Top 5 Best Are You Afraid of the Dark? Episodes
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Walter counts down the Top 5 best of one of Nickelodeon's best shows, Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a Canadian American horror fantasy-themed anthology television series. The original series was created by D.J. MacHale and Ned Kandel, and was picked up by Nickelodeon in 1991.
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What are your favorite Are you Afraid of the Dark Episodes? What would you like to see on a future Top 5? Let us know in the comments.
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I'd have to say that the tale of the dark music is my favorite
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"The Tale of the Shiny Red Bicycle" is my favorite episode. It isn't really scary, but it will make you cry. I like the idea that someone would only come back as a ghost in order to help you rather than hurt you.
I just watched that episode last night
That's my favorite episode as well.
Facts I watched that as a really young kid
Still remember this one best
Have you see the goosebumps the ghost next door?
I love this show
Does anyone have that feeling that something isn't scary in the day but when you go to bed your really scared or just me
28 years young and have to say,I can watch whatever horror or scary during the day but even as an adult it's those thoughts that hit you at night,I feel you
Man I ditched my friends playing football to watch these. What a great memories about school days T_T
Who won?!?!
As a little kid who loved movies and was deathly afraid of vampires, Tale of the Midnight Madness absolutely terrified me.
Man, I miss being scared.
Imedias Rez i miss having feelings. Not having them makes me sad.
New Flesh congratulations! You felt two feelings
Imedias Rez Just think about how close we're getting to being nuked and you'll be scared again.
Jacob C. Mayer we're like what 3 or 2&1/2 minutes to midnight? This is possibly the (literally) ultimate time to be alive.
I was freaked out as a kid when I saw that episode. Looking back, it was awesome.
Are You Afraid of the Dark definitely had better, darker stories than Goosebumps. The books were probably better (I never bother to read them), but the hokey acting with less eerie stories made Goosebumps falter behind AYAofD.
Yes, the books were much better than the TV series.
@@dbzgal04 no
@@masonwright7700Yes.
"The Tale of the Dead Man's Float" should have been more than an honorable mention. Out of all of the episodes I saw of the show, this left the biggest impression and was the only one that came close to scaring my 10 year old self.
90's kids unite 💕
2000's too
@@Peacemaker-96 basically anyone who loves this show
Tale of the dead mans floats at least deserved to be on the list if not number 1 or 2
Agreed. I remember being in grade school, watching that episode Saturday night and then coming to school Monday and having my friends be like "Hey, did you watch Are you Afraid of the Dark? Was that not the best episode they've ever had?"
God that episode was terrifying
The only reason it wasn’t was because the pool zombie was on the best monsters list. In that video, he said no monsters from the best episodes list
The episode scared the hell out of me worse than any other.
overrated just bcos of how the ghost/monster looks
This show was BADASS! If I’d had a nickel for every ass this show kicked, I’d be rich.
Happy Birthday Walter Banasiak!
The tale of the dead man's float was my all time favourite episode. I didn't go in a pool for years. The phantom cad is a close second.
This show was even more terrifying than Goosebumps!
The Tale of the Dead Man's Float was my favorite. It was scary and had some pretty good acting in it.
I was in grade school when that episode came out. It premiered Saturday night. I came to school Monday morning and a bunch of my friends immediately asked me if I'd seen it. Everyone agreed it was the best episode the show had produced up to that point. I don't think they ever surpassed it.
My favorite one is about the boy stuck in a pinball game....
Robert Norman hey that was my fav too. but alot of top 10 listers dont like it. say it wadnt scary. but i thought it was still cool
Yeah The Pinball Wizard is up there for me.. it might not be that "scary", but it's still creepy and doesn't have a happy ending..
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It was a cool episode, but it wasn’t all that scary until the very end, when the guy realizes that the pinball means it’s game over for him...
My fav episode was the "Tale of the Dream Machine" where any story written on a typewriter becomes real to the people involved if read out loud.
Loved the Shiny Red Bike, so glad it got an honorable mention.
Noooooooo. The best was Tale of the Dead Man's Float. It was my Jaws. I didn't go swimming for years. I was even scared being in the bath tub.
