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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The concept behind ''An Old Story'', which is an elderly woman aging up two kids to marry them off to her friends, is a turn off for a lot of readers. While the whole RapeByProxy angle is really FridgeHorror from adult readers projecting onto the story, it still comes across as really icky regardless.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The concept behind ''An Old Story'', which is an elderly woman aging up two kids to marry them off to her friends, is a turn off for a lot of readers. While the whole RapeByProxy angle is really FridgeHorror from adult readers projecting onto the story, story (there are a ''lot'' of stories aimed at children that have the villain [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe trying to force one of the heroes to marry them]]), it still comes across as really icky regardless.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The concept behind ''An Old Story'', which is an elderly woman aging up two kids to marry them off to her friends, is a turn off for a lot of readers. While the whole RapeByProxy angle is really FridgeHorror from adult readers projecting onto the story, it still comes across as really icky regardless.
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* NightmareFuel:
** "An Old Story": it's revealed that Dahlia wasn't actually related to either of the parents; she was just a woman who impersonated a family member just so she could have access to two young boys. The fact that she demands a fee makes it sound like she does this a lot -- meaning that the woman likely hops from family to family, impersonating a family member just so she can gain access to young children whom she can turn old and sell to older people to marry them off to them.
** "Please Don't Feed the Bears": It at first seems like a BreatherEpisode when Sarah and her family are in Cuddle Bear Land, but an AdultFear moment happens when Sarah is an hour late to meet with them for lunch. They're waiting for her and trying to entertain her SpoiledBrat little sister Katie. While her parents admonish her for getting lost, she decides not to tell them that the cast members tried to turn her into a Cuddle Bear by feeding her graham crackers. After all, they wouldn't believe her, and what if they did?
!!The episodes provide examples of:
* NightmareFuel:
** "An Old Story" is pretty tame by most standards of the series, but it still has its moments.
*** The thought of two young boys being aged into elderly men so that they can be pawned off to two older women ''by their own aunt'' is disturbing in more ways than one. We get several hints that she's not what she seems, but the fact that she'd go out of the way to do this to her own nephews is thoroughly smashing the MoralEventHorizon.
*** When the boys reverse the spell, their aunt attempts to hold them hostage until one of them whips out an entire pitcher of cursed prune juice and splashes it all over her, ''causing her to shrivel up into a skeleton before exploding into dust''. The crude look of the skeleton used for this effect just makes it more off-putting. Finally there's her nephew having just done this deed and he's remarkably calm about having just ''killed'' his own aunt.
** "Awesome Ants" has some surprisingly good ant puppets, and the events escalate into the ants seemingly eating everyone in town. Not only that, but while other episodes rush into their CruelTwistEnding at the last minute, this ending ''takes its time''. Everything seems to be back to normal, and then Dave opens the fridge to find nothing to eat [[WhamLine but tubs of food pellets]]... The final scene sees two ants, large as mountains, seemingly laughing at their "human farm" while human families fight in the street over dumped piles of food pellets. Somehow this depressing image is one of the only times Goosebumps didn't fudge an effect!
** "An Old Story": it's revealed that Dahlia wasn't actually related to either of the parents; she was just a woman who impersonated a family member just so she could have access to two young boys. The fact that she demands a fee makes it sound like she does this a lot -- meaning that the woman likely hops from family to family, impersonating a family member just so she can gain access to young children whom she can turn old and sell to older people to marry them off to them.
** "Please Don't Feed the Bears": It at first seems like a BreatherEpisode when Sarah and her family are in Cuddle Bear Land, but an AdultFear moment happens when Sarah is an hour late to meet with them for lunch. They're waiting for her and trying to entertain her SpoiledBrat little sister Katie. While her parents admonish her for getting lost, she decides not to tell them that the cast members tried to turn her into a Cuddle Bear by feeding her graham crackers. After all, they wouldn't believe her, and what if they did?
