The Tale of the Lonely Ghost
- Episode aired Aug 29, 1992
- Not Rated
- 22m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
1.1K
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A girl who desperately wants to be friends with her snotty cousin and her group of friends agrees to spend the night in the haunted house next door to become part of the group.A girl who desperately wants to be friends with her snotty cousin and her group of friends agrees to spend the night in the haunted house next door to become part of the group.A girl who desperately wants to be friends with her snotty cousin and her group of friends agrees to spend the night in the haunted house next door to become part of the group.
Jessica Kardos
- Beth's Friend
- (uncredited)
Erin Tee
- Beth's Friend
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Naomi Janzen
- D.J. MacHale(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaSally, played by Bethanny Nurse, suggests that the mute girl in the ghost story may have been deaf. In her next appearance in "The Tale of the Closet Keepers", Bethanny Nurse's character was a deaf girl.
- Crazy creditsNickelodeon Stripe logo (rare) after end credits
- ConnectionsFeatured in Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Feel the Fear (1994)
Featured review
"You're a chicken and a snitch! I couldn't stand being you!!"
So like most episodes this one has a nice little setup that's established very quickly, with a sweet girl being forced to live with her aunt and horrible bratty cousin for a while and being so desperate for a few friends that she agrees to the ridiculous task of spending the entire night in the creepy old empty house next door, at least until she learns of the eerie secret that still resides within the place... Beth was such little creep, I didn't get why she couldn't just try and be nice and give her nervous cousin Amanda a break and not try to practically force her into staying in a strange and possibly dangerous empty house just for the sake of getting into her dumb little group of friends, as well as treat her poor miserable old nanny like dirt! Beth was actually pretty priceless though to be honest, as she does embody some of the more classically obnoxious teen aspects of the early 90s with her loud awful fashion sense, freaky hairdo, and obnoxiously bad attitude! To be fair the young actress's performance is probably the most fun and entertaining thing about this good but not exactly exceptional tale - she's totally the 'it' girl you love to hate! I'm glad that as the series went on they had the sense to drop the Midnight Society's little interludes, as they only served to disrupt the flow once the story got started. I'm also very glad they soon got rid of little Jacob Tierney as Eric, because to me he never quite fit in with the rest of the group and was mostly just kind of an irritating little twerp.. I always liked the ones that had a ghost child that turned out to be harmless and just in need of help at the end, and the silent imploring spirit girl in this one isn't evil at all and just wants to be reunited with her mother with a little help from the living, and there's a pretty moving resolution where the two finally do meet again as the mother crosses over into the afterlife where they are both move on, together again. It's the touching stuff like that as well as all the awesome spooky fun that makes me still love this show a lot. Before you know that she's not a bad ghost, the visual of the pale mute child residing in death on the other side of the mirror forever silently begging for help, by writing the word backwards all over the walls is creepy and impressive, as well as a neat little discreet nod to The Shining, I bet that one had a few kids scared of getting too close to their bedroom mirrors back in the day! Anyway although there are episodes that were better made and were much more satisfying than this one to me, it's a good early episode and the great thing with this show I've found is that, even when an episode is poor or average, it's still always so wonderfully fun and nostalgic just to watch that it takes me back a little bit to my childhood in a nice way every single time, no matter how old I get, and I think that may be part of the show's true legacy, good episode! X.
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- Foreverisacastironmess123
- Jun 12, 2018
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