Summer
The longest day of the year, June 21st this year, is known as this.
Summer solstice
To Mother/Daughters of a certain generation, this alliterative tv show is a staple for the fall season.
Gilmore Girls
One of life's biggest questions is how many licks it takes to get to the center of this classic candy treat.
Tootsie Pop
This highest grossing movie of 2023 definitely had a summer vibe with its pastel pink color palette.
Barbie
A usually attractive bloodsucker and a lab-created green man.
Vamp-enstein or Franken-pire
(Vampire & Frankenstein)
Oranges
From lattes to loafs, this orange seasoning flies off grocery store shelves once October rolls around.
Pumpkin Spice
If someone has a special affinity for candy, you may call them this dental-themed nickname.
Sweet Tooth
This 1993 Disney original film follows Max and Dani, who accidentally free a coven of witches. With the help of a magical cat, they have to steal the witches' book of spells to stop them from becoming immortal.
Hocus Pocus
What a young British child would call their mother, and a young female Hogwarts student.
Mumm-itch or Wimmy
(Mummy & Witch)
During peak summer season, Fairbanks, Alaska experiences a "midnight sun," allowing an organized league to play this sport every hour of the night, without having to turn on the lights.
Baseball
Labor Day
This tri-colored, kerneled treat has certainly stuck around as an aesthetic staple for the halloween vibe, but most people aren't buying it for its taste. It tastes like plastic!
Candy corn
This nostalgia-filled movie about American youth famously contains a Fourth of July sequence where kids play a game of baseball under firework lights so they can "feel like pros."
Make sure to check the lunar cycle before asking this first monster out for a night on the town, though this other monster may not be able to participate in very "lively" activities.
Werewhost or Gholf
(Werewolf & Ghost)
Summer is a great time to head to the movies - and studios know it. That's why they try to save their big releases for now, in hopes of earning this term for highly profitable film.
Blockbuster
Despite being inspired by the millennia-old tradition of labyrinths, this fall activity was just recently invented in 1993.
Corn Maze
US Men's National Soccer Team star, Christian Pulisic is from this town in Pennsylvania, which is the namesake for the world's most famous chocolate bar.
Hershey
Parts of this movie franchise will make you want to cry out in terror as Ghost Face storms about, slashing everyone in his path.
Scream
Both of these monsters are dead, but only one has flesh.
Skele-bie or Zomb-eketon
(Skeleton & Zombie)
France's independence day also takes place in July, just ten days after the US', and is known as this.
Bastille Day
The most-worn Halloween costume in 2025 was this character from the hit movie, "K-Pop Demon Hunters."
Rumi
This sweet treat was co-invented by a dentist in 1897, who marketed it as "fairy floss."
Cotton Candy
Much of this aptly named 1978 movie was filmed in South Pasadena. You can still go see the house where Jamie Lee Curtis became a "scream queen," as she was terrorized by a masked Michael Myers.
Halloween
Our first monster is truly designed to instill fear - just not for humans. The other is actually meant for human enjoyment (even goofiness), but often has the opposite effect.
Scarecrown or Clowe
(Scarecrow & Clown)