(Acknowledging that I love or at least like most of them. The ordering is...rough, very rough. I don't think it's possible for it to be wholly solid and unchanging.)
For AYAotD?, I wanted to give the somewhat underappreciated Seasons 6 & 7 some presence, so I just let them have the last (un)lucky 13...rather than try and decide on further ones from brilliant S1-5, which got to be difficult af.
The Tale of (the):
1. Dead Man's Float
For AYAotD?, I wanted to give the somewhat underappreciated Seasons 6 & 7 some presence, so I just let them have the last (un)lucky 13...rather than try and decide on further ones from brilliant S1-5, which got to be difficult af.
The Tale of (the):
1. Dead Man's Float
2. Apartment 214
3. Locker 22
4. Jagged Sign
5. Dream Girl
6. Old Man Corcoran
7. Curious Camera
8. Shiny Red Bicycle
9. Laughing in the Dark
10. C7
11. Room For Rent
12. Dollmaker
13. Badge
14. Silent Servant
15. Dark Music
16. Quicksilver
17. Prom Queen
18. Super Specs
19. Lonely Ghost
20. Crimson Clown
21. Chameleons
22. Captured Souls
23. Renegade Virus
24. Watcher's Woods
25. Unfinished Painting
26. Vacant Lot
27. Carved Stone
28. Whispering Walls
29. Frozen Ghost
30. Thirteenth Floor
31. Station 109.1
32. A Door Unlocked
33. Full Moon
34. Hungry Hounds
35. Unexpected Visitor
36. Prisoners Past
37. Silver Sight
~*~*
38. Virtual Pets
39. Night Nurse
40. Lunar Locusts
41. Highway 13
42. Forever Game
43. Many Faces
44. Reanimator
45. Time Trap
46. Oblivion
47. Zombie Dice
48. Last Dance
49. Secret Admirer
50. Bigfoot Ridge
An Honorable Mention or two, or three? Phantom Cab...The Dangerous Soup...Twisted Claw...The Hatching...Dark Dragon? Eh? Better stop now? Yeah...
And favorite Beyond Belief stories (168 out of 225...again, pretty much adore every single one! ;-p)...
An Honorable Mention or two, or three? Phantom Cab...The Dangerous Soup...Twisted Claw...The Hatching...Dark Dragon? Eh? Better stop now? Yeah...
Likely least faves: Final Wish, Manaha, Long-Ago Locket, Closet Keepers, Phone Police, Pinball Wizard, Train Magic, Midnight Ride, Fire Ghost, Sorcerer’s Apprentice; Misfortune Cookie, Laser Maze, Jake the Snake, Walking Shadow, Stone Maiden
And favorite Beyond Belief stories (168 out of 225...again, pretty much adore every single one! ;-p)...
Town of Remembrance
House of Shadows
Cup of Joe
The Gathering
Halloween
The Grave
The Gravedigger's Nemesis
Dead Friday
The Mystery of Douglas Hibbard
Room 245
The Mandarin's Bowl
The Land
The Getaway
The Subway
Bright Lights
The Ice Box
The Bucket
One For the Road
The Diner
Precious
The Doll
The Caller
Last Rites
Hot Car
Phantom Drifter
Get Your Kicks at Motel 66
Trucker
Epitaph
The House on Barry Avenue
Merry-Go-Round
Red-Eyed Creature
The Wall
The Hand
The Chalkboard
The Apparition
Creepy Comics
Teasdale's Motor Car
The Witness
Grave Sitting
The Prophecy
Dream House
Malibu Cop
Murder on the Second Floor
The Card Game
Graffiti
Who Was I
When I Was Big
They Towed My Car
The Hooded Chair
Cook Out
Secret of the Family Tomb
The Motorcycle
The Wailing
The Horn
The Chess Game
The Mirror of Truth
Mail Order Degree
Kid in the Closet
Kid in the Closet
Terror Night
Second Sight
The Phrenologist's Head
The Murder of Roy Hennessey
Witness to Murder
Tants
Connie
The Bloody Hand
Hubert's Curse
The Find
The Girl Next Door
Ring Toss
The Warning
Wax Executioner
Surveillance Camera
The Prescription
The Sewing Machine
The Cake
Mystery Lock
The Gift
Wheezer
The Viewing
Number One With a Bullet
On the Road
The Scoop
The Wrong Turn
Screwdriver
Writer's Agent
The Sleepwalker
Mysterious Strangers
You Are Next
Anatole
The Landlady
Count Mystery
For the Record
A Joyful Noise
Bon Voyage
The Nightmare
Seven Hours of Bad Luck
Crypt Ghost
The Battered Doll
Bad Dreams
Blood Donor
Blind Man's Dog
The Lady in a Black Dress
Imaginary Friend
The Wealthy Widow
The Golden Cue
Two Sisters
The Greedy Investor
The Curse of Hampton Manor
The Man in the Model T
Buenos Dias
