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Are You Afraid of the Dark? #156123
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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I loved pretty much all of these shows. My friend's sister even ordered all of the Are You Afraid Of The Dark episodes off ebay on dvd.


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I grew up on the classic era of Nick. I loved "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"

The most poignant episode for me was the homage to Nosferatu where the vampire came out of the screen and killed people. I remember being very scared as a little kid.


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Nickelodeon used to be great, now it turned to shit. Anybody remember Salute Your Shorts?


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Quote:
Originally posted by DonVitoCorleone:
Nickelodeon used to be great, now it turned to shit.
What about Spongebob and the Rugrats? Aren't those cartoons good?


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Re: Are You Afraid of the Dark? #156128
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Rugrats used to be good. Spongebob is funny from time to time.

The rest of the shows are shit.


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Re: Are You Afraid of the Dark? #156129
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I've watched about 6 full episodes of The Wonder Years on You Tube. Goodness.

I also loved Nickelodeon when it was great. Salute Your Shorts...rings a bell...


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Re: Are You Afraid of the Dark? #156130
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DV, yes, I remember the Nosferatu one especially well. I just watched the other two that I could recall - The Doll Maker and Laughing in the Dark. I don't know if it's just the memories, but they both managed to creep me out a bit. Can't wait to see some more, and I'm sure I'll recognize them, as well.

I just came upon an awesome site called Retro Junk - "Your Memory Machine." Wow!

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You guys know that "are you afraid of the dark?" is canadian, right?


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Re: Are You Afraid of the Dark? #156132
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That's interesting. Dan Aykroyd is Canadian, too!


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Re: Are You Afraid of the Dark? #156133
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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".


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I spent many an hour watching Nick. I also remember Clarissa Explains it All starring a young Melissa Joan Hart. What would you do? The two titles I can't remember were one that had the final challenge scaling a "mountain" of sorts and the prize was some green rock that was supposed to be from the mountain and the other had to do with like ancient Egyptian history. This is really bothering me because I enjoyed them so much. The Eqyptian one had to be like "Tales from the..." or something.

Something else I remember as I stopped watching Nick was a popsicle stick named Stick Stickley. He had a thinking cap and that's all I really remember. It's almost sad to watch these channels that I so dearly enjoyed when I was younger.


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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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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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Made a mistake, and I can't delete my own post.

JG, SC?


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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


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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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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.


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Hell I have no idea what you folks are talking about.


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Likewise Iceman, what reality do you reside in? :p

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Quote:
Originally posted by DonVitoCorleone:
Nickelodeon used to be great, now it turned to shit. Anybody remember Salute Your Shorts?
That show was awesome! I would buy that on DVD. Anyone remember "Hey Dude?" I used to think Westerners were so cool!

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Wow, such a classic. Nick, Disney, and Cartoon Network has really gone down the drain.


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Well, Nickelodeon isn't that bad. It still has some real funny cartoons.


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