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Monster Beach

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Monster Beach	comment	Monster Beach is a 2014 Australian animated Made-for-TV Movie produced by BES Animation for Cartoon Network's Asia-Pacific feed. The brainchild of Patrick Crawley, as well as Bruce Kane and Maurice Argiro (also known for Kitty Is Not a Cat), it is the second Australian-produced animated original made for Cartoon Network, following 2012's Exchange Student Zero (which was created by the same people and also produced at BES Animation).The movie follows siblings Jan and Dean, two young surfers spending their summer vacation on isolated Iki-Iki Island in the South Pacific, where their weird Uncle Woody lives. As they discover however, Woody is the only human inhabitant of Iki-Iki Island for a reason — the place is populated by monsters. Fortunately, these gruesome ghouls are actually a very pleasant (if quirky) lot and good pals of Uncle Woody. You see, Woody inherited the island's splendid beach from his late friend, a great king who gave him a magical necklace that doubles as the deed to the beach. However, the king's greedy, self-centered son, the western-educated lawyer and Witch Doctor Dr. Knutt, believed the beach to be rightfully his and cursed it in retaliation, transforming Woody's surfing buddies into monsters who now spend their days enjoying an endless summer beach party (with Woody himself protected from the curse by the king's necklace). While Jan and Dean try to make the most of their strange, new situation, trouble is afoot. Not only is Dr. Knutt (who was also transformed into a monster by the curse) still plotting to take Monster Beach, but surfing resort tycoon Frances G. Butterfield III (and his beleaguered accountant Hodad) is on the lookout for new beachside hotel turf and believes he could make millions off Iki-Iki Island's monster gimmick. Can Jan and Dean make themselves at home among the lovably creepy inhabitants of Monster Beach and stop both Knutt and Butterfield from taking away this twisted little tropical paradise?The movie made its debut in 2014 as a Halloween Special. In 2017 however, it was announced that CN Asia-Pacific had greenlit a full-blown animated TV series based on the film. Said production made its debut in 2020, featuring much of the same cast as the TV movie and still under the production of BES Animation. However, the show does make some updates to its visuals, completely changing the artstyle and redesigning Jan and Dean (although everybody else is more or less the same). It's also important to note the series is an Alternate Continuity to the movie, with many of the movie's events and key traits of the characters being altered or contradicted by the TV show, on top of also adopting a much wackier, more heavily gag-focused tone. Said series proceeded to run for 48 eleven-minute episodes.
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Monster Beach / int_10e49640	type	Sugar Causes Hyperactivity
Monster Beach / int_10e49640	comment	Sugar Causes Hyperactivity: Even teeniest bit of sugar causes The Mutt to go completely wild (where moreso than he usually is).
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Monster Beach / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
Monster Beach / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Dean sometimes acts like this to Jan, at least from her perspective. While Dean is definitely a bundle of energy and does tease his sister sometimes, he's really just a fun-loving kid at the end of the day.
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Monster Beach / int_156cad4c	type	Mook Carryover
Monster Beach / int_156cad4c	comment	Mook Carryover: When Widget's hand takes over Dr. Knutt's lair in "Talk to the Hand", the Tikis immediately defect to its side.
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Monster Beach / int_16995d90	type	Right-Hand Cat
Monster Beach / int_16995d90	comment	Right-Hand Cat: Parodied in "Talk to the Hand". When Widget's hand goes rogue, it adopts a cat that it uses to stroke like a classic supervillain.
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Monster Beach / int_169d26c6	type	Villain Team-Up
Monster Beach / int_169d26c6	comment	Villain Teamup: Butterfield and Dr. Knutt form an alliance to get the deed to Monster Beach. It ultimately proves short-lived, as Butterfield ends up betraying Dr. Knutt. The trope is revisited in the TV series with the episode "Butterknutt Squash", where the two villains go through this again, leading to both backstabbing each other in increasingly over-the-top manners.
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Monster Beach / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Monster Beach / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: One of Dr. Knutt's main motivations for seizing Monster Beach (the other simply being power). He believes the beach rightfully belongs to him and that Uncle Woody turned his father against him. This forms the basis for his Villain Song.
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Monster Beach / int_17b30e42	type	Pro Wrestling Episode
Monster Beach / int_17b30e42	comment	Pro Wrestling Episode: "Monster Wrestling". Dr. Knutt convinces Jan and Dean to take part in his get-rich-quick scheme of becoming pro wrestlers, even bringing in The Mutt and Lost Patrol as the kids' respective wrestling partners.
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Monster Beach / int_1bdbbbae	type	The Klutz
Monster Beach / int_1bdbbbae	comment	In the movie, Dean was The Klutz and Annoying Younger Sibling of Jan, primarily defined by his dream of becoming a great surfer despite his lack of coordination on the water, while also being far more excited about staying at Monster Beach and adapting to his surroundings far faster than his sister did. His TV series counterpart is instead a nerdy Gadgeteer Genius and computer geek who has zero interest in surfing and instead prefers to just hang on the beach and play with his tablet (which especially sticks out given that in the movie, Dean was the one who chose going to Iki-Iki Island as their summer vacation plan). And while Dean still maintains his enthusiastic character from the movie, he has not adjusted very well to life on Monster Beach in the series due to his interest in science and technology conflicting with Monster Beach's lifestyle. Oh, and to top it off, the series version of Dean isn't particularly clumsy.
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Monster Beach / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
Monster Beach / int_1ccad9a3	comment	In the movie, Butterfield sought to take over Monster Beach by using the monsters as the main attraction, forcing them to all become his employees and even having a whole Villain Song about his plans to profit off the monsters as a tourist gimmick. In the series however, Butterfield already owns the northern half of Iki-Iki Island and his motivation is to instead drive the monsters off the island because he sees them as bad for tourism due to how they unintentionally scare people.
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Monster Beach / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Monster Beach / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Brainfreeze and The Mutt are best of friends and frequently hang together, with their friendship being the focus of several episodes. Heck, it's established that before they were transformed into monsters, The Mutt was Brainfreeze's pet dog!
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Monster Beach / int_23a1e2a9	type	Adaptation Deviation
Monster Beach / int_23a1e2a9	comment	Adaptation Deviation: In the movie, Maurice was a hunchbacked Tiny-Headed Behemoth able to remove his Shrunken Head at will, but in the TV series, he's changed to a headless monster named Headache who instead wears his shrunken head as a necklace.
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Monster Beach / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Monster Beach / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Jan and Dean are easily the most rational and normal of the inhabitants of Monster Beach, often having to mind the wacky antics of the monsters.
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Monster Beach / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Monster Beach / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Teddles is very attached to his teddy bear, as seen in the episode "Teddles' Teddy", where he recruits Jan and Dean to help him get it back after accidentally giving it away at a swap meet. The episode "Madge's Mug" has the eponymous cup for Mad Madge. She claims to have a story behind it involving the opening of her diner, but Dr. Knutt cuts her off both of the times she tries to tell it In the episode "Pet Rocked", we learn Stress Leave has one in the form of a bonsai tree. After Dr. Knutt destroys it however, Dean and Jan get him a new one in the form of a pet rock.
