Definitely not the shows strongest episode but I got to say props to them for actually building a human size doll house set with oversized props. Might have been tempting to just to film in an old house but they went the extra mile.
Maybe in the original version of this tale, Uncle Pete was the 'dollmaker' and that's why he seems to know so much about the dollhouse (including that it 'got' Susan, saving the niece from going through the door at the last minute, and knowing to burn it at the end) but the writers scrapped that idea because it was too unsettling for kids to think that they couldn't trust their guardians.
Gotta be real, trespassing while saying "hello" over and over is probably a twelve year-olds best guess at how to maintain deniability. "Well I kept saying hello! That means you're not allowed to be mad at me for breaking the window and climbing in!"
The "why" and "how" of the dollhouse/attic door never really bothered me as a kid; I figured it was just one of those stories that was supposed to be scarier because of the mystery, because you *didn't* fully understand what was going on, and because things didn't always make logical sense that made it much more difficult to outsmart whatever paranormal force was at work. You might even compare it to a Junji Ito manga, one where the main character suddenly comes face to face with a scenario or monster or entity that's *never* explained, and they have no choice but to deal with it, but that's part of the horror, not knowing or comprehending what they're up against.
Yeah, it's always weird to me when people demand logical explanations for everything, and then say something's bad just because it wasn't logical I just think of it as something that doesn't make sense to humans because our minds can't fully comprehend what's happening, while there's something else out there who it /does/ make sense to because their thinking is from another plane of existence or something, which is honestly scarier for me lol
I guess what I found the most confusing was why Susan had been in the doll house for some months now, yet only partially/mostly doll-like, but Melissa is there for all of two minutes, and her hand and arms are already mostly porcelain. Like, how fast/slow does this take?
I always wondered if the house would turn her faster than Susan, since she was closer to figuring it out, and was therefore a threat. But in reality, it was probably sadly just cut for time. It’s sad, it would have at least made for a decent two-parter episode.
Maybe there are other razards? Like "eating fairy food makes so that you cant eat human food anymore" kinda thing, like, maybe the frist girl eat something that slow down the transformation.
Susan was played by my childhood pal Mandy. I remember we were all so excited that she was in “are you afraid of the dark?” It was a big deal show when we were kids
6:26 between the view of the backyard and your description of Pete and Sally being distraught, I believed for just a second that the episode was gonna end on the kids falling to their death. Pete did try saving her from that earlier so it'd have some establishment. But imagine escaping being turned into a doll in an alternate dimension just to die from a fall in the normal world.
Another unanswered question in this episode : who or what did she see in the house when she was looking at it from the swing? If that girl was in the doll house, it couldn't be her, and nobody else lived there anymore. Was it the house trying to lure her inside? Was it the doll house? This episode generates more questions than it answers.
I'm fine with this. The mystery and atmosphere were what always made this my favorite episode. I guess some people need answers in their horror and others don't.
Am I the only that thinks it makes it scarier that way? Where did it come? How exactly does it work? Why? Is it even a dollhouse or does it just take that form in this particular instance?
Honestly, from how the dollhouse seemed to work, I just figured sometimes the dollhouse's dimension kind of flickered into the real house - like entering/exiting didn't work right, but since the dollhouse sometimes seemed to reflect the real world, maybe she was actually seeing how the dollhouse windows looked with Sarah wandering around.
When the Uncle says "it was the house that got her" we the audience are meant to think it's the actual house. However, he really is referring to the dollhouse. Also, it seems the attic door in the real house leads somewhere into the dollhouse. I assume that the attic door in the dollhouse leads to the exact place in the real house. Not having seen the episode the weirdness is what the the Aunt and Uncle know and why, and who opened/closed the attic door of the real house and why? Otherwise fun episode and thanks!
It would've been scarier if there were already children-turned-doll standing in the dollhouse. Although dolls are already scary all on their own, I was terrified as a child of Slappy, and those weren't the best written episodes either
It's a terrible idea to work on your own septic tank, though with those tools, that's probably not what he was doing anyway. The REAL plot hole everyone should be concerned about in this story obviously.
