I was between 8-11 years old from the duration of Goosebumps TV from 1995-1998. I remember being excited when it was on tv and watched nearly every episode I think i missed 1 or 2 episodes.
How old were you when Goosebumps ran on tv in the 90s?
I was 4-7 when Goosebumps aired, but I'm fairly certain I didn't start watching until I was 5 or 6. I remember taping Welcome to Dead House when it first aired. I still have the tape!
shareI was 1-2 when the series first aired, and 4 and a half or maybe 5 when it stopped. I didn't start getting into the books until I was 7, and found out there was a Fox Kids tv series when some of the book covers mentioned there being one. I've seen all the episodes countless times, and still watch the series on Netflix. I enjoyed the movie a lot too!
shareI was 2 when the show first aired.. But not until 20 years later I really watched it.
First time I heard about Goosebumps is when I was 12, it's in the form of books and I don't like reading so I don't really know what Goosebumps really is. Then the movie comes out (Jack Black as RL Stine), at first I saw the movie just to keep my friend accompany but then I'm getting interested.
Until last week I scroll pass Netflix and I found the series version of Goosebumps! I'm so excited watching the show I feel like I'm a little kid again! I finish 13 episodes in three days lol
Movies and tv series will be the death of me
gezz i'm the oldest one here so far makes me feel old lol
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shareI was around 6-9 when it first aired in '95-'98. Goosebumps(both books and shows) were my life, still are in my heart/soul. I remember wanting to get my schoolwork done as fast as I could, rush home soon after and watch the series at around 4 on FOX. Great times! Aww...when us kids' had childhoods by watching good shows like this, going outside all day, coming in late, video stores,etc... Good thing I wasn't suckered in technology as a kid. I think I had my first cell phone at 16! Of course my father bought me a PS1 in 1997 but I rarely played it so uhhhh...
PS:I loved the toys Taco Bell gave out of the GOOSEBUMPS' characters too.
enjoyed being a 90s kid
shareI was the same age as you.
shareI was in my mid 20s when it originally aired but didn't start watching it un til the later seasons
"What are we supposed to use? Harsh language?"
I was 8 when it started. While I was a gigantic fan of the book series and worshiped Are You Afraid of the Dark? (one of the all-time most brilliant scary anthologies & my gateway to Beyond Belief, Tales From the Crypt/Darkside, The Twilight Zone, etc.), I didn't adore this show quite as much. I still have Welcome to Dead House & Stay Out of the Basement (I think) on VHS, and I thought the series got off to a good start. What I didn't like so much was when it'd get a bit cheesy, or do episodes NOT based on a Goosebumps book. I think if they could've reached AYAotD?-level and stayed there, the books would've provided material for an amazingly good and very long anthology series. It was perhaps on par with the also-short-lived Nightmare Room (better than most of those, actually)--but then the recent Haunting Hour actually had a few (imo) Goosebumps-book-worthy creepy tales.
And I just watched the new film with Jack Black recently! Give it a 7/10. (Obligatory spoiler warning if anyone hasn't seen this.) Of course I wish it could have somehow dealt with more of the individual creatures/monsters/characters and storylines in-depth, but this really was the only way to incorporate as many as possible into a single homage to the entire series. Jack was great. The Hannah storyline was pretty emotional and added a little more substance, although I predicted the solution to that issue--just write her back into your world! The film merged elements of Jumanji, Night at the Museum, and Hocus Pocus (the latter being especially evident in the school gymnasium scene.)
I knew it wasn't really going to be all that "scary" like the books, and more of a comedy...which it definitely is...but nonetheless, a good watch for any Goosebumps lover. Which I most certainly am. Looking for the different monsters in the movie, matching them up to the stories, almost all of which I remember reading (and oh, those covers! Permanently etched in my mind thanks to hours of gazing upon their bold, vivid beauty!) My lifelong love of all things spooky, eerie, supernatural, and macabre can be attributed to Goosebumps and all the aforementioned series, as well as the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark trilogy, Fear Street, Spingetinglers, Bone Chillers, In a Dark Dark Room, the one Christopher Pike novel I think I still have in my basement (My Boyfriend's Back or something?), that other collection of spooky campfire tales I think is down there too, etc. I always went for any scary-looking book I could get my hands on. :3
I was only 3 years old. I remember watching a television network that would air Goosebumps every once
in awhile and then I remember in school we would have annual book fairs and the Goosebumps Series was
always a favorite. Now being older, I am re-watching all of the Goosebumps on Netflix from start to end, so far I am
in the middle of Season 3. I also just receive a lot of 22 books from RL Stine himself. I will never be too old for a good scare!
I was 7 when the first episode aired and I was 10 when the last episode aired/the series ended.
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