The Worst Goosebumps Episode or How NOT to Make Children's Horror

[@nothingislogical]

"You're always near a rock." That kid literally collects rocks out of convenience.

[@ZimVader-0017]

I don't know why this comment made me laugh as hard as it did, but thank you

[@Dracattack]

He later changes his name to Saul and becomes a Geahlagist

[@EVIL-C]

It's a hobby of convenience. 😋

[@SchlaftaterNrzZz]

Me tooka da rooka

[@polk-e-dot8177]

When you're a hoarder but also too poor to buy stuff.

[@nickstadler1906]

A channel devoted to Murder She Wrote and Goosebumps, for people who can't decide if they're 12 or 72.

[@caty2956]

🤣

[@rabbit0664]

XD

[@pushinguproses]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@lucillelovesnegan2144]

Uh house of nubas?

[@elsajean7717]

Don't forget the golden girls

[@obzen_gaming_6]

The kid who plays Skipper was my neighbor, he also played the guy taking Harold and Kumar's orders at White Castle (in Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle). I always called him Elasta-boy. I didn't realize it until now but that whole episode was shot in Toronto where we grew up. His whole family is involved with show biz in some way or other

[@mightyarbokking7197]

How has this comment not gotten anymore likes? These are the type of comments i love to read!

[@madizzle90]

I figured that this was shot in Toronto. I thought I saw the CN Tower in some shots.

[@kingbeef66]

He did another Goosebumps episode, too, which is called “Click”.

[@GB-kv6dl]

It also has Patrick McKenna and Aunt Olivia from Road to Avonlea. So very Canadian

[@Igarappappa]

Hope things are going well. XD

[@SunnysFilms]

I think what separates this from most other Goosebumps stories is that this episode feels like a weird dream instead of a bad dream.

[@Galaxxi]

The funny thing is, the second we saw the neon, clown colored headquarters I felt like this is a place I had been in a dream before, despite not remembering *anything* about the rest of the episode to know if I'd even seen it before.

[@anthonytavarez9593]

@@Galaxxiyes that’s why it was one of my favorites

[@ruggala3000]

So an adult man catfishes as a little girl who's into comics to lure little boys into his secret building. OK.

[@MrFredstt]

Sounds pretty creepy when put that way lmao

[@johnnyk5385]

Damn...when you put it that way.

[@03bgood]

That sounds like an idea for an episode that would really work nowadays, if they ever do a Goosebumps reboot.

[@mell5428]

5:03 bro why lol

[@procow2274]

Oh no

[@TheBestAround131]

"Welcome to clown church, we will begin mass shortly." Now THAT sounds horrifying!

[@jdtroup198683]

The Church Of Latter Day Bozos

[@coyoteartist]

Horrifying is not the word for that nightmare that I'll blame you for.

[@rory3113]

♑🤡♑

[@Dojan5]

Oh my goose. I was brushing my teeth while watching this, and this line almost made me swallow my toothbrush.

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

A church of clowns reminds me of that one episode of Songs of Praise, where a British church had a field day dressing up as clowns. Also they got the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector all wrong. The parable was supposed to be about humbling yourself among others, as the Tax Collector was the one that had favor with God, not the other way around!

[@Kryptnyt]

Wherein a young boy has a positive interaction with a young girl, which confuses him, and makes him hallucinate his own reasons as to why the young girl would be nice to him. Now that's relatable!

[@zafool4997]

.....holy shit, that makes so much sense.

[@worldcomicsreview354]

The bus crashed, she was catapaulted forward and headbutted the front of his head at 50mph, because he was turned around. Everything else is in the coma.

[@RingoSocks]

I really liked the book as a kid. It was cool seeing a chubby kid as the main character and it wasn't just a big joke. Plus he was a comic fan like me so it was cool seeing that his knowledge was shown as something impressive and actually ended up saving his life when he tricks the Mutant into transforming to a liquid. The part with Libby always freaked me out too it made the book seem that much more sinister.

[@nickcariglio8228]

"He's right I'm too old for this superhero stuff, you're on your own kid!" What a fucking hero!

[@abbycollins]

*slow clap*

[@pusheenqueen519]

I almost spit out the mouth wash I was gargling 🤣

[@someonerandom8552]

Was I the only one who thought that wasn’t scripted and West was actually just upset about his career? lol

[@SchlaftaterNrzZz]

My dad Said Something similar before He left me

[@robertchamadias2028]

Isn't that the plot of Batman Beyond?

[@aceinspaces]

Love how the headquarters look like a cheep McDonalds play area. Also that they put zero effort into pretending they didn't film in Toronto

[@CrispyDragons]

Yeah, lol. You can see the CN Tower right there at 6:13.

[@CrispyDragons]

@Jrod Jrod Didn't they shut down Discovery Zone because too many kids died there?

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@CrispyDragons Na it was because they tried to expand too fast, not enough business to cover the expansion, which left them short on liquid assets(cash on hand), and so they could not pay their creditors, and had to thus file for bankruptcy.

[@CrispyDragons]

@@CommodoreFan64 Oh, OK. That's much more plausible. Thanks

[@zengseng1234]

Obvious Toronto just looked so cheap!

[@CrimsonOptics]

Hey, scrutinizing rocks is an entirely sane profession. It's called Geology.

[@WeCantBeSeen]

"this rock should be better"

[@ponponpattapon]

They are minerals Marie!

[@Mr3DLC]

Sheldon cooper would beg to differ:)

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

"It was a big rock".

[@GHC3]

"Here is some coal, make me some diamonds please."

[@phoenixsnilloc995]

10:22 In the book, it's explained that if the Mutant turns into a liquid form, he can't turn back.

[@TheBonkleFox]

How would he know that though? And why would he kill himself just to TRY to kill an enemy? That's one of the complaints i had with the book, tbh, but i still rest my case

[@drakensgreed2350]

@@TheBonkleFox It could be that it‘s explained in an authorial text bubble, but the characters in the book aren‘t privy to the information in those. Basically, meta knowledge explained to the readers being brought in by a former outside observer 🤔

[@RrezeRrex]

For some reason I remembered the kid saying "it's not my weakness. It's yours" or something along the lines of that once the mutant turned into the acid

[@FrogAssemblyLine]

to be fair though, if you turned to sulfuric acid, you would also die.

