History Funny / Goosebumps

[[folder: ''Goosebumps Series 2000'']]

[[folder: ''Goosebumps: Most Wanted'']]

[[folder:The Movie]]

* As our heroes are running from the Lawn Gnomes:
--> '''Stine:''' The basement's locked!
--> '''Zach:''' I picked it!
--> '''Stine:''' That's breaking and entering!
* The cops seem to carry a reputation:
--> '''Champ:''' Dude, we should call the cops...
--> '''Zach:''' Have you ''met'' [[PoliceAreUseless the cops in this town]]?
--> '''Champ:''' ...fair enough.
* "Who are you calling dummy, dummy?"
* Chased by a giant praying mantis, with everyone screaming indications at him, Stine delivers this line:
-->'''Stine:''' [[BackseatDriver Does someone else want to drive?]] 'Cause I'm pulling over ''right now''.
* The running gag:
--> '''Stine:''' Your name is Champ?
--> '''Champ:''' It's short for "Champion."
** Made funnier in that R. L. Stine, who mocks Champ's name, [[HypocriticalHumor has named his own protagonists some pretty crazy things]], like a female Wade and a kid named Skate.
* This:
--> '''Zach's Aunt:''' You're a--
--> '''Slappy:''' Don't do it.
--> '''Zach's Aunt:''' --Talking--
--> '''Slappy:''' Don't say it.
--> '''Zach's Aunt:''' --Dummy.
--> '''Slappy:''' ...You said it.
* The numerous times romance in horror films and books was mocked by, "Now's not a good time!" or a variation of it so the protagonists could focus on taking down the monsters.
* Most of Slappy's one-liners. In any other situation they'd risk becoming {{Narm}}, but he [[NarmCharm delivers each and every one of them with such malicious glee that it becomes hilarious]].
** Anything Slappy says as he goes throughout the town in The Haunted Car and throwing the opened books out of the car and releasing the monsters.
** Peaking when one of the cops aims a gun at him and tells him to shut his mouth. Slappy closes his mouth and answers, "Okay, but it won't stop me."
* Likely unintentional, but Stine's briefly forgetting about creating the giant Praying Mantis is a lot funnier if you've actually read ''A Shocker on Shock Street.'' It's only in the book for a few pages towards the start.
* Zach's aunt crashing into the Werewolf of Fever Swamp, unknowingly saving the heroes.
** And then she assumes she just killed a ''bear''. And Stine thanks her for saving their lives with her ''reckless driving''.
* During the climax, Stine has to find a place to write in the school and goes into the auditorium. What play does the school have set up in there? ''Literature/TheShining''. It's even funnier since the real R. L. Stine is sometimes referred to as the Stephen King of children's literature.
** Not to mention that Stine had previously been goaded into admitting his identity when Zach claimed that the guy should stop trying to ''be'' Stephen King when he writes.
* At the end when the monsters are getting sucked back into the book, Slappy tries to get one last hit in by attacking Stine. And what does Stine end up doing? ''He dropkicks him into the vortex''. Doubles as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, especially for every adult in the audience who grew up terrified of that evil little bastard.
* At the beginning, when Zach is intent on following Hannah and the Abominable Snowman, Champ grabs his arms and puts his whole weight trying to prevent Zach from doing so. Zach is able to keep walking anyway, dragging Champ with him.
* In the sequel, after Stine makes a timely appearance in the climax only to discover his stories have come to life once again, reacts in shock at first upon realizing which story it is, but then he notices an [[Literature/{{It}} ominous balloon floating from a sewer grate]] and exclaims excitedly ''"HA! I '''knew''' I thought of that first!"''

