History YMMV / Goosebumps

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: It's a Canadian show that is decently popular in the United States. Hell, even got to the point where some people thought that the show was Canadian until they were told otherwise.

** Despite being a horror-book series, most of the protagonists are surprisingly really adorable. [[Literature/TheHauntedMask Carly Beth]] [[ShrinkingViolet Caldwell]], [[Literature/WelcomeToCampNightmare Billy]] [[NiceGuy Harland]], [[Literature/BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Samantha]] [[CuteClumsyGirl Byrd]] and [[Literature/TheCuckooClockOfDoom Michael]] [[TheUnfavorite Webster]], in particular are seen as especially huggable. The fandom takes Carly Beth's moe and ''runs with it''.

** Hell, even some of the AnnoyingYoungerSiblings can be read as this to some. [[Literature/{{TheHauntedMask}} Noah Caldwell]], [[Literature/{{TheGirlWhoCriedMonster}} Randy Dark]] and [[Literature/{{ANightInTerrorTower}} Eddie Morgan]], in particular are seen as especially huggable... at least when they're not being BrattyHalfPints.

* Squick: A lot of the BodyHorror and disgusting descriptions of the monsters definitely qualify as this. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], considering that it's a horror book series.

* SelfFanservice: Most of the protagonists receive this from time-to-time. Girls who aren't busty and curvy will often be given [[BuxomIsBetter large breasts]] and HartmanHips and boys who are scrawny and weak will often be given more muscles in fanart. Thankfully, unlike most examples of this trope, this is often in aged-up fanart and fanworks.

* EstrogenBrigade: Quite a few male protagonists are very popular with females fans, if all the fanart they get online is evidence enough.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The general response to the later books. While they're good books in their own right, with interesting storylines, likable main characters, good villains and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids surprisingly mature despite the demographic it's supposed to be aimaed at]] but they're nothing compared to the earlier grounded, moodier and chracter-driven books.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Happens quite a bit, to the point where some episodes can (unintentionally) resemble a cheesy B-movie. For instance, in ''Literature/CallingAllCreeps'' and ''Literature/OneDayAtHorrorLand'', you can clearly see human eyes behind the monsters' masks.

* IdiotPlot: In a book series where preteens are the main protagonists of each novel, this is prone to come up every once in a while. For example, in all of the ''Living Dummy'' books, someone leaves a piece of paper inside the dummy with the magic words needed to bring it to life written on it. While the main characters aren't at fault, as they have no way of knowing that's what the words do, you have to wonder what kind of moron would leave a piece of paper saying how to animate a magic dummy ''inside'' the freaking dummy if they know it's evil.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: Attempting to [[TooDumbToLive crawl inside of the Dead House’s furnace]] results in this line of dialogue:
--> '''[[WebVideo/JonTron "NOPE! SO MUCH NOPE!"]]'''

* HypeBacklash: The series started garning this reception due to the book series' ''massive'' popularity. However, this is only a VocalMinority.

* EsotericHappyEnding: Can frequently come up when there is almost always a major twist ending for each outing, a recurring example though is the books that end with the main protagonist's UpToEleven AnnoyingYoungerSibling (and sometimes outright tormenter) either being RetGone-d from existence or replaced with a more congenial counterpart. A big debate whether that is a SurprisinglyHappyEnding or NightmareFuel or, since in some situations the protagonist could go and rectify the situation but either shows apathy or an outright aversion towards doing so, a borderline MoralEventHorizon for them overall.

* HypeBacklash: Though not to the same extent as ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen 2013}}'' or (to a lesser extent) ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', it started garning this reception due to the book series' ''massive'' popularity. However, this is only a VocalMinority.

* UncannyValley: Tim Jacobus' surreal covers definitely border on this, especially the ones depicting human faces. The kids have such frozen, glassy eyed expressions of horror that the monsters are ''less'' unsettling to look at.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Some of the books could have a rather dark, menacing, almost AdultFear tone to them despite their still somewhat cheesy YA-friendly style, the earliest books especially could be at times outright violent and gory with ''Literature/WelcomeToDeadHouse'', ''Literature/StayOutOfTheBasement'', ''Literature/WelcomeToCampNightmare'' and ''Literature/PianoLessonsCanBeMurder'' among the chief offenders.

