I have a friend who invites friends over so no one can call him an alcoholic for drinking alone, but you're smarter for just filming yourself drinking and pretending that you have friends over
I love how the child trauma was completely superfluous even with the twist in mind. How did one kid getting bitten by a snake and another getting a fucking concussion prove that Billy is worthy of going to Earth?
The most shocking thing about that plot twist, aside from being the worst thing put to text, is that R L Stine uses the exact same twist AGAIN fifty books later.
To be fair I think at least this book explains everything when he did it later in the series he used it as a cop out for a book that explained nothing and already didn’t make sense . I get the hate for this twist but I think there’s worse
Yeah, the colors mentioned throughout the book are pretty much always weird. The river is green and I believe it also says the trees are blue at one point.
Day three and they're moaning about not having recieved reply letters from their parents? Unless this is email which is unlikely for most people in 93, their expectations of the postal service is WAY TOO HIGH.
When I was taking college creative writing classes, about 80-90% of the short stories from the men were contrived TWIST endings like this. This was a few years into the height of M. Knight's film career, so maybe that had something to do with it. On the flip side, 80-90% of short stories from the women were about suicide, breaking up, or suicide over breaking up. Most involved dark revenge against the guy who broke up with them. Those...tended to be the scarier ones. Basically R.L. is the weaker half of an already hack tier of writers.
RL stine : hmmm I can’t decide which is scarier, wolves or wildcats? I wonder if I can put both in somehow! What if my main character had never seen a dog or a cat before?
Well damn, we go from negligence to straight-up child abuse in the short span of one plot twist! Like, you couldn't have asked your kid if he wanted to go on a dangerous expedition? And if he'd said yes, you couldn't have just... I dunno... trained him? For the journey? Like most people are trained when they're about to do something dangerous? You thought it would be a better idea to just subject your kid to all of these traumatic events without his knowledge or consent? Also, can we just imagine what it would've been like if Billy had been totally down to hunt Dawn and Dory? I mean, way to fail all kinds of tests, Billy-boy. Your folks are gonna have to put off that science expedition. Or maybe they won't, knowing them.
Tf is up with these tests? Test number 1 assessed your ability to follow orders, even though Billy didn’t decide to stay back because of his respect for the rules, he was just kinda tired and didn’t want to? Arguably with all the weird stuff that was going on, especially the suspicious activity of every authority figure we see, there was never a time where it’d be the right choice to follow orders anyway. Also what’s the point of the Earth reveal? I know the answer is that it’s mindblowing to 12yo kids when there’s an arbitrary twist that doesn’t actually change the story at all, but from a writing perspective it’s so pointless. Do we assume this story has been culturally ‘translated’ so it’s not completely alien to us? Because otherwise we’re on a different planet, where the same human names, units of time, and physical descriptions are used, yet somehow Earth is a far off and dangerous place and scientists need to go explore it?
That's an insult to _The Twilight Zone;_ since the episode in question (Third From the Sun) had the benefit of being made during the Cold War, it ends with the dramatic irony because the aliens are fleeing from one world threatened by nuclear war to another world threatened by nuclear war.
The oddest thing about this book is that of all the Goosebumps series it is the one MOST set up for a sequel, "Welcome to Nightmare World" in which the main character comes to Earth and ends up getting pursued by government agents, humans who are scared of him as an alien, and other aliens that are out to destroy Earth. Never got a sequel.
I'm at that point where I legitimately can't tell if I read this in like 4th grade or if RL's bibliography blends together well enough that I'm just recognizing enough plot points for it to feel familiar. Edit: oh my god I remember this ending I definitely remember this ending but somehow I don't remember it being particularly bad? What was RL thinking tho?
In the end when you were freaking out I was over here like "North Korea? What?! What! They are taking him to North Korea I knew it!!" Then i was like "WTF? They are aliens? Ugh!" I'm tipsy and holy craps I heard a noise outside my Window!!!
Went to a camp with an entire wooden (splintery) raft in a murky lake that was devoted to violently pushing others off. People frequently got injured. Also, we caught a rattlesnake one year. Elementary age kids went off a ramp with a bike into that same lake. The water was unfiltered straight from the same dirty lake.
I don't remember that many alien plot twists when I read the books when I was little. Wtf was that. I feel like Stine writes whatever and only when he reaches the end does he try to justify it.
