We open with Kristen positing the question about why they tell scary stories at night. Wouldn't the day be the same? To which everyone responds basically by "duh, it's just scarier at night." Betty Ann is up this week, with Eric complaining that her stories are "gross but have happy endings". Everyone shuts him up, as is the correct option.
We open this episode with Kristen visiting Gary at his dad's magic shop, and we also open with Kristen easily falling for the old "finger in the guillotine" trick. Turns out that the magic shop is where Gary gets most of his ideas for his stories, to which Kristen tells him that the others haven't found Gary's work to be too scary lately. The audience can't tell yet since this is technically our first Gary story. In the order we're going it's been one Frank, one Betty Ann, one Kristen and two of David's. Which does seem odd when you think about how Gary is the de facto leader and we're beating around the bush to get to his story.
We then get introduced to the MacGuffin of the episode, the super specs. A pair of X-Ray glasses, to which Gary jokingly ogles Kristen after wearing them which, I mean, that really hasn't aged well, but since they're likely BS to begin with, I guess it's not worth getting heated over. Kristen's skeptical on the spectacles, but Gary just thinks she doesn't believe in magic.
We then go to the Midnight Society meeting where, sure enough, the topic of the evening is how Gary's quality has gone down the crapper. After scaring the supposedly hard to scare Kiki, Gary asks for the crew (no David this week) to give him another chance, to which they're willing to do so. His tale is about three types of people: Those who believe in magic, those who don't, and those who should. And thus we get "The Tale of the Super Specs".
We open the episode with Betty Ann and Kiki thinking they hear some sort of animal noise, which, you know, given we're in the woods is that really a surprise. When the others sans Kristen arrive, Kiki, whose entire MO so far has been to mock perfect Kristen in a very... let's say, tsundere-esque manner, burns her fingers trying to light the campfire. Are you afraid of the hubris is more like it.
Kristen soon arrives with a dog named Elvis, who I swear is just called that because they really wanted the line "he ain't nothin' but a hound dog" uttered at least once in this episode. She brought the dog along as added sound effects as it's her week to tell the story for the Midnight Society, The Tale of the Hungry Hounds.
Time for our next episode to cover. So let's get it twisted with The Tale of the Twisted Claw.
We open this episode with a ghostly figure exiting from a boy's closet and approaching him. The kid wakes up, thinking it's all a dream, but nope. The ghostly figure is still there, and... that's it. Turns out it was Eric's story this week and he doesn't give us an actual worthwhile ending, saying he'll come up with something next week. Since that's a lame way to end the night, Dave ends up being the one with proper story with a proper ending this week, so he submits for the Midnight Society The Tale of the Twisted Claw.
It'll be interesting to see how we move on from Zeebo, but here were are with another Are You Afraid of the Dark episode to cover. Does it stand a ghost of a chance? Find out with episode #3: The Tale of the Lonely Ghost.
Pre-story stuff this time sees David stock-scare Kristen before the two engage in some good old Canadian teen-preteen awkwardness. David remembered Kristen's birthday is coming up, so he gives her a present, but she won't be able to open it until after the meeting. Meanwhile, Eric is tossing grapes in his mouth before Frank pours water down his mouth, which, yeah Eric's been established as kind of the smart alec of the group, he could have choked, so poor form. Speaking of David, he's our narrator for this week's story, The Tale of the Lonely Ghost.
Okay, so we're now into our second review for the blog, and while the first one wasn't super eventful, safe to say this one's going to be one people definitely remember. So, I'm going by episode listings on Wikipedia for which episode goes next. Initially it was going to be The Tale of the Lonely Ghost as that's the order listed on the Youtube channel where I get the screenshots, but that one seems more over the place. So, let's not clown around much longer and talk about The Tale of Laughing in the Dark.
We open with Kristen positing the question about why they tell scary stories at night. Wouldn't the day be the same? To which everyone r...
