Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

The episodes follow the suspenseful adventures of Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm, three young monster friends attending a monster school whose headmaster is The Gromble. The show is set in New York City where monsters co-exist with humans, demonstrated throughout the series by the presences of the Empire State Building and the IND Subway System , and in the episode "Monster Make-Over" when Ickis refers to himself as "the ugliest, slimiest, razor fanged, sharp clawed, monster menace this side of Newark !" The dump where the monsters inhabit is implied to be Fresh Kills Landfill , but never explicitly named in the series. The monster community includes a working economic system using toenails as currency.