He was a bookworm and I spent most of my childhood reading books and taking weekly trips to the library while other kids had parents who told them to go outside and play sports or whatever. Was it only our generation had parents that actively didn’t want us reading books? My father was different, though. Their mother forces both of them to go outside and play, taking Lindy away from the book she was reading. They are expected to play together and, as we later see, their parents don’t make an effort to have them distinguish themselves from the other or actively encourage them to partake in identical activities. Other than that, they look identical. Even though they look similar, they are still two different people, but their parents also treat them as identical people.
One has short hair, one has a side ponytail. Kris and Lindy are twins who seem to hate each other. SPOILERS AFTER THE COVER!!! It’s more like “nights” of the living dummy than one night. It’s time for a classic Goosebumps tale about twins, dummies, and competition. I spent the whole book noticing that 1) it’s more like nights of the living dummy and 2) Slappy is just as much a threat, if not more so than Mr. You know, the ones where Steve Urkel goes into space and then comes back to marry Laura – the girl he has been harassing for most of their lives.)Īnd that was the thing about Night of the Living Dummy – as I was reading it, I knew that Slappy has become the main antagonist in subsequent Dummy books. (I have, however, seen every episode of Family Matters – even the bullshit ones that were on CBS.
I have never seen Die Hard but if someone references Carl Winslow shooting a kid, I understand both of the references. I have this library of pop culture I can draw from and understand references to even though I haven’t interacted directly with that specific piece of pop culture. Previously On Rereading My Childhood – Goosebumps: Stay Out of the Basement!Ĭultural osmosis is an interesting thing.
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