History Literature / YouCantScareMe

It was adapted into [[Recap/GoosebumpsS2E7YouCantScareMe the 7th episode of the second season]] of the [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} TV series]], with a novelization based on the episode being released as book 14 of the ''Goosebumps Presents'' series.

It was adapted into [[[[Recap/GoosebumpsS2E7YouCantScareMe the 7th episode of the second season]] of the [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} TV series]], with a novelization based on the episode being released as book 14 of the ''Goosebumps Presents'' series.

It was adapted into the 7th episode of the second season of the [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} TV series]], with a novelization based on the episode being released as book 14 of the ''Goosebumps Presents'' series.

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!!The episode provides examples of
* AdaptationalDistillation: The episode is ''extremely'' pared down from the book: several characters are absent, and the dog scare is cut out. As a result, the Mud Monster has a much larger presence.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy and AdaptationalJerkass: Courtney is somehow both at different points. In the book she did a few bad things such as mocking Eddie early on but these bits are not in the episode. However, as it goes on she starts acting much more smug and condescending towards the boys.
* AdaptedOut: Molly and Charlene are removed. The same can be said for Eddie's older brother, Kevin. Plus, there is now only one Mud Monster.
* CensoredChildDeath: In the prologue, a child and her grandpa were killed by Mud Monsters. While we see the grandpa's demise onscreen, the child's fate is cut off and only revealed in the following narration.
* DistantPrologue: The episode begins with a Mud Monster in the distant past attacking a little girl and her grandfather.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The episode gives Courtney the last name of King.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: This is how Courtney stops the Mud Monster. She gives it a lecture on how this isn't what a monster is supposed to do, long enough for the sun to dry it up while it is being bored by her speech. [[AvertedTrope A subsequent rainstorm revives the monster, however]].

* AdaptedOut: Molly and Charlene are removed. Plus, there is now only one Mud Monster.

The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book where some kids try to scare a girl. Oh and there's some mud monsters in there somewhere.

* FormulaBreakingEpisode: Even though this story does have and mention monsters (the mud monsters said to be the corpses of the town's original settlers who died in a mudslide), most of the focus of the story is on four friends playing scary pranks on a girl named Courtney, who claims that she's not scared of anything, to prove her wrong -- [[HilarityEnsues with comic results]].

* OnlyOneName: This is the only book in the franchise where not a single main character is given a last name.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: This is how Courtney stops the Mud Monster. She gives it a lecture on how this isn't what a monster is supposed to do, long enough for the sun to dry it up while it is being bored by her speech. [[AvertedTrope A subsequent rainstorm revives the monster however]].

Eddie is constantly being embarrassed by Courtney. She claims to never be afraid of anything and he finds himself looking like a scardey cat whenever she's around. So one day, he and his friends decide she needs to be knocked down a peg. They cook up various schemes to try to scare her, but each one fails. Perhaps the local legend about some Mud Monsters can help?

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Even though this story does have and mention monsters (the mud monsters said to be the corpses of the town's original settlers who died in a mudslide), most of the focus of the story is on four friends playing scary pranks on a girl named Courtney, who claims that she's not scared of anything, to prove her wrong -- [[HilarityEnsues with comic results]].

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: This is how Courtney stops the Mud Monster. She gives it a lecture on how this isn't what a monster is supposed to do, and it dries up while it is being bored by her speech.

* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: When Mr. Melvin, the homeroom teacher, loses his lunch, Courtney offers him her lunch, saying that her mother always packs extra. The lunch bag of hers, by the way, contained the real-looking rubber snake that Eddie and his friends put in to try to scare Courtney. Mr. Melvin opens the bag, pulls the snake out, and let out a high-pitched scream. Later on, Charlene remarks that he had a really funny scream.

* ConfrontingYourImposter: At one point, the main characters call their classmate Courtney to get her into the woods, at the tree house. The girl calling claims to be Courtney's friend Denise. Courtney's response:

* FakeRabies: As part of a scheme to scare Courtney and Denise using Buttercup, Eddie tries to spray shaving cream around the dog's mouth to give him this effect. But the dog runs off before he can apply it to his face.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: The episodes gives Courtney the last name of King.

* BewareOfViciousDog: Subverted. In one of their attempts to scare Courtney, Eddie and his friends plan on siccing a ferocious dog of theirs named [[FluffyTheTerrible Buttercup]]. But on the way towards her, they end up losing him in the woods. By the time they locate him, the dog was tamed and befriended by Courtney herself, much to their frustration.

* BewareOfViciousDog: Subverted. In one of their attempts to scare Courtney, Eddie and their friends plan on siccing a ferocious dog of theirs named [[FluffyTheTerrible Buttercup]]. But on the way towards her, they end up losing him in the woods. By the time they locate him, the dog was tamed and befriended by Courtney herself, much to their frustration.

* BigBrotherBully: Kevin isn't quite as bad as some others in the series but he still certainly is, with how he looks down on Eddie and makes fun of him.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Eddie's resentment towards Courtney is implied to be some form of jealousy due to how much braver she is than him.

* AdaptationalDistillation: The episode is ''extremely'' pared down from the book: several characters are absent, while the only one of Eddie and Hat's pranks depicted is a shortened version of the tarantula episode. As a result, the Mud Monster has a much larger presence.

* LongAgoPrologue: The episode begins with a Mud Monster in the distant past attacking a little girl and her grandfather.

It was adapted into the 7th episode of the second season of the [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} TV series]].

!! The TV episode provides examples of

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover depicts the Mud Monsters as being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin monsters made out of mud]] while in the book they are closer to human zombies, just covered in mud (although they might be covered in so much mud, that they don't appear human-like at all).

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover depicts the Mud Monsters as being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin monsters made out of made]] while in the book they are closer to human zombies, just covered in mud (although they might be covered in so much mud, that they don't appear human-like at all).

The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}'' book where some kids try to scare a girl. Oh and there's some mud monsters in there somewhere.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover depicts the Mud Monsters as being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin monsters made out of made]] while in the book they are closer to human zombies, just covered in mud.