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What're you, Chicken? [terrifying thread]

I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell UpI'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up Registered User regular
edited October 2007 in Social Entropy++
In this thread

we come up with possible reasons as to how R.L. Stein still finds work

goosebumps is showing on cartoon network

and it is quite as bad as the books

so how do people hire this man?

have you seriously read this guys books?

why is the production value on this show so low?

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    STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Goosebumps is the McDonalds of horror books. It is a quick read, but it sure as hell ain't satisfying.

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited October 2007
    Are You Afraid of the Dark was pretty good

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    DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
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    Nobody calls me chicken

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    monkeyfeet63monkeyfeet63 Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    The cover on Night of the Living Dummy terrified me as a child.

    This was only because I was terrfied by the Family Matters halloween episode. You know the one with the dummy.

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    MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I enjoyed Are You Afraid of the Dark when I was little.

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    I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell UpI'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    DrIanMalcolm wrote: »
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    Nobody calls me chicken

    best answer

    thread over

    move along

    nothing to see here

    ...

    dang i can't lock threads

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    ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
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    SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Oh come on you guys

    Goosebumps were scary as shit when you were a kid and you all know it.

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    ObbiObbi Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2007
    I read a few Goosebumps back in Elementary school days

    only liked one of them back then, and I'm sure if I read it now I'd be like 'man kids are dumb'

    bet they're takin' the 'well nobody knows what's good anymore' stance with this goosebumps show shit

    wait, didn't they have this show like ten years ago?

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    DaricDaric Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I enjoyed that one movie when I was a kid where the 3 kids brought a zombie back to life from the museum and they sprayed him with High Karate so the kid's mom wouldn't know he was a zombie and the chick was kinda hot when I was a kid and yeah that movie was cool.

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    STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I liked the animorphs books however.

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    GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Yeah, Goosebumps was a pretty crappy TV show. I loved the books as a kid, though. It's just that, because they were obviously kid books, you grew out of them before getting through half the series.

    And yeah, Are You Afraid of the Dark was 100x better than Goosebumps, because it was actually scary sometimes, as opposed to cheesy and stupid.

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    As7As7 Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I read them as a kid and thought they were good if you thought of them as funny, rather than scary.

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    QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up wrote: »
    DrIanMalcolm wrote: »
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    Nobody calls me chicken

    best answer

    thread over

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    I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell UpI'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Sheri wrote: »
    Oh come on you guys

    Goosebumps were scary as shit when you were a kid and you all know it.

    not in the least

    and i was an easily scared kid

    i used to read ghost stories (real, decent ones) and i wouldn't sleep for a week

    t: obbi

    they are showing the one from 10 years ago

    with the worst actors

    it's like they took everyone from soap operas

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    monkeyfeet63monkeyfeet63 Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Another book series from my childhood that is completely silly in retrospect.

    The Boxcar Children.

    I mean its about orphaned kids who live in a boxcar, and manage to be happy about it. Then they find a rich uncle. But they still live in the boxcar in the backyard of their uncle's house because they got so used to their lifestyle. So then they just started solving mysteries and shit.

    Just SILLY!

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    Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    the two authors who have really defined the horror genre are h.p. lovecraft and steven king

    I'm not necessarily saying that they are the best horror writers (though I think they are), but the genre would not be the same without them

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    MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Koshian wrote: »
    the goosebumps choose-your-own-adventure books were the best

    I'd always try to get every possible ending

    I would use all my fingers to hold the places of my last decision. Find one of the endings, and then go back to redo my last decision.

    What always bothered me was when I would read straight through the book I would find endings I had never found before.

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    GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Sheri wrote: »
    Oh come on you guys

    Goosebumps were scary as shit when you were a kid and you all know it.

    It really wasn't. Sorry. :(

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    ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    books can't be scary

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    SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I used to read ghost stories all the damn time. I was addicted to that stuff.

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    when I was little my mom wouldn't let me read Goosebumps

    she didn't want me getting nightmares

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    DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Jurassic Park started my fear of velociraptors

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    sheri you giant woman it so wasn't

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    QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Sheri they scared me

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Koshian wrote: »
    the goosebumps choose-your-own-adventure books were the best

    I'd always try to get every possible ending

    I liked how every one had the pussy out ending, right at the start.

