Channel Awesome He should watch the anime "Ghost Stories". The English dub is AMAZING, funny and one of a kind. It's the abridge before abridges were cool.
I believe the “out of place 50’s motif” is a weird sorta nod at “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” which is even stranger cause no kid that watched this show probably even knew that movie existed. Maybe for the adults that’s watched the show? Who knows.
The episode with Mia Kirshner where she has to "feed the hounds" is pretty scary even now. It's just really eerie. The other one that I will always remember is one where a girl died in her room after some kids teased her and locked her in there. She became trapped in her mirror and so she'd write "help me" backwards all over the walls of the room. Basically any of the episodes where things don't end very well for anyone involved really freaked me out. It doesn't TOTALLY hold up but some episodes are still scary as hell. Fuck Zeebo the clown.
Really hoping you get around to do Freaky Stories, I'll forever have that "It's a true story, happened to a friend of a friend of mine." line stuck in my head.
Gruesome Gourmets may be terrible overall, but that dream sequence in the freezer was absolutely terrifying to me as a kid. So many nightmares from that scene. Honestly I still find it creepy as shit today lol.
There’s actually a movie of the series that I watched in 7th grade, it’s about a girl that can only remember a curcist that everyone else forgets about after it disappears
Fun fact: The guy who played Johan is the very first voice actress behind Arthur from the cartoon of the same name, and the actor behind Eddy is also the guy who played Andy from the Midnight Society.
When i saw Tale of the Full Moon recently, when the MC breaks into the neighbors house I was honestly expecting him to find his Mom and the neighbor doing the nasty! lol
When I saw the first two are from season 5 I was like 'oh obviously they just ran out of ideas in the later seasons and those episodes weren't as good.' But now we're into season 2 with the original cast. this is classic Are You Afraid of the Dark territory. how the hell do they have Bad episodes?
That song from "50's motif" clip was also used in the Tale of the Ghastly Grinner. One of my least favorite episodes was always the Tale of the Fire Ghost.
They are not trying to see a band, I think it's a wrestling match. Also this episode scared me a lot when I was a kid, specially at the end when the aliens are with them...I think since then I have a fascination with extraterrestrial thingies.
some of these concepts were done to varying degrees of success elsewhere. Mainly Disney Channel original movies. Like the werewolf one sounds similar to "Mom's Got a Date With a Vampire" and that one where they beam messages into space and aliens come because of it sounds like "Can of Worms"
The only episode I remember was something with a crazy mom making her family sleep in tupperware so they couldn't age... so bad... I don't know why I remember this shit so well, but I'm REALLY surprised to not see it here.
... I was kinda sad. Tale of the Manaha was always one of my favorite episodes. For some reason when I was a kid that Shaman saying “beware of the Manaha” scared the daylights out of me.
I totally forgot this video was coming up! That was a pleasant surprise. :D I was always an Are You Afraid of the Dark? kid. I only caught a couple Goosebumps episodes (I think I ended up watching more of the R.L. Stine stuff after I had a niece than I ever did as a kid myself). So IDK which was objectively better. I just know that I've enjoyed what I've watched of both! :D
Really "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" is like the kids' version of an indie horror film or maybe a film student's horror film, while the "Goosebumps" television series is like the kids' version of Roger Corman film. The book series less so.
She actually made her screen debut in a bit role in the S5 finale (the original final episode of the series) and then returned as one of the Midnight Society when the show came back three years later.
I didn't watch the last two seasons of AYAOTD so I can't speak on those episodes but from the original run I agree with the others. I didn't like Unexpected Visitor, Manaha, or Full Moon. They were all just weak episodes and not even scary at all.
What should Walter cover on a future Top 5? Let us know in the comments below.
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Channel Awesome He should watch the anime "Ghost Stories". The English dub is AMAZING, funny and one of a kind. It's the abridge before abridges were cool.
How about rl stine the hunting hour. It a good show
Channel Awesome top 5 Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Segments
Top 5 Tales From the Crypt episodes
"The Tale of the Unexpected Visitor" an introvert's worst nightmare
The tale of the expected visitor-also an introverts worst nightmare
Even the worst episodes are better than a lot of creepypastas
But a lot of other creepypastas are better than the best episodes.
"So-nic.EXE is no laughing matter!"
(Maybe that reference is too obscure... Search for 'Spingebill's Hazardous Camping Episode'.)
The only CreepyPasta I ever liked was the Russian Sleep Experiment. That was pretty cool.
Boner Begone How about the one with a paranoid guy and parasites that control people through eyes?
I thought that Joseph sent you into space, kars
Used to love watching this and Tales from the Crypt
Crypt is the best
SupaPixelGirl I've seen u on a game grumps video today wtf
no one cares
I care.... :'(
Dick.
This show was so good that even its "worst" was good.
Also notice how all these are from season 5 and 6. Seasonal rot anyone?
Lizardman one of them was from season 2
tale of the full moon was season 2
Seasonal Rot like American Horror Story starting with Roanoke and every season after
Yup
Me: I liked that one.... Oh, I liked that one too...yeah okay, that one's pretty bad😂😂
I believe the “out of place 50’s motif” is a weird sorta nod at “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” which is even stranger cause no kid that watched this show probably even knew that movie existed. Maybe for the adults that’s watched the show? Who knows.
