The WORST episodes of Goosebumps

Every episode of Goosebumps ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Goosebumps!

This Canadian children series based on the popular series of books by RL Stine adapts some of the best tales in the spinechilling series to the screen.

Last Updated: 8/13/2026Network: YTV (CA)Status: Continuing
Deep Trouble (1)
star
1.31
29 votes

#1 - Deep Trouble (1)

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1998

Billy and his sister, Sheena, are visiting their uncle Dr. Deep on a tiny Caribbean island. It's the perfect place to go exploring underwater...and Billy's ready for an adventure. There's only one rule to remember: Stay away from the coral reefs. Still, the reefs are so beautiful. So peaceful. Billy can't resist. But he's not alone in the water. Something's lurking deep below the surface. Something dark and scaly. Something that's half-human, half-fish...

How I Got My Shrunken Head (2)
star
5.00
2 votes

#2 - How I Got My Shrunken Head (2)

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1998

What has two eyes, a mouth, and wrinkly green skin? Mark's shrunken head. It's a present from his Aunt Benna. A gift from the jungle island of Baladora. Mark can't wait to show the kids at school his shrunken head. It's so ugly. So gross. So awesome. But late on night the head starts to glow. Because it's no ordinary head. It gives Mark a strange power. A magical power. A dangerous power...

Directors: Ron Oliver
Writer: Ron Oliver
Teacher's Pet
star
5.20
30 votes

#3 - Teacher's Pet

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/1998

Becca and Benji were on a class field-trip with, well, their class. However, when they got on the trail, Becca realizes she lost the locket that her grandmother gave her. Becca and Benji went back to find it. Becca did, but then it moved by itself. She soon realized that it really didn't, a bunny moved it. However, when she picked the bunny up, she found it had a snake's face! However, no one believes her, and the trip resumed. Mr. Blankenship, their teacher, showed them how a snake devoured a mouse. However, when Becca and Benji went exploring, they found a strange cabin. With live snakes...

My Hairiest Adventure
star
5.33
3 votes

#4 - My Hairiest Adventure

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/19/1996

Larry Boyd just found the coolest thing in the trash. It's an old bottle of INSTA-TAN. ""Rub on a dark suntan in minutes""-that's what the label says. So Larry and his friends do. But nothing much happens. Until Larry notices the hair. Dark spikey hair growing on his hands and face. Really gross shiny hair. Hair that keeps growing back even after he shaves it off...

The Cuckoo Clock of Doom
star
5.84
114 votes

#5 - The Cuckoo Clock of Doom

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/3/1995

An eerie old cuckoo clock in Michael's and Tara's house has mysterious powers and it's about to set back the hands of time ... forever!

Directors: John Bell
The Haunted Mask II (1)
star
6.00
2 votes

#6 - The Haunted Mask II (1)

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/29/1996

After last year's terrifying Halloween, Carly Beth buried her old haunted mask. Now this year her friend Steve wants to find a mask just as scary, but Carly Beth refuses to tell him where she bought hers. At the last minute though, Steve encounters a stranger wearing Carly Beth's old mask, a mysterious man who leads him to a boarded-up novelty shop. Steve elips in through the back door and steals a creepy mask he finds in the basement. What he doesn't realize is that Carly Beth's old mask is alive-and using both Steve and the shopkeeper to get her back!

The Headless Ghost
star
6.00
1 votes

#7 - The Headless Ghost

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/21/1996

Everyone knows about Hill House. It's the biggest tourist attraction in town. That's because it's haunted. Haunted by the ghost of a thirteen-year-old boy. A boy with no head! Duane and Stephanie love Hill House. It's dark. And creepy. And totally scary. Still, they've never actually seen the ghost. Until the night they decide to go on a search. A search for his head...

Directors: Brian R.R. Hebb
You Can't Scare Me!
star
6.00
2 votes

#8 - You Can't Scare Me!

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/5/1996

Courtney is a total show-off. She thinks she's so brave and she's always making Eddie and his friends look like wimps. But now Eddie's decided he's had enough. He's going to scare Courtney once and for all. And he's come up with the perfect plan. He's going to lure Courtney down to Muddy Creek. Because Eddie knows Courtney believes in that silly rumor about the monsters. Mud Monsters that live in the creek. Too bad Eddie doesn't believe the rumor. Because it just might be true...

