I had nightmares about that freaky purple smile monster...there were tones of them and they were trying to turn me into a slime monster, too. Scariest thing EVER. But I have to admit that this is better than most shows today. At least it's teaching kids how to write!
AHHH!! I was trying to fall asleep when I started to think about this show . . Kept my ass up all night long . . I am pregnant too so I was going crazy lol
did anyone else turn on all their lights, check under their bed, close their closet door and hide under the covers when they were done watching this?.... or am i the only one...? TT_TT"
Oh my god this show scared me as a child and still sometimes does. Like, ongoing trauma. I'm watching it right now to get over it. It's less scary than I remembered of course, but some images are still startling or just very very odd to show children. What a pitiful afterthought of an episode of an otherwise incredible children's show.
This show scared to fuck out of me when I was 4 years old. All I remember are small parts but I dont want to watch anymore of this or it will spoil the memories of it in my mind.
omfg i rember when i had my own caseboook :D excpet i never really used it :( becuase right when i started writing the evidence theyd solve the mystery D:
I think this single episode really messed me up as a 6-7 yer old seeing this! Shame on PBS for showing this for "kids" what where they high did they not think this would creep kids out sure the kids in the show are older than say 7 or 8 but many younger kids saw this during the afternoon.
i am so glad to find the number of people who were scared shitless of this show. i was completely terrified + had night terrors for at least 6 months to a year after seeing this show.
Man it's so crazy how people remember this show.. Idk what made me think about this show I looked it up and sure enough.. Haha I agree with you guys this show was scary then and still is!!!
man, i shows used to watch as a kid in the 90's were a 100% better then most of the crap that passes for kids shows today.I feel sorry for kids growing up these days, there missing out on great shows like this one.
@sillygirl773 I had nightmares for months and was afraid of the dark for a long time because of this episode. It's probably the most terrifying thing I remember from being a little kid.
@sillygirl773 ME TOO. I only just now, at 21, have the stomach to look at it again. I still got freaked out, just by having it clear all over again. God, you just made so much okay hahaha
i watched ghostwriter but it never came on after i was about 6. i used to try to solve the cases lol it came on after another show on the n... no wait it was ghost writer, the show i'm trying to remember, then clarissa hehe funny how i still remember the line up. does anyone know the show i'm talking about? she could like turn into water and like her sister thought she was a science experiment?
i loved watching this afterschool now in college being a kid in the 90's was the best....lots of life lessons in all the episodes..but this ones just scary hehe
the first time I saw this, I missed the first episode and the fist five minutes of this episode...so i was so lost and for a while honestly believed what was happening was really happening to the Ghostwriter team with the Slime Monster...I had no idea it was a story within a story, lol...weirded me out completely
i cant believe this.. I remember watching this back in the third grade.. me and my friends all took parts and we even tied pens around our necks and went around solving cases!! a bunch of us got to meet Alex and Lenny at a book signing at our mall! memories..
This was my favorite show when I was a kid. I totally missed the reading comprehension stuff until now, though I knew it was supposed to be educational in some way, since it was on PBS.
Omg, thanks sooo much for putting up this episode! I remembered a purple gooey monster from my younger days, but I could never remember! Really, thanks for getting me to remember! XD But, I'm gonna have nightmares now taht I know what it was! :) LOL
this is my fav episode, this is scared me a lot when I was a kid, I avoided bubblegum for a month! and purple things too, heh, all the kids I knew were on the same boat with this series, they should totally rerun it!
this episode scared me so much when I was younger. I had totally forgotten about it until I saw this. It still kinda creeps me out. haha Alex is great, he is so random.
It's funny how the great writing lesson from this episode is that good stories require conflict...while the episode itself has absolutely no conflict in it.
This episode freaked me out to no end when I was little. I first saw it at my grandparents house and I couldn't sleep afterwards. It didn't help that my room was painted purple! LOL!