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Monster Beach / int_26130259	type	Drunk on Milk
Monster Beach / int_26130259	comment	Drunk on Milk: Dr. Knutt gets drunk on soda pop after being betrayed by Butterfield. Uncle Woody and the others even find him laying on a park bench in a state of near-stupor, slurring his speech as he bemoans his fate.
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Monster Beach / int_264b8f4c	type	Balloon Belly
Monster Beach / int_264b8f4c	comment	Balloon Belly: Happens to Uncle Woody in "Dr. BFF" as a result of Jan and Dean testing all of Madge's dishes on him to see which one is the antidote for Dr. Knutt's mind control potion (long story).
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Monster Beach / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Monster Beach / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Dr. Knutt fancies himself as one of the world's greatest villains and frequently boasts about his evilness and schemes. In reality, he's a complete Harmless Villain generally seen as little more than The Friend Nobody Likes by the inhabitants of Monster Beach.
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Monster Beach / int_28a7a9cd	type	Sentient Vehicle
Monster Beach / int_28a7a9cd	comment	Sentient Vehicle: "Ghoul Vibrations" introduces the eponymous vehicle, created by Dr. Knutt for Monster Beach's regular car races by placing the soul of a famous racecar driver in his vehicle. Naturally, Ghoul Vibrations had it out for him, and he was forced to get rid of it. Jan, Dean, and The Mutt end up rediscovering it however, unaware of its true nature.
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Monster Beach / int_2db39207	type	Lava Surfing
Monster Beach / int_2db39207	comment	Lava Surfing: In the climax of the movie, Dean performs this using a chunk of rock as a surfboard. The TV series revisits the trope in "I Lava to Surf", but this time, it's Jan and Dean having to stop their monster friends from attempting this when news breaks out of an impending volcanic eruption.
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Monster Beach / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Monster Beach / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Widget is usually a Dumb Blonde, but she's surprisingly an expert in electrical engineering, even designing her own generator attached to her bed to recharge every night in the classic Frankenstein's Monster fashion.
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Monster Beach / int_2df8760d	type	Frog Men
Monster Beach / int_2df8760d	comment	Frog Men: Mad Madge, the waitress and proprietor of Madge's Diner, is a humanoid toad-like monster.
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Monster Beach / int_2efc138f	type	Welcoming Song
Monster Beach / int_2efc138f	comment	Welcoming Song: "Monster Beach", which also serves as the movie's theme tune.
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Monster Beach / int_3033b958	type	Giant Enemy Crab
Monster Beach / int_3033b958	comment	Giant Enemy Crab: The shrunken gang are attacked by regular-sized soldier crabs that look gigantic compared to them in the episode "Micro Monsters".
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Monster Beach / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
Monster Beach / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Dr. Knutt's Tikis speak entirely in gibberish. Doesn't stop them from getting a musical number though. Due to the fact his mouth is stitched up, Maurice is only able to speak in deep, angry rumbling noises.
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Monster Beach / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Monster Beach / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The deed to the beach that Uncle Woody carried with him around in the movie is wholly absent in the series. In fact, in the TV series, Butterfield already owns a part of Iki-Iki Island, while Dr. Knutt comes down whenever he feels like it, meaning the need for it to appear in the series is largely pointless.
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Monster Beach / int_35f57671	type	Minion with an F in Evil
Monster Beach / int_35f57671	comment	Minion with an F in Evil: Hodad is a perfectly affable and likeable guy when compared to his Mean Boss Butterfield.
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Monster Beach / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Monster Beach / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Teddles is a hulking reptilian horror who runs the local trailer park where the monsters all live, but he's also a very friendly and childlike simpleton who just simply loves having fun as much as the other monsters do (even if he can be a bit exasperating). Averted by Maurice though, who is the monster equivalent of an Angry Chef.
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Monster Beach / int_382bdb6b	type	Volcano Lair
Monster Beach / int_382bdb6b	comment	In the movie, Dr. Knutt's motivation as a villain was to take the ownership of Monster Beach from Uncle Woody and boot the monsters off the beach so he could all to himself, having originally placed the curse that transformed them into monsters in the first place in a failed attempt to drive them away. In the series though, Dr. Knutt is simply interested in causing petty trouble, even coming down to Monster Beach regularly to join in the shenanigans of Monster Beach's denizens whenever he's not in the mood for villainy (which especially sticks out as in the movie, it's established that he chooses to live in the Volcano Lair and not come down to Monster Beach as self-imposed exile for the curse also transforming him).
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Monster Beach / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Monster Beach / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Dr. Knutt wasn't exactly pleasant to his Tikis in the movie, but he's even worse in the series. This forms the plot of the episode "Striking Bad", where the Tikis finally get fed up with his mistreatment and abandon him to hang with the inhabitants of Monster Beach.
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Monster Beach / int_3ec10530	type	Wacky Racing
Monster Beach / int_3ec10530	comment	Wacky Racing: The monsters of Monster Beach love to do this whenever they're not surfing, especially The Mutt, who runs the local garage in his non-surfing time.
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Monster Beach / int_41077d9d	type	MacGuffin
Monster Beach / int_41077d9d	comment	Macguffin: Uncle Woody's deed to the beach, a blue talisman given to him by Dr. Knutt's father (who didn't trust his wicked son with it) that also protected him from the curse that made Monster Beach what it is today. Both of the movie's villains seek it in order to gain ownership of Monster Beach, albeit for different reasons.
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Monster Beach / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
Monster Beach / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: Much like BES Animation's previous creation for Cartoon Network, Exchange Student Zero, the series appears to be one in relation to the movie. While the events of the movie's backstory are alluded to in a Broad Strokes manner, many of the key traits that defined the characters in the original 2014 movie, particularly their motivations and relationships, are completely changed or outright removed (by contrast, Exchange Student Zero kept most of them intact, simply just pressing the Reset Button on any development they got in the movie instead).
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Monster Beach / int_477bcc9f	type	Greasy Spoon
Monster Beach / int_477bcc9f	comment	Greasy Spoon: Run by Mad Madge and Maurice. The food's pretty revolting, but the monsters usually don't mind - which is a good thing, because the owners don't take lightly to criticism.
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Monster Beach / int_47d56aac	type	Fish People
Monster Beach / int_47d56aac	comment	Fish People: Amphibia is a Creature from the Black Lagoon-based Cute Monster Girl surfer with a Jamaican accent and an octopus in place of hair.
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Monster Beach / int_494a4104	type	Naked People Trapped Outside
Monster Beach / int_494a4104	comment	Naked People Trapped Outside: Happens to Dean and Brainfreeze in "Short on Shorts" when some of Dr. Knutt's Tikis steal their trunks after they lost them in a surfing wipeout.
