Top 5 Best Are You Afraid of the Dark? Monsters
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Happy Halloween! Walter counts down the Top 5 best Are you Afraid of the Dark monsters on this scary day!
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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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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! What would you like Walter to cover on a future Top 5? Let us know in the comments!
Eerie, Indiana
I'd like to see a Top 5 list of subverted expectations in movies and/or TV shows. Different types of expectations could be topics for different lists, too.
Top 5 stranger things characters
Top 5 21st century horror kid's shows
Next time do the 5 best and worst buffy the vampire slayer episodes or do top 5 best and worst halloween movies.
I like this host. He’s informative without acting like he lords over the audience. We need more hosts like him who don’t needlessly carry on or act purposefully quirky.
Indeed. I completely agree. 👍
I just remembered why I was afraid of pools my whole childhood
Same her
I never went to the pool when I was young
The dark music monster is creepy as a hell and is very casual about it.
Gaby Droz that scared me most. I will never go into a basement as long as i live.
The dark music monster was the reason why I was afraid of basements as a kid. Really scary
@Commander Oswald executioner?
He just ripsoff audrey 2
THE GHASTLY GRINNER GAVE me Nightmares FOR 6+ YEARS as a KID, THAT FREAK horrified me just like the Boogeyman from The Real Ghostbusters cartoon
yup, he's very creepy, another monster(s) that disturbed me were the Vathak from Extreme Ghostbusters episode Deadliners, specially considering what they are based on
Whats up Jaxblade
Same. I actually became afraid of the dark because of that dude.
Same here i hate clowns and that episode did not help.
he gave me Nghtmares to bro as a kid
You forgot the most memorable villain in this show....
The Acting.
Rift Dancer
Rift Dancer now that was scary!
Best comment haha
Lmao
Classic*
Clown guy: it's the most fun in the fuck
Also bonus points if u got that reference
Zack Price aaaAAAAAND THEY BLEW IT.
Zack Price Jontron Refrence
It's jontron
jontron
*SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS!*
Alternatively...
"...they didn't blow it!"
"Im not real enough for you, it was real enough for Georgie!"
@Cognitive Chaos I have a question for you
@Cognitive Chaos
1. Did u see the new are u afraid of the dark...reboot
2. What's ur favorite are u afraid of the dark episode..also what's the show about j Never saw the original
@Cognitive Chaos oh u didn't hear... Nickelodeon rebooting the are u afraid of dark series...the first episode aired in Friday the 11rh at 7pm....it was one hour long ..it's only going to be 3 episodes long so it's short... majority of the first episode was character development....the last 15 min was of our main character Rachel telling her spooky story called ...the story of Mr tophat and the carnival of Doom.... basically the end of the episode ends in a cliffhanger where the carnival in her story basically comes True and one of the kids at school goes missing...so next week's episode sne the week after that will focus on our main characters going to the carnival and trying to get there missing friend back and stop Mr tophat
@Cognitive Chaos what u think from what I told u
Brady “We aaallll float down here!”
Damn that pool zombie. Even with TV budget, that thing looked legit. Wasn't the TV show supposed to be for kids?
Hahahah
Maybe that's why I refuse to be in a pool
It is, thats why its so good.
Yeah, the Ghastly Grinner scared the SHIT out of me as a kid.
Fun fact: The actor that played Felix in "The Tale of the Night Shift" become the Navy Thunder Ranger in Power Rangers Ninja Storm.
animefan25 holy shit it is.
Wait, WHAT?!
I think he died in that episode too
You mean to tell me an actor in a kids show went on to be an actor in another kids show? Wow, that is a FUN FACT
Hunter Palmer stop saying $¥!5
Anyone else think that the Gastly Grinner looks like the Joker from Batman 1989?
neffyboy There's definitely some similarities, his gimmick is even reminiscent of Joker's signature toxic gas, minus the blue drool.
I was thinking that
Same grin too.
Or pretty much any Joker besides Ledger and Leto
@@SilverHairedFreak25 I would bet the whole comic book premise is an indicator as well. ;)
The pool ghost was easily one of the best. Aside from its terrifying appearance when it's revealed, it was already frightening when you COULDN'T see it, because of how it plays on that realistic paranoia of something you can't see in the water that could hurt you, and the fear of drowning.
I have no memory of ever watching this show in general, but I do remember that Ghastly Grinner guy and it scaring me as a kid.
Basically a discount joker.
The Judge except he looks scarier, whereas the joker is just legitimately a scary person.