It was this episode here that made me have a huge crush on Gaby, Melissa Gonzales. Because when she got slimed, I wanted to be the hero and she would marry me, and we'd live Happily Ever After. I was 9 yrs. of age at the time. :)
I remember when I used to watc this, I couldn't read at the time lol
Kysk8s3 3 months ago
omg this show freaking scared the hell outa me when i was a kid O.O i had nightmares for 2 dang yrs!!!! [traumatized!]
kitt3nzsilver 5 months ago
Oh man... It took me more than a decade, but I finally found this episode.
I'm just glad that I'm not the only one who was given nightmares by this episode.
What a thing for a five year old to watch! Oy...
sephiroth1204 6 months ago 2
I used to be deathly afraid of this guy I had nightmares for days, now looking at it I don't know why it was sooo scary
tCrOMez1990 6 months ago
this made me an insomniac for like an entire week when i was a little kid....
MasterCharlz 8 months ago
i was searching for the name of this show and the webpage was loading and i jumped when i saw the face of the slime monster it was 3 a.m.
thank you 90's
KinGxKev 9 months ago
looks like Alex got a little cocky...
Wobot17yea 9 months ago
i lllove that apartment! :)
Wobot17yea 9 months ago
I love how they are writing on the desktop rather than any kind of word document
AmateurExpertFilms 9 months ago
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AmateurExpertFilms 9 months ago
I've been searching for this show for years and I finally found it. I loved this show!
iamCoreyRenn 10 months ago
Oh, 90's Brooklyn. Long before those goddamn hipsters showed up...
DarthKris17 11 months ago
This scared me so much as a kid that I wouldn't watch this episode for a decade.
Nanaman12345 11 months ago
this show taght me how to wright
vlonp 11 months ago
the new Gaby's acting isn't natural.
ajafogel 1 year ago
I had nightmares about that freaky purple smile monster...there were tones of them and they were trying to turn me into a slime monster, too. Scariest thing EVER. But I have to admit that this is better than most shows today. At least it's teaching kids how to write!
meowzer13 1 year ago
and the worst part, that program was in discovery kids, and the voice of the video its like a game of gameboy god!!!
MasterJeckt 1 year ago
When I was little me and my friend used to always walk around saying: He's a ghost and he writes to us, ghostwriter!
sonaliegh 1 year ago
SO. 90'S.
mikkabouzu 1 year ago
Nice to know that I'm not the only one who still gets the willies after watching this (and I'm an adutl already...)
natschmat917 1 year ago
I seriously feared this thing for 10 years. I couldn't sleep for years!
freakieboy86 1 year ago
You plop a plastic doll in a boiling pot, and it disappears? Why, that must mean it's alive! Good thing it got out before it MELTED.
AkiMasamune 1 year ago 2
Clearly Stephanie Meyer never watched Ghostwriter. It's kind of sad, she could have gotten some legitimate advice on how to write.
mudorahoshi 1 year ago 2
"I LIKE bloodshot!"
WatermelonRat 1 year ago
i loved this show when i was younger and this was one of my favorite episodes and i thought the slime monster was gonna get me one day
sora1thebestkeyblade 1 year ago
i loved this show when i was younger and this was one of my favorite episodes
sora1thebestkeyblade 1 year ago
AHHH!! I was trying to fall asleep when I started to think about this show . . Kept my ass up all night long . . I am pregnant too so I was going crazy lol
KIMBURLEExMAHREE 1 year ago
did anyone else turn on all their lights, check under their bed, close their closet door and hide under the covers when they were done watching this?.... or am i the only one...? TT_TT"
busitbaybay04 1 year ago
The Slime Monster and Chucky terrorized my childhood. Looking back at them 15 years later, i still get the chills.
