The Tale of the Dead Man's Float Recap & Review - The Midnight Society
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- On this episode of The Midnight Society, I look back at season 5, episode 1 of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?": The Tale of the Dead Man's Float. Potential new member, Stig, tells a tale about a teen who discovers an abandoned pool with a dark secret at his high school.
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The look and movements of the monster are fantastic
This was my favorite episode as a kid in the mid 90s
It is an excellent choice!
Great job! For me, Dead Man's Float was easily Are You Afraid of the Dark's scariest episode and I've been looking forward to your take on it. I couldn't believe they didn't let Stig in, but he did kinda burn his own bridge 🤣
Also I just now realized Zeke's played by the same kid from Welcome to Camp Nightmare on Goosebumps 🤯
Yeah, I know they didn't let him in to keep things interesting on the show from a narrative perspective, but then they let him come to meetings anyway so they might've well as just let him in.
Oh yeah, I thought I'd see Zeke somewhere else before!
I don't remember this episode, but I do remember having a fear of swimming pools as a kid. Mystery solved, I guess!
Haha! It was so scary you wiped it from your memory to block it out.
perhaps the dust they're throwing onto the fire in later episodes are actually the ash remains of all of the previous members who "moved"
Hahaha! YES!!!
Finally busting the Gary case wide open
Someone had to do it. 🙂
Came for one of the best Are You Afraid of the Dark episodes ever and also got a fun murder board truth bomb as a bonus!
The people need to know about Scary Gary (I don't think that name is going to catch on...it doesn't quite have the ring to it as Jack the Ripper).
@@JackOfAllNerdsShowGary the Gutter?
Gary with a Gun?
@@curtisberard7831 I do like Gary the Gutter.
Ohhhhh this. THIS EPISODE. It's definitely the scariest in the series. The corpse effects are TERRIFYING. The fact they didn't let Stig into the group for this story is an absolute crime.
Yeah, if they hadn't made him an absolute creep to Kiki at the start there would be no justifiable reason to not let him in after that tale.
Stig has the best story telling record in The Midnight Society. Stig told two stories (Dead Man’s Float and Station 109.1) and they were both great episodes. I agree with your kill board by the way.
Yes!!! More people to my cause! I consider all my photoshop work completely worth it.
Wow that's my 2 favorite episodes. I wonder why he didn't stick around
Bet this episode inspired the new horror movie Night Swim
My reaction to the monster exactly, only age appropriate for the time
Hahahaha! Now I'm just picturing a 12 year old shouting expletives at the back of their tv set.
The most unbelievable thing about this episode is how that pool auditorium became ready after only a few weeks.
That's true. Just getting the pool cleaned, filled and treated would probably take a few weeks, let alone getting all that other crap out of there and all the administrative things that would need to happen to make that dream a reality.
Despite the exquisite monster makeup on the Dead Man's Float ghost, it didn't scare me that much. Dark Music's creepy puppet, now that scares me to this day. There's something about the uncanny valley factor that repulses me, a full grown adult. (Such as it is)
I'm with you on that giant doll from Dark Music. That thing is creepy af!
Great episode
Thank you!
I like the theory on Gary. He always did seem a little fishy to me as a kid.
Yes!!! Another believer!
About the S.E.X joke at the end, I would have loved it if when Old Charlie was telling his story he just told the teens, "I was a horny teenager myself back in the day...."
Haha, yeah, hard to get sympathy when your story features, "I was making out with his sister instead of doing my job, but there's a monster in the pool I tells ya!"
Terrific!
So every time I mention AYAOTD to anyone to see if they remember it, this is the episode that every single person always asks me about. For the last 20 years all I would hear from people is “was that the show that had some red skeleton monster in a swimming pool?” It’s crazy that this one sticks out so hard to so many people who weren’t even fans of the show.
It is quite an intense image, especially for a kids show. I could see why it would stick with someone years later.
Rachel (Kristen) told DJ MacHale that she didn't want to be on the show anymore. When she got older she played Officer Roxanne in 7th Heaven. Lucy was jealous of her. As for everyone else, I don't know why they left.
Yeah, "Kristen" has had great success in acting since AYAOTD. And as to others, there are any number of reasons that a child actor could be replaced from a series.
Good Old Gar' has become a mass murderer now.
He and the whole gang collectively killed Eric in between season 1 & 2 (Understandable). Then he killed David & Kristin between seasons 2 & 3 to stop their blossoming relationship, and now he's killed Frank for getting too close to Sam.
Mostly am surprised that Kiki and Betty Ann have lasted this long
Also the shade to Kristin "Sam isn't like Kristin, She's feisty and tells GOOD TALES" 🤣
Haha, I couldn't help slipping that in. I've never been a fan of Kristen's tales.
@@JackOfAllNerdsShow Haha. To each their own ! Looking at the AYAOTD wiki, I see that Kristen has told more duds than not, but I unironically love The Tale of the Prom Queen and The Tale of Locker 22 😂
@@loganarnoldkicks4321 Yeah, I gave Locker 22 a passing grade, but Prom Queen does nothing for me. Too many plot holes for me to enjoy it.