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Monster Beach / int_494d83c8	type	Helping Hands
Monster Beach / int_494d83c8	comment	Helping Hands: Widget is usually capable of Pulling Themselves Together, but in the episode "Talk to the Hand", her hand goes rogue and starts causing trouble around Monster Beach, thanks to a spell from Dr. Knutt. Things go especially bad when said hand sneaks into Dr. Knutt's lair and steals his magic staff before using it to enslave all of Iki-Iki Island.
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Monster Beach / int_4a7c8e22	type	Roommate Drama
Monster Beach / int_4a7c8e22	comment	Roommate Drama: The plot of "Doommates". Brainfreeze accidentally wrecks The Mutt's garage, so he invites his friend to stay over at his surf shack to make up for it. However, The Mutt soon ends up driving Brainfreeze crazy with his constant mechanic work leaving oil and car parts everywhere, not to mention the mutant flea he brings along to crash alongside him as an unexpected extra guest.
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Monster Beach / int_4ac5701	type	Band Episode
Monster Beach / int_4ac5701	comment	Band Episode: The episode "Euro So Talented" sees Widget, The Mutt, Brainfreeze, and Dr. Knutt form a band called Monster Metal Doom Party when they accidentally end up auditioning for Eurovisi-, erm, Euro So Talented. Jan and Dean tag along as their band managers, but quickly find managing the gang to be pretty challenging.
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Monster Beach / int_4cfe362e	type	Awesome Aussie
Monster Beach / int_4cfe362e	comment	Awesome Aussie: The episode "Fun Service" sees a Steve Irwin parody named Rugged Roy arrive on Iki-Iki Island to film himself for his survivalist series. However, even a tough nut like him cracks when faced with the monsters of the island, even despite Jan and Dean's efforts to keep them a secret from him.
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Monster Beach / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
Monster Beach / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Amphibia. She's often engaging in meditation and is a proud environmentalist and animal lover.
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Monster Beach / int_547196be	type	Broad Strokes
Monster Beach / int_547196be	comment	Broad Strokes: It's heavily implied the movie's backstory for Monster Beach and some of the events of the movie are still canon in the TV series. There were in fact plans to debut the show with a multi-part premiere that reimagined the events of the movie, but for unknown reasons, this did not manifest, and instead viewers are left with only a few vague concepts that likely make more sense if they're already familiar with the movie.
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Monster Beach / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Monster Beach / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: The inhabitants of Monster Beach are a creepy, freaky, and monstrous lot, but they're all rather nice and prefer to spend their days surfing and having fun under the sun.
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Monster Beach / int_580be152	type	Adaptational Modesty
Monster Beach / int_580be152	comment	Adaptational Modesty: In the movie, Jan's swimsuit consisted of a tank top that showed off her midriff and bikini shorts, but in the series, she instead wears a surfing wetsuit completely covering up her belly with longer shorts added in too.
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Monster Beach / int_5c290805	type	Cone of Shame
Monster Beach / int_5c290805	comment	Cone of Shame: In the episode "It Cone from Outer Space", The Mutt is put in one for not resisting the urge to bite his wounded leg, much to his chagrin. The cone intensifies his canine hearing, making him able to read the radio signals of alien invaders... which is actually just an advertisement for a sci-fi convention.
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Monster Beach / int_5d074a80	type	Mistaken for Aliens
Monster Beach / int_5d074a80	comment	Mistaken for Aliens: In "It Cone from Outer Space", The Mutt picks up advertising for a sci-fi convention in his new Cone of Shame, leading him to believe aliens are coming to invade Monster Beach. The other monsters end up believing him too when they see Jan and Dean in cosplays leaving for the convention, and when the kids return, the monsters attack them. Even Jan and Dean removing their costumes to convince them fails when they instead decide the kids are in fact clones sent by the aliens.
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Monster Beach / int_60e49895	type	The Leader
Monster Beach / int_60e49895	comment	Having inherited ownership of Monster Beach from Iki-Iki Island's late king in the movie, Uncle Woody was The Leader for the denizens of Monster Beach and official caretaker of the island, being looked up to by the monsters and making important plans and decisions for the community when called for. In the series however, Uncle Woody rarely does more than lounge around his shack and sleep for long periods, leaving Monster Beach completely leaderless and seeing the monsters treat Woody as just another face in the crowd the few times he comes down to hang with them.
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Monster Beach / int_617a594e	type	Amateur Film-Making Plot
Monster Beach / int_617a594e	comment	Amateur Filmmaking Plot: The episode "Frights! Camera! Action" sees Dean try to make his own horror film after realizing the one that scared him as a kid isn't scary at all (in fact, the monsters think it's hilarious). Naturally, he brings on Monster Beach's residents as the stars of his flick, but their incompetence and clashing personalities don't make things easy.
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Monster Beach / int_6220d661	type	Loony Fan
Monster Beach / int_6220d661	comment	Loony Fan: Dr. Knutt is this for Rugged Roy in "Fun Service" and the Murmurmen Boys in the episode of the same name.
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Monster Beach / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Monster Beach / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Most of the episode "High Seas High Jinx" involves The Mutt and Lost Patrol stranded together in the middle of the ocean on a surfboard.
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Monster Beach / int_62cae28a	type	Losing Your Head
Monster Beach / int_62cae28a	comment	Losing Your Head: Two of the monsters, Widget and Maurice, are shown to be able to remove their heads without any problem.
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Monster Beach / int_630203e3	type	Shrunken Head
Monster Beach / int_630203e3	comment	Shrunken Head: Maurice is a massive purple monster whose head is one, complete with stitches sewing his lips shut.
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Monster Beach / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Monster Beach / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Lost Patrol, a military robot who works as Monster Beach's lifeguard, behaves like this. A photo of him when he was human seen in Uncle Woodyâ€™s shack reveals he even used to serve in the US army.
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Monster Beach / int_646d46f9	type	Tentacle Hair
Monster Beach / int_646d46f9	comment	Tentacle Hair: Amphibia has a full octopus sitting on top her head as her hair, which she refers to as "Octavia". A photo of her when she was human reveals the octopus was formerly her dreadlocks.
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Monster Beach / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Monster Beach / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: The episode "Boo Plate Special" features some haunting Madge's Diner. They're depicted as Bedsheet Ghosts, but are invisible except in their own plane of existence, where they are able to interact with the physical realm without being seen. Fortunately, Jan and Dean are able to dispatch them with a simple vacuum cleaner when they end up in the ghost world and use the ghosts' poltergeist shenanigans against them.
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Monster Beach / int_67f34057	type	The Pig-Pen
Monster Beach / int_67f34057	comment	The Pigpen: The Mutt smells as pleasantly as one might expect a werewolf who spends all his time under the sun and around water to smell, but in the episode "Next to Dogliness", he's possessed by the ghost of the world's smelliest dog, causing him to smell even fouler than usual.
