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Ready for the unholy terror of opening a letter only to find Tobey Maguire's horrible face inside? Tonight, we're rewatching the Dead Letter.

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Take up your pencils, class; we are going to discuss the death of Mercutio. Love is stronger than death tonight, as we watch Heart on a Chain.

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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:

Devon versus Tripp

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Ready for the unholy terror of opening a letter only to find Tobey Maguire's horrible face inside? Tonight, we're rewatching the Dead Letter.

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Take up your pencils, class; we are going to discuss the death of Mercutio. Love is stronger than death tonight, as we watch Heart on a Chain.

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that episode of eerie indiana where marshall and his friend fight over a girl with a heart condition and the friend fucking D I E S and the girl GETS HIS HEART and takes on his personality, A KIDS SHOW!?!!
— g a r b i t c h 🅙 (@dietcokexbust) May 3, 2020

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Something of a tonal precursor to Stranger Things, this early '90s series starred Hocus Pocus actor Omri Katz as Marshall Teller, a teenager whose family moves to desolate Eerie, Indiana (population: 16,661).

Tongue-in-cheek but still terrifying, the show saw Marshall and best pal Simon Holmes (Justin Shenkarow) embark on unnerving adventures involving werewolves, hauntings and a classmate who dies in a gruesome accident, with his spirit being transferred to a classmate via a heart transplant.

Chock full of references to scary movies from The Fly to The Wolf Man, Eerie, Indiana had a strong horror pedigree of its own, with Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling) serving as a creative consultant and also directing several episodes.

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Ready for the unholy terror of opening a letter only to find Tobey Maguire's horrible face inside? Tonight, we're rewatching the Dead Letter.

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Take up your pencils, class; we are going to discuss the death of Mercutio. Love is stronger than death tonight, as we watch Heart on a Chain.

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I've been discovering this series on Prime and loved seeing Danielle Harris and now Toby McGuire! It's a great, late night, "I don't want to get into anything too heavy because I should be sleeping" show.
— CreepyCribleyBrown (@CribleyBrown) August 10, 2019

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Tava eu aqui lembrando vagamente das series de terror que eu via quando era criança, aka Goosebumps e Clube do Terror, e de alguns episódios em específico, quando pensei em um e não sabia de qual das duas series ele vinha. Pois bem... (+)
— ø (@fvakarian) June 24, 2019

Era um episódio que, na minha cabeça, era sobre um moleque wue dava um pingente pra menina que ele gostava, morria e aí a menina em questão ficava "possuída" pelo presente, agindo cada vez mais como o defunto.

Pus-me a procurar.
— ø (@fvakarian) June 24, 2019

Resumindo, depois de meia hora eu descobri que era um episódio de "Eerie, Indiana", e que a menina na verdade recebia um transplante de coração do moleque morto.

O detalhe é que eu não sabia AT ALL que tinha assistido essa serie.
— ø (@fvakarian) June 24, 2019

A meia hora foi gasta porque eu procurava por esse episódio em Goosebumps e Clube do Terror, sendo que eles jamais estariam lá.

tl;dr: A memória é algo estúpido.
— ø (@fvakarian) June 24, 2019

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We didn't deserve Eerie, Indiana pic.twitter.com/6XnfZHYDMD
— Nathan Steinmetz (@Humanstein) April 8, 2018

Bruh! Remember when him and his homeboy liked the same chick, and dude died and they transplanted his heart in her body?
— aka Dr. Morose (@GoldenBuddha19) April 8, 2018

So every time he went for a kiss, her haunted ass heart was all jealous and would fuck with her. Young me had to take a step back after that ep
— aka Dr. Morose (@GoldenBuddha19) April 8, 2018

I am giving it a rewatch on Prime right now, that sounds like a whole damn lot and I honestly don't recall it. Eager to see that.
— Nathan Steinmetz (@Humanstein) April 8, 2018

Sigh, this is the useless type of stuff I remember.
— aka Dr. Morose (@GoldenBuddha19) April 8, 2018

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In the previous episode, we learned that one of Marshall’s friends met a grisly accident when he was run down by a milk truck. And this evening, we learned that wasn’t the first time such a fate befell a young man in Eerie. In 1929, a kid named Tripp was on his way to deliver a love letter to a girl named Mary when he stepped in front of a milk truck. The letter was tucked into a library book which was never again checked out.