[@thesupergamer5894]

@@drakensgreed2350 no the characters in the book know it, its been a long time since I've read it... but it'd be kinda like most DC fans know the Color Yellow is/was a weakness for Green Lantern... it's an established character in the Goose Bumps Comic Book Universe, so of course it makes sense the kid would know his weakness

[@thor30013]

Personally, I think that Adam West being kinda goofy is part of his charm. Any time you get him playing a superhero, it's an homage to him playing Batman, which was a kinda goofy show. Though I will grant that having that kind of character in a horror-themed show for kids is maybe not the best idea.

[@oz_jones]

I loved him in Family Guy. RIP

[@caitthecat]

@@oz_jones He was honestly one of the best parts of family guy.

[@crimsonchin4889]

@@caitthecat for real rip adam we

[@chesterstevens8870]

Okay, but was Goosebumps ACTUALLY a horror show? It always struck me as more of a "horror/comedy," whereas Are You Afraid of the Dark was more of a children's horror piece.

[@multitudeofidols]

The best homage was the _Batman: The Animated Series_ episode "Beware the Gray Ghost".

[@JonesCrimson]

Nobody gonna talk about how the Masked Mutant tied the Gazelle down and pretended the be the chair beneath him for hours, maybe days? That is some seriously intimate stuff, right there.

[@Anon26535]

Serious Edogawa Rampo vibes.

[@Phantomphan613]

Enemies to lovers

[@jameskeating895]

So that snake was . . .

[@Soulraven2735]

That is 100% percent the plot of a Japanese adult animation/manga

[@ElliotEel]

@@Anon26535 Underrated comment

[@-DeScruff]

I swear the mask The Mutant wears reminds me so much of one of the incarnations of "Bibleman" mixed with the Tick.

[@LocalTorchwoodIntern]

Tbh the gazelle guy reminds me of Arthur with no personality and played by 60s batman

[@mistermoo7602]

I found the bibleman adventures on dvd at a local thrift store, and reading the text on the back was downright disturbing.

[@buggybager4292]

Holy shit I forgot about bibleman

[@dio8684]

DeScruff love the dorthy profile pic

[@-DeScruff]

@@dio8684 Thank you :D

[@knightartorias1825]

I listened to the audio book as a kid a ton, I loved it. It was voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz. I thought it was scary as a kid. I think the part that bothered me the most was the idea of being trapped somewhere with people who were completely indifferent or hostile to you. Skipper was literally just completely alone, it always really bothered me. A lot of goosebumps has kids with a friend or someone to be around for them. In this one, Skipper didn't have anyone. He was completely isolated in a place he had always wanted to be and the superhero abandons him and he's trapped with a villain he can't really defeat. It was like this killing of the superhero fantasy. Skipper dreamed of being a superhero and even when he does outsmart the super villain, he still loses. And now he's not even human. It was an incredibly isolating story to me as a kid.

[@Quackervoltz]

Yeah, I actually liked the audiobook

[@PixarShark]

Richard Horvitz?? Like, the voice actor??

[@knightartorias1825]

@@PixarShark yup!

[@Lokear]

@@knightartorias1825 Listening to Zim read Goosebumps sounds amazing, please tell me those are still available.

[@PictureProductStudio]

Richard Steven Horvitz is great a comic book homages. Some of my all-time favorite episodes in an already favorite show that is The Angry Beavers are ones in a properly numbered Muscular Beaver saga.

[@baronagony4767]

The Masked Mutant looks like Bibleman…. Scary for a whole other reason

[@jasonc3a]

My first thought as well. I'd take a whole day with MM before I'd take a few minutes with Willy Ames.

[@lotus-prince]

Shield...of faith!

[@CartoonTriper]

Is Alternate Universe Bibleman

[@suziebelle4113]

my parents were obsessed with that christian propaganda show, lmao. i remember an episode where the villains were convincing kids to drink bottles of 'sin' or whatever it was and turning evil

[@EuroMIX2]

Ah, Bibleman... where the villain is easily the best thing about it.

[@TheAdarkerglow]

“...not so scary as to disturb the audience.” I was in 6th Grade, and they wanted the class to write our own Goosebumps stories. I scared the teachers and had to go to counseling. But I stand by letting the monster win.

[@faselblaDer3te]

Still have the story? I would read it ^^

[@TheAdarkerglow]

@@faselblaDer3te No, it was some years ago. But I can tell you, the requirements of it involved being trapped on the '13th floor' and having something scary having to do with bad luck happening. So, I had recently watched The Relic and played through the Doom series and took inspiration from both of those. So some kids get stuck on the 13th floor of a brand new high rise, but the rooms don't conform to a normal building layout, and the windows look out at a reddish hellscape, while the protagonists rush to escape, and I went with a sort of twisted honesty as the bad luck; the Silver 'Escape Key' allows the big chimera monsters to Escape being confined, and they open the elevator to get out at the end. It may have relied too heavily on gore, as some rooms were splattered with viscera in surreal and grotesque ways, but that's what they'd done in Doom and I thought it looked cool for all the pixely violence.

[@TheOnlyTherazan]

Yeah the Escape key making the monster Escape is pure Goosebumps-like twist. As much I love Doom though, gore is way off-brand XD

[@ericrenquist6494]

@@TheAdarkerglow I hate when people equate strange or disturbing writing with an unstable mental state. It makes me feel insecure about writing odd stuff. It's just flat out untrue.

[@RK900Gaming]

@@TheAdarkerglow This sounds like something I would write to be honest.... Hell I managed to scare some of my 4th grade classmates with a story about a pumpkin headed halloween spirit

[@fake-inafakerson8087]

"The blood of Christ" *Wine shoots out of clown priests flower* "The body of Christ" *Pie smash*

[@nseven1117]

sounds like a danny gonzalez video

[@nseven1117]

@goodbyehoes yes

[@bendytheinkdemon6910]

Don't make fun of Jesus!

