Go Eat Worms!

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Go Eat Worms!

Author	R.L. Stine
Cover artist	Tim Jacobus
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Goosebumps
Genre(s)	Horror novel, Children's novel
Publisher	Scholastic
Publication date	July 1994
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	119 p.
ISBN	ISBN 0-590-47743-9
Preceded by	The Scarecrow Walks At Midnight
Followed by	Ghost Beach

Go Eat Worms! is the 21^st book in R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series.

1 Plot
2 Book's description
3 Television episode
4 Tagline

[edit] Plot

Todd loves worms and he keeps them in a worm farm in his basement. Todd plays tricks on his sister Regina and her friend, such as dropping worms down their backs. In a school science fair, Todd believes he is going to win with worm house he built, but a fellow schoolmate creates a worm skyscraper. Todd is upset and proceeds to perform experiments on his worms, such as cutting them in half. After that, the worms begin to torment Todd. They show up in his clothes, food and school supplies. Todd accuses his sister but she denies it. Todd overhears her one day at school telling her friend that it was her putting the worms in Todd's things all along. When Todd goes out to the schoolyard to collect worms for revenge, a huge worm comes out of the mud and almost pulls him underground. The worm is scared away by Regina's science project: a giant paper-mache robin. Todd releases his worms and soon begins to collect butterflies. He kills them and pins them to a board. One night a huge butterfly appears in Todd's room holding a large needle. The book ends with Todd asking the butterfly "What are you going to do?"

[edit] Book's description

Obsessed with worms? That's putting it mildly. Todd is so fascinated with worms, he keeps a worm farm in his basement! Most of all, Todd loves torturing his sister and her best friend with worms. Dropping them in their hair. Down their backs. Until one day, after cutting a worm in half, Todd notices something strange. The rest of the worms seem to be staring at him! Suddenly worms start showing up in the worst places for Todd. In his bed. In his homework. Even in his spaghetti! What's a worm lover to do when his own worms are starting to gross him out?

[edit] Television episode

Todd is attacked by a giant worm near the end. He pleads with it to free him and it finally releases him when his sister shows up with the large bird model. The episode ends with him telling his friend that he's into fishing now and discussing how minnows have no feelings, etc. A moment later he thanks his friend for a sandwich (with a rather large hook in it) and, after biting into it, he's pulled into the water by fish. There's a voice-over during which he promises to give up fishing and you hear him talking about having to swim back.

While in the novel the worms' activities were at first pranks by his sister, throughout the whole episode the worms act on their own.