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Slightly Weird

**Slightly Weird** is the twenty-fourth episode of the first series.

## Plot

Berk is down the trap door, looking for something for the Thing Upstairs to have for breakfast for when he comes home. Berk notices a large pile of mushrooms. As he grabs one of them, it bites him, and runs off. Berk, hurt and angered, is determined to make the mischievous mushroom his master’s breakfast, so he chases after it.

Berk follows the mushroom, wherever it goes. Berk falls down a trap, but lands unharmed. The mushroom reappears, and it kicks him, so Berk runs after the mushroom again. The mushroom notices the Slug, who happens to be passing by, and jumps onto the Slug’s back for a very short while. However, Berk does not notice this. Instead, he has another nasty encounter with the Large Spider, who suddenly emerges from the darkness. It surprises Berk, who fortunately runs away in time, just before it is able to attack him.

Berk then sees the mushroom again, but, after it reappears, it pushes Berk’s into the lake. Berk comes out of the lake, drenched in dirty pink water. Berk, feeling fed up, then gives up trying to catching the mushroom, so he tries to find a way back to the castle.

Meanwhile, back at the castle, Boni is wondering how Berk is getting on. He sees Berk coming out of the trap door, and initially mistakes Berk for another creature, since Berk is still covered with water. The Thing Upstairs, who has now returned home, yells at Berk for his breakfast. However, Berk is still happy to be home. Even better, the mushroom has even decided to come along with him.

## Trivia

* Berk states that the Thing Upstairs is “flying” home for his breakfast, implying that the Thing Upstairs may have wings.
* Whether the mushroom creature was eaten by the Thing Upstairs is debateable, since one is featured in the following episode. The mushroom that appears in the following episode might have been a different one, but this is not ever confirmed.
* At the end of the episode, when Berk returns to the castle, Berk can be heard saying “There’s no place like home!”. This possibly references the famous ending line from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 1939 acclaimed film adaption of *The Wizard of Oz*.
	+ Incidentally enough, that film’s famously quoted ending line was later used by Berk at the end of the following episode.

## Home media releases

### UK (VHS)

* *Watch Out for That Nasty Stuff* (1986)
* *The Trap Door: 12 Scary Episodes* (1991)
* *The Pain - Plus 11 Scary Episodes* (1999)

### UK (DVD)

* *The Trap Door: Complete Collection* (2005)
Food for Thort

**Food for Thort** is the third episode of the first series.

## Plot

Boni comments on how quiet everything is around the castle, until the Thing Upstairs calls for Berk. The Thing Upstairs asks about his garden. Berk replies positively, despite his disdain towards the garden, and he goes to check on it.

Berk inspects the collection of strange and sentient plant-creatures from the garden. He feeds them, and then goes to feed Thort, who is the Thing Upstairs’ most treasured one. Thort lashes at Berk for its food, and ends up eating the rest of Berk’s feed, which startles and irritates Berk.

Berk then leaves the garden, and goes off to make some food for the Thing Upstairs. Suddenly, a swarm of wasps burst out of the trap door, and one of them stings Berk. Berk runs away from the angry insects, and runs into the room containing the Thing Upstairs’ garden. Fortunately, Thort gobbles the wasps up, much to Berk’s satisfaction. Berk then decides to enlist Thort to devour the remaining wasps, all of which are swarming around the trap door.

After Thort consumes the rest of the wasps, the Thing Upstairs then becomes hungry. Berk jokingly makes a remark about turning Thort into a nice salad for the Thing Upstairs, much to Berk’s wry amusement, and much to Thort’s shock.

## Trivia

* The episode’s title is a deliberate play-on-words. It stems from “food for thought”, which is a common idiom and phrase.
* The title card for this episode is featured in *Michaela’s Birthday Show for Boys*, which is a made-for-video special, which also features the title card for *Creepy Crawly*. The special also shows part of the TV series‘ opening titles, two very short segments from *Slither, Wriggle and Writhe*, and the closing few seconds from *Gourmet’s Delight* and *The Big Thing*.
	+ *Michaela’s Birthday Show for Boys* was released by Channel 5 Video, which had previously released *The Trap Door* on video.

## Home media releases

### UK (VHS)

* *Creepy Crawly Adventures* (1986; re-released in 1991)
* *Michaela’s Birthday Show for Boys* (1990); clip
* *Breakfast Time and 11 Other Adventures* (2000)

### UK (DVD)

* *The Trap Door: Complete Collection* (2005)
Nigel Davies

**Nigel Davies** is a British animator, who assisted animating the “Eyes in the Dark” animation sequences for *The Trap Door*.

## Trivia

* Davies would later work for Aardman Animations, like many other writing and animation staff behind *The Trap Door*, and worked on such works as *Creature Comforts* and *Shaun the Sheep*.
* Davies also worked as a clean-up animator for *The Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot*, a 1998 animated comedy adventure film.
Headaches

**Headaches** are things, and sometimes happen in the TV series.

## History

Berk had a headache in *Nasty Stuff*, and attempted to cure his headache with medicine. This turned Berk into an aggressive transformation of himself. Boni drinks some medicine, after Berk permanently turns back into his normal form, because Boni also had a headache. Boni becomes a more monstrous version of himself, and chases Berk and Drutt out of the cellar.

