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The Best Episodes of Goosebumps

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Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations,

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 1 - Be Careful What You Wish For
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Be Careful What You Wish For

    S2:E1

    Samantha Byrd is a klutz. An accident waiting to happen. She's the laughingstock of the girls' basketball team. And tha mean, rotten Judith Bellwood is making her life miserable on and off the court. But everything's about to change. Sam's met someone who can grant her three wishes. For real. Too bad Sam wasn't careful what she wished for. Because her wishes are coming true. And they're turning her life into a living nightmare!

    Director:René Bonnière
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 7 - You Can't Scare Me
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - You Can't Scare Me

    S2:E7

    Courtney is a total show-off. She thinks she's so brave and she's always making Eddie and his friends look like wimps. But now Eddie's decided he's had enough. He's going to scare Courtney once and for all. And he's come up with the perfect plan. He's going to lure Courtney down to Muddy Creek. Because Eddie knows Courtney believes in that silly rumor about the monsters. Mud Monsters that live in the creek. Too bad Eddie doesn't believe the rumor. Because it just might be true...

    Director:René Bonnière
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 14 - The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight

    S2:E14

    Jodie loves visiting her grandparents' farm, listening to Grandpa Kurt's spooky stories and devouring Grandma Miriam's chocolate chip pancakes. But she and her brother Mark haven't been to the farm in a year, and it appears to have changed. The cornfields are sparse, their grandparents look terrible, and the single scarecrow has been replaced by 12 towering, dark, evil-looking ones that seem to have a life of their own.

    Director:Randy Bradshaw
    Writer:Scott Peters

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  4. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 15 - Monster Blood (1)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Monster Blood (1)

    S2:E15

    While staying with his weird great-aunt Kathryn, Evan visits a funky old toy store and buys a dusty can of monster blood. It's fun to play with at first. And Evan's dog, Trigger, likes it so much, he eats some! But then Evan notices something weird about the green, slimy stuff-it seems to be growing. And growing. And growing. And all that growing has given the monster blood a monstrous appetite...

    Director:Timothy Bond
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 16 - More Monster Blood (2)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - More Monster Blood (2)

    S2:E16

    Evan is flying to Atlanta to meet his parents, as the family is moving due to his father's job. On the plane, Evan meets three kids. But as each of them get to know Evan more, Evan tells them about the monster blood. And all the trouble it caused. However, none of them believe him. Though, that's going to change soon. Very soon. Because the monster blood has followed Evan. And now it's going to cause a very frightening flight...

    Director:Timothy Bond
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 17 - Vampire Breath
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Vampire Breath

    S2:E17

    It's the big 13 for Freddy and Kara, and their parents are going out for the night, telling the new teenagers that it's useless to look for their birthday presents. However, Freddy and Kara don't listen, and head downstars to the basement to search for them. With no luck, Freddy then sees a box on top of a high shelf. He bets anything that they're in that box. Though they never find out. Trying to reach it, the shelf topples over, revealing a hidden passageway in their basement. Following it, the kids find a dark, damp, and cold room. With a coffin. And in that coffin is a very bloodthirsty vampire...

    Director:Ron Oliver
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 19 - Calling All Creeps!
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Calling All Creeps!

    S2:E19

    When Ricky gets kicked off the paper, he decides to play a prank on the editor. He sticks a message in the paper. If you're a real creep, call Tasha after midnight. But Ricky's message gets messed up. And now he's getting strange calls from kids who say they are creeps...

    Director:Craig Pryce
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 22 - Don't Wake Mummy
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Don't Wake Mummy

    S2:E22

    Jeff's Parents Do Not Believe that the Mummy in their basement is Alive.

    Director:William Fruet
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 23 - The Blob That Ate Everyone
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Blob That Ate Everyone

    S2:E23

    A famous horror writer. That's what Zackie Beauchamp wants to be. He's writing a story about a giant blob monster. A pink slimy creature who eats up an entire town! Then Zackie finds the typewriter. In a burned down antique store. He takes it home and starts typing. But there's something really odd about that typewriter. Something really dangerous. Because now every scary word Zackie writes is starting to come true...

    Director:Randy Bradshaw
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 24 - Night of the Living Dummy III (1)
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Night of the Living Dummy III (1)

    S2:E24

    Trina and Dan love their Dad's collection of ventriloquist dummies, except for the creepy new dummy, who has a card containing a magic spell in its pocket. They're pretty mad when their visiting cousin, Zane, uses the dummies in his pranks. But one night, when their parents are out, spooky things start to happen...things that only the dummies can be doing. What weird power does the new dummy have? Is he controlling the others? And can he be stopped before he turns the three children into his dummy slaves?

