The Spacebots Halloween Movie

**The Spacebots Halloween Movie** is a 1988 American animated film. It is produced by Nelvana Limited as part of the *Nelvana Superstars 10* series. It is released in October 31, 1988.

## Plot:

Sam, Simon, Seth, Soleil, Sarah, and Sally are on their way to Nebula's Finishing School for Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers.

## Synopsis:

While on the road, The Spacebots (Sam, Simon, Seth, Soleil, Sarah and Sally discuss the new job Simon has accepted as a gym teacher. Sam is reluctant about his decision because of the eerie weather and location.

As they pull up to a school they realize that it is the neighboring Greenheather Military School. The Nebula School Sam has a contract with is much more frightening and spooky. Sam gets flung across the moat to the door and is the first to enter the school and meet their pet dragon Solar who sprays fire at Sam.

The Spacebots enter the Nebula school as a drawbridge lowers and they are able to walk across. They meet Solar and Ms. Nebula, discussing Simon's new job and contract. They also meet a floating hand which helps them with their luggage. One by one the girl-ghouls are met and introduce themselves to them. Sylvia, Wendy, Alicia, Brenda, Karlina, Glenda, Gretchen, Melinda, Willa, Frieda, Penny and finally Madeleine. The Spacebots by this time are already trying to leave the school and terminate Simon's contract. Simon who is terrified, mentions how the "girls" are actually girl-ghouls.

The girl-ghouls discuss their problem of not ever winning the volleyball championship against their rivals the Greenheather Cadets next door and The Spacebots agrees to stay and help, starting with early morning exercises the following day. Sam starts noticing things not right about the Nebula school such as a pet piranha in the goldfish tank. Early morning exercises start with ballet while the neighboring Greenheather Cadets are beginning their warm-up exercises as well. The Cadets spy The Spacebots with a telescope and take note of the new coaches at Nebula. They soon loose their volleyball to Solar after a cadet serves the ball hard and loses it. The cadets aren't able to practice for a while.

Continuing morning exercises, the Nebula girls go for a morning jog and meet up with Solar who is burying the cadet's volleyball. The Nebula girls stop for rotten apples while Sam and Simon stick out their tongues in disgust. Meanwhile, the Greenheather Cadets are working on a water balloon bazooka which they plan to use to retrieve their volleyball but Solar ends up returning it anyway before they get it working correctly. The gangs meets giant fly-traps in the garden as well as all the rotten food in the garden which the Nebula girls like. In the garden Sam sees crystal balls which have been planted their to spy on the Nebula girls, the first clue that they are being watched by Diavolos, an evil sorceress who wants to use the girls to become "the most powerful witch in monster-dom".

Colonel Greenheather visits Nebula School in order to set the time for their annual volleyball tournament. Ms. Nebula offers him fungus fudge and toadstool tea which he eats and drinks in disgust as he comments that it tastes moldy. The Spacebots is introduced to Colonel Greenheather and they plan to play at 1400 hours which Soleil clarifies as 2:00 p.m. The girl ghouls warm-up with "scare-o-robics" and "deep shrieking" exercises and scare the Greenheather cadets with the loud screaming. Meanwhile the cadets are warming up with standard stretches and pushups. Colonel Greenheather gives the cadets a short pep-talk and tells them that they've "gotta win".

The girls finish their exercises with loosening their muscles and a short swim in the Nebula moat. Solar blow-dries them off right before the match. Ms. Nebula calls Smith over to repair the Nebula net and boundary lines. Soon the game ready to begin!

Frieda begins the game with a couple good serves. Soon they are at 10-10 tied. Then Greenheather takes the lead after Penny goes through the net. Next, Madeleine serves the ball and scores a point, Nebula now taking the lead. Greenheather implants a control device into the volleyball so they can control how the ball moves. They use a remote to make Madeleine's serve look bad and they take control of the ball. Greenheather takes the lead again until Seth accidentally swallows the ball's remote control and squirts ketchup at the cadet who was serving. Nebula gets the next serve by Willa and they catch back up to Greenheather. Diavolos is shown to be watching the game in anticipation. Willa spikes the ball off the back of Penny and Sylvia gives the final serve. The remote control in Seth's belly gets triggered and the ball moves back into the Greenheather's side of the court. Nebula wins and Madeleine gets the trophy for her mummy case.

The Nebula girls start setting up a halloween party, excited that they have won the annual volleyball game. Ms. Nebula bakes brownies and caterpillar cookies. The Nebula girls talk about how their parents plan to attend the party. The Spacebots get scared as the monsters begin to arrive and they go hide in a secluded room. Diavolos watches the monsters arrive through a crystal ball. The parents meet The Spacebots anyway and believe they run away from them simply because they are gym teachers trying to stay in shape. Soon they've all met and Tanis's father thanks them for "making Madeleine feel like a winner".

