Editing Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (section)

==Production==
''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters'' was created by [[Gábor Csupó]] and [[Peter Gaffney]],<ref name="Beck2007">{{Cite book |last=Beck |first=Jerry |title=Not Just Cartoons: Nicktoons! |last2=Nickelodeon Brand Group |publisher=Melcher Media |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-59591-043-1 |location=New York |oclc=154685607}}</ref> and was the third animated series produced by Csupó's company [[Klasky Csupo]], which also created the animated shows ''[[Rugrats]]'' and ''[[Duckman]]'' on USA Network.<ref name="Prescott1028">{{Cite news |last=Prescott |first=Jean |date=October 28, 1994 |title=Check in on Celebs on 'Naked Cafe' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sun-herald-check-in-on-celebs-on-naked/173021526/ |work=[[Sun Herald]] |page=14 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref name="Mendoza0902">{{Cite news |last=Mendoza |first=N.F. |date=September 2, 1994 |title=Kids' TV Heavy on Super-Heroes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/portland-press-herald-kids-tv-heavy-on/173021567/ |work=[[Portland Press Herald]] |page=4C |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> Before the final title was chosen, which took over five years, the series had the working titles ''Monsters'' and ''Real Monsters''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Warner |first=Fara |author-link=Fara Warner |date=January 31, 1995 |title=Nick Rock(o)s Licensing Boat |journal=[[Brandweek]] |publisher=[[Adweek]] |volume=35 |issue=5 |page=3 |issn=1064-4318}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=January 31, 1994 |title=News & Notes – MTV Networks Plan Animation Sensation |work=[[Los Angeles Daily News]] |page=L20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=February 1, 1994 |title=NBC Special Examines Menedez Trials |work=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |page=6B}}</ref> The show was conceived after Csupó and his wife and creative partner [[Arlene Klasky]] were approached by the network Nickelodeon to create a follow-up series to ''Rugrats''. Csupó was inspired to write a show about monsters because his own young children loved them.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Graham |first=Jefferson |date=February 7, 1995 |title=Animators' Own Little Angels Inspire 'Monsters' |work=[[USA Today]] |page=3D}}</ref> He also said he knew Nickelodeon would not want a series about human characters because everybody else was pitching shows about animals. Csupó drew some sketches of possible monsters on a piece of paper and successfully pitched the idea to the network: "I wanted them silly and not too skillful – and the idea worked."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sokolsky |first=Bob |date=November 21, 1994 |title=Davies Gets into Flow of Vampire Role |work=[[The Press-Enterprise]] |page=A09}}</ref>

Nickelodeon programming director [[Herb Scannell]] said the character design in ''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters'' was partially inspired by ''[[Yellow Submarine (film)|Yellow Submarine]]'', a 1968 animated film that was, in turn, inspired by [[The Beatles]].<ref name="Mendoza1030">{{Cite news |last=Mendoza |first=N.R. |date=October 30, 1994 |title=Nickelodeon Offers Monsters in Training |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-30-tv-56313-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103155311/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-10-30/news/tv-56313_1_monster-shows-aaahh |archive-date=November 3, 2012 |access-date=August 24, 2011 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref><ref name="Feran1029">{{Cite news |last=Feran |first=Tom |date=October 29, 1994 |title=Fake Meteor Barrage Is in 'War of Worlds' Style |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-plain-dealer-fake-meteor-barrage-on/173021660/ |work=[[The Plain Dealer]] |page=8E |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> The character Gromble, in particular, bears a close resemblance to the [[Blue Meanies (Yellow Submarine)|Blue Meanie]] characters from that film.<ref name="Roush1028">{{Cite news |last=Roush |first=Matt |date=October 28, 1994 |title=PBS' 'Dead' Is a Goner; 'Monsters' Makes a Splash – Anne Rice Bio 'Vampire' Goes Right for the Jugular |work=[[USA Today]] |page=3D}}</ref> Director of the series [[Igor Kovalyov]] said the style was inspired by his earlier [[Soviet]] film ''[[Investigation Held by Kolobki]]'' which he and Gábor Csupó showed to the producers who then gave Kovalyov's team a lot of creative freedom with the art direction and storyboarding.<ref>{{Cite AV media |last=Kovalyov |first=Igor |date=2002 |title=Серия 2: Игорь Ковалёв |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZAc4mjykWM |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/2ZAc4mjykWM |archive-date=2021-11-17 |via=[[YouTube]] |language=Russian}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Csupó said some elements of the show have a look similar to the [[film noir]] genre, and called the city dump where the monster characters reside reminiscent of the visual style from the films ''[[Blade Runner]]'' (1982) and ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'' (1985).<ref name="Mendoza1030" /> The characters guest-star in the 1999 ''Rugrats'' episode "[[Ghost Story (Rugrats)|Ghost Story]]". Before that, David Eccles, the voice of Krumm, provided the monster voice coming from under Chuckie's bed.