The episode with Mia Kirshner where she has to "feed the hounds" is pretty scary even now. It's just really eerie.
The other one that I will always remember is one where a girl died in her room after some kids teased her and locked her in there. She became trapped in her mirror and so she'd write "help me" backwards all over the walls of the room.
Basically any of the episodes where things don't end very well for anyone involved really freaked me out. It doesn't TOTALLY hold up but some episodes are still scary as hell.
Fuck Zeebo the clown.
Ain't nothing like head banging to some Prince knock off singing about toys.
Even as a kid I thought the Full Moon episode was really dumb.
How do you keep a werewolf as a pet? Most of the time the wolf is a human.
Are u afraid of the dark was the best horror show of the 90s
Check out the Up All Night podcast! 😍😍😍
Wait a minute, they made an episode about Tamagotchis trying to take over the world? That's stupid and amazing all at once.
Just a bit of trivia but the main boy in the Manaha is the first voice of Arthur
R Ryle M really? Sweet
One of the members of the midnight society is the voice of one of Arthurs friends
In the tale of the midnight ride episode the actor playing ichabod crane voiced the principal in Arthur
I submit to the midnight society... "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs!"
How is that a thing ?
I feel like more than a few Are you afraid of the Dark episodes have been turned into pretty good Doctor Who episodes.
Really hoping you get around to do Freaky Stories, I'll forever have that "It's a true story, happened to a friend of a friend of mine." line stuck in my head.
Gruesome Gourmets may be terrible overall, but that dream sequence in the freezer was absolutely terrifying to me as a kid. So many nightmares from that scene. Honestly I still find it creepy as shit today lol.
The Phone Police episode is an honourable mention.
You almost had me upset at the end, because I thought it was the one where Dr.Vink was using peoples fear to flavor soup.
Man, I wish there were more shows like this and goosebumps on tv now a days
EERIE INDIANA/TFTC PLEASE! 😁
(Tales From the Crypt)
Eerie Indiana should be done next without a doubt!
I absolutely love your introduction! Very creative and nostalgic. Love love love.
you better do top 5 scooby doo where are you episodes
The tale of the full moon is literally just Fred 2: night of the living fred
When I heard the words "pet detective" I couldn't help but think of Ace Ventura 😂
Loved this show along with Eerie, Indiana
I knew the Tale of the Gruesome Gourmets was going to be number 1!
Yes
There’s actually a movie of the series that I watched in 7th grade, it’s about a girl that can only remember a curcist that everyone else forgets about after it disappears
In my memory about the Gourmets, the neighbors really were cannibals and they ate the bully...
Would love to see a top 5 boy meets world.
Me too. 😁
Why not girl meets girl?
Worst list for GMW.
Lmao NO.
Fun fact: The guy who played Johan is the very first voice actress behind Arthur from the cartoon of the same name, and the actor behind Eddy is also the guy who played Andy from the Midnight Society.
The Tale of the Full Moon is literally just the plot of Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred.
When i saw Tale of the Full Moon recently, when the MC breaks into the neighbors house I was honestly expecting him to find his Mom and the neighbor doing the nasty! lol
XD
DO EERIE, INDIANA
are you afraid of the dark is like my fav show from my early teenage years
The Mahana ending scene that was shown reminds me about the very first episode Harry and his bucket full of Dinosaurs
7:09 makes me laugh every time he says that and the way he moved his arms like that! WHO TALKS AND MOVES LIKE THAT?! IT'S TOO HILARIOUS!
When I saw the first two are from season 5 I was like 'oh obviously they just ran out of ideas in the later seasons and those episodes weren't as good.' But now we're into season 2 with the original cast. this is classic Are You Afraid of the Dark territory. how the hell do they have Bad episodes?
Walter, I had the same virtual pet! They were called Nano Fighters, & you could connect them to fight other people! :D
Anyone else get disapointed when they learned the "magic powder" was just non dairy creamer?
The Digger creature looks like it inspired the horrible Doctor Who villain the Wire in The Idiot's Lantern.
Walter have you ever seen beyond belief fact or fiction ? If you have will you do a top 10 video on it ?
It was a wrestling Pay Per View they were trying to get over the Satellite, not watch some band lol. That was one of my favorite episodes.
Does anyone else want that pineapple cider? That sounds god damn delicious
I’m pretty sure that they were cannibals because they had part of chuck’s shirt at the end🌟
TTot Full Moon is so misunderstood. I love that episode and it's '60s B-movie vibe.
That song from "50's motif" clip was also used in the Tale of the Ghastly Grinner. One of my least favorite episodes was always the Tale of the Fire Ghost.
Anybody remember that show on Disney called So Weird?
those guys slipping on the ice cubes... wow haha
I would definitely add the Tale of C7 to this list
The renegade virus was kinda lame in my opinion
Ohh that one was soo bad.