Boni is often seen having a headache, or mentions about likely getting one. This is usually when any monsters cause interference, or generally if anything goes wrong in the castle.
Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite

**Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite** is the eleventh episode of the first series.

## Plot

Drutt gets overexcited. He runs into Berk’s cupboard, which Berk had just finished tidying, and knocks several things over, including a pot, which lands onto him. Berk is annoyed with Drutt for making the mess, but he feels much too tired to clean up, and goes off to his bed.

After Berk falls asleep, Boni starts to feel tired as well. However, before Boni is able to drift off, a dark green monster knocks on the trap door. Boni welcomes the monster in, but it appears to be far from friendly. The creature snatches Boni away from his resting hole, and Boni yells for Berk to come and save him. This causes Berk to seemingly wake up. As Berk hears Boni yelling from the trap door, he reluctantly jumps down to rescue his friend. He lands into the dungeon, and he encounters an assortment of bizarre and horrifying creatures, and the creatures frighten him. Even worse, despite hearing Boni echoing for Berk’s help, Berk has no success in finding him.

However, all of this is soon revealed to be just a nasty dream. Boni calls Berk, which helps Berk to wake up. Just as Berk is about to jump down the trap door, he hears Boni yelling at him again. Berk drops the trap door down in surprise. Much to Berk’s relief, Boni tells Berk that he was only dreaming. Berk explains that his dream was so horrible, that it was worse than having to give the Thing Upstairs a slime bath. Boni finds this very amusing, and he laughs.

## Trivia

* This episode is one of two in which most of the episode’s narrative is later revealed to be part of a character’s dream. The other episode to feature this storytelling dynamic is *Moany Boni*. The main different between the two is that this episode focuses on Berk having a bad dream, whereas the other episode centres on Boni having one.
* We hear Bubo’s voice, although we do not actually see him. The voice may have belonged to another monster, and the monster may not have even existed, since most of the episode’s events were later revealed to be a dream.
* Some of the monsters in this episode, which appear in Berk’s dream, have been confirmed in later episodes to be existing monsters. For example, the Drooly Worm. The Tentacled Mouth, or at least a very similar monster from the same species, can very briefly be seen in *Strange Goings On*.

## Home media releases

### UK (VHS)

* *Creepy Crawly Adventures* (1986; re-released in 1991)
* *Breakfast Time and 11 Other Adventures* (2000)

### UK (DVD)

* *The Trap Door: Complete Collection* (2005)
The Drooling Brown Thing

## The Drooly Brown Thing

**The Drooling Brown Thing** is a large brown worm-like creature, who appears as a minor character during the first season.

## Biography

The Drooling Brown Thing appears in *Don’t Open That Trap Door*, in which it comes out of the trap door, and is one of the monsters to be seen dancing around the castle to the music playing from Berk’s radio.

The Drooling Brown Thing appears in *Bye Bye Berk*, the season one finale. As Berk accidentally leaves the trap door open, it is one of many creatures to come out of it. It is seen jumping around, and it makes a funny noise, just as Berk temporarily leaves the castle.
The Horrible Thing

**The Horrible Thing** is the fourth episode of the second series.

## Plot

The Thing Upstairs is away, and Berk is happy to not have to do chores for a while. However, with little to do, Berk and Boni start feeling bored. After thinking of some fun activities to do, Berk comes up with the idea of playing “hide and seek”. Boni is unsure exactly what “hide and seek” is, so Berk explains to him what it is. Berk decides that he and Boni should hide from Drutt, and Drutt can seek them. Berk puts an empty pot over Drutt, so he can make it harder for Drutt to find him and Boni. Berk and Boni go off, and hide in the elevator.

A yellow shape-shifting monster, which resembles a portion of custard, squeezes out of the trap door. The Gooey Custardy Thing wonders around the cellar amok. Berk and Boni hear the slimy menace approaching, but assume that it is only Drutt seeking them both. The Custardy Thing makes it way into the elevator shaft, causing Berk to run out in shock.

The Thing Upstairs suddenly arrives back at the castle. The Thing Upstairs feels hungry, after coming home from his long journey, so he shouts at Berk for his dinner. Berk feels agitated, because he forgot to prepare food for when his master came home. Berk sees the Custardy Thing still slithering around in the elevator, and decides that it should make a good meal, so he feeds it to the Thing Upstairs. Berk hears Boni yelling, and feels aggravated to have found out that he left Boni in the lift.

The Thing Upstairs feels satisfied with his dinner, but informs Berk to leave the bones out next time. The “bones” is none other than Boni. The Thing Upstairs sends Boni down the elevator, much to Berk’s relief. Boni complains at how repulsive the Thing Upstairs really is. Berk ripostes, telling Boni that the Thing Upstairs is not a very pretty sight at all. Berk then says how fortunate Boni is, as he only ever saw the Thing Upstairs’ front side.

## Home media releases

### UK (VHS)

* *Scunge* (1989)
* *The Stupid Thing and 11 Other Adventures* (2000)

### UK (DVD)

* *The Trap Door: Complete Collection* (2005)
Berk’s Bath

**Berk’s Bath** is an object, situated in the castle, that exclusively appears in the television series in *The Stupid Thing*.

## Biography

Berk is shown washing himself in his bathtub, while he is singing the theme song of the television series. Much to Berk’s surprise and annoyance, Drutt suddenly appears from the bath. Ironically, as Berk is still taking his bath, the Thing Upstairs demands that Berk gives him one. Berk removes himself from the bath, offscreen, before making his way upstairs.

