Today is Meteor Watch Day!

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It's Meteor Watch Day today, so get your blankets and your binoculars and camp out in the back yard to spy on the Space Thing and that one really inappropriately grabby Bigfoot... sorry, Claude.

Tumblr Live Blogging Highlights Reel + Misc. Gifets

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Sometimes, the truth really is stranger than fiction.

I think this might be the only time that Marshall's theory was decidedly more tame than what was really going on.

Babiessssssssssssssss

I've been doing a ton of live blogging on tumblr, mostly just as I was trying to find the various screenshots I needed to complete other edits (and a couple more I still want to make but need to talk myself in to) most of it is pretty inane but here's some highlights

did Dash make this or like....what. :/

testing my knowledge of american lollies (candy?) here but that is a butter finger, right?

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I luv mayor chisel.

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What is your favorite Alternate History film

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Wietze: a funny AH was Eerie, indiana. not to be taken serious, but good entertainment.

Merry Prankster: It's probably an ATL--in the werewolf episode, one of the villainous adults makes a comment about "October Surprise" (the alleged deal between Reagan and the Ayatollah to keep the Americans hostage until after the election).

Count Dearborne: I thought it was an interesting show, and the follow-up was supposed to be in an alternate timeline.

Meeshtins at Glastonbury

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I swear Brandon Flowers must sleep in a tubberware box like off Eerie Indiana, the man doesn’t age!! #thekillers #GlastonburyFestival #90sreference #showingmyage

— Michelle (@meeshtins) June 29, 2019

The Omega Dork watches the Eerie Indiana finale

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Julius Harris!!!
Holy crap. Eerie, Indiana has the best assortment of guest actors.

— Matthew Constantine (@TheOmegaDork) June 30, 2019

In stock at the World o' Stuff and bought by the riding mower dads

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Cheerful face? This 1959 Valspar Paint advert is more like something out of the Twilight Zone. pic.twitter.com/6b5F4P1Vxz

— Carter Collectables (@CarterCollectab) June 29, 2019

Or Eerie Indiana.

— Mark Fraser (@mfraz74) June 29, 2019

Mark Demaria's Fiction Empire on Eerie Indiana

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TV Series 1991. Created by José Rivera and Karl Schaefer.

Bogus Business Bureau (3)
Companies (2)
Foodstuff (1)
Stores (1)
Fake Stuff (2)
Locations (1)
Media (1)

Beverages
Eerie Milk
'an udder delight'
Cities and Towns - U.S.
Eerie, Indiana
Corporations
Things, Inc.
Where Edgar worked as a scientist.
Department, Discount and General Stores
The World O Stuff
The only department store in town.
Farms and Food Companies
Eerie Dairy
Provided the town with Eerie Milk.
Newspapers
Examiner
The only newspaper in town.

Alternate History forum on Eerie Indiana

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Othniel: Does anyone else remeber this show? Though I was only six at the time it first aired I still remeber parts of it.

Akiyama: "My name is Marshall Teller. Not too long ago, I was living in New Jersey, just across the river from New York City. It was crowded, polluted, and full of crime. I loved it. But my parents wanted a better life for my sister and me. So we moved to a place so wholesome, so squeaky clean, you could only find it on TV. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, my new hometown looks normal enough, but look again. What's wrong with this picture? The American Dream come true, right? Wrong. Nobody believes me, but this is the center of weirdness for the entire planet: Eerie, Indiana. My home, sweet home. Still don't believe me? You will."

One of the best TV shows EVER!. Every episode was fantastic. I have the whole series on video. I was so obsessed by it when I was a kid that I went to the trouble of drawing a floorplan for Marshall's house, and discovered they actually used two different sets for the house. Anyone who has not seen it MUST seek it out at once. It's may be a children's programme but it is really a work of art.

Many of the episodes were directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins, The 'Burbs, The Howling, Small Soldiers etc.) and some of the actors in the show were ones who regularly appeared in minor parts in his films.

Considering it was so exceptionally good, it's surprising how few people have heard of it.

My favourite episode is the one which starts with Marshall in the middle of an argument with his family about Eerie (as usual) when suddenly someone yells "CUT!" and he sees a camera crew filming him (and his house is now a stage set in a hanger).

There was a second series in 1998 with different actors called "Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension" but based on the half an episode I watched it is just a kid's programme with a weird concept and completely lacking in the genius of the original.

EDIT: I have suddenly realised where the League of Gentlemen got their inspiration for Royston Vasey from.

Dave Howery on the Eerie Indiana opening credits

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Dave Howery: I saw several of them... I remember that Elvis and Bigfoot lived in the town, and a crow kept tearing up the mail.... there was an episode with a guy who built a little craft that let him ride inside tornados, and he spent most of his life living in them...

