You're alive?! I assume Paw had somehow tricked you into his murder basement to feed his and Maven's vampiric offspring before they swarm forth as a great dark swarm to swallow the Earth.
I’ll always associate Goosebumps with the time back when I was a kid in summer school, when the whole class left on a field trip without me, leaving me with nothing to do but read the only books in the school library I hadn’t yet touched because I thought the would be too scary: Goosebumps.
Such an awesome crossover! You both worked elegantly together and this was a great video to watch! I would love to see another book review crossover from you two, whether it is Goosebumps or another book you both enjoy!
Hmm, I remember that in the book, Shari came back because Michael and Bird accidentally took a picture of Greg where she appeared, and then she showed up when Greg went to Spidey's. Another change I remember is that Greg took the picture that made Shari disappear during Shari's birthday party. The first time I saw this concept was in an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark with a pre-American Pie Eddie Kaye Thomas. I actually tended to prefer Are You Afraid of the Dark to the Goosebumps TV show, mostly because AYAotD succeeded more at being creepy (not scary as such, but creepy)... I remember The Tale of the Dangerous Soup gave me nightmares as a kid...
The Haunted Mask has always been my favorite book and episode of the show. I In an interview R.L Stine said it was his personal favorite goosebumps book. What stays the same and gets changed in the first one and the sequel is really cool to compare and contrast.
I mentioned over on Roses' video that this book was the scariest goosebumps book to me EVER. Like, I had to sleep with the cover face-down and I'm pretty sure I had nightmares about it at one point. The episode of the show just made me laugh :/
I admit I may have discovered you through your Fifty Shades series, but then I found so many books that aren't that one on your channel and if I'm honest I may have been binging it to get through quarantine, just a bit. What I'm really saying is you're amazing and I can't wait to see you suffer through The Mister in real time.
Man...I forgot how dark some of the Goosebumps books got as kids. I remember one of the stories ending with the main character letting the villains win because it meant him being in power over the other kids who had bullied him, and able to turn the tables. I forget the name of the story, unfortunately, but I do remember it involved transformation via seeds hidden in chocolate chip cookies at a bake sale.
As a bullied kid I LOVED this book. It was my favorite in the series. As an adult. I found a copy by chance in my aunt's garage and i was so confused why this book was my favorite. When I got to the end it was like "oh yeah! Vengeance!" 😈
Fair amount of goosebumps books outside of the core series got dark at times as well. Particularly Give Yourself Goosebumps. Choose your own adventure goosebumps style. There were some messed up bad endings in those books. Carnival of horrors, bad endings include but not limited too: Decapitation, sent to Mars against your will as part of a space program, riding the Doom slide for the rest of your life. Tick tock your dead: drowning in quicksand, eaten by alligators in a moat. Another book forgot the name (I'll edit when I find it): becoming a slave for an alien race and forced to work to death. Seriously Stine, Goddamn. To those that tell me these are 'just kids books' think again. This stuff inspired my love for horror today.
When I was a kid, I would always hide from the opening theme before the dog's eyes changed colors because I had convinced myself that it might curse me. I watched Goosebumps so often that I had the sequence timed perfectly, so I knew exactly when to leave and when to return lol.
Same! I remember whenever I came across Goosebumps on tv, I always tried to "miss" the intro, by walking away to grab something, especially because of that dog with the glowing eyes that scared the crap out of me as a kid, sometimes even more than anything in the actual episode itself. Even better when the episode just started and I missed the intro on accident.
I remember being so terrified of the theme song and the scene with the dog that the song alone would give me nightmares. So I refused to watch the show at any point. Now I watch reviews and realize just how cheesy this show was. I may have liked it as a kid if I ever watched it lol. I remember enjoying quite a few goosebumps books later on in life.
I first heard the theme song when I was doing melodramas in school and one group used this as their opening, where the actors playing the main couple (the male character was played by a girl) did a short dance at the start. Very different to mine, where I had to pretend to be asleep with another girl, as we were meant to be twelve-year-olds, dying of some illness, probably TB considering melodramas are Victorian and a lot of people died of that.
Ah I never really watched goosebumps as a kid but there was this comedy soap opera in my country surrounding a family that owned a funerary home and the intro had these animated skeletons dancing to a song that literally said something among the lines of "everybody dies someday". It was supposed to be fun and ridiculous but I literally had to leave the room during the opening or I couldn't sleep afterwards
The dog is from an episode where it turns out the protagonist and his friends were really dogs. Also Are You Afraid of the Dark? had a scarier opening.
The Gummy Chair also the reveal that the real dad we were led to believe was a good guy was secretly kidnapping people and Turing then into human plant hybrids for experiments. I think that’s as dark as goosebumps gets
@@simplythatguy-o6n Now I'm tempted to go read that one. Because children often think their parents are perfect (spoiler alert for you young'uns- they're not) but having the "perfect good" parent turn out to be a bad guy is an almost adult theme. It's like these adults who talk about the abuse from their parents, but there were also good times with those same abusive parents....
I have a very vivid memory of me at the bookstore as a kid choosing the cover I thought was least scary for at least half an hour, then proceeding to make a drawing of some sunny green hills and sticking it on the cover of the book cause I still thought it was too scary.
Reminds me of the old game of Cluedo I had. I was scared of Mrs White's angry face around age seven (it didn't help that a page in this old book I had boasted a picture with a similar woman's facial expression), so I'm pretty glad newer versions replaced her with Dr Orchid.
