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Boo!	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Boo! is a hour-long Halloween Special created by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1980. It starred Peter Cullen note Yes. THAT Peter Cullen. Jack Duffy, Ben Gordon, Barbara Law, Ted Zeigler, and boasted the "special guest stars" Dionne Warwick and Rip Taylor.It's a last gasp of the comedy-musical "extravaganza" specials inflicted upon television audiences across North America in the '70s and very early '80s. It's a sketch-comedy special much in the vein of The Star Wars Holiday Special, which should give you some idea of the caliber of the whole affair. Essentially, The Wolfman (Cullen), Dracula (Gordon), The Contessa (Law), Doctor Frankenstein (Duffy) and his monster (Zigler) are thrown into a number of unrelated comedy (for the loosest definition of comedy available) sketches replete with puns and gags that were old when the hills were new. In the only portion of the special that has anything even resembling a plot, Dionne Warwick's car breaks down outside Dracula's Castle, and there's a story thread running across a couple of sketches where The Monster has a crush on her.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Meanwhile, Rip Taylor is just there for no discernable reason in quite a few of the sketches to add schtick. Even poor old Art Carney at least had some reason to be part of the proceedings.As far as factual information on the show goes, that's all there really seems to be. There's very little info on the web about it, outside of a sparse IMDB page and a few blog reviews. The only concrete evidence that it actually existed at all comes from the Museum of Classic Chicago Television posting a videotape copy of a Halloween, 1982 rebroadcast on WGN to YouTube. See the proof that this special exists here. note As an aside, watch for a pre-Back to the Future Lea Thompson in an ad for the broadcast's sponsor, General Foods' International Coffee.
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Boo! / int_17674f28	type	Villainous Cheekbones
Boo! / int_17674f28	comment	Villainous Cheekbones: Barbara Law has some pretty high cheekbones that she shows off as The Contessa, and Ben Gordon's makeup as Dracula includes fake ones.
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Boo! / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
Boo! / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: There are two segments in the special where four men dressed as monks note Actually, closer to Franciscan friars, but let's us not split hairs... come in, do some Ominous Latin Chanting, one of them reveals himself to be Rip Taylor, Taylor does some schtick and the scene just ends. To their credit, the chants are actual Latin, with one of them being "De gustibus non est disputandum" or "There's no accounting for taste."
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Boo! / int_26b6261f	type	Vampire Vords
Boo! / int_26b6261f	comment	Vampire Vords: Ben Gordon's Dracula performance has a heavy Bela Lugosi tinge to it, at least in the accent.
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Boo! / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Boo! / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: And incredibly lame ones, at that, especially in the second "Spook-Easy" segment. Let's see, it starts with "Holey Mackerel" — Rip Taylor holds up a rubber fish with holes cut in it; "Anyone for Doubles?" — two tennis rackets duct-taped together; "Backgammon — Frontgammon!" — a Backgammon board with the playing field printed on both sides; "Palm Springs!" — Guess. Just guess. No, we'll wait... note Yep, you're right. It WAS a hand with springs embedded in the palm.
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Boo! / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Boo! / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: For varying values of "evil", but Dr. Frankenstein did NOT create Howard Cosell. And wishes people would stop blaming him for it.
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Boo! / int_413f7922	type	Vampires Hate Garlic
Boo! / int_413f7922	comment	Vampires Hate Garlic: Discussed in a skit with Drac and the Contessa. She's made dinner for Drac, and made sure to avoid garlic. Instead, she uses lots of onions, which leads to a different problem...
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Boo! / int_54ff97ae	type	"Sesame Street" Cred
Boo! / int_54ff97ae	comment	"Sesame Street" Cred: This (or Money, Dear Boy) can only be the reasoning behind Dionne Warwick's appearance. And maybe Rip Taylor's, though he had guest-starred on a couple of episodes of The Monkees in the late '60s.
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Boo! / int_59aa1d0b	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Boo! / int_59aa1d0b	comment	Recycled INSPACE: Inverted. The two "Spook-Easy" segments are Star Wars with a slight Universal Monsters overlay.
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Boo! / int_5fc68f05	type	There Was a Door
Boo! / int_5fc68f05	comment	There Was a Door: Happens so frequently in Castle Dracula (thanks to Frankie crashing through walls) that Doctor Frankenstein has retained a carpenter to install doors wherever Frankie walks through.