Ivan Druzhkov: Wasn't the chief of police a gentleman answering to the monokier James Hoffa? I remember that from some of the books that came out.

The Professor on Dash X

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The Professor: And that creepy teenage with the white hair!

Loved this show but died a death in the UK! (probably through shifting around in the schedules as usual :rolleyes: )

Nik on Broken Record

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Playing records Backwards ??

Didn't see many original episodes, caught several more on SciFi Channel, but the 'backwards music' made me grin...

The neighbours' Dad insisted on playing his son's new records backwards to check for subliminal messages-- and *sometimes* heard them.

Turned out the lad was humming the words...

Ivan Druzhkov on Reality Takes a Holiday and Eerie Indiana: the Other Dimension

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Akiyama: My favourite episode is the one which starts with Marshall in the middle of an argument with his family about Eerie (as usual) when suddenly someone yells "CUT!" and he sees a camera crew filming him (and his house is now a stage set in a hanger).

There was a second series in 1998 with different actors called "Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension" but based on the half an episode I watched it is just a kid's programme with a weird concept and completely lacking in the genius of the original.

Ivan Druzhkov: I only watched that second show, but at the time I thought it was OK. As for the one you guys are talking about, the only episode I ever saw was that one you mentioned, Akiyama. "Reality Takes a Holiday," I think it was called. That actually might be the show that made me fall in love with whole break-the-fourth-wall concept.

Othniel on ForeverWare

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I will never look at tuperware the same way again after watching that show. (unfortunately thats the episode that always sticks out in my mind, where the mother stuck her kids and herself in it in an attempt to keep them young.)

Look at what I found;

The Foreverware song:

Foreverware
For wives and mothers everywhere.
Our goal has always been.
To seal the freshness in forever.
Foreverware
For any dish that you prepare,
For each and every meal,
We have the perfect deal.

The muffins that you made today
Will still be fresh in early May,
Your coffee cake, your cinnamon ring
Will last at least until next spring
It work on almost everything!
Foreverware.

SionEwig spreads.the Gospel of Eerie

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Othniel: Does anyone else remeber this show? Though I was only six at the time it first aired I still remeber parts of it.

SionEwig: It was a great series! Loved watching it, very well thought out and produced. I will now have to go and find it and subject it on my kids

Sunday Challenge!

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Sunday challenge time! Your prompt for this week is:

LURE

IMRambles on an Eerie Indiana reboot

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Spent the last 4 hours downloading D&D modules and watching Eerie Indiana.

.... I kinda want to see an updated series of Eerie Indiana. There's potential for new stories, rehashing of old episodes, and some great fun with it since it'd be one less reality TV show.

— Gettysburg Zesty Addresssing (@IM_Ramble) June 30, 2019

Marshall

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Cute date ideas: spend all night sitting cross-legged reading UFO reports and unsolved cases

Cornwolves?!

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hey I don’t think I’ve ever talked here about corn wolves. here let me find a gas station real quick

okay so I’m in the middle of nowhere stopped for gas in a small town in Iowa rn and my Internet is REALLY spotty so I hope this posts but

as people who have followed this blog for longer might know, sometimes I go hang out with this corn genetics lab at school, as in we meet up on friday nights to talk about corn science and stuff. once the corn genetics subject of the week is covered sometimes we go off track and start talking about other stuff. as u may imagine from a corn genetics lab, most of the members grew up on farms here in the midwest, and one night we were talking and a couple of the people started discussing an urban legend that they were taught as kids to keep them from running into their family’s cornfields and getting lost. one of those people was from Nebraska, and the other from rural minnisoda- these were isolated incidents of this urban legend happening, and all of us were deeply engrossed in this. i cannot make this shit up, this is the story:

there are wolves that live inside the corn when it’s full grown. they’re huge, and are camouflaged to hide in the fields. their breathing sounds like the misting of the irrigation systems set up over the corn in these areas for water. if they see small children in the fields, they kill and eat them.

now I’ve lived my whole life in suburban Iowa, and I can vouch that we don’t have irrigation systems like that here; our group came to the conclusion that this must be the reason that from our 7 or 8 person sample size, the corn wolves did not exist in Iowa, the largest producer of corn. I’ve never seen the corn wolves mentioned anywhere else outside that one night with the genetics lab, and it really fascinates me because as a horror/creepypasta person myself, I think it’s a great example of those strange little urban legends that never get written down on paper. the fact that it’s never appeared anywhere else in my life kind of confounds me, because it’s a really cool story. i like to go driving around rural Iowa when I’m home from college, and i always end up thinking about the corn wolves.

neither of the people believed it as kids btw lol

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I'm so glad Manx cornfields aren't a thing...

