Goosebumps

Cuttooth wrote:They were probably all pretty bad and horribly clichéd but seven year old me loved them to bits. I think the first one I read was the first Say Cheese And Die and I have about a dozen more, with one of those Give Yourself Goosebumps ones that was a real bitch to "win".

I always cheated at those anyway. The only one I can vaguely remember from that series was the funfair one. I think I had the first three, but then I went back to the original books as I was too lazy to make up my own story.

Just watched a couple of episodes on YouTube; The Ghost Next Door & Piano Lessons Can Be Murder.

The latter was pretty terrible.

I just remembered.

I never read a Goosebumps book before reading the last page first.

I remember reading some of the Goosebumps books, but I didn't have that many of them. I don't remember being scared by them either, but they were fun to read though. I vaguely remember the TV series as well and that was okay.

I loved the Monster Blood ones, the tin on the book looked really awesome and I used to pretend to make some. I don't think they were scary at all I read them as a kid and pretended I was part of the adventure but I was terrified of horror films and still am now!

Night of the living dummy scared me for weeks on end. I refused to go near those books after I read that.

Turok wrote:

My Human Gets Me Blues wrote:

Turok wrote:I think the last one was #4 of a mini-series, something to do with a monstrous jelly or something, before they passed to the 2000 series, which I never got into.

That'd be the last of the Monster Blood books.

The 2000 series was pretty bad wasn't it?

To tell the truth right about then was when I'd grown sick of Goosebumps, and was considering myself a big boy finally (despite buying Lego Star Wars sets a few years later) so I don't really know as I never actually read any. What was different about them?

The stories just weren't as good and seemed to be rehashes. The evil twin one had a messed up cover though.

Are You Afraid of the Dark? > Goosebumps.

Skarjo wrote:Are You Afraid of the Dark? > Goosebumps.

Indeed. They changed the cast of AYAOTD though and made it rubbish.

They were pretty good, yeah. I had a book where you pressed a button on the front and the cover lit up and made sounds.

I bought 5 of these for £1 today.

How cool am I?

I remember a choose your own book with a picture of a chimpanzee on the front. I don't think I ever won that one.

Read a few when I was a kid and loved 'em. The only one I remember was about this evil sponge that these kids found in their house, when they moved in. It thrived off being insulted, or something, and was only defeated by complimenting it.. Sounds odd thinking about it.

Anyone know the name of that one?

Edit - I realise I could probably find out with a Google search but I can't be arsed, I'm off to bed.

jamcc wrote:Read a few when I was a kid and loved 'em. The only one I remember was about this evil sponge that these kids found in their house, when they moved in. It thrived off being insulted, or something, and was only defeated by complimenting it.. Sounds odd thinking about it.

Anyone know the name of that one?

It came from beneath the sink or something?

Memento Mori wrote:

jamcc wrote:Read a few when I was a kid and loved 'em. The only one I remember was about this evil sponge that these kids found in their house, when they moved in. It thrived off being insulted, or something, and was only defeated by complimenting it.. Sounds odd thinking about it.

Anyone know the name of that one?

It came from beneath the sink or something?

Spot on.

God bless.....THE POWER OF LOVE.

Skarjo wrote:

Memento Mori wrote:

jamcc wrote:Read a few when I was a kid and loved 'em. The only one I remember was about this evil sponge that these kids found in their house, when they moved in. It thrived off being insulted, or something, and was only defeated by complimenting it.. Sounds odd thinking about it.

Anyone know the name of that one?

It came from beneath the sink or something?

Spot on.

God bless.....THE POWER OF LOVE.

Am I right in thinking the end of that book had an evil potato?

Memento Mori wrote:

Skarjo wrote:

Memento Mori wrote:

jamcc wrote:Read a few when I was a kid and loved 'em. The only one I remember was about this evil sponge that these kids found in their house, when they moved in. It thrived off being insulted, or something, and was only defeated by complimenting it.. Sounds odd thinking about it.

Anyone know the name of that one?

It came from beneath the sink or something?

Spot on.

God bless.....THE POWER OF LOVE.

Am I right in thinking the end of that book had an evil potato?

Christ, now you're pushing it! Possibly, sounds about right.

Skarjo wrote:

Memento Mori wrote:

Skarjo wrote:

Memento Mori wrote:

jamcc wrote:Read a few when I was a kid and loved 'em. The only one I remember was about this evil sponge that these kids found in their house, when they moved in. It thrived off being insulted, or something, and was only defeated by complimenting it.. Sounds odd thinking about it.

Anyone know the name of that one?

It came from beneath the sink or something?

Spot on.

God bless.....THE POWER OF LOVE.

Am I right in thinking the end of that book had an evil potato?

Christ, now you're pushing it! Possibly, sounds about right.

Wikipedia says I'm right.
I'm quite disappointed with myself that I knew that.