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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Of course Pip would get George Washington and Gamera confused.

    they are literally the same person

    think about it

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    VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Did anyone in Goosebumps stories ever just get straight up murdered?

    Like, I remember it being all obscure mask possession and large mutant insects and creepy dummies, but did anyone ever just get stabbed or crushed to death or eaten by a spooky cannibal or anything?

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    Did anyone in Goosebumps stories ever just get straight up murdered?

    Like, I remember it being all obscure mask possession and large mutant insects and creepy dummies, but did anyone ever just get stabbed or crushed to death or eaten by a spooky cannibal or anything?

    Implied but not outright. Fear street was where shit got real

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    The slide was a metaphor for old age

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    PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    I remember a thing where an abandoned amusement-park's ferris-wheel sometimes worked, and if someone got on they just didn't come out and the ferris-wheel stopped existing again.

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited February 2019
    You know the worst episodes of the goosebumps show were the "oh they were aliens all along but we had to make them people to preserve the twist" ones

    King Riptor on
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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    You know the worst episodes of the goosebumps show were the "oh they were aliens all along but we had to make them people to preserve the twist" ones

    I liked the one where the monster in the closet was a human and the world was already aliens, even if the effects were horrible and the acting was horrible and it made zero sense.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited February 2019
    I mean, it was fine. Considering that the actual scariest theme park CYOA had already been written several years before.

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    PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    I think the cars of the wheel turned out to be pretty crowded, though.

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    PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    The person on the left probably had to buy a Daredevil Park shirt at the Daredevil Park because the shirt he brought got wet at Splash Mountain

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    You know the worst episodes of the goosebumps show were the "oh they were aliens all along but we had to make them people to preserve the twist" ones

    I liked the one where the monster in the closet was a human and the world was already aliens, even if the effects were horrible and the acting was horrible and it made zero sense.

    It works great in that book because they never describe how anyone looks and the monster is invisible so its a fun twist. So seriously tragic.

    It weird that kid was the sequel hook villian in the movie though. He wasnt evil.

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    Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I can't answer. This isn't a poll thread.

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Bring back the CYOA forum, imo

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Of course Pip would get George Washington and Gamera confused.

    they are literally the same person

    think about it

    50 feet tall, made of radiation
    Saves the children, but not the British children

    Yeah, that all checks out

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    Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    I had this one when I was a kid:

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    There sure were a lot of horrible ways to die in it!

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    Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    At one point I also had a CYOA style book where you didn't choose, you rolled a D6. I have no idea where that book or the die is now.

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    discriderdiscrider Registered User regular
    ya'll ever think about that one Goosebumps CYOA book in an amusement park

    where you get a bad end that has you sliding down an infinite slide until all the lights slowly go out

    and you just

    keep sliding

    forever

    Sometimes I wonder whether the Goosebumps point+click adventure game deliberately hung whilst I tried to get to the other side of those slides, or whether the computer just crashed.

    Also how you got past the supernatural gas turning the natural gas firewall back on.

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Neil Patrick Harris made his autobiography a CYOA.

    Poor guy died in a coal mine.

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    DysDys how am I even using this gun Registered User regular
    I remember this book.

    I don't remember that ending though. If I'm being completely honest, childhood me would peek at all options when given a choice. If one seemed like it was death from a quick skim, I would pick otherwise.

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    NightDragonNightDragon 6th Grade Username Registered User regular
    Oh maaaan the haunted theme park was one of my favorite Goosebump books! And for some reason also the scariest to me? Some of the books didn't bother me, the endings were too goofy/jokey and not actually frightening. But man, I distinctly remember waking up in bed after a nightmare or two from reading that book.

    A++

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    LucedesLucedes might be real Registered User regular
    the thing about goosebumps was that they were so UNEVEN in terms of scariness.
    most of them were incredibly tame, some were kinda scary, and a few were really intense if they hit your specific fears.

    How to Kill a Monster scared the shit out of me as a child, as did The Beast From the East.

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    PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    The best Goosebumps book was the one where she turned into a bird at the end and the last sentence was, like, "So I ate a worm and it tasted good, the end."

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    RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    The best goosebumps book was the one where the twist revealed that the book was actually this post the whole time.

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    Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    The best goosebumps book was the one where the twist revealed that the book was actually this post the whole time.

    :O

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    Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Platy wrote: »
    I once had to write a scary story in primary school and I wrote one about a piano with teeth (actually the one in Super Mario 64) and my teacher thought it was too bizarre

    There's a very good John Finnemore sketch about a magical piano

    Which is annoyingly unavailable online

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    ya'll ever think about that one Goosebumps CYOA book in an amusement park

    where you get a bad end that has you sliding down an infinite slide until all the lights slowly go out

    and you just

    keep sliding

    forever

    Several times a year since grade school. I’m 32, now.

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    Dr. FlamingoDr. Flamingo 49 Gilded Disc Perceives the Sun Registered User regular
    I read a bunch of those CYOA Goosebumps books but I guess I was too old for them to leave an impression on my psyche. I just remember the one with a genie where you can pull the "I wish for infinite wishes" trick and it works, the genie's like, "Oh you got me."

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    ZundeZunde Registered User regular
    I read the genie one it was a genie in a soda can right?

    I only remember the ending where the character wish's to be rich then goes into a store like a dipstick and goes "FREE SHOES FOR EVERYONE." And then gets arrested for not having enough money on him to pay for literally every pair of shoes in the store cause like everyone saw this random kid go "Hey free shoes." and just grabbed shoes and booked it apparently.

    Goosebump books are weird.

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    PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    I think that the very first thing I was told about pianos is that they can break your fingers.

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    Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Their wings can actually break a man's arm

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    PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    The teacher actually wrote multiple sentences about how disappointed she was in my story

    Which looking back seems like a really shit thing to do to me

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    furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    Lucedes wrote: »
    the thing about goosebumps was that they were so UNEVEN in terms of scariness.
    most of them were incredibly tame, some were kinda scary, and a few were really intense if they hit your specific fears.

    How to Kill a Monster scared the shit out of me as a child, as did The Beast From the East.

    Beast from the East still haunts me to this day, probably 25 years after I read it. A game with rules you have no idea about, where you will die if you lose, playing against literal monsters. And then just when you think you accidentally came out ahead, you find out you actually just upped the difficulty. Fucking terrifying.

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    Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    Zunde wrote: »
    I read the genie one it was a genie in a soda can right?

    I only remember the ending where the character wish's to be rich then goes into a store like a dipstick and goes "FREE SHOES FOR EVERYONE." And then gets arrested for not having enough money on him to pay for literally every pair of shoes in the store cause like everyone saw this random kid go "Hey free shoes." and just grabbed shoes and booked it apparently.

    Goosebump books are weird.

    Isn't that the one where you can fuck up and get your mom trapped in the soda can as the new genie

    Man that was weird

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    OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    I feel like British children need friends more than ever right now given all the brexit shit

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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    they got paddington

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    I don't actually remember anything about Beast from the East, but I sure do think about it's title/cover a lot

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