Matt's Monsters
When the quiet town of Joliville's threatened by a crazy clothes eating monster, who's on the case? The Monster Agency of course! Meet 9 year-old Matt, his parents Bruce and Ellen, best friend Manson, and Dink the family pet. Monsters, beware!
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When the quiet town of Joliville's threatened by a crazy clothes eating monster, who's on the case? The Monster Agency of course! Meet 9 year-old Matt, his parents Bruce and Ellen, best friend Manson, and Dink the family pet. Monsters, beware!
1.Ice Scream, You Scream
20-12-200812mA frozen monster is laying siege to the frozen foods aisle at the Joliville supermarket. Can the Monster Agency stop him before he turns all the customers into frozen treats and ea...
- Ep 2
2.The Monster of the Lake
20-12-200812mWhen they arrive at their vacation spot, Matt and his family discover that a mysterious monster has been terrorizing the lake and making it impossible to go swimming. They decide t...
- Ep 3
3.Appetite for Learning
21-12-200812mMatt’s grades are getting worse and worse. Ellen and Bruce take drastic measures: no more monster hunting until further notice! Matt has to stay home and study hard to improve his...
- Ep 4
4.The Freak of the Leak
21-12-200812mA mysterious monster comes out of the faucet and attacks Matt while he’s in the tub. Ellen thinks Matt is just trying to find a way to get out of taking a bath! When Ellen hears re...
- Ep 5
5.Bovary Strikes Back
22-12-200812mMadame Bovary has found a foolproof way to capture monsters: hypnotize them. The Monster Agency can’t compete with a skill like that, so they get ready to shut down… but are Bovary...
- Ep 6
6.Secret Weapon
22-12-200812mMadame Bovary decides to deal a fatal blow to the Monster Agency. While Matt’s parents are away, she kidnaps Dink. This is more than Matt and Manson can bear. They soon find Dink b...
- Ep 7
7.Mold War
23-12-200812mMika doesn’t like being on a diet very much. When Bruce and Matt go shopping for a new telephone to replace the one that Mika gulped down, Mika follows them in the hope that he c...
- Ep 8
8.Talkin' Trash
23-12-200812mAn enormous trash monster is spreading terror among the citizenry and the garbage men. Will the Averages, skilled sorters that they are, manage to stop the creature and restore ti...
- Ep 9
9.Let Sleeping Mantas Lie
24-12-200812mManson, Matt, and their friend Sonia are going to visit a huge aquarium. When they get there, the find the guards paralyzed as if in a hypnotic trance! When even the sheriff is hyp...
- Ep 10
10.Oil Rush
24-12-200812mThe cars of Joliville are breaking down one after the other. It turns out the motor oil is the favorite food of the latest monster to attack the city. The Monster Agency must prot...
- Ep 11
11.Ready... Get Set... Sleep!
25-12-200812mDuring a perfectly normal monster hunt, Matt, Bruce, Dink, and Manson awaken a sleeping Gagab. The monster, who normally hibernates underground twelve months a year, is blinded by...
- Ep 12
12.Tickled Pink
25-12-200812mA pink monster is making the people of Joliville see the world through rose-colored glasses. It transmits its virus to grumpy people by blowing huge bubble gum balls. And they’re i...
- Ep 13
13.Jukebox Jitters
26-12-200812mDuring a garage sale, Grandma Average sells her old jukebox to the Schwarzes. When they get home and plug it in however, the juke box turns into a “Juke Monster”, a creature capabl...
- Ep 14
14.Fog Gets in Your Eyes
26-12-200812mDuring a school field trip, the students in Matt’s class disturb a mysterious forest creature in its lair. The monster seeks its vengeance by covering Joliville with fog!
- Ep 15
15.Double Dink
01-01-200912mA new monster is spreading terror throughout the city. The Monster Agency wastes no time, and it puts up a sketch of the terrible creature. And surprise: the eyewitnesses are all i...
- Ep 16
16.Ad Nausea
27-12-200812mThe Bovary Company does such a good job of sabotaging the Monster Agency’s ad campaign that they’re no longer receiving any calls. Ellen decides to do something about it, so she co...