Sixty-two years later, the library sent a couple of shelves of books to the World o’ Stuff to raise some money. Marshall runs across the letter and opens it, releasing Tripp’s ghost. Tripp is played by Tobey Maguire. It’s an early role for the future Spider-Man actor, but he doesn’t get to shine as a fish out of water. The script, sadly, doesn’t address the situation of a ghost suddenly in the world of his future, or maybe I’m just thinking about that because we’ve finished watching Adam Adamant Lives! and miss it already.

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New blog post: Love me tender, love me true, in Eerie Indiana, Elvis Presley has some good advice for you. https://t.co/mvA5QqTFOK pic.twitter.com/10XQ9nUTHN
— Fire-Breathing Dimetrodon (@MarieLetsEat) January 22, 2019

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Warning-here’s a lil’ rant and a spoiler if u haven’t watched this show-

I literally love everything about this edit. Like O M G look at how he looks at her. I had no idea what this show was until this edit melted my heart and I just had to watch it. I stayed up until 3 am watching it. Spoiler-In this episode a kid dies. My friend died the same way in real life, and I started to think a lot about her. After watching that episode, it made me think differently about her death. It made me realize that she’ll always be apart of me

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Ready for the unholy terror of opening a letter only to find Tobey Maguire's horrible face inside? Tonight, we're rewatching the Dead Letter.

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Read the whole thread here.

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Take up your pencils, class; we are going to discuss the death of Mercutio. Love is stronger than death tonight, as we watch Heart on a Chain.

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I have no idea what this film is about, but based the cover art I am choosing to believe it's a feature-length reworking of Heart on a Chain and we're all about to get the 100+ minutes of Marshmelon this fandom deserves.

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Eerie Indiana is a ace show and the little first teenage romance between these two, this episode fucked and still fucks me up. I can’t believe this shit happened. I’m pic.twitter.com/GzViNs5rcn
— sleepy (@Gabbyliggans) September 11, 2018

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“How ya been trip?”
Well, I’ve been kind of dead, Mary”#tobymcguire #eerieindiana
— Blackroomgirl (@_MNMLyumyum) August 24, 2018

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The Eerie, Indiana screening in Manchester is one week away, and I need your help, Eerie fans! What should I wear to this, surely the social event of the year? How shall I accessorize? To blunder here is to spend an eternity mired in sartorial regret,and so I turn to you to narrow down my list of options.

I've divided them into three sections: necklaces, brooches and pins, on the basis that I can wear a bunch of different pins and at least a couple of brooches, but only one necklace.

Before we begin the winnowing, though, lets take a moment to be sad that since this takes place in mid-August, I won't get the chance to show off the awesome doorknob scarf

eviinsanemonkey made me, or the Loyal Order of Corn hat by LizzyLittleFish. To make up for it, here they are being modelled by by a rainbow sheep:

And now, to the choosing!

Miss Tornado Day and Eerie Trio necklaces by AcrylicAsylum. 3D sculpted anatomical heart necklace by AlternativeJewellery. Eerie, Indiana town limits sign by SoozysCraftorium. Camera, coil of film and blue Eerie, Indiana necklace with pink bat charm by Tatty Devine. Key with blue gem necklace by Eclectic Eccentricity. All the rest by Sugar and Vice.

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Better Weird than Dead brooch by Sugar and Vice. Poodle with bone and "be prepared" penknife by Tatty Devine. Eerie, Indiana bookstacks by HelloCrumpet. Husky by Acrylic Asylum. Eerie, Indiana/Z Nation brooch by SoozysCraftorium. Jackalope and Poe Raven by Erstwilder. Raven with rose and ravens on a branch by CherryLoco. Eerie, Indiana logo and Centre of Weirdness map badges by me.

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World o' Stuff and POP: 16661 pins by MattRyanTobin. Eerie, Indiana pin by Super Yaki Stuff. World o' Stuff button by

diello. Pitbull Surfers button by me. El Gordo pin by DemonicPinfestation.

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Name of late 80s/early 90s tv show (or possibly TV movie) about two boys with a crush on the same girl. One gets a heart transplant from the other

vaguely remembered a show (or possibly TV movie) about two (maybe middle school age) friends who have a crush on the same girl. The one friend had a heart condition and needs a transplant, and the other friend is a daredevil type kid. The daredevil kid gets killed doing a stunt (hit by a car I think), and he ends up being a match for the other kids heart and he ends up getting it. After he recovers, he starts trying to get close to the girl they had the crush on, but every time he does his heart starts to give out.