[@Tragicide]

Wait, isn’t this bible man?

[@nikhilsilva5244]

@@bendytheinkdemon6910 amen

[@mrfivegold]

The twist is they all live in a comic world. That's why Skipper' s friend and dad look like typical alter egos.

[@stefansnellgrove]

That would be a cool twist

[@DasNordlicht91]

would’ve been a better twist than the one the actual story ended on.

[@aklepatzky]

@@stefansnellgrove its the actual ending wdym "would be"?

[@Spider-Man42069]

@@stefansnellgrove it is the ending 😂

[@brandontrammel4581]

​@@Spider-Man42069technically no. The main character is the only one who became a comic book character

[@breakinglegsandbreakinghea3167]

*Snorts line of coke* "Okay. So like there's this chair." *Rubs gums* "But the arms..." *Looks around* "Are snakes."

[@yungblade7]

Hahahaha

[@J-Dizzle95]

GenericWhiteBoy lol seriously perfect XD

[@TRJ2241987]

He's the same guy who thought up the glowing eye dog/musical barking in the intro

[@ToxikkDeception]

Cocaine doesn't do that to you. You likely snorted powdered shrooms.

[@lordsatyros666]

Fuckin comedy!

[@slots777]

I actually think the kid is saying "Stretchin'" honestly. I don't hear any "t" at the end.

[@lhfirex]

Me too. Still a cheesy bad ending

[@pushinguproses]

I actually thought that too while I was taking notes, but in the closed captions it DOES say "stretch it." I checked before writing out that section.

[@Dream0Asylum]

@@pushinguproses That's why we keep coming back, Roses; your exhaustive thoroughness. I'm serious, this "stretch it" or "stretchin" thing was really bugging me. I thought he was doing a Jim Carrey Mask-like thing.

[@Tobascodagama]

Stretchn't

[@elimgarak4667]

Glad I saw this, I was about to write it.

[@l_rob420]

Ok let’s be fair, Adam West makes it better and that’s the truth

[@hanmaitagaki8583]

Okay Boomer

[@l_rob420]

Hanma Itagaki wow aren’t you so fucking funny why don’t you repeat that

[@Yumifreak3]

Not really.

[@TsukiCondor]

Honestly your right. May he rest in peace

[@imgonnaputsomedirtinyourpi1014]

@@Yumifreak3 Why

[@anthonybramante2921]

"No matter where you are, you're always near a rock." feels like it should have some kind of deeper meaning or foreshadowing to it. Maybe he enjoys how ubiquitous his passion is; that it gives him joy to know that he has found interest in something that doesn't need a long backstory or understanding, unlike his friend Skipper's comics, which would need a lot more time to get into.

[@Carinail]

I thought FOR SURE that somehow a rock was gonna defeat the bad guy, MAYBE by tricking him into turning into glass/a mirror and then... "No matter where you are, you're always near a rock." With the writing being that he tried to say his weakness was acid, why not have him say that his weakness is his own reflection. Then, well, "No matter where you are, you're always near a rock.". Then for that ending goosebumps usually has of "the suffering has only begun", the ending shows off the start of the characters 7 years of bad luck from smashing a mirror. Bad luck that could maybe lead to the pieces of the mirror to be reunited despite the characters best efforts, allowing the villain to come back for a sequel? I don't feel like this is that hard to come up with.

[@sethsassy]

You should call your reviews of bad Goosebumps stuff, "Goosedumps"

[@pushinguproses]

HAHAHAHAHAHA, oh wow. I love it.

[@GT6SuzukaTimeTrials]

Untitled Goose Shame

[@Drew791]

That’s brilliant. I’m jealous I didn’t think of it.

[@zengseng1234]

Drew don’t worry, Mad Magazine already thought it up back in the day

[@rivaldovillegas3725]

@@pushinguproses Would you ever consider reviewing Twilight Zone.?

[@angryretailbanker5103]

I actually remember the book somewhat. Yeah, the "Skipper being a comic book character" was the ending scare, not an actual plot point throughout the book. Him being Elastic Boy never went beyond his ploy to trick the Mutant. One thing that was done right in the book and wrong in the show was that his tricking of the Mutant WAS foreshadowed earlier. Skipper described the character to his rock loving friend as having the ability to shift his molecules into any solid shape. He explicitly says "solid", but the book doesn't linger on that for too long, making it a really good example of foreshadowing. I actually really liked the book when I was a kid. Read it multiple times.

[@darthwolfX2]

Dude same here that and animorphs

[@Cage-CatYT]

Same, it was in my top favorites! (My favorites are probably the bight of the living dummy trilogy though) I haven't watched the video and it's been a hot moment since I've watched the show, so I'll listen to the creator's points for fun

[@TheDragonman104]

I loved that book! It kept my interest throughout. Definitely one of my favorite goosebumps books.

[@TheNotoriousNemo]

same I remember that one and the theme park one

[@Nothinggirl]

Thanks bc I read that book about 16 years ago and the plot/details came flooding back again lol Realizing now there’s tons of users on here born after I read that book and I’m only 26 lol 🥲

[@Era_47]

Then one day his friend learned about the crack rock...

[@mauricefuqua7288]

Hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha 😂😂😅

[@AmariMarvelous]

😆😅🤣😅

[@MySqueezingArm]

Andre Nickatina - Summer in Florida "He gave me the formula, That was my summer in Florida"

[@jamesduncan6729]

Hope that kid never meets Mr. Brownstone

[@eternaloutlaw2634]

Good one real talk.

[@FJX716]

If you think of it from an ironic point of view, the “Comics will rot your brain” might relate to how he always thinks of comics and people think it’s bad for him. However because of his love of comics, he was able to defeat the villain. Also he did say “stretchin!” at the end of the episode.

[@soso-chan5075]

Confession: this episode managed to scare me quite a bit as a kid.. Specifically the inside of the mutant’s HQ. I think it was because of its cheapness and over the top colors made it look unnatural and uncanny.

[@trucetruce335]

It was my first real “wtf” plot twist

[@constantheadache2045]

What was your least favorite episode?

