FIRST POST!!!!! =D

MORE shrek crap?? this i gotta see.

Ghosted by Annalalala @ 06/07/2004 4:59 PM EDT

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Oh, it’s not such a big deal.

Ghosted by 1st Post Defender @ 06/07/2004 5:10 PM EDT

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The Monster at the End of This Book… Suddenly its like I’m 4 again. The book’s probably still in my parents’ attic.

Ghosted by Jason @ 06/07/2004 5:31 PM EDT

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Man, I still have the dinosaur AND the Grover books.. and like half the "Sesame Street Library," not that lousy "Treasury" from later on… and a bunch of little sticker books LIKE the dinosaur one, only with the Ghostbusters! It’s like I’m sitting on a very small, worthless gold mine!

Ghosted by Aaron @ 06/07/2004 5:40 PM EDT

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Im embarassed to own the Full House book. I also had every episode on tape. And had the stephanie mini-series books. God, I was gay….

Ghosted by Mike @ 06/07/2004 5:42 PM EDT

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At least Matt didn’t get drunk and combine all three books into "Grover presents The House Full of Monster Dinos at the End of Michelle." i would have read it anyway.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 06/07/2004 5:59 PM EDT

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I remember getting a Far Side book at a school book fair once,and remember them having hardcover movie storybooks for such films as Santa Claus The Movie and Dune.

Ghosted by Overlord @ 06/07/2004 6:13 PM EDT

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book fairs were fun. erasers were where it was at. multicolored, dinosaur and monster erasers
but what was better was "R.I.F", (reading is fun) where every kid got to pick out one free book.

for some reason i picked "wild and wacky hockey facts" one year

but when mom volunteered, she’d bring home 9 or 10 books. it was awesome

Ghosted by george @ 06/07/2004 6:24 PM EDT

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I loved that Grover book as a kid too. Thanks for some nostalgia, Matt.

Ghosted by Another Matt @ 06/07/2004 7:05 PM EDT

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Brentantation, I have seen commercials for the Nickelodeon cartoon called "My Life as a Teenage Robot." Here is a review:
http://www.entertainyourbrain.com/mylifeasateenagerobotrev.htm

Matt, Jim Davis did a Mr. Potatohead comic strip: http://chud.com/news/june04/june7interviewdavis.php3 "Q: Do you have another strip idea in you?

Jim: I did U.S. Acres for a few years which worked well in syndication. Then I did Mr. Potatohead for a couple of years as well. It was something Bret wanted to do and Hasbro had come to us and so we did it for a couple of years and really had fun with it but circulation was not real high. Just a couple of hundred papers but it was really fun to do. It was really strange giving a personality and creating a family for a 50-year-old toy icon."

Chud is giving away some Punky DVD sets: http://chud.com/news/june04/june7contestpunk.php3
Punky clips (Including the magic of Eddie Deezen):
http://chud.com/graphics13/Punky%20B.MOV

Ghosted by ME @ 06/07/2004 7:30 PM EDT

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I loved that grover book when I was a little kid.

Grover is the coolest character on sesame street because the guy who pupets him also pupets yoda.

Ghosted by Bright Noah @ 06/07/2004 8:20 PM EDT

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Long time reader, first time poster, etc etc. Hey Matt, speaking of Punky, ever thought about doing an article about Punky Brewster (either the live action show or cartoon)? Yes, I used to watch both as a kid. Yes, I deserve to be beaten for it.

Ghosted by IronMan @ 06/07/2004 8:52 PM EDT

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Oh, god, my parents probably still have "Monster at the End of This Book" on the shelf with all the other classic Golden Books my sisters and I racked up over the years at their house. Heck, I still read it when I’m over there. It’s one of the great, all-time simple-but-effective stories, reverse suspense – DON’T look at the end! And, of course, you can’t resist, as Grover’s attempts to keep the book from turning get wilder and wilder. Heck, I’ll probably end up reading it the next time I visit. And in two months, I’ll have a little nephew to pass the insanity on to….

The sticker book also draws faint memories. My sisters and I also bought such books, usually with cartoon characters. I think I might have had one with an ocean theme at one time.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 06/07/2004 9:37 PM EDT

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HA! Seeing that Grover book brought back friggin’ memories, man.

Elmo could never hold a candle to Grover, not in a million years. I don’t care if his own segment takes up half the show now and mostly features him obsessing over birthday cakes.

Ghosted by Teirusu @ 06/07/2004 9:59 PM EDT

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I had that dinosaur, as well as a startling number of other dinosaur sticker/activity books, including a series which have 3D dino-pics. I think it was actually a magazine series, where each edition came with a piece of a T-Rex skeleton. A must have for any dino-enthusiast.