It reminds of a Sue Grafton mystery I read a few years back....let's just say never trust someone who is too cheerful about fixing septic tanks or digging up old pipes!
I love your voice, it’s so relaxing to listen to, even though I was terrified of this show as a kid and still can’t watch them but I love your videos so much so I ignore my childish fear to watch your videos...Love you! ☺️
Reminds me of a short story that upset me as a child. Two children find a strange hole in the wall, and when they throw in objects something comes back, changed or replaced. The trades are similar in purpose but alien in function, superior, but strange, powered by sealed capsules with a spinning, glowing worm inside. Eventually the boy goes through, and we are left to wonder whether the strange thing received back is an alien simulacrum or the boy himself, changed. It's fine for a lot to be unexplained. But there's a difference between an unresolved mystery with many plausible answers, and an an unsolved puzzle, so narrowly or contradictorily constrained that no answer seems possible.
@@SonyUSA I eventually tracked it down, it was the short story "Swap Shop" in the collection "Sweets from a Stranger And Other Strange Tales" by Nicholas Fisk.
Isn't it interesting going back to these as adults? I remember seeing "The Tale of Badge" as a kid, where a girl uses a magic flute that summons an evil entity who impersonates her Grandma to get inside the house. I watched it at my Grandma's house when I was a kid and couldn't sleep for a good few weeks. I rewatched it about a year ago, and it was so goofy and cheesy. It's also on multiple lists as one of the worst episodes. Things are so different when we're kids!
There is a Dark Forces book about a haunted dollhouse, and the reason they put off burning it is fear of it causing the real house to burn down. (but it doesn'tl
This was also the one and ONLY episode of this show that I remembered, and it also lived rent-free in my brain for the last freaking 25 years or something. I think I know what stuck with me about this episode and why it DEEPLY scared me as a child. To me, it was the suggestion that these nefarious doorways exist around our everyday lives, and there could be strangely recursive doorways that lead to places where, instead of aging, you turn into a porcelain doll and your limbs fall off one by one? O_O
You are right about kids being smart enough to deserve a story that makes sense. My kids are 7 and 8.5. They are great at figuring out plots in stories we watch or read. They just figured out something before my husband and I and we were super impressed. It's not just my kids. Kids are insightful. They are creative. They aren't afraid to think differently than adults have been taught to think and that is awesome!
I almost feel like that's why the episode is so memorable and scary to kids. As adults, your logic gets in the way, but when you're young, your overactive imagination fills in the blanks. I remember most of the explanations I had for the plot holes (the "dollhouse" is some eldritch abomination that takes the shape of the house it's in, the door in the attic originally led to a widow's walk that doesn't exist, etc.)
I want a documentary on why adults forget so quickly and succinctly what it's like to be a kid. I don't think growing up in a different time is enough of an explanation.
I remember a documentary on the human brain (on Netflix, I guess?) where they showed How kids are overall better than adults at deciphering certain tests and puzzles because adults get lost in inventing a backstory and assuming, while kids accept the precise given and work with the reality given to them and don't try to impose their expectations.
@@user-jn1wm3tb8v Stephen King wrote in his essay on the history of horror narratives that we underestimate kids too much and that they are quite more complicated and stronger than mere "incomplete adults". He gives as an example how adults just keep on trying to cut the darker parts of fairy tales, afraid they would traumatize kids, but they really don't. As King says, children are CONSTANTLY having tondeal with a world full of scary things they don't understand (scalators, big animals, thunder, weird shadows) and for which they have no parameter, so they ARE quite atuned with their sense of self preservativo in certain subjects, and can recognize patterns without assuming them. As he puts it "fairy tales até not important because they tell us that the monsters exist. Kids already know that, better than any adult. Fairy tales are important because they tell us that the monsters can be defeated."
