R. L. Stine

R. L. Stine is an author, frequently for children and young adult readers, best known for creating the Goosebumps franchise, as well as the Fear Street line and several other scary book series. His work has been adapted extensively for TV and movies, as well as occasional video games, audiobooks, comics, and other media.
Early in his career, before becoming closely associated with children's horror, Stine wrote kids' jokebooks, Choose Your Own Adventure-style books for Indiana Jones and James Bond, and G.I. Joe tie-ins.
Another pre-Goosebumps credit for Stine was writing for the puppet series Eureeka's Castle. As he put it in his memoir, "It was a lot like Sesame Street- except we didn't teach kids anything!"Stine, R. L. It Came From Ohio!: My Life as a Writer. 2015. In 2011, on Twitter, the author expressed his excitement about The Muppets film and shared a trailer: "Yaaay! The Muppets are back for real this November."@RL Stine on Twitter, June 20, 2011
==References==
* The 2012 music video "Gersberms (Yer Gervin Mah)," guest starring The Swedish Chef, prominently features the Goosebumps books. The "Gersberms girl" is shown reading Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes (1995). Stine himself also cameos at the tag end, to state that he did not approve the preceding video and to correct the frequently mispronounced name of Goosebumps.
==Muppet Mentions==
* The Fear Street book The Prom Queen (1992) uses "The Muppet" as a nickname for Mr. Sewell (bald, short, and pudgy) because "he looked kind of like a character from Sesame Street." 
* In the Fear Street book One Evil Summer (1994), while being babysat by the villain Chrissy, one of the children watches Sesame Street on TV.
* The 1998 Ghosts of Fear Street book Caution: Aliens at Work (actually written, with credit, by Kathryn Lance) includes a scene where four-year-old Sally asks Matt to read her mind. He says she's thinking of Big Bird, although Sally denies it repeatedly.
* Sesame Street is viewed yet again in Stine's adult novel The Sitter (2003): "I turned on Sesame Street and both kids laughed at Bert and Ernie and Elmo. They did a funny skit about over and under -- teaching the kids the difference between the two words. Wow. I saw this same skit when I was a kid, I remembered." 
* The 2021 book The Art of Goosebumps discusses the cover of The Cuckoo Clock of Doom (1995), saying the cuckoo "almost looks like a Tweety Bird, or a smaller version of Big Bird."Rodriguez, Sarah. The Art of Goosebumps. p. 78. 2021
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