Goosebumps...

[Kyalesyin]

Never scared me all that much to be honest. Some creeped me a little. Some were just plain comedy.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I've only seen the televised one where the little girl can't get the goblin mask off and she goes on a little girl rampage. It was pretty funny.

 

[JLBats]

Abaddon, why must you open this can of worms?

As a kid, my family used to go camping a lot. It was generally pretty lame, and the campgrounds always sucked and we were always about 5 years too old for all the super-fun activities

But it was at one campground that some crazed old lady was having a yardsale thing, and she was selling a BOX full of these books.

So I picked it up and spent one whole night at the campground reading it.

Holy ****.

To this day, I remember how the books had these unsettling, freaky ass endings and cliffhangers at the end of every (4 page) chapter. In retrospect, the follow up on the cliffhangers was often lame, and the characters were all pretty crappy, but I was nine and it all added up to this odd sort of sloppy artistry, you know?:freud:

So, yeah, you elitists may not consider R.L. Stine LITeraTURe, but he still tore apart my mind EVERY. DAMN. TIME, man.

X 10000

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

D00d!

As a kid, my family used to go camping a lot. It was generally pretty lame, and the campgrounds always sucked and we were always about 5 years too old for all the super-fun activities

But it was at one campground that some crazed old lady was having a yardsale thing, and she was selling a BOX full of these books.

Th^t's the premise for the begining of a Goosebumps book.

 

[JLBats]

I actually did try to write a Goosebumps book. It was about a heart necklace that turned people who wear it evil or something, and then there was Star Wars-style sword fighting in the attic of a souvenir shop

It was rad.

 

[Leto Atrides]

Th^t's the premise for the begining of a Goosebumps book.

I was thinking the same thing.

But seriously, are you guys being facetious, or what? I liked them a lot when I was in second grade, but even then I knew they weren't very good, just fun quick reads. I read like 20+, and I remember the haunted theme park one being the only vaguely scary book. Hell, half of them weren't even supposed to be scary, like "How I Learned to Fly".

 

[JLBats]

I was thinking the same thing.

But seriously, are you guys being facetious, or what? I liked them a lot when I was in second grade, but even then I knew they weren't very good, just fun quick reads. I read like 20+, and I remember the haunted theme park one being the only vaguely scary book. Hell, half of them weren't even supposed to be scary, like "How I Learned to Fly".

Believe me when I say that my nostalgic affection for them isn't strong enough to try and actively defend their quality

 

[Lemonhead]

I liked the beginning to the show, that theme song was funky ****. As for the books, nothing special but I liked reading them. Does youtube have any whole episodes up?

 

[Socrates]

Don't think so, but video Google does have some episodes.

 

[Arcturus]

I remember being a big fan of Goosebumps back in the day, they were awesome.

 

[Bastila]

I must have read everybook, though i can't remember them, didn't they turn it into a tv show.

 

[The Last Meatbag]

Yeah, Slappy coulda kicked the Cryptkeeper's ass.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Yeah, Slappy coulda kicked the Cryptkeeper's ass.

lol I watched that ep last night on youtube. the one with the doll.

 

[The Last Meatbag]

My favorites were the choose your own adventure one's though...there was some freaky one where you're stuck in a carnival..yeah

 

[Catman]

I was 10 when the first Goosebump book was released, so I was never too much into that. I read some books here and there. Good stuff, I think. But...when I think of R.L. Stine I think about the Fear Street books.

 

[JLBats]

My favorites were the choose your own adventure one's though...there was some freaky one where you're stuck in a carnival..yeah

Oh, man, the one where they snuck in?

Did you ever get the happy ending? I used to always cheat and go back to the last choice if I died.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I remember i was in a thing called in school suspension. i was in school but i didn't go to class. I was just stuck in a room all day left to do nothing until the end of the day. And my sister had a ton of this books so i took them with me and read a few books each day. I had in school suspension for a week. So i really got into this then. More so then my sister did after awhile.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

friggin loved the books, collected them up intil like 5th grade or so... i think i was in one of the book numbers in the 40's before i stopped reading them... the show was alright though, it failed in comparison to "Are You Afraid of the dark?" that show kicked ass

 

[JLBats]

I remember i was in a thing called in school suspension. i was in school but i didn't go to class. I was just stuck in a room all day left to do nothing until the end of the day. And my sister had a ton of this books so i took them with me and read a few books each day. I had in school suspension for a week. So i really got into this then. More so then my sister did after awhile.

...dude, you're ten years older than the rest of us

That means that at best you read these books when you were like... in high school

 

[spideyboy_1111]

...dude, you're ten years older than the rest of us

That means that at best you read these books when you were like... in high school

i started reading them in like 3rd grade i think... im 21 right now... and in 3rd-4th grade is when it was really big.... so he read them in middle school...

you were about 5years to late for the big bang of goosebumps.. or read them in kindergarden lol

 

[JLBats]

i started reading them in like 3rd grade i think... im 21 right now... and in 3rd-4th grade is when it was really big.... so he read them in middle school...

you were about 5years to late for the big bang of goosebumps.. or read them in kindergarden lol

Seems about right

I was like 8 or 9. Probably 8.

 

[Catman]

...dude, you're ten years older than the rest of us

That means that at best you read these books when you were like... in high school

He's a year older than me. I'm 24 so he's obviously 25. I was 10 in 1992 when the first book came out, so he was 11. At that age a few kids were reading Goosebumps. But, the favorite for kids our age at the time was R.L. Stine's Fear Street series.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

...dude, you're ten years older than the rest of us

That means that at best you read these books when you were like... in high school

no not really. it was more like 6th grade or 7th grade.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

He's a year older than me. I'm 24 so he's obviously 25. I was 10 in 1992 when the first book came out, so he was 11. At that age a few kids were reading Goosebumps. But, the favorite for kids our age at the time was R.L. Stine's Fear Street series.

Like I said i read them cause they were my Sister's And i needed something to do and i just thought i would read them.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I read Mad Magazine and I'm 35.