Stitches in Time
Mental
The Cigar Box
Roulette Wheel
The Flower Jury
Money Laundry
Used Car Salesman
The Music Box
Angel on Board
Ghost Town
Rock & Roll Ears
The Escape
The Wallet
Where Have All the Heroes Gone
Aspen Sunny Side
Moonstruck Beach
The Vision
Dust
The Secret of the Coins
The Perfect Record
The Pass
The Woods
Titan
Night Walker
The Old Bike
The Impossible Car Dream
One Hand in the Till
The Music Teacher
The Wreath
Gratuity
The Magic Rose Garden
The Vigil
The Devil's Autograph
War Surplus
Bus Stop
Couch Potato
The Bridge
Healing Hands
The News Stand
The Mentor
Eclipse
Ghost Visitor
Voice From the Grave
The FBI Story
The Dorm
The Dealer
The New House
The Candidate
The Ring
The Handyman
Above the Clouds
Deadbeat Daddy
Sit-Down Comedian
Damsel
The Stalker
Shared Vision
Devil's Tattoo
*~*~*
*~*~*
And on this beautiful 600+-pin board, I pinned all the Baby-Sitters Club, Goosebumps, & Boxcar Children books (plus other amazingness) with favorites toward the bottom of each section (because they were added first.) The BSC ones were added by series or sub-series, with the main-series books divided by sitter, and those ALSO in favorites-order (thus, Mallory's are all the way at the bottom because she's the best! ;D Only one great Stacey one was accidentally deleted & is now at the top of the board.) More in my 14,737 Pinterest Likes. x~} || The Goosebumps ones be visible here. Maybe a few I should've pinned earlier (lower), but ah well. * Boxcar * BSC Little Sister * BSC (that grid and the 'yearbook pages,' etc., are also on the pinboard)
^ also me @ bocpodcast, pokemon, cartoonnetwork, disney/pixar/nick ones, originalfunko, etc.....etc. etc. etc.
^^ also comments here from MAR 1 2020 @ 7:01 AM, MAR 7 2020 @ 1:08 AM, MAR 30 2020 @ 4:28 AM (mostly Rainbow Rangers lol)
Few years later attempting to rank S6+7 like the Big Orange Couch just did...ho boy.
ReplyDeleteVirtual Pets
Forever Game
Oblivion
Secret Admirer
Bigfoot Ridge
Vampire Town
Wisdom Glass
Zombie Dice
Gruesome Gourmets
Walking Shadow
Jake the Snake
Misfortune Cookie
Hunted
Highway 13
Night Nurse (sick>shot! But I like the nurse in the end)
Many Faces
Lunar Locusts (the twist! :x)
Reanimator
Time Trap (not for scariness but Sardo+Belle=fun)
Last Dance
Silver Sight 3
Silver Sight 2
Silver Sight 1
Photo Finish
Laser Maze
Stone Maiden
S7>S6. I'd swap Laser Maze & Stone Maiden for Virtual Pets & Forever Game to get the top 13 from the last two seasons, I think.
Maybe I'd split up Silver Sight if I rewatched focusing on each piece separately, but I tend to keep multipart things together. Overall it was cool.
Photo Finish is so tricky because I remember being unimpressed at first, but the concept with the kid in the photo is neat, and sometimes I wonder what didn't quite click...maybe it just didn't live up to something like Curious Camera or even Unfinished Painting on the whole...hm.
(Also not getting why people see the Gruesome Gourmets as a gay couple?? I mean, I guess it's not impossible, but they could just as easily be friends...?)
ReplyDeleteBut then attempting to rank the first five seasons? Omg. It's almost...impossible? Pointless? Each has so many masterpieces (as well as mid- and lower-tier ones), it's sorta mind-boggling to try to compare. 4 might be the overall weakest of them, but......
ReplyDelete“Haunting Hour” full bootleg dvd set 2 (also in the Halloween movie/series list)
ReplyDeleteAnd Krypto among other unrelated ones...MDs, Push Nevada...thanks, iOffer.
Night Shift could probably be an Honorable Mention but I already had a nice even five.
ReplyDeleteWait.
Five is odd.
Why does it feel so...even?
Prolly 'cuz...schfifty-five.
The Water Demons was always somewhere in the lower-upper-middle of my Ayaotd's...a good'un, and reminded me of a cross between Dead Man's Float & Garfield's Halloween or something--just somehow not quite as effective as those.
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