    Director:Timothy Bond
    Writer:Neal Shusterman

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  11. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 25 - Night of the Living Dummy III (2)
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Night of the Living Dummy III (2)

    S2:E25

    Trina O'Dell's dad used to have a ventriloquist act. That's why he has all those dummies in the attic. One night he brings home this spooky dummy. Weird, evil things start to happen. Could this new dummy be the cause?

    Director:Timothy Bond
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Goosebumps Season 3 Episode 5 - Click
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Click

    S3:E5

    Seth's new mail-order remote control has the power to control his TV, his VCR, his stereo... and his life.

    Director:John Bell
    Writer:Scott Peters

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  13. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 21 - Welcome to Dead House (2)
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Welcome to Dead House (2)

    S2:E21

    Amanda and Josh HATE their new house. Its just so spooky. And the town of Dark Falls too. But their parents don't listen to them. But they should have... Because the neighors want them to stay. Forever....

    Director:William Fruet
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Goosebumps Season 1 Episode 7 - Phantom of the Auditorium
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Phantom of the Auditorium

    S1:E7

    Brooke's best friend, Zeke, has just gotten the lead role in the school play, The Phantom. Zeke's totally into it. He loves dressing up in the grotesque phantom costume. And scaring the other members of the cast. Brooke thinks Zeke is getting a little too into it. But then really scary things start happening. A message appears on a piece of scenery: ""Stay away from my home sweet home, Esmeralda!"" A stage light comes crashing down. Is someone trying to ruin the play? Or is there really a phantom living under the stage?

    Director:John Bell
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 20 - Welcome to Dead House (1)
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Welcome to Dead House (1)

    S2:E20

    For Josh and Amanda, having to move to the remote, desolate town of Dark Falls was bad enough. But as soon as they moved into Dead house, things began to happen, things their parents couldn't see -- a ghostly shape at the window, a shadow on the wall, the way their dog kept growling at strangers, the quiet, death-pale neighbor kids. Was it the chemical spill that made the people of Dark Falls so strange, or something far more sinister?

    Director:William Fruet
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Goosebumps Season 1 Episode 2 - The Haunted Mask (2)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - The Haunted Mask (2)

    S1:E2

    Shy, quiet Carly Beth is an easy target for everyone's teasing and practical jokes. But this Halloween she's found a wonderfully spooky mask that has her tormentors scared and running. Carly Beth refuses to take her new mask off, even though it causes strange things to happen to her and other people. One day the magic of the mask turns on Carly Beth. She's horrified to discover that she and the mask have become one.

    Director:Timothy Bond
    Writers:Dan Angel, Billy Brown

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  17. Goosebumps Season 1 Episode 8 - Piano Lessons Can Be Murder
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Piano Lessons Can Be Murder

    S1:E8

    When Jerry finds a dusty old piano in the attic of his new house, his parents offer to pay for lessons. At first, taking piano seems like a cool idea. But there's something creepy about Jerry's piano teacher, Dr. Shreek. Something really creepy. Something Jerry can't quite put his finger on. Then Jerry hears the stories. Terrifying stories. About the students at Dr. Shreek's music school. Students who went in for a lesson... and never came out.

    Director:William Fruet
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Goosebumps Season 1 Episode 12 - Stay Out of the Basement (1)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Stay Out of the Basement (1)

    S1:E12

    When Margaret's dad gets fired from his job as a botanist, he begins acting weird and spending all his time down in the basement. But no one seems to notice his odd behavior or hear the strange noises coming from below-except Margaret. She's really scared. Has her father turned into a mad scientist? Her brother, Casey, thinks she's nuts-that is until he finds out that dad has been eating plant food! What is going on? Together Margaret and Casey venture down into the dark, creepy basement to unearth their father's spooky secret...

    Director:William Fruet
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 10 - Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns

    S2:E10

    Nothing beats Halloween. And this year will be awesome. Much better than last year. Or the year Lee and Tabby played that joke. A nasty practical joke on Drew and her best friend, Walker. Yes, this year Drew and Walker have a plan. A plan for revenge. It involves two scary pumpkin heads. But something's gone wrong. Because the pumpkin heads are a little too scary. A little too real. With strange hissing voices. And flames shooting out of their faces...