What's creepier is that as a kid, I wanted to cover up the front and back cover of most of the books because those cover give me the creeps and I can't just turn it around because it's ON THE BACK AS WELL.
I remember some of those things were nightmare fuel all by themselves. There was one of a cute little lamb in a pink bow with vampire teeth that I remember finding very unsettling. I think there was another one that was titled something like "[insert monster here] in the Living Room". My parents' house has a very large living room that acquires large shadowy areas in the evening, and as a kid with an overactive imagination... look, it didn't take much, let's just say that.
Goosebumps introduced me to so many tropes for the very first time. "the ghost next door" was my first "they were dead the entire time" and it shook me to my core after reading it, lol
Man, when I saw it was a Goosebumps LIA I was so confused how that'd even be possible. Would love to see a Dom of Ice & Fire style series for Goosebumps. Dombumps, Goosedoms, I dunno I'm bad at names
Oh yeah, Werewolf of Fever Swamp and Werewolf Skin are episodes I watched a lot as a kid! Though to be honest, I liked the book ending of Fever Swamp better.
(before video) I already took the stab at the 'cameras steal souls' idea. However, I will say this. The simple fact that all cameras take B&W photos but can render the images in color, is mystifying... I said this before, but 'Stay out of the Basement' definitely deserves the collab, even though Roses already covered it...
I still remember one of R.L. Stine's choose your own adventure books, "give yourself Goosebumps", maybe Diary of a Mad Mummy, where I got the ending of the mummy switching places with you, and you are stuck forever as a mummy... truly terrifying.
this is not really related but as a fan of your channel who is trans, seeing you take a stand against rowling's statement on twitter really means the world to me
Ironically though, she inadvertently brought attention to the black trans man killed by police post George Floyd that the media was ignoring - as a result of said backlash. She tried to demonetize, and instead accidentally shed a light on a police murder being ignored because of gender identity.
"There were times that called for mindless, terror-filled panic, and times that called for measured, considered, thoughtful panic." -Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent Nullus Anxietas!
I actually owned this book as a child. I never bothered to watch the show because it looked so low budget and even as a child I knew adaptations are often disappointing.
“I regret to announce you’re going to be robbed of my stunning visage in this episode” You foul you realize what you’ve done your visage in videos are the soul reason I still exi
Hey do you take recommendations?- if you do here’s one The first Dexter book (Darkly Dreaming Dexter) and the fist season of the Dexter tv show Only the first book and first season cause after season 1 the show completely goes to a different direction while the first season basically takes its plot from the first book with a lot of changes though
he might have to read more than one of books because i hear they combine them into one abomination, similar thing happened with "the vampires assistant"
Personally i am looking forward to him taking look at Isenhorn by Dan Abnett once TV series based on it starts. Story based on 40k universe around Imperial Inquisitor Isenhorn.
I hope they do it right. I like the series enough to continue reading it (first time reading the series), but I kind of like some of his other series a bit better.
Really excited that you two are working together. I found you guys separately and I'm excited you guys have found each other. It really makes this community look a lot smaller and closer.
I looooove pushing up roses and I am absolutely going to watch that video immediately after this. Thank you for smacking me in the face with my childhood. The goosebumps series was the first I ever read. 😍
The one I remember most is "A Night in Terror Tower," which if I recall was a two-parter. It's been so long since I've seen/read this one, I'd be curious to know if the adaptation was better because they had more runtime to work with.
As I said on her video, I love the crossover. two of my favorites. Now you two need to mix some cocktails with How to Drink while discussing books or something lol
speaking of the hospital scene being toned-down: it actually is remarkable how well r.l. stine understands what causes kids anxieties and fear(like staying home alone or getting lost in a big city). even as an adult, if you read one of his books you can identify with the character's fears, even if you yourself long outgrew or never had the same fear.
This is interesting, will you be doing more goosebumps episodes lost in adaptations in the future? I'd certainly enjoy them this would be fun mini series
Such nostalgia! My favourite Goosebumps story was Perfect School, although it's not a very good adaptation either haha. Don't Go in the Basement and The Living Dummy episodes scared me so much as a tyke!
When I got the notifications for both channels, I didnt see the "ft." Little bit and thought this was a crazy cool coincidence. No, it's something better.
This is giving me hope youd you'd be willing to give Animorphs a shot one day! If you haven't heard of the series, it was usually sold next to Goosebumps because of their similar length and audience, but it was a continuous series about children suffering through ptsd and wacky hijinx while fighting alien invaders. I would love to see you compare even just the first book/episode. Misery loves company!
A much better Goosebumps episode and adaptation would be the hour-long pilot: The Haunted Mask. There are many reasons why that was, but it was the best foot forward for the show, and it was a primetime special shown Halloween night on Fox back in 1995.
I never read the goosebumps books. However I have read most of the fear street books. So I can still appreciate R.L. Stine's style of writing. The man just had a way with suspension.
Even as a Kid I described Goosebumps more like The Twilight Zone for modern kids, than any other modern author at the time. Finding out that Stine was influenced by the original run of Twilight Zone really helps reinforce it.
Let's Get Invisible! was my favorite Goosebumps book because it really gave me the creeps as a pre-teen (I was 9 when it came out and 10 when I read it).