Melissa Bosquez this is why my sister made sure that I didn’t watch this show
I know right, how could he not include an episode with a watery, crimson-red, zombie-like ghost that drowns it’s victims?
My favourite character was always Sardo. "No mister, accent on the doh!"
Dr. Vink. With a Va Va Va.
Mr Sardo. Emphasis on the Doh.
Mr. Sardo! That's a name I haven't heard in a while!
Again going back to wondering if Sardo ever got his own spinoff
Never happened.
Sar-Doh! no Mister, accent on the Doh
What's the matter Andy? Don't you wanna have some fun!?!
When I was a kid that gaint doll freaked me out
That's my favorite episode!
Oh yeah! This is gonna be some show!
"Ha ha ha, whats the matter kids, cant take a joke??" Name that dude..
What's the matter, Aaandy?
A F R A I D O F T H E D A R K ?
I'm glad that the tale of the dark music made honorable mentions at least. that's the only episode that truly scared me even recently that I had to pause the episode and wait a couple of hours to finish watching it. 😂
The vampires in the hospital episode was always my favorite
Tbh I was a bit younger when this series aired in our country, but there are a few faded memories of episodes imprinted in there, like the Tale of Oblivion, which was my favorite one. Being a youngin' who just started their fascination of drawing and being an artist, the episode scared me yet made me love it more because of the concept of it.
This was one of my favorite shows back in the 90’s.
Ghost neighbors, vampire neighbors, neighbors
a lot of the episodes hAve neighbors
That's because it's something the child viewers could relate to. Weird neighbors and what they do behind closed doors were (are?) something that fascinated kids. Look how much kids' horror fiction involves prying into the private lives of adults to discover they're an alien or a monster or something. It's because kids are curious about what grown-ups do, and make up stories about them, and shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark? really played up this angle to scary effect. You know, "Your weird neighbor? He's a werewolf!" and so forth.
Clearly those kids did not live in great neighborhoods.
@@williamhiers1280 Growing up, my block had one of those neighbors the kids made stories up about. It didn't help that he was an old man named Mr. Roach, yes, really that was his name, or that his house was the only one set back the farthest on the block and literally had a hedge bush acting like a fence, and a bunch of really tall pine trees around keeping the house in shade, and an unpaved driveway was the only way to walk up to the house. It really did look like a classic haunted house tucked away in the woods, on an otherwise normal city block.
There were stories how he'd chase kids away and if you trick or treated at his door step, he'd greet you with a chain saw! I used to have nightmares from what other kids on the block used to say about him.
@Warren Brown
That's who I'm quoting
"Tale of the Pinball Wizard" and "Tale of the Quicksilver" were a couple of my favorites.
Zeebo The Clown, nuff said
The Crimson Clown was way scarier, and had an actual screen presence. Heck, the Ghastly Grinner was scarier, if only because we saw him. Zeebo hid behind corners. His episode felt cheap and empty. Also the actor playing the main kid (who was also Megabyte in The Tomorrow People) was awful.
I'm with ya man, for my taste the BEST episode of the show.
How could you possibly miss The Tale of the Pinball Wizard? Without a doubt, that was the best episode of the series and had the coolest ending of them all.
That ending still stays in my head because there's no way he escaped that giant pinball.
Loved this show growing up!
I can't give a top 5 since I was like 6 when I watched most of this show, but there is one that consistently sticks out when I think of this show. I can't remember what the Tale was, but These kids go to a haunted house/Funhouse, and there's this animatronic clown that has glowing Red eyes, and a felt nose. He pops out of a door at the end of the house. One kid decides to steal the Clown's nose.(If I remember correctly to prove he was there to his friends.) Eventually the clown starts haunting the kid, showing up in his closet, and (I think) Even abducts the Kid's Mom. The Kid finally goes back and gives the clown the nose. He thinks it's over, but at the end you hear the clown laugh maniacally making you think that's not the case.
I also remember one (it may have been the Nosferatu episode or even a different show, but I swear it was on Nick when I saw it.) That involved a Vampire in a theater (I think it was the tale of the Vampire at the Cineplex or something) But these two Ushers wind up fighting it, and one gets bitten by the Vampire, and they have to kill the Master Vampire to turn the other human again.
