Fun fact: According to R.L. Stine's autobiography, the crew was going to use a rubber worm in the scene where Carly Beth bites into the sandwich, but Kathryn Long insisted on eating a real worm to make it realistic. He later revealed it took twelve attempts with a new worm each time.
He actually doesnt hate kids, he wrote horror stories for kids because his wife and boss suggested to because it was an open market and actually was hesitant to doing so because he was worried about scaring them. He said he hated kids as a joke :)
@@staggbones I heard the true is somewhat in between. He is instinctually protective of some kids, but has no backbone and is too success driven. But on the other hand he really hates some kids and wants to traumatize them, especially if they are french.
@@j.s.t.6515 He's talked about how much he genuinely loves working on Goosebumps and that he doesn't particularly care for what money may come out of it, which is why Goosebumps is and always has been one of the cheaper books you could buy. He's 79 years old, he's got more than enough money and success to retire, he does what he does out of love for his series. He's actually said that he's incredibly grateful for the kids that read his stuff because without them, he wouldn't get to work on Goosebumps as much as he'd like. The jokes about traumatizing kids happen because of the over reactive parents making claims that Goosebumps traumatized their kids, and how adults today say that Goosebumps really scared them as children. Rl stine has a very specific sense of dry humor, but that's what it is. He originally started out writing comedy before switching to horror, so his specialty is dry humor, so a lot of jokes come out sounding flat.
Fun fact: the actor of Carly Beth in the Haunted Mask actually bit into a worm for the episode---and what sucks is she had to redo that act multiple times, but she insisted on biting into a real worm for the scene to make it as realistic as possible
In my opinion, the most underrated Goosebumps story is the one about the Cuckoo clock that rapidly reverses the main character's life to the point where he almost ceases to exist. The concept is just so unique and freaky to me. At one point, he straight up just becomes a baby and has to go take on the clock in baby form and it's just so much fun. Yes, his little sister is an absolute unlikeable shithead, and her presence at the start brings the episode down a bit, but that's really all you see of her. Plus she ceases to exist in the end, almost like some form of karma, which is an extremely harsh punishment for some bratty kid but I thought it was fucking hilarious
She is even worse in the books being a little psychopath who learned how to manipulate full grown adults into preferring her and making her brother the scapegoat for literally everything she has ever done wrong and she is 6 at the time and shows no remorse or love for anything. People point out how bad she would have been as she got older and how it's scary she was so smart and cruel at such a young age so it is understandable why her brother (who is also quite young) wouldn't want to save her just yet especially since he would have to risk his own existence for a near impossible task at best just to bring back a thankless demon of a little sibling.
Excerpt from my favorite goosebumps novel, I Live In Your Basement: His glistening, wet insides poured out of his mouth. Yellow organs clung to the pink flesh. His purple heart plopped out from between his teeth, pulsing inside a thick web of blue ropelike veins. I stared in horror, watching him turn inside out. Then I started to scream. And Keith opened his mouth-teeth on the outside-and he screamed too.
The Werewolf of Fever Swamp scared the ever living shit out of me as a kid. The entire atmosphere and tone were so eerie, definitely made me feel a sense of dread the entire time. Plus, like you said, the sound effects were top-notch for Goosebumps standards
Was just going to comment this same thing. There were a couple episodes that stuck with me, but this one was always my favorite. The atmosphere was so well-done, they really made the swamp look otherworldly and dangerous, and made you wonder what else has happened in there. Plus, the horror scenes were pretty legit for a kids’ show. The scene where the werewolf chases the sister and her and the mom end up trapped in the shed was intense, even rewatching it as an adult.
While it didn't scare me perse, when the hermit gets killed I genuinely felt a pit in my stomach as it was the first time in watching Goosebumps that I knew a human died and the tone of the scene added to that. It's one of those things where something dramatic happening in something made for kids feels worse than watching anyone die in media made for older viewers. There's a Rugrats episode that freaked me out with the monster under the bed dragging the kid under and into blackness after offering him cake. Very It like and it was in fucking Rugrats!
It was awesome, amazing atmosphere and camera work. I hope the new tv series goes with the eerie mood and atmosphere. It’ll probably be a lame comedy but
Not gunna lie I still have a vivid memory from my childhood of fear of seeing a pig headed person look though my kitchen window because of goosebumps lol
Fun thing about Werewolf of Fever Swamp, in the book the twist which is hinted at in the show but I guess never actually explained if you’re recollection is correct, is that during the fight with the werewolf, protagonist boy gets hit right before his dog shows up and finishes him off. So the boy becomes the new Werewolf of Fever Swamp, and goes out running into the wilderness with the dog as the story ends.
The shot where the werewolf skull still rises out of the muck, half transformed between a human skull and a wolfs is still such striking imagery to me for a children’s show. It’s honestly a shot that would be awesome in a adult horror movie.
This is a moment of my childhood where I believe the books were better. It's not like they had a whole lot in the budget for the shows and my imagination made a lot of the monsters a lot scarier in my head.
The Goosbumps book that scared me the most as a kid was "It Came From Under The Sink" The evil sponge monster. Edit: hey everybody! Been really enjoying this conversation. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one traumatized. In all due respect though, it was a great, though simple, monster design.
@Verasoul I know! The episode was soooo goofy! But man, the book was _actually_ horrifying. It was written with the futility against the strange and unknown of a cosmic horror.
A part that still sticks with me because it's gross is when the sponge starts getting smooched on by the main girl once they realize being nice is what hurts the sponge.
I read about 150 of the books as an elementary schooler, and they’ve impacted my love of the surreal and the morbid more than anything else. I remember every book, or at least snapshots of every book
@@manhathaway I think it was called attack of the graveyard gouls, that one was one of my favorites, had to do with spirits and body hopping/possession
The movie Clown produced by Eli Roth is kind of like an adult version of the haunted mask (vaguely). The main character puts on a clown costume for his sons birthday party and finds out he can’t take it off. He then slowly turns into a child eating clown monster. Peter stormare is also in it and he gives a great performance as usual
Fun fact: the rifle used at 19:45 by the old man is actually a Lee Enfield bolt-action rifle rather than a musket. This was the standard issue infantry rifle for Canadian and British forces in WW2!
Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark... The artwork in those books was more horrifying than the stories. My parents had to tell the library to stop renting them to me due to the nightmares I had... what a fun series of books.
The haunted mask one was my favorite. The one where the family was actually the monsters and the neighbor fucked me up. The garden gnome one also fucked me up
Yes the family and the monster blood were my favorites growing up. And the one where the old people give the kids prunes and they turn so old they become dust. That one messed me up for a while lmao had me afraid of prunes
I think one day at horrorland is fucking scary, it feels dead on for the kind of nightmares I had as a kid. it being set in a crappy public park helps too - it's the kind of thing I would've (and probably still do) imagined was waiting off of any random highway exit in middle georgia. it's also objectively terrible lol, but it's unintentionally surreal and frightening in a way I've only ever really seen otherwise in like tales from the darkside
The fact that the whole family is tormented together and the fact that you see other families screaming and children crying is what made it 10x scarier
The hilarious part was the, iirc, two parter ended in a literal cliffhanger. Like the family was hanging off the cliff in their car while monsters watched in entertainment. We never got an ending to the fate of the family.
The reason why Grady/Brady howls at the end is because he actually got bit by Billy, the bite wasn't seen on screen but the howl is an Implication that he's the next Werewolf of Fever Swamp
That actually happens in the book and is described, he specifically gets his shoulder maimed But I actually loved that the T.V show did not show it and Grady is never bit but still turns into the werewolf. Because the shots they use at the end and the way it is framed Implies that the reason it is called fever swamp is because the fever it gives you is lycanthropy, and now that previous patient is dead, Grady now gets the fever from the swamp itself! At least that's how I interpreted it as a kid.
I highly recommend rewatching that episode. The guy screaming "BEAUTIFUL HANDS" makes it. It is so god damn hilarious and beautifully overacted that I lose my shit every time I see it.
Papa, you really have to give Camp Nightmare a chance. The whole point of that episode is to watch it beginning to end like a mediocre lazy episode with a touch of creepyness and at the twist is where it gets good. Maybe is pointless at this point. Great video!!!
Stine made some really underrated Choose Your Own Adventure books. My favorite was "Secret Agent Grandma." Just the cover art alone genuinely spooked me as a kid.
I had one that freaked me tf out that was about a wax museum where they were trying to steal the main characters faces, i read a vivid description of a man getting his face taken off
Those were the fucking best, I remember one where you were transported to a scorching hot desert with like lizard people and you basically got burnt to death by the sun it was horrifying
These were the best of the series. Not the greatest, but the one I remember the most was something like "Lab of Dr. EEK", bunch of mad science experiments and an evil monkey, I think?
I really hope this means we'll get a Meat Canyon episode of Goosebumps, it would be beautiful to see! I know the Goosebumps episode that always sticks in my mind from childhood was the Squeal of Fortune. And for some reason that dog in the intro with the yellow eyes used to scare this shit out of me.
Can we just stop to appreciate the art work on the covers they were some top tier paintings. Used to love reading the books, my favorites usually boiled down to Haunted Mask 1 and 2, Night of the Living dummy 1 and 2, and stay out of the basement.
Stay out of the basement is absolutely fantastic. I was staying at a Ronald Mcdonald house when I was kid because I had my appendix rupture inside of me. I seriously watched it everyday for like a week and half! So happy papa meat agrees that one is a masterpiece
Duude the goosebumps movies are always great to watch for nostalgia. If you feel up to it, I would definitely watch a part 2 of this video with some of the other goosebumps. There's also kinda the same thing that came out in the early 10's called the Haunting Hour. I forget the one episodes name that has the creepy almost lifesized doll in it, but I remember it to be pretty good actually
Idk if they still show it but whenever I go on vacations to Canada I always like to watch that show on ytv or whatever it’s called at like midnight I love it. It’s either so bad it’s funny or actually kind of creepy(the latter I’d assume is mostly cuz it’s always midnight and I’m alone watching it in a dark room lol)
@@laneymay12 yeah I grew up on RL Stines, and I actually would change the channel because of how fucking much it terrified me as a kid. I’ll have to rewatch it again to see if I was overreacting lmao
I honestly hope and pray you make it really big. Like your already really big and famous to me at least, but i really hope you become really famous and start making cartoon shows like rick and morty. I really love monster lab and would love to see more of it, or even a new series but i know it takes alot of time and money and patience to make shows like that. I hope and pray for you brotha 🤙🤙
I love Papa Meat. I love his work ethic and fun personality. But, in all honesty, I thought Monster Lab wasn’t a good show. The concept was a little cool, however, everything else I felt like was lacking. Some of his shorts are really interesting, and shows how creepy and creative he can get. But his original show was just too boring and unfunny, in my honest opinion. The sad part is that his fanbase doesn’t give him constructive criticism, all they do is praise his work, which I’m not saying is bad at all, but there needs to be a balance. And I didn’t see any of those helpful comments, where they talk about the jokes, the story arcs, the characters, etc.
Loved goosebumps as a kid. First book i ever read without pictures. School forced me to stop reading them because they required me to increase my reading level with harder books.
Thanks for the blast to the past! I remember in year 5 junior school we all had to read Say Cheese and Die and we had to recreate the book cover in our own way, and write an essay on the book. I also remember reading this one about plants eating people at some point as a kid.
Fever swamp traumatized me as a child, that close up shot of its teeth while snarling did something to my 8 year old brain and ever since then werewolves scare me more than they should.
The one with that weird shrunken head floating at people with green eyes gave me nightmares for a good long while I also remember having a horrorland board game which i played the absolute shit out of. Great franchise to grow up with
This was my first thought when I saw the vid. Are You Afraid of the Dark was terrifying to me as a kid. For some reason, the episode with the girl that turned into the lizard with water after getting bit stuck with me.
