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An amazing window into the 90s culture, Goosebumps is a classic. Some stories are creepy, some goofy, and some downright bad. Gotta appreciate it for the nostalgia.

In October 2007, Cartoon Network began airing episodes of the show Goosebumps. After looking it up on Wikipedia, I found that it was a Canadian show from the 1990's. I thought, "Old foreign show, may check it out." I hadn't read the books when I was little, so I didn't know what to expect. The first episode, "The Haunted Mask" aired, and I was instantly hooked.

Every episode was like a mix of a Twilight zone episodes and M. Night Shymalan film. Creepy atmosphere, and a twist ending. After watching this show, I asked my little brother to bring home as many of the books from the elementary school library as he could. As soon as I find the episodes on DVD, you can bet I'll buy them.

I admit I hated this show when I was a kid. I thought it was stupid and immature. Then again when this was on the AIR I was watching shows like X-Files and Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine so compared to the production values of those big American shows what chance does a little cheap Canadian show made for kids have anyways.

This show is very very very well done with great stories and episodes. For anyone born in the 80's and early 90's it's a reminder of what life was like and what life looked like back then when we were young. It's a good show because the stories are so good. I haven't a clue if they make shows like this any more but honestly they could reboot this show for this decade and for this batch of kids and I believe it would be just as good but in HD.

At the time of this review you can find this show on netflix. I recommend checking out a few episodes if you want something interesting but nonviolent, nonfilledwithswears, and wholesome. I'd let my kids watch this any day.

For a 1990s kid show I give this show 8 stars out of 10. Don't forget to read my other reviews. Thanks.

When I was a kid my all time favourite show was the Goosebumps TV show and of course the books as well. Some of them really scared me and give me nightmares. My favourite character was Slappy the living dummy.

I'm now 16 and I must say that the show is not at all scary to me anymore as I've watched many far more shocking things since the Goosebumps days. We all agree that the show was made for children which we all were when we loved it.

This is a really good show for children to view, but when you get older its just plain funny. My favourite episodes and books are still Welcome to Dead House, The Haunted Mask, Ghost Beach, The Ghost Next Door, Night of the living Dummy 2 and A Night in Terror Tower.

I would overall give RL Stines Goosebumps 10/10 stars as a good young person's creepy show. It will always remain a classic to me due to all the little thrills RL Stine and his wonderful book series give me whilst I was growing up.

Boy do I remember it well. Every Friday when I got home from school I would watch the newest horror story from the mind of R.L. Stine. And even though all I have left are old episodes on video tapes I still find it awfully clever. My favorite will always be the one with Slappy the evil ventriloquist's dummy. Slappy was always the scariest one to watch when I was a kid, after watching that I would get the willies and find it impossible to go to sleep. Other stories that would haunt my mind would be the Terror Tower, Fever Swamp, the haunted mask and welcome to dead house. For anyone who needs a good laugh or a good scare, R.L. Stine's Goosebumps is just the ticket.

Where do I start with this? I'm a huge fan of both the book and show, heres why. Growing up in the 90s, there was every kind of show a kid could love. Both live action and animated, there was much to offer, Ren and Stimpy, Clarissa explains it all, Freakaziod, the Tick, etc. One stood out to me. Goosebumps, I had read some of the books and when I saw the TV show, I fell in love with the series. The characters are super cliché, the dialogue is delightfully cheesy, and the monsters are really cool. My favorite monsters are the horror land creatures, Slappy, the Scarecrow, and the Mummy. This is truly a classic 90s show in every way. I would watch this every weekend, and even bring the tapes to my day care. In sort, this is one of the best shows from the 90s, and makes me miss fox kids even more. There used to be a show for everybody, now thats just a thing of the past.

Just started watching these on Netflix after watching the movie with my two daughters. The TV show has some surprisingly strong moments and my 10 year-old finds it too scary. My 8 year-old, however, loves it.

The stories are basically Twilight Zone episodes, with more ghosts and monsters. The biggest let-down is the acting. These kids all seem plucked from school drama classes rather than stage school and it really affects the execution and flow of the story. We've only watched a few episodes so far, but I noticed it particularly in Welcome To Camp Nightmare. There's a genuine escalation of weirdness, but Billy's reactions are so dull that it loses impact.

Anyway, the premise of "beginning, middle and twist" is nicely done in each episode and that's what makes these stories enjoyable to watch.

