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The following page contains every comment from Full Moon Fever to receive a reply from Troy.

Comments[edit | edit source]

Unknown said...

Double comment, I just remembered that Full Moon Fever is an album by Tom Petty.[1] That Stein is really reaching out to the kids of today with titles that relate to the late 80s.

DECEMBER 22, 2009 7:46 PM

troy steele said...

Yeah, Peter Bogdanovich accidentally devoted fifteen minutes of Runnin' Down a Dream to this book.[2] And no one noticed

DECEMBER 22, 2009 7:57 PM

Ken said...

Troy I must say, this abomination of literature was truly horrible! I saw the cover for the book on this page, and I shit you not, I knew your health was in danger. How do you feel Troy?

DECEMBER 22, 2009 7:58 PM

troy steele said...

Peckish. I think I'll eat one of these GET WELL bars. OH NO, IT ACTUALLY SAYS 'GET HELL'!!!!!!!!

DECEMBER 22, 2009 8:02 PM

Jackie said...

Crazy question, but when you wrap up Series 2000, you're not planning on covering Give Yourself Goosebumps or Fear Street are you?[3]
Anyways, Love your blog!

JANUARY 06, 2010 8:09 AM

troy steele said...

Not so crazy a question but there are already several blogs out there that cover Fear Street, so no that at least. When I finish with the 2000, it'll be time for Horrorland. When that's done and all the Goosebumps ephemera is covered (including at least one of the Give Yourself Goosebumps), the blog's done[Note 1]

And Revenge R Us is definitely worse

JANUARY 9, 2010 3:30 PM

Ken said...

I miss when Troy would give us exaggerated assurances of the progress on updates.
Oh well, we can always enjoy the hilarity of older posts :)

JANUARY 25, 2010 7:49 PM

troy steele said...

Update soon, Ken[Note 2]

JANUARY 29, 2010 6:50 PM

troy steele said...

Big news soon, gang[Note 3]

FEBRUARY 7, 2010 9:13 PM

Blogger Beware Lover said...

Blogger Beware:The Movie! Starring Nicholas Cage as Troy Steele.[4]

FEBRUARY 10, 2010 7:54 PM

troy steele said...

If only!

FEBRUARY 10, 2010 8:41 PM

Millie said...

I await Troy's news with trepidation! Could it be to do with the mysterious anon who somehow knows that Troy "smells nice"?[Note 4]

FEBRUARY 11, 2010 7:04 AM

troy steele said...

If only!

FEBRUARY 11, 2010 7:34 AM

Groggy Dundee said...

I wouldn't be surprised if Stine knew about the blog already.

FEBRUARY 13, 2010 8:04 PM

troy steele said...

He does[Note 5] and while I'm sure you meant well, there's no reason to go rubbing his nose in what's admittedly a pretty mean-spirited denouncement of his work

FEBRUARY 13, 2010 8:21 PM

troy steele said...

I'm about five pages into Slappy's Nightmare and already the dummy has Tyson'd a little kid until he lost consciousness and deafened an entire auditorium with a siren that made it feel like "there's a knife in [their] ears."

Great.

FEBRUARY 14, 2010 3:34 PM

bob said...

I read R.L. Stine's Twitter some more and it turn out Let's Get Invisible was inspired by a movie called "Flatliners"[5]

FEBRUARY 18, 2010 1:32 PM

troy steele said...

Wow, now there's your silk purse[Note 6]

FEBRUARY 18, 2010 1:56 PM

Millie said...

... so, telling us that if we leave garbage lying around it might mutate into a vast, terrifying monster is supposed to make us NOT want to litter, is it?

In Troy's "retrospective on the series" post he mentioned that RL had stated somewhere that the Horrors used to be burn victims. Does anyone know where that came from?

FEBRUARY 25, 2010 5:18 PM

troy steele said...

It came from one of the books that were packaged with the Goosebumps POGs[6]

FEBRUARY 25, 2010 8:42 PM

smells good said...

whoops did i say troy steele?i ment troys steel coloured,bacon flavered,bittersweet...
CUSTARD!!!

muh hah ha ha!!!
no more excuses for delayed updates now!

MARCH 20, 2010 3:20 PM

troy steele said...

Good entries come to those who wait. So do adequate and boring ones though, so who knows

MARCH 20, 2010 7:35 PM

Millie said...

... so, "smells good" ate Troy but is also pretending to BE Troy to put us off the scent? Confusion much?

The title "The Wizard of Ooze"[7] makes me laugh way more than it should

MARCH 21, 2010 4:58 AM

troy steele said...