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Too relatable

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WHEN U LOVE SOMETHING SO HARD BUT THE FANDOM CONSISTS OF APPROXIMATELY SIX OTHER PEOPLE AND A SHOELACE

Everyone in the Eerie Indiana fandom wears Sky Monsters so half the time we've not even got shoelaces.

Marshall

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the more you seek out weirdness the more you become the weirdness

At the Eerie Mall

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I want this

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silverhawk: u guys would never believe the costume i saw at target



samesexsasquatch: if i can find this at my local target i’m buying it no questions asked

Marshall's bedroom

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Melanie is banned from the knife-truck

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leafcrunch: my neighbourhood has never had an ice cream truck. in the summer, we have the knife sharpening truck. it slowly circles the block and rings its ominous bell. i have never seen someone interact with it. it may be that only those marked by death can see it

sun-and-time: alex??? this is truly frightening ??

leafcrunch: i never really thought about it much until today but you’re right this is honestly a messed up thing for me to be accustomed to

Not a human sacrifice farm at all...

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"How to Throw an Eerie Party"

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Creepy Garbage Guys strike again!

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Necrophagette on Dash/Marshall

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Okay so I’m going to be a creep and say have a little bit of a new ship

This is an evil chair...

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Class: Euclid - Funky chair - Life drain - Steals pocketchange, keys and small pieces of candy - Usually in close proximity to a tv. Will use it's devour ability on whoever is seated, whenever tv depicts series like Eerie Indiana, Goosebumps, Outer Limits or Twilight Zone. https://t.co/pJEVwq9FEa

— uncle devjock (@devjock) June 30, 2019

This is definitely the Microwave from the Microwave-verse

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Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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Honestly that license plate just seems ominous to me...

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It's #SuperPrize Day! Here's your first clue as the #PCH #PrizePatrol makes their way to the big winner! #Clue #1: There's something eerie about this SuperPrize Winner's location. Leave your guesses in the replies! pic.twitter.com/JXNSD9zITy

— PCH (@pchdotcom) June 30, 2019

Eerie, Indiana

— Evans J. Fanor (@fanorev) June 30, 2019

Mayor Chisel and the Space Thing

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Do you remember this episode of #EerieIndiana? [6.7557@884s] #TVOutOfContext #NBC pic.twitter.com/yMqbuKkrGQ

— No Context TV (@UKNoContextTV) June 30, 2019

Kelly Livers and PCHdotcom

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It's #SuperPrize Day! Here's your first clue as the #PCH #PrizePatrol makes their way to the big winner! #Clue #1: There's something eerie about this SuperPrize Winner's location. Leave your guesses in the replies! pic.twitter.com/JXNSD9zITy

— PCH (@pchdotcom) June 30, 2019

Hopefully Ohio, Lake Erie, not PA or even Eerie Indiana where Stranger Things is cast, fictional, but still a named place. Perhaps Colorado Stanley Hotel? I just pray here finally! Congrats to whomever wins though.

— Kelly Livers (@KellyLivers) June 30, 2019

Ravens: anti-gambling?

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Kelly Livers and PCHdotcom https://t.co/mSJiFI66wC #clue #pch #prizepatrol #superprize

— eerieindianadw (@eerieindianalj1) June 30, 2019

The Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes comes to #EerieIndiana...why was that never an episode? https://t.co/OpfyOgd5NX

— 🧟‍♂️ Undead Rebel Scum 🏳️‍🌈 (@deifire) June 30, 2019

The ravens pecked out Ed McMahon's eyes

— eerieindianadw (@eerieindianalj1) June 30, 2019

Cathy Smythe on the Killers

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How does Brandon Flowers look younger than he used to? #killers

— Keziah Featherstone (@keziah70) June 29, 2019

Tupperware...like in #eerieindiana

— Cathy Smyth (@cathy_smyth) June 30, 2019

JTwigg52 on the best TV series

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What is the best TV series you’ve ever seen? And you can’t list Mad Men, Seinfeld, The Wire, Breaking Bad, GoT, sopranos, or The Office.

— scott cunningham (@causalinf) June 30, 2019

Eerie Indiana

— Romney Wordsworth (@jtwigg52) June 30, 2019

I used to watch this when I was 9 or something. Still remember a couple scenes vividly.

— Montanan in Madrid (of which the moon is part) (@HomoPictor) June 30, 2019

Boston1775 on the best TV shows

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What is the best TV series you’ve ever seen? And you can’t list Mad Men, Seinfeld, The Wire, Breaking Bad, GoT, sopranos, or The Office.

— scott cunningham (@causalinf) June 30, 2019

Eerie, Indiana.
Fawlty Towers.
The Americans.

— J. L. Bell (@Boston1775) June 30, 2019