You Can't Scare Me (TV episode)

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Episode

"You Can't Scare Me" is the seventh episode of season two of the Goosebumps TV series, and the twenty-sixth episode overall. It premiered on October 5, 1996 on Fox during the Fox Kids block.

Cast

Charlotte Sullivan as Courtney
Dylan Provencher as Hat
Kiel Campbell as Eddie
Garry Robbins as Mud Monster
Anais Granofsky as Ms. Prince
Lucy Peacock as Biology Teacher (uncredited)
Krystine Geronimo as Courtney's friend (uncredited)^[1]
Leah Cudmore as Girl (uncredited)^[1]

Blurb

Courtney, a total show-off, isn't scared of anything. Not snakes, not tarantulas, and especially not Eddie and Hat! She always manages to make them look like losers when they're trying their best to scare her. But Eddie and Hat have dreamed up the perfect scare once and for all. They're going to lure Courtney to Muddy Creek and convince her that Mud Monsters are real—and really scary. But it may be Eddie and Hat who are ghouled!

Differences from the book

Instead of many Mud Monsters, there is only one.
Two of Eddie's friends, Molly and Charlene, are missing. Charlene's dog, Buttercup, also does not appear.
Instead of Eddie's brother and his friends disguised as mud monsters to scare Courtney, it's only Eddie.
Instead of the Mud Monsters emerging and chasing everyone away, Courtney sees the Mud Monster, assumes it's a fake, and talks to it for so long that the sun dries it out. Once it dries out, the monster becomes immobile. Courtney is then interviewed by news reporters. After they leave, the Mud Monster gets revived by the rain and chases Eddie and Hat.

Other media

Goosebumps Presents

No.	Cover	Release date	Pages
14		July 1997	60

Home releases

"You Can't Scare Me" was released on DVD on March 31, 2009, as the third episode on Return of the Mummy. It was included in a 3-Pack Thriller DVD on August 26, 2014.

Title	Release date	Media type
Return of the Mummy	March 31, 2009	DVD
3-Pack Thriller	August 26, 2014	DVD

Trivia

This episode was adapted into Goosebumps Presents Book #14.
Dylan Provencher (Hat) played Chris in season three's The House of No Return.
Kiel Campbell (Eddie) played Noah in season three's The Haunted House Game.
The way in which Courtney bores the Mud Monsters to death in the television episode is reminiscent of a piece of Greek mythology in which Hermes uses long and uninteresting stories to bore the giant Argus Panoptes into sleeping; Hermes then casts a spell that makes Argus's sleep eternal.

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References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 GOOSEBUMPS, 1996 TV Script with REAL AUTOGRAPHS BY CAST, You Can't Scare Me! (mirror)

Commercial

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

[:0-0] 1.0 ^1.1 GOOSEBUMPS, 1996 TV Script with REAL AUTOGRAPHS BY CAST, You Can't Scare Me! (mirror)

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