on the Really Rottens team.
== Godzilla ==
* "Calico Clones": Dr. Voltrang has cloned a squid into a giant one that he sends to recapture the crew when they escape.
* "The Macro-Beasts": Squid are among the sea creatures that grow after feeding on a super nutrient.
== Jana of the Jungle ==
* "Suspicion": When Dr. Ben Cooper is wrongfully accused of stealing a tribe's black pearl, the tribal elders put him on an island where he's threatened by an octopus.
== Smurfs ==
* "A Mere Truffle": The Truffle Trolls put Brainy Smurf, Clumsy Smurf, Greedy Smurf, Vanity Smurf, Scaredy Smurf, and Smurfette on an island where they're menaced by The Thing with No Name, an octopus that likes truffles.
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