Episode 54 – R.L. Stine
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2016
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Chapter Two: …of boredom, because it turns out not much happens in these books, despite the cliffhanger shoved in every five pages.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Goosebumps television theme song
Monster Edition: a Goosebumps fanzine
Welcome to the Dead House by Rebecca Mock
Review of the Goosebumps movie
Goosebumps the movie is streaming on Netflix
A Definitive Ranking of Ever Goosebumps Cover by Creepiness
Are You Afraid of the Dark? Season One on Amazon | Later seasons on YouTube
Ross Hull (Gary on Are You Afraid of the Dark?) is a weatherman now
Candy pairing: Kait says Creepy Crawlers Edibles, Becca says Caramel Apple Pops, Sarah says Warheads.
Coming up next: Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about part of why Kate is the way she is so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm not Renata. |
| 0:19.4 | And for this episode, we read two books by R.L. Stein. |
| 0:22.8 | Joining us to discuss these early 90s horror snooze fest is Sarah, scientist and champagne |
| 0:28.9 | officianto. |
| 0:29.9 | Hi, Sarah. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello. |
| 0:32.4 | Sarah is returning to us. |
| 0:35.2 | She actually lent us her science expertise for a Dan Brown book. |
| 0:41.3 | And now she is lending us her 90s kid expertise for some goosebumps books. |
| 0:48.0 | Only 90s kids would remember. |
| 0:51.8 | So yes, you may have noticed that I am not Renata. |
| 0:54.6 | I am Becca who usually edits to, who always edits the podcast and is still editing the podcast, |
| 1:00.7 | even with Renata in the sadness cave. |
| 1:03.0 | So I'll be filling in for her. |
| 1:05.1 | And I apologize from my summer cold voice, unless you're into it. |
| 1:08.9 | And then, hey. |
| 1:14.1 | Apparently, so unrelated to the actual Goosebump's books, apparently they recently made a movie, a Goosebump's movie that is about like R.L. Stein as a character? |
| 1:23.2 | Is that what it's about? I kept seeing it and I couldn't figure out. |
| 1:26.9 | Yeah, it was like Jack Black played R.L. Stein and like I think all the things that, |
| 1:31.7 | yeah, Jack Black played R.L. Stein. |
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