Aaahh!! Real Monsters was an American animated television series about adolescent monsters in training, developed by Klasky-Csupo for Nickelodeon. The show ran for four seasons on Nickelodeon's main United States cable channel and was rerun on Nicktoons TV until 2006.

The show focuses on three monsters in particular (Ickis, Oblina and Krumm) who attend a school for monsters under a city dump and learn to frighten humans. Many of the episodes revolve around the monsters making it to the surface in order to perform “scares” as class assignments.

A video game based on the TV series was released for the Super NES and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis by Majesco in 1995. Ickis also appeared in Nicktoons Racing for the PlayStation, PC and Game Boy Advance (He was missing in the Game Boy Color version). The GBA version would end up being the last Real Monsters and Ren & Stimpy games.

Ickis, Oblina and Krumm are three of the monsters-in-training at the “Monster Academy”. They are at the Academy to learn the art of scaring. This is not an easy task for them because they are adolescents, and therefore are prone to getting into all kinds of trouble. The headmaster of the Academy is the Gromble. The Gromble is determined to make all of his little monster charges into the most terrifying creatures of the night. The Gromble is helped along with this task by Snorch and Zimbo, who dole out the punishment at the Academy. Even though Ickis, Oblina and Krumm are always getting themselves into trouble, the three of them always survive their adventures by sticking together, and have a monsterously good time in the process.