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Monster Beach / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Monster Beach / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Occurs twice in "Talk to the Hand". Firstly when Jan and Dean ponder how quickly Widget's rogue, evil hand could take over Iki-Iki Island, viewers immediately get a montage of the island being seized and monsters being imprisoned. Mere moments after, the remaining Monster Beach denizens hatch a plan to rescue their friends and stop Widget's hand, only for the show to Smash Cut to everybody imprisoned after an unsuccessful attack on the Volcano Lair.
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Monster Beach / int_6a61f08f	type	Expressive Hair
Monster Beach / int_6a61f08f	comment	Expressive Hair: Amphibia's octopus hair often reacts alongside her.
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Monster Beach / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Monster Beach / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Butterfield's Beleaguered Assistant Hodad gets his name from a real-life surfer culture slang term for disruptive and obnoxious non-surfers who frequent surfing beaches and pretend to be actual surfers. Pretty appropriate for a guy working for a surfing resort company that seeks to exploit Monster Beach despite its owners not actually knowing how to surf.
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Monster Beach / int_6edd96b8	type	Making a Splash
Monster Beach / int_6edd96b8	comment	Making a Splash: Amphibia is shown to have this ability, causing tsunamis and waterspouts when she gets mad.
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Monster Beach / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
Monster Beach / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: The series versions of Jan and Dean are very different from their movie counterparts, and not just in appearance. In the movie, Jan was the Aloof Big Sister, much more reluctant about staying at Monster Beach than Dean (though she did ultimately warm up to the place in the end) and a bit on the bossy side towards her brother while also tending to remain more grounded and responsible. In the TV series however, Jan has a much chirpier and excitable personality, losing a lot of her icier personality traits and being in a more egalitarian dynamic with her brother. And while the series version of Jan is still the one most fully aware of the craziness going around on Monster Beach, she shows far more enthusiasm for the place than even her movie counterpart did post-Character Development. In the movie, Dean was The Klutz and Annoying Younger Sibling of Jan, primarily defined by his dream of becoming a great surfer despite his lack of coordination on the water, while also being far more excited about staying at Monster Beach and adapting to his surroundings far faster than his sister did. His TV series counterpart is instead a nerdy Gadgeteer Genius and computer geek who has zero interest in surfing and instead prefers to just hang on the beach and play with his tablet (which especially sticks out given that in the movie, Dean was the one who chose going to Iki-Iki Island as their summer vacation plan). And while Dean still maintains his enthusiastic character from the movie, he has not adjusted very well to life on Monster Beach in the series due to his interest in science and technology conflicting with Monster Beach's lifestyle. Oh, and to top it off, the series version of Dean isn't particularly clumsy. While Amphibia and Stress Leave did not have particularly well-defined personalities in the movie due to them only having relatively minor roles (although Amphibia does participate in many of the film's events), the little we did see suggested the former to be more of an aloof but friendly Cool Big Sis-type (in contrast with the peppy but ditzy Widget) rather than the Granola Girl of the show and the latter to be a much more relaxed character than the neurotic Japanese Salaryman the TV series portrayed. This especially stands out because the rest of Monster Beach's denizens retained their movie characterizations (The Mutt's wild wackiness, Brainfreeze's ultra-chill airheadedness, Widget's sweet Dumb Blonde character, Lost Patrol's Drill Sergeant Nasty attitude, and Madge and Headache as a stereotypical surly Greasy Spoon waitress and Angry Chef duo with low culinary standards).
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Monster Beach / int_71038217	type	Wrench Wench
Monster Beach / int_71038217	comment	Wrench Wench: Jan. According to Dean, she used to be really into cars, but thanks to The Mutt and Brainfreeze, she rediscovers her love for vehicles and gains a newfound appreciation for Monster Beach as a result.
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Monster Beach / int_714c984c	type	Safety Freak
Monster Beach / int_714c984c	comment	Safety Freak: The Mutt becomes one in the episode "Daredevil May Careful", dropping his usual reckless, wild personality after almost getting hit by a truck. Naturally, the rest of Monster Beach has to figure out how to restore him to his old self.
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Monster Beach / int_71538259	type	Token Human
Monster Beach / int_71538259	comment	Token Human: Uncle Woody was the only human living on Monster Beach until his niece and nephew showed up, mostly due to the fact he was unaffected by Dr. Knutt's curse.
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Monster Beach / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Monster Beach / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: The movie has two antagonists, those being Butterfield and Dr. Knutt, both of whom want the deed to Monster Beach, albeit for different reasons. However, Knutt is characterized as the more sympathetic of the pair, desiring Monster Beach as part of his "Well Done, Son" Guy motivations, briefly helping out the main characters after being betrayed by Butterfield, and even bringing Butterfield to justice in the film's epilogue.
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Monster Beach / int_72ce3f54	type	Adaptation Relationship Overhaul
Monster Beach / int_72ce3f54	comment	Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Both of the villains possess different dynamics with the eponymous beach and its inhabitants from the movie. In the movie, Butterfield sought to take over Monster Beach by using the monsters as the main attraction, forcing them to all become his employees and even having a whole Villain Song about his plans to profit off the monsters as a tourist gimmick. In the series however, Butterfield already owns the northern half of Iki-Iki Island and his motivation is to instead drive the monsters off the island because he sees them as bad for tourism due to how they unintentionally scare people. In the movie, Dr. Knutt's motivation as a villain was to take the ownership of Monster Beach from Uncle Woody and boot the monsters off the beach so he could all to himself, having originally placed the curse that transformed them into monsters in the first place in a failed attempt to drive them away. In the series though, Dr. Knutt is simply interested in causing petty trouble, even coming down to Monster Beach regularly to join in the shenanigans of Monster Beach's denizens whenever he's not in the mood for villainy (which especially sticks out as in the movie, it's established that he chooses to live in the Volcano Lair and not come down to Monster Beach as self-imposed exile for the curse also transforming him). Jan and Dean have a different overall relationship dynamic with the rest of Monster Beach's denizens. In the movie, Uncle Woody and the monsters acted as guides and mentors to the kids, being able to explain Iki-Iki Island to them and providing them with wisdom for their respective struggles (Jan's desire to ditch Monster Beach for a more normal place and Dean's dream of becoming a great surfer). In the TV series however, Jan and Dean instead play the role of Only Sane Man to Woody and the monsters, frequently having to watch over their wacky antics and help them solve their problems instead. Having inherited ownership of Monster Beach from Iki-Iki Island's late king in the movie, Uncle Woody was The Leader for the denizens of Monster Beach and official caretaker of the island, being looked up to by the monsters and making important plans and decisions for the community when called for. In the series however, Uncle Woody rarely does more than lounge around his shack and sleep for long periods, leaving Monster Beach completely leaderless and seeing the monsters treat Woody as just another face in the crowd the few times he comes down to hang with them.