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Boo! / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Boo! / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Let's just say that there is no way the show could have been made under strict Rabbinical supervision with all the ham on offer. The only star who isn't chewing the scenery like it was about to disappear is Dionne Warwick.
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Boo! / int_85a782c7	type	Space Clothes
Boo! / int_85a782c7	comment	Space Clothes: Oh, dear heavens, what they put Rip Taylor in (or worse, he voluntarily CHOSE) in the second "Spook-Easy" segment. It looks like Buck Rogers as interpreted by Liberace. Imagine this, if you can. It starts out with a tinsel cape (as in a cape made of Christmas tree tinsel), but it is covering up a black marching band suit, where all the piping, epaulettes and aguilettes are made completely of rhinestones. It is as eye-gougingly bad as it sounds.
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Boo! / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Boo! / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Frankenstein's Monster crushes pretty hard on Dionne Warwick, but is too shy to say anything, coming off like this until a musical sequence.
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Boo! / int_8c23b321	type	Harmless Villain
Boo! / int_8c23b321	comment	Harmless Villain: It's debatable whether any of the monsters are supposed to be villains, but they seem so nice and harmless that if that were their intent, this is where they'd squarely fall.
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Boo! / int_8f929a20	type	Bar Full of Aliens
Boo! / int_8f929a20	comment	Bar Full of Aliens: The "Spook-Easy", which is essentially the skeevy, low-budget cousin of the Star Wars cantina in a Dracula-themed special because... bandwagon?
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Boo! / int_97bc51a8	type	Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness
Boo! / int_97bc51a8	comment	Sliding Scale of Vampire Friendliness: Drac and the Contessa are the absolute highest they can be on the scale and still be vampires.
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Boo! / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Boo! / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: The psychaitrist's attempts to stop The Wolfman from going berserk at the mention of the word "moon." It works, but now The Wolfman goes berserk at the word "flower".
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Boo! / int_c3df91ff	type	Wooden Stake
Boo! / int_c3df91ff	comment	Wooden Stake: A couple of villagers use this to try and put an end to Dracula, but instead just inconvenience him. In one of the few bits to have actual continuity, he's later seen calling Dr. Frankenstein to get it removed, but the doctor tells him "he doesn't make coffin calls".
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Boo! / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Boo! / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Take horror icons like Dracula, The Wolfman, Frankenstein and his Monster, make them the largest of large hams and essentially drop them into a pale imitation of The Carol Burnett Show. There's no way that Lighter and Softer wouldn't result.
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Boo! / int_deefb79e	type	Saloon Owner
Boo! / int_deefb79e	comment	Saloon Owner: A guy who is doing, for reasons of who gives a crap, a bad Peter Falk impersonation, is the bartender of the "Spook-Easy." He's only in a short gag(?) where he gives an alien a telephone to eat, but still ends up making the animated title screen and commercial bumpers.
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Boo! / int_e1062df0	type	Vampires Sleep in Coffins
Boo! / int_e1062df0	comment	Vampires Sleep in Coffins: …and also let themselves and their coffins be crane-lifted into and out of television specials.
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Boo! / int_e540d1e6	type	Camp
Boo! / int_e540d1e6	comment	Camp: For heaven's sake, the camp in this one. The special is nothing BUT camp, and none of it good. Especially Rip Taylor's scenes.
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Boo! / int_e78aa97d	type	Rubber-Forehead Aliens
Boo! / int_e78aa97d	comment	Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Given that the "Spook-Easy" is a ripoff of the Mos Eisley Cantina, it's to be expected. But even then, it goes overboard with two robotic creatures whose heads are blatantly Darth Vader masks.
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Boo! / int_f0f03464	type	TheSeventies
Boo! / int_f0f03464	comment	The '70s: This "special" was filmed in 1980, so it still counts, if just barely note Remember that The '80s proper actually began in 1981. Disco is still the order of the day.
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Boo! / int_f55d739f	type	The Baroness
Boo! / int_f55d739f	comment	The Baroness: The Contessa fits the bill nicely as one, just without the villainy.
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Boo! / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Boo! / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Peter Cullen's wolfman goes nuts whenever he hears the word "moon".
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