Chris and Goosebumps

[Horde Prime]

I haven't read comics in about a year but I'm sure something like Avengers would throw him due to there being non-recognizable characters and stories with long running continuity. His brain would fucking melt. Then there's the whole thing about him fucking up the narrative and point of a story. Him twisting something amazing like Y: The Last Man into some sort of self serving narrative just bugs me. Or seeing The Boys and finding the awful shit the supers do as "Just hanky panky" is cringe worthy to me.

Honestly unless it is based on something he already knows or for really young kids I don't think he could handle it.

Holy Shit! I would LOVE to see his reaction to Y: The Last Man. Would he love it just because of the whole 'one man in a world of just women' thing? "Mmm. Yeah. Sounds like paradise." Would he envision himself in the hero's role? MAN! You think if I ordered him a copy of it off Amazon and sent it to him as a gift, would he read it?

 

[exball]

I haven't read comics in about a year but I'm sure something like Avengers would throw him due to there being non-recognizable characters and stories with long running continuity. His brain would fucking melt. Then there's the whole thing about him fucking up the narrative and point of a story. Him twisting something amazing like Y: The Last Man into some sort of self serving narrative just bugs me. Or seeing The Boys and finding the awful shit the supers do as "Just hanky panky" is cringe worthy to me.

Honestly unless it is based on something he already knows or for really young kids I don't think he could handle it.

Holy Shit! I would LOVE to see his reaction to Y: The Last Man. Would he love it just because of the whole 'one man in a world of just women' thing? "Mmm. Yeah. Sounds like paradise." Would he envision himself in the hero's role? MAN! You think if I ordered him a copy of it off Amazon and sent it to him as a gift, would he read it?

No, Chris would get bored very quickly.

 

[CatParty]

I haven't read comics in about a year but I'm sure something like Avengers would throw him due to there being non-recognizable characters and stories with long running continuity. His brain would fucking melt. Then there's the whole thing about him fucking up the narrative and point of a story. Him twisting something amazing like Y: The Last Man into some sort of self serving narrative just bugs me. Or seeing The Boys and finding the awful shit the supers do as "Just hanky panky" is cringe worthy to me.

Honestly unless it is based on something he already knows or for really young kids I don't think he could handle it.

Holy Shit! I would LOVE to see his reaction to Y: The Last Man. Would he love it just because of the whole 'one man in a world of just women' thing? "Mmm. Yeah. Sounds like paradise." Would he envision himself in the hero's role? MAN! You think if I ordered him a copy of it off Amazon and sent it to him as a gift, would he read it?

yeah send him stuff. it'll be great.

 

[The Fair Lady]

I haven't read comics in about a year but I'm sure something like Avengers would throw him due to there being non-recognizable characters and stories with long running continuity. His brain would fucking melt. Then there's the whole thing about him fucking up the narrative and point of a story. Him twisting something amazing like Y: The Last Man into some sort of self serving narrative just bugs me. Or seeing The Boys and finding the awful shit the supers do as "Just hanky panky" is cringe worthy to me.

Honestly unless it is based on something he already knows or for really young kids I don't think he could handle it.

Holy Shit! I would LOVE to see his reaction to Y: The Last Man. Would he love it just because of the whole 'one man in a world of just women' thing? "Mmm. Yeah. Sounds like paradise." Would he envision himself in the hero's role? MAN! You think if I ordered him a copy of it off Amazon and sent it to him as a gift, would he read it?

It's more or less a rule around here that we don't try to send stuff to Chris. Unless you're speaking hypothetically.

 

[Horde Prime]

I haven't read comics in about a year but I'm sure something like Avengers would throw him due to there being non-recognizable characters and stories with long running continuity. His brain would fucking melt. Then there's the whole thing about him fucking up the narrative and point of a story. Him twisting something amazing like Y: The Last Man into some sort of self serving narrative just bugs me. Or seeing The Boys and finding the awful shit the supers do as "Just hanky panky" is cringe worthy to me.

Honestly unless it is based on something he already knows or for really young kids I don't think he could handle it.

Holy Shit! I would LOVE to see his reaction to Y: The Last Man. Would he love it just because of the whole 'one man in a world of just women' thing? "Mmm. Yeah. Sounds like paradise." Would he envision himself in the hero's role? MAN! You think if I ordered him a copy of it off Amazon and sent it to him as a gift, would he read it?

It's more or less a rule around here that we don't try to send stuff to Chris. Unless you're speaking hypothetically.

Makes sense. Thanks.

 

[The Joker]

I can see Chris try to read the new 52 Wonder Woman comics thinking it would have info on women only to get lost with all of the greek mythology and get stressed.
Maybe he could read the comics that DC used to make for little kids like the Superman comics that look like picture books. Those are so simple that my seven year old cousin can read them without any help.
plus this:

would scare the out of him.
btw I changed my avatar early for Christian Love day. BEST dressed 2014!

