my favorite dumb goosebumps plot twist is the one where theses siblings are being chased by a vampire, but then it turns out that the vampire was actually their grandpa, and that they're vampires too, and then the kids get coffin bunk beds for their birthday

The twist in the book version of My Best Friend is Invisible was way way better. Turns out the protagonist and his friends and family had always been very obviously freakish monsters, but you never got a decent description of them as the book went on. So when they flash the light on him, the characters are all "how do you keep yourself warm with only 2 arms?" And "How do you see anything with only two eyes?" Shit fucked with me.

“There ain’t no phones in horrorland, idiot!” *has a huge studio filled with camera equipment*

*Nyx Fears:* You can't show a child David Cronenberg's The Fly *1980s Network Television:* We will play R-rated horror movies on Saturday afternoon until we have traumatized every last child in America

Slappy has always been scarier to me than Chucky. When you're a kid one of the worst fears ever is having your parents be turned against you, which Slappy always did gleefully. So awful.

The BLEACHED WHITE, PERFECTLY INTACT CHIHUAHUA SKELETON! Gets me every time.

may, i think you’re underestimating how homoerotic some stephen king stories can get.

The most creept out I ever was from Gossebumps was from a "choose your own Adventure" Book my Sister read to me. I got to chose and I always choose the savest Options and after a few pages I endet up with something like: You stayed, you didn't leave your home, you stayed with your Parents this Night. In fact, you will never leave your parents House. Ever. You will never expirience anything in your live.

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The Cuckoo Clock Doom was my favourite Goosebumps book. As a kid, it was so exciting to read about how everybody ages backwards. Lol.

I always really liked Calling All Creeps as a kid because the idea of getting to both become popular and become a lizard monster just seemed like a win-win for me.

If I remember correctly, the original Night of the Living Dummy wasnt adapted because it was "too scary" for the show. It was either that, or they didnt have the budget.

Literally cannot think of someone more deserving to do a deep dive into Goosebumps than May

"Bow tie science father" lmao I can't

2 things about the blob episode: 1. So it’s about a kid accidentally writing a blob that eats everyone? Did this come out before or after the slime episode of Ghost Writer? Did all kids shows just copy each other? 2. There actually is an episode that mimics The Blob franchise and takes place on an airplane as everyone slowly gets eaten, it’s called More Monster Blood.

My "favorite" episode of the show is "Welcome to Camp Nightmare." It's a two parter and I honestly don't know why. Most of the episode is kids at a summer camp getting slowly picked off by a beast monster in the woods. For some reason the counselors don't care and are covering it up. Anyway, SPOILERS, . Seriously, you won't see this nonsense coming . . . the monster is a robot and the entire summer camp was a test for the protagonist to see if he could go with his parents who are spies. Then, it turns out they're also aliens who are going to infiltrate Earth. That's right TWO wtf twists in the last 5 minutes!

Goosebumps is just so good I'm scared to go back to watch it cause I don't wanna ruin it with my jaded adult lense.

My favorite was Werewolf of Fever Swamp. And by that I mean it literally gave me nightmares for weeks.

I read like the grand total of two Goosebumps books as a kid, which I had forgot about until now, and they managed to be a formative part of my childhood - mostly because I read the endings over and over again to get my dose of supernatural. I looked up the titles so any of y'all can take a look lol The Werewolf of Fever Swamp was rad, they spent the whole book trying to like fight the werewolf, and the main character gets bitten in the climax and inherits the curse, becoming the new werewolf, but it's okay because they patrol the swamp to keep everyone safe etc. I loved this because... I guess I wanted to be a werewolf. Better than regular school and kid stuff. The other one is The Ghost Next Door - I read the whole book much more than the Werewolf one. The whole story is framed as the main character kid going about their day, but they have new neighbours that act weird towards them. Main character becomes convinced that neighbours are ghosts, there's rumours about ghosts circulating etc, but they still try and be friends? Shenanigans happen. The big climax comes when the next door house gets set on FIRE (by accident), and as the main character goes to rescue their friend, they realise THEY'RE THE GHOST. THEIR FAMILY DIED LIKE THREE YEARS AGO IN A HOUSE FIRE AND THEY'VE BEEN IN DENIAL ABOUT THEIR DEATH???? So they rescue their friend and their family from the fire and pass on into the afterlife???? I FUCKIN LOVE GHOSTS SO THIS WAS MY JAM AS A KID. Also in looking up the titles on Wikipedia, there is a Night of the Living Dummy 1 book, it just might not have been made into TV.

