Gravedale High was an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series premiered in the fall of 1990 on NBC and lasted thirteen episodes, under the title of Rick Moranis in Gravedale High. As of December 2006, Gravedale High it's currently showing 13 episodes of 39 parts on YouTube. Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. ...

The show was developed as an animated vehicle for Rick Moranis, who had star appearances in the Ghostbusters movies and the popular film Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. Frederick Alan Rick Moranis (born April 18, 1953) is a Canadian actor, comedian and musician best known for his work on SCTV and in films such as Ghostbusters, Little Shop of Horrors, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs, and My Blue Heaven. ... Ghostbusters is a 1984 sci-fi comedy film about three eccentric New York City parapsychologists. ... Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 comedy film released through Walt Disney Pictures. ...

Storyline

The show revolved around the misadventures of human teacher Max Schneider, who had unwittingly taken a job at Gravedale High, a school for monsters built inside an old cemetery. Schneider, the only human in the school, presided over a group of ghoulish teenagers that were latest-generation versions of classic movie monsters. These included resident vampire and all-around cool dude Vinnie Stoker (a hip version of Dracula, mischievous Frankentyke (reminiscent of Frankenstein's monster), nerdy werewolf Reggie Moonshroud, zombie J.P. Ghastly the III, lagoon creature Gill Waterman, tubby mummy Cleofatra, invisible Sid, undead Southern belle Blanche, and the snake-headed Valley girl Duzer. The geeky, bespectacled Mr. Schneider had his hands full with his new students, but he had Gravedale’s spooky staff to help out, who initially did not trust Schneider due to his human status but developed a camaraderie with him as the overall story developed. These included headmistress Ms. Crone, Coach Cadaver, principal Mr. Tutner, and others. Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings that subsist on human and/or animal lifeforce. ... Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. ... Boris Karloff as Frankensteins Monster in Frankenstein (1931). ... A German woodcut from 1722 A werewolf (also lycanthrope or wolfman) in folklore is a person who shapeshifts into a wolf or wolflike creature, either purposely, by using magic, or after being placed under a curse. ... A group of actors portraying zombies in a film A zombie is an animated human body devoid of a soul. ... Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 black-and-white science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, and Whit Bissell. ... A mummy is a corpse whose skin and dried flesh have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or airlessness. ... Undead is a collective name for mythological beings that are deceased yet behave as if alive. ... A southern belle (derived from the French belle, beautiful is an archetype for a young woman of the American Old Souths antebellum upper class. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

In addition to Moranis, the show featured a star voice cast, including Jonathan Winters, Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Shari Belafonte Harper, Brock Peters, and talk show host Ricki Lake. Other longstanding voice actors, such as Howard Morris, Robert Ridgeley (who had voiced both Flash Gordon and Tarzan for Filmation), Frank Welker, Maurice LaMarche and Barry Gordon were featured. Jonathan Winters (born November 11, 1925 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American comedic actor. ... Tim Curry in 2005 Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 1946) is an English actor, singer and composer perhaps best known for his role as mad scientist Dr. Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) or as Pennywise in It (1990). ... Eileen Brennan (born September 3, 1938 in Los Angeles, California) is an American character actress of films, television, and theatre. ... Brock Peters (July 2, 1927 – August 23, 2005), born George Fisher in New York City, was an African American actor probably best known for the role in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird of Tom Robinson, the black man unjustly convicted of raping a white girl. ... Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American actress and tabloid talk show host, best known for her long-running Ricki Lake talk show and starring in the film Hairspray. ... Howard Morris (September 4, 1919 – May 21, 2005) was an American comic actor and director. ... Franklin W. Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor. ... Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian voice actor and former stand up comedian. ... Barry Gordon (born December 21, 1948) is an American film and television actor. ...

The show was somewhat akin to Galaxy High as both shows were intended to be shown to young audiences and was about humans in an environment unlike their own (extraterrestrials for Galaxy High; monsters for Gravedale High). However, whereas the main human characters in Galaxy High were often isolated from humans (as they were millions of miles away from Earth, Max Schneider did not feel the same way as it was more of a "day job" for him to teach). In fact, episodes frequently revolved around the monster students somehow interacting with the human population, who were often terrified at them. The faculty was more mistrusting of humans than were the students, although one certain episode dealt with a parents' night combined with a talent show, where Frankentyte makes a robot father to hide his embarrassment as to his true parentage. However, the false father turns out to be a sleazy Hollywood agent type who causes Frankentyte more problems. He decides it would be easier to reveal to everyone that his true father is Dr. Frankenstein, a human, which shocks the entire school, but Mr. Schneider makes an impassioned speech on the importance of acceptance of differences. Galaxy High was an American animated series that premiered on September 13, 1986 on CBS and ran for 13 episodes until December 6, 1986. ... Extraterrestrial, as an adjective, refers to something that originates, occurs, or is located outside Earth or its atmosphere. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ...

References

• Gravedale High at the Internet Movie Database
• Gravedale High at TV Tome
• DDsite: Gravedale High