- Ep 17
17.Bright Lights, Big Monster
28-12-200812mMatt has to track down a monster that is destroying all the sources of light in the city. Nothing should be easier for a monster expert like Matt unless he’s surrounded by a group...
- Ep 18
18.Holey Terror
28-12-200812mOne morning, the city wakes up covered in holes. Buildings, cars, notebooks, dirt, cups: everything has holes in it as if a colony of termites had infested the city! Matt and the A...
- Ep 19
19.Toy Trouble
29-12-200812mAn unusually speedy monster called the Ludofractor is attacking children’s toys, and each time the Agency arrives on the scene, it’s too late. To trap the monster, Matt forms an al...
- Ep 20
20.Average Family Tales
29-12-200812mThe Monster Agency is celebrating the capture of its 5000th monster. The press is gathered for the occasion, and Matt, Bruce, Ellen, and Dink tell the story of how they got started...
- Ep 21
21.Hair Guitar
30-12-200812mA monster is hiding in the hotel where the famous rock group The Scalps are staying. Anyone who comes into contact with the monster starts to sprout hair and a beard that grow at a...
- Ep 22
22.Fright Christmas
30-12-200812mIt’s Christmas in Joliville. Bruce’s mother has joined the Averages and the family is getting ready to enjoy Christmas dinner. But a monster alert spoils the evening’s festivities...
- Ep 23
23.Waves of Love
31-12-200812mManson is rehearsing a rock song in the Averages’ garage in the hope that she can play with her favorite group, Metal Finish. But her voice attracts a wavosaurus, and the monster s...
- Ep 24
24.Panic at the Multiplex
31-12-200812mMatt is invited by his friend Sonia to the brand new multiplex in town to see Mr. Bunnylumps and His Cuddly Friends, and Dink and Manson, who are going to sea monster movie, have...
- Ep 25
25.Bubble Trouble
27-12-200812mIt is very hot out, and a very thirsty, bubble-shaped monster makes his way into Matt's school to wet his whistle. He finds a water fountain, and when he sticks his head into the w...
- Ep 26
26.Public Relations Nightmare
01-01-200912mA mysterious monster is turning children’s dreams into nightmares! This means all the kids show up for Mr. Rasmussen’s class completely sleep-deprived. For Socrates, the reason is...
- Ep 27
27.The Hunting License
02-01-200912mAfter his car is crushed during a monster hunt, Sheriff Wayne discovers that the Agency’s monster hunting license has expired. They have to take the test all over again! As if thin...
- Ep 28
28.Spring Festival Blues
02-01-200912mBovary can’t stand the Spring Festival that the town’s inhabitants put on every year, This time, however, she’s decided to destroy it once and for all. When a monster that sucks th...
- Ep 29
29.Monstroville
03-01-200912mA group of monsters is meeting in secret because they’ve had all they can take from the Monster Agency! The Averages have been nothing but trouble since day one. A monster can’t ev...
- Ep 30
30.Rural Furor
03-01-200912mEllen wants Matt and Bruce to stop filling up on candy. From now on, they’re allowed to eat only fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, a monster has laid waste to all the farms in...
- Ep 31
31.Wild Game
04-01-200912mAdrian is the smartest kid in the class, and he’s also really good at video games. So when a jealous Socrates tries to steal his game console from him, he has no idea that he’s abo...
- Ep 32
32.Bovary Gets a Job
04-01-200912mEver since Ellen launched her new advertising campaign for the Agency, she hasn’t been home as much. And Bruce has trouble keeping up with the daily housework. When Madame Bovary s...
- Ep 33
33.Doubting Bruce
05-01-200912mWhen he misses a perfect chance to capture a monster, Bruce decides to stop monster hunting and sell pizzas. Matt is stunned, and although he still hunts monsters, he finds that it...
- Ep 34
34.All Mallow's Eve
05-01-200912mIt's a disaster! On the night before Halloween, a scary, insatiable monster breaks into the houses of the people of Joliville and steals all their candy. It looks like the holiday...