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Monster Beach / int_7397f68e	type	Termite Trouble
Monster Beach / int_7397f68e	comment	Termite Trouble: In the episode "Termite Nation", Dr. Knutt accidentally creates an army of mutant termites when attempting to exterminate them (since as a wooden tiki, he was afraid they'd eat him). The termites' queen ends up trying to marry him as part of a plot to eat him.
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Monster Beach / int_74440b13	type	Our Genies Are Different
Monster Beach / int_74440b13	comment	Our Genies Are Different: In the episode "Gone Wishing", a genie comes to Monster Beach in search of a schmuck he can grant wishes to. He lives in an Arabian oil lamp like a classic genie, but he's instead characterized as a slick 50s door-to-door salesman. Unfortunately for him, the inhabitants of Monster Beach are way too relaxed and content with their life to wish for anything big and fancy like the kinds of people who prefers granting wishes for.
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Monster Beach / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
Monster Beach / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In the movie, it is explained that Uncle Woody was not turned into a monster by Dr. Knutt's curse due to being protected by the magical necklace given to him by Dr. Knutt's father that also doubled as the deed to Monster Beach. However, with the plot point of the deed being Adapted Out of the TV series, the question of why Uncle Woody is human while everybody else is a monster (with several episodes implying the curse backstory is still canon in this Alternate Continuity) is left unexplained.
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Monster Beach / int_7a2ebcba	type	Frankenstein's Monster
Monster Beach / int_7a2ebcba	comment	Frankenstein's Monster: Widget is a Cute Monster Girl surfer version, a bikini-clad beach girl of stitched-together body parts that she often takes apart to accomplish tasks. Her eyes are of different colors as well to emphasize her assemblage (a photo of her as a human shows she formerly had blue eyes).
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Monster Beach / int_7f152e56	type	Our Mermaids Are Different
Monster Beach / int_7f152e56	comment	Our Mermaids Are Different: Two minor characters in the movie are the Murmurmaids, a pair of haughty Alpha Bitch mermaids who hate water and spend most of their time on the beach sunbathing and making derisive comments about others.
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Monster Beach / int_80a2c2de	type	Monster Mash
Monster Beach / int_80a2c2de	comment	Monster Mash: The basic premise of the movie is of two kids befriending an oddball gang of surfer monsters, many of whom fill in classic monster archetypes, such as werewolves, Frankenstein's Monster, killer robots, and Fish People.
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Monster Beach / int_8338de89	type	"I Want" Song
Monster Beach / int_8338de89	comment	"I Want" Song: Jan gets "I Hate This Place", where she gets to sing about how much she wants to leave Monster Beach and would rather be hanging at a more regular beach. Dean has "Monster Style", which highlights his desire to become a surfer on par with the denizens of Monster Beach and efforts to embrace their "monster style" philosophy.
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Monster Beach / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Monster Beach / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: The excitable and fun-loving Dean is the Red Oni to his aloof and reluctant sister Jan's Blue Oni.
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Monster Beach / int_85ce4a76	type	Scooby-Dooby Doors
Monster Beach / int_85ce4a76	comment	Scooby-Dooby Doors: "Swampy Thing" sees the kids, Widget, Amphibia, and Dr. Knutt go through this when running from a monster from the movie they were watching. The five of them manage to run through so many doors with such frequency that they end up making the monster dizzy enough to sneak off into the basement safely.
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Monster Beach / int_85d27cfe	type	You and What Army?
Monster Beach / int_85d27cfe	comment	You and What Army?: Lost Patrol says this to Dr. Knutt in "Tiki'd Off" during their fight. Knutt quickly points to his Mooks, the Tikis... who are busy fooling around on the beach instead of standing menacingly and ready for battle.
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Monster Beach / int_868b36d9	type	Gross-Up Close-Up
Monster Beach / int_868b36d9	comment	Grossup Closeup: Appears from time to time, usually of the monsters.
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Monster Beach / int_86ae1278	type	Adaptational Dumbass
Monster Beach / int_86ae1278	comment	Adaptational Dumbass: A case of Flanderization as well with this series. The Mutt was of fairly average intelligence in the movie, having a decent amount of wisdom and common sense underneath his wackiness. In the TV series though, he tends to veer into being The Ditz outright, often only marginally smarter than his buddy Brainfreeze. In the movie, Uncle Woody was the mentor and parental figure to Jan and Dean, being able to provide helpful advice to the kids despite his occasional moments of absentmindedness. In the TV series however, he is not only a far, far, far less competent guardian to them, but completely lacks the capacity for insight and guidance he displayed in the movie. Dr. Knutt in the movie was a fairly clever villain despite his overall comedic personality, even being the one who came up with and successfully carried out the plan to steal the deed to the beach from Uncle Woody. In the TV series however, he's a bumbling, incompetent Harmless Villain who frequently screws himself over with his own schemes and has a complete lack of common sense that frustrates everyone around him.
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Monster Beach / int_8706deee	type	Cranium Chase
Monster Beach / int_8706deee	comment	Cranium Chase: Inverted. In the episode "Widget Loses Her Head", she wakes up without the rest of the body and recruits the others to help her find it as it goes on a wild ride with a group of bachelorettes preparing to get married.
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Monster Beach / int_88272ba9	type	Behavioral Conditioning
Monster Beach / int_88272ba9	comment	Behavioral Conditioning: In "Knutty and Nice", Dr. Knutt decides to try being good as a change of pace, and recruits Jan and Dean's help in teaching him. The kids draw upon their own experience training their dog not to pee on the carpet by spraying Knutt with a water gun every time he does something bad.
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Monster Beach / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
Monster Beach / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: While the movie itself is pretty light-hearted, the series goes much more heavily into the focus on comedy and gags.
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Monster Beach / int_8c23b321	type	Harmless Villain
Monster Beach / int_8c23b321	comment	Harmless Villain: Dr. Knutt is very proud of how evil he is and pretty mean towards his minions, but his actual evildoing and schemes against the inhabitants of Monster Beach are typically petty and ineffectual, not to mention his own incompetence frequently gets the better of him. If anything. he's mostly just obnoxious and self-centered.
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Monster Beach / int_8c5b8f0b	type	Salaryman
Monster Beach / int_8c5b8f0b	comment	Salaryman: Stress Leave seems to be one, an overworked accountant and paper pusher who speaks with a strong Japanese accent.
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Monster Beach / int_8cf2497a	type	Tiny-Headed Behemoth
Monster Beach / int_8cf2497a	comment	Tiny-Headed Behemoth: Maurice is a huge purple monster with a shrunken head, resulting in his body being disproportionately massive compared to his head.
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Monster Beach / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
Monster Beach / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Widget has blonde hair (retained from back when she was human) and tends to be rather airheaded. Brainfreeze also qualifies as a male example.
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Monster Beach / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Monster Beach / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Mummy's Boy never speaks.
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Monster Beach / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Monster Beach / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: Flashbacks, imaginations sequences, and montages in the show switch out the thick-line style of the show for a blocky, monochrome cutout style identical to that seen in the series intro.