!!The episodes provide examples of:
* NightmareFuel:
** "An Old Story" is pretty tame by most standards of the series, but it still has its moments.
*** The thought of two young boys being aged into elderly men so that they can be pawned off to two older women ''by their own aunt'' is disturbing in more ways than one. We get several hints that she's not what she seems, but the fact that she'd go out of the way to do this to her own nephews is thoroughly smashing the MoralEventHorizon.
*** When the boys reverse the spell, their aunt attempts to hold them hostage until one of them whips out an entire pitcher of cursed prune juice and splashes it all over her, ''causing her to shrivel up into a skeleton before exploding into dust''. The crude look of the skeleton used for this effect just makes it more off-putting. Finally there's her nephew having just done this deed and he's remarkably calm about having just ''killed'' his own aunt.
** "Awesome Ants" has some surprisingly good ant puppets, and the events escalate into the ants seemingly eating everyone in town. Not only that, but while other episodes rush into their CruelTwistEnding at the last minute, this ending ''takes its time''. Everything seems to be back to normal, and then Dave opens the fridge to find nothing to eat [[WhamLine but tubs of food pellets]]... The final scene sees two ants, large as mountains, seemingly laughing at their "human farm" while human families fight in the street over dumped piles of food pellets. Somehow this depressing image is one of the only times Goosebumps didn't fudge an effect!
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** "An Old Story": it's revealed that Dahlia wasn't actually related to either of the parents; she was just a woman who impersonated a family member just so she could have access to two young boys. The fact that she demands a fee makes it sound like she does this a lot -- meaning that the woman likely hops from family to family, impersonating a family member just so she can gain access to young children whom she can turn old and sell to older people to marry them off to them.
** "Please Don't Feed the Bears": It at first seems like a BreatherEpisode when Sarah and her family are in Cuddle Bear Land, but an AdultFear moment happens when Sarah is an hour late to meet with them for lunch. They're waiting for her and trying to entertain her SpoiledBrat little sister Katie. While her parents admonish her for getting lost, she decides not to tell them that the cast members tried to turn her into a Cuddle Bear by feeding her graham crackers. After all, they wouldn't believe her, and what if they did?
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%%!!The episodes provide examples
* NightmareFuel:
** "An Old Story" is pretty tame by most standards of the series, but it still has its moments.
*** The thought of two young boys being aged into elderly men so that they can be pawned off to two older women ''by their own aunt'' is disturbing in more ways than one. We get several hints that she's not what she seems, but the fact that she'd go out of the way to do this to her own nephews is thoroughly smashing the MoralEventHorizon.
*** When the boys reverse the spell, their aunt attempts to hold them hostage until one of them whips out an entire pitcher of cursed prune juice and splashes it all over her, ''causing her to shrivel up into a skeleton before exploding into dust''. The crude look of the skeleton used for this effect just makes it more off-putting. Finally there's her nephew having just done this deed and he's remarkably calm about having just ''killed'' his own aunt.
** "Awesome Ants" has some surprisingly good ant puppets, and the events escalate into the ants seemingly eating everyone in town. Not only that, but while other episodes rush into their CruelTwistEnding at the last minute, this ending ''takes its time''. Everything seems to be back to normal, and then Dave opens the fridge to find nothing to eat [[WhamLine but tubs of food pellets]]... The final scene sees two ants, large as mountains, seemingly laughing at their "human farm" while human families fight in the street over dumped piles of food pellets. Somehow this depressing image is one of the only times Goosebumps didn't fudge an effect!
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!!The book provides examples of:
* NightmareFuel:
** "An Old Story": it's revealed that Dahlia wasn't actually related to either of the parents; she was just a woman who impersonated a family member just so she could have access to two young boys. The fact that she demands a fee makes it sound like she does this a lot -- meaning that the woman likely hops from family to family, impersonating a family member just so she can gain access to young children whom she can turn old and sell to older people to marry them off to them.