"ooh I love the novelty salt shaker; definitely gives the house a seasoned look." I see what you did there, that was a terrible pun, and I love it. Thank you.
I remember a book about a girl who gets trapped in the world of her dollhouse. as she keeps trying to escape from her parents costant fighting. But the dolls are malicious and costantly hatming each other and her as she used them to take out her own anger and negative emotions. Eventually she finds out that the dolls have their own dollhouse that is her house. She has to get up to the attic to get home. But I can't remember the name.
There also was another book where a whole miniature town on display in a museum turns out to be an actual town that vanished years ago that was miniaturized. And while the mad scientist or whatever did it when most people were away, there are a few people who were in the town who got miniaturized too. Looking it up, it was "The Mysterious Shrinking House" by Jane Louise Curry, 1970.
I really liked this episode as a child. I think if the house/doll house were evil, I believe that it would have benefitted from more dolls in the house, maybe having a doll dressed in period clothing, like every 10/20 years back, there's a child dressed from that era. It would also get Susan out of that hideous smock.
For whatever reason, as a kid this was one of my favorite episodes. Admittedly, it has major issues, but it will always hold a place in my heart. Great breakdown 👍🏻
I would think back to this episode every now and then but for some reason I would remember it differently because how long ago I watched it early 2000s when they would have reruns. Then when I watched it again I was like defiantly different from what I remembered.
The set up reminds me of When Marnie Was There, and now I really want to watch that again. Also, I love that "need to ramp up for Halloween" starts in August now. :D :D :D Now I want a ramp down from Halloween that we can postpone until after Christmas.
This episode used to absolutely TERRIFY me as a child. That part where her own arms turn into porcelain was like 100% nightmare fuel. On another note, I’m so glad I found your channel. Reliving the 90s with another girl with my personality. Now THAT is what life is all about, my friend 💜
Okay, so if the dollhouse had a smaller dollhouse in the attic... and THAT small dollhouse had another dollhouse in its attic, then aren't we sort of "Horton Hears a Who"-ing this episode?
There are a lot of problems with this script. Has the door always been there? If so, has it always been a portal or did it just turn into that when the dollhouse was purchased/appeared? why did the door architecturally exist in the first place? Why did her parents leave the house? I was fully expecting the twist to be that the whole family was in the dollhouse, but them leaving makes zero sense to me especially since the girl's septic tank obsessed uncle seems to know where the girl went. I'm fine with a few vagaries here and there, but this story does leave a lot to be desired. I'd say that if I watched it as a kid that I probably wouldn't overly analyze it and be more intrigued with most of the mysteries left open, but the show definitely didn't need the aunt and uncle to know what happened to the girl, especially if they aren't the villains or didn't plan to do anything to help the girl.
@@thomaswdyoung Hmmm I hadn't thought of that. I used to live in such a house and always assumed the place just used to have a balcony that had to be taken down.
@@TheLokiBiz My grandparents' farm house had a door like that. My mom told me it was because they intended to build more onto the house but never got around to it. Or that's what I remember her saying.
The real detail you overlooked is that a septic tank cannot be worked on with a monkey wrench or vise grips. As the gentleman’s tool box suggests. It’s just a big-a$$ concrete poop cistern any work has to be done with a shovel or pump truck.
"I had that painting" "I had that racoon" at this point I'm pretty sure this red haired lady came out of an afraid o' the dark or goosebumps episode yourself. Or are just Canadian.
SAME. I have been rewatching the series and have been imagining the titles for each episode. ex. Murder is the New Black when Jess goes behind bars to teach creative writing but has to solve a murder instead. It has Jan Brady as one of the prisoners and Lily from the Munsters as the warden`s secretary. Or Dial MLM for Murder, where she pretends to be a Lila Lee Cosmetics lady to get info on a crime scene. So much pushy MLM ridiculousness, it is incredibly watchable even today.
