28 Years Ago Today: ‘Goosebumps’ Aired The Corny and Awkward Escape From Karlsville' Episode

Saturday marks 28 years since the iconic '90s Goosebumps television show aired one of its campiest episodes.

The original Goosebumps TV show, based off of R.L. Stine's best-selling children's book series, produced 74 episodes over four seasons. The two-part series premiere, The Haunted Mask, aired on Oct. 27, 1995.

By the time they started work on season three, producers began adapting episodes from Tales to Give You Goosebumps, a book series that featured short stories written by Stine.

But Goosebumps writers Billy Brown and Dan Angel decided to try something different in season three. The two actually wrote a three-part episode, Chillogy, that wasn't based off of any stories from Stine.

The first episode, Squeal of Fortune, tells the story of a teenage girl named Jessica Walters (starring a young Caterina Scorsone) who accidentally gets transported into a small miniature town called "Karlsville."

The man who runs the town, Karl Knave, tricks Jessica into thinking she can make a good living in Karlsville. Eventually, she catches on to his evil scheme, avoids the angry mob of townspeople and gets transported home just in time (thanks to the help of her brother).

Jessica's friend, Matthew Erikson, gets transported into the town in the next episode, Part II: Strike Three…You're Doomed. Karl sets him up with a fantasy-style baseball game filled with dangerous traps, but he reaches home plate and is transported back home.

The Bizarre Conclusion To 'Chillogy'

Sony Entertainment's 'Goosebumps' at the Regency Village Theater.

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The third part of Chillogy aired on May 9, 1998.

While the first two parts of Chillogy had a nice blend of horror, suspense and heart-racing moments, the third chapter of the episode was filled with cringeworthy acting and bizarre dialogues.

Matthew's brother, Todd, gets transported into Karlsville at the end of part two. In Part 3: Escape from Karlsville, Todd is thrilled when Karl informs him that he's the town's "grand prize winner."

In a chilling twist, Karl tells Todd that all the townspeople are humans that he turned into plastic figurines. Todd is strapped down and about to be turned into plastic with a laser machine while the crazy townspeople cheer on Karl.

Fortunately, Todd and Jessica return to Karlsville just in time to destroy the laser and spare Todd's life. The three are transported back to safety at the Erikson home, then proceed to burn the Karlsville town in a fireplace.

One final twist to conclude the campy episode: A mini version of Karl was transported into the Erikson home as well. He looks on and laughs, with the three children having no idea that he's still around.

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Amazon Sells a 6-Pack of Heavy-Duty Totes for $24, and They're Ideal for Moving, Spring Cleaning, and More

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Velvetsure Large Moving Bags, 24-Gallon, 6-Pack, $24 (was $39)

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Moving is never a fun process, whether from home to home, out of college, or otherwise. But there’s a way to expedite the process without breaking the bank. Right now, Amazon is offering almost 40% off a 6-pack of sizable moving bags that can transport your things with ease without the use of boxes, and they also have a whole host of other uses.

The 6-pack of Velvetsure Large Moving Bags is on sale for $24, which is $15 off the original $39 price tag. Shoppers absolutely love these. This set of heavy-duty bags boasts over 5,000 five-star ratings on Amazon, and they come in nine colors. Over 7,000, across all colors, have been purchased in the last month, likely for spring cleaning efforts and moving at the end of the college school year. They also come in two sizes, with this 24-gallon option understandably costing less than the 40-gallon 6-pack, which you can get on sale for around $33.

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What Shoppers Should Know

• Dimensions: 29 inches long,14 inches wide, 13 inches tall
• Best For: Bedding, clothing
• Closure Type: Zippers
• Material: Polyethylene

Although this set of bags might not appear the sturdiest at first glance, the Polyethylene material in each one is equipped to handle up to 65 pounds. Just avoid overstuffing these bags and any boxes with sharp edges. Otherwise, they’re ideal for clothing, bedding, toys, and other softer items that can still be heavy. Every strap on the bag is sewn in and layered three times, and the handles can be used similarly to a normal duffel bag or even a backpack if it’s light enough.

Moreover, there are durable double zippers that ensure these bags stay shut when you want them to. And to top it all off, the bag material is water-resistant, meaning that you can move out regardless of the weather and store things in damp areas for a bit if necessary.

In terms of price, spending just $4 per moving bag is a great deal. You can find similar affordability like that elsewhere, too, like at Walmart.

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What Shoppers Are Saying

Shoppers found that, in many ways, these bags were better than the typical moving boxes people use. “They hold a lot and fit better in the moving van than boxes for certain items,” one reviewer said. “I saved them for my next move. They refold nicely after use.”

Another shopper said they got repeated uses out of them and that they’re perfect for carrying clothes. “My husband and I have moved across state lines twice in the past year,” they began. “These bags are lifesavers for us! I was shocked by how much I could fit in the bags! These bags are now the only way we transport clothes during moves.”

The Velvetsure Large Moving Bags are just $24 on Amazon right now. Add them to your cart ASAP before the price tag slowly starts to move up.