## Appearance

The bath is a small green bathtub. It is built into the wall, although it is supported by four legs.

## Trivia

* Though Berk’s bath is clearly located in the castle, It is not made clear which room the bath is in.
* Though Berk’s bath resembles a typical bathtub, there does not seem to be any taps. All that we see is a pipe in the wall, where the water flows from.
Fishing

**Fishing** is an activity, often seen in the television series.

## History

Fishing is something Berk did in *Lurkings*. He brought Drutt and Boni with him, and Boni did not want to go, but Berk thought it was fun. Drutt kept eating the worms, which Berk was using as bait. Boni kept moaning, which caused Berk to hate fishing.
The Trap Door: Two Volume Set

**The Trap Door: Two Volume Set** is an extremely rare Canadian VHS release, released at an unknown time. It contains all forty episodes, from the television series, across two videos.

## Episodes

1. *Breakfast Time*
2. *Slither, Wriggle and Writhe*
3. *Food for Thort*
4. *Lurkings*
5. *Gourmet’s Delight*
6. *Creepy Crawly*
7. *The Big Thing*
8. *Ghoulies*
9. *The Dose*
10. *The Thingy*
11. *Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite*
12. *Fester Rancid*
13. *The Pain*
14. *The Little Thing*
15. *Don’t Open That Trap Door*
16. *Junk Food*
17. *Yechh!*
18. *Flyin’ Wotsit Fingy*
19. *Strange Goings On*
20. *Midnight Snack*
21. *Nasty Stuff*
22. *Sniff That*
23. *Vile Pile*
24. *Slightly Weird*
25. *Bye Bye Berk*
26. *Scunge*
27. *Oh Globbits*
28. *Moany Boni*
29. *The Horrible Thing*
30. *Not Very Nice*
31. *Bugs*
32. *Yum Yum*
33. *Birthday Surprise*
34. *The Stupid Thing*
35. *Boo!*
36. *The Lump*
37. *The Splund*
38. *Nasty Beasty*
39. *What a Weirdo*
40. *The Big Red Thing*
Oh Globbits (episode)

**Oh Globbits** is the second episode of the second series.

## Plot

Berk goes to fix a burst pipe, just as the castle starts to flood with water. He sees a thick worm squiggling around, so Berk blocks the burst pipe with the worm. As Berk returns, he notices that Boni is missing from his hole. Boni calls for Berk, and tells him that he and Drutt are hiding from a trapdoor monster. Berk then encounters the monster, a huge green snivelling cloud-like sponge-creature, and is knocked over by it. Berk picks himself up off of the ground, and whacks the Sponge away with a loose plank, but the Sponge comes back.

Berk chases the Sponge through the hallway, scares the Sponge out of the castle, and tells it to never come back. Berk wonders whether Boni and Drutt are okay, seeing that he has now frightened the Sponge away, and makes his way back to the castle. The worm, still stuck in the pipe, starts to feel the pressure of the blocked pipe building up. It then bursts out of the pipe, as a flood of dirty water fills the castle.

Berk arrives back at the castle, and finds the place flooded. Boni, who is floating in a scunge pot on the surface of the water with Drutt, suggests that Berk should find a great big sponge to absorb the water. This gives Berk the idea of using the giant flying sponge-creature, so it can absorb the water. With the intention of luring the Sponge back to the castle, Berk goes outside again. Unfortunately, by the time that Berk calls for the Sponge to come back, it had already flown off.

## Trivia

* During the opening section, before the episode’s title appears, we hear dialogue echoing from Berk from inside of the castle.
* We can hear Berk humming a tune, briefly at one point in the episode, that sounds very much similar to the titular musical number from *Singing in the Rain* (1952).

## Goofs

* When Berk thinks of a way of getting rid of the flood, you would think that he could get rid of it by using the trap door. There is no acknowledgment of this idea made in the episode. Whether this was a mistake made by the writers, or whether this is a deliberate fault from Berk’s part, can be debated.

## Home media releases

### UK (VHS)

* *Scunge* (1989)
* *The Stupid Thing and 11 Other Adventures* (2000)

### UK (DVD)

* *The Trap Door: Complete Collection* (2005)
The Big Red Thing

Who's The Big Red Thing?"

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* For **the character**, see The Big Red Thing (character).
* For **the TV series episode**, see The Big Red Thing (episode).
The Pain

**The Pain** is the thirteenth episode of the first series.

## Plot

The Thing Upstairs is groaning loudly, so Berk asks him what the matter is. The Thing Upstairs reveals to Berk that he has a toothache, so Berk grabs his teeth-removing gear, and he then goes upstairs to address his master.

After Berk leaves, Drutt starts to feel hungry, so he opens the trap door with a small wooden plank. Some worms emerge, but a giant creature - the Slug - also comes out. The Slug is feeling especially hungry itself, so it chases Drutt around the castle. Drutt manages to escape the Slug, by squeezing through the bars of a vent, and he ends up out on the other end, which leads him into another room. However, the Slug soon catches up.

Just before the giant slug is about to eat Drutt, Berk arrives, and knocks the creature out, by whacking it on the head with the Thing Upstairs’ removed fang. After Berk asks Drutt if he is alright, the Thing Upstairs yells at Berk, and reveals to him that he pulled out the wrong tooth. Berk then assures the Thing Upstairs that the right tooth will be removed this time. The Thing Upstairs continually yells in pain, and Drutt laughs uncontrollably.