The "Hello" joke that starts at 2:07 made me audibly chuckle when Lionel Richie made his appearance. 10 outta 10. Love the vids. Edit - The Bret Michaels joke also landed for me. Haha
This is the one that freaked me out the most as a kid and stuck with me forever. Just the idea of turning into a porcelain doll scared the hell out of me
I'm surprised that they showed a kid breaking into a house by hammering out a window, since that is repeatable behavior. But then again, I don't know how that stuff was handled in Canada in the 90's.
I liked this one too as a kid. Reminds me of the Dr Who episode. That's the one where the kid accidentally traps people in the doll house in his closet. Creepy vibes there.
I loved night terrors it had some of the best lines and that song so so darn creepy. One ep that scared me though was in the david era with the alien that didnt want to be alone so it was living inside a little girl and she almost legit trapped the whole earth in a picture. That was really scary to me.
This episode has 100000% lived rent free in my head since I was a kid! Love these Are You Afraid of the Dark vids so much, they give me such nostalgia!
I mean did we really need a Mattel origin story in the 90's? I'm sure everykid would of been well aware of the companies dark eldritch cross dimensional begins by then.
It very much feels like it started as a longer story and was chopped into incoherence to meet a time slot. And I mean you can do this in ways kids understand. Take the Chronicles of Narnia where you have magic portals open up in a house. But you learn that there is a mechanic behind it that follows a particular logic. This just seems to hand wave all the holes with "because magic."
I actually remember being somewhat disturbed by this as a kid, but I'd forgotten about it. Thanks for the memories! (I actually mean that -- I love being disturbed!)
This is by far my favorite episode. It’s a shame, though. With a proper budget and some rewriting, I feel like Nickelodeon could have made an absolutely WICKED movie out of this.
It was pretty trippy for me when I was a kid. I guess that the break up of laws of physics in a dimensional labyrinth is very impactful, and most of all, the sense of entrapment, on a child.
The parts that creeped me out about this episode as a kid (even now) were any time the abandoned house showed signs of not being abandoned, like the light in the attic or doors opening. It's like how that creaking sound in the attic of the opening is the most effective part. Doors creaking is inherently terrifying; my garage door creaked while I watched this over eating buttered toast and I had to double up my anxiety meds.
For me, becoming a doll and losing the control over my body while I can't do anything about the situation was one of my childhood fears, so to me this would've been terrifying. I remember the episodes of Dragon Ball GT where Pan is turned into a doll were pure nightmare fuel... Strangely, the concept of being really tiny in a huge world (like Pikmin for example) is one of my favourite aesthetics..!
@@elizabethacosta1667 I loved the anime adaptation, so I'm trying to find the books online, but it appears some are illustrated and others not, and some are hardback which I prefer but it isn't clear whether the hardcovers are illustrated or not... Astrid Lindgren, the lady behind Emil, Pippi, and more, wrote a short story about a miniature boy, it feels so real the way she describes it and includes ordinary objects that are used differently! It's my favorite story of hers with Ronja as a strong second. I don't know what it's called in English though, it's in one of her anthology books..!
This episode terrified me as a kid. The idea of becoming an inanimate object like a doll disturbed me and I had several nightmares based off this. It’s...kind of awful now that I see it again.
The doll that Betty-Ann was holding at the fire looked an awful lot like the doll featured in The Tale of the Dark Music. Like, almost identical faces.
@@Grinnar I'd lean more towards budgetary reasons. To be fair, if it had been a prop from an episode *other* than the single most notorious and well-known episode, I probably wouldn't have noticed.
oh my god, this has lived in the recesses of my mind for YEARS and I did not realize it was an are you afraid of the dark episode...... it unsettled me like none other
May I ask if you've seen _When Good Ghouls Go Bad_? It has everything: Christopher Lloyd, magical zombie puppets, a horrifying actual death, and a football guy who tackles the big bad!