The episode with Zeebo the Clown is called "Laughing in the Dark."
I thought that might have been it after I watched the video, but wasn't sure. Thanks!
The one with Zeebo the Clown is the one I always remember too! Scared the bejeebers out of me every time. That, and the one where a girl walks into a dollhouse through a door in the attic, only to get slowly turned into a doll herself.
These are the two episodes I remember the most as well. Weird! The third one is where an old man can't fall asleep or else ghouls/zombies appear and try to kill him, so the old man goes years without sleeping.
I felt sorry for that man. I thought it sucked that he couldn't get any sleep.
Gilbert Gotfried is a huge horror movie fan, so he must have loved being in that show. And I still remember the tale of the thirteenth floor. Glad it got an honorable mention.
This show and Goosebumps both creeped me out as a kid in the 90s but in my opinion Are You Afraid Of The Dark was scarier. Are You Afraid Of The Dark had a couple of episodes though that were more sad than scary. I can't remember the names of them but I think one was called "The Tale Of Apartment 28" or something like that and it was about a girl that befriended a lonely elderly lady. The lady wanted the girl to show up on a certain day but the girl didn't. The girl goes back to the apartment and discovers it's empty. The room becomes dark as she sees the lady, the girl apologizes to the lady for not showing up and the lady says "that was the day I died!". The other saddest episode was I think called "The Jukebox" and it was about the ghost of a soldier from World War II trying to find his girlfriend, it ends with the spirits of the two dancing. The scariest episode to me was "Dead Man's Float".
The Tale of the Dark Music was my favorite simply for the ending. Also, Tale of the Dead Man's float terrified me.
As for Silver Sight, I do wish that Kiki, Betty Ann, and Frank also returned for the movie. It would have been nice to see them especially because they were in the original Midnight Society for so long. (Even though Frank left before the final season)
The Tale of Laughing in the Dark, and The Tale of the Dollmaker were my favorites. Especially the Dollmaker, since what was happening to that girl (and how her hand broke off) was just disturbing!
The real question is
Which one is better goosebumps or A.Y.A.O.T.D?
hmmm, maybe goosebumps
Goosebumps is just old Twilight Zone episodes dumbed down and shortened for kids. This is its description from R.L. Stein.
Elliot Bal Hard to say, I grew up with Goosebumps both the books and the show so I'm partial to that one, yet I'll admit this show looks pretty good, similar in story,tone, age demographic to Goosebumps so my guess is you'll favor whichever one you grew up with.
Goosebumps for sure.
Elliot Bal Television-series-wise, AYAOTD. The episodes of Goosebumps tended to cut out the good parts of the books, like all the blood.
Omg Tale of the Midnight Madness haunted me for years!
the episode in s1 when the kid locks his bully in his hAUNTED BASEMENT AND HE EFFING DIES SCARRED ME. also the one with the wishes and the kids bestfriend wished his parents dead like ohmygod
the basement monster is the only one I can remember
Ally D Tale Of Dark Music
I know this is a really long shot but I remember this one show that had two kids leading you to different "haunted places" and talking to you about the history of the place and the legends. Then later in the show a scientist friend of theirs talked and I remember for one episode he showed you how to make it look like you're headless while you're sitting down at a table. I don't remember the name but I swear it wasn't just a fever dream of mine!! PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!
They listened to our prayers!
Tale of the Crimson Clown was always my favourite. Quite scary for a kids show and the style is similar to stuff like Nightmare on Elm Street, always loved 80's horror.
Eerie, Indiana next ?
That was the best show OMG!!!
The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor is my favorite episode by far. Kind if sad to see it only listed as an honorable mention
#4 - Dangit. Why'd they have to use my name AND clowns AND make me a jerk?
Tale of the Dream Girl ought to have made the top 5. M. Night Shyamalan watched that episode, I would suspect. When I saw the Sixth Sense, I knew that I had seen that twist done before. Years later, after rewatching AYAOTD, I saw Dream Girl episode and remembered.
all the episodes are on youtube in HD
Glad to see Dead Man's Float and Magician's Assistant got honourable mentions :> One of my favourites is the Tale of the Bookish Babysitter, it was a nice twist on the setup of a typical AYAOTD ep
I'm glad you credited the Dream Girl. That one is my favourite.