They end up finding out that the daredevil's soul is still in the heart, and his “spirit” is jealous of them being together.

I believe you're looking for the Heart on a Chain episode of Eerie, Indiana.

Marshall and a classmate, Devon (Cory Danziger) fall for the new girl, Melanie Monroe (Danielle Harris) who needs a heart transplant. When Devon dies in a gruesome accident, Melanie receives Devon's heart — and her personality changes almost overnight. Is Melanie acting out because she feels guilty over Devon's death or does Devon's spirit live on in his transplanted heart, which is now in Melanie's body?

Eerie, Indiana was like a junior X-Files. Marshall investigates all the wacky stuff happening around his town.

The major difference between the question and the episode is that the girl gets the heart, not the rival and she then begins to act more like the daredevil, using his stock phrases and actions.

THATS IT!!! I’ve been trying to remember the name forever! Thank you so much. Thank you for cleaning up the chain of events for me too. It was 27 years ago, so I guess I just mis-remembered it.

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Dumb, ugly seagulls waking me up on my day off! Treating myself to some strawberry hot chocolate and red bean mochi since I'm up anyway. God they are literally the lowest form of bird.

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okay but YO this episode of eerie indiana got me FUCKED UP

Starts off with narrator Marshall talking about his first kiss with a girl named Melanie in a cemetery. And then he starts rambling about the thin veil between life and death.
We’re introduced to Marshall’s new best friend Devon, who’s a Too Cool type who’s smart but a risk taker, and whose motto is “Live Fast, Die Young, Leave a Good Looking Corpse”
And Melanie, new student, comes to class but the teacher (who’s obsessed with death for some reason?) warns about her heart condition.
Cue a cute montage of Marshall and Devon playfully showing off for Melanie to impress her, buying her gifts, asking her out. But Marshall and Devon don’t fight over her. Devon’s like ‘hey i know you like her but can i ask her out’ and Marshall’s like ‘yea man we cool’
Then Devon gets hit by a car.
Marshall runs to the hospital only to find Melanie there because they “found a heart donor” for her.
A very quick scene where we see that Melanie has acquired some very tomboyish traits ever since her heart transplant because yeah by the way Devon just died. No ifs ands or buts.
Melanie and Marshall get together but every time they try to kiss, Melanie feels her heart doing something “weird.”
The rest of the episode is Melanie learning to deal with grief and come to terms with the idea that she doesn’t want to be dating anyone right now and wants to work on herself.
The kiss from the cold open happens right on top of Devon’s grave, a sweet goodbye kiss. There’s tongue.
Melanie gives Marshall the heart locket that Devon gave her.
Marshall leaves the graveyard because he wants to look for UFOs.
end of episode.

I am making NONE of this up.

anyway you should watch eerie indiana

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Ready for the unholy terror of opening a letter only to find Tobey Maguire's horrible face inside? Tonight, we're rewatching the Dead Letter.

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Take up your pencils, class; we are going to discuss the death of Mercutio. Love is stronger than death tonight, as we watch Heart on a Chain.

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So, real talk... this is basically the bad ending for Melanie/Devon, isn't it?

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So I've made a timeline of events related to Foreverware, and

froodle has informed me that it may be of interest to the comm (fandom? I don't really know the right words) so...Here we go!

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Well what do you know? As it turns out, the writers of “Eerie” didn't get out all that they had to say about death in the last episode, and have turned around immediately to tackle the subject head-on yet again.

If you're so cold and heartless that you can't give the show anything else, you at least have to admire it for the casting choices: It seems the special guest from every episode has gone on to do some pretty big things in Hollywood. For example, Danielle Harris, from the last episode, would go on to become popular for her voice role on the Wild Thornberry's, as well as her live-action roles in Rob Zombie's Halloween remakes. Here, we have a young Tobey Maguire—who looks eerily like current Tobey Maguire—playing the role of a ghost.

That ghost is Tripp McConnell, and he is awakened when Marshall finds an old letter in a book at the local bookstore. After the initial shock of finding a man from the 1930s hanging around the bookshelves wears off, Marshall picks up on what Tripp is trying to urge him to do: Deliver the letter to its intended recipient.

You see, Tripp was deeply, madly in love with one Mary Carter 62 years ago, and they were certain to be wed. But then Tripp got some cold feet and left Mary out in the cold, something she has never forgotten, or forgiven, all these years later. But that can be the problem with life: not everything is always as it seems. In this case, the only thing Tripp did wrong was get killed, and that’s what prevented him from marrying his childhood sweetheart, something she has been oblivious to for all the prevailing years.