Nothing quite sums up Stine's overly wordy, bad writing like the line: "he uttered a soft gasp" That's triple redundancy brilliance there. Gasps are a noise made by your mouth, so there's no need to say he uttered it. Gasps are also implied to not be loud, so no need to say it's soft. Using an adjective (or worse, an adverb) to modify a noun or verb always reads so much weaker than if you simply use a specific noun or verb that inherently conveys the adjective you were thinking of. "He whispered" reads better than "he quietly spoke", which reads better than "he quietly spoke in a hushed tone". He could have just wrote "he gasped" and absolutely nothing would have been lost, and it would have read a lot cleaner. I've seen a lot of claims that R.L. Stine is "Stephen King for children", but King specifically argues against all the kinds of weak writing that Stine is constantly using.
I remembered this stupid story from my childhood, so I was so eagerly awaiting your reaction to the ending. And you did not disappoint! Someone must have thought this was gold though, because they actually adapted this one for the goosebumps tv show.
I remember seeing this one on TV when I was a kid and being surprised because I had always thought Goosebumps was this big scary thing. Silly book but great video!
The tv episode was really brutal with Collin getting hit. He was wearing a baseball helmet at the time and the ball actually caved in the back of it, like cratered it. It makes it a little more believable that it could've been faked with a prop helmet, but damn
This is absolutely my favorite goosebumps book, lmao. It was the first one I read and also is the height of how absurd they can get, the two episodes are hilarious. Colin wears shades and a bandana around his head 24/7, Larry is absolutely mad, the children are not good actors, it's all so dramatic. When Billy's parents tell him about Earth, there's a shot of them looking up and seeing it in the distance in their sky, lmao. I love it.
I like how no one thinks it’s strange that Billy has an unrealistic expectation and faith in the US postal service. Billy is wondering why he hasn’t gotten any mail. Even if the mail was sent out he wouldn’t get a response in 2 days y’all.
So many Goosebumps stories set up in summer camps I keep mixing them up. None of them stand out particularly yet together they are iconic Goosebumps setting xD
Fun fact: Andrew Rannells did the audiobook for this book (seemingly before he got cast in Book of Mormon.) It's on Spotify if you want to check it out. I'm sure he's embarrassed about it 🙃
If it _was_ the case, then it'd be a massive Voodoo Shark because how would an extra-terrestrial who's never been to Earth know what cats and wolves were in the first place?
Spoilers below, seriously just watch it through first, trust me, it’s worth it: How tf does that count as passing?!! He reflexively shot a gun he was told was only loaded with tranquilizer darts at someone who was attacking him!!! Like how is not following orders to shoot two young girls from someone who you’ve never respected as an authority or even liked considered noble??? Like the only test that seemed like an actual test was wether to save the corrupt negligent counselor, who you’ve seen assault a camper, from drowning or possible let him die and paddle to freedom and get help. But that’s not really a test of bravery so much as ethics or your value for human life. The other two weren’t even difficult and say basically nothing about Billy as a person.
The question I'm left with is why would Billy's parents even want to take him on an absurdly dangerous field mission with them in the first place? Parents don't, like, _do_ that??
So everything that was set up at the very beginning was from a different book, right? Because it has no relevance at all later on, in regards to like anything whatsoever
I'm shocked that nobody has pointed out that Saber is literally the name of the gender swapped anime version of King Arthur and fights with swords. Source: Fate Stay Night
Interesting. What a cathartic concept for a series. And in a way, surprisingly endearing. Observational question: Was it intentional to look towards upper left as opposed to directly at the camera?
I have a friend who invites friends over so no one can call him an alcoholic for drinking alone, but you're smarter for just filming yourself drinking and pretending that you have friends over
Then we get to watch the video and pretend we're not drinking alone
ay love your content! cool to see two creators i like supporting each other!
42:21 "This Goosebump is a little too grounded in reality" oh dear
This is what happens when a publishing company forces a children's author to pump out a book twice a year.
I love how the child trauma was completely superfluous even with the twist in mind. How did one kid getting bitten by a snake and another getting a fucking concussion prove that Billy is worthy of going to Earth?
Acting
The most shocking thing about that plot twist, aside from being the worst thing put to text, is that R L Stine uses the exact same twist AGAIN fifty books later.