## Home media releases

### UK (VHS)

* *Watch Out for That Nasty Stuff* (1986)
* *The Trap Door: 12 Scary Episodes* (1991)
* *The Pain - Plus 11 Scary Episodes* (1999)

### UK (DVD)

* *The Trap Door: Complete Collection* (2005)
Pop

**Pop**, stylised as “POP”, is a British and Irish children’s television channel. It initially aired episodes of The Trap Door in 2009. It ran the episodes, multiple times, until 2010.

## Trivia

* The television channel was originally branded as “Toons & Tunes”. In May 2003, the channel was later rebranded as “Pop”.

## References

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop\_(British\_and\_Irish\_TV\_channel)
The Yellow Blobby Worm

**The Yellow Blobby Worm** is a large and scary worm-shaped trapdoor monster, who makes its first and only appearance in the TV series in *Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite*.

## Biography

Berk goes searching for Boni, who was kidnapped by a slimy green monster, down the trap door. Berk runs into an assortment of hungry, scary and weird monsters, and the Yellow Blobby Worm is one of them. It lunges at Berk, makes a noise, and frightens Berk away from it.

## Trivia

* Since most of the events in the episode were revealed to be a dream, the monster might not have existed.
Birthday Surprise

**Birthday Surprise** is the eighth episode of the second series.

## Plot

Berk and Boni are inside of Berk’s closet, looking for Drutt, as they cannot seem to find Drutt anywhere. Boni has something else on his mind, and tries to tell Berk of this, but Berk is far too concerned with finding Drutt to care. After Berk finally finds Drutt, he asks Drutt what he is doing. As Drutt runs off again, Berk tells Boni how peculiar Drutt is behaving at the moment. Boni tells Berk to leave Drutt be, and tells Berk that he has some news. Berk asks Boni what it is that he desperate wants to share with him, and Boni informs Berk that it is his birthday.

Berk wishes Boni a happy birthday. He takes Boni into the kitchen, and he prepares a cake for him. As Berk makes the cake, Rogg, as well as dozens of worms, appear out of the trap door. Rogg asks Berk what he is doing, and, as it is Boni’s birthday, Berk tells Rogg that he is making a birthday cake for Boni. Rogg watches Berk in admiration, as Berk concocts Boni’s cake. Rogg even claims to have never had birthday cake before. Berk tells Rogg that he can try some cake, as long as he stays around for long enough.

Berk soon finishes making Boni’s cake, cooks it, and he even puts a candle on top of it. Berk and Rogg wish Boni many happy returns. Berk says that he would have arranged a birthday party, had Drutt been with them. Drutt appears, fortunately, and has revealed to be a parent of a quartet of equally-adorable newborns. Berk soon learns the reason why Drutt was hiding all this time, as he was building a nest for his babies. Boni is upset, because Drutt’s nippers eat his cake, but Berk and Rogg are too smitten by Drutt’s children to care. Berk tells Boni that he did not really forgotten about his birthday. He gives Boni a wig for a present, and Boni is absolutely delighted by it. The episode ends with Berk commenting on how much he loves a happy ending.

## Home media releases

### UK (VHS)

* *Scunge* (1989)
* *The Stupid Thing and 11 Other Adventures* (2000)

### UK (DVD)

* *The Trap Door: Complete Collection* (2005)

## Gallery

Title cardFalluckan (Trap Door) - "Birthday Surprise"
The Blob

**The Blob** is a small green shapeshifting creature, who is occasionally seen in the first season of the television series.

## Biography

The Blob makes his first TV appearance in *The Dose*. As Berk concocts The Thing Upstairs’ medicine, the Blob comes out of the trap door. Berk leaves the Thing Upstairs’ medicine, and soon notices the creature stuck to the wall. He orders the creature to come off the wall. He does so, but runs off, so Berk chases after him. After much wondering around, the Blob soon enters the room containing the Thing Upstairs’ medicine. He drinks the medicine, which causes him to shapeshift several times. Berk soon finds and catches the little green blob, and is about to send the mischievous young monster down the trap door, but he sees the Blob’s mother, who is waiting to collect her son, poking out of it. As the Blob and his mother reunite, the Thing Upstairs releases a loud sneeze, and the two of them disappear back down the trap door.

The Blob provides a cameo in *Don’t Open That Trap Door*. The Blob is one of many monsters to come out from under the trap door, into the cellar, when Berk plays the TV series theme song from his radio.

The Blob also has a cameo in *Bye Bye Berk*, which is the season one finale. In the episode, as Berk had accidentally left the trap door open, the Blob is one of many monsters to appear into the cellar.
Flyin’ Wotsit Fingy (episode)

**Flyin’ Wotsit Fingy** is the eighteenth episode of the first series.

## Plot

Berk has his camera and tripod set out, and he wants to take some pictures. He tries to take a photograph of Drutt, but Drutt is being temperamental. Boni tells Berk that Drutt is acting this way, because he may not want to have his photograph taken. Berk brushes off that remark, and tells Boni and Drutt to behave themselves.

Suddenly, just as Berk is about to go back to his photographing, a flying green bat-like creature, which Berk refers to as a “Flyin’ Wotsit Fingy”, appears from the trap door. Berk is alarmed by this, as he is aware of the Thing Upstairs’ unusual allergic reactions to small flying creatures of that kind, and he becomes anxious about the flying thing possibly coming into contact with the Thing Upstairs.