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Severe Storms to Batter U.S. Through Mother's Day Weekend with Thunderstorms, Tornados, and Flooding

If you were planning to do something outside with the mom in your life for Mother's Day, you might want to check the radar first. Mother's Day weekend is shaping up to be anything but peaceful across a large swath of the United States, as a persistent severe weather pattern continues to threaten lives and property from the Gulf Coast to the Plains.

A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect Saturday morning for portions of Harrison and Hancock counties in Mississippi, issued by the National Weather Service in New Orleans. At 8 a.m. CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Diamondhead, moving east at 40 mph. The NWS is warning of 60 mph wind gusts and penny-size hail, with impacts including expected damage to roofs, siding and trees across a wide stretch of the Gulf Coast.

Locations currently in the warning area include Gulfport, Biloxi, Long Beach, Bay St. Louis, Waveland, Diamondhead, Kiln and Gulfport Airport, as well as Interstate 10 in Mississippi between mile markers 11 and 39. Tornado development is possible. The NWS urges anyone in the path of these storms to move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building immediately.

Severe Weather Over the Weekend

Saturday's Gulf Coast storms are part of a larger, persistent severe weather pattern that AccuWeather says shows no sign of letting up through the weekend.

"The pattern conducive to severe weather is not letting up yet," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Adam Douty said. "People, especially in the South Central and Southeastern states, need to stay alert and have multiple ways to receive warnings that can wake them up at night."

Earlier this week, powerful tornadoes tore through Mississippi on Wednesday night, destroying homes and leaving vehicles mangled. A dozen or so tornadoes formed — spawned by just two supercell thunderstorms — demonstrating how quickly dangerous conditions can develop even without an extreme setup. Many of those tornadoes were rain-wrapped, making them difficult to see or hear and adding significantly to the danger.

The severe weather risk will continue to evolve through Sunday. On Saturday, the Plains face a return of storm threats, with some of the strongest storms capable of producing hail, damaging wind gusts and flooding downpours, along with a low but nonzero tornado risk.

Farther south, a larger zone of severe thunderstorms is forecast across Texas through Friday night, expanding from the Rio Grande Valley in the afternoon to portions of central Texas — including areas near Houston, Austin and San Angelo — by nightfall. The main threats remain damaging winds and large hail.

On Sunday, the most widespread coverage shifts to northeastern Texas, southwestern Arkansas and northwestern Louisiana, where conditions are forecast to be similar to Saturday's.

Flooding Threat Along the Gulf Coast

Along the Interstate 10 corridor in the central Gulf Coast states, torrential and repeating downpours are expected to continue through Sunday, with one to four inches of rain forecast and an AccuWeather Local StormMax of nine inches possible in isolated locations. The NWS warns that significant ponding on streets and highways is likely, and localized flash flooding is possible.

A highly localized risk of severe thunderstorms will also develop along the Gulf Coast this weekend, capable of producing brief waterspouts and rain-wrapped tornadoes — the same dangerous phenomenon that made Wednesday night's storms so difficult to detect in time.

If you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move indoors immediately and stay away from windows. For the latest warnings in your area visit weather.gov.

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An 86-Year-Old Hollywood Legend Reveals What He Thinks Happens When We Die

Sir Ian McKellen has done it all in a career spanning over six decades. The English actor started on stage at the Belgrade Theater in Coventry, England, and is still portraying his most iconic role, Gandalf, in The Lord of the Rings franchise in the upcoming film, The Hunt for Gollum.

McKellen's personality is often as good or better than that of the characters he plays. It makes him an incredible talk show guest, and he added to the canon of memorable appearances when he took to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert this week.

McKellen did a questionnaire with Stephen Colbert with a variety of inquisitions that ranged from lighthearted to more introspective, but fans were most fascinated by his answers to what happens when he dies.

Not to be morbid, but McKellen is turning 87 this month. I'm sure he thinks a lot about whether he'll live on in any way after he passes away. His thoughts on the subject were humbling and filled with wisdom, but what else would we expect from him?

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"What happens when we die?" Colbert asked McKellen. The actor responded with his signature quick wit. "Well, I hope there will be a funeral." McKellen elicited laughs from the crowd and continued. "In my case, there won't be a funeral because everything is left to medical research, if they want it."

"And when they're finished with you, I think they grind you - your bones down and give the family something that is going to be thrown into the River Thames."

McKellen then got a little more serious with Colbert. "But what do you? Do you mean is there a life after death? Will I go on living in any sense after I die? No, I will not. Any more than before I was born, I wasn't alive. So this is just - life has just been a little interlude between absolute nothingness."

The Academy Award-nominated legend has always had a great perspective on both his career and the things that happen to him outside of his acting. He is an LGBTQ icon after coming out as gay in 1988. McKellen is the type of person who has such a zest for life that it's hard to imagine him not on this planet. It's nice to know, though, that he has accepted that what comes after this life is out of our control.

If life truly is an interlude between nothingness, McKellen has made a whole lot of something out of that interlude.

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Netflix Is Bringing Back One of Its Most Beloved Adaptations Next Month for Season 2

Following a massive launch back in 2024, Netflix's live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender will return for a second season next month.