Nemesis2747 1 year ago
I had so many nightmares after i saw this thing. It still scares the shit out of me.
beltranmet15 1 year ago
Oh my god this show scared me as a child and still sometimes does. Like, ongoing trauma. I'm watching it right now to get over it. It's less scary than I remembered of course, but some images are still startling or just very very odd to show children. What a pitiful afterthought of an episode of an otherwise incredible children's show.
saeton 1 year ago
I do miss the old gabby
theratgirl25 1 year ago
i don't know why but this had me so scared back in the day
tiondrababii 1 year ago
i don't know why but this had me so scared back in the day
tiondrababii 1 year ago
best in the world i used to watch this shit when i was in summer school 7th grade 94 and 95 that was abot 15 years ago for me
monique26100 1 year ago
purple cum LOL
sfknns 1 year ago
This show scared to fuck out of me when I was 4 years old. All I remember are small parts but I dont want to watch anymore of this or it will spoil the memories of it in my mind.
PeteTheElit3 1 year ago
I Used to Be In Live With Gaby , The Other One Was Good Too THou
Piffinqton 1 year ago
Man that guy was cool!
brendan98629 1 year ago
this episode used to scare me out as hell!!! Damn it!
I dont like the "new" gaby! the older was great.
I used to have my own casebook and solve "mysteries"
I called the ghost writter, but he never answer :( xD
Slime monster looks so... gross.:! xD
damnprincess117 1 year ago
this episode used to scare me out as hell!!! Damn it!
I dont like the "new" gaby! the older was great.
I used to have my own casebook and solve "mysteries"
I called the ghost writter, but he never answer :( xD
Slime monster looks so... gross.:! xD
damnprincess117 1 year ago
Ghostwriter rocks!
pinkflowers28new 1 year ago
I hated that too, the other Gaby was so much better.
panamea121 1 year ago
i.......cant stand the slime monster.....hahaha still gives me nightmares
Punkrockerithink 1 year ago
oh my god, fuck you gooey gus
TheSteakJustice 1 year ago 3
omfg i rember when i had my own caseboook :D excpet i never really used it :( becuase right when i started writing the evidence theyd solve the mystery D:
gigas94 1 year ago
I think this single episode really messed me up as a 6-7 yer old seeing this! Shame on PBS for showing this for "kids" what where they high did they not think this would creep kids out sure the kids in the show are older than say 7 or 8 but many younger kids saw this during the afternoon.
novaction 2 years ago
i remember this.....i was 5 ....it really creeps me out....i stoped watching this show beacuse of that....
gaston16z 1 year ago
i am so glad to find the number of people who were scared shitless of this show. i was completely terrified + had night terrors for at least 6 months to a year after seeing this show.
ECn4ii 2 years ago 4
lol yeah XD even today i think it gives me alittle chills
gigas94 1 year ago
Man it's so crazy how people remember this show.. Idk what made me think about this show I looked it up and sure enough.. Haha I agree with you guys this show was scary then and still is!!!
reeseg 2 years ago 4
I AM SOOOOO SCARED of that monster!! i have been scared nice i was 4 or 5. i am still scared of him and i am 18!!
jumpergirls 2 years ago
me too
i hate it
i live in argentina i remember i was five....
i hate it!!!
gaston16z 1 year ago
8:40 UR BREAKIN THE THIRD WALL!!!!!
badandy4452 2 years ago
I hated when they replaced Gaby!!!!!
babyboi1002 2 years ago
man, i shows used to watch as a kid in the 90's were a 100% better then most of the crap that passes for kids shows today.I feel sorry for kids growing up these days, there missing out on great shows like this one.
Animeman4ever1 2 years ago 30
Dude you are so right! I couldn't agree more!
Reeny125 2 years ago 2
this episode sacred the hell out of me when I was little, I had nightmares
sillygirl773 2 years ago 44
@sillygirl773 me too!!
carlaleon1 1 year ago
@sillygirl773 yep, same here. lol
busitbaybay04 1 year ago
Yeah, I know. However, look @ it this way. It's part of the adrenaline from listening to the tale. That's what makes it fun to make up.