"I hope R.L. Stine comes and tickles you in your sleep" has to be the best wrap up statement ever along with his face radiating the warmest wishes as he said it. Hahahaha! So good 👍
The opening theme music to Goosebumps was great too, had to throw that in as its so nostalgic to hear as was seeing the clips of the show! Can't wait to see your artistic takes on this Papa Meat
I forget the exact name of the specific books, but all of the ones that involved “monster blood” always creeped me out like crazy. There’s something so frightening about an entity that is unkillable and just keeps expanding, or growing more powerful (a la Shin Godzilla)!
I was glad to see The Haunted Mask and Stay Out Of The Basement in S tier. Definitely were my favorites growing up. When I was a child I wore the haunted mask for Halloween and I felt like a bad ass. Lol
Thanks for episode, funny thing is that I recently introduced the show to my kids and to boot had just bought the boardgame, used to have a ton of fun playing it wanted to share it with them(it should be in today or tomorrow). Also I still have my old goosebumps collection, about 6 or so shy of the complete first run. I would've liked to see calling all creeps on your list personally, I thought that episode was pretty good, kinda felt like that kid was one sec away from telling his friend not to show up to school the next day the amount he was getting messed with haha. The ending was great too he wanted to help but the other kids still kept fucking with him and he's like well fuck it I guess imma be the creep commander then. Keep up the good work man looking forward to your in depth episode on stay out of the basement 👍
After all these years, I'm still glad that "Stay out of the Basement" holds up. That Book and Goosebumps Movie scared the absolute crap out of me as a kid, and holds a special place in my heart because it did that so well. Great Video.
I personally love Hayden Christiansen he’s got this charm to him I just can’t resist lol. Plus I’m probably one of the few people who really liked him in Jumper.
I haven't seen Goosebumps since I was a kid, but I gotta say, even though you threw it in the dumpster fire, "Welcome to Camp Nightmare" literally gave me nightmares for years after I watched it because they released it in 2 parts at the time, and it wasn't until much later I saw the conclusion (which really does ruin it). I think it had more to do with how surreal the situation the kids were in felt and how vulnerable they were. It had a very Friday the 13th feel to it that creeped me out when I was younger.
Honestly, the Goosebumps books have some brutal moments than show did. In _Stay Out of the Basement_ Samantha and Cathy's dad chopped her clone with an axe and sprayed a lot of green blood-like ooze and dies.
Yeah, they get brutal. The 2 kids in Deep Trouble are nearly drowned by a giant jellyfish and there’s one of the Monster Blood books where the Monster Blood nearly suffocated the children multiple times because it would latch onto their face and try to suck all the liquid from their bodies
Fun fact: That dude that played the sleezebag villain in Say Cheese and Die turns up in an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark where he plays a sleezebag and also involves a camera.
I might be mistaken, but I think there was some crossover with the child actors between the two series as well. At the very least I know Kathryn Long (Carly Beth) also showed in up Are You Afraid of the Dark? too.
I know it’s a little selfish to think, but whenever I watch this channel, I think back to when this, and his main channel were growing, and i would always call him “papa meat”. I know it is not because of me. But I am always proud to be a part of the beginnings of all of his channels.
as a Canadian horror fan i grew up on all this shit, even had Haunted mask and Night at Terror Tower on VHS and a ton of the books, there were some genuine scary stories in there especially in some of the books even with how desensitized i am now it still sticks with me. My favorite being one called Headless Halloween where Spoilers for a 24 year old book, an asshole of a kid who bullies and pranks everyone trashes an old mans house on Halloween with his buddy then gets chased off by some dogs and jumps over a ravine to get away and on the other side he doesn't recognize the streets and meets some kids in masks who tell him he's dead from falling in the ravine and the only way to get back to life is to do 3 kind things to people he messed with before the end of the night. Ends up doing it all just in time and getting back only to be told there's no comin back from bein dead END OF BOOK lol I hope you enjoyed my goosebumps TED talk.
This is going to be the most wildly niche thing ever, but the backing track while you're talking has like three notes that I swear to god sounds like the backing track for Twiztid's song "Afraid of me" and It's giving me... goosebumps.
Werewolf of fever swamp is my absolute favorite. I remember reading it at least about 3-4 times in middle school and being so excited whenever the episode came on cartoon network when they use to play goosebumps during the halloween season. I was so disappointed when cartoon network stopped playing it and switched to instead airing more lower quality animated specials (scary godmother being the only one I kinda enjoyed but the animation still looked ugly imo.)
I remember reading the book, Night of the Living Dummy.. I have no idea why but that book gave me so much fear, I was afraid of the dark afterwards, didn't want to be alone.. I was just legit afraid as a Kid. lol One day, the phobia went away.. but sheesh, still a scary story..
One of my favorite books was the creature under the sink or something lol. I remember I thought it was very creepy and the ending just made it worse lol. The monster was a sponge? And then a potato?
I think out of all of them, Haunted Mask is the only one I remember ever watching. I do remember reading some of those books as a kid and the one I remember most is the one where the boy (or was it a girl?) only ate white food, but started eating sponges and weird stuff. Turns out the kid was a robot or something and needed to be fixed. I also remember one about a teacher that was a monster and ate students. She told her students whoever had the lowest grade (or something along those lines) she'd eat. She had a kid, and the kid ended up saving the MC, but at the end, the teacher's kid's stomach growled and he looked at the MC and said he was hungry.
I’m so glad the dummy one got shit on like it rightfully deserved. Everyone always acted like it was this pinnacle of horror because of the living doll aspect, but I always found doll horror dumb as fuck. The mask one, however, scared the shit out of me when I was younger. This video gave me the vindication I rightfully deserved. Many blessings
It’s funny, I hated dolls and clowns as a kid but Slappy never bothered me. The haunted mask was and still is the most frightening story of all the books to me.
Stay Out of The Basement stuck with me. I would randomly remember bits and pieces from when I was like 6 and could never find the video, but it scared the crap out of me when I was little.