Basically the only media I consume anymore are like 5 different podcast where 35-year-olds review Goosebumps, so needless to say this video is very in my wheelhouse.

My favorite episode of goosebumps is the FMV game Escape from Horrorland, feature an all star cast including Jeff Goldblum as Dracula and with sequences directed by Steven Spielberg nothing I just said is a joke.

Ear of Holyfield? As in, when Mike Tyson bit off part of Evander Holyfield's ear??

“We won’t hurt you Brent 👁👄👁”

I adored hearing Cindy step on the piano key in the background! 😂🥰😍 Also, your joy and enthusiasm throughout this video was the exact medicine that I needed! Thank you for you and Azrael’s excitement and happiness! Love our gorgeous goth moms! 💜🖤💜🖤💜 Also, I know I’m going to be saying “Ghost binch! Ghost beach!” 👻 🏖

“I wanna get drunk with nyx fears and talk about goosebumps” should be a shirt because i feel so strongly about it

That mask episode genuinely kept me from wearing mask until like, recent years. That shit made me feel so claustrophobic. 😭😭😭

I still have the Goosebumps book (Monster Edition 1) on the book shelves. I read it up back in the day and it's pretty brutal compared to the 90s TV show. Why brutal? Since the book and the show have differences, our minds are limited by imagination and painted the disturbing image through text. I remember that one scene in _Stay Out of the Basement_ where the father of Margaret and Casey, a mad botanist, chopped his own clone with an axe and covered with green blood. Man! You never see that coming in the children's book and it's awesome.

Surprised you didn't mention the Werewolf of Fever Swamp, the only 100% homosexual entry in the series. Oh also the Beast of the East, a.k.a. the absolute dumbest one because it's just literally tag with several albino bigfoots.

The shittiness of a lot of the effects in the TV series, like the very first one you showed us in this video, paradoxically made a lot of them a lot scarier by adding an extra layer of uncanniness to them.

I just realized The Haunted Mask is probably what inspired me to be very picky about choosing masks, like, only the ones I'd be okay with if they were my face

Ooooh, the nostalgia. What always gets me is how, before he became the King of Kiddy Horror, R.L. Stine was best known for creating a humour magazine and a few joke books for kids under the name "Jovial" Bob Stine.

Goddamn May, I can't believe how much fun you're having in this video. Keep it up! Keep being happy!

i've watched this video like 10 times this halloween season because it's the perfect combination of everything. also, it's unrelated, but you have the best opening out of any youtuber out there and it makes me feel like a kid tuning into my favorite after school special.

I really thought you were joking when you said the twist in the scarecrow episode was the combine coming to life my man RL is a genius

The chaotic drunk energy of this video is off the charts. I imagine it mirrors the experience of watching Goosebumps episodes very well

When I was a kid there wasn't Goosebumps on the TV, but there was a very similar show - Are You Afraid of the Dark. It also had a bunch of weird episodes, that at the time seemed terrifying. Maybe you can talk about it on the next video if you haven't already.

One of the few goosebumps episodes I remember watching as a kid was werewolf skin, and what really spooked me about it was the idea that you're living secluded out in the woods right next to a bloodthirsty monster which is strong enough to rip through solid iron. Not only that but also the whole time you don't know what's real or a dream and the people you're living with are gaslighting the shit out of you. I dunno it was just a very spoopy episode.

Binch thank you for this! I laughed, I cried, I relived childhood Goosebumps-related trauma. Although I gotta say as a child I was more of a Fear Street book gal ;) Please do a video on "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" !! xx

one day in horrorland etched itself into my child brain, ESPECIALLY the ending. I still remember it ending on a monster version of a love song cd infomercial, which was HILARIOUS but also extremely weird to have as a follow up to a family having literally just died.

Sometimes I see that you’ve uploaded and I can’t help but feel cradled by some otherworldly mother of the darkness. Thanks! :D 🖤🖤🖤

"one time when i was outside, i saw a vampire" *runs outside*

"what do you think of that, charlie?" charlie: 👁️👃👁️ 👄

Goosebumps episode 1: “ W h a t ‘ s a h o r r o r ????”

so in conclusion: goosebumps , very camp, we staaaannnn

When I was much too young for Goosebumps, my mom let me rent one of the tapes from the library and it hecked me up. I don't remember which one it was, but I still kinda have like a wince reaction even though listening to what actually happens in these just makes them seem silly.

I remember in elementary school around Halloween we would get to watch Goosebumps in school, and The Haunted Mask and Night in Terror Tower were always on the menu. Good times. [e] I also seem to remember one about someone’s dad growing sentient plants in their basement and having some pretty extreme body horror? Iconic.