DanaAbel30 1 year ago
I made up a 5-sense poem about fear once. It goes like this:
"Fear is yellow;
It tastes like a dry sponge;
It feels like icy chills rolling down your spine;
It sounds like a howling cemetary on a full moon;
It smells like a damp, dismal basement @ midnight.:"
What do you think of that??
DanaAbel30 1 year ago
@sillygirl773 I had nightmares for months and was afraid of the dark for a long time because of this episode. It's probably the most terrifying thing I remember from being a little kid.
Lakimoo 9 months ago
@sillygirl773 ME TOO. I only just now, at 21, have the stomach to look at it again. I still got freaked out, just by having it clear all over again. God, you just made so much okay hahaha
pizzashoepie 3 months ago
i remember this episode when i was little i watch this episode and had nightmares for like 5 years.
IvMaDdNeSsvI 2 years ago 4
Heh, me too. Didn't help that my dad was channel surfing all the time so I kept missing the parts where they show it's all just a story.
timemonkey 2 years ago 3
yeah like him eating my pee pee
greatestsongsofLIFE 2 years ago
Damn Alex Is Sexy!!!!!!!!!
MrAverssss 2 years ago
GOD ALEX IS HOT
pewfeet 2 years ago 4
This comment has received too many negative votes show
isnt taht the girl frm spykids? stupid bitch
phenomenom20 2 years ago
clarissa explains it all lmao
i rember that show too loll..
alex mack was "the bomb"
back in the day
jaysan1388 2 years ago
What happend to Rob?
DegrassiGirl4 2 years ago
i watched ghostwriter but it never came on after i was about 6. i used to try to solve the cases lol it came on after another show on the n... no wait it was ghost writer, the show i'm trying to remember, then clarissa hehe funny how i still remember the line up. does anyone know the show i'm talking about? she could like turn into water and like her sister thought she was a science experiment?
nickjonasluvr6 2 years ago
the secret adventures of alex mack
Miyata22 2 years ago
THAT'S IT! THANK YOU!
BlackSparklePrincess 2 years ago
Haha, Alex cracks me up with his "coolness", especially when he breaks the fourth wall.
Sairisn 2 years ago 6
OMG i watched this episode when i was 8 and it stills freaks me out... i hated jamal so much he was so bossy and lenni was such a thomboy.!
Buckwild025 2 years ago
why didint they do one more episode revalving around ghost writer
JFL1988 3 years ago
They planned it all out but they didn't have enough funding to continue.
Spottedtigers 3 years ago
Alex- total babe.
I wish they would of brought Rob back for this episode because since they took turns writing, I'm sure he would of made it awesomer.
soopinkk 3 years ago 7
does anyone know the epi when ghostwriter goes againist t his other ghost?
like they play hangman anf they race>
DuckyNear 3 years ago
I think it's called "Who is Max Mouse?"
kelseyrh 3 years ago
i think that's it.
thanks so much =D
DuckyNear 3 years ago
LOL Alex and his "cool"
bluemidnight02 3 years ago
this actually have me nightmares when i was a little kid
CalifornIADreamin211 3 years ago 3
i loved watching this afterschool now in college being a kid in the 90's was the best....lots of life lessons in all the episodes..but this ones just scary hehe
CTWcauseiMissyou 3 years ago
I remember this...I was like five and I actually had a "casebook". Lol.
cherrycola95 3 years ago 2
so did i XDDD
DuckyNear 3 years ago
me too!...LOL!
mz1nnocent 3 years ago
the first time I saw this, I missed the first episode and the fist five minutes of this episode...so i was so lost and for a while honestly believed what was happening was really happening to the Ghostwriter team with the Slime Monster...I had no idea it was a story within a story, lol...weirded me out completely
mircuryretro 3 years ago
I always thought Hector was a hottie.
nibargerswife51482 3 years ago
mayne ; this show &nd douq were my favorites back in the 90's.
those were the days, i wish i could qo back.
i used to tie pens around my neck and talk to imaqinary qhosts. ♥
jaibeni167 3 years ago 6
look out! It's behind you!
airbear320 3 years ago
Aren't you gonna upload the fourth part of this episode, "Attack of the Slime Monster"?
