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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''I Live In Your Basement'' is considered one of the more unique novels of the series due to its complex execution of psychological fear. [[spoiler: This is one of the main reasons why even some of the fans of the novel consider the twist at the end the weakest part of the story and wanted the story to focus more on Marco and how he would escape his psychological fear alive, which would've been a great opportunity to show some interesting CharacterDevelopment on his part as well]].
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The frequent response to ''I Live In Your Basement''.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The frequent response to ''I Live In Your Basement''.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''I Live In Your Basement'' is considered one of the more unique novels of the series due to its complex execution of psychological fear. [[spoiler: This is one of the main reasons why even some of the fans of the novel consider the twist at the end the weakest part of the story and wanted the story to focus more on Marco and how he would escape his psychological fear alive, which would've been a great opportunity to show some interesting CharacterDevelopment on his part as well]].
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The frequent response to ''I Live In Your Basement''.well]].
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The frequent response to ''I Live In Your Basement''.
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* {{Squick}}:
** The cover image for the book might be hard to look at depending on how strong your stomach is. For those who are ''really'' curious, look at it [[https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/I_Live_in_Your_Basement! here]].
** The graphic descriptions of a girl [[BodyHorror turning inside out]]. Best not to read that scene on a full stomach.
** The cover image for the book might be hard to look at depending on how strong your stomach is. For those who are ''really'' curious, look at it [[https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/I_Live_in_Your_Basement! here]].
** The graphic descriptions of a girl [[BodyHorror turning inside out]]. Best not to read that scene on a full stomach.
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* {{Squick}}:
**{{Squick}}: The cover image for the book might be hard to look at depending on how strong your stomach is. For those who are ''really'' curious, look at it [[https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/I_Live_in_Your_Basement! here]].
** The graphic descriptions of a girl [[BodyHorror turning inside out]]. Best not to read that scene on a full stomach.here]].
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* {{Squick}}: The cover image for the book might be hard to look at depending on how strong your stomach is. For those who are ''really'' curious, look at it [[https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/I_Live_in_Your_Basement! here]].
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** The cover image for the book might be hard to look at depending on how strong your stomach is. For those who are ''really'' curious, look at it [[https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/I_Live_in_Your_Basement!here]].here]].
** The graphic descriptions of a girl [[BodyHorror turning inside out]]. Best not to read that scene on a full stomach.
** The cover image for the book might be hard to look at depending on how strong your stomach is. For those who are ''really'' curious, look at it [[https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/I_Live_in_Your_Basement!
** The graphic descriptions of a girl [[BodyHorror turning inside out]]. Best not to read that scene on a full stomach.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Marco's doctor is named [[Series/GreysAnatomy Dr. Bailey.]]
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** The paperweight dream. [[spoiler: With the ending and its subtext in mind, it transparently represents Keith's fear that attempting to approach Marco will result in ''Marco murdering Keith.'']]
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* Squick: {{Squick}}: The cover image for the book might be hard to look at depending on how strong your stomach is. For those who are ''really'' curious, look at it [[http_Goosebumps_wiki_ILiveInYourBasement [[https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/I_Live_in_Your_Basement! here]].
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* TearJerker: In a way, the reveal at the end that [[spoiler: Keith is in a similar situation to Marco. Keith clearly [[IJustWantToHaveFriends wants to live a normal life with human kids]], but his nightmare indicates he's terrified that Marco will hate and fear him as his mother implies. When the real Marco appears at the very end, all Keith does is beg the boy to go back to sleep, likely aware they can ''never'' be friends.]]