This was my first introduction to this episode, but hearing how the plot unfolds makes me think of Style Savvy: Fashion Forward. The game itself doesn't have much to do with dolls, but the odd thing is dolls/a dollhouse are used as a similarly logic-less setup for the story. You the main character find the key to a dollhouse that was kept by your grandmother, and upon using it, you're transported to this entire tiny world centered around Fashion, and you meet Sophie, the granddaughter of you're grandmother's best friend, among _dozens_ of other people. You're free to leave the doll world at any time (which actually means going back to the main menu), and there is nothing malicious about the world in general. What makes it even weirder though is there's sort of a dollhouse within the dollhouse where you can [as a side activity] design rooms other people within this tiny fashion world can ask to hang out in, almost like apartments... I've never understood where in the world a story premise like that came from considering the other Style Savvy games don't use that concept (before or after Fashion Forward), but now it makes me wonder if there's some hidden cultural thing about Borderline Nonsensical Pocket Dimension Dollhouses that goes largely overlooked for how obscure it is.
this was probably my favorite episode as a kid. I've gone back and rewatched all the episodes (at least all the ones I can get on Amazon Prime), and I actually found like it held up. As a kid, this is one of the few episodes that actually spooked me. I'd really like to expand on this concept in a long form novel. I think there's a lot of room for exploration in this.
I thought it was a, the house converts humans to dolls and the only way to turn back is to get a replacement thus making the dolls you own potentially nefarious bringing it back to why the girl brought a doll to the meeting but the story we got felt like a logic mess.
This was the only episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark I watched as a kid. I didn't get to finish it after the first hand popped off since my mom had to pick me up and take me home. I always thought of this episode for a while because I had a collection of glass dolls that my grandmother would by me because they had my facial features (brown curly hair, blue or green eyes). My brain could not wrap my head around the girls ever escaping the doll house. It seemed impossible. So I changed my clothes in the closet for a few months so my dolls couldn't watch and I never found out the ending to the episode till I was in my 20s
Its funny cause as a kid I always remembered this one being a "happier ending" since no other characters were hurt and all was well at the end. That being said, I think another way to add a creepy factor to this would be to simply give the house/doll house more lore. Like maybe the aunt and uncle could have mentioned that families move into the house and often their children (mostly daughters) go missing and then they move out and the cycle continues in that way. Could have even gone one step further by having more dolls in the attic as if those are the other lost children and Susan's fate if she does not escape.
I would like you to review the Arthur episode the Scare your Pants off Bookclub from series 1 as its a satire of overprotective parents wanting to bans books which are a parody of the Goosebumps books
Just found your Are You Afraid of the Dark videos and have been happily binging. :) I love looking back at these from an adult perspective. My favorite episode ever was The Tale of the Vacant Lot - the one with the girls who find the mysterious black-robed lady in a tent who gives them things to make them beautiful. The more they accept the items and clothing, they become uglier both inside and out, until their faces and bodies start to become disfigured and covered in lesions. For some reason that one stuck with me the most through the years.
I feel like one of the Eerie, Indiana books (yep, I loved that show enough that my mom bought me the book series inspired by the show) had a similar storyline.
Definitely a Top 10 AYAOTD? Episode for me!!! One of the best episodes ever!!! The dimensional rift works like this: -Magic Door at the end of the Attic in the Normal House, while seen with childlike wonder, turns into an Origin Point Portal, that leads to the inside of the Replica Doll House -The Doll House feeds off of the energy of those who inhabit it (as her friend had low to no energy, had to be picked up/helped out to move, becoming a cocoon in the form of porcelain for the house to have more nutrients over a longer period of time, etc.) -The “Get back to where you came from” Portal Return Point, was the Attic Door at the far end of the Attic in the Replica Magical Doll House.. -Because the Attic of the Normal House is both the location of the “Origin Point” Portal to get into the Magic Dollhouse.. -As well as the location of the physical Magical Doll House as it exists in our dimension -It has to link back to the original area the Portal Jumping started or this would’ve been one hellish twist ending as there is no way to get back other than returning to the Origin Point of the original Portal Jump through Dimensions unless you yourself have dimensional-rift powers or befriend a Bigfoot who will help out lol
Always founds this a fairly middle-of-the-road Are You Afraid of the Dark episode. It's just creepy and mysterious enough to hold one's attention, but the resolution is somewhat underwhelming. Direction is a bit flat in this one too. Granted, low budget kids horror show isn't exactly gonna attract the highest caliber of talent, but if there's one genre you can do effectively on a low budget, it's horror.