I started watching this show when I was 6 years old, and it really intrigued and scared me. I remember taping episodes to watch, later after school.

Looking back on it now, I can see flaws in the stories and don't really find it as mystifying as I used to. Although, I will always get nostalgic when watching it and that will always make me recommend this show to kids, and even people my age (17-18) for a good, light watch.

My favorite episodes will always be the Night Of The Living Dummy ones, for a good reason. They still give me the creeps to this day!

Overall, enjoyable watchable series that still entertains me. Highly recommended.

Back in the early to mid-'90s, I (and much of the rest of America's youth) loved R.L. Stine's "Goosebumps" series, which were as popular as Harry Potter in their day. To this day I still read them occasionally. Even when I was a kid I never found them all that scary (and when they got to "Series 2000", they took a huge nosedive very quickly), but they're entertaining enough and worth reading. When this show first came on the air, I used to watch it religiously. I haven't seen it in a good while, but I remember it well enough to give some sort of commentary.

The show experienced the same problem with the novels themselves: after two very spooky seasons of "regular Goosebumps", we had to go to "Ultimate Goosebumps", which relied more on sheer weirdness than genuine scares. A lot of the "Ultimate Goosebumps" eps were based off short stories from Stine's five or six "Tales To Give You Goosebumps" books, which each had ten stories of varying quality ("Old Story", "The Perfect School", the one with the ants, and "Click" I can name immediately). And the book adaptations ("Bride of the Living Dummy", "A Shocker On Shock Street") were VERY loose by that point. The older eps of the show, like "The Haunted Mask", "Night of the Living Dummy II", "It Came From Beneath The Sink", "Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes", "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp", etc., varied slightly from the book they were based on, but in general were very faithful to the stories. There were some later eps ("Welcome To Dead House", "Night of the Living Dummy III") that were very well done, but the best eps were in the first two seasons. The show isn't a whole lot to get worked up over (I'd recommend the original "Are You Afraid Of The Dark?" personally), but it isn't a bad waste of thirty minutes. But definitely read the books, at least #1-35, if you like these kind of stories.

Seven stars.

"Goosebumps" the television show was based on R.L Stine's popular horror stories for kids. This show was just rockin'! I clearly remember sitting down and watching it with my sister 'cause we were both fans of the show and of the books (my personal favourite is the "Monster Blood" stories). The show wasn't entirely scary (though it may scare very young children), it was rather cheesy actually, but in a good way. Anyhoo, me, my sister and our friends enjoyed watching it so. We taped some of the episodes (and actually have one of the episodes on video); I remember watching 'em all the time, but I have no idea were they are now.

In short, "Goosebumps" the show was a very faithful adaption to the stories and a whole lot of fun to watch. Now, if I can only just find those videos....

I think what the remake gets wrong is it not being an Anthology siries, or a 22 minute episode. The show is amazing, all 4 seasons consist of good episodes. And even the bad ones you can still laugh at today.

The Best in Siries 1 is definitely the "Haunted Mask" 2 parter that was great. Not only is it's premise good, but the characters have great growth too. Carley Beth, who's always getting scared and pranked by Chuck and Steve, as they know she is scared of EVERYTHING. So Carly who is sick of these pranksters decides to get a mask, to try and get them back. Little does she know the Mask is Alive!, and it's trapped onto her body. The pacing of the episode is great, lots happen but it is split into two whole parts. The WORST episode is "My hairest adventure" the plot is ridiculously strange. The boy or should I say Dog, plays in a band, and he's always getting chased by dogs. One day whilst being in the band he finds some Lotion, he puts it on his skin. And things start getting weird for him...he's becoming hairy. Hairy Larry. And then by the end of the episode he reverts back to his original self, a dog.

Series 2 has some fantastic episodes. The best is "Night of the Living Dummy" which is where Slappy terrorises these kids as he does best. The episode is great because Slappy is a Goosebumps icon, and any scene he's in, he's a scene steeler. The WORST episode though however is "Calling all Creeps" it's a nerdy kid who always gets picked on by his peers, and then makes a speech about it. And that's all I can ever really remember about that particular episode.