FishDemon00 3 years ago
is that latina girl from be kind rewind I think she is! wow that's where she came from!
milkymoo222 3 years ago
i cant believe this.. I remember watching this back in the third grade.. me and my friends all took parts and we even tied pens around our necks and went around solving cases!! a bunch of us got to meet Alex and Lenny at a book signing at our mall! memories..
chrisangro 3 years ago
he could be going around the city sliming people to death!!!
ceejay0518 3 years ago
"iz gots my booty on number 3!!!!!!!!"
man i love that line 2:05
azuzaj1 3 years ago
oh yeah we have a mystery on our hands tell me how it works out later I'll be playin hoops
sonicsuks 3 years ago 6
this used to make me scared when i was realllll little, lol
Koolpup476 3 years ago
love this show but does anyone know what name of the one episode where ghostwriter travels back in time? i forgot...also lenni's hot
bonesmasher146 3 years ago
i wanna know the name of that episode too
it was my 2nd favorite just after this one
i need to watch that episode!
Jhit7 3 years ago
i'm talkin about the one where ghostwriter travels back in time
Jhit7 3 years ago
its called just in time
snicolem09 3 years ago
Alex was such a cutie!!!!
mulava7 3 years ago 8
el fantasma escritor, mi serie favorita del discovery kids en el 97 más o menos.
gatofristail 3 years ago
..."then she woke up and had breakfast, then she went to school, and then she came home." GREAT STORY :D
Bennymakesmovies2 3 years ago
Alex is really cute...
StarRangerfan1 3 years ago 4
This was my favorite show when I was a kid. I totally missed the reading comprehension stuff until now, though I knew it was supposed to be educational in some way, since it was on PBS.
And yes. Alex=90's hottie.
LadyMiena 3 years ago 6
"You ruined the arroz con pollo, Alejandro. We can't serve that to customers now." "I'm going into the back to make another pot of rice."
LOL <3 this show just as much as ever ^_^
xsongmihix 3 years ago
Alex was soooo cute to me. "Never fear the great Alejandro is here. I laugh in the face of danger" lol
Ghostwriter is the shittttttttt!
I dont think anybody cared that it was suppose to help kids with writing comprehension. I was a faithful watcher!
SS404 3 years ago 3
u like it better with the old gaby...and they should have gotten new characters...
nikkole862 3 years ago 2
playing round robin fun fun fun
kara2lucy 4 years ago
Casey is horrible, I never liked her addition to the team.
CreAce 4 years ago
i think she's cute and funny...though i liked it before they kept adding more people like hector and casey but its way beter than the new team
kara2lucy 4 years ago
LoL im 15 NoW =] i use to watch it in 2001 =]
Emudesc 4 years ago
Omg, thanks sooo much for putting up this episode! I remembered a purple gooey monster from my younger days, but I could never remember! Really, thanks for getting me to remember! XD But, I'm gonna have nightmares now taht I know what it was! :) LOL
57Scout 4 years ago 4
omg, I had Gaby's sneakers, lol
this is my fav episode, this is scared me a lot when I was a kid, I avoided bubblegum for a month! and purple things too, heh, all the kids I knew were on the same boat with this series, they should totally rerun it!
askanarq 4 years ago 5
Alex is so sexy...meow!!!