I'll never forget one day coming home from riding my bike one beautiful day in October of 1994 when my Mom informed me of a scary show that was on TV that night The episode in question........The Tale Of The Crimson Clown. Scared the shit out of me but for some reason I watching it over and over again after recording it on VHS. The Sliver Sight was good enough to have been made into a Movie!!!!!
My fav was The Tale of the Ghost Nurse or something along those lines.
Just because how it differs from the normal evils, all was a poor mistake that is very possible IRL and killed a kid and ruined a nurse's life...which can totally happen....it just makes it all the more dark.
The tale of the gasthly grinner is my all time fave
The Tale of the Doll Maker freaked me out as a child because my grandmother was a high end porcelain doll maker and my mother looked like the little girl in the story, and shares her name. It was a little too close to home lol
There's also The Tale of the Hungry Hounds. I thought that one was done so well and no one ever mentions it.
I was hoping that the "Telephone Police" episode would get an honorable mention, loved that one
I hope you will do a top five of R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series.
It was a pretty good show.
Are You Afraid of the Dark NEEDS a spiritual successor, if not just a straight up sequel.
I think it was from Are You Afraid of the Dark (All the horror shows I watched as a kid bleed together) but there's two lines that will forever echo from my childhood:
"I'm cold..."
"I want to play. I want to play. I want to play."
Top 5 best and worst episodes of So Weird if you can. 😍
Woa, there's a throwback.
That would be cool, just got done rewatching that not too long ago.
I loved watching Are you afraid of the dark and Tails from the crypt back in the 90’s
I personally think the intro is more entertaining than the show
SJ RANKS I always wondered where they captured the footage. Where did they find that boat and how did they know a blue filter would turn it into nightmare fuel?
Omg who could forget the Tale of the Silver Sight, that was awesome!
I'm early let me think of a joke
I can't think of any...
Bucks Superfan at least you're honest
The only episode I remember actually scaring me involved vampires in a hospital, attacking patients at night.
I am not afraid of the dark
I am afraid of Tom and Jerry and willy wonka and the Chocolate Factory
As a kid, I was always curious about what they threw on the fire to make it flare up like that. As I grew up, it slipped my mind until a couple of years ago, when I had the magic of the Internet and was able to find an interview with the show's creator talking about it. The answer? Non-dairy creamer. And since the Midnight Society segments were all filmed on a soundstage, usually over the course of only one or two days for the entire season, they had several incidents of the real trees they brought in catching on fire.
Reruns of this show used to play on Nick when I was 6-7 in the 2000’s. As a kid it scared me, but still made me want to keep watching. Love this show!
Nice video but the show is not as good as I remember it! But hay I’m old now lol 😂
I love the music in the background. Well made video.
Hi! Love these video
have a great day! *plz pin me*
Hyperdrive TV don’t beg, earn it. Loser.
I can’t believe my mom allowed me and my sister to watch this in the 90’s. So many episodes still scare the shit out of me. The pool one is still the scariest.
When I was a kid, the coolest and scariest thing about the movie theater episode to me was learning that the movie they play and the monster that comes out of it is a real movie and the monster really does look like that. Unlike say, the episode with the discount Joker that made a person go mad and drool blue ooze. Knowing that Nosferatu is an actual movie made me wonder if the movie was actually cursed.
I haven't seen that show in YEARS. I used to watch it all the time when it was on YTV.
dead man's float was hands down the scariest to me. but also the one where you wear the glasses and see the shadow people too.
Laughing In The Dark with Zeebo The Clown will always be my #1.. The Pinball Wizard always stands out to me, even though it's not really "scary", it's creepy and doesn't have a happy ending..
Loved this show so much as a kid and I was thrilled when Nickelodeon began releasing it on DVD and itunes. It's difficult to name my favorites, but a few of them are definitely Midnight Madness, Water Demons, Frozen Ghost, Dead Man's Float, Locker 22, and the Quiet Librarian, but again it be easier to name the ones I'm not a fan of over my favorites because I loved this show so much. Thanks for the count down, it was a great list with some great memories!!