Dj Quinn me too! And the sandman one too!
Me too. I have no memory watching the show but I swear I remember seeing some of these monsters on tv. I guess I thought it was Goosebumps 2.0 when I was young.
I watched the show a lot as a kid as it was one of my favorite shows, but didn't remember the grinner until I watched that episode last night... he wasn't one of the more memorable ones for me, I guess.
Oh yeah The Grinner and Pool Monster! I never forgot those 2
SAME
Can you still believe that the MNS actually didn't like "The Tale of the Dead Man's Float"?
TerryB01 lmfao “pool monster”
DITTO
LOOK AT THIS
*LOOK AT THIS*
*THEY SHOWED THIS TO KIDS!*
Funny enough, there *was* a kid's version of Tales From the Crypt. It was a Saturday morning cartoon called Tales From the Cryptkeeper. I watched it all the time xD
We also had goosebumps and ren and stimpy and rockos modern life and nightmare ned and courage the cowardly dog and catdog etc etc. Times were very different and as children we were exposed to some pretty twisted and fucked up "kid's shows" but it actually made us pretty normal adults. Kid's shows now are just too tame and PC it makes them all into little bitches.
JustSomeSush yes
Timmy Teaches yea!
And we were all better for it. If I ever have kids, I hope they'll enjoy this show and Goosebumps.
That Ghastly Grinner stuff gives me some unpleasant flashbacks to Arkham Knight.
AND NOW I REMEMBER HOW I GOT MY FEAR OF CLOWNS AND DOLLS!
MissElaneeus17 I hate it even tho I never saw this :3
I think they call that "Bozophobia" 😂
...get it?
The Ghastly Grinner is the only monster on the show that kept me up at night as a kid and gave me nightmares
Gastly Grinner ruined my first sleepover. I had my friends mom drive me home because I couldn't sleep.
Damn, that doll is even scarier than I remember it being.
I feel that monster is the only one in the show that gets scarier the Older you get..
“It’s the most fun in the FUCK”
Thanks Jontron
The doll form of the music monster absolutely terrified me as a child and it still terrifies me as an adult.
Copper Feather it's the very reason I HATE dolls and basements to this day and I'm 31 years old 😨
Copper Feather same here! It makes Linda Blair a la the exorcist look like Pee Wee Herman by comparison
The Ghastly Grinner easily! If there's ONE villain from AYAOTD that legit haunted me, it's definitely him!
How bout
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark.
More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark.
Scary Stories More Tales To Chill Your Bones.
Anyone????
dead man's float is me favorite episode ever and the pool zombie scarred me pretty hard lol. great episode, great story, great scares :D
Factzzzz
A little sad to see this collection come to an end, I did greatly enjoy revisiting some of the scarier things from my childhood. However, I will say there was one series that I loved that you guys sadly did not cover. Anyone ever remembers a short series called "The Nightmare Room"? Was not a long show, Season One only had about 11 eps, and Season Two was cut early at only 4 eps, but I still remember it freaking me out the most. Heck, I still remember the episode that scared me the most. S1 EP2, "Scareful What You Wish For" A fun episode about what I assume is the darker half of Toy Story, staring a young Shia Labeouf! I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for that classic childhood scare! And who knows Channel Awesome. We didn't get it this time, but there is always next year! Anyone else has any great shows they remember that were not covered this October?
*Sniff* Oooah!
Mmmm No!
-Jon Tron
It's the most fun in the fuck
I am SO GLAD to see this list! The Ghastly Grinner and the Pool Zombie were the monsters I remembered the most from this show!
Me2
I really like the new “Mr. Top Hat and the Carnival of Doom” story. I can’t wait for the second episode to be released.
Went as Mr. Tophat for Halloween.
Ghastly Grinner is scarier than anything scary I could think of as a comparison. And I can think of a lot of things...this entire show, for instance.
Icespoon watch terrifier
I know everyone remembers the show for the scares (I do too), but I also remember a couple episodes to be surprisingly heartwarming, or even bittersweet at times. And I think that's what made this show so unique to me. It had depth too.
My favorite heartwarming/bittersweet episodes were:
The Tale of the Dream Girl
The Tale of Locker 22
The Tale of the Shiny, Red Bicycle
The Tale of the Secret Admirer
The Tale of the Last Dance - (I've even got a personal story for this one. Years ago I was absolutely obsessed with looking up TV listings, trying to find the airing of this episode again-UA-cam was a fetus and streaming wasn't invented yet, folks, this was raw. I soon discovered a listing just a month or two away and honest to God I made sure I noted that date, absolutely drilling it into my head NOT to miss this airing! That's how much I loved this episode and was so desperate to see it again.)
