Aaahh!!! Real Monsters is the fifth Nicktoon after Doug, Ren & Stimpy, Rugrats, and Rocko's Modern Life. The series premiered on October 22, 1994 on Nickelodeon. The episodes follow the adventures of Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm, three young monster friends attending a monster school. The dump the monsters inhabit is implied to be Fresh Kills Landfill, but never explicitly named in the series.