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!!The Books

* Billy describing Dr. Deep's FishOutOfWater behavior in ''Deep Trouble'' when he was stuck on land once during the holidays. "Billy, sit up straight! Sheena, swab the deck!"
* In "Don't Wake Mummy", Kim scared her little brother Jeff by dressing as the mummy. He becomes pissed and started fighting her until their mom stops them by threatening to ground them both.
-->'''Mom:''' I want all of you back in bed on the count of 3! One... two...\\
''[Kim, her friend Shawna, and Jeff run back to their rooms.]''
* From ''Go Eat Worms!:'' "And the winner of the science fair is...Danny Fletcher and his Balloon Solar System!"
** The ending of the episode version: After being convinced to give up worms, Todd and Danny go fishing... [[HereWeGoAgain where Todd immediately begins planning on how they can use fish for their science fair experiment]]. He then proceeds to pick up a sandwich [[FailedASpotCheck that very obviously has a line coming out of it]], and is yanked out into the middle of the lake. Before you assume this is a CruelTwistEnding, Todd ''immediately'' agrees to leave fish alone and manages to talk the fish that hooked him into letting him go. Happy ending, right? ''Well...''
--->'''Todd''': ''What?!'' [[KickTheDog You're gonna make me swim back?!]]
--->[[QuipToBlack (cut to credits)]]
* The entirety of ''A Holly Jolly Holiday'' is hilarious, especially the main premise. It's about a girl whose older sister loves a completely sappy and corny Christmas special, and manages to find a video tape of it at the mall. But the video magically transforms the viewers into the movie's main character, Susie Snowflake, and the girl is horrified as her parents, sister, and even her dog turn into redheaded baking-obsessed idiots. In fact, it starts happening to the girl as well, who mentions she tried to swear at one point but could only say "Oh sugar cookies!"
* At the end of ''Be Careful What You Wish For'', Samantha's reaction to being turned into a bird? Sam suddenly realizes that she's hungry, and [[MyInstinctsAreShowing blissfully devours an earthworm]]! "Very tasty."
* As mentioned by Blog/BloggerBeware, the ending of ''Marshmallow Surprise'' can be considered one. Basically the story builds up to a climax where Mrs. Spooner reveals that Marsha and her brothers are going to melt into goo as revenge for the pranks they've pulled on her, and then out of nowhere the kids turn out to be werewolves and eat her. It's so completely stupid it's hilarious.
* ''Strained Peas'' was about a kid who discovered his baby sister is actually a monster. The story ends with the reveal that his ''actual'' sister, who'd been switched by accident, apparently picked up some tips from her monster mom and threatens the kid. Now in the story, the kid's horrified. In the TV show, he basically rolls his eyes and can't believe [[HereWeGoAgain he has to go through this all over again]].
* In ''Attack of the Mutant'', as Skipper finally faces off against the Masked Mutant, he tries to bluff his way out by proclaiming he's really the hero known as the Colossal Elastic Boy. At which point the Mutant exclaims, in complete sincerity, "Elastic Boy! I ''thought'' you looked familiar!" At no point was there ever a character called Elastic Boy mentioned before that moment, and that just makes it even funnier.
* A running gag in the first two ''Say Cheese and Die!'' books is that Greg's mother seems incapable of making food without somehow making it look and taste like something completely different.
* Evan and Andy's banter in the ''Monster Blood'' series is quite amusing.
* One of the cops in ''Monster Blood IV'' trying to charge the kids for littering before being told to just give up.
* Amaz-o from ''Bad Hare Day'' gets a few due to how grumpy he is, such as when he tells Foz that someone with [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude that name]] has no business making fun of a sorcerer named Frank.
* In a similar "so stupid it's great" vein as Marshmallow Surprise is the big reveal of ''Little Shop of Hamsters''. It turns out that Fitz was planning to create giant angry hamsters...so that he can start a ''HAMSTER WRESTLING LEAGUE''