The Twilight Zone did it better
he also uses a variation of it in Vampire Breath
To be fair I think at least this book explains everything when he did it later in the series he used it as a cop out for a book that explained nothing and already didn’t make sense . I get the hate for this twist but I think there’s worse
I like that part of this government lab is letting the counselor-actor give a camper-actor a concussion during scratchball for absolutely no reason.
"Okay, Colin, we're just going to need you to sign this wavier... Don't worry, standard procedure. I'm sure nothing is going to happen."
the real terror in this story is the gross negligence
Wait, was the yellow sky in the beginning foreshadowing for the twist at the end?
Odin Linga when I was editing I had a moment where I thought it might be but then I remembered who wrote the book
I was also thinking that was what the wildcat/wolf things were as well
Yeah, the colors mentioned throughout the book are pretty much always weird. The river is green and I believe it also says the trees are blue at one point.
The movies gonna be directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Obviously Colin is a method actor. Having the back of your head smashed needs to look convincing.
Day three and they're moaning about not having recieved reply letters from their parents? Unless this is email which is unlikely for most people in 93, their expectations of the postal service is WAY TOO HIGH.
It's not earth mail though it's speedy space mail, you see, because aliens
When I was taking college creative writing classes, about 80-90% of the short stories from the men were contrived TWIST endings like this. This was a few years into the height of M. Knight's film career, so maybe that had something to do with it.
On the flip side, 80-90% of short stories from the women were about suicide, breaking up, or suicide over breaking up. Most involved dark revenge against the guy who broke up with them. Those...tended to be the scarier ones.
Basically R.L. is the weaker half of an already hack tier of writers.
I like to think the Girl Camp is called Camp Daysun. that's my headcanon
Hah
RL stine : hmmm I can’t decide which is scarier, wolves or wildcats? I wonder if I can put both in somehow! What if my main character had never seen a dog or a cat before?
jokes on them.... guess who has an extra breadstick now....
This might be the dumbest goosebump but at the same time........maybe the animals on this planet really do look like wildcats mixed with wolves
Zachary Tatom But they also have regular bears??
Then Billy shouldn't think they're especially horrifying
@@frogwhisperer2067 Uncle Al says they're "tree bears"
Well damn, we go from negligence to straight-up child abuse in the short span of one plot twist!
Like, you couldn't have asked your kid if he wanted to go on a dangerous expedition? And if he'd said yes, you couldn't have just... I dunno... trained him? For the journey? Like most people are trained when they're about to do something dangerous? You thought it would be a better idea to just subject your kid to all of these traumatic events without his knowledge or consent?
Also, can we just imagine what it would've been like if Billy had been totally down to hunt Dawn and Dory? I mean, way to fail all kinds of tests, Billy-boy. Your folks are gonna have to put off that science expedition. Or maybe they won't, knowing them.
Tf is up with these tests? Test number 1 assessed your ability to follow orders, even though Billy didn’t decide to stay back because of his respect for the rules, he was just kinda tired and didn’t want to? Arguably with all the weird stuff that was going on, especially the suspicious activity of every authority figure we see, there was never a time where it’d be the right choice to follow orders anyway.
Also what’s the point of the Earth reveal? I know the answer is that it’s mindblowing to 12yo kids when there’s an arbitrary twist that doesn’t actually change the story at all, but from a writing perspective it’s so pointless.
Do we assume this story has been culturally ‘translated’ so it’s not completely alien to us? Because otherwise we’re on a different planet, where the same human names, units of time, and physical descriptions are used, yet somehow Earth is a far off and dangerous place and scientists need to go explore it?
I knew as soon as they said "the most dangerous place of all" they were gonna pull that Twilight Zone its Earth horse shit. Good lord.
That's an insult to _The Twilight Zone;_ since the episode in question (Third From the Sun) had the benefit of being made during the Cold War, it ends with the dramatic irony because the aliens are fleeing from one world threatened by nuclear war to another world threatened by nuclear war.
Twilight Zone episodes are great, but if you imitate any of the twists in the 21st century, you come off very trope-y.
Billy likes to mansplain how bus stations work
You know it's peak RL when you'd prefer the whole thing to have been a dream
So was that bird looking guy an actual Bird Person.
