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"Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes" is the eight episode of season two of the Goosebumps TV series, and the twenty-seventh episode overall. It premiered on October 12, 1996 on Fox during the Fox Kids block.

Cast

Lance Paton as Joe Burton
Kerry Segal as Mindy Burton
Peter Keleghan as Jeffery Burton
David Hemblen as Major McCall
Nora Sheehan as Mrs. Burton (as Nora Sheenan)
Jordan Prentice as Hap
Yvan Labelle as Chip
Sheila Boyd as Gnome #2 (uncredited)

Blurb

Joe Burton's dad loves tacky lawn ornaments—pink flamingos, plaster skunks, cement angels—nothing is too ridiculous for his yard. But, when Mr. Burton brings home two hideous lawn gnomes with tall, pointy hats and evil grins, it's not just embarrassing, it's spooky. Late at night, Joe hears eerie sounds coming from the garden. Could those ugly lawn gnomes be alive?

Differences from the book

At the start of the book, Joe and Mindy are playing ping pong. In the TV adaptation, they are playing catch.
In the TV adaptation, Mindy and Joe are notably more interested in the garden. In the book, they're embarrassed over their father decorating the lawn in tacky ornaments.
Moose and Buster are not in the television episode. McCall's wife is also absent.
Mr. McCall is meaner than the book version (the TV episode establishes that he used to be in the military). This was first seen when he takes away Joe's baseball when it lands in his yard.
Two additional lawn gnomes come from out of nowhere during the chase scene close to the end.
The television episode's ending is different. In the book, the lawn gnomes are left at Lawn Lovely, but Joe's dad buys a lawn statue of a gorilla (which turns out to be alive). In the television episode, the lawn gnomes come back to life after being frozen by bright light and attack Mr. McCall, who ends up as one of the Burton's ugly lawn ornaments.
Lawn Lovely never visited in the episode.
Joe never brought a camera to record the gnomes in the book.
Joe and Mindy's mother strangely doesn't appear until the end of the episode.
Mindy thinks the gnomes look cute, not evil like in the book.

Other Media

Goosebumps Presents

No.	Cover	Release date	Pages
18		February 1998	64

Home releases

"Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes" was released on DVD on September 7, 2010, as the third episode on Go Eat Worms. It was included in a 3-Pack Thriller DVD on August 26, 2014.

Title	Release date	Media type
Go Eat Worms	September 7, 2010	DVD
3-Pack Thriller	August 26, 2014	DVD

Trivia

On this television episode's intro, the dog's eyes do not light up.
This episode was adapted into Goosebumps Presents Book #18, the final book in the series.
Hap and Chip were actually played by actors Jordan Prentice, and Yvan Labelle whenever the gnomes moved.
Jordan Prentice was also one of the actors to play Howard The Duck.
David Hemblen, who portrayed Major McCall, was also the voice actor for Magneto in the 90s X-Men animated series, another series that aired on the Fox Kids block.

Gallery

Characters

Scenes

Goosebumps TV series
Season 1	The Haunted Mask • The Cuckoo Clock of Doom • The Girl Who Cried Monster • Welcome to Camp Nightmare • Phantom of the Auditorium • Piano Lessons Can Be Murder • Return of the Mummy • Night of the Living Dummy II • Stay Out of the Basement • My Hairiest Adventure • It Came from Beneath the Sink • Say Cheese and Die • A Night in Terror Tower • The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
Season 2	Be Careful What You Wish For... • Attack of the Mutant • Bad Hare Day • The Headless Ghost • Go Eat Worms • You Can't Scare Me • Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes • Ghost Beach • Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns • The Haunted Mask II • Let's Get Invisible • Scarecrow Walks at Midnight • Monster Blood • More Monster Blood • Vampire Breath • How to Kill a Monster • Calling All Creeps • Welcome to Dead House • Don't Wake Mummy • The Blob That Ate Everyone • Night of the Living Dummy III
Season 3	Shocker on Shock Street • My Best Friend Is Invisible • The House of No Return • Don't Go To Sleep • Click • An Old Story • The Barking Ghost • One Day at HorrorLand • The Haunted House Game • Perfect School • Werewolf Skin • Awesome Ants • Bride of the Living Dummy • Strained Peas • Say Cheese and Die... Again • Chillogy • Teacher's Pet
Season 4	How I Got My Shrunken Head • The Ghost Next Door • Cry of the Cat • Deep Trouble

