The Tale of Old Man Corcoran Recap & Review - The Midnight Society 

Yeah, the amount of kids Marshall lured to their deaths is pretty messed up when you think about it. It is a great ending reveal!

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow in one of your Are you afraid of the Dark vedeo someone mentioned an episode of A Haunting would consider reviewing that series as well?

@@thedevilsadvocate858 Possibly, once I finish AYAOTD.

Mikey is a ghostly child serial killer!😳😳

Yeah, the flashlight moment is great!

It gives him a little jovial side. I love it.

Thanks! Yeah, as a kid, there is no way I ever would've met up, with kids I didn't know, to play tag in a graveyard after dark.

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow exactly!! So true 😅

Yep, hide and seek in a cemetery at night is just asking for trouble.

Haha! Yeah, it really does have Shaggy and Scooby energy!

I thought that was hilarious when they pass the flashlight 😂

Did you just see it once and it wasn't memorable? Some of these episodes I only saw when they aired and when I'm doing these reviews its like I'm watching them for the first time.

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow I might have, but I honestly don't remember it. As you know there were some episodes that aired all the time (anything with Vink), Watchers Woods, the Dead Mans Float. Which of course we all know. Then there are ones like Red Bike and The Tale of the Mystical Mirror (I love this one) which only aired once or hardly ever, and left a good impression on me. Maybe this one just didn't leave a good impression on me and I forgot it. Also, unrelated but I have the audio cassette too. Of radio drama versions of two episodes. I remember playing on my walkmen, on the school bus.

@@DrVVVinK That's fair. It's not a great episode. I never knew they did radio drama versions. That's awesome!

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow Yes. It was a purple cassette tape. I think I got it at KB Toys

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow Also, don't know where you live int he country, but the weekend of March 11, is going to be 90s con in Hartford. They're not going to be any AYAOTD starts there, but they will have some of All That, Pete and Pete, Hocus Pocus, Boy Meets World, and Chis Fucking Lloyd.

I think the implication is that they are lured to their death in the grave, though it is definitely unclear how they die.

It's likely that Marshall lured them to his grave during his nightly hide and seek game. Sissy was his latest victim and hence, she had traces of her old personality.

Agreed.

Probably would have been a little too dark for a Nickelodeon show, even with Y7 🤣

Eeeehhhh I think that would've been a bit cliche somehow. I kinda like Corcoran being a red herring and the ghosts were the real villains.

Except, Sissy was trying to scare Jack and Kenny away from the cemetery that night. She wanted to save them from certain death after she learned what Marshall had in mind and that he had planned to betray their pact to never invite more children to their nightly games. It's likely that Marshall killed Sissy in a similar manner that he did to the other kids. Since she was the last to join the group, she had traces of her old personality.

Haha! Duct tape really can fix anything!

They never really get into it. I think a number of them were killed/died in the cemetery, being tricked into play the game by Marshal. Not really sure how he kills the kids, since Kenny and Jack were "rescued" by Old Man Corcoran, but I think if they had followed Marshal into the grave, they would've ended up like the others. At least that's what they imply when Sissy says she was supposed to be the last one to join the group. I definitely wish we would've learned more about the kids.

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow that’s the impression I’ve always had. Especially after Cissy said she would be the “last one”.

Yeah, I think I like the concept of the episode, more than the episode itself. I wish we learned more about the ghosts and how Marshal kills the kids. I guess you are just supposed to assume that if they hide in the grave with him, they die, but how? They must not get buried because Corcoran claims to have buried them all and he doesn't seem all that concerned to find more kids in the graveyard if he has found multiple dead kids there in the past.

