Trivia / Goosebumps (1995)

• Banned Episode: When the series was aired in the UK by the BBC in the late nineties and early noughties, nine episodes were not shown, almost certainly due to concerns over content, specifically the "Haunted Mask" series, the "Night of the Living Dummy" series, and "Strained Peas". (Despite this, the novelizations of these episodes were published.)
• California Doubling: The TV series presumably took place in the States (explicitly stated in a few episodes), but was mostly filmed in Ontario, Canada with Camp Nightmoon being non-other than Oshawa's own Camp Samac. The CN Tower in Toronto is also visible in at least one episode.
• Creator's Favorite Episode:
  • Just like the books, R.L. Stine's favorite episode was The Haunted Mask
  • Director Ron Oliver's favorite episodes were The Perfect School and Cry of the Cat.
• Dueling Works: With Are You Afraid of the Dark?. Incidentally, both were filmed in Canada, although in different areas, and quite a few actors popped up on both shows. While both are remembered for being good scary shows for children of the 1990s, Are You Afraid of the Dark? had better writing and acting than the TV adaptation of Goosebumps.
• Fake American: Most of the cast members were local talent from Canada.
• International Coproduction: The series was co-produced by Scholastic in the U.S. and Protocol Entertainment in Canada.
• In Memoriam: A dedication of Michelle Risi, who played Becca in Teacher's Pet, appears at the end of that episode.
• Kids' Meal Toy: Four toys were offered at Taco Bell around the 1996 Halloween season. These consisted of Slappy's Candy Keeper, Cuddles the Horrible Hamster, the Wrappin' Mummy, and the Skull Mobile.
• The Other Darrin: The main cast of Say Cheese and Die was replaced for the sequel episode.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Kristen Bone, who is known for playing somewhat naive but generally supportive characters, such as Maggie, Snail, and Zoey, portrays Tara Webster in the adaptation of Cuckoo Clock of Doom, who happens to be one of the most sadistic and manipulative characters in the entire series (who isn't a monster anyway).
  • Knowing the actor's most famous voice role makes it quite jarring to learn that Cal Dodd was the voice of Slappy.
• Posthumous Credit: Michelle Risi, who portrayed Becca in the Teacher's Pet episode, is given a credit for her work since she completed her scenes before succumbing to meningitis in December 1997.
• Production Posse: Many child voice actors from The Magic School Bus TV series were featured in this show. Most notable are Amos Crawley (Arnold in the first season), Erica Luttrell (Keesha), Daniel DeSanto (Carlos), Stuart Stone (Ralphie) and Renessa Blitz (Janet). Both The Magic School Bus and Goosebumps are properties of Scholastic Inc.
• Recursive Adaptation: Several television episodes received novelizations.
• Shoot the Money: Attack of the Mutant features an elaborate set and miniatures to depict the Masked Mutant's headquarters. We end up getting an great look at all of them.
• Troubled Production: Werewolf Skin had one. First off, it started production before the book was even finished so there wasn't a lot to go off off. Billy Brown and Dan Angel's script for it was seen as "unfilmable" due to having a lot of locations and stunts, as well as scenes considered too dark such as a werewolf biting a deer. After many arguments with the network, Billy and Dan left the show and Ron Oliver was brought in to rewrite the script. Even after that, the network had Oliver trim down the scarier parts of his first cut.
• Tuckerization: There's a fair few examples of locations and such named after crew members, a notable example being Billy Brown from The Perfect School, who is named after one of the writers/showrunners.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The short story The Thumbprint of Doom almost got an episode, but writer Neal Shusterman choose to do Awesome Ants instead.
  • The series was almost animated but producer Steve Levitan wanted it to be live action, which R.L. Stine was more up for.
  • Billy Brown & Dan Angel's script for Werewolf Skin was rejected by the network, which caused them to leave the show. Ron Oliver had to step in and re-write that episode. Even after that, the network had the scarier parts of Oliver's cut trimmed down.
  • The Perfect School was shot as a standard length episode, but the network liked what they had so much that they asked for extra footage to be filmed, making it a two parter.
• You Look Familiar: Several actors were reused in different episodes.