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It's on CN now, and I love it.

Did anyone read these awesome books as a kid? Sure, they were pretty lame now that you look back, but when I was little they were the beez-kneez!
 
When I first saw the commercial for the show on Cartoon Network, I was excited because I used to love Goosebumps when I was younger. Sadly, I don't get to watch it too much, though, usually either because of homework or because I forgot it was on. ._.
 
I used to read the books back in the day, but I was mostly fond of the "Give Yourself Goosebumps" editions.
 
I hardly recall at all reading those books, but when I saw the show, there was one episode about the clock that the children's dad bought for the house and he told them not to touch it. The 12 year old boy touches it and then they end up going 6 years back into the past. It was pretty cool on how the years went backwards there. It just became his birthday in that one episode and then he was 6 years younger. And I believe this episode was played on Cartoon Network like 10 days ago. Was it?
 
Goosebumps was the shit. Read every single one in the series and seen every episode. I even have a collection of episodes that I tapes back in 97-98 on FOX KIDS... hah, it's actually funny you should ask, I was watching Chillogy recently on Youtube.

How long has it been on CN... and what time?

Still, wouldn't equate to watching my old taped ones, with the nostalgia of Fox Kids commercials and 4th grade.


I wish they'd have eventually adapted all the books, but they didn't... some of the ones that unfortunately didn't make it that I would have loved to see were:
The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena, How I Learned to Fly, Egg Monsters From Mars, Chicken Chicken... the list goes on.


My favorite TV-adapted episode ever was Attack of the Mutant. I always loved the hour long special ones, but that one along with Night of the Living Dummy III and The Perfect School have a special place in my heart. Mainly cause I've seen them many times, but what the heck.

Unfortunately "season 4", which was just a few hour long specials had only four episodes... dunno if it was out of lack of viewers or just planning to finish it up. But thank god they got the shrunken head one there before they closed... and Deep Trouble.

Which reminds me... the one thing I didn't like was how for some multiple-volume stories they ONLY adapted the sequels. Such examples are "Return of the Mummy"... um... "return of" usually implies a sequel which it is... the prequel never made it to screen. And the Living Dummy ones, they adapted II, III, and IV (aka "Bride of") but not the first one how messed up is that. And finally, Deep Trouble... although they called the episode "Deep Trouble" the story that was adapted was that of the book Deep Trouble II. Shame though, I would have preferred the first one any day, mermaids > oversized fish and reptiles.


Also has anyone read the Tales to Give you Goosebumps? The short stories... I remember not knowing anything about them until "Don't Wake Mummy" aired, and I was like 'what the hell is that, I don't remember that book... and found out it was a short story. I'm pretty sure that was the only one done before season three, because there they seemed to be going on a spree of adapting short stories. Teacher's Pet, Strained Peas, the House of No Return... I actually kinda like how they did that, considering how underrated the short stories were. Got me into them, and their adaptations, ESPECIALLY The Perfect School, kicked ass.


Ah yes, the 2000 series. I actually think it was a huge mistake for RL to stop the original series and start writing the 2000, because basically all he was doing was writing the same way, but just changing the name of the series and the cover art, and because everyone thought he was writing a new series, it lost popularity. But seriously, he wasn't only writing them at the exact same rate, but there wasn't even a hiatus between them... the last Goosebumps had the usual month hiatus between the first Goosebumps 2000. Not to mention the 25-book 2000 series had some sequels to some of the original 62... Return to Horrorland, anyone?

So did anyone read these last 25 books before he stopped altogether? Was anyone able to stick with Goosebumps as far as "Earth Geeks Must Go", one of the last ones and one of my personal favorites?

Didn't really expect much of them to get adapted either, I was pretty surprised myself when the first one did. I'd have liked to see "Invasion of the Body Squeezers" made into an extra long special. And I'd pay to see one of Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.



You know, I actually heard that RL was gonna start in 2008 a miniseries called "Goosebumps Horrorland" which mainly focuses on Horrorland since that book, and that episode seemed to have a lot of publicity, with that computer game and all. It seems odd since although it would probably be directed at kids, people who are kids now probably weren't old enough/didn't exist to be into the old Goosebumps fad, so they wouldn't appreciate it as much as older people, it's kind of funny. Though I'm pretty sure even though it'll be written, considering it's been a whole eight years since any new Goosebumps thing was written at all these books may be written in a style directed at kids, but it's actually directed at people who were into it... well, eight years ago. I'm definately gonna check it out, dunno about any of you.


Also, probably a stupid question but... while they're airing episodes on CN, anyone know if they're making new ones and adapting any of the unadapted books? Ha... as if.


Also welcome back Habunake, good to see you unbanned, your ban was truly a disgrace.

EDIT: DAMN, longest post I ever made. I must be really into it :O
EDIT 2: Anyone who replies tl;dr to this can suck my balls. C*nts.
 
I used to be freaked out by those stories, but they are so 'meh' now. When I was a kid, I just loved them, I loved to be scared by them. XD
The dummy books were the ones that scared me.
 
Zak said:
Goosebumps was the shit.
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QFT.
My absolute favourites were the Monster Blood ones. They scared me so bad I had nightmares for years.