You forgot tale of the prom Queen
The pool ghost was the only one whoever gave me nightmares.
phoenix1985 gave us all nightmares
Really really fuked w me
I used to watch as a kid back then, kinda scary too; especially Dark Music Monster what I did saw. But when I turned into adult, never afraid anymore. My friends love to watched Are you Afraid of the Dark, Ghastly Grinner was such terrifying no doubt.
北岡黎人 wtf are you saying your sentences made no sense
now they're working on a movie version of this!! Woooo
Really?!
labyfan1313, yes indeed! It was announced last November, its tentative release will be in early October 2019, and best of all, its screenplay will be written by Gary Dauberman, who was one of the writers for 'It'!
Nope ..no they arent
@@BBAERSTANCE1 It has an IMDB page and nothing shows that the movie was cancelled.
Suoer
The Tale Of Dark Music is one of my all-time favourite episodes, simply BECAUSE of the ending. So rarely do you see a good villain ending in kids shows, so it just becomes all the better when twisted things like that (and the ending of Fear Soup) happen.
Holy crap that freaken pool monster, haven't seen that thing in over 20 years and still scared the crap out of me! That fricken thing gave me so many nightmares when it aired... lol I still couldnt look again after seeing him again.. by far one of the scariest monsters i've ever seen... still to this day bllggh
SAME
Zeebo episode. “We’ve all gambled on a fart and lost.”
galmorzu wait.. does he seriously say that...
Pierced From Within Jontron said it.
Well, that stinks
Jontron!
The Ghastly Grinner was my personal Boogeyman. I always feared I would wake up in a zombie apocalypse where everyone are laughing idiots. Seriously, what the fuck!?
Welcome to Gotham! Oh shit wrong series.
Aww! Im going to miss Walter and his lists! =( thanks so much man! You are so good at this!!!
9:48 the power of science compels you!
Happy Halloween channel awesome 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
Grinner is just Robbie Rotten, I mean... he is the master of disguise
Denzy He wasn’t #1 though...
Hahahaha *help me*
At first I was disappointed that the skeleton ghost from dead man's float wasn't number one, but I accept your choice for number one. That vampire could give me nightmares now. And I'm 25!
The Gastly Grinner is literally the joker...
Official Fnaf girl155 we needs the batman
Agreed. Literally all I could think when I saw him is “Oh, I guess Joker fell into another vat of Chemicals that gave him powers and this Time bleached his skin in a goldish color”.
Ikr!
The Judge Holy shit another judge.
-_-
Could you go over The Haunting hour, it's also an R.L. Stine property, but has better acting, camera work, and definitely far better writing than Gousebums.
This is also a far more recent sereas than Gousebums and Are you afraid of the dark.
What the heck is “Gousebums”?
Banana Banana goose 🦆 bums 🍑 = 🦆🍑 lamo
Oh. Ok.
I LOVE your top 5!!! Keep up the good work!
man im glad the tale of darm music made this list , its always been my fav of this show
Two-fifths of this list reminds me of JonTron...
Jontron isn’t scared of this shit. He’s a brave boy.
8bitdiedie NOT A BRAVE ENOUGH BOY FOR _THIS!_
A Str Not brave enough. He had to turn up the lights *on his tv* :)
Gracie J he had to turn up the TV brightness and his IRL brightness just to get past the creepy doll human thing.
A Str that's literally only because jontron made a AYAOTD video. If he never made that video you wouldn't have any idea to relate this.
6:25 it feels weird not to hear Jon screaming.
I am happy the Pool Zombie was placed on this list, that monster terrified me as a kid, heck even years latter i still remember it and associate it with the show whenever i hear someone talk about "Are You Afraid of the Dark".
Man great recaps. Just came to this channel and that was a great first vid. I agree with the list am just shocked the quick silver monster didn’t make it on there. That one and the comic book jester the maze clown and the pool zombie. Were always my favorite spooky episodes that were traumatic as a kid. That and the one with the chameleon one. If that was from this. Goosebumps was good. Don’t get me wrong but this show was crazy it got played lol.
The monster on the thumbnail is easily the scariest more than anything goosebumps has
Imagine if they hired Mark Hamill to voice Zibo.