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Monster Beach / int_91b55fe	type	Pop-Star Composer
Monster Beach / int_91b55fe	comment	Pop-Star Composer: Australian comedy music trio Tripod perform the theme song and compose most of the movie's songs. They also provide the voices of Dr. Knutt's Tikis.
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Monster Beach / int_95a7e10	type	Wonderful Werewolf
Monster Beach / int_95a7e10	comment	Wonderful Werewolf: The Mutt is a slightly crazy but lovable werewolf surfer and mechanic.
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Monster Beach / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Monster Beach / int_970c790a	comment	Butterfield goes from being the Big Bad to just being the owner of the surf resort located on the northern edge of Iki-Iki Island, with the location appearing far more often than he does (whenever the plot calls for the characters to interact with humans other than Jan, Dean, and Uncle Woody). Hodad is similarly demoted, rarely getting more than brief cameos alongside his boss.
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Monster Beach / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
Monster Beach / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: In contrast to the movie, where Dr. Knutt's motivation was to take ownership of Monster Beach from Uncle Woody, the TV show often has him coming down casually to Monster Beach to hang out with the rest of the monsters whenever he's not engaging in villainous schemes.
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Monster Beach / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
Monster Beach / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: When Jan and Dean first uncover the eponymous haunted car of "Ghoul Vibrations", the ominous drumming of bongos is heard as they stare at it in awe. They quickly turn around to see The Mutt playing the bongos, and the werewolf quickly knocks it off.
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Monster Beach / int_a19135a6	type	Mind Control
Monster Beach / int_a19135a6	comment	Mind Control: Dr. Knutt uses this on Jan to steal the deed to Monster Beach.
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Monster Beach / int_a3556278	type	Jail Bake
Monster Beach / int_a3556278	comment	Jail Bake: In "Jailhouse Mutt", Jan and Brainfreeze give The Mutt a cake that they repeatedly hint to him has something inside... except he doesn't get it. Things get even more confusing for him when the rest of Monster Beach shows up with even more cakes with the same intentions. Turns out the gang had hid Widget's body parts inside each cake, so she could help The Mutt escape.
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Monster Beach / int_a46eb25d	type	Election Day Episode
Monster Beach / int_a46eb25d	comment	Election Day Episode: "Mayor May Not". When a technicality in the law allows Butterfield to buy Monster Beach unless the place has an official mayor, Jan and Dean organize an election for one to save Monster Beach. However, all the monsters throw their hat into the ring, and chaos quickly ensues. Ultimately, Uncle Woody wins when it turns out the only valid vote cast was for himself, despite not participating in the election.
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Monster Beach / int_a63f45d5	type	Cool Uncle
Monster Beach / int_a63f45d5	comment	Cool Uncle: Uncle Woody. What else do you call an old Surfer Dude who hangs out with surfing monsters?
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Monster Beach / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Monster Beach / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Stress Leave. In the movie, he was an unnamed minor character who showed up in a few of the songs and several crowd shots but otherwise did not participate in the plot's events. In the TV series though, he's promoted to a member of the main group of monsters, even getting a few episodes with him as a major players and ultimately taking on the role (and name) Hodad's monster form likely would have had in a more faithful adaptation of the film.
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Monster Beach / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Monster Beach / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Dr. Knutt is depicted as this to the rest of Monster Beach. Whereas his movie self chose to live in exile on Iki-Iki Island's volcano and schemed to take Monster Beach from Uncle Woody, his series counterpart is more likely to come down to Monster Beach and join the denizens in their regular shenanigans, even despite the fact they often find him annoying and know of his self-styled villainy.
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Monster Beach / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Monster Beach / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Due to being Demoted to Extra, Uncle Woody is hit pretty bad by this. Whereas his movie counterpart was generally doing his best to look out for Jan and Dean and regularly delivered wisdom to them, he spends most of his time in the TV show either wholly absent from the kids' adventures and is usually seen slacking around. As a result, it's Jan and Dean themselves who have to play the role of the most intelligent and responsible people on the beach for their quirky monster pals.
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Monster Beach / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Monster Beach / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: In Uncle Woody's exposition on the backstory of Monster Beach, he explains Dr. Knutt achieved a doctorate in law after his father sent him to be educated overseas. At the end of the movie, Dean reveals that Dr. Knutt was the judge presiding over Butterfield's trial and successfully convicted him as guilty for not having a permit to build his resort on Iki-Iki Island.
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Monster Beach / int_ad78bb6f	type	Terrifying Tiki
Monster Beach / int_ad78bb6f	comment	Terrifying Tiki: Dr. Knutt and his Tikis are anthropomorphic tiki masks and the movie's secondary antagonists. Whereas Dr. Knutt is more humanoid and has green fire burning behind his mask, his minions are simply just walking tiki masks with limbs.
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Monster Beach / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Monster Beach / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: A Running Gag in the series is Dr. Knutt's inability to remember Dean's name, instead referring him by other "D" names.
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Monster Beach / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
Monster Beach / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: A major element of the story is Jan and Dean trying to fit in with the rest of Monster Beach, with Jan initially disliking the place and not believing it to be for her, while Dean really wants to be a true surfer like the monsters.
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Monster Beach / int_afa3c1ff	type	Eyes Out of Sight
Monster Beach / int_afa3c1ff	comment	Eyes Out of Sight: Brainfreeze's eyes are permanently covered up by hair. He even lampshades this, remarking he can barely see past his own hair.
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Monster Beach / int_b749f89d	type	Our Ogres Are Hungrier
Monster Beach / int_b749f89d	comment	Our Ogres Are Hungrier: While what kind of monster he is isn't identified in the movie, the episode "Doommates" implies Brainfreeze to be an ogre. In this case, he's a large, red-skinned humanoid with very large feet and eyes that are permanently concealed behind his hair; some of his official art even depicts him holding a big wooden club much like a classic ogre. Not particularly bright, but very chill and a nice dude all around.
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Monster Beach / int_b78ccff7	type	Griping About Gremlins
Monster Beach / int_b78ccff7	comment	Griping About Gremlins: Stress Leave. He's described as being a gremlin in one episode, but other than his small size, it's a bit hard to tell, especially since his characterization is that of a neurotic, overworked Japanese salaryman instead of a mischievous saboteur.
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Monster Beach / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Monster Beach / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Uncle Woody. In the movie, he's the parental figure for Jan and Dean, playing a major role in helping them get used to the setting and thwarting Butterfield and Dr. Knutt. In the TV series, he rarely gets more than quick non-speaking cameos. Butterfield goes from being the Big Bad to just being the owner of the surf resort located on the northern edge of Iki-Iki Island, with the location appearing far more often than he does (whenever the plot calls for the characters to interact with humans other than Jan, Dean, and Uncle Woody). Hodad is similarly demoted, rarely getting more than brief cameos alongside his boss. Teddles, the trailer park monster, wasn't really a major character in the film, really only showing up for a few scenes (even being involved in the climax) and participating in some musical numbers, but his existence is pretty much never acknowledged in the TV series outside of about two episodes.