Ghosted by James F.W. @ 06/07/2004 10:12 PM EDT

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And Calgary blows it!

Review "Mac and Me"

Ghosted by A-wel Cruiz @ 06/07/2004 10:53 PM EDT

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Aww, I remember two out of three of those books! Don’t remember the Full House one. Can you believe the Olsen Twins are going to be 18 this coming Saturday?

Hmm, speaking of Dinosaurs, does anyone here remember the obscure 80’s cartoon Dinosaucers? Maybe someone could dig up some old clips for a future article. *hint* *hint*

Ghosted by The Dragon @ 06/08/2004 12:02 PM EDT

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The dinosaur book reminded me of a show (or movie?) I used to love. It was called Denver the Dinosaur. Anyone remember it?

Ghosted by Mandie J. @ 06/08/2004 12:35 PM EDT

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Correction, that’s Denver the LAST dinosaur. I guess he really isn’t as good of a friend as I thought. We have been estranged for a long time.

Ghosted by Rob @ 06/08/2004 12:51 PM EDT

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Oh. My. God.

That is my favorite book ever! There was also another Grover book that I liked but I can’t remember the name of that one. I also had a puppet of grover and some other grover things. I always hated the pretentious Big Bird and annoying Elmo. It was even worse when I babysitted this little kid who couldn’t pronounce my name and called me Elmo. I wanted to scream at him until he cried.

And the book fair, R.I.F., and the book order magazines were always my favorite parts of school.

Thanks for taking me back to the good old days.

Ghosted by Emmaaaaa @ 06/08/2004 1:00 AM EDT

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Man-O-Man! so much happening at once on this page! First off, all sesame books did rock in the 70s and 80s.
G4L, I could swear on a grover book that I remember reading a book similar to montser at the end with a mirror on the last page.
Secondly, Please Matt! Punky Brewster was my hero as a kid. I too would love a review good or bad from you!

"Wow! it’s the olsen twins! Hey, back when you were in full house, I thought you guys looked like, troll dolls…but I never lost faith in you…hey there’s an incription on this medallion…’cut, it, OUT!’ HA HA HA HA!" -Clone High Ghandi

Ghosted by Bitsy&Roary @ 06/08/2004 1:21 AM EDT

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I had that Grover book as well. Personally, I found it rather creepy. It had this ominous tone, even after I knew about the copout ending. It’s like I was expecting the ending to suddenly change one day and find Grover in the mouth of some unholy orc. It still might happen. That orc has waited for so long…he can wait a little longer.

Ghosted by Phil @ 06/08/2004 1:24 AM EDT

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I must add.. I found that they still sell the Grover book at a local supermarket, along with a NEW version something along the lines of "Grover and Elmo and the monster at the end of this book".. it was pretty much the same thing, but with elmo too. I couldnt not buy it.. its somewhere in my room, I think.

Ghosted by AJ @ 06/08/2004 2:08 AM EDT

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Y’know, I recall a grover book with nudity in it. That’s right. It was a a book where a naked grover got dressed all by himself. I remember my mom helping a foreign friend of mine with her english once by using this book.

I notice that Grover doesn’t wear any underwear. But then again, I guess he doesn’t really need them as he obviously doesn’t have anything that for which underwear would be needed to hold in place if you get my drift.

Ghosted by Nate @ 06/08/2004 2:15 AM EDT

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Okay, last post here. I promise.

I shouldn’t say that I "noticed" Grover’s lack of underwear, as I currently do not have the book. But I DO recall it.

I also have a wonderful story about the book fair, and it involves theft.

No, I didn’t do it. It was actually a friend of my brother’s who did it. Basically, my friend stole a few books from the book fair. He actually gave my brother one, which happened to be a Goosebumps/Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-like book. I forget the exact name of it, but it had something to do with time travel.

My brother felt so guilty over it, that he actually gave it to me. I read it, not even knowing that it was stolen. And after having gone through every possible ending in that damn CYOA wannabe, I tried to return it to my brother. It was then that I found out the awful truth, and couldn’t even bare to look at the book myself.

Now to be honest with all of you, I hated Goosebumps, but I loved Choose Your Own Adventure, as well as other books of the same format. However, I remember really hating this one. And so, finding out that it was stolen was the icing of the cake.

I don’t know if that book is still in our own possession today, but it still haunts me in my dreams. And if I ever find it, I shall either return it to its rightful owners (which is unlikely to happen as it has been a long long time and Troll books probably doesn’t care anymore), or burn it (which is the more likely of the two options). Jeez, I guess this proves that Goosebumps really can be scary.

Ghosted by Nate @ 06/08/2004 2:32 AM EDT

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