National Cherry Pie Day

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It's National Cherry Pie Day. We know Simon doesn't eat apple pie after the 1992 Harvest King incident, but is it possible he partakes in Agent Cooper's favourite repast?

Thurberus Thursday

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It's Thursday, the day we dedicate to Simon's absolute best boy, Sparky the Hellhound.

This week, meet my very first attempt to make my own Cerberus plushie:

Eerie indiana 9 latino sub

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Watch it here.

Dang you EliBot!

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Eerie, Indiana was no good. I say skip this one, folks.

— eli bot (@REALelibot) February 20, 2020

EerieExaminer's recommended viewing order for Eerie Indiana

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And For Fun, My Recommended Viewing Order (with My Ratings)

1. Foreverware - A-
2. The ATM with the Heart of Gold - A+
3. Scariest Home Videos - B-
4. The Losers - A-
5. Broken Record - A
6. Tornado Days - B
7. Heart on a Chain - A
8. Just Say No Fun - B
9. Who's Who - B+
10. Marshall's Theory of Believability - B+
11. The Lost Hour - A+
12. The Hole in the Head Gang - B+
13. Mr. Chaney - B+
14. The Loyal Order of Corn - A-
15. Zombies in P.J.s - A+
16. Reality Takes a Holiday - A

I've skipped my least favorite episodes and stuck mostly to the original production order to keep the main story intact. Then, I alternated some of the lighter popcorn-fare with the heavier dramatic episodes to create a nice balance. So, if you're wondering whether or not to get into the series, this would be my suggested approach. You can skip any you wish or add the ones I took out, but I don't know why you would need to see a young Tobey Maguire that badly.

The Loyal Order of Corn goes NSFW

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what... what do they want us to... do with the corn?

— wheels (@wheelswordsmith) February 14, 2020

What is your favorite meta or otherwise out of the ordinary episode of a tv show

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the episode of eerie, indiana where the reality of the show collapses. joe dante has a cameo as the episode director.

Quotes from the Eerie Indiana Discord

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Deifire: I can talk about watching it the first time, rediscovering it on DVD in a weird video store, doing Yuletide, discovering the rest of the fandom, what happened when I decided to kill the characters for cosplay purposes...

Eviinsanemonkey on the Eerie Indiana Zine

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Hey all! So, My thinking on this Zine is we can fill it with fanworks (art, fic, meta) as well as fandom memories - we are a fairly old fandom. That being said, even if you're new to the fandom, your memories are more than welcome! Because fandoms grow and that's what's awesome /sappy

If you know what you'd like to create for the zine, lemme know, I'm gonna start setting up a spreadsheet so I can keep track. There's no timeline as yet, right now it's all Ideas

FTRBestseller on the Eerie Indiana Zine

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I would definitely be interested in contributing!

ClockRadio93 on the Eerie Indiana Zine

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Oh my gosh!! I’m freaking out over this XD it sounds so cool and is such an awesome idea!!!

Maggie Lee at Lonely Girl

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What was your favorite TV show growing up?
Eerie Indiana, Round the Twist, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Aeon Flux, MTV Subterranean, Liquid Television

What was your favorite toy?
I have this peach toy that looks like a peach but its cement, you can put it in a fruit basket with real fruit. It becomes a game when people want to eat it, because it's not real, its a toy... peach game.

Black Mary Film Zine on Parents

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I enjoyed going to the Film Society of Lincoln Center last week and seeing a weird horror comedy from 1989 directed by Bob Balaban called Parents, about a 1950s suburban family in which the sullen little boy suspects that his parents are cannibals. It was enjoyably messed up to watch, and Randy Quaid was excellent as the strict and unsettling father, he had this slow and measured way of speaking that always just barely hid a psychoticness below the surface. I also adored Sandy Dennis as the school social worker who was funny in a quirky way and had a more 70's hippie look in a 1950s-set film. The score by Angelo Badalamenti gave it that eerie vibe that he used in David Lynch films, of a creeping horror score set amongst ordinary suburban life.

Balaban did a Q&A after the film, and has a funny mix of a quiet voice with a dry sense of humor. The film was a heightened version of his own 1950s childhood, where family secrets were kept hidden from him until adulthood, where he didn't know what his parents' lives were like when he wasn't around, and he felt small and repressed in a environment where everything has to look perfect on the outside. He told a lot of interesting anecdotes about his career, like directing episodes of genre shows like Tales from the Darkside, Eerie, Indiana, and Amazing Stories. He surprisingly did not like directing My Boyfriend's Back (the next film showing after Parents) due to studio restraints, though he enjoyed working with the cast, including an eager and young Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was cast as a bullying jock, but assured Balaban that he could play any role and do it well. It was a good evening of seeing a really odd movie and listening to a pleasant chat with a renowned comedic actor and director.

