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Anon e Mouse Jr. said...

Well... that was disturbing. Seriously, what was Stine on when he wrote this one?

Incidentally, when you finish off this particular series (with "More Tales to Give You Goosebumps"), are you going to do another Retrospective post to wrap it up? (That was not a mummy joke, I swear.)

Until next time...

Anon e Mouse Jr.

OCTOBER 31, 2008 11:48 PM

troy steele said...

Probably not, though I will say that the Christmas collection remains the best thing I've read for the blog.

NOVEMBER 1, 2008 12:02 AM

Zak said...

Yeah... they even took one of the short stories and made it into an hour-long special TV episode. Despite how much they changed it it happens to be my favorite episode. It was MUCH better than the book version.

NOVEMBER 2, 2008 7:26 PM

Groggy Dundee said...

I'm assuming you're referring to The Perfect School? Yeah, that was one of the better TV episodes.

NOVEMBER 2, 2008 8:52 PM

Zak said...

Yeah I am. Thank god it's finally on youtube.

BTW Troy will there be an update this Tuesday?

I can tell you'll have a field day with Scream School and I forget how it ends... please tell me there's an update.

Oh, and don't forget to vote... if the election[1] causes it to be a day late I understand, just... YOU MUST SUFFER THROUGH SCREAM SCHOOL THIS WEEK!!

NOVEMBER 02, 2008 11:18 PM

troy steele said...

Yes, there will be an update Tuesday.[Note 1] It will be tinged with either joy or sorrow, depending on how the election goes.

NOVEMBER 2, 2008 11:26 PM

Anon e Mouse Jr. said...

Anon e Mouse Jr. said: "And by the way, did you know you were mentioned in the "Twist Endings" section of the Goosebumps page on Wikipedia?"[Note 2]

In case it wasn't clear, Troy, that was aimed at you.

Until next time...

Anon e Mouse Jr.

NOVEMBER 03, 2008 11:20 PM

troy steele said...

There's something vaguely unpleasant about being called a blogger (what's wrong with 'writer'), but I thank whoever quoted me nonetheless.

NOVEMBER 4, 2008 8:11 AM

Anonymous said...

I was... I was kinda hoping we could reference politics without actually bringing politicians into it.

NOVEMBER 04, 2008 12:32 PM

troy steele said...

I'm not going to name names because this is a blog for everyone, be you Republican, Democrat, or some Third Party. That's why I try to avoid political jokes or references. But it's probably pretty obvious who I didn't vote for: Wendell Willkie[2]

NOVEMBER 4, 2008 3:14 PM

troy steele said...

Okay gang, so I'm pushing this week's update to Thursday. But next week should be back to the normal schedule (hold for laughter)[Note 3]

NOVEMBER 4, 2008 9:58 PM

Groggy Dundee said...

You beep.

NOVEMBER 04, 2008 10:05 PM

troy steele said...

It's just not Blogger Beware without late entries

NOVEMBER 4, 2008 10:08 PM

Anonymous said...

I was doing some research and the apparntly the following goosebumps books were ghostwritten:
Attack of The Jack O Lanterns
Calling All Creeps
Bad Hare Day
Night Of The Living Dummy II

NOVEMBER 6, 2008 6:10 AM

Anonymous said...

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/r-l-stine/

NOVEMBER 06, 2008 1:16 PM

troy steele said...

That listing is confusing the original books with the TV Series novelizations[Note 4]

NOVEMBER 6, 2008 1:22 PM

Zak said...

Morbidiculous: The list is in my head, not on paper, but what is your email? I'll try and send it to you.

Also some of them I just remember the last words of the sentence.

Also it's going on midnight... where the fook is our update?

NOVEMBER 06, 2008 8:40 PM

troy steele said...

It's nowhere near midnight and I'm writing it now

NOVEMBER 6, 2008 8:53 PM

Anonymous said...

I believe it was the famous Jewish American writer Saul Bellow who said that California "is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need."

And Stine ain't got shit on Bellow.

NOVEMBER 06, 2008 9:24 PM

troy steele said...

Save that venom for tonite's Hollywood-set book. Choice moment: "Let's go walk around the UCLA campus!"

NOVEMBER 6, 2008 9:33 PM

Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. It was shifted to Thursday, a full week after this review.
  2. Here's what it looked like back then.

    One of the most well-known twists is My Hairiest Adventure, when the main characters, in the words of blogger Troy Steele, "turned out to be dogs or something" (as the result of a failed science experiment).

  3. If you can believe it, The Mummy Walks indeed fell on a Tuesday.
  4. Troy is correct here.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. In 2008, it was Barack Obama vs John McCain.
  2. The Republican candidate for president in 1940. He lost to FDR. It's not exactly clear why Troy references him, but presumably it's because Willkie was relevant long before most readers of the blog were even alive. Weirdly, Troy would reference him again later in the same month.