[@soso-chan5075]

Gotham Knight hmmmnn I guess My Harriest Advrnture? Couldn’t take it seriously even for Goosebumps standards imo

[@magicman3163]

Soso- Chan it looks like LAX airport

[@puspi94]

This is the comment i was looking for

[@wickedcaitsith]

"I must return to the Phallus of Solitude!"

[@someoddusername5677]

I can see how this exact plot worked well in the books. With a kids imagination, instead of campy visuals, this could be decently scary and sinister.

[@lwzeis]

The book was one of my favorites and much better than this episode.

[@____________838]

Wasn’t this one of the “choose your own adventure” books?

[@____________838]

@Jerry Gallo Fair enough.

[@chomperthetrox]

Idk why this episode scared me one bit when I was younger, I managed through but I drew the line at Vampire Breath.

[@Brosethorns]

Yeah, the book was really great, I haven’t seen the episode but I loved the book.

[@Khopper224]

So there was a computer game based off of this episode that legit terrified me as a kid. It probably wasn’t that scary in hindsight but I kept dying from going into the wrong area or not solving a puzzle, etc. The screen where you die would jumpscare me over and over to the point that I wouldn’t play it for a while. That weird superhero guy’s face also creeped me out. Also, escape from horror land was a much better game lol.

[@huckmart2017]

Yeah that game scared me too lol

[@Dark_Tale_2077]

12:06 Now that would have fit well into a Goosebumps twist. How everyone is living in a comic and suddenly someone becomes self aware. If that happens, they run the risk of getting written out. Kind of reminds me of a Goosebumps anthology story about a kid playing a board game with friends that is supposedly haunted, only to find out that they are the ones haunting the board.

[@OddOneOut665]

I think I know that one! It's from the Series 2000 Books. Be Afraid - Be VERY Afraid is the name. Or I could be very wrong and it's from one of the 'Tales to Give You Goosebumps' series.

[@Redracer96]

I think it is a tales to give you goosebumps book. The only goosebumps 2000 i know of in the tv series is cry of the cat.

[@jurassicrex9754]

It was The Haunted House Game from More Tales to Give You Goosebumps

[@themasongreenexperience7011]

I had an idea a while back that would sort have been like that. There are these kids in a boarding school who want to go home to see their parents, but suddenly discover they don’t have a home or parents. They are actually AI’s, and the school is a computer simulation designed to train them and figure out which one is the best. That’s why the “teachers” (who are also AI’s) always promote hyper-competitive attitudes. The plan is that the “winner”’s program will be installed in a new line of mass-produced robots, while the others will simply get deleted. That is, unless the students can figure out how to ensure a better outcome. It’d be sort of like “The Perfect School” from Goosebumps but in reverse. I could see it serving as a social commentary, too.

[@Redracer96]

isn’t that just technically perfect school?

[@TheNavigator4552]

The mutant looks like an offbrand batman.

[@ShadowSonic2]

That's why they got Adam West in it?

[@alonsoarana5307]

He kind of looks like Batfleck so yeah an offbrand Batman

[@Mr3DLC]

Or some generic f-zero character akin to black shadow

[@Marvel_vs_Capcom84]

@@alonsoarana5307 stop it.. Ben Affleck is the best batman unfortunately he just didn't get a chance to have his own batman solo movie..

[@alonsoarana5307]

@@Marvel_vs_Capcom84 Zack Snyder killed his potential, blame him

[@PassTheMarmalade1957]

"Yeah, this seems to be a pretty boring episode. The threat is too vague for too long, and it's really slow paced. Can't see this improving any - " *Adam West appears*

[@CaptDude]

OK, i’m starting to feel like I was the only person who was freaked out by this episode when I was a little kid 😂. I always thought that the villain was shape shifting into the people like the bus driver and the old man telling him the comics would rot his brain. The idea that you couldn’t tell when he was right in front of you freaked me out. Also how he could affect your body like your vision and start seeing in comic book vision and also have a building in plain ssight and no adult can see it. When I was a kid After watching that episode I remember being afraid for a while of walking into an invisible wall and getting lost where the villain was at. 😂

[@BgcBad]

Same!! This is one of the few episodes that always stuck with me as being scary

[@dylanwhite6503]

Don’t worry this episode got me too as a kid

[@tonuahmed4227]

You weren't only one...also being non native speaker the ending I thought is that kid actually got possessed by the mutant and thus became comic character...which in turn made the villain won despite he seemed to lose earlier is which made me traumatize , hero defeated the villain only to get possessed by him and becoming new one...

[@onidogg1593]

I was scared too

[@MzYayaMama]

This episode always scared me and rubbed me the wrong way

[@sirenofsound]

He's the Tick, Batman, and Bible Man all in one. *face palm*

[@drackoex]

Leaning more towards the tick since the character west plays as is arthur

[@sml2k186]

Except Bible man knows what sins you’ve done and will punish you as such

[@jaygooese4242]

How true it's just silly

[@jaygooese4242]

Also freaky 9:05 O.O

[@IcyIndigo]

Ooh, you should review the Goosebumps three-part episode Chillogy! It’s the only one that wasn’t based on an already existing Goosebumps book or short story. I think it would be interesting to see how it stands in comparison with other Goosebumps episodes seeing as it was an original story instead of an adaptation.

[@WolfGr33d]

"The garrish colors of the building on top of the holy sounding organ playing in the background is considerably not scary." Me: Pfttt yeah, how could that possibly be scary? "Welcome to Clown Church." Welcome to *_W_*_ _*_H_*_ _*_A_*_ _*_T_* ?

[@troodon1096]

What god do clowns worship? Wait don't answer that; I really don't want to know.

[@PrimusSwallows]

@@troodon1096 i.imgur.com/JFDC2Ed.jpeg

[@justyouraveragemutantblood2185]

HoNk :o)

[@E8144EOE]

@@troodon1096 Cegorach, obviously

[@LotsOfBologna2]

Welcome to Chucky Cheese... it's my rocket ship.

[@StarShipGray]

You have earned my eternal respect for your “Death to Smoochy” reference. So glad I’m not the only person who recognizes it as a grossly undervalued comic gem.

