Chris and Goosebumps

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I would assume Chris likes Goosebumps the same reasons he like Sonic, Legos, and Transformers: it's something he liked as a kid and, refusing to grow up or at least refine his tastes, is adamant in saying he still reads Goosebumps. As for him reading any other books, Chris probably considering it reading if they were briefly mentioned in an episode of Family Guy.

As for real scary stories for kids, did anyone else read these when they were growing up?
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(Apologies if these were mentioned earlier in the thread)
 
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I would assume Chris likes Goosebumps the same reasons he like Sonic, Legos, and Transformers: it's something he liked as a kid and, refusing to grow up or at least refine his tastes, is adamant in saying he still reads Goosebumps. As for him reading any other books, Chris probably considering it reading if they were briefly mentioned in an episode of Family Guy.

As for real scary stories for kids, did anyone else read these when they were growing up?
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Yes! Now those were quality books. Remember the story, "Oh, Susanna"?
 
It IS strange that Chris lists Goosebumps on his online dating profiles, as if that would be an attractive quality, or as if that would show he reads and likes to read.
But then again this is the same man who listed Sonichu and Rosechu on his resume as if it was an amazing thing, and also the same man who thought holding an attraction sign while playing on his Nintendo would attract a potential girlfriend.
So much :stupid:
 
I just realized... nine pages in and yet no one has made this connection yet. C'mon people- this is the internet! We got standards!

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You're welcome.
 
_blank_ said:
I would assume Chris likes Goosebumps the same reasons he like Sonic, Legos, and Transformers: it's something he liked as a kid and, refusing to grow up or at least refine his tastes, is adamant in saying he still reads Goosebumps. As for him reading any other books, Chris probably considering it reading if they were briefly mentioned in an episode of Family Guy.

As for real scary stories for kids, did anyone else read these when they were growing up?
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/artic ... 17.jpg?v=1
(Apologies if these were mentioned earlier in the thread)
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Ahhh, yes!! I didn't like scary stories when I was a kid, but those were the books the other girls in my Girl Scout troop would bring on camping trips.
 
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I would assume Chris likes Goosebumps the same reasons he like Sonic, Legos, and Transformers: it's something he liked as a kid and, refusing to grow up or at least refine his tastes, is adamant in saying he still reads Goosebumps. As for him reading any other books, Chris probably considering it reading if they were briefly mentioned in an episode of Family Guy.

As for real scary stories for kids, did anyone else read these when they were growing up?
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/artic ... 17.jpg?v=1
(Apologies if these were mentioned earlier in the thread)
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HELL yes. Those were some of my favourite books as a kid. I still have them. The illustrations were some of the creepiest shit ever.
 
DrChristianTroy said:
Marvin said:
R.A.E.L. said:
You can't speak for everyone, though. That's my point. What I'm hearing is "It didn't scare me so it shouldn't have scared you either." Whether you were into horror or not, a lot of us watched it regardless and got a scare because some of what they showed wasn't the most tame. The show did its job, but even things such as the opening were a bit out there. Am I bashing the episode because I think the monster was fucked up for a kid's show? No, but they could have toned it down a little. Sorry I wasn't as thick-skinned as the rest of you. :roll:

Again, if you were able to critique the show for its special effects when you were little, props. But most of us didn't and couldn't because we were naive.
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Yeah, but I wouldn't say it'd be justified to say that kids shouldn't be allowed to be exposed to that sort of thing across the board. Maybe a warning, tops.

I don't think they're saying that it shouldn't have scared you, but rather (or how I'd put it, anyway) that those sorts of things were cherished memories and a big part of their childhood. One of my favorite movies as a kid was Stephen King's It, for example.
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Marvin pretty much has it. It isn't that it shouldn't have scared you. In retrospect it is silly but fair enough if it did. My point is it came off as if you were saying kids shouldn't be allowed to watch it at all which I think is bullshit. In my opinion the media kids consume shouldn't be all sunshine and lollipops. I think it is healthy to every now and then throw them a curveball and have a story end under less than happy circumstances. Given there are tons of considerations (age, child maturity, etc) but for the most part I think it is good for a kid to see a variety when it comes to tone. This just seemed like miscommunication of ideas.
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This is a conversation that has been occurring semi-regularly in the Power Rangers community. Backstory in the spoilers since no one likely gives a damn.
The last season Disney did, RPM, was relatively serious and mature. It was the Terminator cartoon 90's kids never got. Thing is, Disney wanted to axe the franchise. They thought it was too violent and went against their family friendly image. They couldn't convince Toei wouldn't tone down the violence in sentai and Toei wouldn't allow them to make a Power Rangers cartoon instead. Ratings were dropping in America but the show was kicking ass in Germany, so RPM was made out of contractual obligations and Disney was going to end with it.