- Ep 35
35.Paranoia City
06-01-200912mWhile the Monster Agency and the Bovary Company begin a fierce competition to capture monsters, a security firm equips the city with an automated capturing system. This puts the mo...
- Ep 36
36.Groundshark Day
06-01-200912mSly the mailman is quietly delivering the mail on his bike when the fin of a monster comes surging up from underground and heads right for him! Sly manages to escape, but the effec...
- Ep 37
37.Mailbox Mayhem
07-01-200912mA monster that loves to eat mail appears in town. Letter carriers panic, mailboxes grow strangely hungry, mail is shredded to bits, and the postal system goes haywire. The mayor a...
- Ep 38
38.Dirty Business
07-01-200912mJojo, the monster of Lake Joliville, has disappeared. The Supersop factory has been illegally dumping its waste into the waters of the lake, and it is afraid that the monster's dis...
- Ep 39
39.Monster Fatigue
08-01-200912mMatt is finding monster hunting to be a little repetitive these days, and his mini-monsters are wearing him out. At school, he doesn’t even draw monsters in the margins of his test...
- Ep 40
40.Mad Monster Disease
08-01-200912mAfter being exposed to sewer monster, Matt turns into a monster himself! It's a race against the clock to find the antidote for Matt before the vicious Madame Bovary captures him!
- Ep 41
41.Black Forest Monster
09-01-200912mSonia invokes an Indian curse that brings the city’s cakes to life. The Average Family is quickly entrenched in its house and surrounded by cakes that are led by a sinister Black F...
- Ep 42
42.Monster-Skelter
09-01-200912mA monster is making a mess wherever he goes! Be it Sonia's parents' grocery store, the mail delivered by Sly, or the pages of the mayor's speech... everything is in disarray! The M...
- Ep 43
43.A Beastly Affliction
10-01-200912mTeachers and smart people are falling victim to a strange illness, and their once high IQs seem to be dropping. They are turning into animals! Our heroes investigate and discover t...
- Ep 44
44.Monster Magnetism
10-01-200912mA magnetic monster is attracting metal objects to itself and gobbling them up. The mayor, who's been keeping an eye on Dink ever since that incident at the unveiling of the mayor's...
- Ep 45
45.Monsters are the New Black
11-01-200912mWhen a story on the Agency is shown on TV, the public discovers mini-monsters and finds them adorable. Soon, everyone wants to have a mini-monster in their home! The Bovary Company...
- Ep 46
46.A Brother for Manson
11-01-200912mIt wasn’t the first time Manson talked about her monster/brother in class. But this time, Socrates challenges her to bring him in. If Manson wants to save face, she has no other ch...
- Ep 47
47.Matt Suffers for His Art
12-01-200912mMatt is hoping to impress the jury at his school's sculpture competition. But with Theodore and Sonia there, the competition is fierce! When the crowd makes fin of Matt's creation,...
- Ep 48
48.The Shadow Monster
12-01-200912mIt's Dink's birthday. A blackout forces Matt's family to continue the party¿ in their van! Meanwhile, Professor Appendix creates a machine that brings shadows to life. His own shad...
- Ep 49
49.Clothes Make the Monster
13-01-200912mManson looks ridiculous in her floral print dress. And she's not the only one: all around town, clothes are disappearing and people are making do with what they have. Even the sher...
- Ep 50
50.Commercial Success
13-01-200912mHelen creates a TV ad for the Monster Agency. When the time comes to pick the monsters that best typify their work, the members of the Agency all chime in! But the ad is also givin...
- Ep 51
51.Pitch Perfect
14-01-200912mManson does things her own way, and when she plays the guitar, she does so, in a strange, deafening manner that shatters everything around her to pieces! Finally, she meets her mat...
- Ep 52
52.The Temp-O-Saurus
14-01-200912mThe clocks in Joliville seem to be going crazy just as the Monster Agency shows up at the TV studio for their interview! Not only is it impossible for them to arrive on time, peopl...
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