Chris and Goosebumps

[Kosher Dill]

Our sexual education material included a slide reel of a talking sperm cell with a top hat

They played you "Sonichu The Animated Series" in sex ed?

 

[Princess Robee]

Another one I remember, I think from the same book, involved a kid torturing some ants in an ant farm, some time later he returns to find they have spelled the word "HATE" with their tunnels and take their proper revenge some time afterward. All the stories in the book had endings that were unusually dark for a kiddie horror anthology; the ghosts/demons/etc. usually won, the heroes usually died.

I actually remember that story! I'm sorry to say that I can't recall the title of the book. I want to say the author was Bruce Coville, who I read a lot as a child, but I could be wrong.

I never read the Goosebumps books, although I recall them being popular when I was in elementary school. I did read the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books, which I did enjoy. I also remember one book (which I still have) called The Very Scary Almanac. It was non-fiction and had all these facts about monsters, classic horror stories, and real world "magicians". It was where I first found out about Call of Cthulhu, Alister Crowley, and Ed Gein.

 

[Count groudon]

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

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Something like this

 

[DrChristianTroy]

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.

Why are you not posting about this dude in the lolcow forum? Also this reminded me of something I saw on a website (Topless Robot? io9?) mentioning that a Bigfoot erotica series is up to chapter 16.

The internet be cray.

 

[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.

Why are you not posting about this dude in the lolcow forum? Also this reminded me of something I saw on a website (Topless Robot? io9?) mentioning that a Bigfoot erotica series is up to chapter 16.

The internet be cray.

Because despite the fact that he gets off on weird stuff like alien plants or whatever he's a really level-headed person. Makes six figures a year, keeps a clean house, has social skills and is genuinely fun to be around, etc. The only pock mark I can pin on him is the fact that Goosebumps inspired him to write for a very peculiar niche audience, and I'm not willing to trash someone solely based upon sexual preferences and/or kinks, especially not someone I've known for two decades. I brought it up mostly to demonstrate that Goosebumps brings out the weirdest traits in some people and I won't lie to you, being inspired to write porn based upon plotlines from a Goosebumps book is pretty goddamned weird.

 

[AbbaZabba]

The last time I read goosebumps was probably when i was in 3rd or 4th grade, so around 2005? (My older brothers had probably around 75 of them, gave them to our cousin last year)
there was this one horror anthology I remember from elementary school though, the only story i can remember is about some girl who can't be touch the moonlight or the moon spirit will take her away
the book was pretty spooky at the time

 

[DStecks]

The covers were always so much better than the actual content. Like, even at 10, I knew they were fucking stupid books. And I had pretty terrible taste at 10.