Iam a 21 year old Canadian and its even nostalgic for me. Someone had donated a full series of goose bumps books to the local thrift store and I used to go and get a new book everytIme I had finished the one I previously had bought. I read quite a few of them. Plus the goosebumps series would always rerun on the kids channels.
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You should make a part 2
Or an animation parody of the goosebumps movie with jack black
You should do more of these! Covering old school horror tv shows or movies
I love the Eddie head in the back!
Fun fact: According to R.L. Stine's autobiography, the crew was going to use a rubber worm in the scene where Carly Beth bites into the sandwich, but Kathryn Long insisted on eating a real worm to make it realistic. He later revealed it took twelve attempts with a new worm each time.
You are correct. I also knew this fact.
badass. and she was one of the better actors on goosebumps
Smh its a shame this animal abuse has gotten so much positive attention and praise
@@asideoffries3000 sth up
@@asideoffries3000 it's 12 worms I could care less
Something funny about R L Stine, is he actually hates kids. He wrote horror stories for kids because he wanted to scare them. What an absolute legend.
What a gigachad. He took "FTK" to new heights
He actually doesnt hate kids, he wrote horror stories for kids because his wife and boss suggested to because it was an open market and actually was hesitant to doing so because he was worried about scaring them. He said he hated kids as a joke :)
@@staggbones I dunno much about R.L Stine but I hope this one's true
@@staggbones I heard the true is somewhat in between. He is instinctually protective of some kids, but has no backbone and is too success driven. But on the other hand he really hates some kids and wants to traumatize them, especially if they are french.
@@j.s.t.6515 He's talked about how much he genuinely loves working on Goosebumps and that he doesn't particularly care for what money may come out of it, which is why Goosebumps is and always has been one of the cheaper books you could buy. He's 79 years old, he's got more than enough money and success to retire, he does what he does out of love for his series.
He's actually said that he's incredibly grateful for the kids that read his stuff because without them, he wouldn't get to work on Goosebumps as much as he'd like. The jokes about traumatizing kids happen because of the over reactive parents making claims that Goosebumps traumatized their kids, and how adults today say that Goosebumps really scared them as children.
Rl stine has a very specific sense of dry humor, but that's what it is. He originally started out writing comedy before switching to horror, so his specialty is dry humor, so a lot of jokes come out sounding flat.
Fun fact: the actor of Carly Beth in the Haunted Mask actually bit into a worm for the episode---and what sucks is she had to redo that act multiple times, but she insisted on biting into a real worm for the scene to make it as realistic as possible
That's dedication to your craft, right there. 🪱
@@MarkOfKhorne For real 🪱
I remember not being able to eat meat sandwiches after a while after watching that episode
Guess you call that pure protein
The real horror was for the worms
In my opinion, the most underrated Goosebumps story is the one about the Cuckoo clock that rapidly reverses the main character's life to the point where he almost ceases to exist. The concept is just so unique and freaky to me. At one point, he straight up just becomes a baby and has to go take on the clock in baby form and it's just so much fun. Yes, his little sister is an absolute unlikeable shithead, and her presence at the start brings the episode down a bit, but that's really all you see of her. Plus she ceases to exist in the end, almost like some form of karma, which is an extremely harsh punishment for some bratty kid but I thought it was fucking hilarious
One of my favorites Goosebumps books along with the Night of the Living Dummy series.
Yeah that one is terrifying too.
How is that a unique concept😂
Benjamin Button type sht is everywhere
She is even worse in the books being a little psychopath who learned how to manipulate full grown adults into preferring her and making her brother the scapegoat for literally everything she has ever done wrong and she is 6 at the time and shows no remorse or love for anything. People point out how bad she would have been as she got older and how it's scary she was so smart and cruel at such a young age so it is understandable why her brother (who is also quite young) wouldn't want to save her just yet especially since he would have to risk his own existence for a near impossible task at best just to bring back a thankless demon of a little sibling.
Tim jacobus is an underrated artist, most of his goosebumps cover were created by traditional painting technique.
He has a great book about his covers too!
Par Olofsson has some similarly great horror art too. He makes a lot of album covers for Deathcore and Slam bands
the cover is the reason I picked the book up
Gorgeous art.
Hardly underrated if everyone has seen his artwork
Excerpt from my favorite goosebumps novel, I Live In Your Basement:
His glistening, wet insides poured out of his mouth. Yellow organs clung to the pink flesh. His purple heart plopped out from between his teeth, pulsing inside a thick web of blue ropelike veins. I stared in horror, watching him turn inside out. Then I started to scream. And Keith opened his mouth-teeth on the outside-and he screamed too.
Fuck me dude that's fucking metal
Jesus fuckin christ lmao
That books one of the gory ones
Oh my god this reminded me of the Blob and the flying one. Those two were my favorite. I definitely need to read them again.
Jesus Christ, I didn’t know the books got that dark
The Werewolf of Fever Swamp scared the ever living shit out of me as a kid. The entire atmosphere and tone were so eerie, definitely made me feel a sense of dread the entire time. Plus, like you said, the sound effects were top-notch for Goosebumps standards
Was just going to comment this same thing. There were a couple episodes that stuck with me, but this one was always my favorite. The atmosphere was so well-done, they really made the swamp look otherworldly and dangerous, and made you wonder what else has happened in there. Plus, the horror scenes were pretty legit for a kids’ show. The scene where the werewolf chases the sister and her and the mom end up trapped in the shed was intense, even rewatching it as an adult.
While it didn't scare me perse, when the hermit gets killed I genuinely felt a pit in my stomach as it was the first time in watching Goosebumps that I knew a human died and the tone of the scene added to that.
It's one of those things where something dramatic happening in something made for kids feels worse than watching anyone die in media made for older viewers.
There's a Rugrats episode that freaked me out with the monster under the bed dragging the kid under and into blackness after offering him cake. Very It like and it was in fucking Rugrats!
