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 from Uy Que Horror!, and Mikie Sirois from The Rewatcher as they talk about each episode from this classic 90's SNICK TV show, the kids, the corny monsters, the aggressive 90's hair and fashion! It's all here on Laughing In The Dark.
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 every misunderstood corner. In this episode two brothers (maybe, it's hard to tell, really) clash over a girl and one subjects the other to a nearly fatal encounter in cyberspace when a computer virus gets in his head and threatens to take over his body. It's ridiculous, y'all!
Don't forget to listen to Bryan and Dave on Bring Me The Axe! and 99 Cent Rental, Aileen on Uy Que Horror! and Mikie on The Rewatcher!
29 Sept 2026
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 Soup? Only the most irresistable dish at the best restaurant in town. What's the secret ingredient, though? Beard hair probably. But also fear and this episode's cranky drifter Reed is going to find out about it the hard way.
Don't forget to listen to Bryan and Dave on Bring Me The Axe! and 99 Cent Rental, Aileen on Uy Que Horror! and Mikie on The Rewatcher!
22 Sept 2026
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 this early in his life will have consequences and those consequences happen to entail being stalked by a clown doll with evil intentions. It's basically Talking Tina, The Living Doll episode of The Twilight Zone. Or that Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons with the talking Krusty doll.
Don't forget to listen to Bryan and Dave on Bring Me The Axe! and 99 Cent Rental, Aileen on Uy Que Horror! and Mikie on The Rewatcher!
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