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Silly Spook
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Ghosts are often portrayed as inherently somber beings, doomed to remain near the place of their death and mourn their own demise forever. These ghosts however, will have none of that. Silly Spooks are the clowns of the undead, causing laughter instead of, or sometimes in addition to, fear. In some cases, the characters will be scared of the ghost while the audience laughs. Other times, the Silly Spook will be funny In-Universe and out. But at the end of the day, SOMEONE will have the giggles. The comedy inherent in this trope can be deliberate on the ghost's part or not. Silly Spooks that don't want to be funny tend to be portrayed as hilariously incompetent at scaring people, which is often their job. Despite the name, this trope can apply not only to ghosts, but to any stereotypically scary supernatural being. The Trope Namer is The Haunted Mansion ride at Disney Theme Parks and the assorted media directly based upon it. Compare Friendly Ghost, who is also a non-scary but not necessarily funny spirit, or the Reluctant Monster who isn't even aware of its role. This is one of the polar opposites to Ghastly Ghost. Can be a Ridiculously Alive Undead. |
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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo has Bogel and Weerd, two ghosts who originally tricked Scooby and Shaggy into opening the Chest of Demons, and in subsequent episodes would frequently act as bumbling minions to the Monster of the Week. | |
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The Funky Phantom, who is a scaredy-cat ghost. | |
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Spooky, the little spook in the Cool Cat cartoon "Big Game Haunt", is a hybrid of Casper and Elmer Fudd. | |
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The ghosts in the classic Disney short "Lonesome Ghosts". They call ghost exterminators Mickey, Donald and Goofy so they could have someone to scare, and are clearly having a ball while doing so. | |
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The ghosts in Harry Potter are mainly there for comic relief, though they become relevant to the plot occasionally. | |
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Supernatural: Ghosts and spirits can be very scary, but the episode "Changing Channels" features a very silly Bedsheet Ghost during the opening credits. | |
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In The Time of Their Lives (1946), Lou Costello plays a ghost wrongly accused of treason, just trying to clear his name (with the typical Costello bumbling, cowardly comedy). | |
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Hairy Scary, pictured above, more so than Casper in Casper and the Angels. Casper is supposed to be a "guardian ghost" to the Space Cop Angels along with Hairy, but the latter brings about most of the show's laughs. | |
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Family Skeleton Mysteries: Sid the ambulatory skeleton, who's generally cheerful and loves to make bad jokes. | |
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In Poltergay, the five ghosts of gay partyogers have been partying in the house where they perished for 27 years. Those with Camp Gay mannerisms still affect them. The worst they do is playing mischievous pranks on protagonist Marc and teasing him about his butt since they're, well, gay ghosts. | |
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Since the fanfics Haunted Mansion and the Hatbox Ghost are based on the Trope Namer, Disney's "Haunted Mansion" ride, they keep this important aspect of the characters. | |
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The Wacky Races episode "Creepy Trip to Lemon Twist" features two mischievous ghosts in the abandoned saloon. They play pranks on some of the racers, until Big Gruesome turns the tables on them. | |
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Mort of Gunnerkrigg Court. He is supposed to scare people, actually, but when he's not on the job, he borders on Endearingly Dorky. | |
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In Super Mario Bros. we have the Boos, known for nearly always sticking their tongues out at you like a kid making a silly face and hiding behind their hands when Mario looks at them as if they were playing Peek-A-Boo. | |
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Popeye encounters one in the 1960 short "Popeye and the Phantom". | |
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Slimer, the team mascot/pet in The Real Ghostbusters. Instead of "busting" him, the team lets him hang around and be the Comic Relief. | |
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Undertale has Napstablook, who does funny things like leading you to believe that they're asleep when in fact they're awake and saying "ZZZ" out loud, as well as Mettaton, who has more of a Large Ham comedic style. | |
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The ghosts in Topper and its sequels are helpful but often mischievous. | |
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Regular Show's Hi-Five ghost doesn't have much in the way of a developed personality, but his design is definitely silly. He looks like a Bedsheet Ghost or a Pac-Man ghost with a single arm and hand growing out of the top of his head. | |
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Emma and Ezra from the 2003 film adaption are these. | |
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Kogasa from Touhou Project is a Karakasa whose main ambition in life is to Jump Scare people and surprise them. Unfortunately, she's a Cute Monster Girl, so all her attempts end in failure. | |
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Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers: The Boo Brothers, who come across as a ghostly version of the Three Stooges. | |
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Yu from Puyo Puyo is a punny Genki Girl of a ghost. With that said, she does outright try to kill others, but it's actually because she loves being a ghost so much that she wants others to feel the good effects of being one as well (apparently not realizing what she's doing is murder), and she's quite friendly otherwise. | |
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Moshi Monsters: Zoinks the ghost and his cousin are mischievous pranksters. McScruff the ghost is a practical joker. |
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Danny Phantom: Danny Phantom himself qualifies. Although he possesses the power to become a ghost (which tend to be the source of most misfortune in the Danny Phantom universe), he is generally a pretty outgoing, Book Dumb kid who can be a bit of a Butt-Monkey. There's also the Box Ghost ("BEWARE!"), whose job is to haunt...boxes. Absolutely no one is afraid of him, and his bothering the main characters is a recurring gag. | |
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The 1944 film version of The Canterville Ghost has the ghost being a big coward, as are all his descendants. He can't pass on until a descendant does something brave. | |
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The first ghost-types to appear in Pokémon: The Series turn out to be pretty funny. They're fond of Tex Avery-esque Eye Pops and Wild Takes and clearly see their hauntings as pranking Ash and Pikachu, not attacking them. | |
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In The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus, ghosts Chelsea and Carmen must become this in order to put on a circus show and distract some poltergeists. | |
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Stuart and Cyrus from The Frighteners. | |
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OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Spanky and Crudde from the episode "Parents' Day" are two mischievous ghosts who live in the basement of Enid's house. Much to the annoyance of Enid's mom, Wilhamena, they like to possess house guests and make them do embarrassing or destructive things. | |
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