 

[Big_Pete_33]

THere's another story similar to Goosebumps called "Choose Your Own Nightmares" a spin-off series of Choose Your Own Adventure series. I remember one that scared me is that you're the main character in a middle school that every student and staff are zombies.

 

[The Joker]

THere's another story similar to Goosebumps called "Choose Your Own Nightmares" a spin-off series of Choose Your Own Adventure series. I remember one that scared me is that you're the main character in a middle school that every student and staff are zombies.

If Chris read those and imagined the main characters as those from sonic the hedgehog he would get upset if anything bad happened to them. After all, when he was in middle school kids would tell him that Sonic was dead and he would freak out.

There used to be a series called Spooksville or something like that, that was more simplified than goosebumps was and easier to read. My grandma gave them to me in the second grade and even I found them stupid.
Now the Michigan and American Chillers series were cool when I was in elementary school. I doubt he read any of those though.

 

[The Fair Lady]

If Chris read those and imagined the main characters as those from sonic the hedgehog he would get upset if anything bad happened to them. After all, when he was in middle school kids would tell him that Sonic was dead and he would freak out.

He'd pull one of these. (Sorry about the quality, it's the only clip I could find.)
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[DrChristianTroy]

THere's another story similar to Goosebumps called "Choose Your Own Nightmares" a spin-off series of Choose Your Own Adventure series. I remember one that scared me is that you're the main character in a middle school that every student and staff are zombies.

If Chris read those and imagined the main characters as those from sonic the hedgehog he would get upset if anything bad happened to them. After all, when he was in middle school kids would tell him that Sonic was dead and he would freak out.

Honestly I'd be crazy curious to see how Chris reacts to a Choose Your Own Adventure book like that. As mentioned he has a tough time visualizing characters and whatever happens would be on him. I'm sure he'd spin at as not his fault but he would, by all means, dooming Sonic or Sonichu or whoever he chose. Obviously something we'll never know but I think it'd make for an interesting experiment.

Of course since it's Chris that means I'll be disappointed.

 

[Dr.Research]

I wonder if he liked "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"

Doubt it. "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" was pretty intense for a kid show and would probably give our adult, autistic child prickly-wicklies and .

I'm not autistic but I was young when that show was on and it gave me the prickly-wicklies


Anyone ever read Deep Trouble? Hey! It's a shark- wait no it's not.

 

[A-Stump]

You just summed up the entirety of Goosebumps.

It's a ghost! No, it's the protagonists little brother.

It's a werewolf! No, it's a friendly stray dog.

It's a mud monster! No, it's just people dressed up as mud monsters. Oh wait, they actually are mud monsters! What a twist!

 

[Bridechu]

Anyone old enough to remember the Bailey Street School series? It was pretty much Goosebumps for five-year-olds, and it was my favourite series when I was that age. It always revolved around trying to prove something/something weird wasn't paranormal, but they usually ended up actually being fantasy creatures but often were misunderstood (the teacher was a vampire but she's actually pretty cool, the Loch Ness monster is just trying to get back to the ocean, the time-travelling knight wanted to live a peaceful life as a pianist). I remember them being pretty cool for the time when most kids' books were about listening to your parents and what that fucker Spot was up to.

 

[MysticMisty]

I wonder if he liked "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"

Doubt it. "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" was pretty intense for a kid show and would probably give our adult, autistic child prickly-wicklies and .

I'm not autistic but I was young when that show was on and it gave me the prickly-wicklies


Anyone ever read Deep Trouble? Hey! It's a shark- wait no it's not.

That was one of the few I read. I thought it was really lame and kept wondering when the "scary" part would come (little did I know I had already passed it ages ago), which is probably why I never got into the series.

 

[JeffGoldblumIRL]

That was one of the few I read. I thought it was really lame and kept wondering when the "scary" part would come (little did I know I had already passed it ages ago), which is probably why I never got into the series.

I've continued to watch Goosebumps on Netflix with one of my roommates and she and I keep scratching our heads at the glaring plot holes rather than enjoying any kind of narrative the series has. In "A Night in Terror Tower" these two kids get locked in a former medieval torture chamber revived as a tourist trap. So, basically in the end they find out they're the two prisoners from the cell who were ordered for execution and then "vanished" (because the wizard sent them to the future to save them). So there's this guy in a stupid hat following them around, the executioner, and he managed to travel forward in the future as well... but like, his plan to hunt these two people down was to pose as a wax figure in a tourist destination and just HOPE these two kids show up one day? It makes absolutely no sense at all. The girl has this camera and they make it a huge plot point in the beginning, pointing it out and whatnot, and then when she loses it you think it's important or something but instead she just does this anemic attempt to get it back and gives up after 10 seconds. And these kids... they had "parents" in this future life of theirs and these parents suddenly just vanish and then their identities are lost to amnesia. So, like... people don't recognize the kids anymore but this taxi driver does because they owe him money so he chases them and... ugh.

Goddamn it, R. L. Stine.

 

[FatNero]

That was one of the few I read. I thought it was really lame and kept wondering when the "scary" part would come (little did I know I had already passed it ages ago), which is probably why I never got into the series.