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 |date = October 12, 1996
 |runtime_(approx) = 22 minutes
-|directed_by =  Randy Bradshaw
+|directed_by =  William Fruett
-|written_by = Jeffrey Cohen
+|written_by = Charles Lazer
 |previous_episode = "[[You Can't Scare Me!/TV episode|You Can't Scare Me]]"
 |next_episode = "[[Ghost Beach/TV episode|Ghost Beach]]"
 }}
-"'''Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes'''" is the eight episode of [[Goosebumps (television series)#Season 2|season two]] of the [[Goosebumps (television series)|''Goosebumps'' TV series]], and the twenty-seventh episode overall. It premiered on October 12, 1996 on Fox Kids Network.
+"'''Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes'''" is the eight episode of [[Goosebumps (television series)#Season 2|season two]] of the [[Goosebumps (television series)|''Goosebumps'' TV series]], and the twenty-seventh episode overall. It premiered on October 12, 1996 on Fox during the ''[[Fox Kids]]'' block.
 ==Cast==
@@ Line 19: / Line 19: @@
 *Kerry Segal as [[Mindy Burton]]
 *Peter Keleghan as Jeffery Burton
-*David Hemblen as Major McCall
+*David Hemblen as [[Mr. McCall|Major McCall]]
 *Nora Sheehan as Mrs. Burton (as Nora Sheenan)
-*Jordan Prentice as Hap
+*Jordan Prentice as [[Hap and Chip|Hap]]
-*Yvan Labelle as Chip
+*Yvan Labelle as [[Hap and Chip|Chip]]
 *Sheila Boyd as Gnome #2 (uncredited)
 ==Blurb==
 Joe Burton's dad loves tacky lawn ornaments—pink flamingos, plaster skunks, cement angels—nothing is too ridiculous for his yard. But, when Mr. Burton brings home two hideous lawn gnomes with tall, pointy hats and evil grins, it's not just embarrassing, it's spooky. Late at night, Joe hears eerie sounds coming from the garden. Could those ugly lawn gnomes be alive?
-==Plot==
-Joe and Mindy's father is always buying kitsch garden ornaments. His purchase of a set of lawn gnomes leads to chaos, however, as Joe discovers they are alive and intent on causing mayhem.
 ==Differences from the book==
 * At the start of the book, Joe and Mindy are playing ping pong. In the TV adaptation, they are playing catch.
 * In the TV adaptation, Mindy and Joe are notably more interested in the garden. In the book, they're embarrassed over their father decorating the lawn in tacky ornaments.
-* [[Moose McCall|Moose]] and Buster are not in the television episode, making 1/2 of the McCall family absent from the episode.
+* [[Moose McCall|Moose]] and Buster are not in the television episode. McCall's wife is also absent.
-* Mr. McCall (portrayed by David Hemblen) is meaner than the book version (the TV episode establishes that he used to be in the military). This was first seen when he takes away Joe's baseball when it lands in his yard.
+* Mr. McCall is meaner than the book version (the TV episode establishes that he used to be in the military). This was first seen when he takes away Joe's baseball when it lands in his yard.
 * Two additional lawn gnomes come from out of nowhere during the chase scene close to the end.
-* The television episode's ending is different. In the book, the lawn gnomes are destroyed, but Joe's dad buys a lawn statue of a gorilla (which comes to life without anyone knowing). In the television episode, the lawn gnomes come back to life after being frozen by bright light and attack Mr. McCall, Joe and Mindy's militant neighbor. When the judges come over for the "Best Lawn" contest, they tell Joe's dad that he lost because they found a hideous lawn gnome in the backyard. Everyone present is surprised to find that the gnome in question is Mr. McCall in a saluting pose, meaning despite being turned into a lawn gnome, McCall had the last laugh.
+* The television episode's ending is different. In the book, the lawn gnomes are left at Lawn Lovely, but Joe's dad buys a lawn statue of a gorilla (which turns out to be alive). In the television episode, the lawn gnomes come back to life after being frozen by bright light and attack Mr. McCall, who ends up as one of the Burton's ugly lawn ornaments.
+* Lawn Lovely never visited in the episode.
-* In the book, Joe asks Moose into stalking the houses to watch the gnomes cause havoc. Due to Moose's absence in the episode, Mindy is the one Joe asks for help.
-* The old woman's house is never visited in the episode.
 * Joe never brought a camera to record the gnomes in the book.
 * Joe and Mindy's mother strangely doesn't appear until the end of the episode.
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 * David Hemblen, who portrayed Major McCall, was also the voice actor for Magneto in the 90s [[Wikipedia:X-Men_(TV_series)|''X-Men'']] animated series, another series that aired on the ''[[Fox Kids]]'' block.
-== Gallery ==
+==Gallery==
+===Characters===
-<gallery>
+<gallery bordercolor="#007a00">
+JoeBurtonTV.png|Joe Burton
+MindyBurtonTV.png|Mindy Burton
+JefferyBurtonTV.png|Jeffery Burton
+Mr.McCallTV.png|Major McCall
+Mrs.BurtonTV.png|Mrs. Burton
+ChipAndHapTV.png|Hap and Chip
+LawnGnomesTV.png|Gnomes #1 and #2
+</gallery>
+===Scenes===
+<gallery bordercolor="#007a00">
 File:Revengeoflawngnomes 01.jpg
 File:Revengeoflawngnomes 02.jpg
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 [[Category:One-part episodes]]
 [[Category:Episodes adapted into Goosebumps Presents]]
+[[Category:Episodes]]
+[[Category:Episodes directed by William Fruet]]