Bride of the Living Dummy/TV episode

"Bride of the Living Dummy" is the sixteenth episode of season three of the Goosebumps TV series, and the sixtieth episode overall. It premiered on February 14, 1998 on Fox Kids Network.

Cast

 * Andreanne Benidir as Jillian Zinman
 * Sophie Bennett as Katie Zinman
 * Wayne Robson as Jimmie O'James
 * Michael Vollans as Harrison Cohen
 * Karen Waddell as Connie Zinman
 * Philip Shepherd as Bob Zinman
 * Ron Stefaniuk as Slappy (voice)

Differences from the book

 * At the end of the episode, it was Harrison that got the evil spirit, not Jillian.
 * Amanda is absent in this television episode.
 * Jimmy O'James is a grown man rather than a teenager.
 * In the episode, Slappy wanted Katie to be his Bride, not Jillian.

Home releases
"Bride of the Living Dummy" was released on VHS on September 15, 1998. It was released on the Night of the Living Dummy DVD on September 11, 2007, which was later rereleased on September 11, 2012. It was included in a 3-Pack Thriller DVD on August 26, 2014.

Trivia

 * To fit the theme of the episode, the television episode was first aired on Valentine's Day of 1998.
 * This is the second time that Ron Stefaniuk provides both the puppetry and voice for Slappy the dummy. He had previously done the puppetry for Slappy in "Night of the Living Dummy III" two-part story. But Cathal J. Dodd provided Slappy's voice in Night of the Living Dummy III, when Stefaniuk was too busy to voice the character.
 * At a certain point of the episode, Katie and Harrison can be seen watching a scary movie in the Zinmans' living room; the footage is actually from three previous episodes of the show. They are "The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight", "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp", and "Welcome to Camp Nightmare".
 * When Slappy is seen in the basement, his head is completely different. This is because this is the mask used by the actress that was Slappy in Night of the Living Dummy III. It was used on a dummy double, when Jillian bangs Slappy's head on the work table after he bites her, to keep the dummy's head from cracking.
 * Three of the dummy heads used from Night of the Living Dummy III appear in this story. The broken, severed heads of Slappy's "rivals" in Jimmy O'James' home are the heads of the Rocky and Zane dummies. Slappy's damaged, severed head in the finale is actually the head from Night of the Living Dummy III, when Mr. O'Dell tries to glue Slappy's broken right eye back on his cracked face.
 * When Jillian goes to return Slappy to Jimmy, she is first seen to be standing behind a gate. As the gate lifts up to let her in, the viewer can see that someone had written in black paint 'Don't worry, be happy.' However, someone had taken some red paint and had written 'SL' over the 'H' so the message can be read as 'Don't worry, be Slappy'.
 * In the previous dummy episode, "Night of the Living Dummy III", Slappy is very tall and long in that episode; presumably as tall as a 12-year-old. But in this episode, Slappy is very short; about as tall as a baby.
 * In "Night of the Living Dummy III", Slappy gets hit by lightning and explodes into tiny pieces. But in the beginning of this television episode, he is repaired. It never explains how he was fixed.
 * Andreanne Benidir (Jillian Zinman) also played as Stephanie in "The Headless Ghost" in Season 2.