Siries 3 has it's ups and downs. The Best is "One day at Horrorland" where the Morris family get lost, and seem to find an amusement park. After arrival, things become strange, Mirrors closing in on them, Boat ride having a spider, and the door closing. And a game where they are the Lunch for the Monsters. And they are controlled by them, and then fall into the sea. The episode is bundles of fun. My least favourite is "DON'T go to Sleep" because this one puts me to sleep, quite literally. Whilst "Strained Peas" is probably and objectively speaking the worst episode, I do like the bond between the baby and brother, and becoming a bigger brother. And the bond between him and his best mate.

Siries 4. The best is "The Ghost Next door" as the girl is all fine and everything's going great for her. Until she's chased by a creature. She is then informed by the person next door that she is infact a Ghost. Which is a great plot-twist that comes out on nowhere. The worst is probably "How I got my Shrunken Head" for my I was bored entirely by it. And the magical elements didn't really make a whole lot of sense to me.

That's my run-down of the best and worst episode s of each siries in my Opinion. "Welcome to Dead House" is a fantastically creepy episode that is a place full of dead eating Zombie maniacs. This episode is also fun, and definitely recommend it. Especially with Halloween coming soon, it's the best time to do a horror marathon, and after that maybe even a Christmas marathon. Now time for my verdict.

Verdict,

7/10 Iconic, great music and fun episodes that contain creepy and weird stuff in them. Never forgetting the Iconic opening sequence with the Music.

R.L Stine is not one of my favorite writers, but I admire his work for making reading appealing for a whole generation. The show does a great job making the stories from the books come alive with decent acting, props, and effects. Even though I didn't see many of these episodes when they originally aired, I still enjoyed watching these as an adult. If you are unfamiliar with this show, just think of it as lighter child friendly version of Tales From the Crypt.

I used to watch this show a few years ago on FoxFamily (now ABCfamily) along with Eerie Indiana. Goosebumps wasn't intensely scary, just mysterious and suspenseful - it sure kept MY attention. Anyway, I guess you can only catch it on DVDs these days, as I do not believe it airs anywhere on television. All of the episodes are unique and, for the most part, have intriguing plots and endings.

So, in general, if you're looking for scarily satisfying shows to watch as a family, then Goosebumps is perfect. There are also movies that came out that are based on the old Goosebumps books we all loved to read. Good luck, and I hope you have as much fun watching the shows as I did!

Read the books as a kid watched the tv show came back 20 odd years later still love it as an adult great kids horror series based on the books amazing show even for the kids or if you're an adult

Goosebumps Viewer Beware You're In For A Scared. With a warning like that how could you expect not to be curious about Goosebumps.

"Goosebumps" is based by the book series of the same name by R.L.Stine and this is one of the few times when a show or movie based off a book does it right. Goosebumps was a very popular book series in the 1990s and R.L.Stine was consider the Stephen King of Children Horror stories and looking back he manage to create a series that grab children's attention and inspire them to read more. Also I have one Goosebumps book.

Now I'll be honest I was more into the book series "Animorphs" because it story line hold my interest more. But it didn't stop me from watching Goosebumps the TV Series

The Intro to Goosebumps remains one of my favorites as it starts off with R.L.Stine walking in a black hat and black jacket and briefcase and a chilling piano theme that still holds up today as being creepy whoever wrote the music for the theme deserves a lot of points because it still a creative theme song even more.

The episodes for Goosebumps were based off stories from the book series. A good percent of the episodes follow the story line of the books. For a children's show it still had the factor of fear.

Episodes like "The Haunted Mask", "The Girl Who Cried Monster", "Night Of The Living Dummy" "Stay Out Of The Basement", "A Night In Terror Tower", "The Werewolf Of Fever Swamp", "Attack Of The Mutant","Scarecrow Walks At Midnight" "Vampire Breath", "Werewolf Skin" I could keep on listing episodes of the show but these episodes are enough to hold your attention and send a chill up your spine. Now that's something you don't expect in a series based off a children book.

Goosebumps just takes what is already a horror theme story in it own right and made it very scary on TV also the theme song will get your attention to make you watch the show so give Goosebumps a shot but Beware You're In For A Scare.

I really enjoyed Goosebumps since I was in primary school and I remember once I went to a family friend's house and I saw one of the Goosebumps stories Legend of The Lost Legend but I didn't read it because I was so little at the time, I also remember my cousins had borrowed some from the library and one of them is Piano Lessons Can Be Murder which was my personal favorite along with Say Cheese and Die, The TV Show was not that scary at all I liked some of the episodes, when I first found out Goosebumps was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada I was surprised because the books were written in America but then I realized that it wasn't that bad, also does anyone know the schools and streets some of the episodes were filmed at?