[@AntiYourFacePhD]

“He turns around. Sees The Mutant. And...” [Raid: Shadow Legends ad]

[@NicoTheCinderace]

That is the TRUE monster!

[@WaspCameraInSpringfield]

Ni

[@optimoosejones9493]

i was expecting it to be an ali a intro

[@nikjuttun5677]

now that's terrifying

[@tapatioman8411]

He turns around and sees the mutant and 4.99 dollar subs at firehouse subs

[@kenniron6313]

Wasn’t there an episode called “Don’t go to Sleep”? It had a kid sleeping in his attic and having nightmares about “reality” and it was god awful.

[@hammertoe00]

I think jontron talked about that episode and yeah I remember that one being really awful.

[@ripleyjlawman.3162]

Kenniron Games I heard the book was much better.

[@mauricefuqua7288]

The book was actually good when I read it

[@MeowHype]

Yeah, as bad as they hammered this episode compared to the book, it's still not the worst. My Hairiest Adventure and Don't Go To Sleep are much worse.

[@blairmiller9489]

The book, that inspired that episode.Was so much better

[@dietjesus7710]

The worst part is that this isn’t even how the book went

[@logicaloverdrive8197]

Mind educating me a bit? I'm intrested in how this plays out in the book.

[@treymtz]

@@logicaloverdrive8197 yeah From what I recall the book was much higher quality

[@Zachattack-sn4sy]

Yea instead at the end he cuts himself accidentally while cutting cake and turns out he has Ink instead of blood it’s wack but it is better

[@Poppy_and_ponies]

Yeah like that nerdy kids in to stamps in the book

[@Little_Eris]

Plus the foreshadowing for some parts were done better like the mutants weakness at the beginning.

[@SpecialInterestShow]

11:19 they should have defeated the bad guy by having Wilson walk in, see his friend in danger, and immediately throw a rock right at the villain's head, knocking him out. Maybe Wilson was walking by and heard a scream, or accidentally walked into the barrier and got curious. Then his friend becomes his sidekick. Rockman and his sidekick, Elastic Boy.

[@redkingrauri3769]

Their powers combine into the mighty slingshot!

[@Carinail]

Copypasting cause relevaant: I thought FOR SURE that somehow a rock was gonna defeat the bad guy, MAYBE by tricking him into turning into glass/a mirror and then... "No matter where you are, you're always near a rock." With the writing being that he tried to say his weakness was acid, why not have him say that his weakness is his own reflection. Then, well, "No matter where you are, you're always near a rock.". Then for that ending goosebumps usually has of "the suffering has only begun", the ending shows off the start of the characters 7 years of bad luck from smashing a mirror. Bad luck that could maybe lead to the pieces of the mirror to be reunited despite the characters best efforts, allowing the villain to come back for a sequel? I don't feel like this is that hard to come up with.

[@MAMoreno]

PUR: "The worst Goosebumps episode." Me: "Nothing with Adam West can be the worst anything."

[@D.A.B1994]

Terrible episode but not the worst.

[@MarzMonkey]

I feel like the campy craziness has whooshed over people's heads. Anyone ever seen 60s Batman?

[@user-DullardBones]

Not to sass you for praising the best Batman, but Adam West was in Disney's Chicken Little.

[@davidmcgill1000]

@@MarzMonkey campy craziness doesn't make good horror.

[@FilmInsanity]

@@davidmcgill1000 EVIL DEAD.

[@konoikurozora5851]

"and a Crispin Glover dad" - that line cracks me up. He's my favorite actor and I've actually had the thought before you said that.

[@sbennettpia]

As someone who read the book as a kid, other than the ending being different as you mentioned, it's pretty much the same. Honestly, why they went with this as an ending I'm still baffled. Goosebumps twists are supposed to be unnerving and leave you with one final scare. Here, Skipper...just has superpowers now. Doesn't that mean he came away from this better than he started?

[@belo77o]

"Welcome to clown church, we will begin mass shortly," Line of the year right there.

[@Penguinmanereikel]

Line of the decade! It caught me so off guard that i couldnt stop laughing!!

[@loonysanity9638]

🤣

[@mikeg8276]

6:57 honestly needs to become a TikTok staple

[@SargentandGreenLeaf]

Easily amused are we?

[@CathMint]

... Is it lame that I kind of want one of those nondescript "ROCK CLUB" patches now?

[@kramermariav]

Thing Club - the club for stuff

[@Ravenite456]

The thing that gets me Adam West is clearly there as an in-joke because he was Batman. But how many kids would get that? In fact the whole thing seems to be a tribute to goofy silver age comics but it was the 90's. Comics were all "EDGE!" and "XTREME!" at that time.

[@ORLY911]

imagine if they made an episode where it WAS Adam West as a silver age sort of hero vs. a 90's edgy villain, and the kid had a conflict of which of these comics he likes better. Not only would that be interesting it would have been more relatable. Every kid into comics probably had their dad talk about the comics they grew up with and show them some.

[@twil2978]

Sono that sounds awesome

[@PETERPARKERPECKER]

Ravenite even on failry odd parents he voiced a hero ha

[@DrAmazing]

At the time that Goosebumps was airing on YTV, they definitely still had old Batman reruns. I used to watch both as a kid.

[@scotto9857]

Scariest part would have been if he fell in love with that girl who never really existed

[@martinprince7773]

whispa55 been there 👍

[@thefatman69dude]

If he made out with her and did stuff with her lol then the masked mutant was like uhm well that was me all along.

[@adambaryliuk3393]

“I never even got her email address”

[@professorbaxtercarelessdre1075]

sounds like what happened in Spy Kids 3-D lol

[@OmegaPrecept]

You will forever have my heart! Thank you for all your hard work! Mahalo, and thanks for the nostalgia and the laughs. You are the best

[@aspectratiosYT]

11:41 the comic is actually just a dressed up Punisher issue - can clearly see him holding it.

[@apeman6059]

Wow thanks I ain't even recognize that

[@thecatapultdio4717]

Never noticed that.

[@sdwa8742]

I think they were just really excited to have Adam West and that's why it went on for two episodes. The worst episode of this show for me will always be Strained Peas.

