Say Cheese and Die ... Again! (Goosebumps TV Series)

Say Cheese and Die... Again is the eighteenth episode of season three of the Goosebumps, and the sixty-second episode overall. It premiered on February 28, 1998 on Fox during the Fox Kids block.

Plot
Greg Banks tries to prove to his English teacher that the evil camera he found really exists so he doesn't have to flunk his class. When Greg unearths it, he accidentally takes a picture of Sherri which comes out as a negative, foretelling that she'll be so thin, she'll waste away. In order to get back at him for taking her picture, she takes a picture of him that predicts that he'll become so fat, he'll explode.

Why It Should Say Cheese and Die

 * 1) First and foremost, the episode just feels like a 20-minute Greg torture episode. As he ends up failing his assignment all because his teacher didn't believe his story of the evil camera he found, gets turned fat by said camera, and then fails his test AGAIN because his teacher still didn't believe him about the camera, even after seeing it's effects on him!
 * 2) Horrendous costume effects for Greg and Sherri when they're under the effects of the camera. Especially for the former, because the fat suit and prosthetic makeup used looks really bad.
 * 3) Shari is made unlikable here as it seems like she hasn't learned a single thing from the previous encounter with the evil camera. As at first, when she saw Greg with the camera, she told him to put it back. But then, she takes a picture of him using it! Even though she's already seen for herself of what the camera does to those it takes pictures of
 * 4) * Greg isn't much better in this situation. As he takes a picture of Sherri himself as she did the same to him. Even though he's also had first-person experience with the camera and it's effects.
 * 5) Greg's teacher, Mr. Saur, is incredibly unlikable, and possibly the most unlikable character in the entire episode (an that's really saying a lot). As he didn't believe Greg's story even when it was made quite clear that he wasn't lying. And even in the end, when he saw first-hand what the camera did to Greg, he still gave him an F because (as previously mentioned in WIS#)he still didn't believe that the camera was responsible for doing that to him! But when Greg all of the sudden came to school enormously fat one day, and the next day he was completely normal. What other explanation could be given for that other than something supernatural?! No one can gain and lose weight that fast!
 * 6) A track of music similar to the mh:greatestmovies:Friday the 13th theme constantly plays multiple times during the episode but with the words "Say Cheese!". And it gets repetitive really fast.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Some funny moments, namely Greg waking up to find that the camera caused him to rapidly gain a large amount of weight, to which he screams "No! NO! NOOOOOOOOOO!"
 * 2) The ending where Mr. Saur takes a photo of himself using the evil camera and his hair starts rapidly falling out was pretty satisfying.
 * 3) The acting is decent for the most part.

Trivia

 * While this is the sequel to "Say Cheese and Die", the actors and actresses are different from the ones who played the characters from the previous episode. For example, Greg is now played by Patrick Thomas instead of Ryan Gosling. The episode nonetheless makes use of flashbacks from its prequel.
 * A poster of Party of Five is visible on Greg's bedroom wall.
 * Mr. Saur was bald, bony, and very skinny in the book. Here, Mr. Saur is a bespectacled portly man with black hair and a mustache.
 * However at the end of the episode, he turns bald like his book counterpart.

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