** "Please Don't Feed the Bears": It at first seems like a BreatherEpisode when Sarah and her family are in Cuddle Bear Land, but an AdultFear moment happens when Sarah is an hour late to meet with them for lunch. They're waiting for her and trying to entertain her SpoiledBrat little sister Katie. While her parents admonish her for getting lost, she decides not to tell them that the cast members tried to turn her into a Cuddle Bear by feeding her graham crackers. After all, they wouldn't believe her, and what if they did?
!!The episodes provide examples of:
* NightmareFuel:
** "An Old Story" is pretty tame by most standards of the series, but it still has its moments.
*** The thought of two young boys being aged into elderly men so that they can be pawned off to two older women ''by their own aunt'' is disturbing in more ways than one. We get several hints that she's not what she seems, but the fact that she'd go out of the way to do this to her own nephews is thoroughly smashing the MoralEventHorizon.
*** When the boys reverse the spell, their aunt attempts to hold them hostage until one of them whips out an entire pitcher of cursed prune juice and splashes it all over her, ''causing her to shrivel up into a skeleton before exploding into dust''. The crude look of the skeleton used for this effect just makes it more off-putting. Finally there's her nephew having just done this deed and he's remarkably calm about having just ''killed'' his own aunt.
** "Awesome Ants" has some surprisingly good ant puppets, and the events escalate into the ants seemingly eating everyone in town. Not only that, but while other episodes rush into their CruelTwistEnding at the last minute, this ending ''takes its time''. Everything seems to be back to normal, and then Dave opens the fridge to find nothing to eat [[WhamLine but tubs of food pellets]]... The final scene sees two ants, large as mountains, seemingly laughing at their "human farm" while human families fight in the street over dumped piles of food pellets. Somehow this depressing image is one of the only times Goosebumps didn't fudge an effect!
* NightmareFuel:
** "An Old Story": it's revealed that Dahlia wasn't actually related to either of the parents; she was just a woman who impersonated a family member just so she could have access to two young boys. The fact that she demands a fee makes it sound like she does this a lot -- meaning that the woman likely hops from family to family, impersonating a family member just so she can gain access to young children whom she can turn old and sell to older people to marry them off to them.
** "Please Don't Feed the Bears": It at first seems like a BreatherEpisode when Sarah and her family are in Cuddle Bear Land, but an AdultFear moment happens when Sarah is an hour late to meet with them for lunch. They're waiting for her and trying to entertain her SpoiledBrat little sister Katie. While her parents admonish her for getting lost, she decides not to tell them that the cast members tried to turn her into a Cuddle Bear by feeding her graham crackers. After all, they wouldn't believe her, and what if they did?
!!The episodes provide examples of:
* NightmareFuel:
** "An Old Story" is pretty tame by most standards of the series, but it still has its moments.
*** The thought of two young boys being aged into elderly men so that they can be pawned off to two older women ''by their own aunt'' is disturbing in more ways than one. We get several hints that she's not what she seems, but the fact that she'd go out of the way to do this to her own nephews is thoroughly smashing the MoralEventHorizon.
*** When the boys reverse the spell, their aunt attempts to hold them hostage until one of them whips out an entire pitcher of cursed prune juice and splashes it all over her, ''causing her to shrivel up into a skeleton before exploding into dust''. The crude look of the skeleton used for this effect just makes it more off-putting. Finally there's her nephew having just done this deed and he's remarkably calm about having just ''killed'' his own aunt.
** "Awesome Ants" has some surprisingly good ant puppets, and the events escalate into the ants seemingly eating everyone in town. Not only that, but while other episodes rush into their CruelTwistEnding at the last minute, this ending ''takes its time''. Everything seems to be back to normal, and then Dave opens the fridge to find nothing to eat [[WhamLine but tubs of food pellets]]... The final scene sees two ants, large as mountains, seemingly laughing at their "human farm" while human families fight in the street over dumped piles of food pellets. Somehow this depressing image is one of the only times Goosebumps didn't fudge an effect!