It was awesome, amazing atmosphere and camera work. I hope the new tv series goes with the eerie mood and atmosphere. It’ll probably be a lame comedy but
Same. I rewatched recently (couple years ago) and I was as tense as i was as a kid when they’re running away from the werewolf
Same I remember being at my grandpas house and watching that and the jump scare made me jump
“I’m not going to get afraid of Canadian children show” this sentence killed me 🤣
Papa Meat: “Goosebumps gave me alcohol poisoning”
Susan: “Excuse me?”
Papa Meat: “Goosebumps tier list”
Susan: “that’s what I thought”
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Goosebumps was like the Stephen King of kid shows, the show was scary because of its cheesiness and overall creepiness.
Not gunna lie I still have a vivid memory from my childhood of fear of seeing a pig headed person look though my kitchen window because of goosebumps lol
@@mahcousin6193 mine was the kitchen sponge episode that freaked me out
Okay, but that one scene during the house chase in the Werewolf of Fever Swamp episode was actually kind of scary
It really was.
So much better then King, so much better
Fun thing about Werewolf of Fever Swamp, in the book the twist which is hinted at in the show but I guess never actually explained if you’re recollection is correct, is that during the fight with the werewolf, protagonist boy gets hit right before his dog shows up and finishes him off. So the boy becomes the new Werewolf of Fever Swamp, and goes out running into the wilderness with the dog as the story ends.
The shot where the werewolf skull still rises out of the muck, half transformed between a human skull and a wolfs is still such striking imagery to me for a children’s show. It’s honestly a shot that would be awesome in a adult horror movie.
The fact that he poorly rated the one his “friend” liked is hilarious
This is a moment of my childhood where I believe the books were better. It's not like they had a whole lot in the budget for the shows and my imagination made a lot of the monsters a lot scarier in my head.
Yeah, the books were really good. Some of the ones he didn't like as the shows were wayyyy better in the books imo
@@BigGayIncorporated This is one of the main problems of the horror genre itself, is that a lot of it just doesn't translate well to film.
A few of the monsters in the show are still pretty spooky like the teacher monster one
But I agree, generally the books were scarier
Exactly. Like the dead house one was a pretty eerie book from what I remember.
The show >
I think the dog did an amazing job in welcome to the dead house, he executed his part and his lines perfectly!
Good dog, give him pets!!
To quote RL Stine when the episode finishes "He's good...He's really good."
one of the least wooden actors in this series@@jongon0848
He’s dead so don’t give him pets.
@@williamlanger9229you beat me to it LOL. but he still good boi and deserve pet in spirit
Cry of the Cat was by far the scariest goosebumps episode to me as a kid. That half cat half woman gave me nightmares for years
I didn’t get nightmares from it, but oh my goodness yes the stupid cat woman scared me so much
The Goosbumps book that scared me the most as a kid was "It Came From Under The Sink"
The evil sponge monster.
Edit: hey everybody! Been really enjoying this conversation. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one traumatized. In all due respect though, it was a great, though simple, monster design.
I never read that one but the Goosebumps episode of it was one of the goofiest.
@Verasoul I know! The episode was soooo goofy! But man, the book was _actually_ horrifying. It was written with the futility against the strange and unknown of a cosmic horror.
That one was the scariest one for me too. Still think about how unsettling it was
A part that still sticks with me because it's gross is when the sponge starts getting smooched on by the main girl once they realize being nice is what hurts the sponge.
@johnnyjoestar3449 OH GOD THAT'S RIGHT!!!🤢🤮
It's been so long since I read a Goosebumps book!
Though not as frightening as ones like The Haunted Mask, the Cuckoo Clock of Doom hit me at an existential level for some reason.
THIS. I know I read more than one of the goosebumps books but that's the only one that stuck with me. Shit fucked me up for weeks.
Lot of the goosebumps book made me question the unknown more than once that's for sure
I read about 150 of the books as an elementary schooler, and they’ve impacted my love of the surreal and the morbid more than anything else. I remember every book, or at least snapshots of every book
@@manhathaway I think it was called attack of the graveyard gouls, that one was one of my favorites, had to do with spirits and body hopping/possession
What about the random stranger in Cuckoo Clock that was scary and never seen again?
The movie Clown produced by Eli Roth is kind of like an adult version of the haunted mask (vaguely). The main character puts on a clown costume for his sons birthday party and finds out he can’t take it off. He then slowly turns into a child eating clown monster. Peter stormare is also in it and he gives a great performance as usual
That was a really good movie actually
an actual good low budget movie is rare to find
Fun fact: the rifle used at 19:45 by the old man is actually a Lee Enfield bolt-action rifle rather than a musket. This was the standard issue infantry rifle for Canadian and British forces in WW2!
Yep
So he was a ww2 vet cool lore
If thats the one in red dead, i use it all the time 😎
Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark... The artwork in those books was more horrifying than the stories. My parents had to tell the library to stop renting them to me due to the nightmares I had... what a fun series of books.
Hard agree, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark lives on so much more strongly in my young memories because of the artwork.
Oh shit man, I remember reading that series back in middle school that, the "Hardy Boys" and "Shadow Children" book series were my jam.
i think the scariest artwork was "The Thing". it gave me nightmares for a while
Do you know that the artist for those books is actually selling prints you can buy? It’s incredibly creepy and amazing!
My favorite was always “Harold”.
The haunted mask one was my favorite. The one where the family was actually the monsters and the neighbor fucked me up. The garden gnome one also fucked me up
Yes the family and the monster blood were my favorites growing up. And the one where the old people give the kids prunes and they turn so old they become dust. That one messed me up for a while lmao had me afraid of prunes
@@littleminainabigworld7434 oh shut I about forgot about that one. Or the neighbor ghost
The only ones that fucked me up were the sponge under the sink and the old person cookie one. 5 year old me hated those ones
Genuinely such a hate crime that the piano episode wasn’t added to this. By far the best goosebumps episode of them all
Good call
I think one day at horrorland is fucking scary, it feels dead on for the kind of nightmares I had as a kid. it being set in a crappy public park helps too - it's the kind of thing I would've (and probably still do) imagined was waiting off of any random highway exit in middle georgia. it's also objectively terrible lol, but it's unintentionally surreal and frightening in a way I've only ever really seen otherwise in like tales from the darkside
Yea I'll be honest it scared the crap out of me too.
