To whom it may concern

Do not trust a guy with a ponytail whose first name is "The". Let's watch Zombies in PJs while basking in the glow of that really cool lamp they made in the shape of some guy on your paper route.

Fire up your 8-tracks, people... it's time for No Brain, No Pain.

It's Halloween, and how better to celebrate than by watching Dash X make his big introduction... as a guy in an old mill trolling the local paranormal investigators? Sit down, and accept that your policy about guns will never ben respected, and watch the Hole in the Head Gang

Hope no-one here has been disrespectful, because Old Bob might carry you off in a fit of piques. Climb inside your Windmaster Trailer and let's have a picnic because these are... Tornado Days.

So, a few months ago, I was bemoaning the relative scarcity of EI fanart, and lipstickcat came along and was all like, did you know you can totally commission artists to do fanart for you, which for some reason was a thing that never occurred to me before even though I've commissioned clothes and jewellery, because idk sometimes I am a poobrained horse.

So I went off and asked some peeps whose work I liked and this totally amazing dude called Scott Weston, http://hoborobo.co.uk/, was all, YES I WILL HELP YOU IN YOUR QUEST, and I was like, SWEET HERE IS MY IDEA, and he was all, HERE IS WHAT I DID WITH IT and I was like HOLY SHIT THAT IS LIKE TEN TIMES BETTER THAN IT WAS IN MY HEAD.

And then I got keychains because I was like THIS WILL BE AN EXCELLENT GIVEAWAY TO CELEBRATE THE HALFWAY POINT OF OUR REWATCH, except that was like two weeks ago so for two weeks I've been like HURRY THE FUCK UP TIME I wanna show this sweet Eerie art!

And now we're offically past the halfway point, and you guys are all amazing and THERE ARE KEYCHAINS IF YOU WANT THEM.

Just PM me your address and you can have this SWEET FANART on your keys!

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Also, this is available to everyone on the comm, whether you live in the UK or the US or some other place, so please dont be shy.

Put aside your history paper on the jackalope and it's relation to the federal deficit; tonights tale is about how messing with someone else's post gets you harrassed by the ghost of Tobey Maguire. Garlic won't save you from... the Dead Letter!

Hey guys,

So, Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, and it's the same date we're due to watch the Hole in the Head gang.

Like a lot of people, watching Hocus Pocus is part of my annual Halloween ritual, and at this stage I basicqlly think of it as an extension of EI.

With that in mind, I was wondering if you'd like to do a comm rewatch of it? I'll be putting up the rewatch post at one minute past midnight (UK time) on October 31st on my LJ, but if it's something that you'd be interested in as part of the EI rewatch, I'll post it up here instead?

Also, go to http://www.fright-rags.com/witches-of-salem-midnight-madness-presale-1765.html if you want to preorder a sweet Hocus Pocus t-shirt. Looks like it's only on sale today.

It's not Halloween, but lets get our George Bush masks on, make some popcorn and enjoy such classics as the Bloody Revenge of the Mummies Curse. If you're going to bite the remote control, make sure you're dressed warmly and have comfortable shoes on, because otherwise you may find yourself starring in... Scariest Home Videos.

Strap on your Sky Monsters part 2 (with bubble sole!), and strut like a sky-walking machine down to First Eerie Savings to sing 99 Bottles of Beer with Mister Wilson. Ladies, gentlemen, ain't it good to know you got a friend? Put your white plastic cash dispensing hands together for... ATM with a Heart of Gold!

Hi guys,

So I'm scheduling the posts for the rewatch and I know Broken Record is at the end of the last disc, but for me it seems like it clearly belongs in the pre-Dash, pre-John Astin part of the show, and that Reality Takes a Holiday is the show's finale. So I'm gonna schedule it to be the thirteenth episode we rewatch, and then follow it with the Hole in the Head gang as number fourteen.

Obviously if anyone has especially strong feelings about this, you are absolutely entitled to skip over it and/or rewatch Hole in the Head Gang in week thirteen, and that will still be awesome because it will still be Eerie. I'm just laying it out there now in case it causes confusion hen Broken Record pops up on October 24th and peeps were expecting Grungy Bill and haunted toasters.

So we know from the start of the episode that Mars going to the orthodontist and telling us the story of the Retainer takes place on Marshall's 45th day in Eerie. It might be fun to try and put together a timeline for all the events in EI.

From what I remember, not all of the episodes have a day # attached to them - the only one I can name off the top of my head is that Reality Takes a Holiday is marked day zero, for obvious reasons - but I know there's a few. As the rewatch progresses, I'm going to try and look out for them.

This is the second episode and the intro also serves as a kind of "previously" by referencing the ForeverWare ladies (oh my God, that horrible laughter - there's no need to get that excited about a pickle lifter, ladies), as well as what would become the standard for EI, Bigfoot and Elvis, before setting up this episode's foe.

Also, Fluffy, what are you going to do with that gun? You don't have opposable thumbs, you can't pull the trigger, it is of no use to you whatsoever, and it never appears again in the episode.

Could it be Betsy, Grungy Bill's long-lost gun? Did he bungle his twelfth/thirteenth bank robbery because dogs stole his firearm in preparation for the day they rose up agai.st humanity?

"It's probably wherever you left it" has got to be the least helpful parental non-response in history. Yes, it most likely is wherever I left it, but I don't know where that is, which is why I'm asking if you're seen it. I would have made the exact same face as Syndi. Don't be that parent, Marilyn.