*Zeebo
Or the Ghastly Grinner. Or the Renegade Virus! Come on, Mark Hamill would be a better guy to play the Renegade Virus than... whatever midget they got! He could've used his Py-Ro voice!!
This is so good. This scares me more then anything now a days. It’s so creative and fucking scary and pure nostalgia
I love how the tale of dead man's float is considered one of the best stories/monsters, but didn't get stig in the group. I suppose it was give him another story in the series which was not nearly as good that got him in the group and then he just stayed on the sidelines the rest of the show without telling a story.
do Salute Your Shorts! Zeke the Plumber!
GPK1987 that guy was fuckin creepy
GPK1987 hahaha so i wasnt the only one freaked out by that guy!
I was terrified of him!
I actually thought that was an episode of this
If the pool zombie from Tale of the Dead Man's Float isn't number 1, I will riot. That episode already got shafted once by not being listed as one of the best episodes.
immortalslayer90 It was Number 2, so is that good enough?
Yeah that episode terrified me and was definitely the most memorable to me
I was mad as a kid because the Midnight Society didn't let the kid telling that story join the group.
AriGriffin243 Oh yeah I think I remember that and was like what, that was one of the scariest stories and they didn't think it was good enough
the story was good enough. they just hated the teller and for some that story alone wasn't enough to overcome that. they gave him another shot
2:23 I can't believe we left Anna in the Spookhouse!
The monsters definitely needed their own list. Props to you. Well done!
OMG, I didn't know the long haired bully in that one story was the voice of Roger on "Doug." Good to know. I agree with this list, especially that creepy ass doll, the pool monster, and that vampire.
bsbgirl85 me either
You're slowly becoming the best on this channel
I think the "Monsters" that freaked me out the most from the show were the Black Figures. There is just something about the idea of being watched by unseen Shadow People form another dimension that really terrifies me.
Please do Twilight Zone!!!
EmileeTv1993 yeesss
EmileeTv1993 why?
Timmy Teaches because it's a really good show..? Why not
I loved watching reruns of that show when i was younger. For some reason I never liked the colored version and preferred the black and white one.
Best Show on NETFLIX S.2 & Up! #TwilightZone
& The (Dynamite) Comicbook series' by J.M. Straczynski A few years out! & His Marvel stuff ESP. - ASM "CIVIL WAR" Through "Back in Black" & maybe his conclusionary "One more Day" Greatest Spiderman Run ever!
"The Dark Music Monster" (Well deserving of this list, a great villain for a great episode) is referred to on the Villains Wiki as 'Basement Demon.' I find that more appropriate. From the various powers it demonstrates, I'd imagine it is almost certainly some kind of demon.
I always found the Ghastly Grinner really overrated. While some of the people he zombifies are kind of creepy (Especially the bus driver), I didn't feel scared of the Grinner himself. I mean, in the end, he gets taken out by the nerdy girl ERASING him, for Pete's sake! I remember as a kid, the first time I saw it, it prompted me to joke to my brother, "I guess you could say she rubbed him out!"
I found that episode more comedic than scary.
In place of him, I'd go with probably Nosferatu from 'The Tale of the Midnight Madness' (So freaking eerie), or perhaps the Watcher from 'The Tale of Watcher's Woods.'
Adamguy2003 can I call the Grinner Diet Joker then?
Who here calls the dark music monster “cellular demon”?
No. 1 is one of those faded memories from my childhood. I remember it absolutely terrifying me, and I never actually knew what it was until now... thanks for reminding me
Walter is gonna look at "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack"!!! YES!!
Walter, you will never see this comment, but thank you for posting this video. I'm feeling severely depressed right now and this, hopefully, will help cheer me up right now
Wences Acosta you're never alone... we're all here to listen if needed
Donut Pass Go Virtual Hug....Thank You
Hope the video helps, man! Thanks for watching!
Awesome_Walter Thank you, it really did help me. Some of the designs and effects I completely forgot about, so seeing this really helped me remember a part of my childhood long forgotten. Keep up the good work brother
Wences Acosta you are not alone my friend. 😊
Zeke the Plumber destroyed me as a kid. I know its not AYAOTD though
SAME.
The episode with the talking dogs scarred me for life!
I can barely remember the episodes now since I was 6 when the show first aired. But when I saw that pool monster it instantly came back to me. I also remember another episode with a clown. And faintly some other episodes. I'm just starting to re-watch the series now.
Glad the pool zombie got some mention. Thing scared me for months and I'm glad it got some recognition.