    Director:William Fruet
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 11 - The Haunted Mask II (1)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Haunted Mask II (1)

    S2:E11

    After last year's terrifying Halloween, Carly Beth buried her old haunted mask. Now this year her friend Steve wants to find a mask just as scary, but Carly Beth refuses to tell him where she bought hers. At the last minute though, Steve encounters a stranger wearing Carly Beth's old mask, a mysterious man who leads him to a boarded-up novelty shop. Steve elips in through the back door and steals a creepy mask he finds in the basement. What he doesn't realize is that Carly Beth's old mask is alive-and using both Steve and the shopkeeper to get her back!

    Director:William Fruet
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Goosebumps Season 2 Episode 12 - The Haunted Mask II (2)
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Haunted Mask II (2)

    S2:E12

    After last year's terrifying Halloween, Carly Beth buried her old haunted mask. No this year her friend Steve wants to find a mask just as scary, but Carly Beth refuses to tell him where she bought hers. At the last minute though, Steve encounters a stranger wearing Carly Beth's old mask, a mysterious man who leads him to a boarded-up novelty shop. Steve slips in through the back door and steals a creepy mask he finds in the basement. What he doesn't realize is that Carly Beth's old mask is alive-and using both Steve and the shopkeeper to get her back!

    Director:William Fruet
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Goosebumps Season 1 Episode 3 - The Cuckoo Clock of Doom
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #22 - The Cuckoo Clock of Doom

    S1:E3

    Michael Webster is always getting in trouble! And he knows it's because of his bratty sister, Tara the terrible. But now something else is about to make Michael's life even worse. His father has just brought home an antique cuckoo clock. It's old. It's expensive. And Mr. Webster won't let anyone touch it. Poor Michael. He should have listened to his dad. Because someone put a spell on the clock. A strange spell. A dangerous spell. And now Michael's life will never be the same again...

    Director:John Bell
    Writers:Dan Angel, Billy Brown

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  23. Goosebumps Season 1 Episode 1 - The Haunted Mask (1)
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #23 - The Haunted Mask (1)

    S1:E1

    Shy, quiet Carly Beth is an easy target for everyone's teasing and practical jokes. But this Halloween she's found a wonderfully spooky mask that has her tormentors scared and running. Carly Beth refuses to take her new mask off, even though it causes strange things to happen to her and other people. One day the magic of the mask turns on Carly Beth. She's horrified to discover that she and the mask have become one.

    Director:Timothy Bond
    Writers:Dan Angel, Billy Brown

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  24. Goosebumps Season 1 Episode 10 - Night of the Living Dummy II
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Night of the Living Dummy II

    S1:E10

    It's the middle of Amy Kramer's most-hated night, Family Night, where every member of the family has to share something with the others. After a home-made video of the family's most embarrasing situations put together by Amy's mischievious little brother, Jed, it's Amy's turn to share. She decides to share a ventriloquist act with her ventriloquist dummy, Dennis. However, not even halfway through the routine, Dennis loses his head. Amy complains to her father, reminding him that he told her she'd get a new dummy. So Amy does. She gets Slappy. However, after Amy reads the card of magic gibberish in Slappy's coat pocket, she's just put her family and herself in jeopardy. Because Slappy's no normal dummy. He's one that can come to life...

    Director:Ron Oliver
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Goosebumps Season 1 Episode 18 - The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (1)
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #25 - The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (1)

    S1:E18

    Grady's family has just moved out of the city. Into the swamp. Suffice to say, Grady and his sister, Emily, aren't exactly thrilled, especially when his sister finds a snake in the medicine chest. After making a few jokes about the snake looking like Emily's old boyfriend, his father orders him to set the snake free in the swamp. So Grady does. However, he gets a bit lost, and realizes he's gone in a bit too deep. He then runs into the local swamp hermit. The next day, Grady meets the only other kid around, Will Blake. When the go into the swamp, Will tells Grady about a strange fever that you can get from the swamp. He also tells Grady about the swamp hermit, and how the swamp hermit is a werewolf. Grady somehow believes it, but his family is skeptical. That night, hoping he does not catch the ""Fever Swamp"", Grady goes downstairs to lock the basement door, but he is attacked by an animal. Is it the werewolf?

    Director:William Fruet
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Be Careful What You Wish For" is the best rated episode of "Goosebumps". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by René Bonnière and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/10/1996. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "You Can't Scare Me".