The flying thing perches itself on a shelf. Berk uses Drutt to hit the creature, but misses it, and Drutt lands into a scunge pot. The flying creature flies off again, and it soon stops off near the archway, so Berk orders Drutt to pursue it. Drutt comes out of the pot, and the flying thing takes off again. It flies into Berk’s cupboard, so Berk chases it inside. The Little Thing, who was hiding in the cupboard, appears out of the cupboard, makes a noise, and disappears. Boni, who hears the commotion coming from the cupboard, sarcastically remarks on how much fun Berk seems to be having. The flying thing soon flies out, and Berk runs after it again.

The flying thing positions itself next to the camera. Berk tries to catch it, but falls over. He picks himself up, runs into the camera, and inadvertently takes a photograph. The creature flies away again, but Berk gives up trying to look for it. He sits with Boni instead, and they both admire the photograph. Boni asks Berk where the flying thing had gone, Berk tells him that he does not know. The Thing Upstairs suddenly yells at Berk, telling him that the flying thing had escaped into his bedroom. Berk dreads having to remove the flying creature from the bedroom, and having to burst the Thing Upstairs’ pimples afterwards.

## Trivia

* The inlay back cover for **The Trap Door: 12 Scary Episodes**, that features this episode, misspells this episode as "*Flying Wotsit Fingy*". This spelling inaccuracy is also depicted on the inlay back cover for **The Pain - Plus 11 Scary Episodes**.
* On the insert for **The Trap Door: Complete Collection**, displaying a complete list of titles for all of the episodes, this episode’s title is inaccurately named as “*The Flyin Fingy*”.

## Home media releases

### UK (VHS)

* *Watch Out for That Nasty Stuff* (1986)
* *The Trap Door: 12 Scary Episodes* (1991)
* *The Pain - Plus 11 Scary Episodes* (1999)

### UK (DVD)

* *The Trap Door: Complete Collection* (2005)

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_The\_Trap\_Door\_episodes
Don’t Open That Trap Door

Who's Don’t Open That Trap Door?"

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* For **the book**, see Don’t Open That Trap Door (book).
* For **the TV series episode**, see Don't Open That Trap Door (episode).
Berk’s Kitchen

**Berk’s Kitchen** is a room, situated in the cellar of the castle, and is regularly shown throughout the television series.

## Biography

Berk’s kitchen first appeared in *Breakfast Time*, and has occasionally appeared throughout the television series ever since. The kitchen is one of the main locations in the castle, and has likely been around for as long as the castle itself.

Like the name suggests, Berk’s kitchen is where Berk concocts food. Berk primarily makes food for the Thing Upstairs. There are several occasions, however, when Berk would feed the Thing Upstairs with a monster from out of the trap door. Berk’s kitchen is also where Berk stores his cooking utensils.

## Appearance

Berk’s kitchen can be described as a typical kitchen. It has many normal features of a kitchen, including an oven. The kitchen’s walls are painted, in the same style as most of the castle’s interior, with many circular multicoloured shapes.
Boni’s Sleeping Hat

**Boni’s Sleeping Hat** is a nighttime hat. It is usually worn by Boni, when he is sleeping in his hole.

## Appearance

The hat is a turquoise-coloured night cap. It has a bobble, which is of the same colour, on one end.

## Trivia

* It is uncertain how Boni puts his hat on, as he has no hands. Berk likely puts the hat on Boni, though this is not confirmed in the television series.
List of monsters

This list shows monster characters, which appear in the television series. Every monster, in this list, is arranged in the order that they are first shown in the television series.

## Trivia

* Although the Thing Upstairs is a main character from the TV series, throughout the TV series, he never appears onscreen.

## Gallery

BerkThe Thing Upstairs (off-screen)The Big Yellow ThingThe Big Red ThingThe KrakenThortWaspsRoggThe Swamp CreatureBuboThe Large SpiderThe GhouliesThe BlobThe Mother BlobThe ThingyThe Hooked Beak CreatureThe Yellow Blobby WormThe Sac CreatureThe Tentacled MouthThe Drooly WormThe SlugThe Little ThingThe Fanged Pink CreatureThe Drooling Brown ThingThe Bouncing Pink GlobThe Large BugExploding BugsThe Flyin' Wotsit FingyThe Sucker BlobThe FishThe ReptileThe BigmouthsMonstrous BerkMonstrous DruttMonstrous BoniThe Eyeball MonsterThe Mouth MonsterThe Vile PileThe MushroomThe Clawed Pink MonsterThe SpongeThe ImpThe Gooey Custardy ThingThe Rock ThingThe Worm BeastThe BugpipeThe Small Red ThingThe Stupid ThingThe PhantomsThe LumpThe SplundThe Twitching Green ThingThe Weird Thing
List of home media releases

This list features every VHS and DVD home media release, including both UK and international releases, of the TV series.

## Gallery

### United Kingdom

#### VHS

*Creepy Crawly Adventures**Watch Out for That Nasty Stuff**Scunge**The Stupid Thing**Spooks and Gooks**The Stupid Thing and 11 Other Adventures**The Trap Door: 12 Scary Episodes**The Pain - Plus 11 Scary Episodes**Breakfast Time and 11 Other Adventures*

### Sweden

#### VHS

*Do Not Open the Maple Door**The Maple Door: A Creeping Adventure*
Berk’s Shelves

**Berk’s Shelves** are a selection of wooden planks, which are seen in the television series in *Slither, Wriggle and Writhe*.