The Nebula girls present gifts they have made for their parents such a lemon juicer for werewolf parents, a bat-robe for vampire parents and a portable shockman for Frankenstein parents. Diavolos watches the whole time through a crystal ball, saying that "soon the party will be over". Penny plays a song with the floating hand as an accompaniment. The parents leave after the party is over.

Diavolos and Underflop plan to hypnotize Simon. They send a bat out to go find Simon and hypnotize him. Sam sees the bat as it tries to enter but Simon doesn't see it. It hides in the window shade and later above Simon's bed. The bat weaves webbed-headphones which Diavolos uses to talk to and hypnotize Simon. She tells Simon to take the Nebula girls to the Lurky Swamp for a jog, to which he accepts.

The following morning, the Greenheather Cadets wake to a homemade alarm clock and discuss their upcoming field trip to the Lurky Swamp, the same day Simon is planning to go. Meanwhile, the Nebula girls all get ready for their field trip as well. Ms. Nebula waves goodbye.

At the swamp, Diavolos' sidekick the Underflop awaits to capture the Nebula girls. Simon isn't in a trance anymore but is still excited to go for a jog at the bog. Willa is the first to meet up with Underflop and his bats. Willa dodged the attacks and did not get brainwashed. Underflop was worried Diavolos was gonna kill him.

Soleil asks Simon how he thought of going to Lurky Swamp. Simon can't recall except that it might have been a dream. They don't watch where they are going and soon all then get stuck in a swamp full of alligators. The Spacebots realize that the area is much more dangerous than they'd previously thought. Sylvia transforms into a bat in order to save them from the alligators. Meanwhile, the Greenheather Cadets are out hiking nearby and fall into quicksand. Madeleine and Frieda see the boys sinking and help them out of the quicksand with a tree trunk.

The Spacebots begin to look for the girls, realizing that they haven't seen them around. Sylvia sees the batantulas and asked Wendy for some help. Sam runs into Underflop and Solar saves him with his fire breath as Underflop runs off.

The rest of the girls meet up with Willa and helped them fight off the batantulas. Underflop retreated and reported back to Diavolos. Diavolos was furious at first, but then, she had an evil plan. After hearing Diavolos' evil laughed, the Greenheather Cadets tell the Spacebots of the supposed way to defeat Diavolos, by letting her fall to her death.

After entering by way of Karlina's tail as a key, the gang splits up to search the place. They were suddenly double-crossed by Underflop who led them into a trap. Underflop warns them of the Grolrex creature who lives in the well tunnel. The creature lurches toward them.

Sally starts a ball game with the Grolrex and tricks him into making a ladder for them to escape the well tunnel. Underflop changes Sam into a frog as a last-ditch effort to scare them into conformity. Sam as a frog, runs for his life, while the Nebula Girls made a plan to get rid of him. Underflop was tricked into falling down the well and eaten by the Grolrex. Wendy changes Sam back to normal. Diavolos appears and confronts the Spacebots, Greenheather Cadets, and Nebula Girls, changing into a dragon.

After confusing Diavolos by banging several different gongs, Sally's presence is revealed to Diavolos. Sylvia tackles Diavolos to the ground, allowing Sam and Sally enough time to escape, but the dragon chases them to a statue across a pit of lava. Diavolos is killed within the rock, and it plummets onto a large stone in the lava below.

The Greenheather Cadets return back up in the nick of time to save them all by flying away in the homemade helicopter. Back at Nebula, everyone has thrown a huge party to celebrate the success. Soleil does a rap. Soon Simon and Sam are introduced to a new set of students and they run away in terror. Soleil says goodbye to Solar and she, Sarah, and Sally follow. As the Spacebot walk away, the Nebula girls wave goodbye from the porch of the school. The Spacebots howl a loud Nebula goodbye and walk off into the moonlight.

## Cast:

* Corey Burton as Sam Spacebot
* Chris Young as Simon Spacebot
* Billie Mae Richards as Seth Spacebot, Ms. Nebula, Phantom Mother, Ms. Blob
* Jen Tolley as Soleil Spacebot
* Tress MacNeille as Sarah Spacebot
* Russi Taylor as Sally Spacebot
* Frank Welker as Solar
* Barbara Goodson as Sylvia, Ms. Gargoyle
* Eva Almos as Willa
* Judith Barsi as Madeleine
* Gabriel Damon as Tom Harris
* Joey Lawrence as Diego
* Don Francks as Colonel Greenheather
* Len Carlson as Phantom Father
* Will Ryan as Count Dracula
* Luba Goy as LaVerne
* John Stocker as Gargoyle Sr.
* Mickey Rooney as Mr. Blob

## Trivia:

* Sam sees the opening credits in the opening.
* Judith Barsi had her final role in this film.