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow Actually, looking back on it, I had my own thoughts about it - you could be right that Corcoran is human but I suspected that they all were ghosts and that Corcoran killed them, so the kids could be working in tandem with Corcoran and the way the episode ends is ambiguous. He COULD let the two boys go, but they could also have ended up his next victims. In which case, it would then top Erik's "Tale of the Dark Music", but then, if Corcoran IS human and the boys live... then its an interesting ending, but its basically playing off of "Tale of the Prom Queen", just with a higher body count. I never was scared by it though, although the concept of falling into a grave and being buried alive or waking up alive in a coffin and you're several feet under ground, that IS quite horrifying and unfortunately, it does have a basis in reality, even in modern times. allthatsinteresting.com/buried-alive Anyway, great episode review and by the way, great AYAOTD discussion with Adam - I concur with you both on the top two scariest villains - Zeebo and that Demon in the Basement and Andy :P... that serial killer look. What saved that episode for me, I forgot to say, was that just because he doesn't kill his sister, you wonder - is he going to kill someone else? Yikes! I hope you guys will do another group discussion for the rest of the seasons and hopefully include more people's two cents and have a nice little "Midnight Society" discussion via Skype. BTW, another thing that you both didn't mention the Carnival Barker form of the Demon in the basement is played by the same guy as the Pinball Wizard and the little girl in "The Lonely Ghost" is Christina in "The Tale of the Dark Music". As for least scariest villain, I would say Prom Queen(?) - there is no real menace in that other than the twist of - "Oh, its a dead girl giving flowers to either herself or other dead people in the cemetery" and Goth, I thought the actor who played Goth sounded like he was just reading his lines for the first time... it was such a wasted villain. LOL I can't wait for your next episode! My husband is playing catch-up to all of these episodes and BTW, he was laughing when we got to "The Tale of the Full Moon" - that bizarre episode has once again scored another MST3k-like fan and we couldn't stop joking and laughing at the sheer stupidity of that episode, sans the creepy moment when you see the werewolf smiling that Andy/pedo/serial killer smile towards the end. I can not wait till you and possibly Adam (and hopefully more AYAOTD fans perhaps) can join in and discuss Season Four. (Oh the sheer goofiness to be had in that season - it is a joy!) That other particular "Laugh" filled episode - with the weak hillbilly cousin of Mr. J, who tries really hard to be just like him. :P ^_^ Could spend an hour easy just ripping that one to shreds MST3k style - just like Teddy and Feddy, the cousins of Freddy Krueger. :P (that's a reference to YTer Phelous' reviews of the remake Nightmare on Elm Street with Jackie Earle Haley and the bootleg Nightmare Feddy doll (yes that IS a real thing and yes, that IS what is was labelled as) - If you have a free moment, I recommend to watch that - I personally found it hilarious, but some may not - so just know that going in, if you and your friends watch it. In particular, the skit at the end by Phelous trying to recreate a weak Nightmare on Elm Street/Baywatch skit is, IMHO, hilarious) Peace, bro!

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow Well seeing how the open graves are magically full when Ol' Corcoran comes marchin' around, chances are they'd be buried alive via ghost magic.

@@HlootooThunderhammer My only issue with that theory is that if the kids were all buried alive, they would simply be missing. And while, sure, their parents would eventually have a funeral with an empty casket once they gave up hope, Corcoran specifically mentions burying all those kids. So they bury the kids alive and then unbury them? And if that were the case, after so many kids died that way, I feel like people would assume there was a serial killer about suffocating children in the graveyard. I just think it is one of those stories that when you look too closely at it, it doesn't hold up. Much like a lot of stories from this show (well, tv in general I suppose).

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow Truuuueeee....

I think the implication is that Marshall (the main ghost kid) lured the others to their deaths in the cemetery, though it's not clear how. Marshall probably just died of natural causes, though they don't get into that either.

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow They didn’t seem mad at him. I’d be livid if someone lured me to my death, and I was trapped with them forever.

Sissy was mad at him. She called Marshall out and reminded him about their deal to never allow any other children in their group.

I will get to all of them, but I'm going in the American airing order and I'm in the middle of season 3 right now.

Keep em' coming😉

That's sad to hear. The only thing I know about Baton Rouge is that it's the title of a Garth Brooks song (and the song isn't even about the city, but the love interest of the song that lives there).

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow to tell you the truth, I don't even know why I said any of that. Nor do I even remember. I was pretty hammered and drank myself to an oblivion when I did that. KMSL

@@turtlethug225 Hahaha!