Since Marshall was the one that discovered the letter, then Marshall is the one that is required to deliver it to Mary Carter in this current day and age, 62 years later. He refuses quite a few times, finding Tripp to be a rather annoying chap, at which point Tripp has to rely on his ghostly cunning to get him to change his mind: He wins over the Teller family with his ghostly charm, earning an invite to stay for dinner. Marshall isn’t too keen on seeing this happen, so he reluctantly agrees to help him, on the grounds that he leaves him alone afterwards.

Thankfully, the myriad of possible pitfalls that one could face when searching for a person after six decades, are all conveniently avoided: Mary still lives at the exact same address as she did all those years ago, with her granddaughter, who happens to be Marshall's age. At first Mary thinks Marshall is lying, until she reads the letter, and then learns the truth about Tripp's fate.

The ending of this one is actually pretty similar to “Heart on a Chain”, now that I think about it, with the two lovers reunited in the afterlife, something we can see coming from the outset (though it's not as creepy as it sounds, as Tripp sees Mary the way she was when they were together, as opposed to the old decaying hag that she has become). This one is a little less devastating, simply because we’re dealing with an old woman versus a young one (and old women are always considered expendable in today’s society), but it’s still a pretty hefty emotional saga for a young adult to sit through. Nevertheless, with two themes so closely intertwined to one another, I think it would have made more sense to space those two apart a few episodes, rather than have them be back-to-back installments.

Also a little bizarre is Marshall's initial refusal to have anything to do with Tripp. Here is a kid that goes out of his way to investigate weird goings-on in Eerie, and so for him to get offended by Tripp's simple request, simply because he “feels like” he's trouble, just seems out of character, especially since Tripp does nothing to garner such feelings. Sure, he comes off as rather arrogant in their first meeting, but isn't rude or offensive in any specific way. Just a weird way for a “hardened” investigator of the macabre to act.

When the dust settles, this is a pretty decent episode, but by leaning heavily on many of the same themes that the previous episode dealt with does it no favors.

EPISODE RATING: 6/10

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When I read a brief synopsis for the seventh episode of “Eerie, Indiana”, I was intrigued. It’s not every day that you find a show geared toward young adults (and, perhaps arguably, even younger than that) willing to tackle the subject of death at all; it’s even less common to see a show do it in such a frank, straightforward way. I was finally starting to appreciate the town of Eerie and its characters, but this wallop of an episode helps to prove just how daring this show really was, at least in terms of its intended age group. Its characters aren’t mindless caricatures quickly thrown together for the sake of ratings, but rather fully realized people. Even the adults in this show, such as Marshall’s family members, who are usually made stupid in shows so that the younger characters—the ones audience members would be most likely to relate to—can be intellectually superior, are immediately likable, and always encouraging to their son's interests, no matter how weird or “out there” they may be.

In this one, there’s a new girl in town, and both Marshall, and his friend Devon Wilde, are immediately smitten with her. She is Melanie, but she is no ordinary girl: she has a weak heart, and is on a list to receive a transplant that can elongate her life. Unfazed by this development, the two kids engage in friendly competitions, each one trying to impress her more so that they win her fragile heart; it’s Devon’s wild-child persona, vs. Marshall’s good-guy routine, and just like in real-life, it’s obvious which one she favors, and it ain’t Marshall.

Then Devon is struck and killed while carelessly riding his skateboard in the middle of the street.

One thing that sets this apart from similar shows of its ilk is the relationship between Devon and Marshall. While they both are fighting for the same goal, they still put their own friendship above all else: Devon even asks Marshall if he minds if he asks Melanie to the school dance, and Marshall puts aside his own feelings to let it happen; Marshall is upset when a careless Devon nearly gets run over by the same milk truck that finishes him off a little while later. It never devolves into a mean-spirited rivalry, which is the standard story arc that these stories lead to, and it's refreshing that “Eerie, Indiana” doesn't sinks into that same level of tired mediocrity.

After Marshall learns that Devon was struck by a truck, he rushes to the hospital, where he meets Melanie, who informs him they found a heart for her. At that precise moment, Marshall puts two and two together, and figures out that Devon has passed on, and it is his heart that will be implanted inside her. It's pretty heavy stuff so far (oh, it gets even stronger), but nice to see a television show that doesn't assume its audience is comprised of idiots that need everything spoonfed to them, so I can definitely appreciate the strong subject matter.