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Monster Beach / int_b970a40	type	Valley Girl
Monster Beach / int_b970a40	comment	Valley Girl: Widget talks like one, as do the Murmurmaids (the main difference being Widget's voice is much sweeter and peppier).
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Monster Beach / int_bab7fceb	type	Incredible Shrinking Man
Monster Beach / int_bab7fceb	comment	Incredible Shrinking Man: In the episode "Micro Monsters", Dr. Knutt uses a cursed hackey sack to reduce the kids. Brainfreeze, Amphibia, The Mutt, and Lost Patrol (plus himself by accident) to the size of insects after taking insult at Brainfreeze's comments about his height, requiring everyone to band together to make their way back to Dr. Knutt's lair to they can get the antidote.
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Monster Beach / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Monster Beach / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: Dr. Knutt's Tikis, a small army of diminutive anthropomorphic tiki masks who speak in gibberish.
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Monster Beach / int_c36f6d6c	type	Mummy
Monster Beach / int_c36f6d6c	comment	Mummy: One referred named Mummy's Boy appears from time to time. Unlike all the other monsters seen at Monster Beach, he's original to the TV series and did not have a movie counterpart.
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Monster Beach / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
Monster Beach / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Dr. Knutt. While his movie counterpart was ultimately the less villainous of the Big Bad Ensemble when compared to Corrupt Corporate Executive Butterfield, the TV series makes barely even a true villain despite how much he styles himself as one. His schemes are barely ever foolproof and the inhabitants of Monster Beach generally see him as more of a nuisance, although even them, they're okay with letting him come down and join them in their activities from time to time.
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Monster Beach / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Monster Beach / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Widget is named after the title character of the 1959 surfing movie Gidget.
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Monster Beach / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
Monster Beach / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: Dr. Knutt is about the same size as Jan and Dean, meaning that although he is The Napoleon compared to the rest of the monsters, he's still far larger than his Tiki Mooks, who are all the size of regular masks.
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Monster Beach / int_c8c3f855	type	Fly in the Soup
Monster Beach / int_c8c3f855	comment	Fly in the Soup: A variation of the classic gag occurs in "Talk to the Hand". Widget's autonomous hand falls into Dr. Knutt's soup, and when he complains of this to Madge, she tells him to keep quiet or else the rest of the customers will want one too.
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Monster Beach / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Monster Beach / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Frances G. Butterfield III. Owner of the popular surfing resort chain Butterfield's Surf City, he's all too happy to take over Iki-Iki Island by any means necessary, even if it means having to backstab his allies and enslave the inhabitants while he's at it.
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Monster Beach / int_cca03e64	type	Pounds Are Animal Prisons
Monster Beach / int_cca03e64	comment	Pounds Are Animal Prisons: The episode "Jailhouse Mutt" sees The Mutt end up in a dog pound, with the plot playing out as a parody of jailbreak movies and even the pound itself looking more like a correctional centre.
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Monster Beach / int_cd914c2e	type	AloofBigSister
Monster Beach / int_cd914c2e	comment	In the movie, Jan was the Aloof Big Sister, much more reluctant about staying at Monster Beach than Dean (though she did ultimately warm up to the place in the end) and a bit on the bossy side towards her brother while also tending to remain more grounded and responsible. In the TV series however, Jan has a much chirpier and excitable personality, losing a lot of her icier personality traits and being in a more egalitarian dynamic with her brother. And while the series version of Jan is still the one most fully aware of the craziness going around on Monster Beach, she shows far more enthusiasm for the place than even her movie counterpart did post-Character Development.
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Monster Beach / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Monster Beach / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: Dr. Knutt and Butterfield, despite being the film's Big Bad Ensemble, are both among the shortest characters in the cast, being only about the same size as Jan and Dean.
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Monster Beach / int_d0d90308	type	Bizarre Taste in Food
Monster Beach / int_d0d90308	comment	Bizarre Taste in Food: Being monsters, the ghouls of the titular beach have some pretty gross appetites. Courtesy of Mad Madge and her diner, of course.
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Monster Beach / int_d6f052b4	type	Treasure Hunt Episode
Monster Beach / int_d6f052b4	comment	Treasure Hunt Episode: The episode "Treasure Hunt" sees Brainfreeze and Widget discover a strange map that they believe takes them to buried treasure, and they soon end up getting all of Monster Beach involved in their adventure. Turns out the map was actually The Mutt's; he was using it to keep track of where he buried his bone.
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Monster Beach / int_d72b5003	type	Technicolor Fire
Monster Beach / int_d72b5003	comment	Technicolor Fire: Unlike his Tiki Mooks, Dr. Knutt possesses an ever-burning pillar of green fire behind his mask that also function as his eyes and mouth, emphasizing his supernatural qualities and status as a villain. In the TV series, it's actually temporarily extinguished a few times, causing him to lifelessly fall over until it reignites a few seconds later, which raises the possibility it might be his soul (Jan was even able to vacuum it up in "Boo Plate Special", and it remained alive and able to speak). On a more comedic note, Knutt is also prone to accidentally burning things with his flames.
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Monster Beach / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Monster Beach / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Jan and Dean were Caucasian in the original movie, but in the TV series, they are brown-skinned. Unusually, Uncle Woody remains Caucasian despite this.
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Monster Beach / int_d9e946ae	type	Cute Monster Girl
Monster Beach / int_d9e946ae	comment	Cute Monster Girl: Some of the female monsters qualify, such as Amphibia and Widget.
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Monster Beach / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Monster Beach / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Maurice is renamed Headache in the TV series.
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Monster Beach / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Monster Beach / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Jan often calls her brother Dean, "Deano" or "Deanosaur" - a far cry from her movie counterpart's habit of calling him "goofyfoot". The other characters often call Lost Patrol "LP" for short.
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Monster Beach / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Monster Beach / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: One of the show's darker Running Gags. Dr. Knutt's Tikis are frequently killed and maimed for quick Black Comedy gags. The audience is very frequently treated to shots of unfortunate Tikis falling into the lava around his Volcano Lair, complete with a view of them going "sploosh" as they land into the molten rock below. Knutt himself is indifferent to the loss of his Mooks.
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Monster Beach / int_ddf4698	type	Pulling Themselves Together
Monster Beach / int_ddf4698	comment	Pulling Themselves Together: Widget often takes her body apart to accomplish tasks.
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Monster Beach / int_e02630c1	type	Witch Doctor
Monster Beach / int_e02630c1	comment	Witch Doctor: Dr. Knutt, as his title and tiki motif suggest. He was the wicked and ungrateful son of Iki-Iki Island's native chieftain, and transformed the local surfers into monsters in retaliation for the beach being given to Uncle Woody. Ironically however, he actually holds a doctorate in law from Oxford University, meaning he's also a doctor in the more traditional sense of the term.