Directors: Rene Bonniere
Welcome to Dead House (1)
star
6.00
1 votes

#9 - Welcome to Dead House (1)

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/29/1997

For Josh and Amanda, having to move to the remote, desolate town of Dark Falls was bad enough. But as soon as they moved into Dead house, things began to happen, things their parents couldn't see -- a ghostly shape at the window, a shadow on the wall, the way their dog kept growling at strangers, the quiet, death-pale neighbor kids. Was it the chemical spill that made the people of Dark Falls so strange, or something far more sinister?

Welcome to Dead House (2)
star
6.00
2 votes

#10 - Welcome to Dead House (2)

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/29/1997

Amanda and Josh HATE their new house. Its just so spooky. And the town of Dark Falls too. But their parents don't listen to them. But they should have... Because the neighors want them to stay. Forever....

Werewolf Skin (2)
star
6.00
1 votes

#11 - Werewolf Skin (2)

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/22/1997

Strained Peas
star
6.00
1 votes

#12 - Strained Peas

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/1998

Nicholas is at first optimistic about getting a baby sister, but his friend tells him all the cons. When his parents arrive, he meets his sister Grace. Though, Grace is no normal baby. She makes a block message that says ""Only me"". And she pukes on Nicholas when he goes to comfort her when she is crying in the night. Nicholas can take a hint when she eats his pet. Nicholas knows that Grace wants to be an only child. And she'll do anything to get rid of him. So when their parents leave Nicholas home alone to babysit Grace, Grace does some real bad things. Scary things. Evil things. Things that COULD make her an only child...

Writer: Rick Drew
Bad Hare Day
star
6.13
30 votes

#13 - Bad Hare Day

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/14/1996

Trick cards, floating scarves, disappearing doves. Tim Swanson loves magic tricks. Someday he wants to be a real magician. Just like his all-time favorite hero, Amaz-O. But then Tim goes to Amaz-O's show. And he finds out his idol is a total grump. That's when Tim decides to steal the bag of tricks. Amaz-O's bag of secret tricks. Scary tricks. The one that makes a person really disappear. And that talking rabbit...

Directors: John Bell
A Night in Terror Tower (1)
star
6.36
30 votes

#14 - A Night in Terror Tower (1)

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1996

While visiting London, Sue and her brother, Eddie, are out on their own for the day while their parents attend a buisness conference. At first bored, they are delighted when their bus makes a stop at Terror Tower. But the fun turns to fright when the kids see the wax statues in the Tower's torture chamber moving as if they are real... and ghostly images start calling out warnings to them. Suddenly, Sue and Eddie are running for their lives as they travel back in time to the Middle Ages to escape the dark fate of Terror Tower.

Don't Go to Sleep
star
6.67
3 votes

#15 - Don't Go to Sleep

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/20/1997

Matt hates his tiny bedroom. It's so small it's practically a closet! Still, Matt's mom refuses to let him sleep in the attic. After all, they might need to use it. Some day. Or year. Then Matt does it. Late one night. When everyone's paying no attention. He sneaks into the attic and falls asleep. Poor Matt. He should have listened to his mom. Because when Matt wakes up, his whole life has changed. For the worse. And every time he falls asleep, he wakes up in a new nightmare...

Writer: Rick Drew
The House of No Return
star
6.67
3 votes

#16 - The House of No Return

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/13/1997

Lori, Nathan, and Robbie need a new member for their club called ""Danger Incorporated."" To get into Danger Incoroporated, you have to stay in an old, abandoned mansion for one hour, nicknamed The House Of No Return by local kids in town. However, no one can seem to stay in the house for one hour. And the strange thing about it is, the kids that can't stay in the house always come out screaming that they saw a ghost. So when a new kid, Chris, comes to town, the trio finds him the perfect potential member. However, when Chris doesn't come out after one hour, the kids will discover their little prank has gone farther than they thought...

Writer: Dan Angel
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Don't Wake Mummy
star
6.67
3 votes

#17 - Don't Wake Mummy

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/12/1997

Jeff's Parents Do Not Believe that the Mummy in their basement is Alive.

Directors: William Fruet
Writer: Rick Drew
The Ghost Next Door (1)
star
7.00
2 votes

#18 - The Ghost Next Door (1)

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1998

Hannah's neighborhood has just gotten a little-weird. Ever since that new boy moved in next door. But when did he move in? Wasn't the house empty when Hannah went to sleep the night before? Why does it still look so deserted? She's not getting any answers from her new neighbor. He just keeps disappearing in the oddest ways. And he's so pale...Is Hannah being haunted by...the ghost next door???