They are not trying to see a band, I think it's a wrestling match. Also this episode scared me a lot when I was a kid, specially at the end when the aliens are with them...I think since then I have a fascination with extraterrestrial thingies.
TheAceSpaceman the exact same man. I love alien stuff
Same here. I always thought that episode was one of the best.
Yeah this episode scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. then I saw it again a few years ago on DVD and it was lulz. but yeah Aliens and stuff.
The fact that Unexpected Visitor and Manaha are on this list costs you all of your credibility, those are both top 20 episodes
The Truman Show clip cracked me up 😂
I'm surprised the movie that had both Professor Vink and Sardo wasn't listed in either video.
I think that happened in the episode called “The Tale of Cutter’s Treasure.”
2:11 is it just me or does Jeff (pretty sure that's the guy on the right) look like a way young Peter Capaldi?
I bet that the out-of-place 50s tripping is written by David Lynch @4:30
How did the fortune cookie episode not make this list but Full Moon did?
some of these concepts were done to varying degrees of success elsewhere. Mainly Disney Channel original movies. Like the werewolf one sounds similar to "Mom's Got a Date With a Vampire" and that one where they beam messages into space and aliens come because of it sounds like "Can of Worms"
I would love to see an Eerie Indiana top 5
This used to scare the shit out of me as a kid. I doubt it would do it for me now. I enjoy intense psychological horror. Get inside my head.
Tale of the full moon is just fright night mixed with lost boys and replacing vampires with werewolves.
I thought the Digger episode was actually kinda scary.
Manaha ma na doot doo doo doo doo....Manaha ma na....
I agree with all of these except for the Unexpected Visitor, just for its humorous aspect alone. :D
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Joel Ratchford your stats are way off.
Oh well
I just can’t watch this without thinking of Jontron’s video.
“What is this stuff?! Is this Manganese? I think I just got flashbanged.”
Honestly, I personally never saw a single Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes
holy crap i remember that virtual pets one. so many years later.
The Unexpected Visitor has the greatest line in the entire series 🎵 I had spaghetti todaaay🎵
The full moon one was my fave growing up as a kid lol
Are you afraid of the dark was much better than Goosebumps
Another fanboy
Is it just me or are alot of creepypastas inspired by Are you Afraid of the Dark?
The one where the ghost kid doesn’t have his jacket. So bad.
The only episode I remember was something with a crazy mom making her family sleep in tupperware so they couldn't age... so bad... I don't know why I remember this shit so well, but I'm REALLY surprised to not see it here.
Was it ? Some of this shows were quite "liberally assembled" for diffusion in France.
Surprised The Tale Of A Door Unlocked was not in this list. It's an episode about a door that shows the future. A DOOR? That's the theme?
... I was kinda sad. Tale of the Manaha was always one of my favorite episodes. For some reason when I was a kid that Shaman saying “beware of the Manaha” scared the daylights out of me.
So glad I have the complete series on dvd. Goosebumps sucks!
I totally forgot this video was coming up! That was a pleasant surprise. :D I was always an Are You Afraid of the Dark? kid. I only caught a couple Goosebumps episodes (I think I ended up watching more of the R.L. Stine stuff after I had a niece than I ever did as a kid myself). So IDK which was objectively better. I just know that I've enjoyed what I've watched of both! :D
1:44 He looks like Chloë Sevigny after a 4 day binge!
🤣
He's arguably better at acting than she is. She had to suck dick on camera to have a career.
Great list man, but completely disagree about the full moon episode, its a classic and very unique!
Well, tongue sandwich is probably the best. Especially beef tongue. Which reminds me to buy some when I go to buy groceries.
Top five best episodes from tales from the crypt
I have to say the last two must have been really bad. I don’t even know about them. Never seen them, never heard of them, never know they existed.
Number 3 is awesome. Don't let this video lie to you.
Really "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" is like the kids' version of an indie horror film or maybe a film student's horror film, while the "Goosebumps" television series is like the kids' version of Roger Corman film.
The book series less so.
My worst episodes are the ones JonTron reviewed. Same for Goosebumps, obviously.
I always love seeing Walter Bananasack. I like his voice.
I remember Nick only played that dog episode once
I remember being scared of take of the virtual pets
Razor Ramon & Bret Hart in a band together?....The Razor Harts?
What’s a Mahana?
Do a top 5 best and worst of Tales from the Crypt please.
Chuck makes me think of Egoraptor.
Submitted for approval for the midnight society i call this one... tale of the bloodfart
PLEASE DO BEST/WORST OF THE TWILIGHT ZONE!!!
Elisha Cuthbert was on this show? How did I miss that?
She actually made her screen debut in a bit role in the S5 finale (the original final episode of the series) and then returned as one of the Midnight Society when the show came back three years later.
I didn't watch the last two seasons of AYAOTD so I can't speak on those episodes but from the original run I agree with the others. I didn't like Unexpected Visitor, Manaha, or Full Moon. They were all just weak episodes and not even scary at all.
bsbgirl85
What was the name of the movie where they were advertising the chocolates?? I saw part of it as a kid and I alwAys wondered how it ended!
Tongue is actually pretty good.
Tale of the unexpected visitor was literally my favorite episode.