Sunday Challenge!

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Sunday challenge time: your prompt for today is:

CORTEX

Powerpuff Girls-style Mars and Dash by JaDisArt

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I think the next time I commission a drawing, I'm going to ask for Powerpuff Girls-style Eerie...

Fast Rewind forum thread on Eerie Indiana

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Read it here

Older Simon with corn background by Eerie-Club

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Holy Corn, both an expression and an object of actual worship in Eerie...

Project Zero bookmark by JaDisArt

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My feelings...

World o' Stuff interior by Pallidapapillio

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I love all the little details, like the video game called "Goo Zombies 4" and the severed arm just casually hanging out on the counter top

Dash X plushe by JaDisArt

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The little buttons on his waistcoat! The lined pockets! His tiny laces!

Art of various Jason Marsden-voiced characters by WereCarrot

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Dash and Binx the cat, Haku from Spirited Away, Max from Goof Troop... no Tino from the Weekenders, tho :(

Various Eerie, Indiana sketches by JaDisArt

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Including Betty Wilson and her twins, Steve, and a super-predatory Fluffy and Fifi

Dash X cosplay

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Cosplay by EightCrows, photo taken by Pallidapapillio

Eerie crack by JaDisArt

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Mondo bizarro, indeed...

Eerie, Indiana cosplay: Mars and Dash

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JaDisArt as Dash

DreamWalkerKita as Mars

And both of them together

Unkind Ones: the Real Life Edition

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Oh my God, you guys, there's totally a motorcycle gang called Rescue Ink that goes es around finding lost pets and stuff. They're like a real-life Unkind Ones!

Check out their website: http://www.rescueink.org/

Saturday Mornings Forever reviews Eerie, Indiana

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Created by Jose Rivera and Karl Schaefer, with film director Joe Dante as a creative Consultant, Eerie, Indiana was a series about a small town. A bizarre small town. Marshall Teller (Omri Katz) and his family moved to the town of Eerie full of weird citizens, real urban legends, and other strange happenings. Marshall befriended Simon Holmes (Justin Shenkarow), the only other seemingly normal kid in town, and together they faced things like Bigfoot, world-conquering dogs and Elvis Presley (Steve Peri), alive and well. Halfway through the season, the show was retooled to introduce Dash X (Jason Marsden), an amnesiac gray-haired teen searching for the clues of his past.

The show blended serious and comedic tones, contained numerous in-jokes and movie references, and had several episodes directed by feature film directors; all of which made it a critical darling. Unfortunately, the series failed to find much of a sustainable audience and it was cancelled after a single season of 19 episodes; one left unaired in its original run. The show aired in reruns on The Disney Channel from 1993-1996 before moving to Saturday mornings as part of the Fox Kids block in 1997. There, the show reached a new audience and a newfound popularity. It inspired FOX to greenlight a spin-off called Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension utilizing the same premise with a new cast set in an alternate dimension. Unfortunately, the new show failed to capture the same popularity and it also ended after a single season.

Step by Step reviews Eerie, Indiana

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In the decades television has been broadcasting in the United States, there have always been examples of programs ahead of their time, appreciated only when it was too late. For the generation that grew up in the 1990s, one of those shows was Eerie, Indiana, a children’s horror series that lasted just one television season. Its importance in children’s entertainment should not be questioned; it started a trend that would affect millions of kids’ lives in the ’90s.

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Joe Dante on the Eerie, Indiana pilot

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Dante: People hire me for various reasons. But when you sign on to do a TV series, you must adopt the style of the TV series. Now I can shoot the stuff any way I want. But I know that in TV, you do your cutting. You hand it in. And then you see it on TV. And it’s always different. Because the show runners come in. And they change it to the style that they prefer. So you shoot a lot of long takes. But you just have to give them enough material for them to turn it into what they want. It’s never an expressive job. You don’t really feel you’re putting yourself into it. Although as much as I could, I stuck myself into it. And I stuck people who were familiar to working with me in the show. And it was, I think, a little bit different. A little bit offbeat from the usual episodes of the show. But the problem with doing a show like that, there’s an overarching storyline that happened before you came and that’s going to continue after you’re gone. So there’s really not a lot of space for you to insert yourself. Because you’re doing a job of work. And you’re not the auteur of the show. The auteur of the show is the writers. Because they’re the ones who are mapping out this entire scenario. The great thing is if you can get in on the ground floor and get in on the pilot.

Correspondent: Yes.

Dante: If you do the pilot for the show, which I did for Eerie, Indiana, then you get to not only choose the cast.

Correspondent: You set the aesthetics.

Dante: You set the aesthetic and you get to influence the way the stories go and which direction they go. And even sometimes who’s hired to direct them. So that’s very creative and interesting and fulfilling. Doing one-offs is financially rewarding and a chance to work with a lot of talented people that you probably wouldn’t get to see otherwise. But it’s never like making a feature. It’s never like saying, “Okay, this is my movie.” And that’s why I prefer on TV to do anthology shows. Because it’s much more like doing a short film than it is to coming in and doing it. Illustrating an episode of somebody’s series.

Correspondent: Is it also a way of staying in shape so you don’t atrophy?

Dante: Well, it’s also a way of paying the mortgage.

Correspondent: (laughs) That’s true. That’s really the reason you did the CSI: New York episode.

Dante: Uh, I did it because it would be fun. But also, yeah, I did it because I wasn’t working. The great thing about Eerie, Indiana was that if I was going a feature, I could do that. I could go away and then do more Eerie, Indianas. But then it went off the air. And then I couldn’t do that anymore. So the trick is to try and find a way to keep yourself employed that doesn’t turn you into a hack. Basically. I mean, I always try and do things that — for movies, my yardstick is I don’t make movies that I wouldn’t go see. And I think if more people did that, we’d have better movies.

CHUD forum thread on the 2003 Eerie, Indiana dvd release

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Check out the guy calling it a Goosebumps ripoff getting told

Word of the Nerd lists top five creepy tv shows you may not have heard of

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Eerie, Indiana. Middle school is a place filled with angst. This show translated the horror of those years into strange happenings in a town that is “the center of weirdness of the entire planet.” Marshall Teller’s family uproots him from the city to Eerie and with young neighbor Simon, he documents his bizarre experiences. Strange things are afoot, need I say more than Tupperware for people in “Forever Wear,” and it’s a fun ride. A show geared toward kids, it doesn’t really get gross or horror filled, but it’s fun and tinged with the creepy. I especially love the over theatrical effects that add a bit of tribute to B-movies. You can find Eerie, Indiana on Netflix. Perfect with Sunday morning coffee or introducing a younger family member to the joys of cult television.

Daniel Tessier reviews Eerie, Indiana

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Most times you go back to watch a programme from your youth, it's pretty disappointing. Every now and then, however, they're genuinely as good as you remember. Eerie, Indiana is one of those special few. There are a handful of series that tried to be The Twilight Zone for kids. Round the Twist (which I'll be coming back to in another article) is well-remembered by British and Australian audiences. Are You Afraid of the Dark and Goosebumps scared the kids of the early and late nineties, respectively. None had the wit of Eerie, Indiana. So why this series only lasted for a single season baffles me.

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Eerie, Indiana fanfiction: Disco

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