Night of the Living Dummy II
star
7.00
2 votes

#19 - Night of the Living Dummy II

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/12/1996

It's the middle of Amy Kramer's most-hated night, Family Night, where every member of the family has to share something with the others. After a home-made video of the family's most embarrasing situations put together by Amy's mischievious little brother, Jed, it's Amy's turn to share. She decides to share a ventriloquist act with her ventriloquist dummy, Dennis. However, not even halfway through the routine, Dennis loses his head. Amy complains to her father, reminding him that he told her she'd get a new dummy. So Amy does. She gets Slappy. However, after Amy reads the card of magic gibberish in Slappy's coat pocket, she's just put her family and herself in jeopardy. Because Slappy's no normal dummy. He's one that can come to life...

Directors: Ron Oliver
Writer: Rick Drew
Let's Get Invisible!
star
7.00
2 votes

#20 - Let's Get Invisible!

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/2/1996

On Max's birthday, he finds a sort of magic mirror in the attic. It can make him become invisible. So Max and his friends start playing now you see me, now you don't. Until Max realizes that he's losing control. Staying invisible a little too long. Having a harder and harder time coming back. Getting invisible is turning into a very dangerous game. The next time Max gets invisible, will it be... forever?

Directors: Ron Oliver
Writer: Rick Drew
My Best Friend Is Invisible
star
7.00
2 votes

#21 - My Best Friend Is Invisible

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/8/1997

Sammy Jacobs is into ghosts and science fiction. Not exactly the smartest hobby-at least not if you ask Sammy's parents. They're research scientists and they only believe in real science. But now Sammy's met someone who's totally unreal. He's hanging out in Sammy's room. And and eating his cereal at breakfast. Sammy's got to find a way to get rid of his new ""friend."" Only problem is...Sammy's new ""friend"" is invisible!

Directors: William Fruet
Writer: Scott Peters
An Old Story
star
7.00
2 votes

#22 - An Old Story

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/4/1997

Tom and Jon's parents are out on vacation, preparing for their new baby. Tom and Jon are in the basement looking for something to eat when they are greeted by their weird Aunt Dalia. She says that she will feed the boys and they can go off and play video games. So they do. But Aunt Dalia then serves them prune cookies. Tom and Jon are reluctant, but try them out anyway, and to their surprise, find out they like prunes. But, the more prune meals their aunt cooks them, the older they get. And now Tom and Jon are both feeling old, tired, and worn out. And their hair is beginning to gray...

The Barking Ghost
star
7.00
2 votes

#23 - The Barking Ghost

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/11/1997

Scared of his own shadow. That's what everyone says about Cooper Holmes. But when Cooper's family moves into a new house deep in the woods, scary things really do start happening. Problem is, no one believes a scaredy-cat like Cooper. But then, no one else heard the bone-chilling barking late at night. No one else watched as the two evil-looking dogs disappeared into thin air. Can Cooper convince anyone of the creepy canines before it's too late?

Directors: William Fruet
Say Cheese and Die-Again!
star
7.00
2 votes

#24 - Say Cheese and Die-Again!

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/28/1998

Sourball. That's what Greg calls his English teacher, Mr. Saur. He's a real grouch. And now he just gave Greg a big fat ""F"" on his oral report. He didn't believe Greg's story. About the camera Greg found last summer. About the pictures it took. About the evil things that happened. Poor Greg. He just wanted to prove old Sourball wrong. But now that he's dug up the camera, bad things are happening. Really bad things. Just like the first time...

One Day at HorrorLand (2)
star
7.10
58 votes

#25 - One Day at HorrorLand (2)

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/1/1997

Out on a fun-filled road trip to Zoo Gardens, the Morris family's amusement soon turns to amazement when bright lights flash across the sky. They suddenly find themselves in Horrorland-where admission is free, but the fun never starts. After a narrow escape from the house of mirrors and a chilling whitewater coffin cruise, Luke and Lizzy rejoin their parents at the front gate, but it's locked! Now their only hope is to compete in a gruesome game show that proves what the world has feared all along: monsters really do exist...and they have their own cable channel.

Directors: William Fruet