History Literature / HowIGotMyShrunkenHead

It was adapted into [[Recap/GoosebumpsS4E1E2HowIGotMyShrunkenHead the first and second episodes of the fourth season]] of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]].

It was adapted into the first and second episodes of the fourth season of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]].

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!!The episode provides examples of:

* ActorAllusion: At one point, Kareen's father calls her Princess. She is played by Rebecca Henderson, who previously played Margret in ''Stay Out of the Basement'', a character who was referred to as Princess by her dad.
* AdaptedOut: Mark's sister Jessica is removed, as are Mark's two friends Eric and Joel.
* ChekhovsGun: Mark's mother, Alice, mentions how Mark has a red ant farm. [[spoiler:The end of the episode reveals that Mark kept the shrunken Hawlings there.]]
* ElvisImpersonator: The pilot of the plane that brings Mark to Baladora is this.
* FramingDevice: The episode is actually a story that Mark is telling to his mother's boyfriend.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Mark's surname Rowe originates from the episode, as does his mother's first name Alice.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Unlike the book, the episode has the villain experimenting on his henchmen to activate the powers of Jungle Magic. Instead of the desired results, they're possessed by an unknown energy that reduces them to mindless slaves.
* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Richard and Carolyn Hawlings go from being siblings in the book to being husband and wife in the episode.
* ShoutOut: Dr. Hawlings in ''How I Got My Shrunken Head'' is stated to have been sent by [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Miskatonic University]].

* AntAssault: Mark suffers this when he wakes up the next morning to find an army of red ants crawling all over his body!

* ChekhovsGun: Early on, Jessica scratches Mark's shrunken head. [[spoiler: Later, it gets mixed in with other heads and the scratch is how Mark is able to find it]].
* CrocodileTears: [[spoiler:In order to see if she's telling the truth about wanting to help him and his aunt, Mark shines his flashlight to her face, and sees a single tear running down her cheek. This is what convinces him that she's on his side. It turns out, no, she was just a great actress.]]

* TheMagicGoesAway: [[spoiler: After the Hawlings family is defeated and the Rowe family is back safe in their home, Aunt Benna removes the Jungle Magic from Mark]]

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Kareen tells Mark that one of the types of animals on Baladora is a scarlet ibis, and even describes what it looks like. Also, Mark sees what can be determined as American Yellow Sac Spiders.

* CruelToBeKind: At one point while the pilot, Ernesto, of Mark and Carolyn's plane is flying them to Baladora, he makes a cruel joke to Mark in which he pretends that the plane has a problem, and they need to jump even though they don't have parachutes. Once Mark figures out that this was a prank, he calls Ernesto mean. The pilot warns him that this was to make sure that he gets used to thinking fast in the jungle. Indeed, the jungle turns out to be just like he warned Mark.

* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: [[spoiler: At one point Dr. Hawlings prevents Mark from finding the shrunken head by throwing it into a pile of similar-looking, but non-magical, shrunken heads. It is only when Mark finds one that has a scratch on an ear, just like his sister did with his, that he realizes that he has the right one]].
* NightmareSequence: Mark has one while sleeping in the jungle. He dreams about dozens of shrunken heads floating around him, sneering at him, chanting, [[MadnessMantra "Hurry, Mark. Hurry."]]

* QuicksandSucks: Mark gets himself stuck in a puddle of this on his journey. He has to use his jungle magic to attract vines to his reach to pull himself out.

* CruelToBeKind: At one point while the pilot, Ernesto, of Mark and Carolyn's plane is flying them to Baladora, he makes a cruel joke to Mark in which he pretends that the plane has a problem, and they need to jump even though they don't have parachutes. Once Mark figures out that this was a prank, he calls Ernesto mean. The pilot warns him that this was to make sure that he gets used to thinking fast in the jungle. Indeed, the jungle turns out to be just like he warhned Mark.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Kareen tells Mark that one of the types of animals on Baldora is a scarlet ibis, and even describes what it looks like. Also, Mark sees what can be determined as American Yellow Sac Spiders.

* SoreLoser: Mark his friends, Eric and Joel, of being this for not wanting to play his jungle game. This may be part of the reason, the other part is they're just sick of playing the exact same game over and over.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Karleen tells Mark that one of the types of animals on Baldora is a scarlet ibis, and even describes what it looks like. Also, Mark sees what can be determined as American Yellow Sac Spiders.

* ThatLiarLies: Mark is interrogating Karleen on some warnings about her family that his aunt had written in a notebook he found, and he asks her if her family actually knows where his aunt is. Karleen replies that she doesn't really know, and she really wants to help him find his aunt. Mark's response. "That's a lie!"

* CruelToBeKind: At one point while the pilot, Ernesto, of Mark and Carolyn's plan is flying them to Baladora, he makes a cruel joke to Mark in which he pretends that the plane has a problem, and they need to jump even though they don't have parachutes. Once Mark figures out that this was a prank, he calls Ernesto mean. The pilot warns him that this was to make sure that he gets used to thinking fast in the jungle. Indeed, the jungle turns out to be just like he warhned Mark.

* SoreLoser: Mark thinks of his friends, Eric and Joel, of being this for not wanting to play his jungle game. This may be part of the reason, the other part is they're just sick of playing the exact same game over and over.

* JustOneMoreLevel: Mark keeps playing his jungle video game in the beginning of the book. His friends Joel and Eric keep t=asking him to play a different game, but he refuses and insists on one more game. The two eventually just leave the house to ride skateboards.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Karleen tells Mark that one of the types of animals on Baldora is a scralet ibis, and even describes what it looks like.

* SoreLoser: Mark thinks of his friends, Eric and Joel, of being this for not wanting to play his jungle game. Thius may be part of the reason, the other part is they're just sick of playing the exact same game over and over.

* QuicksandSucks: Mark gets himself stuck in a puddle of this on his journey. He has to use his jungle magic to attract vines to his reach to pull himself out.

* ChekhovsGun: Early on, Jessica scratches Mark's shrunken head. [[spoiler: Later, it gets mixed in other heads and the scratch is how Mark is able to find it]].

* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Richard and Carolyn Hawlings go from being to siblings in the book to being husband and wife in the episode.

* ChekhovsGun: Early on, Jessica scratches Mark's shrunken head. Later, it gets mixed in other heads and the scratch is how Mark is able to find it.

* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: At one point Dr. Hawlings prevents Mark from finding the shrunken head by throwing it into a pile of similar-looking, but non-magical, shrunken heads. It is only when Mark finds one that has a scratch on an ear, just like his sister did with his, that he realizes that he has the right one.

* FramingDevice: The episode is actually a story that Mark ist elling to his mother's boyfriend.

* ChekovsGun: Early on, Jessica scratches Mark's shrunken head. Later, it gets mixed in other heads and the scratch is how Mark is able to find it.

It was later reissued in the ''Classic Goosebumps'' line in 2009 as a tie-in to the movie ''Help! We Have Strange Powers!''.