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Monster Beach / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Monster Beach / int_e2d457	comment	The Mutt was of fairly average intelligence in the movie, having a decent amount of wisdom and common sense underneath his wackiness. In the TV series though, he tends to veer into being The Ditz outright, often only marginally smarter than his buddy Brainfreeze.
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Monster Beach / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Monster Beach / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: Compared to Exchange Student Zero, the previous movie-turned-series BES Animation produced for Cartoon Network, Monster Beach goes through a radical shift in visual style between the Made-for-TV Movie and the TV series. While both were animated in Adobe Flash, the movie employed a lineless artstyle similar to the one that would later be incorporated into BES Animation's third cartoon Kitty Is Not a Cat (although some viewers may be reminded of fellow surfing-themed cartoon Stōked), but the TV series drops this entirely in favor of a more conventional Thick-Line Animation style incorporating visible outlines, a different color palette, more visible shapes in the character designs, and more detailed backgrounds.
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Monster Beach / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Monster Beach / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: In the movie, Stress Leave was the name the monsters gave Hodad after he was transformed into a monster by Dr. Knutt's magic staff. In the series, Hodad is still human, and the name of his monster alter ego is instead given to an unnamed minor character from the movie.
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Monster Beach / int_e5446db8	type	LARP
Monster Beach / int_e5446db8	comment	LARP: In the episode "Monster Nerd Out", Dean organizes one when he invites some of his friends from home over to Iki-Iki Island, being fed up with how all the activities Jan and the monsters do aren't ones he's interested in. However, the monsters learn about his plans and decide to join in on the game, not realizing Dean doesn't want them to join because he knows they'll derail it.
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Monster Beach / int_e545e18e	type	Nerd
Monster Beach / int_e545e18e	comment	Nerd: In contrast to his movie counterpart, who is a young aspiring Surfer Dude, the series version of Dean is characterized as a highly intelligent young boy obsessed with computers and technology, carrying around a tablet at all times and having a tendency to be pedantic while also showing zero interest in surfing.
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Monster Beach / int_e9edfbad	type	Slumber Party
Monster Beach / int_e9edfbad	comment	Slumber Party: In "Swampy Thing", Jan invites Widget and Amphibia over for one (with Dean and Dr. Knutt tagging along as unwelcome guests), where they watch a horror movie. Things quickly go south however when the monster from their movie shows up at their doorstep and attacks them except it turns out to just be Uncle Woody covered in mud from an accident.
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Monster Beach / int_eea96e78	type	Swallowed Whole
Monster Beach / int_eea96e78	comment	Swallowed Whole: Dr. Knutt and Dean get swallowed by a whale in "Whale of a Problem". They also meet Pinocchio there, and he's depicted as a stereotypical Italian-American tough guy who teams up with Knutt in a plot to escape the whale's belly.
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Monster Beach / int_f062453	type	Burning with Anger
Monster Beach / int_f062453	comment	Burning with Anger: The green flames behind Dr. Knutt's mask flare up when he's mad. The TV series takes it a step further by having the island's volcano erupt green fire when this happens.
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Monster Beach / int_f1356f5e	type	Speaks Fluent Animal
Monster Beach / int_f1356f5e	comment	Speaks Fluent Animal: Amphibia is apparently able to communicate with animals, but in "Lagoon Goons", Dean invents a device that allows them to translate the thoughts of animals, which they use to expose a pair of sleazy sea lions taking advantage of their friend.
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Monster Beach / int_f591365a	type	Surfer Dude
Monster Beach / int_f591365a	comment	Surfer Dude: Being a movie about surfing, many of the characters qualify, although Uncle Woody and Brainfreeze definitely fit the closest with the classic surfer stereotype.
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Monster Beach / int_f65494f0	comment	Cloud Cuckoolanders Minder: Whereas their movie counterparts are Fish out of Water who must be guided through life on Monster Beach by Uncle Woody and the local ghouls, the TV series versions of Jan and Dean are the Only Sane Man to their ditzy uncle and the wacky monsters, frequently having to solve the conflicts and problems that arise from their bumbling shenanigans.
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Monster Beach / int_f792ffe4	comment	Beleaguered Assistant: Poor Hodad gets pushed around constantly by Butterfield.
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Monster Beach / int_f8600b	comment	While Amphibia and Stress Leave did not have particularly well-defined personalities in the movie due to them only having relatively minor roles (although Amphibia does participate in many of the film's events), the little we did see suggested the former to be more of an aloof but friendly Cool Big Sis-type (in contrast with the peppy but ditzy Widget) rather than the Granola Girl of the show and the latter to be a much more relaxed character than the neurotic Japanese Salaryman the TV series portrayed. This especially stands out because the rest of Monster Beach's denizens retained their movie characterizations (The Mutt's wild wackiness, Brainfreeze's ultra-chill airheadedness, Widget's sweet Dumb Blonde character, Lost Patrol's Drill Sergeant Nasty attitude, and Madge and Headache as a stereotypical surly Greasy Spoon waitress and Angry Chef duo with low culinary standards).
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Monster Beach / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: A few episodes explore the nature of The Mutt's lycanthropy. As we learn in "Doommates", he's actually the transformed pet dog of Brainfreeze (in contrast to how the other monsters were formerly humans). "Where Wolf" takes it a step further, revealing that due to his unique origins among the monsters, he's actually a reverse werewolf, as in he transforms into a human during a full moon.
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Monster Beach / int_fbba5e98	type	Gadgeteer Genius
Monster Beach / int_fbba5e98	comment	Gadgeteer Genius: In contrast to his movie counterpart, Dean is characterized as this. He often carries inventions and tech with him and occasionally develops gadgets to help the cast with their problems, such as an artificially intelligent surfboard or an animal speech translator.
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Monster Beach / int_fc4f5f19	type	Go-Karting with Bowser
Monster Beach / int_fc4f5f19	comment	Go-Karting with Bowser: Despite being the overall villain of the series, Dr. Knutt is often seen hanging out with the denizens of Monster Beach, sometimes even joining in on their shenanigans with non-villainous motivations.
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Monster Beach / int_fdad625e	comment	Was Once a Man: The inhabitants of Monster Beach used to be humans until Dr. Knutt transformed them into monsters with his magic.note Photos of how they appeared as humans even cameo early on in the movie Dr. Knutt was also transformed by this spell, however, causing him to go into self-imposed exile. Uncle Woody escaped though, thanks to the protection of the magic amulet Dr. Knutt's father gave him. Hodad gets transformed into a monster as well at the end of the movie, being rechristened Stress Leave by the others.
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Monster Beach / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: The unnamed monster from the movie, renamed Stress Leave in the TV series (see Composite Character below), is made Japanese in the TV series, complete with a thick accent and a tendency to utter Japanese words and phrases.
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