Nicoleiia 4 years ago 3
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id fuck lenni
boyboy1080 4 years ago
lol... was visiting her site just now. and yep, she's a hottie
stealthopts17 4 years ago
yo wat da hell was up with that dude at the counter at 6:40
gimmedat22 4 years ago
this was my favorite show -sigh- they don't make shows like this any more i feel bad for the little kids of today
SkyeofCerulean 4 years ago 3
lol yea i used to watch this show alot i miss it so much :(
blocker71095 4 years ago 4
so do i
jellybeen 4 years ago
Jamal Is The Bestttttttttt He's So Hot =]
McGturtle3 4 years ago
HE REALLY IS!
jellybeen 4 years ago
I remember that I always liked for a notebook like that.
natzo89 4 years ago 2
dang... now i really want some arroz con pollo
OniStormLink 4 years ago
this episode scared me so much when I was younger. I had totally forgotten about it until I saw this. It still kinda creeps me out. haha Alex is great, he is so random.
Tink316 4 years ago
I'm burning mad!!!! Slime anyone!!!! Man I loved this show
UptownVeteran12 4 years ago
Now that I think about it... The slime monster is probably the thing that made me afraid of dolls...
KisameOwnsYouAll 4 years ago
lol!
Phantomfire 4 years ago
hahaha. I used to love alex! hahaha I love how he knows theres a monster doll running around and he just decides to start playing basketball. LOL
fairytalesofyesterda 4 years ago
"You ruined the arroz con pollo Alejandro" that couldn't sound any more latino, and at 7:09, voila! the rice is perfect again LMAO!
10USA 4 years ago
This only helped to encourage my bizarre fear of melting.
But it also encouraged me as a writer. <3
MadamFoogie 4 years ago
It's funny how the great writing lesson from this episode is that good stories require conflict...while the episode itself has absolutely no conflict in it.
kitschnsync 4 years ago
So the conflict isn't "man vs. slime"? That's a classic one!
BagOfMagicFood 4 years ago
My dad wouldn't let me watch this little set of episodes because I was prone to nightmares.
But I watched them all anyway.
And had REALLY wicked nightmares.
myndilingurr 4 years ago
LOL! I really did, I was so scared of the slime monster until the end of my childhood
Shrubbs 4 years ago
man i had the case book and all back than. thanks for the post, good times.
prettyniqua 4 years ago
this use to b my favorite episode:D
NaveenSwati 4 years ago
This episode freaked me out to no end when I was little. I first saw it at my grandparents house and I couldn't sleep afterwards. It didn't help that my room was painted purple! LOL!
aks477578 4 years ago
LMFAO! I remember Grandma Jenkins
freetheweed420 4 years ago
This episode reminds me of Chuckie....creepy!
Prancer9293 4 years ago
LMAO Alex has to be puerto rican and that girl gabby .. was fuckin HOT!
OneReallyBadBoy 4 years ago
Alex is El Salvadorian, and his actor is Colombian. So neither are Puerto Rican.
PRdude 2 years ago
No wonder they ended on this episode, there is no "crime" to solve, only a corny story, haha.
ak3883 4 years ago
It was this episode here that made me have a huge crush on Gaby, Melissa Gonzales. Because when she got slimed, I wanted to be the hero and she would marry me, and we'd live Happily Ever After. I was 9 yrs. of age at the time. :)
tj112286 4 years ago
This was the best episode ever lol
MinsiKid 4 years ago
i use to love this show
peterandbeer 4 years ago
Is it just me, or did the Arroz con Pollo still looked good even after it was ruined by the Slime Monster?
Tricksterknight 4 years ago
it looked like a PERFECT pot of rice to me lol
OmarizOnlyPyt06 4 years ago
Haha I remember this episode. That purple thing is scary. Can you imagine something like that ever selling in stores?
ansquareone 4 years ago
i loved when they did the note book recap this show is so cool i miss this it reminds me how easily i was entertained
brodwaystar 4 years ago
thank you so much. talk about a blast from the past
HSM4EVER 4 years ago
This week on GhostWriter, we try to SCARE THE HELL OUT OF YOUR CHILDREN! :-)
TheLazenby2 4 years ago
LMAO!!!! and it worked too!!
narutogurl2 4 years ago
thanks for posting
LondonHockeyGurl 4 years ago
this is so cool
sailorvgirl132002 5 years ago