Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Wizards Of Waverly Place Halloween

“Boo! I got you, babe. I’m Cher.”

2009 gave us the third season of the wildly popular Wizards of Waverly Place. The second episode of that season, Halloween, sees the Russo family attempt to save their annual Haunted House by enlisting the help of three ghosts from the wizard world. In typical Russo fashion, however, things fall apart.

In the episode, Justin (David Henrie) and Harper (Jennifer Stone) team up to create a “peer pressure” house of horrors that proves to be too lame for Mr. Evans (Daniel Roebuck) and the rest of the Halloween committee. Mr. Evans tells the Russo’s father, Jerry (David DeLuise), that if the haunted house isn’t scary enough, the family will end up losing the opportunity to host the haunted house again.

Against his better judgement, Jerry allows Alex (Selena Gomez) and Harper to go to the wizarding world in order to fetch three ghosts in order to make the haunted house scarier. He gives her specific instructions to pick three ghosts that are scary, but not too scary.

While in the wizarding world, Alex and Harper run into Mantooth (Sean Whalen), a ghost known to be extremely scary and a frequent haunter of Justin. Deemed too scary, though, Alex and Harper pick three other ghosts who fail to miserably.

With no other options in sight, the Russo’s go ahead with their own haunted house that include Theresa (Maria Canals-Barrera) as Cher and Max (Jake T. Austin) as a moustachioed ghost. Still unimpressed, the Halloween committee decides that the Russo’s have lost their right to run the annual haunted house until Mantooth shows up to hopefully save the day. Does he? You’ll have to check out the episode in order to find out! It’s available on Disney+ and on home media.

The episode features all of the humor that is standard for the series and all of the cast do a great job as usual. Wizards was always one of my favorite shows to watch along with my daughter. There are plenty of episodes that feature monsters and ghosts across the entire series including werewolves, vampires, and even a Franken-girl, so be sure to check out more of the show’s spooky episodes.

Not only do I recommend this episode, I recommend the entire series. It’s great family fun. Thanks for checking out my post. More spooky goodness coming tomorrow!