Laughing in the Dark
Laughing in the Dark is a rewatch podcast dedicated to the classic 90s TV series 'Are You Afraid of the Dark?'. Each week, hosts Bryan and Dave White, Aileen Clark, and Mikie Sirois gather by the fireside to discuss episodes, the kids, the cheesy monsters, and the aggressive 90s fashion. It's a nostalgic and humorous look at the beloved SNICK horror anthology.
Episodes
The Tale of the Long Ago Locket
This week it's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the second episode of the fourth season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Long Ago Locket. This one is a period piece about a kid having a psychotic break and hallucinating British soldiers and a sweaty Minute Man who must escape the local woods not to deliver important intelligence or battle plans but to find the woman he
The Tale of the Renegade Virus
It's Bryan's turn this week to tell the 9:30 Society all about the first episode of the fourth season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Renegade Virus. Affordable personal computers were suddenly on the minds of families everywhere in the 90s and the mysticism of the early internet was a hard draw to resist for television writers who saw science fiction and horror opportunity around e
The Tale of the Dangerous Soup
It's Mikie's turns this week to tell the 9:30 Society about the thirteenth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Dangerous Soup! It's the third season finale and they treat us to quite the guest star. It's also a Frank episode so that means a certain Riddle Pervert is back, this time double-timing us as a Soup Pervert. Speaking of soup, what is The Dangerous So
The Tale of the Crimson Clown
This week it's Aileen's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the twelfth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Crimson Clown. In this episode, Gary tells us a Sardo-less story about two brothers, Sam and Mike. Mike is a good boy who does as he's told and obeys the rules. Sam is a rampaging psychopath who is going to learn the hard way that living a life of crime
The Tale of the Quicksilver
This week it's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the elventh episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Quicksilver. This episode finds Ashley Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel Aire using black magic to try and trap a demon but the spell goes awry and she dies in a fire. Years later a pair of brothers move into the same house where this horribe tragedy hap
The Tale of the Dream Girl
This week it's Aileen's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the tenth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Dream Girl. In this episode a brother and sister who could you unfortunately mistake for boyfriend and girlfriend struggle to unravel the mystery of Johnny's weird dreams about a girl who seems so familiar to him and the cursed class ring that he can'
The Tale of the Curious Camera
This week it's Mikie's back and it's his turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the ninth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Curious Camera. This one is a blatant ripoff of a second season episode of The Twilight Zone replacing a pair of thieves with an alcoholic photographer and the kid he curses with a magical camera that destroys whatever it photographs. No
The Tale of the Guardian's Curse
This week it's Bryan's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the eighth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Guardian's Curse. Once again we find Tucker ripping off existing media to spin a story about an ancient curse, a mummy, and the worst father in the entire province of Ontario. His kids are looking forward to going skiing on school break but the good t
The Tale of the Carved Stone
This week it's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the seventh episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Carved Stone. We're struck with yet another story about how hard it is to be the new kid in town as well as how nasty and mean Canadian teenagers can be but on the bright side, it's a Frank story and you know what that means. Everyone's favorite homos
The Tale of the Bookish Babysitter
This week it's Aileen's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the sixth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Bookish Babysitter. In this episode a chaotic magical babysitter rolls up on a kid who just hates to read but she uses her strange powers to show him how much fun it can be to crack a book every once in a while. Of course, the process involves putting him
The Tale of the Dollmaker
This week it's Aileen's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the fifth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Dollmaker. This episode hits us with some AYAOTD classic tropes. You get a kid abandoned by their parents for a time, a complete lack of anything that you could call a dollmaker, and people being real weird about trauma. In this episode we find Meliss
The Tale of the Phone Police
It's Bryan's turn this week to tell the 9:30 Society about the fourth episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Phone Police. Following in an ongoing series of perverts and delinquents, The Tale of the Phone Police is the story of Jake, a prank phone call enthusiast. When he fails to control his freaky impulses to call and harass random women in Canada the mythical
The Tale of the Watcher's Woods
This week it's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society abouty the third episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Watcher's Woods. We've already been introduced two one new member of the Midnight Society but tonight Betty Anne reveals her new candidate, Sam, or as we like to call her Cheyenne from Reba. Sam tells a pretty familiar story to the Midnight Society: two gi
The Tale of Apartment 214
This week it's Mikie's turn to tell The 9:30 Society about the second episode of the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of Apartment 214. In this episode, Kiki comes up with yet another story about a broken home and a new kid in the neighborhood. We're starting to notice a pattern here that suggests a lot about her own life. In this one, Stacey (whose mom has got it going on) mov
