Out of the Past is 9th Aaahh!!! Real Monsters episode from season 3.
Characters present
Summary
Ickis is in the middle of projecting a botched scare on the viewfinder when The Gromble sees something on the screen that makes him turn white as a sheet-- the red delivery van of Dick Jolly of "Jolly Rooter Sewer Service." Years earlier The Gromble tried to scare Jolly but was thwarted by Jolly's horrible "sewer eater" (the Roto-Rooter machine). The Gromble takes Ickis, Krumm and Oblina on a misguided search for Jolly.
Plot
The Gromble has been looking back in retrospect on the latest scares of the class and rebukes everyone for their inept scaring. Ickis is the first to go to the viewfinder to project his scare, and the video shows the young monster with Oblina and Krumm attempting to scare a mechanic at the construction site and they end up being crushed by car bumpers. They quickly pull theirselves out and spot an old woman walking on the streets. They follow her and Gromble is about to berate their imminent scare until he spots something on the screen and makes Ickis rewind back to it. He magnifies the picture, which shows a red vehicle right before the video shuts off. Gromble, now feeling nervous and anxious, dismisses the class. But he keeps Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina with him and tells them to meet him in the sewers in five minutes for a scare.
Later, The Monsters are confused at to who Gromble was determined to scare and come across their headmaster, who is armed with material to prepare for the scare. When Ickis asks Gromble what are they doing, Gromble begins to make a traumatizing look and hugs the three monsters as he finally decides to explain his predicament that happened years ago. He explains to them that in his younger years, he has scared a lot of humans in the least places they expected. Then, one dark night, when Gromble walked through the sewers, he heard a mysterious sound that he later hears currently. Eager, he brings his three students along with him to finish the scare, only for them to get washed away by a wave, which takes them to a sewer pipe labeled "Sewage Treatment #3." They end up outside and Gromble now acknowledges that it wasn't the person he was trying to scare. When Oblina asks a determined Gromble why he is trying to scare the mysterious person, he explains that he came across an adversary better known as the "sewer eater," which was a whirling machine that Dick Jolly, the man that Gromble attempted to scare, tried to use on the monster, who quickly jumped back inside the toilet. He made it out of the sewer and ran into a van titled Jolly Rooter, which prompted him to run away again. Because of this, Gromble had lost his confidence and has became traumatized since then. When he saw the vehicle in the screen back at the academy, he was hoping to get another chance, only to end in failure. The Monsters tell Gromble that they will help him find the sewer eater and quickly take a view of Jolly Rooter Sewer Service building. They go inside the building and search for the human to scare, only to find that he is asleep on the couch and now an elderly man. Because he is too old, Gromble feels that the man is lo longer worth scaring nowadays and attempts to bring his students with him to leave, but when a young employee of the sewer service walks in, the monsters scare him away successfully, only to come across the whirling sewer cleaner, which chases Gromble out of the house. The three young monsters jump onto the sewer cleaner, which falls off the edge of the cliff as The Monsters grab it and crashes down into a pile of rocks below. Gromble is overly pleased of how he scared away the human and helps his students onto the surface to go out for another scare.
Back at Jolly Rooter Sewer Service, the old man continues sleeping until he hears a loud drip from the faucet. He looks around and quickly goes back to sleep.
Errors
- In the opening scene, the students dissapear from the background during closeups on The Gromble.