This is the only one I remember from being a kid. So creepy and weird lol.
I watched this in a public library as a child, Papa Meat called that one lol. I had nightmares for YEARS
The fact that the whole family is tormented together and the fact that you see other families screaming and children crying is what made it 10x scarier
The hilarious part was the, iirc, two parter ended in a literal cliffhanger.
Like the family was hanging off the cliff in their car while monsters watched in entertainment. We never got an ending to the fate of the family.
The reason why Grady/Brady howls at the end is because he actually got bit by Billy, the bite wasn't seen on screen but the howl is an Implication that he's the next Werewolf of Fever Swamp
That actually happens in the book and is described, he specifically gets his shoulder maimed
But I actually loved that the T.V show did not show it and Grady is never bit but still turns into the werewolf.
Because the shots they use at the end and the way it is framed Implies that the reason it is called fever swamp is because the fever it gives you is lycanthropy, and now that previous patient is dead, Grady now gets the fever from the swamp itself!
At least that's how I interpreted it as a kid.
The episode with the piano lady ghost hands fucked me up for a good decade.
Bro that one still scares me 😳
For real
Yeah that was one of the better books and TV episodes. The cover for the book is one of the best ones in the series for me.
I highly recommend rewatching that episode.
The guy screaming "BEAUTIFUL HANDS" makes it. It is so god damn hilarious and beautifully overacted that I lose my shit every time I see it.
Papa, you really have to give Camp Nightmare a chance. The whole point of that episode is to watch it beginning to end like a mediocre lazy episode with a touch of creepyness and at the twist is where it gets good. Maybe is pointless at this point. Great video!!!
Stine made some really underrated Choose Your Own Adventure books. My favorite was "Secret Agent Grandma." Just the cover art alone genuinely spooked me as a kid.
One time I chose the wrong option and got slowly strangled to death. I was so shocked by it I went back and accidentally chose the same option. 🫤
I had one that freaked me tf out that was about a wax museum where they were trying to steal the main characters faces, i read a vivid description of a man getting his face taken off
Those were the fucking best, I remember one where you were transported to a scorching hot desert with like lizard people and you basically got burnt to death by the sun it was horrifying
@@ashwinnaidoo796 yeah, I remember that one too. You couldn't leave the house or you would instantly burn up.
These were the best of the series.
Not the greatest, but the one I remember the most was something like "Lab of Dr. EEK", bunch of mad science experiments and an evil monkey, I think?
hunter is the first person i’ve heard say he hates canadian accents and i am… humbled
He said they were distracting. Not that he hated them.
@@D.H.1082 I hate them lol
Deep down we all hate Canadian accents
You're right, I even hate hearing myself speak.
There’s a lot of people who don’t like Canadian accents especially those Toronto accents
I really hope this means we'll get a Meat Canyon episode of Goosebumps, it would be beautiful to see! I know the Goosebumps episode that always sticks in my mind from childhood was the Squeal of Fortune. And for some reason that dog in the intro with the yellow eyes used to scare this shit out of me.
I love your non-animated content as much as your animated! Just as funny and fun!
Happy to see you rated fever swamp high, was my favorite as a kid too, scared the shit out of me, very atmospheric. Good list papa
Can we just stop to appreciate the art work on the covers they were some top tier paintings. Used to love reading the books, my favorites usually boiled down to Haunted Mask 1 and 2, Night of the Living dummy 1 and 2, and stay out of the basement.
Nobody ever talks about The Scarecrows walk at midnight
I always enjoyed how good the voice acting for Slappy the Dummy was. The evil laugh continues to live in my head all these years.
My childhood trauma.
I loved it even though I actually watched Child's Play before it as a toddler.
Another great video Papa Meat. Maybe a "Are you afraid of the dark?" tier list in the near future.
Stay out of the basement is absolutely fantastic. I was staying at a Ronald Mcdonald house when I was kid because I had my appendix rupture inside of me. I seriously watched it everyday for like a week and half! So happy papa meat agrees that one is a masterpiece
Duude the goosebumps movies are always great to watch for nostalgia. If you feel up to it, I would definitely watch a part 2 of this video with some of the other goosebumps. There's also kinda the same thing that came out in the early 10's called the Haunting Hour. I forget the one episodes name that has the creepy almost lifesized doll in it, but I remember it to be pretty good actually
There was also a newer american version of goosebumps that came out in the early 2000s and it was just called R.L Stine's it was way scarier
Idk if they still show it but whenever I go on vacations to Canada I always like to watch that show on ytv or whatever it’s called at like midnight I love it. It’s either so bad it’s funny or actually kind of creepy(the latter I’d assume is mostly cuz it’s always midnight and I’m alone watching it in a dark room lol)
I forget why but the episode with the dad who keeps sending postcards back home with some kinda demon or something following him legit creeped me out
@@laneymay12 yeah I grew up on RL Stines, and I actually would change the channel because of how fucking much it terrified me as a kid. I’ll have to rewatch it again to see if I was overreacting lmao
I honestly hope and pray you make it really big. Like your already really big and famous to me at least, but i really hope you become really famous and start making cartoon shows like rick and morty. I really love monster lab and would love to see more of it, or even a new series but i know it takes alot of time and money and patience to make shows like that. I hope and pray for you brotha 🤙🤙
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Don't fat shame him lol jk.
@@Mercritis adult swim is trash, he is perfect where he is at
I love Papa Meat. I love his work ethic and fun personality. But, in all honesty, I thought Monster Lab wasn’t a good show. The concept was a little cool, however, everything else I felt like was lacking. Some of his shorts are really interesting, and shows how creepy and creative he can get. But his original show was just too boring and unfunny, in my honest opinion.
The sad part is that his fanbase doesn’t give him constructive criticism, all they do is praise his work, which I’m not saying is bad at all, but there needs to be a balance. And I didn’t see any of those helpful comments, where they talk about the jokes, the story arcs, the characters, etc.