Berk’s Shelves were built by Berk, by order of the Thing Upstairs.

## Appearance

Berk’s Shelves resemble a typical shelving unit. The shelves are a set of two wooden planks, with one positioned above the other, and are supported by some loose built-in supports.
The Trap Door Collection

### Publisher(s)

Piranha Software (The Trap Door, Through the Trap Door, The Trap Door Collection), Alternative Software (The Trap Door Collection)

## Overview

### Platform(s)

Amstrad CPC (The Trap Door, Through the Trap Door), Commodore 64 (The Trap Door, Through the Trap Door), ZX Spectrum (The Trap Door, Through the Trap Door, The Trap Door Collection)

### Released

1986 (The Trap Door), 1987 (Through the Trap Door), 1990 (The Trap Door Collection)

**The Trap Door Collection** is a video game pack. It is a compilation release, featuring two previously-released games. The games featured are *The Trap Door* and *Through the Trap Door*.

## Trivia

* It is not to be confused with *The Trap Door: Complete Collection*, a UK DVD release of the TV series.
* The left side of the front cover, which shows a small section of the front cover for *The Trap Door*, shows Boni. On the front cover of the original release of *The Trap Door*, Boni is nowhere to be seen.
The Spider’s Web

**The Spider’s Web** is a green web, that was created by the Large Spider, and is seen in *Creepy Crawly*.

## Biography

As Berk has a nasty encounter with the Large Spider, who sneaked out of the trap door, Berk is soon caught in the spider’s web. Drutt frees Berk from the web, and the spider is wrapped up in the web, and Berk sends the spider back down the trap door.

## Appearance

The web resembles a realistic cobweb. The only noticeable difference is that its thread is dark green, instead of white.
The Thing Upstairs’ Radiator

**The Thing Upstairs’ Radiator** is an unseen thing, that is located inside of the Thing Upstairs’ Bedroom, in *Nasty Beasty*.

## Biography

One day, as the Thing Upstairs is freezing cold, Berk is ordered to fix the radiator. Eventually, after several failed attempts, Berk manages to fix it. However, it causes an explosion. The Thing Upstairs complains that he feels too hot, after Berk returns to the cellar, making Berk return upstairs.

## Appearance

We never see what the radiator looks like, and we are given little detail of what it looks like, as we never ever see the Thing Upstairs and his room.
The Mother Blob

**The Mother Blob** is a massive yellow trapdoor monster, and she is also the Blob’s mother. She makes her only ever onscreen appearance, throughout the television series, in *The Dose*.

## Biography

The Mother Blob is seen appearing out of the trap door, where she waits to collect her son. When he arrives, and after the Thing Upstairs releases a loud sneeze, she and her son disappear back down the trap door.

## Trivia

* The Mother Blob is quite possibly the only female character in the whole of the series. As a matter of fact, she is the only character confirmed to be female.
The Tentacled Mouth

**The Tentacled Mouth** is a tiny and ferocious trapdoor creature, who appears in the first season of the television series.

## Biography

The Tentacled Mouth is one of the hungry and weird creatures, who appears in Berk’s dream in *Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite*. The creature, or at least a similar one of its kind, later appears in the series in *Strange Goings On*, in which the Kraken pulls Boni down the trap door, and leaves Boni stranded on the edge of a rock face. As the small tentacled creature comes out of the darkness, it causes Boni to fall off.

## Trivia

* Most of the trapdoor creatures in *Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite* were non-existing, as they were only part of Berk’s nightmare. However, it can be assumed that the Tentacled Mouth Creature was an authentic trapdoor monster. On the other hand, as mentioned above, the tentacled thing in *Strange Goings On* may have been another monster of the same species.
What a Weirdo

**What a Weirdo** is the fourteenth episode of the second series.

## Plot

An enournous pink larvae crawls out of the trap door, much to Boni’s surprise. Meanwhile, Berk is having troubles of his own in the kitchen. Drutt and his nippers run aimlessly around the castle. While Drutt is not looking, the Weird Thing swallows his nippers. Drutt runs into the kitchen, manages to grab Berk’s attention, and Berk goes to see what the problem is. As Berk leaves the Thing Upstairs’ dinner unattended, the Weird Thing scoffs that up as well. Berk find out that Drutt’s nippers have disappeared, and also sees that Boni had suddenly gone missing from his hole.

Berk goes back into the kitchen, and he finds out that his cooking had been eaten. Berk, armed with his rolling pin, and Drutt go to seek the Weird Thing. Drutt and Berk go looking around the hallway. The Weird Thing appears out of nowhere, when Berk is not looking, and Drutt is gobbled up. Berk discovers that Drutt had suddenly disappeared, and he exits the hallway in a huff.

Berk sees that Rogg has appeared from the trap door, and tells Rogg how unhappy he is that everything is disappearing. They see the Weird Thing appearing through the archway, and Berk repeatedly whacks the monster with his rolling pin. Boni, Drutt and Drutt’s nippers are freed. However, Berk asks for Rogg’s assistance to get the dinner out, but the impact causes Berk to shoot into the wall. Berk tells the Thing Upstairs that his dinner is ready. As Berk is covered by a second portion of regurgitated food, he mentions that a large portion of pudding is to follow.