I swear to god, May’s videos provide me with the serotonin boosts I never know I need in quarantine 💕

I cannot tell you how happy I am to have discovered your channel yesterday. Your videos truly got me through my entire work day 💛

I’m gonna be honest, I thought this was a show from the mid 2000s because it was on Cartoon Network at the time.

In these unpredictable times, there's always something batshit crazy I can rely on to cheer me up! Thanks so much!

Goosebumps was a formative part of my childhood and what kick-started my interest in horror. I used to loan the books from my local library as a kid just to marvel at the cover art. Thank you for the nostalgia trip, you're awesome, May :)

One of my favorites was 'The Shocker on Shock Street'. I love the concept of interactive rides, so the story being about a 'malfunctioning shooting ride' based on a 'popular series' in the story's universe really brought me in at first. Around the middle I got a bit bored and forgot some of the things, but the twist at the end will always stick with me. The protags are androids, made to replicate the scientist's lost kids, and this was to test their human-like thought processes and such!

May, you're killing it with your content lately. I've been watching your stuff for several years and contributing to your patreon for a couple of those years-- you seem so passionate and bubbly these days and it's awesome to see. The humor, writing and energy in your videos are all better than ever, plus you're serving gorgeous witchy lewks while you're at it. 💜🖤💚

I'm so unbelievably happy you decided to talk about goosebumps. Goosebumps was such a huge inspiration to me growing up. Its what I cut my teeth on, and it's kind of like mental comfort food to me now. I know the TV show was... well, it was cheesey as hell. And a lot of the books were too. But I still absolutely love it. Also, I don't know if anyone has mentioned this already, but the reason it had to start with Night of the Living Dummy II was that the first one couldn't be adapted very well without cutting out a lot of stuff. Like, in the book, Slappy shit talks EVERYONE and projectile vomits on a crowd of people. So, I guess they just thought it was going to be too intense for kids. At least, that's what I'd heard.

I actually love Calling All Creeps, but that might just be because it was my first Goosebumps book, and it kind of got me into horror... and now I'm a genderless gay, thanks R.L. Stine!

“Send willies up your spine...” ooh, May is doing ASMR now!

Awesome Ants is an episode that lives with me to this day. I am not good at horror, but I don't know why "Ants but big" is the only thing that haunts me still.

FINALLY SOMEONE WHO TALKS ABOUT CALLING ALL CREEPS NOBODY REMEMBERS IT OR EVEN TALKS ABOUT IT UGH

I haven't watched them back at all but I remember there being one where ants start like taking over or something and it really creeped me out as a kid despite the fact that bugs never bothered me at all and I used to make houses for the ants in the garden our of twigs and leaves

R.L. Stine looks like he's been dead for a couple of years

"I can't jerry, I'm scared" I love that fucking delivery xD

'All gifted and talented children are gay' I FEEL THAT. I was the weird kid who'd get told off in class for reading manga while the teacher was talking because I already understood what the task was.

"You can't show a child David Cronenbergs the Fly" lmaooooooo tell that to my parents. Tbf I fucking loved the fly then and now and it still makes my skin crawl. Love the content keep it up

Your production values are incredible, May! I applaud you :)

>you can't show a child David Cronenberg's The Fly *raises hand* I saw it as a child and enjoyed it...despite it scaring me at parts.

The goat episode is “Stay out of the basement”

Ive had many inside jokes with different groups of friends throughout my life from goosebumps episodes. The first was “thats just bonkers” and the last one was “ the names larry”

As a good young moderately sheltered christian boy i stumbled upon the episode about giant ants while browsing public access tv late at night and was never quite the same.

I’ve been having a hard couple weeks and your videos have helped me a lot. Thank you!

God I'm always in for a treat with your intros.

So nostalgic! And, you make a 45 minute video feel like 15 - so entertaining.

The GHOOOOOOOST BEEEEACH - I literally made a friend during a livestream over jokes from JonTron's review from years ago.

They didn't show a lot of goosebumps in my country but I remember watching one episode in which a guy accidentally fed some bugs the wrong food, making them enormous, and it completely traumatised me

I'm so glad you have taken a break from pee pee poo poo movies

Hi May, I recently discovered your channel (subbed after one video btw). I just wanted to say that I've really been enjoying your videos. Your perspective on some of these films is very different from my own but at the same time I see a lot similarities to how you approach the fundamentals of this awesome genre. You've definitely given me a few new ways of thinking about these movies. Keep up the excellent work!