[@rjmunster9600]

*slams hand on desk* Thank You!

[@TheBonkleFox]

I'm sorry what. Strained peas?

[@thealienbros5431]

strained peas is a classic lol "none of that mushy junk!"

[@sflematti]

"Welcome to clown church, we will begin mass shortly" Idk why but I couldn't stop laughing at that.

[@TheBonkleFox]

Alternia be like.

[@marie-eve9304]

OK but hear me out: the audiobook on cassette tape for the Masked Mutant was absolutely terrifying nightmare fuel that felt very, very plausible and real to me .

[@Matrim42]

I honestly never really got on board with Goosebumps (the show, I read over 100 of the books). It always struck me as a bit too goofy. AYAITD was more my speed, though there were some clunkers there too. The show that pretty consistently impressed me was Eerie Indiana.

[@nidoking042]

I only got to see Eerie, Indiana a few years ago, as an adult, and I felt like it was okay but not great, and that I would have loved it had I been younger. The penultimate episode, where the main character of the show finds himself on the set of the show and all of the people he knows are actors, would have been a wonderful finale, and was the sort of thing I wish the show could have done more consistently. The plots and ideas were great, but somehow, I never felt the kind of tension that a proper horror show needs, and without that, nothing seemed quite weird enough to live up to the premise. Maybe with another season to explain where they were going with the new character from the last few episodes, it could have gone somewhere interesting.

[@Matrim42]

nidoking042 I haven’t seen it since I was a kid, so it’s entirely possible it doesn’t hold up. But when I was young I loved it. I still remember the first episode I saw, it was the one where a kid’s retainer gave him the ability to hear dogs’ thoughts and they were all planning to overthrow the human race, it was very Twilight Zone. The scene where all the dogs are chanting “bite the hand that feeds us” has basically never left my brain ever.

[@amityislandchum]

I agree with everything in this comment, and I would LOVE to see Roses cover Eerie, Indiana.

[@judahosborne8868]

The Foreverware book TERRIFIED ME as a kid. I didnt know there was a show until I was a little older, and I stayed the hell away from that

[@DreadedRhubarb]

Another vote for Eerie Indiana coverage

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

I think the Mutant died when he turned into acid simply because he just turned his entire lower half into acid.

[@ShadowSonic2]

The book explains that the mutant can't turn into anything that isn't solid

[@guyofminimalimportance7]

@Schlock Jocks I still like my version better.

[@thefatman69dude]

Lol he wanted to kill himself when he realized how creepy it was what he did to lure a little boy into a weird building to be his buddy. Lol

[@Omegaman18]

i think he had the runs

[@troodon1096]

@@ShadowSonic2 Well... but shouldn't he have known that, and thus wouldn't have done it?

[@asylumrain]

I miss being in school and picking up the goosebumps books just to even read them at home and while on the road. I only read a couple but my favorite was the haunted mask.

[@macaelatice-loma1048]

oh heck yeah!!!! I love that book and episode are just fantastically done!! the details on that mask brought to life just gave me nightmares, heck im 22 and still when i see the episode it scares me a bit...

[@RenaldyCalixte]

Haunted Mask is one of the best Goosebumps books of all time.

[@tupaclives5848]

"Welcome to clown church, we will begin mass shortly" 6:52 LOL that was a good one. Subbed. I could use more videos like this in my life. The topic was of interest to me because I grew up in the 90s, and it had good jokes. I also enjoyed, the "Ahhh Squid marks!" joke as well. Anyway, my point is you're funny and you're doing a great job 👍

[@tjbonnes4936]

First of all, Clown Church? Imagine it: 100 people to a single pew. Second, the only other difference between the book and the episode was that Wilson collected rubber stamps instead of rocks--only to give up collecting them before the book was over. Third, I would recommend Piano lessons can be Murder as another episode to review

[@mcarlisle3559]

I'm kind of sad about how badly this episode came out, because this was one of the books I was genuinely scared of. Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I remember the building being so surreal and absurd it bordered on the terrifying because it was clearly out of fiction, and the ending in the book felt ominous and never-ending- like comics are fun to enjoy reading, but dangerous and too surreal to process normally as a reality.

[@Tentabrobpy]

I actually remember watching this episode as a kid and feeling the same way about the building as it was shown here. The garish colors plus the contrast between wide open rooms and cramped twisting hallways made it really uncanny.

[@littlesongbird1]

To be fair: the reason that some of the Goosebumps books or episodes had some duds is not all of them were written by R.L. Stine. He created the series but many were ghost written by other writers who just expanded an idea he had. The same thing happened with "Baby Sitter's club" and "Baby Sitter's Little Sister" series.

[@MrHendrix17]

Do we know that the duds were the ghostwritten ones?

[@b.lonewolf417]

Besides, I'm sure some of the duds WERE Stine's work, regardless. Just because he's an amazing author doesn't mean he's perfect...and that's okay! I never hold my heroes to a standard of perfection.

[@gravyboot1830]

As far as I know, this is just a popular rumor. Do you have any proof that some of the books were ghostwritten? R.L. Stine has denied it a few times.

[@caviar_dreamz]

As someone who read most of the books I disagree. They all share the same writing style.

[@zerosixzero6699]

@@caviar_dreamz ghost writers mimic the original author as best as they can

[@samueljennings9296]

I really like hearing your thoughts on Children's Horror. I've often thought of horror for adults, but the disctinction that R.L Stine makes between writing for kids and adults is fascinating, and feels very true to life. I imagine that writing horror for kids is difficult because you have to be scary, but you also have to remember who your audience is, and what they can handle.

[@mohammedyahaya8995]

Hurry☝️ 🎉 you just got yourself something from me, Send me a message above to claim your prize....

[@ectofriend]

"Viewer beware, you're in for........a really mediocre episode."

[@thatd-4-v-3musicguyatevent27]

I'm scared!!

[@Dominic-Noble]

I'd go to clown church.

[@onilichan4108]

Amen clown god

[@buhbo3250]

take me to clurch

[@CyberKirby]

CLOWN CHURN GAAAAAAAAAAANG

[@slapstickcomedy2.0.18]

Let us rejoice and honk 3 times to our lord Ronald McDonald.