## Trivia

* This episode is the last episode where the Thing Upstairs is referenced in the television series, although we do not hear him speak in this episode. The previous episode marks the Thing Upstairs’ last speaking role in the television series.

## Home media releases

### UK (DVD)

* *The Trap Door: Complete Collection* (2005)
Berk’s Closet

**Berk’s Closet** is a storage room, situated in the castle, which makes an appearance in the television series in *Ghoulies*.

## Biography

Berk rummages around in the closet with Boni, who Berk converts into a makeshift candleholder. Berk browses through abandoned objects, including a cooking utensil. Berk discovers a spell book, which he later summons the Ghoulies with, and reads a spell from the book. The spell makes Boni’s candle blow out, and the closet becomes pitch-black. Berk and Boni hear the trap door banging, and assume the commotion is from the cellar. Berk is further prompted to leave the closet, and he investigates the source of the commotion, after the Thing Upstairs angrily and loudly demands him to stop the noise.

## Appearance

Berk’s Closet resembles a typical closet, which has some basic furniture. It has a built-in chest of drawers, and also some shelves, which are red. The closet’s walls are painted, similarly to most of the castle’s interior, with round coloured shapes. The closet has a brown door, surrounded by eyes.
Worms

**Worms** are a group of creatures, which are served as food and ingredients, and are seen throughout the television series.

## Appearance

Many of the worms, depending on what breed they are, are several different colours from one another. Most of them have black or white eyes, and only a small number have visible pupils. They are very much identical in shape from each-other, but some are slightly thicker and longer than others. They are not conventional worms, because they do not have a thick clitellum in the middle of their bodies.
Charlie Mills

**Charles “Charlie” Mills** (born c.1954) is a British animator, director, producer and writer. Mills, along with the late Terry Brain, is known for his creative work on *The Trap Door*.

## Career

Mills had first met Brain at school, before being made Brain’s business partner by Brain in later life. One of Mills’ first assignments was helping Brain create *The Trap Door*. Mills later helped Brain make a similar television series, *Stoppit and Tidyup*, which also had creative input from Steve Box.

Mills would eventually become a regular animator for the Aardman Studio, which is home to such popular animations as *Wallace and Gromit* and *Chicken Run*, where Brain and Box would also later work for. Mills continued his working partnership with Brain, until Brain passed away of cancer in March 2016.

## Trivia

* Some home media releases list Mills by his birth name, “Charles Mills”, though he is known otherwise as “Charlie Mills”.
* Mills’ collaboration with Box and Brain on the production of the television series inspired a team name, “BrainBox Mills”, which is seen as a credit in the television show’s outro.
* Mills and Brain formed their own company, known as “CMTB Animation”. The first two letters of “CMTB” derive from Mills’ full name, whilst the final two letters derive from Brain’s.
Boni

**Boni** is a sentient skull, who lives with Berk and Drutt in the cellar. He is a main character in the TV series, and he appears in each single episode.

He is voiced by the late Willie Rushton, who was a voice for all speaking characters in the TV show.

## Appearance

Boni is a white skull, who has the typical characteristics of a normal skull. He has a mouth, with a full set of teeth, a hollow nose and hollow eyes.

## Trivia

* Boni’s original form is not specified in the TV series. It can easily be assumed that he was once a monster, or even a human, who lived in the castle.
* In The Big Thing, when Boni is talking to Rogg on the castle battlements, Boni said that he had saved Berk from all sorts of monsters in his own time.
Steve Box

**Steven Royston “Steve” Box** (born 23 January 1967) is a British animator, director, producer and writer. Box assisted Charlie Mills and the late Terry Brain on making *The Trap Door*.

## Career

Box began his animating career at only seventeen years old, and had worked alongside Brain and Mills on *The Trap Door*. Box later went on to assist Brain and Mills with making *Stoppit and Tidyup*, another children’s animated television programme, before working as a freelance animator for a few years.

Box worked for the Aardman Studio since 1990, before eventually being joined there by Brain and Mills. Box was the key animator for *Chicken Run*, the studio’s first feature-length production. Box helped animate *The Wrong Trousers* and *A Close Shave*, two *Wallace and Gromit* films. Box made his directing debut with *Stage Fright*, his award-winning short film, which won him a BAFTA award. Box helped Nick Park direct *Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit*, winning him another BAFTA. Box provided his rare instances of voice work as Vince in *Rex the Runt*, an adult animated series from Aardman.

## Trivia

* Box’s collaboration with Brain and Mills on the production of the television show inspired a team name, “BrainBox Mills”, which is shown as a credit in the television show’s outro.
The Pain - Plus 11 Scary Episodes

**The Pain - Plus 11 Scary Episodes** is a UK VHS release, containing twelve first season episodes of the television series.