Ok but I vividly remember those 3 episodes about Karlsville. It was a little miniature display down where it like sucked in kids. One girl had a lemonade stand and was swindling people out of their money and they deadass turned her into a pig. Another got chased by a baseball with teeth. And the other almost got turned into a plastic doll like that scared me-

I'm just glad you've cleansed your brain and eyes for a bit tbh. Much love.

I remember watching the episode of the original Goosebumps show that made me laugh really hard (it was the horrorland episode when the weird horror with the Spanish accent said "Geeet out! while u still can"!) Great vid!

You are as extra entertaining as expected while buzzing and it’s perfect for this video!😵‍💫🎃

Okay but have you heard of The Nightmare Room? The Nightmare Room was another short-lived book series also by Stine. While Ghosebumps was more just to be spoopy, Nightmare Room was supposed to be more Twilight Zone-y and eventually got its own network adaptation on Kids WB. It had a heckload of child stars (including even younger Sprouses, Shia LeBeouf, and Drake Bell) had adult stars like John C. McGinley and Robert Englund (yes, that Englund, Freddy Kreuger) and was narrated by Uncle Phil/Shredder himself James Avery. It's probably super hard to track down but it's amazing just how much star power it had.

Goosebumps was gateway drug to R-rated horror. Also, R.L. Stine has some books coming out in August, based on The Garbage Pail Kids.

i miss rimmington, I am glad i get to see more of your content Nyx! wonderful as always!

one minute in and i'm loving this 😭 may's voice and countenance are so soothing, lov u witch mom

knight in terror tower is one of the episodes i think about the most!!! the twist in that one STUCK

May, you're like a KZfaq version of Elvira and both of you are iconic

Ain't no phones in Horrorland. So much for calling Ghostbusters then. 👻

I'm dying over the Ear of Holyfield joke!! I can't believe I never caught it before! 🤣🤣🤣

This is my favorite video yet! Great job May!

That’s it, you are just too damn enjoyable. I now support you on Patreon.

15 minutes in and you're just listing my favourite episodes. Love it.

I didnt grow up with goosebumps so i rly enjoy listening to other people talk about the series.This video was so fun and the lighting is AMAZING! Also for people who are into childrens horror that,like goosebumps, is bad but fun, may i suggest Creeped Out? Its on netflix. A lot of the episodes are kind of like ooOOOOo technology!! Scary!! Bad!! But if u can overlook that, theyre really fun to watch. Theres a baby in one of the episodes that legit creeped me out despite the hilarious and unrealistic cgi. Youll know what i mean when you see it.

I love The Haunted Mask! It twisted me up as a small child and as an adult I can appreciate that it did so because of its strangely mature themes of disassociation and self-loathing. I can't forget to mention that the mask itself and the prosthetics work that the makeup team did are utterly chilling. Body Horror for kids!

youre my new fav youtuber, so glad i found your vids :3

i'm gonna be 20 this year and i have a very distinct and hilarious memory of being horrified of this show. one halloween, my recreation center showed it and i was so terrified that i leaned on the walls and curled in a ball for most of it.

I'd love to see a video like this on are you afraid of the dark. The little boy saying "I'm cold" in tale of the frozen ghost still haunts my memories

i'm not even ten minutes in and may has already been too iconic for words sdkjfhadksljfh also that girl who's like "WHAT'S A HORROR??!?!" i screamed

Stay Out of the Basement, The Haunted Mask 2, aaaand that Camp Nightmare one! Those are all good. But PLEASE do one on Are You Afraid of the Dark! I’ll help you do it but there’s so many May! Soooo many!

I always loved goosebumps and honestly, the only time in my life I couldn't sleep after watching something, it was Haunted Mask, still think about it a lot. Would love to see you talking about Are You Afraid of the Dark as well!

IIRC, they never adapted the first Night of the Living Dummy because the original book reads more like a rough draft for the sequel. Slappy is in it but he isn't the antagonist, the actual antagonist dummy pulls less interesting pranks and is much more crude and violent, and it ends with him getting crushed by a steamroller. The driver of said steamroller also freaks out afterwards because he thinks he hit a kid. It isn't a particularly good read, even by the standards of Goosebumps, and the sequel is the same basic story but with much better execution.

If you can get footage of RL Stien's the Haunting Hour, that show had even scarier, weirder & stupider episodes. Like Goosebumps on hard mode. Including the one that is a legitimately terrifying rapture scenario, including of course, scarecrow magic