Any chance that you'll be reviewing "The Tale of the Pinball Wizard" sometime in the near future? Like this episode, it wasn't scary, but it was intense for the innocent, easily scared child I was 🤷♂️. Anyways, love your work, the nostalgia is real..
This is actually my favorite episode, as a kid and even now. Mostly because even as a kid I was really into the 'less scary' but still disturbing idea that sometimes things just happen. It's defiantly not a well-written episode, where did the doll house come from? Did her friend go in multiple times or go in once and get stuck? How long does it take to turn into a doll? etc. But there is something really intriguing about the dollhouse itself, you don't know what it is exactly or what its origins are, its motives, if its a sentient being or not, it just is and as a kid you have to outsmart it despite the odds. I feel like having an actual dollmaker or person being actively malicious and trapping kids in the dollhouse would take away what I liked most about this episode as a kid, which is pretty much just a vague feeling of the supernatural.
I think it would have been far more effective to reveal that Susan's parents were in the Doll House but fully Doll'fied and Susan was treating them as if they were still alive/normal. And/or reveal that the Doll House had a whole collection of other Dolls that people had been turned into permanently. That if the Doll House completes it's magic that you couldn't go back to being normal.
This is one of my favorite episodes. My grandma had an old house with a door that lead to nothing just like in the episode. Never found out what the heck it was there for. (Now that I am older I think it was for a balcony that was later removed) But I liked this episode for it's surreal qualities and dire situation being trapped in a not quite right area, similar to the backrooms. I also just figured it was simply a cursed doll house that made a connection with the house it was built after, and that doorway to "nowhere" was where the connection was made. It lets you in from the real house and out from the doll house. Simple enough to me.
Your commentary makes this ridiculous epiaode even better. Simpsons parody of the Twilight Zone was one trillion percent better, and it's so funny to think how ground-breaking 3D Homer looked to us as kids when that came out.
This is the episode I remembered the most, second only to the Dead Man’s Float. Sometimes, the images of that doll house in the attic and the door will just pop up in my mind and I’ll feel a deep sense of unease, even though I barely remember what the story was about. Years later, and despite being older and more experienced with horror movies, this still creeps me out. The idea of being trapped somewhere forever and becoming a doll will always be one of my top 5 Nopes. The story is lacking, but my little child mind will always fear that sense of being alone and separated from family. Thanks for the episode, Roses!
I've never seen this show but I have been loving watching your videos on children's media. I am lowkey interested in dolls and miniatures so I wanted to mention something about the relative size of the props (like the salt shaker!) . The varying sizes - how nothing seems quite proportional, like the too-small chair and the too-big shaker - is actually something you'd easily run into with dollhouses! Miniature sets are based around a certain ratio. For example, 1:24, which means that every 1 inch in the dollhouse corresponds to 24 inches in real life. Certain toy sets, like Barbie, don't really fit any one ratio (life-sized Barbie proportions are terrifying). So a kid might easily end up with a mixed-up dollhouse scene with variously proportioned items from different toy and miniatures sets. I actually really love this touch, it helps the set feel really immersive in the clips. Thanks for the video!:)
"Are You Afraid of the Dark" episodes are my favorite thing that you do. Thank you for the flashbacks to so many naively safe and simple Saturday nights.
Ok I also thought it would have been better if she had a detached hand in her pocket BUT we don't necessarily want to produce actually scary stuff specifically for kids. Some episodes actually gave me nightmares as a kid.