[citation needed][Note 7]

MARCH 21, 2010 4:55 PM

Anonymous said...

I enjoy reading this blog, but I had to get some work done. So I copied and pasted the entries into a Text File and selected the "Speak" option while performing menial tasks. You really haven't lived until you've heard your computer gravely deadpan "Jesus. This book." or "Dear R.L. Stine. Get fucked."

APRIL 03, 2010 7:56 AM

troy steele said...

Now there's a podcast I could get behind.

APRIL 3, 2010 9:08 AM

Groggy Dundee said...

I read two of the Shivers books as a kid, one had a haunting swimming pool[8] and I'm damned if I can remember the other one. They were a lot more serious and mature than Goosebumps if memory serves.

APRIL 03, 2010 6:39 PM

troy steele said...

I was more of a Bone Chillers kid myself. Now a Bone Chillers Blog, that I'd read[9]

APRIL 3, 2010 10:06 PM

Millie said...

Someone did actually start a blog devoted to the "Strange Matter" series: http://revisitingstrangematter.blogspot.com/. I did read most of Bone Chillers at some point but can only remember the one in which a school is taken over by giant insects[10] (and throwing up copiously after it thanks to a particular scene I will not describe here!)

APRIL 04, 2010 4:15 PM

troy steele said...

That one with the insect lunchroom stuff[11] was truly a one-way ticket to Vom City

APRIL 4, 2010 5:03 PM

Anonymous said...

Where the fuck is the update troy? Almost everyday i check and no update. It's quite sad. Like in a horror movie when u judt keep praying for the blood and gore to show up, or the main charactor to stop being wussy ( THE VAMPIRE"S ASSISTANT movie[12] and MONSTER BLOOD) and it doesn't deliver. :(

APRIL 12, 2010 4:14 PM

troy steele said...

Just wait til I blow your minds when the blog goes back on a regular schedule. Until then, patience, &c[Note 8]

APRIL 12, 2010 4:26 PM

Anonymous said...

Just read "Little Shop of Hamsters."[13] It rivals Revenge Of The Lawn Gnomes for the most mundane enemy ever.

APRIL 13, 2010 8:01 AM

troy steele said...

Jesus Christ, is there really a Goosebumps book called "Little Shop of Hamsters"?[13]

APRIL 13, 2010 8:55 AM

Spongey444 said...

Surprised Troy didn't this despite SEVERAL comments mentioned it. At Lawn gnomes are kinda creepy looking.[Note 9]

APRIL 13, 2010 1:06 PM

troy steele said...

I must've blocked it out, Katharine Hepburn in Suddenly, Last Summer-style[14]

APRIL 13, 2010 2:17 PM

Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. Troy never covered a Give Yourself Goosebumps book. Stine continued to make more Goosebumps books, and Troy never caught up.
  2. Nope.
  3. Nope.
  4. I won't bother reposting it here, but one user typed out several weird comments, ranging from bizarre to obscene.
  5. This is true.
  6. Look, it's this wiki's job to explain references. That's all well and good, but sometimes Troy will say something like this that really doesn't make much sense. Maybe he was saying, "Wow, now there's [something valuable/really good]." Is it a reference? Is it sarcastic? I have no idea. I don't even know if this was the specific comment he was responding to.
  7. Troy was responding to one particularly obscene comment from the "smells good" user. I'll spare you the pain of looking at that trash.
  8. After Earth Geeks Must Go!, Troy would stick to schedule for a few weeks.
  9. Presumably he meant, "At least lawn gnomes are kinda creepy looking.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. The man and the album.
  2. Bogdanovich directed Runnin' Down a Dream, a 2007 documentary film about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  3. Give Yourself Goosebumps is a spinoff to Goosebumps, and Fear Street was another series by Stine designed for slightly older audiences.
  4. Popular as an internet meme, Cage is an actor known for his unique performances and (often) overacting.
  5. A psychological horror film from 1990 about medicals students attempting to discover what lies beyond death.
  6. Officially called the Goosebumps Collector's Caps books.
  7. Goosebumps HorrorLand, book #17.
  8. Shivers was a Goosebumps knockoff series by M.D. Spenser. This user was likely referring to Pool Ghoul.
  9. Bone Chillers (by Betsy Haynes) was another knockoff series.
  10. Probably Attack of the Killer Ants.
  11. Probably Back to School.
  12. This, I believe.
  13. 13.0 13.1 Goosenumps HorrorLand, book 14.
  14. A a 1959 "Southern Gothic mystery" film about repressed memories.