The Tale of the Midnight Ride
This week Aileen kicks off the third season of Are You Afraid of the Dark with the first episode, The Tale of the Midnight Ride. There's a major shake up at the Midnight Society as we lose both Kristen and David but we gain a new friend when Gary initiates his little brother Tucker. To commemorate the occasion, Tucker tells a terribly familiar tale. If you've ever read or seen the Disney animated
The Tale of Old Man Corcoran
This week Bryan brings the second season to a close, telling the 9:30 Society all about the season 2 finale of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of Old Man Corcoran. In this episode, Kiki spins a tale of two new kids in the neighborhood who just want to make some new friends but the only ones available are a bunch of antagonistic locals who are obsessed with playing hide and seek in a nearby ce
The Tale of the Hatching
This week it's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about twelfth episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of The Hatching. In yet another case of Nickelodeon kids being ditched by their parents and laid upon some sinister and mysterious institution we find the rule-crazy Auggie and his incredibly cool anarachist sister Jazz left at a boarding school run seemingly by tw
The Tale of the Magician's Assistant
This week it's Aileen's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the 11th episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Magician's Assistant. In yet another Gary story about stage magic, we hear the tale of a kid who takes a part time job working for a hobo magician who is unfortunately not Sardo. The kid learns the mystic arts and spends a lot of time cleaning up this
The Tale of the Shiny Red Bicycle
This week it's Mikie's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the tenth episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Shiny Red Bicycle. Mike Buckley is haunted by the trauma of losing his best friend some years ago in an accident. He's surrounded by people in his life who wish that he'd just get over it, parents, teachers, adults who really ought to know better abou
The Tale of the Full Moon
It's Bryan's turn this week to tell the 9:30 Soiciety about the ninth episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Full Moon. This one's a real doozy. Maybe it takes place in the 90s. Maybe it takes place in the 60s. Who can say? It's another tale of a young kid misunderstanding the entire situation and putting a potentially deadly plan into motion to reveal that the
The Tale of the Whispering Walls
This week it's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the eighth episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Whispering Walls. This episode finds a brother and sister adrift in the wild on the way back from an ausement park with their babysitter. When the car breaks down outside of a weird house with whispering walls, brother and sister must rely on their wits t
The Tale of the Frozen Ghost
This week it's Aileen's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the seventh episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Frozen Ghost. This episode, a fan favorite, introduces Melissa Joan Hart ahead of the premier of her own show for Nickelodeon, Clarissa Explains it all in a story about a babysitter sent to live with the child she watches and his two weird aunts in
The Tale of the Dark Dragon
This week Mikie tells the 9:30 Society all about the sixth episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Dark Dragon. In this story we find a young man who severely lacks in confidence, blaming the squeaky victorian-era leg brace he has to wear following a terrible car accident. A pretty girl at the library wants to go to the homecoming dance with him but he has his e
The Tale of the Dream Machine
This week it's Bryan's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the fifth episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Dream Machine. In this episode a nice young man who loves to write short stories about his friends comes upon a mysterious typewriter in a hidden room in his new house. When he uses it to write a story, he finds that that story influences the dreams o
The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor
It's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the 4th episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor. In this episode brother and sister Karin and Billy find the thirteenth floor of their apartment building, an unoccupied floor that they play hockey in, suddenly taken over and made over by a New Wave band who may or may not be aliens. Under the disgu
The Tale of Locker 22
It's Mikie's turn this week to tell the 9:30 Society all about the third episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of Locker 22. In this episode Julie has the grave misfortune of attending the worst high school in Canada. The walls are covered in spray paint and the halls are prowled by menacing bullies who have no problem cornering a teenage girl in a part of the school
The Tale of the Midnight Madness
It's Aileen's turn to tell the 9:30 Society all about the second episode of the second season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Midnight Madness. In this episode a struggling movie theater gets a second chance when a certain riddle-loving pervert appears mysteriously with a silent horror film that's sure to put asses but this revival comes with a price. The horror turns up when the su
The Tale of the Final Wish
It's Bryan's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the season 2 premier episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Final Wish. In this episode a young girl on the edge of being a teenager must navigate the unforgiving real world, nasty boy crazy girls, a horrible older brother who is constantly sneaking into her room. Wouldn't it just be easier if she could just disappear into a fairy ta
The Tale of the Pinball Wizard