I think technically they did, but off screen. You can see Susan messing with her hand after being freed, so it makes one wonder. Was her hand alive, but still in her pocket? 😬💦
I think it would've made a bit more sense if the door in the real attic lead into the door of the dollhouse attic, kinda like the other world in Coraline. Also, how did Susan get trapped in the dollhouse? Did she seriously not think to look in the attic until Melissa showed up?
I think what they tried to get across (not very well, mind you) was that she knew, but was too far gone in the doll curse to actually use her body properly enough to get out. At one point, they allude to it that she is at least partially blind, (see the hand wave in the sofa scene) due to that part of her face having “changed” already. Definitely eerie as a concept on its own.
@@Ichigoxlolita She's been in there for over a month and yet still hasn't fully changed yet. Unless she's just really stupid, she had plenty of time to think about going into the attic before she was unable to.
The implications of where the portal might lead next is scarier than the episode itself. One of those situations where the evil you know (the dollhouse) is safer than what might come next. Maybe another dollhouse that's harder to escape? Or somewhere that makes escape impossible? Leaving this comment for the good of the algorithm because RU-vid hates its own content creators! Keep up the amazing work Roses. Looking forward to the next one!
I'm happier knowing this episode lived rent free in someone else's head, not just my own. Why this one? Why. I have never forgotten it. It wasn't even scary. Just sorta cool, I guess?
It is the one episode that stuck out for me! I watched it again on YT about a year ago. It seems full of dread and sadness, like it's a metaphor for losing your childhood friends or something....
@@HenshinFanatic I paid $1.99 and 16 cents tax to watch it. The only part that was scary to me was the bus driver. But the main characters were very likable and it was clever
You gotta love that late ‘90s bubble-swell effect that, once it was used as a computer screen saver option, made it into just about every movie and tv show at the time.
PushingUpRoses, I was wondering if you could consider covering these 2 Golden Girl episodes. I know they arent the typical Halloween scary but they do mess with the pysche. -- First epi being the episode when Sofia befriends a man at the Pier with B-Story being about Rose's teddy bear, Fernando. -- Second epi with Roses being robbed and her PTSD that follows.
The girl turning into a doll definitely stuck in my mind for a LONG time. Just the concept of being turned into a doll loomed in my subconscious, even if I remember the episode not being all that creepy. So glad you covered this episode. I knew you would eventually, so I was just patiently waiting.
The episode that always stayed with me is the take of the super specs. T Dat ending 😲 Have u thought of doing any analyzes of twilight zone or outer limits episodes?
I’m 32 now, and I grew up LOVING *Are You Afraid Of The Dark* and this definitely was 1 of the more unique episodes to me, I guess they probably did replay this episode a lot, but I still remember loving it every time it came on even though I already knew what was going to happen. It still managed to keep a good amount of suspense, and it has such a close call, but happy ending after everything is said and done! I know this show 2as never great on fleshing out the adults in most stories, which is good they let the show mostly rest on the children actors, but this is definitely another 1 of those weird 1 with the oblivious family members or whatever, but still a beloved childhood memory! Thanks for the episode!
The Phone Police episode hit a weird nerve for me as a kid, because my brother and I were doing a lot of prank calls around that time, and we too got caught and punished. That bit where they go to the phone company, walk around the counter, and the old man suddenly changes tone to let them know they're in trouble gave me chills as a preteen. The episode did a really good job of melding real world childhood fears with the sorta supernatural elements.
I can't get enough of your content, and frankly, I find your voice insanely relaxing. Night Mind and Welcome to Nightvale have very soothing voices, but yours is just... friendly! I've been a fan of your work for a while now and in all honesty, I could listen to you all day. It's awesome that your channel exists and you're talking about so many of the things I grew up with. Thanks for doing what you do. My day's always a bit better for it!
This video made me rewatch all of your Are You Afraid of the Dark videos (and some others) 😂 I really liked this episode! The doll make up seemed so creepy to me at the time (I left this comment in the community tab initially, but then I realized it'd be better to leave it here for the algorithm 💗)