The Fan Without a Face I think it’s the reason my sister made sure I didn’t watch the show
I always remembered it jus couldnt pin it
I love your top 5s!!!!!!
Keep up the good work
5:07 reminds me of that story at Alcatraz where someone claimed to see red eyes in the dark room and was found dead with red handprints around their neck the officers said the inmates hands we're chained so their was no way he could have choked himself
Top 5 WORST Are You Afraid of the Dark? Monsters
As a 6yo kid, I'm ashamed to say that #4's villain scared me so bad that I stopped watching the show altogether. I regret it now, because it is a comically corny and delightfully Canadian show, eh?
Also, I just want you all to know that it took a great power to not sit here and spit out JonTron quotes here. I conquered temptation.
I bet Wolverine watched this show as a kid, because he's Canadian.
THANK YOU. I’ve been waiting for someone else to say something about that scary ass vampire!
I'm not at ll surprised that the pool zombie ranked so high. That monster stuck with me for years. It made me scared to swim alone and even go in the deep end unless there was someone else there with me. And I've been swimming since I was a baby. It also made me afraid of the color red for a while (weird, I know) which was no good because out washcloths were red at the time. Now, I'm actually a swim instructor (remember kids, never swim alone and always carry some mangenite with you) but I'm still amazed with how much this tale resonated with me.
Much better with this one....
Zeebo and the music monster though still missing the pinball one
Ghastly grinner is much more scary when you are russian kid!! Trust me!
Brandon Meshok why?
Alibel Sanchez you're a kid living in Russia of 90 s. horrible af.
Brandon Meshok lot of killer clowns in russia eh?
Did you really sit and rewatch every season of Goosebumps and AYAOTD in preparation for this months Top 5 shows?!? What an awesome frickin job!!!
There's the pool zombie I missed from the top five episodes! Damn, that thing is freaky! I remember seeing that episode way back when I was in like seventh grade and at the time I frequently went swimming so that made it extra freaky. Also the scene in the episode where they flee into the locker room but doesn't notice that he's slowly seeping in through the drain in the floor gives me chills to this day!
Ditto i was like 5 or 6 and ALWAYS swimming. It was my sport in kindergarten. I had so MANY Nightmares
Nostalgia critic should review the Emoji movie.
Nobody would mind that film being crucified
he did norm of the north. i wouldn't be surprised if 2018 had a little ;) :D :( summer box office failure reviewed and torn apart.
XB1Gaming Creeper no he shouldn't. There's no point in doing a NC for that movie, every one knows it's bad and no one likes it. Everything has already been said and done about it so there isn't anything NC can add without just being a collection of all the things already said and done, and he doesn't do that. That's why there's quite a few movies he hasn't and won't do a NC for because they've already been beaten to death on the internet.
Why is Hilary Clinton in the thumbnail?
Intense Thinker HAHAHAHAHAHAA ORIGINAL JOKE 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 TOTALLY FUNNY AND NOT UNFUNNY AT ALL!!!! MY GUTS HURT HAHAHAHAHA SO FUCKING FUNNY AND WELL MADE 😂
That's not her. That's a monster from Are you afrai......oh.
Ha............
Because she's scarier than anything even G.R.R.M. can imagine. It's Halloween, and the thumbnail is meant to entice you. Why not put the antichrist on it?
nicky fresh
Found the Hillary supporter.
More like Donold trump that orange/yellow
the bus driver in the ghastly grinner was hilarious LOL
Walter's skills have improved so much!
#1 your mom
Epic joke kill me
Nate *yerre meom
Lord Chanka der mumn
Elite Chief deast maim
FuckAss 64 lol great username xD
Imagine the snowflake generation seeing this today
6:33 "I feeeel fantaaaaastic!"
I don't remember much about Are You Afraid of the Dark or Goosebumps, but the ghastly grinner had me messed up for a long time to the point where I still remember it today.
This show has the maple syrup stink of canada all over it
Quicksilver ghost was by far the scariest for me growing up.
Quicksilver, the monster in the pool, and the babysitter who turns into a monster were the one's that really scared the mess out of me!!
Loved this show as a kid. The silent librarian with the box that steals your voice always creeped me out
The music Monster is by far and away my favorite episode. Its genuinely creepy and has a horrifying ending.
I love the Vampire and The Ghastly Grinner!
I was surprised number 2 didn't make it into your top episode list. That episode made me afraid to go into the deep end for a long time.
Great vid dude
The Ghastly Grinner is essentially the Joker, right? Like, c’mon...
Great work walter!