## Description

*“Join Berk and his friends, Boni and Drutt, in 12 adventures from the popular children’s television series.”*

## Episodes

1. *The Pain*
2. *The Little Thing*
3. *Don’t Open That Trap Door*
4. *Junk Food*
5. *Yechh!*
6. *Flyin’ Wotsit Fingy*
7. *Strange Goings On*
8. *Midnight Snack*
9. *Nasty Stuff*
10. *Sniff That*
11. *Vile Pile*
12. *Slightly Weird*

## Trivia

* This release is a re-release of *The Trap Door: 12 Scary Episodes*, which was also distributed by Castle Vision. Along with *Bye Bye Berk*, season one’s closing episode, all twelve episodes originally appeared on *Watch Out for That Nasty Stuff*.
* The inlay displays a promotional photograph, shown on front cover, which first appeared on the inlay of *Scunge*. Castle Vision later used this photograph for *The Trap Door: 12 Scary Episodes*, before featuring it on the inlay of this release.
* On the back cover of the cassette case inlay sleeve, director and producer Charlie Mills is credited as “Charles Mills”.

## Gallery

Inlay front coverInlay spine (1999 re-release)Inlay back cover (1999 re-release)Full inlay (1999 re-release)Cassette tape (1999 re-release)
The Thing Upstairs’ Garden

**The Thing Upstairs’ Garden** is a home to sentient monstrous plants, appearing in the television series in *Food for Thort*.

## Appearance

The garden has an assortment of different shaped sentient vegetables. The garden is mostly green, as it contains plants, but many of the plants are of many colours. Most of the plants have visible facial features, including eyes and mouths.
Flyin’ Wotsit Fingy

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The Lake

**The Lake** is a location, shown in the swamp, exclusively appearing onscreen in the first season of the television series.

## History

The lake is first seen in *Lurkings*, and it is where Berk is seen having a fishing trip with Boni and Drutt in that episode. The three friends see the Swamp Creature emerge from the lake. This was the exact same day the trio met Rogg for the very first time, and made Berk fall into the lake in shock.

The lake is also shown in *Fester Rancid*, when Boni and his trolley are taken by Bubo. Berk and Drutt spot Boni and his trolley at the lake, and are about to take them home. With a sharp wooden stick, which Bubo tried on Boni earlier, Bubo forces Berk into the lake. Berk thinks of a way to get out of the lake, but he is forced out by a swamp monster. Berk chases Bubo, catches him, and throws him into the lake. Bubo sneaks out of the lake, however, as Berk and Drutt take Boni and the trolley home.

The lake is also seen in a few other episodes. Boni nearly drowns in the lake in one episode, but a big blue fish is seen bringing Boni to the surface of the lake. When Berk tried to grab the Mushroom once, so the Thing Upstairs could have it for his breakfast, it is seen pushing Berk into the lake.

## Appearance

The lake is a typically unwelcoming location, surrounded by countless strange creatures. Its water is more like pink slime, likely caused by the pigment of the things living in it.
The Stupid Thing

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	+ Also see The Stupid Thing and 11 Other Adventures.
The Bouncing Pink Glob

**The Bouncing Pink Glob** is a generally harmless trapdoor creature, who enjoys bouncing about. It make its only ever appearance in the television series in *Don’t Open That Trap Door*.

## Biography

The Bouncing Pink Glob is one of many monsters to appear from the trap door, either to dance or run aimlessly around the castle to the music from Berk’s radio.
Truly Toucan

**Truly Toucan** was a member of the Toucan family. She was the single mother of Tuca and her siblings. She passed away when Tuca was young in a car accident.

## Trivia

* Truly's name is revealed in Nighttime Friend.
* It is revealed she died in a car crash.
* Her death left Tuca traumatized and reluctant to trust hospitals or doctors again.
* Truly was a manicurist:
	+ The colors of nail polish mentioned by Bertie green, yellow, and red allude to the same colors as traffic lights, which could be a further symbol of her death.
* All of her children remember her fondly.
* In *The Mole* was her first episode appearance.
* She wears a shirt with the same pattern of The Chicken Lady's.
The Big Red Thing (episode)

**The Big Red Thing** is the fifteenth and final episode of the second series.

## Plot

The Big Red Thing appears from out of the trap door again. It causes a lot of damage to the cellar, and a lot of harm to Boni and Drutt. Berk intervenes, but the Red Thing just thumps him away. Rogg, also wondering what the commotion is about, also pops out of the trap door. The Red Thing slams Rogg’s head against the trap door walls, before storming violently away.

Rogg, feeling very angered and injured, follows the Red Thing out of the castle. Berk becomes very relieved, knowing that Rogg is teaching the big mean monster a lesson. Boni, feeling very concerned about Rogg’s safety, insists that him and Berk should keep an eye on Rogg. They both leave the castle, along with Drutt and Drutt's Nippers, and they look for the whereabouts of Rogg and the Red Thing.

The gang soon find Rogg and the Red Thing, and they watch the two rivals fighting. Things start off well for Rogg, but the Red Thing soon knocks him unconscious. As the Red Thing storms aimlessly away, Rogg’s friends decide to check on Rogg. Berk and Boni, who assume that Rogg is dead, start to mourn for their good friend.

Fortunately, to everyone’s surprise, Rogg wakes up. Now knowing that Rogg is still alive, the gang rejoice. Berk asks where the Big Red Thing went off to, to no one in particular, and Rogg tells Berk that he does not know where. The Red Thing soon appears from out of nowhere, however, and he terrorises the group one last time.

## Trivia

* This episode marks the final episode in the show’s entirety.
* This episode features an untitled soundtrack, which is played during emotional moments in the series. This soundtrack is also played in *Bye Bye Berk*, which is also a season finale.

## Home media releases

### UK (DVD)

* *The Trap Door: Complete Collection* (2005)