Although I can't remember the name, the one where the kids go to camp, and all the campers are ghosts was a good one. Anyone know what it's called?
 
Æsahættr said:
QFT.
My absolute favourites were the Monster Blood ones. They scared me so bad I had nightmares for years.

Although I can't remember the name, the one where the kids go to camp, and all the campers are ghosts was a good one. Anyone know what it's called?
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Um... "Ghost Camp"? lol

Actually it may be more likely to be "The Curse of Camp Cold Lake"

It's one of those two. More description would help...

Ah... Monster Blood, stick around long enough for Monster Blood IV? I remember being overpsyched about it. Ironically it was the last one before the 2000s. Those books actually didn't scare me as much, BUT... if you've seen the episode of it, the sequel that was original for TV only, like "More Monster Blood" or "Monster Blood 1.5" or something... the one on the plane that's supposed to take place on the PLANE... that one scared the crap out of me.
That was the only original episode that was never a book before besides Chillogy.
The Monster Blood on the plane one was by far the scariest for me. A green blob swallowing everyone up is far more intimidating than any snake... hah.
 
Lol, I just finished watching that on Youtube. Didn't scare me but I know it would have given me nightmares for weeks in my younger days.

And yes, I remember it as Ghost Camp now.
 
Man I wish Goosebumps would still air after October....;o;

I actually remembered three episodes. The "Invisible Mirror", "The Camera", and "Creep". Man when I was a kid it scared me, but as I watched these episodes I'm like, "Wow I was afraid of that? Man..they're corny."

(Though I also wish that Are You Afraid of the Dark would re-air again..xD -isshot-)
 
Dead House scared the shit out of me, I swear. Finding out everyone had died due to some accident at some chemical plant was really scary to me when I was 10. My favourite book of the whole series, as I didn't really like the '2000' ones. Loved the 'Give Yourself Goosebumps' series as well, they were ace.
 
LIQUID said:
Dead House scared the shit out of me, I swear. Finding out everyone had died due to some accident at some chemical plant was really scary to me when I was 10. My favourite book of the whole series, as I didn't really like the '2000' ones. Loved the 'Give Yourself Goosebumps' series as well, they were ace.
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I'm just curious why? Considering my point about how the 2000s were overlooked mostly because of new name and new cover style, I'd say you're proving that point, because they were exactly the same... if not better. How were they different?
 
Goosebumps was an awesome TV show, and an even better book series. I have a bunch of episodes recorded from Fox Kids back in 1997. In fact, one of the episodes has a severe winter storm alert crawling across the bottom of the screen, with up to two feet of snow. What's even funnier is that I actually remember missing that day of school. But I digress.

The first book I read was It Came From Beneath the Sink, which isn't terribly scary, but it's very entertaining. I read a few others, but I mostly watched the TV series. Among my favorite episodes were Say Cheese and Die, The Haunted Mask, Stay Out of the Basement, and Welcome to Camp Nightmare.

But the scariest episode by far was The Werewolf of Fever Swamp. I remember when I was watching that episode back in the mid-90s, I actually went outside to be with my parents a couple of times, as they were doing yardwork when it was on. Recently, I watched the episode, and still gives me the creeps a little bit, but not as much as it used to.

Although the series wasn't as good as the book series (I remember when It Came From Beneath the Sink aired, they cut a whole bunch of material from the book) Scholastic did a better job producing this series than they did with Animorphs.

I've been so busy with college, I haven't been able to check out the episodes on Cartoon Network, but if I find time, I'll definitely watch it.
 
I love Goosebumps. The first 1 I ever saw was Welcome to Dead House. I have seen the show on CN lately. I read their books alot.
 
I watched an episode a few nights ago, trying to spot Hayden Christionson (Anakin Skywalker), which I did, as a cop in the Say Cheese and Die episode. I didn't watch the series as a kid, but now, it's like a 30 minute B movie, so it's not all bad, definetely. The only thing lacking is at least a cameo by Bruce Campbell!
 
rodianhobo said:
I watched an episode a few nights ago, trying to spot Hayden Christionson (Anakin Skywalker), which I did, as a cop in the Say Cheese and Die episode. I didn't watch the series as a kid, but now, it's like a 30 minute B movie, so it's not all bad, definetely. The only thing lacking is at least a cameo by Bruce Campbell!
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Hayden Christiansen was a cop in the background in Say Cheese? Interesting... but you know that he played a main character in one of the episodes. Night of the Living Dummy III, I belive... the hour long one with the dad that's a ventriloquist and has a collection of dummies in the attic, well Hayden plays their cousin Zane in that one.

On the subject of cameos, Adam West was also in Attack of the Mutant as the "galloping gazelle".
 
I love how this is on page two already and no one's brought up that Goosebumps is on CN when it's NOT A CARTOON.

Failure, Cartoon Network. Utter failure.
 
Haha, yeah I was a little curious about that myself. What is up with that anyway... just because it aired on Fox Kids surrounded by cartoons left and right (sans Power Rangers and X-Men) doesn't make it a cartoon.

Just air it on FOX again...
 
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