A Donkey Hodie Halloween

**A Donkey Hodie Halloween** is the thirty-first of Donkey Hodie from season 1.

## Summary

The story begins with Donkey Hodie and Bob Dog preparing decorations for Halloween. Panda comes over and asks what they are doing, and they say they’re preparing for Halloween. Panda says he has heard a lot about Halloween, which confuses Bob Dog. Panda says that on Planet Purple, it’s not celebrated. Bob Dog says they have to make the holiday special for Panda. Donkey then says she found the perfect light for her jack-o-lantern and shows it to Panda, and he faints from it being too scary. Panda then sees a scary spider, and hides in his spaceship.
Donkey then comes over and apologizes to Panda about how some things on Halloween can be scary. Panda says that he wants to skip Halloween, shocking Donkey. She tells him that it is fun, and Panda says he wants to celebrate it, but nobody told him it would be scary. Panda then sings “I Like To Be Told”. Donkey understands how he feels, but she has something to help. She pulls out a fake TV and advertises Donkey Hodie’s Halloween Help Academy, where the person can learn all about Halloween. She then breaks out into a song about the academy. She agrees to teach Panda all about Halloween.

Then, we cut to Bob Dog going to Harriett Elizabeth Cow’s art barn, where she shows her latest invention, the Idea Light, which lights up whenever she has an idea. It shines bright whenever she has a great idea. Bob Dog says that he needs ideas on how to make Purple Panda’s first Halloween special. Harriett promises to make an invention to help make Halloween good for him.

After a cameo by Turtle Lou and Polly Possum, Panda panics because he saw a witch, but Donkey tells him it was just a costume and people love to dress up on Halloween. Panda wishes he knew more about Halloween, and Donkey has Halloween decorations in the yard, but Panda is nervous. Donkey says that she will explain the decorations so he won’t be afraid. The first decoration is a jack-o-lantern, but Panda is nervous about seeing it again. Donkey tells him to remind himself that it’s only a pumpkin. When Donkey takes the blanket off, Panda is scared and hides in the bushes. He says that the face scares him, and Donkey offers to show the steps to make a jack-o-lantern. As she goes through each step, he feels better, but he still worries about the scary face. Donkey says jack-o-lanterns can have many different faces, and Panda calls them funny. Donkey says that even if a jack-o-lantern has a scary face, it’s still only a pumpkin.

We then cut to Harriett and Bob Dog, where they are looking at the Halloweenarific 3000. Harriett shows how it works by demonstrating how it can make jack-o-lanterns.

We cut back to Donkey and Panda getting ready to look at another Halloween decoration, a dancing skeleton. Panda says skeletons give him the heebies and the jeebies, but Donkey says that she will help him get through this, reminding him it’s a fake skeleton. Panda gets scared anyway and hides in a tree and says that he doesn't like the way the skeleton moves. Donkey tells him that he can control the way the skeleton decoration moves, and Donkey reveals it’s just a puppet and Panda can ask them to stop if he doesn’t like it. Panda winds up liking the decoration, calling it funny.

We cut back to Bob Dog and Harriett Elizabeth Cow thinking about what else they need to make Panda’s first Halloween special when Duck Duck arrives, wanting to do something special for Panda. The Halloweenarific 3000 then produces bat decorations.

Donkey and Panda then look at Halloween ghost decorations, which make Panda happy until they make noises and move, causing him to hide in a barrel. He is scared because the ghosts flew and moaned. Donkey reveals that Gregory is moving the ghosts and making noises. Panda asks what other sounds he can make, and Gregory makes honking noises, snoring noises and chicken noises. Panda decides he likes the chicken noises. Panda thinks he’s ready for Halloween, until he sees Stanley Dragon dressed as a witch and gets scared.

We cut to Grampy, who wants to make a special treat for Purple Panda, and the Halloweenarific 3000 makes a treat called Fruitenstein.

Later, Donkey is trying to find Panda, who is hiding because he saw a witch. After one of her thinking moments, Donkey explains that it was a costume, and decides to demonstrate with the lobster costume from “Spooky Shadow Swamp”, a costume incorporating the pink wig from “Super Duper Sleepover” that has a pink feather boa, and the swamp monster costume from “Spooky Shadow Swamp”. Panda asks if there are witch costumes, and Donkey says there are, but underneath all costumes is a person who wants to have fun.

We then cut to Halloween night, where Purple Panda and his friends sing a song summarizing what Panda has learned over the course of the special. Towards the end of the song, Panda thanks his friends for making Halloween special, especially Donkey for her training.