History YMMV / TalesToGiveYouGoosebumps

* CompleteMonster: In "Broken Dolls", [[LivingDollCollector The Dollmaker]] is a mysterious, [[EvilOldFolks elderly]] {{sculptor|s}} with a large collection of life-like dolls. To create these, the Dollmaker would smear countless victims--implied to be mostly [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--with "Dolly Jelly", a substance that painfully drains them of life to trap their souls in porcelain figures, all [[AndIMustScream still aware]] and barely able to even cry for help. Initially [[FauxAffablyEvil seeming polite and grandmotherly]] to Tamara Baker and her little brother Neal, the Dollmaker tries to add Neal to her collection. When Tamara discovers the old woman's secret, the Dollmaker brushes off the girl's horror and anger, claiming that children today simply don't understand her ways. She then prepares to dispose of Tamara with the Jelly, coldly taunting her that children go missing so often this century, and that she'll just be one more.

* CompleteMonster: In "Broken Dolls", [[LivingDollCollector The Dollmaker]] is a mysterious, [[EvilOldFolks elderly]] sculptor with a large collection of life-like dolls. To create these, the Dollmaker would smear countless victims--implied to be mostly [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--with "Dolly Jelly", a substance that painfully drains them of life to trap their souls in porcelain figures, all [[AndIMustScream still aware]] and barely able to even cry for help. Initially [[FauxAffablyEvil seeming polite and grandmotherly]] to Tamara Baker and her little brother Neal, the Dollmaker tries to add Neal to her collection. When Tamara discovers the old woman's secret, the Dollmaker brushes off the girl's horror and anger, claiming that children today simply don't understand her ways. She then prepares to dispose of Tamara with the Jelly, coldly taunting her that children go missing so often this century, and that she'll just be one more.
* HilariousInHindsight: The collection has a story that is about a universal remote that can literally control the universe. The title? ''Film/{{Click}}''.

* HilariousInHindsight: The collection has a story that is about a universal remote that can literally control the universe. The title? ''Film/{{Click}}''.

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* HilariousInHindsight: In the episode "Strained Peas", Nicholas is seen wearing a football helmet. Fast forward a few years later and his actor, Creator/TyroneSavage, [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama would end up playing a football jock]].
* RetroactiveRecognition: Before playing Lightning on ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', Tyrone Savage played the protagonist on "Strained Peas".

* HilariousInHindsight: In the episode "Strained Peas", Nicholas is seen wearing a football helmet. Fast forward a few years later and his actor, Tyrone Savage, [[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRevengeOfTheIsland would end up playing a football jock]].

* HilariousInHindsight: In the episode "Strained Peas", Nicholas is seen wearing a football helmet. Fast forward a few years later and his actor, Tyrone Savage, [[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRevengeOfTheIsland would end up playing a football jock]].

%%!!The episodes provide examples of:

* CompleteMonster ("Broken Dolls"): [[LivingDollCollector The Dollmaker]] is a mysterious, [[EvilOldFolks elderly]] sculptor with a large collection of life-like dolls. To create these, the Dollmaker would smear countless victims--implied to be mostly [[WouldHurtAChild children]]--with "Dolly Jelly", a substance that painfully drains them of life to trap their souls in porcelain figures, all [[AndIMustScream still aware]] and barely able to even cry for help. Initially [[FauxAffablyEvil seeming polite and grandmotherly]] to Tamara Baker and her little brother Neal, the Dollmaker tries to add Neal to her collection. When Tamara discovers the old woman's secret, the Dollmaker brushes off the girl's horror and anger, claiming that children today simply don't understand her ways. She then prepares to dispose of Tamara with the Jelly, coldly taunting her that children go missing so often this century, and that she'll just be one more.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Tamara, the protagonist of the "Broken Dolls" short story, does something ''incredibly'' smart for a ''Goosebumps'' character. When someone sends her a doll that's an exact double of the old woman whom attempted to transform her brother and herself into dolls, her immediate reaction is to goad her brother into breaking the doll before anything happens.
* NightmareFuel: ''Tales to Give You Goosebumps'':
** "How I Won My Bat" seems like a simple story at first. TheHero is a mediocre baseball player who wants to win a game. He then meet a person who gives him a magic baseball bat that allows him to do just that on one condition, that being to bring it back to him at the end off the game. The protagonist wins the game, but refuses to give the bat back. As punishment, the curator turns him into a wax statue.
** "Broken Dolls":
*** This is another story that runs on the NothingIsScarier trope. We know the old woman did ''something'' to Tamara's brother, but we aren't told directly if she was trying to [[TheDollEpisode turn him into a doll]] or if she was ''stealing his soul'' to give one of her doll's perfect features. We're also given the implication that this woman has been alive for an [[TimeAbyss impossibly long time]], and there's an entirely unsettling moment made of AdultFear during her confrontation with Tamara:
---->'''Dollmaker:''' Young people disappear so often in this century. You'll just be one more...
*** Then there are the implications regarding the old woman's dolls. At one point Tamara can hear them saying "Stop her" and they make motions as if they were reaching out to Tamara. The fact that Tamara hears cheers of happiness after defeating the old woman implies that the dolls were actually ''begging'' Tamara for help!

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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: "Strained Peas" was about a kid who discovered his baby sister is actually a monster. The story ends with the reveal that his ''actual'' sister, who'd been switched by accident, apparently picked up some tips from her monster mom and threatens the kid. Now in the story, the kid's horrified. In the TV show, he basically rolls his eyes and can't believe [[HereWeGoAgain he has to go through this all over again]].
* NightmareFuel:
** The episode of "The House of No Return". All of it. Especially the TwistEnding, even though [[AssholeVictim those kids]] had it coming. The tragic backstory to the ghosts haunting the titular house explains that they were a married couple whose infant child died when [[AdultFear it fell through a weak spot in the floor]]. They were so stricken with grief they turned into hermits, spending the rest of their days constantly arguing with each other inside the house before they die. They collect children because they're trying to replace the family they had when they were still alive. As the Ghost Man and his wife the Ghost Woman close in on the three bullies, eerily saying over and over that they're going to love the three children forever, it cuts outside to the haunted mansion being struck by lightning on the rooftop, thunder cracking and the children heard screaming. Cue end credits.
-->'''Ghost Man and Ghost Woman:''' We love children! You're going to be loved by us ''forever!'' '''''FOREVER!!!'''''
** "Click" isn't particularly scary for the most part, but then comes the ending, where Seth attempts to stop his friend from taking the remote by hitting the power button on him... but ends up accidentally turning off himself, leaving him in some sort of void. And just then the batteries die! Uh oh! The creepy salesman from earlier thanks him for trying out the remote and just leaves him there, calling out for help.