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Don't forget Canaan Banana and Goodluck Jonathan!

Hey Arnold! had some episodes that scared me as a kid: "Haunted Train","Four-eyed Jack", and "Wheezin' Ed". They all followed a kind of formula where they introduced a really scary concept and made it seem real, then showed a rational explanation before adding a final image to prove that it really was real.

CW:
"To my homies in the methadone clinic, i migliori fabbri".

I have a bad feeling he'll actually die of exhaustion in Bodleian Library after finishing a thesis comparing biblical exegesis in the Middle Ages to Barbara Herrnstein Smith's theory of interactionist value judgment and then we'd all just feel dumb. That or drowning in a mix of Jack Daniels and barbecue sauce.

My house is in Salem, MA and it has a really creepy basement. It was build in the early 19th century and the walls are all stone. There's a little hatch to the outside and at the base of the stairs there's a locked door that doesn't open. Worst of all though is that the stairs are covered and come down along a wall

It's like the Wages of Fear, except there's no dynamite and it sucks.

I always heard that the Brazilian joke was a reference to Carlos Castaneda, but he's Peruvian. My favorite references are when they do really subtle call-backs to scenes in great literature like in the Seven Beer Snitch when Marge calms the mob of Fat Tony's men by mentioning how she knows one of their kids, a la

I just watched the episode on Hulu and I don't think the Chinatown gag was there. They might have cut it. I can pretty much imagine what it's all about, but where did it fit in?