The new take on the cult Nickelodeon animated series from the 00s went straight to the number one spot in multiple countries over two years ago, with 21.2 million views in its first four days and 153.4 million hours viewed in its first full week. The series, while not as widely praised as the universally acclaimed original, was viewed by fans and critics as a welcome improvement over the completely panned 2010 live-action film, directed by famed filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan.

The Last Airbender Season 2 will land on the streaming service on June 25, after a two-season renewal deal by Netflix led the series to produce Seasons 2 and 3 back-to-back — meaning the third chapter should (hopefully) be on the near horizon, without the two-year wait this time. No release date has been confirmed for Season 3 as of yet, but it shouldn't be too far behind after Season 3 drops at the end of June.

According to What's on Netflix, "Season 2 will see Aang (Gordon Cormier), Katara (Kiawentiio), and Sokka (Ian Ousley) heading to the Earth Kingdom to find Aang an Earthbending teacher (hello, Toph [Miya Cech]!) and convince the Earth King (Justin Chien) to help them fight Fire Lord Ozai (Daniel Dae Kim). Expect bigger battles, deeper lore, and a whole lot of cabbages."

In another change in production, Christine Boylan (Poker Face, Once Upon a Time, Castle) and Jabbar Raisani (Lost in Space, Game of Thrones, Iron Man) will step up as showrunners for Season 2, taking over from Albert Kim. Hopefully, this should be a positive change for the show as it continues to adapt The Last Airbender, and move past the baggage from previous live-action attempts of the beloved animated series that previously disappointed fans.

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56 Years Ago Today, The Beatles Released Their Final Album, 'Let It Be'

On May 8, 1970, The Beatles released their final album together, fittingly titled Let It Be.

The album contained some of the group's biggest hits, including "Across the Universe," "Get Back," and of course the title track, "Let It Be." It was also the group's first and only collaboration with legendary producer Phil Spector, who spent the last decade of his life in prison for murdering actress Lana Clarkson.

Spector was famous for his "Wall of Sound" present on tracks like "Be My Baby" by The Ronettes and "River Deep — Mountain High" by Ike and Tina Turner. Spector would layer orchestral arrangements and multiple instruments to create a thick soundscape that was unmistakably his. When Spector did this on the track "The Long and Winding Road," it infuriated Paul McCartney. So much so that McCartney wrote a letter to Spector demanding that he remove the excess orchestra, ending it with an assertive command: "Don't ever do it again."

Let It Be wasn't just an album. It was also a simultaneously released documentary, capturing the making of the Fab Four's final collaboration and the tensions between them that ultimately led to their breakup. After its theatrical release, the doc wasn't widely available on home video, making it a rare artifact from The Beatles' archive. In 2021, a restored version became available to stream on Disney+.

The album's release was all the more complicated by the fact that the group had publicly broken up just a month earlier. While many fans like to blame the breakup on John Lennon's relationship with Yoko Ono, it was actually far more complicated than that.

The larger impetus for The Beatles disbanding, as Historynotes, was the death of their manager, Brian Epstein. This left a power vacuum on the business side of things and forced the artists to dip their toes into the world of management, which led to interpersonal squabbles. Separately, Lennon and McCartney's personal relationship also began to fall apart.

Lennon left the band first, followed by McCartney. The four never publicly reunited again.

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Every Major Nintendo Switch 2 Exclusive Coming This Summer

What was once considered a barren wasteland is now bubbling over the top with summer fun! The Switch 2 library is about to grow much larger in the months of May, June, and July with the recent announcements and release dates of several new exclusive titles you can't play anywhere else. These are the best Switch 2 exclusive games coming to your handheld this summer!

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book - May 21

This one is tantalizingly close now. Yoshi's newest adventure looks like something out of a dream; the graphics are objectively some of the most gorgous on any Nintendo console ever. The issues that have cropped up with Yoshi and the Mysterious Book are centered on the difficulty in the game.

Early reviewers have said that the relaxing vibes are paired with gameplay that consists of low-stakes platforming and puzzle-solving. If you want to feel a rush of adrenaline while playing games, this one is not going to do it for you. At the same time, when has Yoshi's worlds ever been for excitement? They are for immersion into something so vast and novel from our own mundane lives.

Star Fox - June 25

Star Fox is one of Nintendo's cult franchises that seems to appear every now and then and fade into the background. Hopefully, the newest release on the Switch 2 will do a barrel role right through the uneven history of the franchise and allow Nintendo to make Fox and his friends more relevant in future years.

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As for gameplay, this one looks to be another reboot of Star Fox 64 from 1997. The new graphics and voice acting will make it the most cinematic game in the franchise's history.

Rhythm Heaven Groove - July 2

After a hiatus that seemed like it would never end, the Rhythm Heaven franchise is finally back this July. The simple gameplay that combines random activities with the beat of a tune demonstrates that no company can make casual, relatable game experiences better than Nintendo can.

Splatoon Raiders - July 23

Splatoon is finally getting a single-player focused game with Splatoon Raiders in July. Atmosphere and adventure are the name of the game this time instead of competition as gamers will explore a region known as the Spirhalite Islands. There will still be some multiplayer options for those who enjoy that aspect of the franchise better.

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