It's Dave's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the Are You Afraid of the Dark first season finale episode, The Tale of the Pinball Wizard, an episode about a teenage degenerate and his crippling addiction to pinball machines, or maybe it's a video game, we're honestly not sure and we're not confident that the show's writers know what a video game is, or pinball for that matter. When Ross is too
The Tale of the Prom Queen
This week it's Mikie's turn to tell the 9:30 Society about the twelfth episode of the first season, The Tale of the Prom Queen. It's a familiar ghost story but filtered through the lens of Are You Afraid of the Dark. It's the story of two jerks who meet a pretty young girl in the cemetery, as one does, and then proceed to terrorize her and treat her like a jerk as they stumble their way through a
The Tale of the Dark Music
In this episode, Aileen guides The 9:30 Society through the 11th episode of the first season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Dark Music. It's a tale of revenge, a family curse and, nominally, music. Andy, his mother, and sister are moving into a house they mysteriously inherited from a distant uncle that nobody in the family seems to remember. There's work to be done in the basemen
The Tale of Jake and the Leprechaun
In this episode, Bryan tells The 9:30 Society about the 10th episode of the first season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of Jake and the Leprechaun, in which a kid who just wants to fulfill his dream of acting in a play ends up groomed by a creature of Irish folklore (sort of) and gets magical help from another creature from Irish folklore. There's bad accents, a hideous subtext about a gr
The Tale of the Sorcerer's Apprentice
In this episode Dave takes the 9:30 Society through the 9th episode of the first season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Sorcerer's Apprentice in which a dorky loser named Dean falls under the wicked spell of an ancient wizard who promises him power, influence, and a cool leather jacket in exchange for his help in bringing him back from the great beyond. Lucky for Dean, his unshakeab
The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors
This week, Mikie tells the 9:30 Society about the season 1 Are You Afraid of the Dark episode, The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors in which Emma and her brother Dayday witness the new neighbors moving into the house next door in the middle of night. When they next meet them they turn out to be a couple and their young son. They also have Eastern European accents and claim to be from "The Ukraine". O
The Tale of the Captured Souls
Aileen takes the 9:30 Society through The Tale of the Captured Souls, a movie that has us raising eyebrows at movies like Get Out and Weapons since they bare more than a passing resemblance to this episode, a resemblance so strong that Dave is outraged on behalf of the Are You Afraid of the Dark writers. This week's episode pits our audience stand-in, Dani, at the worst Air BnB in Halifax where t
The Tale of the Super Specs
This week Bryan takes the 9:30 Society though the sixth episode of the first season of Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of the Super Specs. In this episode the most annoying teenager in Canada, a. boy named Weeds, is so obsessed with pranks and practical jokes that he accidentally saddles his girlfriend with a pair of prank glasses that can see into a parallel dimension seemingly inhabited by
The Tale of the Hungry Hounds
This week it's all about horse girls, generational trauma, and spiritual possession. Dogs come along eventually but the title is fairly misleading. End of the day, though, don't go climbing spectral staircases in the woods and definitely don't be honking your horn around horses. It's another classic Are You Afraid of the Dark set up as city girl meets country girl when two cousins spend the summer
The Tale of the Twisted Claw
This week Mikie recounts the fourth episode of the first season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Twisted Claw. In this episode a couple of thirteen year olds up to no good play an ill-advised prank on the local witch, causing her to break her own vase. Seeking ironic revenge on Halloween she gives them a dessicated animal claw instead of candy which is guaranteed to grant three wishe
The Tale of the Lonely Ghost
Aileen walks The 9:30 Society through the third episode of the first season, The Tale of the Lonely Ghost. Are you a zeeb? Don't know? Brother, you don't want to be one. In this episode a bookish country girl, Amanda, is sent to the big city to spend the summer with her heinous cousin Beth and her clique of Heathers. Desperate to fit in and go to the pool party, Beth and her hyenas challenge Amand
The Tale of Laughing in the Dark
Bryan walks us through the second episode of the first season, The Tale of Laughing in the Dark. In this episode three friends dare one another to go into the haunted house attraction at a local carnival. Only one is brave enough to take the trip and steal the nose off the clown in the house but later on he'll find out that the haunted house has a dark past and that the local legends about Zeebo t
The Tale of The Phantom Cab
Dave walks us through the series premier of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Phantom Cab where a little kid and his tough-guy older brother are for some reason lost in the woods when they come upon a cab driver who also seems to be lost in the woods? Along the way they end up at a cottage belonging to a mad scientist who loves riddles and at some point a phantom cab is introduced. Don'
Introducing - Laughing in the Dark
Welcome to Laughing in the Dark, an Are You Afraid of the Dark rewatch podcast! For 90s kids, Are You Afraid of the Dark was appointment television every Saturday night—a spine-tingling horror anthology delivered gently, befitting its Canadian roots. Each week you'll join the 9:30 Society by the fireside: Bryan and Dave White from Bring Me The Axe! Horror Podcast and 99 Cent Rental, Aileen Clark
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