This led to a season with a ton of creative freedom, but Disney wouldn't promote it. It was supposed to air on Disney XD, but Disney stuck it on ABC mornings instead. For half of the country, the series was only on at 5 AM, some stations wouldn't air it because it cut into their educational programming quota and at times it was preempted for sports. Needless to say it has the worse ratings in PR history.

Since Saban reacquired the franchise they've been targeting the 2-4 crowd when the show has a Y-7 rating (because of the violence). Through heavy promotion, they managed over three million viewers at it's height. Megaforce, the current incarnation, is condescending, tension-less garbage that clearly was targeting preschoolers. People who don't like it call it garbage while it's defenders say it's a kid's show. Kids are still watching it and buying the toys. While ratings have dropped and reported sightings of toys having huge discounts (I can verify I've seen official Megaforce toys in dollar stores) they will still argue it's doing better than the beloved RPM did.

There lies the conflict. Some say it's a kid's show and we're just getting too old for it, others say just because it's a kids show doesn't mean it has to be condescending and badly written. 7 year olds can handle some pretty heavy concepts and the current stuff is to childish for them. They should be writing at a 7-9 year old's level of comprehension rather than 2-4. Babies first Power Rangers is a bad model as it will alienate older viewers in the target demographic, especially when Saban says kids only watch Power Rangers for 2 years on average.
AYAotD hit a lot of notes right with it's approach to horror. It's lack of twist endings or gross out horror set it apart from competitor Goosebumps. It create some memorable stories within it's half-hour time frame and really, what can you want more than that? Creating something memorable that doesn't fade into the mists of memory is something all television in general should try to achieve. Being memorable means you've had an impact on the viewer and you can never do so if you play things safe.
 
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I would assume Chris likes Goosebumps the same reasons he like Sonic, Legos, and Transformers: it's something he liked as a kid and, refusing to grow up or at least refine his tastes, is adamant in saying he still reads Goosebumps. As for him reading any other books, Chris probably considering it reading if they were briefly mentioned in an episode of Family Guy.

As for real scary stories for kids, did anyone else read these when they were growing up?
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/artic ... 17.jpg?v=1
(Apologies if these were mentioned earlier in the thread)
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Even though these were far better than Goosebumps I have to admit that there are some stories in these that are pretty cheesy in retrospect (as a kid I always hated the jokey ones at the end and made up "scary" endings to them… I didn't want comedy in a book like this!). But they're fantastic for kids and the illustrations are of course timeless classics.


There was one scary stories for kids book I rented from the library but don't remember the name of. There were two stories that really stuck with me though:

-A boy invents a time machine in his basement. The machine transports you to the exact same place, only a certain amount of time in the past. The boy who created it wants to be cautious with using it but his friend can't wait, so one night she sneaks in and uses it without him. She wants to go some amount of time into the past, and she uses the machine. But the machine literally places her in the exact same space as the time machine is, meaning the earth has moved and is hundreds of thousands of miles away on its path of rotation. She realizes this in a fatal second and dies from the lack of air.

-A boy who is scared of the ocean stays with his grandpa and his grandpa takes him out deep sea fishing during a storm. There was one particular description the boy used about "the ocean so deep that the fish down there don't even need eyes" I still remember. When fishing the grandpa captures some fish with one eye that looks like an alien. When the boy asks what its name is, his grandpa replies that "it doesn't have a name". Eventually a gigantic whale-like monster rises from the sea, one of whose flippers was as large as a ship. I forgot exactly what happens next but basically the grandpa gets eaten and the boy has to float back to shore in a float.

Most of the other stories were lame though =/
 
_blank_ said:
I would assume Chris likes Goosebumps the same reasons he like Sonic, Legos, and Transformers: it's something he liked as a kid and, refusing to grow up or at least refine his tastes, is adamant in saying he still reads Goosebumps. As for him reading any other books, Chris probably considering it reading if they were briefly mentioned in an episode of Family Guy.

As for real scary stories for kids, did anyone else read these when they were growing up?
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/artic ... 17.jpg?v=1
(Apologies if these were mentioned earlier in the thread)
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I had the first two. Honestly, the stories weren't scary, but the illustrations alone were worth buying the books. There was a Scholastic series whose name is escaping me that were similar horror anthologies that were pretty spooky. They had all kinds of folklore ghost stories, including really messed up North American aboriginal ones (there was one about a deer girl who'd seduce men then kick them to death to drink their blood).

I also had Truly Scary Stories for Fearless Kids, which is one of my few childhood books that I'm holding onto on the off chance I reproduce. It's an amazing collection.
 
There was one children's horror series I would never show a child. I'm Canadian and YTV, the go-to kid's channel, imported this one show from the UK. It's probably equal to Candle Cove and it's called Grisly Tales for Gruesome Kids.
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But one series I loved which is sadly lost to time is Freaky Stories. Only a few stories are on youtube.
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_blank_ said:
I would assume Chris likes Goosebumps the same reasons he like Sonic, Legos, and Transformers: it's something he liked as a kid and, refusing to grow up or at least refine his tastes, is adamant in saying he still reads Goosebumps. As for him reading any other books, Chris probably considering it reading if they were briefly mentioned in an episode of Family Guy.

