Eerie Indiana Fanfiction: A Tale of Two Eeries.

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A Tale of Two Eeries (3676 words) by miss_nettles_wife
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Eerie Indiana, Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Marshall Teller/Dash X, Janet Donner/OMC, janet donner/melanie monroe (past)
Characters: Dash X, Marshall Teller, Janet Donner, Mitchell Taylor, Stanley Hope, Melanie Monroe
Additional Tags: Dark Character, evil!marshall, Abuse, black magic, Memory Altering, reality altering, Recreational Drug Use, Minor Character Death, major character death (not in story)
Summary:

Dash X, after Marshall's take over.

I wrote this in one day, once I started I just could not stop .<. Otherwise........some evil!marshall and bad ending fic to...I'd say cure what ails ya but it's actually probably just going to make you worse. Sorry Dash. This is also the most....idk? Extreme fic i've posted to this fandom so...Hope you don't lose whatever respect you have for me lol.

WanderingUpward on Eerie Indiana

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Night three of Eerie, Indiana. My childhood obsession is now loved by my kids. If you loved this show as a kid, or have never heard of it, find yourself a copy and enjoy. It's an absolute gem.

MegMagPie on Eerie Indiana

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I FUCKING LOVED this show as a kid and I still do now.

Scene from Eerie Indiana the Other Dimension

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Watch it here.

ZmiluskaF on the best spooky TV shows for kids

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-Are You Afraid of the Dark
-Goosebumps
-Eerie Indiana
-Beetlejuice (the Nick cartoon)
-Aaahhh Real Monsters

Were my favorite spooky shows as a kid 👻

— Zaira Miluska (@ZmiluskaF) September 10, 2019

Chooseday Challenge

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It's Tuesday, so today you get a choice between two prompts. Pick one, combine both, pit them against each other - on Tuesday, you choose!

This week, your options are:

Plaster cast of Bigfoot's footprint vs Syndi's artwork

DavidSim on Eerie Indiana

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Few TV shows that have been so shortlived have had the impact of Eerie, Indiana. Despite only 19 episodes, its gone on to become a cult phenomenon, winning over adults and children alike. And its not hard to understand why. Its such a groundbreaking show. With a dizzying intelligence. Truly unique plot lines. And its fun too! I've never met a single person who didn't find something to enjoy from Eerie, Indiana.

The whole concept of smalltown weirdness is not a new one. In fact Eerie was beaten to the punch a year earlier by Twin Peaks. But its what it does with the idea that makes it stand out so vividly. The Creative Consultant for the show is the greatly underrated Joe Dante, the man behind similar classics like Gremlins and The Burbs. I think the idea of a not so nice interior lurking beneath the shiny exterior is something that appeals a great deal to Dante, and Eerie, Indiana may be the peak of Dante's conceits.

If all television was as good as this we'd be living in much happier times. And Dante put some of his best work into the show. In the films I mentioned, Joe Dante seems to enjoy watching small havens of utter normalcy being overturned by sinister forces. Whether it be vicious monsters or nutty neighbours, the mayhem he unleashes is always entertaining. And Eerie, Indiana is no exception.

One of the series' striking elements is the way it takes these bizarre plot lines and makes them oddly plausible. And that is no truer than in the first episode, Foreverware, a story that does a superb job of introducing us to the world of Eerie, Indiana. Try to get your heads around this! The women of Eerie seal themselves into giant tubs of Tupperware so they can stay young (and fresh!) forever. In any other TV series, watching such a plot line unfold would be monumentally stupid. In Eerie, it works!

And that's just for starters. You're constantly being knocked out by the way it courts unbelievable lunacy and turns it into great viewing. Eerie seems to be the focal point for just about every unusual happenstance in the entire world. The Losers is a particularly interesting episode where we discover a vast storage depot for lost items hidden beneath the streets of Eerie.

Eerie, Indiana was a TV series that was far, far ahead of its time. Some of the issues it chose to address were eerily(!) prescient. In particular the last episode, Reality Takes a Holiday. An episode that predates reality television (before anyone even coined the term) and The Truman Show by staging it in the real world. The town is nothing more than a set on a studio lot. And the actors play themselves. Keep an eye out for Joe Dante! The series was unexpectedly cut short after that but it was a good episode to go out on. A staggering episode that actually forces you to question your own beliefs in what you've been watching all this time.

The production staff selected a really fine cast to help the show along. Omri Katz is perfect as Marshall Teller, the new kid from New Jersey, who firmly believes Eerie is the 'centre of weirdness for the entire planet.' A quite wonderful young actor, his self-reliance never lapsed into smugness, and he was always a hero you rooted for. Justin Shenkarow is equally engaging as Simon, Marshall's sidekick. The two of them are a regular Mulder and Scully as they catalogue the oddities that come into their lives.

