Literature
- In The Beaches, Levi's friend Glyn is obsessed with the 1997 TV adaptation of Welcome to Dead House, dresses up in the same clothes as the character Karen Thurston, and even recalls that she lives in the same neighborhood where the adaptation was filmed. This was intentional by the author, Rebecca Maye Holiday, who had identified the filming location of the "dead house" for Goosebumps fans in 2022, revealing that it was Hazel Avenue in Toronto's "Beaches" area (she also identified the location of the house used in the adaptation of Night of the Living Dummy III).note https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111987/trivia?item=tr6107184
Holiday spent part of her childhood in Toronto and had relatives who lived in the locations where Goosebumps was filmed. - In the Animorphs book "The Separation", Nice Rachel says she has "goosebumps" to which Marco quips that he used to read those books.
Live Action Television
- Beetleborgs: The episode "Fright Files" features a parody of the Goosebumps books, the eponymously titled "Fright Files", along with its author I.M. Fine. An altered cover of "How to Kill a Monster" is used to serve as a "Fright Files" book.
Web Original
On
The Nostalgia Critic, one of Doug Walker's "Nostalgiaween" intros was designed as a deliberate parody of the introduction for the 90s
Goosebumps series. The intro features jokes about R.L. Stine, Stephen King, and also pokes fun at actor Jack Black, who portrays R.L. Stine in the 2010s
Goosebumps feature films (dollar signs visually appear in Black's eyes while a cash register noise is mingled into the original Jack Lenz soundtrack).
Western Animation
- Arthur: "The Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club" is a series of children's horror novels that shows up in several episodes, which is largely a parody of Goosebumps.
- Molly of Denali: In "Climb Every Mountain", the book Oscar returns to the library is part of a series called Moosebumps, by RU Fine.