Anyway, after she receives the heart, Marshall notices that her personality changes. She's no longer a shy, innocent girl, but a daredevil who takes chances and whose favorite line is: “Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse”...which happened to be Devon's favorite quote! Marshall doesn't like this change, and urges her to let him go and move on. He assures her that everyone is sad he's gone, especially him since he was one of his best friends, but that life doesn't wait and it's the only thing she can do. She reluctantly agrees to try to do so by kissing him...only to have her heart malfunction. It's just a minor glitch—the moment they pull away everything returns to normal—but it's enough to cause alarm. Is Devon controlling her from beyond? In the end, Melanie agrees to let Devon go, but tells Marshall she isn't ready to be in a relationship so soon, and they part ways, with Marshall joining Simon and Melanie going her own separate way.

[SPOILER ALERT]
But as sad as this episode already is, it’s about to become emotionally shattering: As Simon and Marshall happily make their way for the cemetery exit, we see a figure walking slowly in the background, heading toward an off-screen Melanie. After a little bit of squinting, I realized it’s the FUCKING GRIM REAPER. Then, a light shines on the angel on Devon’s gravestone, complete with the heart pendant that Devon got for her, at which point a lone tear drips down, indicating that he is claiming her so that no one else can have her. Holy shit.
[END SPOILER ALERT]

This is about as perfect as a thirty-minute episode of young adult/children's TV can be, with heavy subject matter handled with maturity and an uncommon straightforwardness that flies in the face of the bland watered-down sameness of many such shows, even today. The way the Tellers handle Marshall's new “girlfriend” the few times she is over, is so adorable, you just can't help but fall in love with them. I know early on in the season I mentioned that Marshall and Simon are completely boring and don't have the kinds of personalities that make good leads in a show, but it is these exact traits that have actually made me completely change my mind: They are you and me. They are everyday children with wild imaginations and big dreams, kids with big hearts and a loving family (well, not in Simon's case, but the Tellers frequently take him in as their own).

This show has slowly been growing on me, and I was beginning to realize its potential; not even I could have realized the near-perfection that it was capable of when everything came together in harmony. This is a devastating, must-see episode, and the pinnacle of what "Eerie Indiana" had to offer.

SIDE NOTE: After harping on how weak Joe Dante-directed episodes were compared to others, I have to immediately take that back, as he was the director of this one. It's not just the pinnacle of the series, but might be the pinnacle of his career.

EPISODE RATING: 10/10

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Be prepared to develop a life-long fear of milk trucks and possibly dairy in general, because we're about to watch Heart on a Chain!

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Written for Challenge #15.42: Forgotten over at

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LJ is being dumb and junk and keeps marking

eviinsanemonkey and my attempts to post these links as spam, sigh.

So, here is a link to the page that has the links on. Stupid LJ.

Podfics for Hometown, Puppetmaster and Hearts in Glass

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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!

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Take up your pencils, class; we are going to discuss the death of Mercutio. Love is stronger than death tonight, as we watch Heart on a Chain.

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The meme is "Give me the first sentence of a fic I haven't written and I'll give you the next five"

yarol_2075 gave me the following prompt:

My name is Marshall Teller, I may have made the biggest mistake of my life and I'm afraid I may live to regret it.

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So, have some fic about Devon, I guess:

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So, have some fic about Devon, I guess:

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So apparently DW isn't importing my comments, sigh. Anyway, here are my reactions to Foreverware as part of the Eerie, Indiana rewatch 2015.

Love the opening to the pilot episode - the dramatic music as Mars goes up tothesecret spot and opens the evidence locker, and then it cuts to the lighter faster-paced upbeat stuff as he goes out and about in Eerie on his paper route.

and then it shows the lawnmower dudes and the gun-toting mailman and it's all, chords! chords! have some dramatic chords! and then the theme tune we hear every episode starts up.

Marilyn takes a bite of the strawberry, makes a face, tells Mars not to eat them... and then puts the half-eaten strawberry back in the fridge!

Jesus, check out Betty Wilson's look of pure rage when Mars is playing with one of the Foreverware tubs, and again when Edgar walks in yelling about leftover stuffing. Police your facial expressions, you crazy bitch! Nobody wants to buy from a judgey judger.

Oh my God, Simon's introductary scene: "I let him hang out because his parents don't seem to want him around." It's dropped in so casually, but it's so horrible when you stop to think about it. He's Marshall's best friend, and even his best friend's go-to description is, "oh yeah, his parents are awful and hate him..." Eesh.