The oddest thing about this book is that of all the Goosebumps series it is the one MOST set up for a sequel, "Welcome to Nightmare World" in which the main character comes to Earth and ends up getting pursued by government agents, humans who are scared of him as an alien, and other aliens that are out to destroy Earth.
Never got a sequel.
Re: The Payphone: you don’t need quarters to call 911, it’s free!
Please read the horror at camp jellyjam! That one scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.
omg saaaame, I had nightmares for weeks by that blob thing
Every single goosedrunks episode is a treasure trove of content
I'm at that point where I legitimately can't tell if I read this in like 4th grade or if RL's bibliography blends together well enough that I'm just recognizing enough plot points for it to feel familiar.
Edit: oh my god I remember this ending I definitely remember this ending but somehow I don't remember it being particularly bad? What was RL thinking tho?
In the end when you were freaking out I was over here like "North Korea? What?! What! They are taking him to North Korea I knew it!!" Then i was like "WTF? They are aliens? Ugh!" I'm tipsy and holy craps I heard a noise outside my Window!!!
Went to a camp with an entire wooden (splintery) raft in a murky lake that was devoted to violently pushing others off.
People frequently got injured.
Also, we caught a rattlesnake one year. Elementary age kids went off a ramp with a bike into that same lake. The water was unfiltered straight from the same dirty lake.
I don't remember that many alien plot twists when I read the books when I was little. Wtf was that. I feel like Stine writes whatever and only when he reaches the end does he try to justify it.
I laughed so hard at the sudden Sephiroth... it's him... Sabre
Nothing quite sums up Stine's overly wordy, bad writing like the line: "he uttered a soft gasp"
That's triple redundancy brilliance there. Gasps are a noise made by your mouth, so there's no need to say he uttered it. Gasps are also implied to not be loud, so no need to say it's soft. Using an adjective (or worse, an adverb) to modify a noun or verb always reads so much weaker than if you simply use a specific noun or verb that inherently conveys the adjective you were thinking of. "He whispered" reads better than "he quietly spoke", which reads better than "he quietly spoke in a hushed tone". He could have just wrote "he gasped" and absolutely nothing would have been lost, and it would have read a lot cleaner.
I've seen a lot of claims that R.L. Stine is "Stephen King for children", but King specifically argues against all the kinds of weak writing that Stine is constantly using.
Having stupid books read to me by Bailey is the best medicine.
I remembered this stupid story from my childhood, so I was so eagerly awaiting your reaction to the ending. And you did not disappoint! Someone must have thought this was gold though, because they actually adapted this one for the goosebumps tv show.
I remember seeing this one on TV when I was a kid and being surprised because I had always thought Goosebumps was this big scary thing. Silly book but great video!
The tv episode was really brutal with Collin getting hit. He was wearing a baseball helmet at the time and the ball actually caved in the back of it, like cratered it.
It makes it a little more believable that it could've been faked with a prop helmet, but damn
Tree bears? Are they like drop bears?
This book scared the hell out of 12 year old me when the ghost kill levitated off his bunk bed grinning at the protagonist.
This is absolutely my favorite goosebumps book, lmao. It was the first one I read and also is the height of how absurd they can get, the two episodes are hilarious. Colin wears shades and a bandana around his head 24/7, Larry is absolutely mad, the children are not good actors, it's all so dramatic. When Billy's parents tell him about Earth, there's a shot of them looking up and seeing it in the distance in their sky, lmao. I love it.
I love your cuts on your southern ACK-CEE --
I like how no one thinks it’s strange that Billy has an unrealistic expectation and faith in the US postal service. Billy is wondering why he hasn’t gotten any mail. Even if the mail was sent out he wouldn’t get a response in 2 days y’all.
ive been looking forward to this for days!!!! i love this series so much
So many Goosebumps stories set up in summer camps I keep mixing them up. None of them stand out particularly yet together they are iconic Goosebumps setting xD
Bailey please tell me, should I watch this or go to bed
I'm not the boss of you
Bailey Meyers “adult character being unhelpful”
The best part is that everything about this other planet is almost identical to earth except for the colors
How did they have French toast if they don't have France?
I guess if mom was an alcoholic. Bed time story would be like this 😆
Fun fact: Andrew Rannells did the audiobook for this book (seemingly before he got cast in Book of Mormon.) It's on Spotify if you want to check it out. I'm sure he's embarrassed about it 🙃
The fuck-?!?! How?!?!! the twist is so... not set up
This series is already good, but it’s even better when playing along! Drink responsibly!