Teen Amateur's 2005 album cover is an Eerie Indiana homage

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So this is a split record from some localish bands (I think), first up we have Cousin Scampi, fuck knows what the name is about but this WELL reminds me of something else that, unfortunately, I can't quite put my finger on. It kind of jumps about a bit stylistically and I'm not sure if it all works. Wouldn't say it was contrived or whatever but perhaps they should stick to what they are good at (the first more melodic track for example) rather than going for the KraZy! KrAzy! angle that's so popular at the minute. So much of that stuff just gets on my tits really really quickly, but then again, loads and loads of people dig this stuff these days so me not liking it might well mean you love it...

The other side is given up to Teen Amateur who have some nice Eerie Indiana ripping artwork going on. Musically it's more straight forward instrumental stuff, kind of repetetive but I can dig it though perhaps only in short-ish doses. It's more sort of big riffing stuff rather than the quiet-loud-quiet shtick of your Explosions in the Mogwais, I think I prefer this side overall.

FilmSchoolRejects on the Goosebumps movie

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Despite being too old to have familiarity with the “Goosebumps” books, I will say that there is a lot here that could still appeal to me. The movie looks like something made by Joe Dante (I see elements of Gremlins/Small Soldiers, The ‘Burbs and Matinee, plus the TV series Eerie, Indiana) – or at least like something that looks like something made by Dante, a la Eight-Legged Freaks. It also evokes a number of other movies, for better or worse, most notably Jumanji. It also makes me think this is sort of a Cabin in the Woods for younger viewers.

MTV brings back Liquid Television

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Charles Burns, the auteur animator behind the brilliant allegorical graphic novel Black Hole and the main cover artist for The Believer Magazine, cut his teeth at Liquid Television. His bizarre live-action show “Dog-Boy,” based on his comic character, is part-Max Headroom, part-Talking Heads music video; its lineage of surreal banality continues with Nickelodeon’s Pete & Pete and NBC’s Eerie, Indiana (tragically short-lived).

It's Nice That on Robert Ventura Gibson

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I imagine that we have all also, at one time or another, been involved in some sort of gang – be it in the playground or maybe something a bit more post-pubescent and sinister. Either way, there’s a certain something about secret societies and clubs that is just deliciously enticing. LCF graduate and secret society fanatic Robert Ventura Gibson has burst onto the fashion scene and is currently the toast of the town with his outrageously beautiful menswear, inspired by Freemasons, Goosebumps, Illuminati, Filipino prison tattoos and Are You Afraid of The Dark. Robert kindly gave us an unbelievably intriguing in-depth interview, read on to find out the secrets of his collection…

Your sketches and mood-board pieces are brilliant! tell us about the inspiration behind the collection?
I’ve always watched a lot of TV, even as a kid, and I loved (and still do) programmes like Are You Afraid Of The Dark, Eerie Indiana, Goosebumps and films like Stand By Me. Growing up in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by woodland I’d spend a lot of time outside (when I could fit in around TV schedules) climbing trees, building things, making bows and arrows etc, but I always wanted to being in a secret club, going on mad adventures and solving crimes.

So, for my collection, I wanted to draw parallels between secret childhood clubs, like “The Midnight Society” in _Are You Afraid Of The Dark_, who just met up to tell stories, and the secret societies of the New World Order, looking at the Illuminati, Freemasons and The Bilderberg Group etc who seem to (according to followers of David Icke) control everything. I just thought it was funny that there’s always that desire to being a a secret club and knowing stuff that others don’t.

My dad was a Mason, so growing up I was very aware of it, I remember always wondering what he did at lodge meetings, what was in his briefcase and if I’d ever find out anything. I’m just realising it now, but I guess for me freemasonry has always had a connection with childhood. Spending so much time reading about secret societies has certainly had an effect on me though, just search “Illuminati olympics 2012” on Youtube, its a whole world of paranoia to get sucked into.

With regards to the actual product, I wanted to use classic menswear shapes to keep it wearable, twisted slightly with colour and surface decoration, so everything seemed a little off-kilter from the norm. I’m not someone who’s really strong at structural pattern cutting and crazy shapes, I’m a bit of a traditionalist and I guess I want to design clothes that I can show my mum and she’ll understand what’s going on and not wonder what I was doing at uni for seven years.

Eerie Indiana fansites circa 2002

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I wonder if any of these are on the Wayback Machine...