"Go Eat Worms" is the fourth episode of the Disney+ and Hulu series Goosebumps.
Synopsis
At the Halloween party, Lucas takes home worms he soon finds are no ordinary worms.
Plot
Lucas wants to complete a jump on his motorcycle that his father had failed to do, resulting in his death, but is afraid to make the jump. His mother, Nora, and Margot's father Colin come back from having an affair and Lucas films it on his minicam. Lucas later finds a glass eyeball in his shed and turns it into a keychain. When Bratt sees it, he starts to ask about it, but gets no answer. Meanwhile, Isaiah, Margot, James, and Isabella are all trying to deal with what has happened to them all recently. Despite Sarah warning them not to involve their parents, they decide to at least speak about to Colin due to his mild-mannered behavior.
Lucas invites Margot to his house and shows her the footage of their parents together. Margot is distraught by the news and Lucas tries to cheer her up by showing the worm collection he acquired. He attempts to eat one, but it goes up his nose causing him to gag slightly. He walks her home where Margot tells Isaiah that they should no longer discuss the issue with her dad. Lucas starts to have stomach issues and runs home. At night, the worms escape their terrarium and enter Lucas' nose and mouth while he sleeps.
Lucas begins to feel strange, first by not liking his breakfast burrito, but then starts to eat the compost from the trash. He also quickly learns that he feels no pain and can quickly heal from any injury, much to his own amazement. Isaiah, Margot, James, and Isabella invite Allison to talk about what happened in the woods, but she blows them off, especially around Margot and Isaiah. Isaiah explains that Margot helped him cheat on the History exam, but she still thinks that he is covering for her. Nevertheless, she goes to Colin and tells him about it, while Lucas brings his dirt bike into the school.
Colin calls Margot in and tells her that he knows about her cheating on the exam. She in turn tells him that she knows about his affair with Nora, but they are interrupted by Lucas driving his dirt bike off the roof of the school and onto Colin's car. He explains that since he no longer feels pain, he no longer cares and demands that he stop seeing his mom. Margot realizes that the worms came from the Biddle House and goes to Nora for help. They find Lucas about to make the jump, but Nora reveals that his father did not make the bike jump for the stunt, he did it because he knew it would kill him. Lucas is devastated by the news and promptly throws up the worms, returning him to normal.
As Lucas embraces Nora, the worms form into a giant creature that begins to chase them. Lucas leads them back to the mill and after an intense stand off, Lucas tricks them into jumping into the grinder where they are all meshed up. Lucas decides to leave with Margot and the rest of the teens while Nora stays behind to deal with the cops. Tired of lying all the time, she tells the officers the truth and is branded as insane, getting locked up by Victoria who decides to keep an eye on her.
Bratt returns to the mill and finds that Lucas dropped the glass eyeball. Having deduced that Nora was behind the one of many missing pieces, Bratt declares that he will find the rest of his friend: Slappy.
Cast
- Zack Morris as Isaiah Howard
- Isa Briones as Margot Stokes
- Miles McKenna as James Etten
- Ana Yi Puig as Isabella Chen Lopez
- Will Price as Lucas Parker
- Rachael Harris as Nora Parker
- Justin Long as Nathan Bratt
Guest
- Rob Huebel as Colin Stokes
- Leonard Roberts as Ben Howard
- Ben Cockell as Harold Biddle
- Rhinnan Payne as Allison
- Francoise Yip as Victoria Chen Lopez
- Laura Mennell as Eliza Etten
Co-starring
- Isaac Caverzan as Isaac
- Tyson Dorann as Tyson
- Cai Holm as High Schooler
- Matthew Mandzij as Officer Hodgson
Trivia
- The title is taken from the twenty-first Goosebumps book of the same name.
- In the original tale, Todd Barstow is a boy obsessed with worms and, along with his friend Danny, uses them to prank his sister Regina and her friend Beth. Soon, worms begin appearing in strange and unusual places and he and Regina start to suspect that the worms have become sentient and are plotting their revenge. After several close calls, Regina admits that she had been pranking Todd this whole time. As Todd tries to get back at her, he is suddenly attacked by a giant worm, but it is scared off by a papier-mâché bird that Regina built. Todd seems to have changed his ways and throws the worms away, but switches to pinning butterflies. That night, a large butterfly with a pin shows up in his room.
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