Loved goosebumps as a kid. First book i ever read without pictures. School forced me to stop reading them because they required me to increase my reading level with harder books.
Thanks for the blast to the past! I remember in year 5 junior school we all had to read Say Cheese and Die and we had to recreate the book cover in our own way, and write an essay on the book. I also remember reading this one about plants eating people at some point as a kid.
Fever swamp traumatized me as a child, that close up shot of its teeth while snarling did something to my 8 year old brain and ever since then werewolves scare me more than they should.
RIGHT? I still watch that episode again trying to get that feeling once more. It was so terrific.
As a 34 year old Canadian, this was some epic nostalgia. Thankyou.
I wish y'all would remake the stay out of the basement episode but in your style... Imagine how badass it could be
The swamp hermits gun wasnt a musket, it was a smle Lee Enfield rifle, wich was the canadian militarys standard rifle in ww1 & ww2
The one with that weird shrunken head floating at people with green eyes gave me nightmares for a good long while
I also remember having a horrorland board game which i played the absolute shit out of. Great franchise to grow up with
You've just awakened a memory for me and I hate it
Isn't that the Haunted Mask one. There's these floating mask attacking the demon mask and it saves the girl. Something like that.
Same but I had the horrorland wii game which is why I think it holds such a special place in my heart lol
If you’re up for it, do “are you afraid of the dark” next. Goosebumps was solid growing up but AYAOTD was always better in my opinion.
Dude for real
This was my first thought when I saw the vid. Are You Afraid of the Dark was terrifying to me as a kid. For some reason, the episode with the girl that turned into the lizard with water after getting bit stuck with me.
And the haunting hour!
I would really love for you to do more content like this!
"I hope R.L. Stine comes and tickles you in your sleep" has to be the best wrap up statement ever along with his face radiating the warmest wishes as he said it. Hahahaha! So good 👍
“How I learned to fly” was the last Goosebumps book I read, and it certainly left an impression
That was definitely my favorite one. Great main character arch and overall concept
top 3 in my opinion
One of the all time bests fur sure!
The opening theme music to Goosebumps was great too, had to throw that in as its so nostalgic to hear as was seeing the clips of the show! Can't wait to see your artistic takes on this Papa Meat
I watch this to go to bed. I absolutely love this content and am definitely buying some merch next check!!!
the transition of your shirt colors from the intro to the ad. fucking art, dude
Loved this for the nostalgia. Well done. It would be sick to see a tier list for for the “Are you afraid of the dark” series as well.
are you afraid of the dark were all terrible. goose bumps was hit or miss
@@JimmmyRaynor you’re terrible
I forget the exact name of the specific books, but all of the ones that involved “monster blood” always creeped me out like crazy. There’s something so frightening about an entity that is unkillable and just keeps expanding, or growing more powerful (a la Shin Godzilla)!
Yes! Monster Blood!
Monster blood was a great book
Monster Blood For Breakfast I think
Yeah those were great! It’s kind of Lovecraftian
You're silly. Monster blood was the first goosebumps book i read. Now i want to read it again
Looking forward to your video on "Stay Out the Basement" - was always my favourite.
that high school pool monster, shrunken head, the comic book episode, attack of the mutants, theyre some other dope ones, deff gotta do a part 2 bro!!
I was glad to see The Haunted Mask and Stay Out Of The Basement in S tier. Definitely were my favorites growing up. When I was a child I wore the haunted mask for Halloween and I felt like a bad ass. Lol
Love how he morphed into a different shirt for the sponsor 😂
Stay out of the Basement was my FAVORITE as a child and likely sparked my interest in horror! Please do a full vid!
Thanks for episode, funny thing is that I recently introduced the show to my kids and to boot had just bought the boardgame, used to have a ton of fun playing it wanted to share it with them(it should be in today or tomorrow). Also I still have my old goosebumps collection, about 6 or so shy of the complete first run. I would've liked to see calling all creeps on your list personally, I thought that episode was pretty good, kinda felt like that kid was one sec away from telling his friend not to show up to school the next day the amount he was getting messed with haha. The ending was great too he wanted to help but the other kids still kept fucking with him and he's like well fuck it I guess imma be the creep commander then. Keep up the good work man looking forward to your in depth episode on stay out of the basement 👍
You should do this but for the Nightmare Room. That shit scared the ever loving fuck out of me as a kid.
What about "Are You Afraid of The Dark?"
Oh god I remember that and the commercial for it rip
@Don't read my profile photo muhfuck why you do dis to me
What about "The Haunting hour"?
After all these years, I'm still glad that "Stay out of the Basement" holds up. That Book and Goosebumps Movie scared the absolute crap out of me as a kid, and holds a special place in my heart because it did that so well.
Great Video.
Loved this, you should do another one.
I personally love Hayden Christiansen he’s got this charm to him I just can’t resist lol. Plus I’m probably one of the few people who really liked him in Jumper.
I haven't seen Goosebumps since I was a kid, but I gotta say, even though you threw it in the dumpster fire, "Welcome to Camp Nightmare" literally gave me nightmares for years after I watched it because they released it in 2 parts at the time, and it wasn't until much later I saw the conclusion (which really does ruin it). I think it had more to do with how surreal the situation the kids were in felt and how vulnerable they were. It had a very Friday the 13th feel to it that creeped me out when I was younger.
Honestly, the Goosebumps books have some brutal moments than show did. In _Stay Out of the Basement_ Samantha and Cathy's dad chopped her clone with an axe and sprayed a lot of green blood-like ooze and dies.
Yeah, they get brutal. The 2 kids in Deep Trouble are nearly drowned by a giant jellyfish and there’s one of the Monster Blood books where the Monster Blood nearly suffocated the children multiple times because it would latch onto their face and try to suck all the liquid from their bodies
Haven’t seen a good goosebumps review video since the old JonTron days. Excellent work!
Seeing the clips of Hunter in between, really makes me laugh and so happy, he needs to do another one of these
Fun fact: That dude that played the sleezebag villain in Say Cheese and Die turns up in an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark where he plays a sleezebag and also involves a camera.