Loving the drama chords that play and the dramatic close up of Fifi, the man-eating poodle. Oh Syndi. You are more right than you know.

Looking back on it, it's weird how much emphasis there was on you to have lots of friends when you were a kid. Edgar and Marilyn are all, "you don't seem to be making a lot of new friends", ignoring the fact that he's already become really good friends with the kid next door.

Later in the episode, Mars mentions that Steve isn't his friend, but still lets him come over to his house anyway. You gotta wonder if there's an element of pleasing and/or shutting up his parents concerns about his lack of friends in him hanging out with this kid that he doesn't even seem to like all that much in his own home.

Like, Simon apparently doesn't satisfy the criteria, maybe because he's younger, so he brings Steve by and is all, look, look, kid my own age, stop getting at me and making me feel like an isolated reject just because I'm not surrounded by a crowd of classmates the whole time.

Or maybe I'm just reading way too much into this. Anyway.

Dog, you're sleeping in the middle of the pavement. Don't get snippy when people need to walk past. You're the inconsiderate jackass here, not the random pedestrians.

Ugh, can we take a minute to talk about how horrible it is that Steve has to go over that the house of some kid that he's not even friends with, just so he can have a fucking sandwich, because his mum doesn't like watching him eat? Fucking Eerie, centre of shitty parenting for the entire planet, more like.

Second episode in a row that Simon mentions the Eerie Library. Last week it was old yearbooks, this week apparently their research is a little more esoteric.

Now I really want to know who had checked out the Sorcerers Bible before Simon could borrow it.

Also, Mars, get your own library card.

I really want a t-shirt with that aerial map of Eerie on it. That, or the one from the start of the episode with Normal and Schafer as some of the surrounding towns and a massive bright red WEIRDNESS stamped across it.

"Oh baby, yeah baby, oh, in my mouth baby" is literally me whenever I'm starving and sit down to a delicious meal.

Fifi, stop spying on the Tellers!

Are we all speaking Dog? I think more likely, the retainer lets Steve (and later Mars) read the dogs minds, and then their brains translate it to terms they can understand, ie, English.

I just realised how boring and frustrating this adventure must have been for Simon - he can't hear any of what's going on.

I am 100% certain that the dogs and cats in Eerie are waging a secret war against each other (secret from humans, I mean). Fluffy proved dogs can read when Mars shows him that magazine, and the pound has massive barrels labelled poison stacked outside it, coils of razor wire on top of the chainlink fences surrounding it, a sign that says no barking, the death chamber is in full view of the cages the dogs are kept in, and the dog catchers themselves are called the Canine Arrest Team. That level of psychological torture, it's gotta be a cat masterminding it.

also, the way Mars says "dogs check in, but they don't check out" makes it sound like thats the pounds motto, rather than Mars making an off the cuff remark.

I can't tell if that's supposed to be a real cat watching through the windows at the pound, or if it's a stuffed cat attached to the fishing lines used to lure the dogs to capture.

Whelp, Mister Dithers is dead. Or at least missing a leg. To be fair, he was in league with the cats, and being eaten by dogs pales in comparison to what the cats would have done to him in punishment for his failure to keep the dogs in line.

Ugh, the dogs chanting. The vehemently whispered chant of "Freedom!", "bite the hand that feeds us!", "doorknob!", "smash the chamber!" and the increasingly loud and menacing "metal mouth!" at the end of the episode - so scary when I was a kid, and still pretty creepy now.

And Steve panics, and runs, and the dogs chase him down and kill him and eat him and then Fluffy delivers his mangled retainer to Mars as a warning to keep his mouth shut if he wants to live.

Edgar tells Marshall at the end of this episode that he "lived to tell the tale". The fortune cookie at the start of No Brain No Pain gives Mars the same prediction. I like to think that the whole series is actually narrated by an adult Marshall, who sends his stories out into the world disguised as fiction, after getting increasingly frustrated and jaded about getting anybody to believe him about the centre of weirdness for the entire planet.

They probably believe him about the centre of shitty parenting, though. Jesus.

Welcome back to the Eerie, Indiana 2015 rewatch. This Saturday, give your dog the side-eye and pay that doorknobs will be enough to save us. Ladies and gentlemen, keep the Canine Arrest Team on speed-dial, because it's time to watch... The Retainer!

Rock out your fifties hairstyles, make sure your lids are sealed tight, and enjoy vacuum-fresh food, because the 2015 Eerie Indiana rewatch kicks off tonight with the pilot episode that made half of us afraid of packed lunches... ladies and gentlemen, fire up your DVD players, and let's watch: Foreverware!

Rock out your fifties hairstyles, make sure your lids are sealed tight, and enjoy vacuum-fresh food, because the 2015 Eerie Indiana rewatch kicks off tonight with the pilot episode that made half of us afraid of packed lunches... ladies and gentlemen, fire up your DVD players, and let's watch: Foreverware!

So, for those of you interested, does anyone have any objection to doing the weekly Eerie, Indiana watch-along on a Saturday, or to starting it next week (Saturday August 1st)?

I'll probably crosspost it here on my own LJ, as well as to the Dreamwidth and LJ comms specifically for EI:

http://eerieindiana.dreamwidth.org/

http://eerie-indiana.livejournal.com/

(I totally used to know how to do links in HTML, but I'm old now so whatever)

Also, if anyone wants to pimp out the rewatch on any related comms and maybe drum up some more interest, that would be awesome too!

Man, I am so ridiculously excited about this right now.

So, is anyone up for an episode-a-week Eerie Indiana rewatch, discussion and general fangirling?