[@garrettnorton309]

HONHONHONHONHONHONHON [BAZINGA]

[@TheSpookyTuna]

Honestly I always get so excited whenever I see the notif pop up for a new video! Perfect timing honestly, will enjoy this vid with my fish & chips!

[@elchronico]

I had such a connection with this show growing up. I loved horror and it was filmed in my city Toronto Canada so I could always imagine the scenes

[@douchopotamus3755]

Of course Adam West was in this, who else could play a comic book character like him?

[@Ziroxyl]

R.I.P. He was the best Batman

[@CitrusRev]

@Rick Wilkinson how fucking dare you

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

@Rick Wilkinson i do. ✋🙄

[@TimwareInc2007]

Adam west was a great mayor

[@wetfart9813]

​@Rick Wilkinson Adam west was the best batman

[@LeoFan93]

Well Roses, now you have no choice. You have to cover the Attack of the Mutant PC game.

[@D.A.B1994]

Who the hell would buy that game?

[@seancompton4721]

I played that so much as a kid I honestly loved it! I have no clue where i put it tho

[@METATRONmusic]

That game actually scared the living crap out of me as a kid. Especially Pinky Flamingo.

[@briannacluck5494]

I came here to say this. That weird, Duke Nukem 3D-engine-ish first person adventure with absolutely nothing to do with the tv show episode was amazing to me as a kid!

[@mistydayremainsofthejudgment]

It was a pretty fun game for kids! I loved it! Super cheesy, but had some scary parts (to a child, again.)

[@rayceeya8659]

LOL "Skipper" is such a generic teenager name from those days. Strange though, I'm from those days and I've never met anyone named "Skipper". Either the name was less popular than popular culture depicts, or all those "Skippers" grew up and said "OMG WTF were my parents thinking?", and changed their name.

[@bubblegumxo]

Probably a nick name. I've never met or heard of a single person IRL with the name Skipper 😂 .

[@anapplepinetarticathe23rd90]

I'm going to name my firstborn Skippah after the penguin from Madagascar

[@oreoman974]

Skipper wasn’t his real name

[@anapplepinetarticathe23rd90]

@@oreoman974 what was it then? pickle man

[@Little_Eris]

AnapplePinetarticathe23rd it was conformed in the wiki Bradley.

[@phoenixsoul13]

Goosebumps is not something I grew up with, but I always enjoy your videos on them. ❣

[@RAVENVROSE]

*Turns around and screams* *KFC ad plays* Me: oh my god, that was unexpected

[@bkk397]

My experience: Turns around and screams* “IHOP now has bigger bacon!”

[@tomobourn7780]

@@bkk397 lol I got that too

[@mooganify]

Not using Adblock lmfao

[@originaluseername]

why do you need a “me:”

[@TwitchyGizmo]

He...DID say "Stretchin"...but the riff on "bitchin" eluded me until just now

[@pushinguproses]

The closed captions on the episode says "Stretch it." I also thought he said Stretchin' at first too because it was always my intention to point out the "bitchin" thing, but when I checked it was, boringly, Stretch it.

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@pushinguproses Subtitles/CC aren't always accurate. Just saying. I swear they have some non-English speakers transcribing them. Some of them are really off.

[@Popcultureguy3000]

encycl07pedia so was the closed captioning self-censoring the actual dialogue, or did he really say “stretch it”?

[@TwitchyGizmo]

@@Popcultureguy3000 I think the closed cpation guy was on auto-pilot lol;

[@starlinguk]

@@TwitchyGizmo overworked and underpaid.

[@DurradonXylles]

I would dare say that Attack of the Mutant isn't the worst overall episode of Goosebumps, nor the worst adaptation of the books and short stories, but it's certainly the goofiest, hammiest, most ill-fitting episodes of the show, as well as one of the sloppiest written ones. What gets me is that this episode actually fills in a couple plot holes from the book, including the sudden disappearance of Libby without payoff halfway through, but it was all solved within the third act and didn't warrant the overall 44-minute episode length.

[@RockCityWaffles]

KZbin recommendations, how I love you so. Best find ever..... instant subscribe. Also, this episode of Goosebumps was decent yet weird.

[@andyshistorylessons8278]

What about the episode, "Cry of the Cat?" It's another Goosebumps episode. This particular one SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME as a kid! I actually had nightmares about the undead cat named Rip! Can't wait to see that video! Keep up the good work! Peace out and Rock on! \/ \m/

[@tylerbrown3135]

Cry of the cat and that one episode with the werewolf skin both gave me nightmares

[@Romann2112]

Damn, January came and went very quickly. Great thing you're still with us Roses! And might I say, what an A W E S O M E way to kickstart February, a Roses Video! The world is happy again :>

[@komaytoprime]

The Mutant is like if the Tick had a love child with Shaq's Steel.

[@agisuru]

I will always remember the commercials promoting this episode, touting Adam West's role, always with a clip of him tied up saying "Don't you know you're supposed to help me save the world?" It's burned into my memory forever

[@RandomBlackGamer]

Are You Afraid of the Dark had a similar episode and did it wayyyy better.

[@ShadowSonic2]

The Ghastly Grinner?

[@jjonahjameson8934]

opinions

[@jashardwallington]

@@ShadowSonic2 that episode is dope

[@crazbach9696]

Yeah! 😆👍

[@Jedicake]

AYAOTD did everything better

[@kenthuang436]

The headquarters look like what Willy Wonka’s evil lair would look like if he was a super villain.

[@user-DullardBones]

Wait, he's not a villain? Dude killed four kids.

[@firepuppies4086]

@@user-DullardBones they got better.. I think.

[@tiamystic]

Fire puppies *Meanwhile on the broadway musical: girl explodes, girl gets dismembered...*

[@Little_Eris]

@@tiamystic LoL.

[@Little_Eris]

@@user-DullardBones But yeah in the book and reboot movie the kids were never killed.

[@Duderult]

This episode being so terrible was a huge disappointment for me when I was younger. I LOVED the book and was excited to see it adapted, but all I got was proof that my imagination is better than cheap Canadian TV productions.