    "There's a haunted carnival in front of you. Do you go in?"
    "No."
    "You go home, have a snack, and take a nap."

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    SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Raneados wrote: »
    sheri you giant woman it so wasn't

    Dude I ate that shit up

    I read some scary shit

    And I was at least mildly scared by Goosebumps

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    I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell UpI'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Marshmallow wrote: »
    Koshian wrote: »
    the goosebumps choose-your-own-adventure books were the best

    I'd always try to get every possible ending

    I would use all my fingers to hold the places of my last decision. Find one of the endings, and then go back to redo my last decision.

    What always bothered me was when I would read straight through the book I would find endings I had never found before.

    i always got mad at them

    i like the ones where you have to choose what you would do rationally

    "follow the man in the cave to save your best friend?" "run and get the police?" and you were like "but if i get the police he coul be dead when i get back"

    then they started getting lazy

    i read one and it was like you come to a maze

    "go left" "go right" "go straight"

    "you go right, you are eatten by a spider (grue?)"

    and i am like "this is stupid"

    and i threw the book

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    DrIanMalcolm wrote: »
    Jurassic Park started my fear of velociraptors

    I still occasionally have dreams about velociraptors stalking me through the aisles of a Costco or something

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    I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell UpI'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Zephyr wrote: »
    books can't be scary

    i think you lie

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2007
    you damn kids grew up watching bullshit

    when I was a kid, I and my siblings watched fucking Night Gallery
    It was basically the horror equivalent of Twilight Zone, and it was fucking creepy and I had nightmares on more than one occasion. This shit was scary for the time, and it wasn't targeted at kids.

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    supertallsupertall Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Is R.L Stein even a real person? I always thought it was just a psuedonym for a stable(sweatshop??) of writers.


    Edit: Did anyone read any of Christopher Pike's books? Basically Goosebumps with teenage sex.

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    MarshmallowMarshmallow Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
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    Give Yourself Goosebumps #33 "It Came From The Internet"

    Why have I not heard of this one before?

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    NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    i just watched a weird japanese 'scary' film about abortions. It's called Re-Cycle

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    DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Centipede Damascus wrote: »
    DrIanMalcolm wrote: »
    Jurassic Park started my fear of velociraptors

    I still occasionally have dreams about velociraptors stalking me through the aisles of a Costco or something

    I haven't had one for a while, but the last one had a bunch of them hiding in the forest near my house and then coming out when it got dark and I had to escape somehow. I think I ended up dying before I woke up

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    RandiRandi Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I've only two R.L. Stine books.

    One was a choose your own about some haunted house witha chick who got hung on her own pigtails (no idea).

    The other was one of the Fear Street books. Kids died in a car accident, then they, as ghosts, start plotting to kill the bullies of their old school, and some nerds who constantly fake their death make fun of one of the ghosts for having a heart murmur. All wrath gets focused on them, then another ghost shows up out of nowhere and is like "HA you ran me over". I have no idea.

    I remember that, and that I still have the book somewhere around here after stealing it from my cousin.

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    I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell UpI'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    DrIanMalcolm wrote: »
    Centipede Damascus wrote: »
    DrIanMalcolm wrote: »
    Jurassic Park started my fear of velociraptors

    I still occasionally have dreams about velociraptors stalking me through the aisles of a Costco or something

    I haven't had one for a while, but the last one had a bunch of them hiding in the forest near my house and then coming out when it got dark and I had to escape somehow. I think I ended up dying before I woke up

    i am not afraid of velociraptors


    i love them soo much

    now t rexs

    and those underwater ones

    god everything underwater

    pretty much my biggest fear is the unknown

    water creatures are all not there

    and then something brushes up against your leg as you swim

    and you are boned

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    mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    i read most of the r.l. stine collection while i was supposed to be paying attention in elementary school

    there was actually a pretty scary (back then) series involving the histories of these two families that spend several generations trying to kill each other off, but they weren't goosebumps books

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    RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
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    always wins

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    SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Rane speaks the truth.

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