This is my first time watching Eerie on a new TV, and I've never noticed before that Betty Wilson's car has bumper stickers saying "ask me about self-preservation."

Likewise, it's the first time I've been able to read the stickers on the twin's Foreverware beds - love that they actually have the "press to close" stickers in the corner, and that apprently Walt Wilson thought someone would have a dishwasher big enough to load a "people keeper" into.

Also, I really want a Foreverware button now.

The marketing department for the DVDs definitely missed a trick not releasing a collectors edition box set where the case was a Foreverware tub. Maybe we'll get it when the series comes to blu-ray?

If Marilyn had been successfully assimilated into the Foreverware Ladies Group, would she have had to dress only in one colour, and who gets to decide what colour that is?

We mostly see her in blue, but Phylis Stoffer already has that.

What happens if her favourite colour is taken? Do they have a
housewife-off to see who has the greatest right to it, or does she just have to pick from a list of available, pre-approved colours?

I've noticed the plastic covered couch before, but now I can see the lampshade in the background is also covered in plastic wrap. Apparently Betty Wilson doesn't rate fire hazards above dust and staining.

Eight hours a day may keep the wrinkles away, but exactly how much quality sleep is she getting with that fucking tape recorder bleating in her ear every night?

There's something really sad to me about the way Betty kisses the photo of her dead husband before she goes to bed.

I think it's because of that scene in the Teller house when she refers to him as "my late husband Walt" and then mentions that if the lid on your Foreverware isn't sealed tight, the aging process gets accelerated.

Combined with the fact that the twins specifically say that she started sealing them up after their dad died, it makes me think he had some horrible mishap with the People Saver, and that Betty woke up one morning to discover a rotten glob of green goo where her husband had been sleeping the night before.

I'm not saying it justifies everything she's doing, but it does make me feel sorry for her, just a little.

How menacing are the twins after Mars frees them from the Foreverware?

"We'll take care of Mother", intone the dumpy little Norman Batesalikes in unison, smacking their fists rythmically against their palms.

Even Mars is like, "Alright lads, I'm not sticking about just so I can see you punch the shit out of your mum, peace!" as he climbs out of the window.

Fucking hell, boys. I'd tell you to be less creepy, but I've already seen the rest of the series, so I know that will never happen.

Considering Marilyn went on a housekeeping binge towards the start of that episode, the fridge is once again a total disaster by the end of it. Probably because she keeps taking bites out of stuff and randomly throwing it back in there.

Ugh, the grown-up twins. Someone needs to make a gif of them from the end of this episode; the creepy wink at Marshall, the weird smile they give each other after Mars and his mum leave, and the part where they chorus "no, thank you" which has Marilyn going all "DO NOT WANT!" and getting the fuck out of there.

They even hold their hammers in identical poses at the end of that scene, which for some reason really adds to the creep factor for me.

I love Marshall's voiceover at the end - "a kid's got to grow up fast in Eerie, or he might not grow up at all."

I like the way it subverts the usual meaning of that phrase, and how it sets up later episodes where we see that both meanings can totally apply in this town (Devon, Tripp, possibly Steve on the one hand, Janet and arguably Tripp again on the other one).

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Eerie Indiana headcanon #14: Walt Wilson, inventor of Foreverware and late husband of Stepford Charm School graduate Betty Wilson, died in 1964 because the rubber seal on his self-preservation tub failed during the night. When Betty brought him his copy of the Eerie Examiner the following morning*, it was to find a pike of rotting goo where her husband used to be. That trauma is where her obsession with preserving the remaining members of her family came from. Sure, she's creepy and unsettling as all get out, but she's also a grieving wife and the victim of a horrible tragedy.

*Obviously they had seperate beds. This was the Sixties in TV land, after all.

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Eerie Indiana headcanon #4: the reason none of Mary B. Carter's six marriages didn't work out had nothing to do with the fact that Tripp McConnall was her one true forever love. Mary B. Carter is a Holly Go Lightly-style commitmentphobe, and she probably ditched Tripp a couple of months into their afterlife-based romance. I'd make a joke about how she's probably having it off with Devon Wilde right now, but I'm pretty sure Devon's love-after-life is all Melanie, all the time.

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Eerie Indiana headcanon #2: Devon Wilde continues to be a presence in Melanie's life after the ending of Heart on a Chain, to the point where her love life is basically the story from Angie Baby.

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