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Line 2: A mundane ghost story is a scary story involving rational worries rather than implausible phobias. Someone tells a [[Ghost Story]] in classic fashion, probably around a campfire or with a flashlight aimed up under the face, only the ghost story is about something that is not really scary in the traditional nightmare sense, but is more like [[Adult Fear~~\|Adult Fears~~]]s: being stuck in a loveless marriage, dying alone, bigotry, living an unfulfilling life, being homeless after losing your job, sexual inadequacy, or the death of offspring. However, this is usually played for laughs, avoiding anything involving physical pain or death, dealing with [[Faux Horrific\|something sillier]] like having to wear a stupid outfit to school, having a bad haircut, or eating something terrible. This type of scary story usually bypasses fantastic and / or supernatural horrors found in the common ghost story, for something that tends to actually happen in real life to sane people. Line 16: == [[Comic Books]] == * ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'': Calvin has hiccups and asks Hobbes to tell him a scary story to cure him. {{quote\|'''Hobbes''': OK, our oceans are filled with garbage, we've created a hole in the ozone that's frying the planet, nuclear waste is piling up without any safe way to get rid of it... '''Calvin''': I meant ''surprise'' me. Line 28: * ''[[Cheaper By the Dozen]] 2'' did this. The rich kids were reading about a family that was worrying about how to pay their car payment that month, and then they all shuddered in fear and disgust at the thought of not being super-rich. * ''[[Role Models]]'' included a scene where Paul Rudd's character told the "true scary story" about the facts of child slavery and abduction around the world. * ''[[Friday the 13th (film)\|Friday the 13 th]] Part VI'', one camp counselor scares the others with the story of Jason Voorhees, and then follows up with, "I can only think of one thing even more terrifying." That thing is a bus load of rowdy, bratty kids. "I think I'd rather deal with ol' Jason," [[Tempting Fate\|replies]] another camp counselor. * ''[[Troop Beverly Hills]]'', with a story about a trip to the salon. {{quote\|"HE ''PERMED'' ME!" Line 35: == Live Action TV == * ''[[iCarly]]'s'' bra. He seems to be scared of things like washing machines, and Spanish as a primary language, as seen here - [https://web.archive.org/web/20131018233026/http://www.frightening.tv/ Scary Videos]. * In the ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'' Halloween special "Two Heads Are Better Than None," Kel mishears "ghost stories" as "toast stories." Cue his attempt at a scary campfire story: {{quote\|'''Kel''': When the bread popped out of the toaster, no one knew what to put on it. Jelly? Margarine? Cinnamon sugar? I suggested butter. Crumbs were everywhere!}} * On ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', the [[Twist Ending]] of Ron's ghost story is a mandatory government inspection of private property. As a libertarian, this is truly horrifying to him. * ''[[Seinfeld]]'' had the similar scenario of Frank Costanza's war story of the terrible losses his unit suffered due to his own bad cooking. * Done in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', where Raj and Leonard at the ending of ''The Adhesive Duck Deficiency'' were finishing up what seems to be your standard campsite ghost story (complete with flashlights to the face), only for him to say "He slept with his cousin!" (referring to something earlier in the episode where Howard, while he and his friends were high with marijuana due to cookies they unknowingly got from [[Megadeth]] middle school teachers, admitted that [[Kissing Cousins\|he slept with his cousin]] during his youth without knowing it), and proceeded to laugh hysterically, with a humiliated Howard telling them that it wasn't funny to begin with. Line 52: * ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' features [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/10/31/ every gamer's worst fear]. ** They also did another one where someone had been playing FFVII for 20+ hours nonstop before suddenly realizing {{spoiler\|he had no room left on his memory card.}} * [http://xkcd.com/647/ This] ''[[Xkcd]]'' strip. Line 60: == [[Western Animation]] == * ''[[Freakazoid!]]'': The scariest thing in the world would be if Sinbad got another TV show! (the comedian, not the adventurer). ** Or is you went to touch something, and it wasn't there...because ''it turned to WOOD''! * ''[[The Simpsons]]'': The season eight episode "The Springfield Files" (the [[~~BLAM~~Non Sequitur Episode]]-cum-[[Crossover]] episode with ''[[The X-Files]]'' that had [[Leonard Nimoy]] narrating it for the first two acts) had Homer and Bart out in the woods in search of the alien. Bart asks Homer if he can have some beer, with Homer telling him that beer is only for "...daddies and kids with fake ~~[[I Ds]]~~ IDs,<ref>Ironic, considering that Bart had a fake ID on the season seven episode in which he creates a phony driver's license while stuck at the DMV with Patty and Selma, and he did use it to get beer at Moe's, but once he saw Barney and [[Those Two Guys\|the two drunks named Larry and Sam]], he decided not to do it</ref>," then Homer suggests that they tell ghost stories to pass the time. This was Bart's: {{quote\|'''Bart''': ...and ''that'' is how much college will cost for Maggie. '''Homer''': [[Big No\|No! NO! NOOOOOO!!!!!]] }} * There is an alternate scene on the season eight DVD set in which the original mundane horror story was about the contents of an Oscar Meyer weiner, with Homer reacting the same way. ''[[The Simpsons]]'', again, featured a carnival "house of horrors" ride that presents an old woman in a rocking chair who says, "Behold! The ravages of age!" * ''[[Arthur (animation)\|Arthur]]'', Arthur was the carnival barker at a "house of horrors" that featured the most embarrassing moments of his friends, such as the Brain wearing pajamas to school. * ''[[Futurama]]'', "Where the Buggalo Roam": {{quote\|'''Bender:''' ...and even though the computer was off and unplugged, an image remained on the screen. It was... ''the Windows logo!'' Line 83: '''Applejack''': That's not a real story! You made it up. '''Rarity''': It is a ''ghost'' story. They're all made up. }} * ''[[Family Guy]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yNaHQZrZ90 Quagmire would find this story scary]. * In ''[[The Fairly ~~Odd Parents~~OddParents]]'', Timmy travels to the past and tells his dad scary stories from the future. {{quote\|'''Timmy''': In the future there will be 500 TV channels! '''Dad''': Cool!