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** Near the beginning of the book, Marco gets hit in the head with a baseball bat by mistake and has to stay home until he recovers. At one point after he goes back to school, the teacher mentions they are learning about how healthcare works and asks if Marco can tell about his stay at the hospital. Marco inexplicably has no memory of being in the hospital, and doesn't even realize he doesn't remember until the teacher mentions this. This whole thing is never explained or brought up again
** Much later, after Marco has seen Keith a few times and had other bizarre things happen, his mom takes him to the doctor. After he tells the doctor everything that happened, the doctor says he wants to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext take out Marco's brain and look at it under a microscope.]] Even more bizarrely, Marco's mom [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight doesn't see anything odd or scary about this.]] None of this is ever explained (unless it's meant to be a StealthPun about how Marco's brain is so small you'd need a microscope to see it,) and it's never brought up again. [[spoiler: And it turns out to be irrelevant, as the first half of the book is AllJustADream that ends before the brain-removal takes place.]]
** Much later, after Marco has seen Keith a few times and had other bizarre things happen, his mom takes him to the doctor. After he tells the doctor everything that happened, the doctor says he wants to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext take out Marco's brain and look at it under a microscope.]] Even more bizarrely, Marco's mom [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight doesn't see anything odd or scary about this.]] None of this is ever explained (unless it's meant to be a StealthPun about how Marco's brain is so small you'd need a microscope to see it,) and it's never brought up again. [[spoiler: And it turns out to be irrelevant, as the first half of the book is AllJustADream that ends before the brain-removal takes place.]]
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** Near the beginning of the book, Marco gets hit in the head with a baseball bat by mistake and has to stay home until he recovers. At one point after he goes back to school, the teacher mentions they are learning about how healthcare works and asks if Marco can tell about his stay at the hospital. Marco inexplicably has no memory of being in the hospital, and doesn't even realize he doesn't remember until the teacher mentions this. This whole thing is never explained or brought up again
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** Much later, after Marco has seen Keith a few times and had other bizarre things happen, his mom takes him to the doctor. After he tells the doctor everything that happened, the doctor says he wants to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext take out Marco's brain and look at it under a microscope.]] Even more bizarrely, Marco's mom [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight doesn't see anything odd or scary about this.]] None of this is ever explained (unless it's meant to be a StealthPun about how Marco's brain is so small you'd need a microscope to seeit,) it), and it's never brought up again. [[spoiler: And it turns out to be irrelevant, as the first half of the book is AllJustADream that ends before the brain-removal takes place.]]
** Much later, after Marco has seen Keith a few times and had other bizarre things happen, his mom takes him to the doctor. After he tells the doctor everything that happened, the doctor says he wants to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext take out Marco's brain and look at it under a microscope.]] Even more bizarrely, Marco's mom [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight doesn't see anything odd or scary about this.]] None of this is ever explained (unless it's meant to be a StealthPun about how Marco's brain is so small you'd need a microscope to see
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* HilariousInHindsight: Marco's doctor is named [[Series/GreysAnatomy Dr.Bailey.]]
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* NightmareFuel:
** A "girl" turns inside out, described in full detail.
** The main protagonist Marco caves Keith's skull in with a paper weight.
** Marco's head injury after he is smacked by a baseball bat and the full detail of how he feels counts as well. Right after he is hit, the details of his injury are just unsettling to read through: ''the ground tilted, the pain exploded in Marco's head, everything turned bright red (which actually forced him to shut his eyes), and the ground swallowed him out of his consciousness.'' It's not only scary, it's incredibly ''PAINFUL!'' Just imagine that pain! The fact that it's told in first-person gives the reader a vicarious experience of this kind of pain, which makes it even worse! Made even worse by the fact that Marco is only 12 years old, and as you would know, [[AdultFear very few people around that age or younger have survived getting struck on the head by a bat]], especially after the [[{{Pun}} full-blown]] detail of the injury mentioned above.
** The boy, Keith, also elicits very strange and disturbing stalker vibes, especially considering how young the protagonist is. Then there's the fact that the show descends into a complete MindScrew after Marco gets hit in the head with a baseball. While it can be interpreted as Marco suffering from his concussion, the end actually reveals that Keith was having a nightmare about being a human and living above the basement.
** The fact monsters live in basements and do not dare emerge elicits some likewise very disturbing vibes.
** The whole story is just a long series of contradictions; even the aforementioned TwistEnding makes very little sense, in context or otherwise.