The rest of Marshall's family is great too. Francis Guinan is amusingly nerdy as Edgar Teller, a scientist into product testing. Mary-Margaret Humes is an appealingly sexy Mum, Marilyn Teller, a disorganised party organiser. And Julie Condra is annoying big sis Syndi Teller, a girl with the scariest eyebrows I've ever seen!

Along the way, the show picked up some additional characters. John Astin is aptly cast as Mr Radford, the owner of "World O'Stuff", the local youth hangout. Gregory Itzin is suitably slimy as Eerie's double-dealing money grubbing Mayor. And best of all is Jason Marsden as Dash X. Dash X comes into it halfway through. A boy of mystery with a head full of grey hair, he becomes an unwilling ally to Marshall and Simon during their adventures. Years ago, I found Dash X an irritation. I preferred it when it was just S & M. But in recent years, his character has grown on me. He's quite a good actor, and whether it requires him to be sharp, cynical or occasionally sympathetic, he's never less than impressive.

One of the things that's made Eerie, Indiana endure for so long is its shrewd intelligence. It never feels patronising. In fact, its a quite sharply cynical show when you stop to think about it. The Mayor even delivers a scathing speech regarding the people's ignorance of what really goes on in Eerie. They prefer not to know so they don't have to deal with it. They're happier that way!

Every Eerie fan has they're own favourite episode. Usually they vote for Reality Takes a Holiday, or the deeply creepy episode The Lost Hour, when Marsall ends up in a parallel Eerie just by setting his watch back. Mine is Just Say No Fun, an equally creepy story about a school optician who brainwashes the students into becoming model pupils when they're given an eye-test. It has quite an anarchic message the way it champions slacking and underachievement over good behaviour and schoolwork.

Eerie, Indiana has withstood the test of time. Its highly impressive the way the writers pull off feats of greatness, one after another. It never feels too juvenile. Its observations are often astute and witty. And there are plenty of joyous in-jokes and cameos for die-hard horror fans.

A superb show that ended long before its time.

ImStillJeremy on Eerie Indiana

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I found this TV show from the 90s called Eerie, Indiana. At first, it seemed like an X-Files-ish show.

The longer it goes, the more it seems like Calvin and Hobbes, though.

— Jeremy (@ImStillJeremy) September 10, 2019

I remember that show. It was great!

— Colts Fan (@indyfan1985) September 10, 2019

It's on Prime right now. I finished it and was sad it was over.

Made me nostalgic.

— Jeremy (@ImStillJeremy) September 10, 2019

Might have to check it out. I remember loving the shit out of that show.

— Colts Fan (@indyfan1985) September 10, 2019

Eerie, Indiana Food Fest

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Eerie has it’s fair share of great places to eat. There’s the Eerie Baitshop and Sushi Bar, the Eerie Bus Terminal and Supper Club, Everything Corn, Grandma’s Kitchen, the Dragon of the Black Pool Restaurant and, of course, the ice-cream counter at the World o’ Stuff.

If you’re more of a homebody, maybe you prefer twenty-year-old bologna sandwiches or buckwheat pancakes made from a ForeverWare recipe. Perhaps a celebrity couple called off their wedding a few days before your birthday and you bought their cake on sale, or you just like adding the prefix “Swedish” to everything you cook, Marilyn Teller-style.

Maybe you really enjoy toast made in a haunted toaster, or maybe you hate it whether or not it comes with bank-robbing ghosts. You could be a member of a corn-worshipping cult whose banquets consist of Cornade (or Cornade Lite), huge bowls of fresh-made popcorn and, of course, hot buttered corn on the cob.

Is your favourite snack a jumbo-sized bag of chocolate milk balls (“the balls that go moo!”) or just a carton of the Eerie Dairy’s finest scavenged from the site of another fatal milk-truck accident? Do you feast on a giant plate of ribs the night before a human sacrifice or serve up a portion of space noodles and moon sauce while you search for UFOs?

Whatever your preferences, it’s the tenth of the month, and that means it’s time for our Foods of Eerie Fest. Are you enjoying a refreshing Black Cow after a long day investigating haunted structures, or baking cupcakes decorated with ravens and eyeballs? Share your recipes, post your pics, get out those Eerie-themed travel mugs and head off for a picnic in some ill-advised supernatural hotspot. Eat something spookily delicious and tell us all about it!

Eerie Indiana episode-specific drinking game?

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WasteChester already invented a ForeverWare drinking game, but following deifire's awesome idea about expanding it to cover the rest of the series, what do you think a drinking game for each episode would look like?