As for real scary stories for kids, did anyone else read these when they were growing up?
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/artic ... 17.jpg?v=1
(Apologies if these were mentioned earlier in the thread)
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Also had the audio series, with the drippingly cheesy narration from stage legend George S. Irving. [Where...is... my... TOOOOOOOEEEEEEHHHOHOHOHOHOH.]
 
ChameleonBody said:
_blank_ said:
I would assume Chris likes Goosebumps the same reasons he like Sonic, Legos, and Transformers: it's something he liked as a kid and, refusing to grow up or at least refine his tastes, is adamant in saying he still reads Goosebumps. As for him reading any other books, Chris probably considering it reading if they were briefly mentioned in an episode of Family Guy.

As for real scary stories for kids, did anyone else read these when they were growing up?
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/artic ... 17.jpg?v=1
(Apologies if these were mentioned earlier in the thread)
Click to expand...

Even though these were far better than Goosebumps I have to admit that there are some stories in these that are pretty cheesy in retrospect (as a kid I always hated the jokey ones at the end and made up "scary" endings to them… I didn't want comedy in a book like this!). But they're fantastic for kids and the illustrations are of course timeless classics.

There was one scary stories for kids book I rented from the library but don't remember the name of. There were two stories that really stuck with me though:

-A boy invents a time machine in his basement. The machine transports you to the exact same place, only a certain amount of time in the past. The boy who created it wants to be cautious with using it but his friend can't wait, so one night she sneaks in and uses it without him. She wants to go some amount of time into the past, and she uses the machine. But the machine literally places her in the exact same space as the time machine is, meaning the earth has moved and is hundreds of thousands of miles away on its path of rotation. She realizes this in a fatal second and dies from the lack of air.

-A boy who is scared of the ocean stays with his grandpa and his grandpa takes him out deep sea fishing during a storm. There was one particular description the boy used about "the ocean so deep that the fish down there don't even need eyes" I still remember. When fishing the grandpa captures some fish with one eye that looks like an alien. When the boy asks what its name is, his grandpa replies that "it doesn't have a name". Eventually a gigantic whale-like monster rises from the sea, one of whose flippers was as large as a ship. I forgot exactly what happens next but basically the grandpa gets eaten and the boy has to float back to shore in a float.

Most of the other stories were lame though =/
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Yeah, I hear you. Reading scary stories with my friends on Halloween was one of the highlights of my childhood. It kinda sucks that Chris didn't have that.

Also, does anyone remember where this story came from? I Don't know why but always disturbed me as a kid.

http://www.quotev.com/story/1125532/Scay-stories/15/

If anyone knows it would be appreciated. Sorry if too off-topic.
 
I loved the Tiny Toons cartoon as a kid and still list it as one of my favorite things ever, despite having not watched a Tiny Toons episode in almost two decades.

There's a lot of weird stuff that Chris does, but I'm not sure loving a corny book series from his youth is one of them.

this thread is sort of weird though with all of the over-the-top literary name dropping? who cares how much people read
 
When I was a little kid I was scared of puppets and animatronic stuff like ET or the knock-off Mac and Me. The way they moved creeped me out. Kids have strong imaginations and and I grew up remembering a short movie promo clip of a dog with a full-on, perfectly realistic human head. The memory made me "Nope" until I was in my teens when I got into horror movies and forgot about it. A few years ago I finally saw Invasion of the Body Snatchers and saw... a dog with a really corny, rubber human mask on his face. It didn't match my memory at all. My imagination had warped it to such a scale that 99% of what made it scary was from me.

So yeah, kids will always remember shit as scarier than it really was regardless of production value.
 
_blank_ said:
I would assume Chris likes Goosebumps the same reasons he like Sonic, Legos, and Transformers: it's something he liked as a kid and, refusing to grow up or at least refine his tastes, is adamant in saying he still reads Goosebumps. As for him reading any other books, Chris probably considering it reading if they were briefly mentioned in an episode of Family Guy.

As for real scary stories for kids, did anyone else read these when they were growing up?
http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/artic ... 17.jpg?v=1
(Apologies if these were mentioned earlier in the thread)
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THe stories themselves are pretty tame, but the pictures themselbes involves a lot of :briefs: in children and not just autistic man-children)
 
Scary stories to tell in the dark kicked ass. I remember loving that shit as a kid.

Side Note- Recently the rights were made to make a movie. No clue how it'd do but I am all for horror anthology movies.
 
Well, since Chris never really left childhood, Goosebumps seems to be his favorite series because it was easy enough for him to read.
 
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