[@johnnyk5385]

I agree with everything you just said...Yet, I still loved the episode for reasons that are unknown to me.

[@MeowHype]

@@johnnyk5385 Attack of the Mutant IMO is still good. It has problems for sure but I don't think it's very bad. It's still relatively entertaining. It'd both better and worse if you've read the book. Better with the knowledge, but worse with knowing how bad it got hammered on TV.

[@johnnyk5385]

@@MeowHype hahaha so true.

[@randomericthings7506]

The first Goosebumps book, “Welcome to Dead House” is the scariest Goosebumps book out of the ones I’ve read. It describes children’s faces burning and peeling off as their eyes roll into their sockets. The dog is murdered. The entire town are zombie/ghost/vampire creatures. Literally no place is safe in the entire town.

[@RememberJudas314]

8:01 Um, clearly that is a piece of quartz. You're never going to make it in to Rock Club with mistakes like that. ;)

[@pushinguproses]

*weep*

[@TheDigitalWatcher]

"Dammit, Marie! They're not rocks. They're minerals!"

[@danielgehring7437]

Um excuse me, it's _Geology_ Club thank you very much.

[@zatoth13]

@@danielgehring7437 maybe he's one of these rock painters...it says rock club but not exactly what they do with the rocks

[@avosmash2121]

"Arnold, that's not a rock...that's STYROFOAM!" "...not AGAIN." -from the original "Magic School Bus" series. Oh Arnold, I thought you were always the smart one. You shoulda stayed home today.

[@matthewdelong3419]

I love how its obvious they dodnt make a comic for him to hold and instead it's a sleeve over a punisher issue.

[@N3rv3d4m4g3]

Did they make his dad look like Clark Kent as a joke?

[@maninblue88]

I totally agree with your take on children's horror, Roses. I was actually in college when "R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour" premiered, and we just so happened to have the particular channel on which it premiered on our digital cable. The whole reason I decided to watch it one night was because the specific episode featured Jodelle Ferland, an actress I like, as a guest star. I decided to watch the next week just for the heck of it and ended up really enjoying it.

[@trentonnewman9683]

Heck yeah more goosebumps content! Always a good day when I see one of your videos pop up in my feed

[@tidecovill6718]

The headquarters’ aesthetic : phallic on the outside, spy kids on the inside

[@DasKame]

You should maybe Review some scary Kids Movies, like "Return to Oz" and/or "Coraline"

[@matthewbreen1951]

Man, Return to Oz is not all right. I also Roses would have some things to say about the American McGee Alice games.

[@BreadHart]

Search for Steve Reviews, he is a british guy who reviews all kinds of creepy and depresing movies for kids.

[@heleni0]

BEWARE THE WHEELERS

[@dodoreference9325]

Fun fact: this episode scared me into not watching goosebumps anymore as a kid. Mostly because It ruined the play houses in fast food places for me.

[@tonuahmed4227]

By being non native speaker I misinterpreted the ending of being the kid getting possessed by the mutant villain...which made me scared the most...at first looked like even after you defeated the villain,he still had the last laugh...which gave me nightmare about that mutant is possessing my body and I can't do anything but see...

[@nuggs4449]

​@@tonuahmed4227that would've been a better ending in my opinion

[@saddgod]

No fucking way. This was my favourite goosebump book I had no idea they made an episode about it and honestly it was probably better that way.

[@jaredmenard7645]

Iwish they would hav made an episode for the Beast from the East book. I loved that one haha

[@charleswhaley7312]

@@jaredmenard7645 is that the one where they go to the island and have to play a survival hide and seek game?

[@charleswhaley7312]

@@jaredmenard7645 my fault not hide and seek. Tag

[@jaredmenard7645]

@@charleswhaley7312 yes sir

[@Crusader1089]

I remember this scaring the pants off me as a child because the galloping gazelle abandoned the kid to his fate. To me the idea of adults not helping, and leaving me with adult problems, was terrifying.

[@TheHauntedDriveIn]

Honestly though, that spaghetti dinner Skipper had looked pretty great.

[@mauricefuqua7288]

Yeah same here

[@RenaldyCalixte]

That mom can cook and she did it while reading a trashy romance novel

[@FumblsTheSniper]

I had the same exact thought.

[@beignet2000]

Yup now craving spaghetti 🍝

[@DaedalusYoung]

Mom's spaghetti.

[@3N4N]

I love this! man. Few days ago I found someone's review of Cleo from 5 to 7 and it left me in tears of laughter. Last year I found someone named Lady Knight the Brave or something and her long-form analysis videos are incredibly engaging. And now this channel. I try and write movie and book reviews every now and again, and I know how hard it is to come up with such engaging content. Cause when I say something I take three times the time and word-count than I should and output one-third the wit and humor.

[@fusionspace175]

I think there was a darker original ending that got cut, where he realizes that either he never left the comic world and can never return to reality, or that he's been going crazy like Wilson said, the elastic boy ending being a full psychotic break. It was probably deemed too sad, and they erred on the side of the ridiculous.

[@thehunterator520]

Rest in peace Adam West, the Galloping Gazelle

[@PhantomLink16]

7:17 "Dang it Bobby, you and those GAHT DHANG comic books!"

[@bradendalhouse7247]

I actually thought, when watching this episode as a 9 or so year old kid, that the Mutant’s headquarters was actually really scary, alongside with the music. Something about how grand it looks and how colorful it is really makes it unsettling to me, plus being stuck in such a grand and large place with such a (at the time) scary figure like the Mutant, to me, was really freaky. However, I still think all of your points land, I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s the worst episode because I remember some were just so dry: nothing scary, and nothing exciting. And Attack of the Mutant comes close, but in the realm of kids horror I still think it has at least one unsettling aspect. Anyways, great video, great breakdown of an infamous episode, I’ll be checking out more of your content! Also, why they gave this a 2-parter and not episodes like The Scarecrow Walks At Midnight, Attack of the Jack-O’-Lanterns or Phantom of the Auditorium is just so dumb. All of those had really creepy and good set-ups, but they fall flat in some ways because of how much time they were given.