It’s National Pumpkin Day! While you enjoy a pumpkin spice latte and some Smashing Pumpkins, here’s a list of the 10 Most Famous Pumpkins in Movies and TV:
1. The jack-o’-lantern from the opening credits of “Halloween”
2. Sam from “Trick ‘R Treat” (He has an alien-like pumpkin head.)
3. The Great Pumpkin from “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” . . . (even though you never see him.)
4. The Pumpkin King (Jack Skellington) from “The Nightmare Before Christmas”
5. The pumpkin carriage from “Cinderella”
6. The pumpkin mask in “Halloween 3: Season of the Witch”
7. The Headless Horseman, who is known for carrying a jack-o’-lantern in place of his head (Like in the Disney cartoon “The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad” and the Johnny Depp movie “Sleepy Hollow”.)
8. Spookley from “Spookley the Square Pumpkin”
9. David S. Pumpkins (Tom Hanks) from “Saturday Night Live”
10. Pumpkinhead from the “Pumpkinhead” series (There’s four movies!)