* ToyShip: Even in stories primarily about Middle-School aged adolescents in a series that cared little for romance there was still a good amount of {{Shipping}} happening in the fanbase, with the somewhat FoeYay [[Literature/TheHauntedMask Steve/Carly Beth]] and [[Literature/WelcomeToDeadHouse Amanda/Ray]] (or [[LesYay Amanda/Karen]]) and the more borderline-canon [[ShipTease ship-teased pairings]] of [[Literature/LetsGetInvisible Erin/Max]] and [[Literature/MonsterBlood Evan/Andy]] proving to be among the most enduring [[FanPreferredCouple Fan-Preferred Couples]].

* AngstWhatAngst: The ''Literature/OneDayAtHorrorLand'' interactive book is this provided you picked the right pages and made it out alive.

* ContestedSequel: ''Series 2000'' is one of the most divise spin-offs in the franchise yet. Some fans liked the DarkerAndEdgier storylines that were a bit grown up, interesting storylines and villains the fans LoveToHate. Other fans, on the other hand, hated the series due to it's outlandish plots, [[BloodierAndGorier more extreme violence]], [[GrossOutShow gross-out content]], unlikable characters and increasingly frequent [[GainaxEnding Gainax Endings]]. It doesn't help that ''2000'' was cancelled after just two years and twenty-five books (versus the original series' sixty two installments in six years).

* RonTheDeathEater: Downplayed with the parents of the protagonists. While, yes, they do follow the AdultsAreUseless trope to a perfect T and their parenting can come off as a little bit questionable at times, they're never shown nor mentioned to be physically, mentally or emotionally abusing their children. Pretty much every fanfiction centered around the parents has them either hit their kids or yell and scream at them for minor incidents ar some point.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Some people (particually older ones) only read ''Goosebumps'' simply for all the [[NightmareFuel scary and nightmare fuel-inducing]] scenes in the books.

* FriendlyFandoms: With WesternAnimation/GravityFalls fans, unsurprisingly, considering that both ''Goosebumps'' and ''Gravity Falls'' are about a bunch of preteens finding themselves in tons of horrifying situations. Not to mention some fans find Slappy to be similar to Bill Cipher.

** Hell, even some of the AnnoyingYoungerSiblings can be read as this to some. [[Literature/{{TheHauntedMask}} Noah Caldwell]], [[Literature/{{TheGirlWhoCriedMonster}} Randy Dark]] and [[Literature/{{ANightInTerrorTower Eddie Morgan]], in particular are seen as especially huggable... at least when they're not being BrattyHalfPints.

* {{Moe}}: Despite being a horror-book series, most of the protagonists are surprisingly really adorable. [[Literature/TheHauntedMask Carly Beth]] [[ShrinkingViolet Caldwell]], [[Literature/WelcomeToCampNightmare Billy]] [[NiceGuy Harland]], [[Literature/BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Samantha]] [[CuteClumsyGirl Byrd]] and [[Literature/TheCuckooClockOfDoom Michael]] [[TheUnfavorite Webster]], in particular are seen as especially huggable. The fandom takes Carly Beth's moe and ''runs with it''.

* Moe: Despite being a horror-book series, most of the protagonists are surprisingly really adorable. [[Literature/TheHauntedMask Carly Beth]] [[ShrinkingViolet Caldwell]], [[Literature/WelcomeToCampNightmare Billy]] [[NiceGuy Harland]], [[Literature/BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Samantha]] [[CuteClumsyGirl Byrd]] and [[Literature/TheCuckooClockOfDoom Michael]] [[TheUnfavorite Webster]], in particular are seen as especially huggable. The fandom takes Carly Beth's moe and ''runs with it''.