@@JackOfAllNerdsShow Definitely understand. Jam’s “acting” makes it really comical for me so I love it 😂
WHY ARE YOU SKIPPING EPISODES?! The Tale of Station 109.1 is next!
I'm not skipping episodes. I'm going in the American release order, which means Station 109.1 is episode 3 in season 5.
OHH NOW I GET IT! Sorry dude.@@JackOfAllNerdsShow
This was the first episode i ever saw as a kid in my grandma's basement (she had cable). That also meant i was young... Maybe 7 or 8 and it scared the bejesus out of me.
Haha! Yes, at 7 or 8, this would be traumatizing.
I didn't watch the show for like 2 years after that and then became a fan again when I was 10 lol@@JackOfAllNerdsShow
@@JackOfAllNerdsShowPS The cut to you being gone when they first show the monster was awesome haha
so i watched this episode before swimming at a rec center and when I was telling a bunch of kids about it they were scared, so I did the only thing that was funny at the time and swam to the other side of the pool out of sight and swam back and grab their leg and pulled them under, the scream was deafening
Haha! That is so cruel!
Damn this was the scariest episode throughout the whole show i was shocked Stig didn't get in the Midnight Society after that story. I think Tucker liked it and Betty Ann and maybe Sam i think Gary and Kiki said no but decided to give him another chance by coming to a couple of more meetings and to tell another story. I think Stig was a better storyteller than Kristen in my opinion that monster in this episode was creepy i saw this as a kid and it gwve me nightmares and fear the pool for a while
Yeah, that thing is easily the best monster of the entire series.
@@JackOfAllNerdsShow yes it gave me nightmares and fear of the pool for a while I think Sam Betty Ann and Tucker liked the story Kiki said no cause of the fact he kissed her and she didn't want him to be a member at all and I believe Gary sided with Kiki
I’ve been waiting this entire series for this episode to be covered 😂
Then I hope it didn't disappoint. 🙂
@@JackOfAllNerdsShow It did not! 😋
So this what the movie "Night Swim" was really inspired by
Haha! Sure seems that way.
The one we've all been waiting for!
Yes, this has to be the most requested episode.
Sweet! New episode, many thanks my friend 😇
Yeah, this episode has been requested for a while so I'm glad we are finally into season 5. Thanks for watching!
I'm almost fully convinced this episode inspired the movie Night Swim
I was thinking the same thing when I saw the trailer for it.
Great review! I agree, hands down the best monster design throughout the entire show! While the whole science thing in that episode is questionable. It doesn't take away how genuinely terrifying that episode was. The whole murder conspiracy around Gary had me laughing! 🤣🤣🤣
Very true and the show is meant for kids/teens in the 90s. Nobody at home was nitpicking the science. We would've just been nodding along with Zeke exclaiming how brilliant he was.
A lot better than the 2024 movie Nigh Swim
Yeah, I heard that was pretty bad.
@@JackOfAllNerdsShow it worst worst than pretty bad
Flaw in your theory. If Gary was a killer Tucker would have SO gotten bumped off a long time ago.
Oh, no, no, no. Gary is too smart for that. Little bro goes missing, they will definitely look into Scary Gary. You rope the bro into the murders as an accomplice. Gary blackmails him into helping by threatening to kill him if he doesn't. And, then Gar-bear has patsy to take the blame if things ever get too hot. Gary is very clever...either that or I just have the mind of a killer...hmm...strike that last statement from the record.
One of the scariest episodes, premieres, and creatures, in the series. Season 5 came in strong! Great review and happy healing, Michael! #90s #AYAOTD
Thank you!
@@JackOfAllNerdsShow My pleasure! Keep up the great work! The pool zombie will forever be nightmare fuel for the 90s kids.
Mostly Agreed, although I personally still think Zeebo and the man-eating demon in the basement are the scariest demonic characters in the entire series but the pool monster is definitely number 3 for me. Lastly, the Gary murder board… really, bro? :p
That is a fair assessment and fear is a personal thing. Not everyone is afraid of the same stuff, but I'm glad to hear that the pool monster makes your top 3 (I like how I said that like I created it).
@@JackOfAllNerdsShowAh, well at least Gare Bear didn’t kill me on the murder board. Just like my husband says - “You are the real life elusive Mortal Kombat character, Lady Kluck!” (If anyone has seen Disney’s “Robin Hood” - they will know that the fat one can never be seized and is the greatest football player in history - look up the “Seize the fat one clip”, people will understand) And any creature or person who dares to tackle Lady Kluck, ninja chop to the head. Fatality! No wonder my husband married me. ;)
This here is the episode that gave me nightmares. The only episode that actually terrified me so much watching it even now still makes me shiver.. When you said "Your theory doesn't hold much of it". I'm glad I wasn't drinking or eating anything. XD Stig was a disgusting creep, so I would have honestly not wanted him in the Society either.
Yeah, this is one of those episodes that genuinely could've scarred some children for life. Such a good episode; too bad it wasn't from one of the usual members.