** A "girl" turns inside out, described in full detail.
** The main protagonist Marco caves Keith's skull in with a paper weight.
** Marco's head injury after he is smacked by a baseball bat and the full detail of how he feels counts as well. Right after he is hit, the details of his injury are just unsettling to read through: ''the ground tilted, the pain exploded in Marco's head, everything turned bright red (which actually forced him to shut his eyes), and the ground swallowed him out of his consciousness.'' It's not only scary, it's incredibly ''PAINFUL!'' Just imagine that pain! The fact that it's told in first-person gives the reader a vicarious experience of this kind of pain, which makes it even worse! Made even worse by the fact that Marco is only 12 years old, and as you would know, [[AdultFear very few people around that age or younger have survived getting struck on the head by a bat]], especially after the [[{{Pun}} full-blown]] detail of the injury mentioned above.
** The boy, Keith, also elicits very strange and disturbing stalker vibes, especially considering how young the protagonist is. Then there's the fact that the show descends into a complete MindScrew after Marco gets hit in the head with a baseball. While it can be interpreted as Marco suffering from his concussion, the end actually reveals that Keith was having a nightmare about being a human and living above the basement.
** The fact monsters live in basements and do not dare emerge elicits some likewise very disturbing vibes.
** The whole story is just a long series of contradictions; even the aforementioned TwistEnding makes very little sense, in context or otherwise.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: ''I Live In Your Basement'' is a big lipped alligator ''book'', but a couple of particularly odd scenes stand out:
** Near the beginning of the book, Marco gets hit in the head with a baseball bat by mistake and has to stay home until he recovers. At one point after he goes back to school, the teacher mentions they are learning about how healthcare works and asks if Marco can tell about his stay at the hospital. Marco inexplicably has no memory of being in the hospital, and doesn't even realize he doesn't remember until the teacher mentions this. This whole thing is never explained or brought up again
** Much later, after Marco has seen Keith a few times and had other bizarre things happen, his mom takes him to the doctor. After he tells the doctor everything that happened, the doctor says he wants to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext take out Marco's brain and look at it under a microscope.]] Even more bizarrely, Marco's mom [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight doesn't see anything odd or scary about this.]] None of this is ever explained (unless it's meant to be a StealthPun about how Marco's brain is so small you'd need a microscope to see it,) and it's never brought up again. [[spoiler: And it turns out to be irrelevant, as the first half of the book is AllJustADream that ends before the brain-removal takes place.]]
* BizarroEpisode: Even as strange as some of the books got, ''I Live in Your Basement'' stands out in particular for the sheer breadth of its shockingness.
* NightmareFuel:
** A "girl" turns inside out, described in full detail.
** The main protagonist Marco caves Keith's skull in with a paper weight.
** Marco's head injury after he is smacked by a baseball bat and the full detail of how he feels counts as well. Right after he is hit, the details of his injury are just unsettling to read through: ''the ground tilted, the pain exploded in Marco's head, everything turned bright red (which actually forced him to shut his eyes), and the ground swallowed him out of his consciousness.'' It's not only scary, it's incredibly ''PAINFUL!'' Just imagine that pain! The fact that it's told in first-person gives the reader a vicarious experience of this kind of pain, which makes it even worse! Made even worse by the fact that Marco is only 12 years old, and as you would know, [[AdultFear very few people around that age or younger have survived getting struck on the head by a bat]], especially after the [[{{Pun}} full-blown]] detail of the injury mentioned above.
** The boy, Keith, also elicits very strange and disturbing stalker vibes, especially considering how young the protagonist is. Then there's the fact that the show descends into a complete MindScrew after Marco gets hit in the head with a baseball. While it can be interpreted as Marco suffering from his concussion, the end actually reveals that Keith was having a nightmare about being a human and living above the basement.