I use to watch this show all the time, as a kid. I only just now noticed that the title texts, for each story, is shaped like a face/skull.
The kid from The Tale of Train Magic is the kid from Small Soldiers! LOL
One of my favorites was Tale of the Unfinished Painting (with Jewel Staite from Firefly).
Ahhhemm.....from flash foward lol
after what, 23 years? and despite my fears now consist in not being able to pay the bills, the music of the intro of AYAOTD still give me shivers down the spine
6:13 RIP Gilbert Godfrey!!! You’ll be definitely missed!
Dead Man's Float and The Unfinished Painting will always be my two favorites.
Jenna Vee u mean the ghastly grinner
Stone Mehalik that one isn’t bad just not one of my favorites
memories of watching these late at night
I always felt the goosebumps stories were better made and entertaining as hell but kinda cluttered and incomplete, but there was always this calming yes eerie tone in the stories of are you afraid of the dark, like those were stories written much better, Goosebumps felt like it had goos stories but incomplete as if they were pieces of some larger story that didnt make it to the tv show, while are you afraid of the dark had simply a more fulfiling story climax in regard of the short tale that was told, they truly felt like campfire stories
I LOVE the Silver Sight episodes! I think that's close to a series' finale as this show can get.
I only remember the one with Tia and Tamera being iguanas, Quicksilver, the vampire in the hospital, and the one where the guy got stuck in the mall playing a real life video game.
_The Tale of the Silver Sight_ is one of my faves, too! Also, I’m glad _The Tale of the Dream Girl_ made the honorable mentions, at least. That one was surprisingly heartfelt.
Mine was The Story of the Secret Admirer. That creeped me out when I was a kid. Still does. And I grew up watching this show. And Goosebumps. The one that scared me was the Night of the Living Dummy. I also read the books, but to actually see that book come to life, terrorized me, and the awesome part was the first episode of the three books was first aired on Halloween
I haven't seen this series since I was little but Midnight Madness stayed with me
S2E08 - The Tale of the Frozen Ghost is the only episode that i still remember to this day and is therefore my favorite.
The Tale of the Gastly Grinner is my top episode. It terrified me as a kid and it still creeps me out as an adult.
The episode that stuck with me the most was Season 4, Episode 10 - The Tale of the Fire Ghost.
Man, I was REALLY hoping you would go into detail about the Tale of Dead Man's Float, my personal favorite episode of the series. The monster design was exceptionally well done for a kids show. While I found most episodes to be a little silly, Dead Man's Float was genuinely unnerving.
I like the one where the kid ended up in the Pinball machine, needing to save the princess. Also, the Tale of the Phone Police had me not making prank calls for a few months.
This was a walk down Memory Lane at Nostalgia Blvd for me. Even reading the titles in the Honorable mentions, I knew what the episodes were about. I grew up on this and Goosebumps. Though in my honest opinion, I preferred "Are You Afraid of The Dark" better. But that doesn't lessen Goosebumps importance or my love for that show. I love them both.
Dead Man’s Float was nightmare fuel. An invisible ghost that drowned people. And then when they finally reveal it, it’s a rotten, waterlogged, skeletal corpse.
Dead Man’s Float was the best episode of Are You Afraid of The Dark, hands down
Dead Man's Float is the one that always stuck with me
Oh my god thank you for putting station 109.1 on the list people always seems to forget this episode. I mean how creepy is this concept.
God, I only have the vaguest memories of this show. I rewatched a few episodes in college, but none of the ones mentioned here, sadly.
The Tale of Jake the Snake used to give me nightmares. I don't remember a ton about it now. But as someone who is scared to death of snakes that episode really used to hit me hard.
How was The Tale of the Dark Music not listed as number 1? Easily the scariest episode. Creepy doll, ghost carny, plus 2 children die at the hands of a greedy boy who suffers absolutely no consequences for sacrificing the lives of 2 people to the evil inside the basement closet. darkest, most disturbing episode by far.