I've continued to watch Goosebumps on Netflix with one of my roommates and she and I keep scratching our heads at the glaring plot holes rather than enjoying any kind of narrative the series has. In "A Night in Terror Tower" these two kids get locked in a former medieval torture chamber revived as a tourist trap. So, basically in the end they find out they're the two prisoners from the cell who were ordered for execution and then "vanished" (because the wizard sent them to the future to save them). So there's this guy in a stupid hat following them around, the executioner, and he managed to travel forward in the future as well... but like, his plan to hunt these two people down was to pose as a wax figure in a tourist destination and just HOPE these two kids show up one day? It makes absolutely no sense at all. The girl has this camera and they make it a huge plot point in the beginning, pointing it out and whatnot, and then when she loses it you think it's important or something but instead she just does this anemic attempt to get it back and gives up after 10 seconds. And these kids... they had "parents" in this future life of theirs and these parents suddenly just vanish and then their identities are lost to amnesia. So, like... people don't recognize the kids anymore but this taxi driver does because they owe him money so he chases them and... ugh.

Goddamn it, R. L. Stine.

The man is a millionaire.

Such a hero of mine.

 

[DrChristianTroy]

That was one of the few I read. I thought it was really lame and kept wondering when the "scary" part would come (little did I know I had already passed it ages ago), which is probably why I never got into the series.

I've continued to watch Goosebumps on Netflix with one of my roommates and she and I keep scratching our heads at the glaring plot holes rather than enjoying any kind of narrative the series has. In "A Night in Terror Tower" these two kids get locked in a former medieval torture chamber revived as a tourist trap. So, basically in the end they find out they're the two prisoners from the cell who were ordered for execution and then "vanished" (because the wizard sent them to the future to save them). So there's this guy in a stupid hat following them around, the executioner, and he managed to travel forward in the future as well... but like, his plan to hunt these two people down was to pose as a wax figure in a tourist destination and just HOPE these two kids show up one day? It makes absolutely no sense at all. The girl has this camera and they make it a huge plot point in the beginning, pointing it out and whatnot, and then when she loses it you think it's important or something but instead she just does this anemic attempt to get it back and gives up after 10 seconds. And these kids... they had "parents" in this future life of theirs and these parents suddenly just vanish and then their identities are lost to amnesia. So, like... people don't recognize the kids anymore but this taxi driver does because they owe him money so he chases them and... ugh.

Goddamn it, R. L. Stine.

This is amazing in its stupidity. Just... Bravo.

 

[MysticMisty]

I've seen one episode of the TV series in my life and it was an embarrassing experience. My 8th grade science teacher showed it to us in order to test that we've been paying attention in class because the goal was to write down everything scientifically wrong with the episode. The plot was these kid's dad accidentally creates an evil half-man half-plant clone of himself that locks the real dad in a closet downstairs and then begins to grow all of these eeeeeeevil plants while impersonating the dad. I seriously felt embarrassed to be watching it (I would've been 14 by then). The only thing that was more embarrassing was watching a Winnie the Pooh bus safety video in the middle of 4th grade.

 

[A-Stump]

I've seen one episode of the TV series in my life and it was an embarrassing experience. My 8th grade science teacher showed it to us in order to test that we've been paying attention in class because the goal was to write down everything scientifically wrong with the episode. The plot was these kid's dad accidentally creates an evil half-man half-plant clone of himself that locks the real dad in a closet downstairs and then begins to grow all of these eeeeeeevil plants while impersonating the dad. I seriously felt embarrassed to be watching it (I would've been 14 by then). The only thing that was more embarrassing was watching a Winnie the Pooh bus safety video in the middle of 4th grade.

Our sexual education material included a slide reel of a talking sperm cell with a top hat, replete with audio that had to be played from a giant blocky tape on a machine which looked like it came out of a museum. This was in middle school. So I see I'm not alone with crazy media in school

 

[JeffGoldblumIRL]

I've seen one episode of the TV series in my life and it was an embarrassing experience. My 8th grade science teacher showed it to us in order to test that we've been paying attention in class because the goal was to write down everything scientifically wrong with the episode. The plot was these kid's dad accidentally creates an evil half-man half-plant clone of himself that locks the real dad in a closet downstairs and then begins to grow all of these eeeeeeevil plants while impersonating the dad. I seriously felt embarrassed to be watching it (I would've been 14 by then). The only thing that was more embarrassing was watching a Winnie the Pooh bus safety video in the middle of 4th grade.

That was "Stay Out of the Basement" and a good friend of mine cites it as one of his inspirations for the niche genre of erotica that he writes.

Weird individual. Normally I'd knock him for it but he has a fairly respectable following so I guess there are other crazy people out there and he does a good job catering to them. I read Stay out of the Basement in third grade or so and I remember the "twist ending" being pretty dumb; then again I've done nothing but deconstruct and complain about Goosebumps in this thread so I guess that is to be expected from me.