** The fact monsters live in basements and do not dare emerge elicits some likewise very disturbing vibes.
** The whole story is just a long series of contradictions; even the aforementioned TwistEnding makes very little sense, in context or otherwise.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: While ''I Live In Your Basement'' is a well-remembered CultClassic, the main character, Marco, never really gets to have his whole character explored more in the story. [[spoiler: The twist at the end of the novel where Keith is revealed to be dreaming he is Marco certainly doesn't help]].
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''I Live In Your Basement'' is considered one of the more unique novels of the series due to its complex execution of psychological fear. [[spoiler: This is one of the main reasons why even some of the fans of the novel consider the twist at the end the weakest part of the story and wanted the story to focus more on Marco and how he would escape his psychological fear alive, which would've been a great opportunity to show some interesting CharacterDevelopment on his part as well]].
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The frequent response to ''I Live In Your Basement''.
** Near the beginning of the book, Marco gets hit in the head with a baseball bat by mistake and has to stay home until he recovers. At one point after he goes back to school, the teacher mentions they are learning about how healthcare works and asks if Marco can tell about his stay at the hospital. Marco inexplicably has no memory of being in the hospital, and doesn't even realize he doesn't remember until the teacher mentions this. This whole thing is never explained or brought up again
** Much later, after Marco has seen Keith a few times and had other bizarre things happen, his mom takes him to the doctor. After he tells the doctor everything that happened, the doctor says he wants to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext take out Marco's brain and look at it under a microscope.]] Even more bizarrely, Marco's mom [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight doesn't see anything odd or scary about this.]] None of this is ever explained (unless it's meant to be a StealthPun about how Marco's brain is so small you'd need a microscope to see it,) and it's never brought up again. [[spoiler: And it turns out to be irrelevant, as the first half of the book is AllJustADream that ends before the brain-removal takes place.]]
* BizarroEpisode: Even as strange as some of the books got, ''I Live in Your Basement'' stands out in particular for the sheer breadth of its shockingness.
* NightmareFuel:
** A "girl" turns inside out, described in full detail.
** The main protagonist Marco caves Keith's skull in with a paper weight.
** Marco's head injury after he is smacked by a baseball bat and the full detail of how he feels counts as well. Right after he is hit, the details of his injury are just unsettling to read through: ''the ground tilted, the pain exploded in Marco's head, everything turned bright red (which actually forced him to shut his eyes), and the ground swallowed him out of his consciousness.'' It's not only scary, it's incredibly ''PAINFUL!'' Just imagine that pain! The fact that it's told in first-person gives the reader a vicarious experience of this kind of pain, which makes it even worse! Made even worse by the fact that Marco is only 12 years old, and as you would know, [[AdultFear very few people around that age or younger have survived getting struck on the head by a bat]], especially after the [[{{Pun}} full-blown]] detail of the injury mentioned above.
** The boy, Keith, also elicits very strange and disturbing stalker vibes, especially considering how young the protagonist is. Then there's the fact that the show descends into a complete MindScrew after Marco gets hit in the head with a baseball. While it can be interpreted as Marco suffering from his concussion, the end actually reveals that Keith was having a nightmare about being a human and living above the basement.
** The fact monsters live in basements and do not dare emerge elicits some likewise very disturbing vibes.
** The whole story is just a long series of contradictions; even the aforementioned TwistEnding makes very little sense, in context or otherwise.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: While ''I Live In Your Basement'' is a well-remembered CultClassic, the main character, Marco, never really gets to have his whole character explored more in the story. [[spoiler: The twist at the end of the novel where Keith is revealed to be dreaming he is Marco certainly doesn't help]].
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''I Live In Your Basement'' is considered one of the more unique novels of the series due to its complex execution of psychological fear. [[spoiler: This is one of the main reasons why even some of the fans of the novel consider the twist at the end the weakest part of the story and wanted the story to focus more on Marco and how he would escape his psychological fear alive, which would've been a great opportunity to show some interesting CharacterDevelopment on his part as well]].
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The frequent response to ''I Live In Your Basement''.