!!The TV Show

* "How To Kill A Monster":
-->''[the monster lies dead after Clark had his hand in its mouth]''\\
'''Clark:''' Is it really dead this time?\\
''[The monster explodes, [[{{squick}} covering Clark and]] [[CoveredInGunge Gretchen in slime]].]''\\
'''Gretchen:''' I'd say yes.
* The end of ''Piano Lessons Can Be Murder'', where the ghost haunting an old piano is actually the mother of the Shreek Piano School teacher and [[AndIMustScream forces him to practice forever.]]
** The way Mr. Toggle yells "How much LONGER?!"
* While the last bit is scary, the Salesman in ''Welcome To Dead House'' desperately making offers to make the Benson family staying as if they [[ComicallyMissingThePoint matter compared to the town being full of blood thirsty zombies.]] Before giving up and revealing his true intentions.
--> '''Compton Dawes:''' [[PleaseDontLeaveMe Come back,]] [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Dark Falls needs you.]] [[ImAHumanitarian I'M HUNGRY!!!!]]
** Most of the people in Dark Falls wear large and sometimes silly looking hats, which we later find out are to keep the sun from killing them. Just after Amanda and Josh have killed most of the undead townsfolk in their house, as they're running into the car with their parents Josh says "Now I know why everyone around here wore hats!"
* The TV adaption of ''One Day At Horrorland'' really hams up the Horrors, especially when the Morrises are being prepped for the "Raw Deal" TV show.
-->'''Horror Make-Up Artist:''' Darling, we're monsters, but we're not ''monsters''.
** And then there's the commercial for ''Greatest Monster Love Songs''. It must be seen to be believed.
*** [[https://youtu.be/BD2l65Ot7Co?t=539 You're welcome]].
* In ''The Haunted Mask 2'', when Chuck asks Steve to remove his creepy mask (not knowing [[BecomingTheMask it's attaching to him and changing his mood]])...
--> '''Chuck:''' Would you take off that mask please?
--> '''Steve:''' ''(in a mocking falsetto)'' "Please?" "PLEASE?"
** Steve when under control of his old man mask can be pretty funny in general, such as the way he tries to rapidly brush the spiders off his face while crying out in his distorted voice "Get off me! Get off me!" Then when he tries to get a random boy (thinking Steve is some old drunk) to take it off...
--> '''Steve:''' Underneath my shirt... there should be a line... ''There has to be a line!''
--> '''Boy:''' I don't know what you're talking about. There is no line.
--> '''Steve:''' It's [[PunctuatedForEmphasis just, a MASK]]!
--> '''Boy:''' That's not a mask, mister. That's your face! ''(runs off)''
* From ''You Can't Scare Me!'', the speech Courtney gives Eddie and Hat after they tried to scare her with mud monsters, and her then talking the mud monster to death.

* In "The Girl Who Cried Monster", which was also in the book:
-->'''Lucy:''' Mom! Dad! There's a monster!
-->'''Randy:''' What?!
-->'''Lucy:''' In the library!
-->'''Dad:''' (''Making meatballs'') Don't you say "hi" anymore?
-->'''Lucy:''' Hi Dad! There's a monster in the library!
** As Lucy's freakout continues:
-->'''Mom:''' You're making them too big.
-->'''Dad:''' I happen to ''like'' big meatballs.
** Then there's the classic "''Life'' is a phase I'm going through!"
* As awesome as Slappy's demise in ''Night of the Living Dummy III'' was, you can’t help but chuckle when Slappy is struck down literally ''seconds'' after saying he’s invincible. It’s almost like [[BoltOfDivineRetribution that lightning bolt]] was God’s way of saying, “'''''Are you sure about that?'''''”
* In ''My Hairiest Adventure'', the now-dog Larry's reaction to his doctor transforming his pet cat Jasper into a human baby.
-->'''Larry:''' [[HereWeGoAgain Here we go again.]]

!!The Movie

!!The Comics

-->'''Kyra:''' Oh, next to none. The state congress cut fresh air out of the school budget.

* As awesome as Slappy’s demise in ''Night of the Living Dummy III'' was, you can’t help but chuckle when Slappy is struck down literally ''seconds'' after saying he’s invincible. It’s almost like [[BoltOfDivineRetribution that lightning bolt]] was God’s way of saying, “'''''Are you sure about that?'''''”

* As awesome as Slappy’s demise in ''Night of the Living Dummy III'' was, you can’t help but chuckle when Slappy is struck down by lightning literally a second after saying he’s invincible. It’s almost like [[BoltOfDivineRetribution that lightning bolt]] was God’s way of saying, “'''''Are you sure about that?'''''”