I might be mistaken, but I think there was some crossover with the child actors between the two series as well. At the very least I know Kathryn Long (Carly Beth) also showed in up Are You Afraid of the Dark? too.
Yikes. Talk about being typecast. 😬
I know it’s a little selfish to think, but whenever I watch this channel, I think back to when this, and his main channel were growing, and i would always call him “papa meat”. I know it is not because of me. But I am always proud to be a part of the beginnings of all of his channels.
I have watched this video way too many times would love more content like this
I loved the video, as always. I also love the Powerslave Eddie in the back there. Going to have to draw an Eddie for the subreddit.
More goosebumps videos please. This was so fun. Or maybe some other “scary” children’s series like “Are you Afraid of the Dark?”
as a Canadian horror fan i grew up on all this shit, even had Haunted mask and Night at Terror Tower on VHS and a ton of the books, there were some genuine scary stories in there especially in some of the books even with how desensitized i am now it still sticks with me.
My favorite being one called Headless Halloween where Spoilers for a 24 year old book, an asshole of a kid who bullies and pranks everyone trashes an old mans house on Halloween with his buddy then gets chased off by some dogs and jumps over a ravine to get away and on the other side he doesn't recognize the streets and meets some kids in masks who tell him he's dead from falling in the ravine and the only way to get back to life is to do 3 kind things to people he messed with before the end of the night. Ends up doing it all just in time and getting back only to be told there's no comin back from bein dead END OF BOOK lol I hope you enjoyed my goosebumps TED talk.
Ur the best thank u for actually telling us the plot, sounds awesome I need to watch it I vaguely remember the book
@@moisessoria4502 I don't think Brakes Headless Halloween has an adaptation. He transitioned to talking about the books.
You smashing the displate poster on the banister and the little dance you did fucking killed me lol.
i would LOVE to see u reannimate a goosebumps episode or two
i would love a full uncut vid of all the footage, of him watching the show.
I absolutely love how aggressive this sponsorship was.
Super excited to see the stay out of the basement vid. That was the one I watched the most as a kid.
This is going to be the most wildly niche thing ever, but the backing track while you're talking has like three notes that I swear to god sounds like the backing track for Twiztid's song "Afraid of me" and It's giving me... goosebumps.
Stay out the basement was definitely a wild one, I'm honestly looking forward to what you have to say for it tbh!
Werewolf of fever swamp is my absolute favorite. I remember reading it at least about 3-4 times in middle school and being so excited whenever the episode came on cartoon network when they use to play goosebumps during the halloween season. I was so disappointed when cartoon network stopped playing it and switched to instead airing more lower quality animated specials (scary godmother being the only one I kinda enjoyed but the animation still looked ugly imo.)
Scary godmother was so good to me as a little kid it always got me in the mood for halloween
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WHAT!? Scary Godmother is S tier. The second one (Jimmy's Revenge or something) isn't as good
Scary godmother looks like crap but is one of my all time favorites because of it 😂
I remember reading the book, Night of the Living Dummy.. I have no idea why but that book gave me so much fear, I was afraid of the dark afterwards, didn't want to be alone.. I was just legit afraid as a Kid. lol One day, the phobia went away.. but sheesh, still a scary story..
Came back here once I saw the new Goosebumps series! Cant wait for another video from Papa!! Happy Halloween!!
One of my favorite books was the creature under the sink or something lol. I remember I thought it was very creepy and the ending just made it worse lol. The monster was a sponge? And then a potato?
Omg I remember that episode. It was so dumb and weird
The Ugly Sponge!
It was definitely a bizarre one
I love Papa's almost visceral reactions to all the oddball names.
One day at horrorland was my fav as a kid, book and show 😭 I’m sad it doesn’t hold up but it was such a cool concept
You smashing your face into the posters made me laugh for an extended period of time. Thank you.
Night at the terror tower was actually one of my favorite books. I imagined all those medieval themes and loved it
Stay out of the basement and the one that ended up being about an evil langoloier sponge under a sink. Those two books I remember most holding up
It came from beneath the sink. I was just thinking about that one before reading this comment.
"A family moves into Flint, Michigan"
I fucking died
I think out of all of them, Haunted Mask is the only one I remember ever watching. I do remember reading some of those books as a kid and the one I remember most is the one where the boy (or was it a girl?) only ate white food, but started eating sponges and weird stuff. Turns out the kid was a robot or something and needed to be fixed. I also remember one about a teacher that was a monster and ate students. She told her students whoever had the lowest grade (or something along those lines) she'd eat. She had a kid, and the kid ended up saving the MC, but at the end, the teacher's kid's stomach growled and he looked at the MC and said he was hungry.
I’m so glad the dummy one got shit on like it rightfully deserved. Everyone always acted like it was this pinnacle of horror because of the living doll aspect, but I always found doll horror dumb as fuck. The mask one, however, scared the shit out of me when I was younger. This video gave me the vindication I rightfully deserved. Many blessings
The doll one is my actual childhood trauma and seeing this vid gave me shivers allover again.
@@fionabean9328 fr I was HAUNTED by that thing when I was real little.
Samesies
It’s funny, I hated dolls and clowns as a kid but Slappy never bothered me. The haunted mask was and still is the most frightening story of all the books to me.
The hunted mask 2 is better in my opinion
“Use your brain a little bit next time” he says as he’s hungover and dehydrated😂 you could use your own advice sometimes haha😂
Great video and list. If you consider doing another one, how about episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Stay Out of The Basement stuck with me. I would randomly remember bits and pieces from when I was like 6 and could never find the video, but it scared the crap out of me when I was little.
Iam a 21 year old Canadian and its even nostalgic for me. Someone had donated a full series of goose bumps books to the local thrift store and I used to go and get a new book everytIme I had finished the one I previously had bought. I read quite a few of them. Plus the goosebumps series would always rerun on the kids channels.
Love these types of horror series reviews. Especially all these nostalgic ones I have completely forgotten about haha
The clip cuts in Ryan Reynolds bit is world class 🎉