Maybe not knowing the difference between a cat and a wolf was foreshadowing that this wasn’t earth? Probably not
If it _was_ the case, then it'd be a massive Voodoo Shark because how would an extra-terrestrial who's never been to Earth know what cats and wolves were in the first place?
How have I not seen this channel. This is hilarious
I skipped this at first thinking it was too predictable with the werewolf stuff... I had NO idea -.-
Spoilers below, seriously just watch it through first, trust me, it’s worth it:
How tf does that count as passing?!! He reflexively shot a gun he was told was only loaded with tranquilizer darts at someone who was attacking him!!! Like how is not following orders to shoot two young girls from someone who you’ve never respected as an authority or even liked considered noble??? Like the only test that seemed like an actual test was wether to save the corrupt negligent counselor, who you’ve seen assault a camper, from drowning or possible let him die and paddle to freedom and get help. But that’s not really a test of bravery so much as ethics or your value for human life. The other two weren’t even difficult and say basically nothing about Billy as a person.
I remember this one about garden gnomes could you talk about it
I am so happy I found your channel
Oh my god... the yellow sky at the start is foreshadowing the alien plot twist
Why have I only just now found these videos. UA-cam has a busted algorithm.
I love all your videos AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The question I'm left with is why would Billy's parents even want to take him on an absurdly dangerous field mission with them in the first place? Parents don't, like, _do_ that??
alien parents do
This book is so stupid, I think I might love it
I had a couple ideas for what the book-ending twist would be and none of them was as stupid as the real thing
Can I recommend My Harriest Adventure? If I remember it correctly, it was pretty good for this kind of reading.
Is this gonna be like that version of the Boy Who Cried Wolf where it turns out they're all werewolves.
No, it's actually much dumber than that.
6:45 oh honey... it’s so much more stupid than that
I am a new follower of GooseDrunks and it is, coincidentally, also my new favorite pastime. #DrinkResponsibly
As always this was great
Finally, the perfect series to watch while I work on my fanfiction
I was kind of delighted by the idea of a goosebumps book where the evil was just terrible adults.
The alien twist was idiotic.
What a plot twist. Jesus. lol
that was my favourite when i was growing up, boy did i have no taste.
also i never thought that they were aliens. i thought the dad was just unbelievably pretentious.
not mutually exclusive
I mean I like the idea of the camp being dangerous and having no regard for the kids safety. I also died when Larry almost killed collin, like wtf
I love your voice 😊 and what a nice ending hahah 😂
Tonight's entertainment is sorted then ayyy
Wait so did Uncle Al lose his accent just in time for the big reveal? Immersion ruined!
This makes Camp Green Lake look respectable. Almost.
An alien planet with snakes? So this is a Star Wars book...
Jenny Nicholson intensifies
The bus has a moustache? Fun with ambiguous language!
So everything that was set up at the very beginning was from a different book, right? Because it has no relevance at all later on, in regards to like anything whatsoever
Yeah like were the WOLVES at the beginning in on this test too, or something??
I think those were the counselors.
Oh my god. The foreshadowing in this book is awful.
Isn't that the same ending as "the beast of the east"?
07:18-07:22 - "...eaten by wolfs..." lol
do camp cold lake next!
That was stupid but I think I love it
This one was legitimately creepy at times. Seriously fucked up. And is that an inflatable van gogh? huh
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That Edward Munch statue is bad asa.
666 subscribers...spooky
"Chirldrynn"
HOW MANY TIMES, STINE
I'm shocked that nobody has pointed out that Saber is literally the name of the gender swapped anime version of King Arthur and fights with swords. Source: Fate Stay Night
that ending though, lol
Is like he was lazy writing this but needed a good stinger at the end so he could sell the story. LIKE WHAT WAS THAT ENDING
DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN why?
"Nightmoon"
scrathch ball sounds like the dumbest game. alsos im drunk after 15 drinks
Bailey Meyers is distractingly beautiful.
I can't pay attention to the story.
Interesting. What a cathartic concept for a series. And in a way, surprisingly endearing. Observational question: Was it intentional to look towards upper left as opposed to directly at the camera?
Finally, the perfect series to watch while I work on my fanfiction