Not every episode is great but when it is... it's fantastic.

When I was little in the years 1994 through 1998, I watched this show every single Friday afternoon and Saturday morning on the Fox Kids Network.

Slappy the living dummy was always and always will be my favorite character. I cannot even begin to find words to say how much I loved him, but here goes. I loved everything about Slappy ... his adorable character design, his adorable voice and one liners, and the way he and all the other ghouls were brought to life.

While Slappy the living dummy is by far the most Lovable thing about this show, the other ghouls rock too !!! They are terrifying yet G-rated enough to entertain little kids without giving them nightmares.

The Special Effects of this show -- the lighting, the makeup, the mechanical creatures -- were beyond realistic and very high-budget for a kid's show.

If you are looking for a great show that's cool for kids and enjoyable for adults to watch as well, check out GOOSEBUMPS on DVD.

R.L.Stine is one of the best horror writers to ever walk this planet!!! Slappy is and always will be one of my childhood heroes !!! I'm now a college student of 23, but whenever I'm watching Slappy and Goosebumps , I can travel back in time ... back to four of the most memorable years of my childhood !!!

This was a good kids show. I'm surprised it didn't last longer because all the kids I knew liked it. There's a lot more shows like it now but back then there weren't many good "scary" shows for kids and this was one of the better shows that there were. Good stories and acting for a kid show.

A fun time capsule that doesn't always age well but still deceivers some pretty solid episodes.

Introduced to this show through a sibling who devoured R. L. Stine's books, I found I initially couldn't form my opinion of it since the first handful of episodes I saw happened to be based on the books I hadn't read (why is it the books you most want to read are the hardest to find?), but once I was lucky (unlucky?) enough to see ones based on the stories I'd read, my opinion was: the ones whose story counterparts I hadn't seen were decent on their own, but those based off of books I had were mediocre in comparison. All of them do seem pretty formula now in retrospect: an evil threatens but only the young protagonist realizes and has a difficult time making anyone else aware. The books are almost always formula in this point too - but Stine was phenomenal in spicing the stories up by conjuring up different humorous dialogue, explanations for the evil, or details to make it seem impressive to a kid. I found the books to be interesting but the show was never enough to scare even a 6-year-old, and I wondered why Stine was actually the host on this show rather than rejecting writers Billy Brown & Dan Angel and hunting for someone more faithful. The fact that (with a few exceptions that ran 2 episodes), each story was limited to less than 30 minutes (the commercial breaks which accounted for the "less than" were surrounded by fade-outs of some new terror arising - which, even the youngest viewer realized after a few breaks, would be a false alarm when it resumed) rushed the plots of stories I laughed and fascinated over in book form, giving no time to absorb the scares, other than the phony ones resolved in 60 seconds while the camera dimmed and returned. I appreciated significantly more those that ran 2 episodes for just under an hour, even with the fade-outs still causing boredom. The plots of these left on a cliffhanger after one episode and there was usually a better twist at the end. Also, since fewer action scenes were shown in most of the single-episode simpler stories, special effects were severely limited; I never found the antagonists as terrifying as they could be in imagination. Example: the book "Let's Get Invisible" doesn't instantly reveal who the being behind the mirror is, but the show has a dead giveaway as he wears a jersey with BACKWARD LETTERING - just plain cheesy! In the 3rd series, a large number of episodes were wasted not on books, but on short stories in his compilations Stories to Give You Goosebumps, which contained 10 boring stories (the one I tried and failed to read was the one never used to base TV scenes off of, but I'm sure the others were no better) which often provoked no fear even on the page - imagine how a screen adaption even weaker than their book basis would've been! No, the plot wasn't rushed; even worse - it was as though the while plot was shown but it was a rushed story to begin with! Ironically my favorite episode (along with a 3-part story I shouldn't mention; it wasn't based on a book) of which I've seen was one of these, "Click" - I doubt it was meant to be scary, but it did make me laugh expecting that the boy who exploited a space- and time-controlling remote could so easily be punished! I just wish I could punish the writers for such a weak adaptation, even to a kid, of a kid's favorite serial.