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Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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04/29/06 02:15 PM
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I know some of you here remember the "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" TV show from Nick's "classic" era. My cousin and I were just talking about it - it was so crazy. I've thought back to shows like Rugrats, Doug, Rocko's Modern Life, and some of the other shows I used to watch as a kid, either through talking with him or talking with you guys here, but I hadn't given much of a thought to Afraid of the Dark in a long time. I don't know how we got on the topic, but when I started thinking about it, I just remembered these random parts of the episodes, and I literally got chills...I guess it's just that feeling you get when you recall the "good ol' days" you had as a child and how you'd love to go back to those times, but wow, it just brought back such a rush of memories. Anyway, my family actually has taped episodes of Goosebumps, Eerie Indiana, and Fudge. I had it in my mind that we also had Afraid of the Dark tapes, but now I can't find them - I think we might have gotten rid of them, which I really regret. I looked on YouTube in the hopes of finding something... And I came across entire episodes!!! The audio is sometimes off, but I'll take what I can get - this is incredible. The Lonely Ghost The Thirteenth Floor Jake the Leprechaun The Super Specs The Doll Maker Ghastly Grinner Pinball Wizard Closet Keepers Dream Girl Long Ago Locket Prom Queen Apartment 214 Laughing in the Dark Part I , Part II , Part III The Phantom Cab Dark Music Part I , Part II , Part III Watcher\'s Woods Part I , Part II , Part III Quicksilver Part I , Part II , Part III Crimson Clown Part I , Part II , Part III Quiet Librarian Part I , Part II , Part III Bookish Babysitter Part I , Part II , Part III Water Demons Part I , Part II , Part III Midnight Ride Part I , Part II , Part III I don't know what these will be like, now - I've got a lot of watching to do - but I know this show scared me to death as a kid! Hope the fans here enjoy these videos. 
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Re: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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04/29/06 10:26 PM
04/29/06 10:26 PM
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You guys know that "are you afraid of the dark?" is canadian, right?
"strange things happen all the time, and so it goes and so it goes. and the book says, 'we may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us'" - MAGNOLIA
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Re: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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04/29/06 11:04 PM
04/29/06 11:04 PM
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I loved that show.
I remember it looked like they filmed it on VHS with a ghettofied camcorder from 1987, one of those ones the size of what we folks of the future call a "PC".
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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04/30/06 12:27 AM
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ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK? was a special show for my childhood, programming heavily inspired by obviously the classics like TWILIGHT ZONE, THE OUTER LIMITS(though I honestly overall prefered the new incarnation), and of course dozens of short stories of pulp horror/mystery and oh ya, old school EC Comics.
That is why I won't watch these episodes again. I am sure they are quite more simple and not as amazing as they were to me as a 8 year old, so I don't want to shatter my impressions of it, which went to eerie tales of kids transported to life-size pinball machine, old people sucking up kids' energy to live forever, killer haunting clowns, and other shit.
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Re: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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04/30/06 12:53 AM
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Colletti, might you be thinking of this ? And check this out! Check out the rest of that site...the TV shows section lists a whole bunch of shows - I came across ones I'd nearly forgotten about, but loved when I was younger. After looking through there, I'd say Ren and Stimpy, Afraid of the Dark, Rocko's Modern Life, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Beetlejuice, CatDog, Clarissa Explains It All, Fudge, Goosebumps, Kablam, Pepper Ann, Pinky and the Brain, Recess, Beyond Belief (scary!), Rescue 911 (scary!), Rugrats, Doug, Wild Thornberrys, Wonder Years, and Wild & Crazy Kids were most of my favorites. RRA, I think you're right. I enjoyed watching those two, because I remember them specifically, but I can see how it'd be better to just leave these as memories. I just wanna be little again. 
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Re: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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04/30/06 04:54 AM
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Originally posted by ginaitaliangirl: Ren and Stimpy, CatDog, Rugrats, Doug I used to know only these. Ren and Stimpy was good but a bit too simplistic, just like CatDog. Doug was more of a teenage soap then a real 'cartoon', but I general I watched it fairly much. The Rugrats was great. When it started I heard that there were a lot of people who thought it would become more popular and better than The Simpsons. While it didn't live up the expectations, I always enjoyed how the Rugrats made the little things look big 
See, we can act as smart as we want, but at the end of the day, we still follow a guy who fucks himself with kebab skewers.
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Re: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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04/30/06 02:16 PM
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Tony Love
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Some of these episodes, along with the site ginaitaliangirl posted, bring back old memories of when I was younger. Though that wasn't a long time ago, reflecting on some of those memories, it seems as if it was a different life time. Maybe it's just because so much has changed in my life. I don't know.
The episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark I remember the easiest, would be the "Pinball Wizard" episode. All I remember is some kid getting wrapped up in a pinball game, and then a giant pinball coming down some escalators. I'm watching that episode right now. Anyway, thanks for the memories.
"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so"-Gore Vidal "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth"-John Fitzgerald Kennedy "The reason the mainstream is thought of as a stream is because of its shallowness"-George Carlin
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Re: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
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05/04/06 02:33 AM
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Wow, such a classic. Nick, Disney, and Cartoon Network has really gone down the drain.
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