* As awesome as Slappy’s demise in ''Night of the Living Dummy III'' was, you can’t help but chuckle when Slappy is struck down by lightning literally a second after saying he’s invincible. It’s almost like [[BoltOfDivineRetribution that lightning bolt]] was God’s way of saying, “'''''Are you sure about that?''''”

* As awesome as Slappy’s demise in ''Night of the Living Dummy III'', you can’t help but chuckle when Slappy is struck down by lightning literally a second after saying he’s invincible. It’s almost like [[BoltOfDivineRetribution that lightning bolt]] was God’s way of saying, “'''''Are you sure about that?''''”

* ''Strained Peas'' was about a kid who discovered his baby sister is actually a monster. The story ends with the reveal that his ''actual'' sister, who'd been switched by accident, apparently picked up some tips from her monster mom and threatens the kid. Now in the story, the kid's horrified. In the TV show, he basically rolls his eyes and can't believe he has to go through this all over again.

!!The Movie

* As our heroes are running from the Lawn Gnomes:
--> '''Stine:''' The basement's locked!
--> '''Zach:''' I picked it!
--> '''Stine:''' That's breaking and entering!
* The cops seem to carry a reputation:
--> '''Champ:''' Dude, we should call the cops...
--> '''Zach:''' Have you ''met'' [[PoliceAreUseless the cops in this town]]?
--> '''Champ:''' ...fair enough.
* "Who are you calling dummy, dummy?"
* Chased by a giant praying mantis, with everyone screaming indications at him, Stine delivers this line:
-->'''Stine:''' [[BackseatDriver Does someone else want to drive?]] 'Cause I'm pulling over ''right now''.
* The running gag:
--> '''Stine:''' Your name is Champ?
--> '''Champ:''' It's short for "Champion."
** Made funnier in that R. L. Stine, who mocks Champ's name, [[HypocriticalHumor has named his own protagonists some pretty crazy things]], like a female Wade and a kid named Skate.
* This:
--> '''Zach's Aunt:''' You're a--
--> '''Slappy:''' Don't do it.
--> '''Zach's Aunt:''' --Talking--
--> '''Slappy:''' Don't say it.
--> '''Zach's Aunt:''' --Dummy.
--> '''Slappy:''' ...You said it.
* The numerous times romance in horror films and books was mocked by, "Now's not a good time!" or a variation of it so the protagonists could focus on taking down the monsters.
* Most of Slappy's one-liners. In any other situation they'd risk becoming {{Narm}}, but he [[NarmCharm delivers each and every one of them with such malicious glee that it becomes hilarious]].
** Anything Slappy says as he goes throughout the town in The Haunted Car and throwing the opened books out of the car and releasing the monsters.
** Peaking when one of the cops aims a gun at him and tells him to shut his mouth. Slappy closes his mouth and answers, "Okay, but it won't stop me."
* Likely unintentional, but Stine's briefly forgetting about creating the giant Praying Mantis is a lot funnier if you've actually read ''A Shocker on Shock Street.'' It's only in the book for a few pages towards the start.
* Zach's aunt crashing into the Werewolf of Fever Swamp, unknowingly saving the heroes.
** And then she assumes she just killed a ''bear''. And Stine thanks her for saving their lives with her ''reckless driving''.
* During the climax, Stine has to find a place to write in the school and goes into the auditorium. What play does the school have set up in there? ''Literature/TheShining''. It's even funnier since the real R. L. Stine is sometimes referred to as the Stephen King of children's literature.
** Not to mention that Stine had previously been goaded into admitting his identity when Zach claimed that the guy should stop trying to ''be'' Stephen King when he writes.
* At the end when the monsters are getting sucked back into the book, Slappy tries to get one last hit in by attacking Stine. And what does Stine end up doing? ''He dropkicks him into the vortex''. Doubles as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, especially for every adult in the audience who grew up terrified of that evil little bastard.
* At the beginning, when Zach is intent on following Hannah and the Abominable Snowman, Champ grabs his arms and puts his whole weight trying to prevent Zach from doing so. Zach is able to keep walking anyway, dragging Champ with him.

* In "The Girl Who Cried Monster":