- Dr. Vink: Riddles exercise your brain, and where would you be with no brain?
- Denny Crocker: [of his specimen the brain came from] I dunno, ask the wild boar.
- Flynn: Forty years, I've been bringing folks up to Dr. Vink's hoping they can solve the riddle... but they don't, so they all end up here with me.
- Buzz Crocker: So what happens to them?
- Flynn: Hey, Dr. Vink needs his specimens.
- Denny Crocker: You're a lying sack! First of all, you're not that old.
- Flynn: Didn't I tell ya? Before the good doctor got his specimen, I had myself a nasty, little accident. Crashed into this big ol' tree. You might say...
- [turns his back head 180 degrees]
- Flynn: ... I sorta died!
- [laughs maniacally]
- [first lines]
- Gary: We're called The Midnight Society. Separately, we're very different. We like different things, we go to different schools, and we have different friends. But one thing draws us together: the dark. Each week, we gather round this fire, to share our fears, and our strange and scary tales. It's what got us together, and it's what keeps bringing us back. This is a warning to all who join us: you're going to leave the comfort of the light, and step into the world of the supernatural.
- Buzz Crocker: [Denny grabs him after he nearly falls off a steep ledge] Hey... I saved the *compass*...
- Denny Crocker: I should've let you fall.
- Denny Crocker: I hope he has a blanket.
- Buzz Crocker: Yeah!
- Denny Crocker: forget it. *You* can freeze.
- Buzz Crocker: I'm sorry I got us lost, Denny.
- Denny Crocker: Don't worry. I'll smack you when we get home.
- Buzz Crocker: [both brothers are sitting on top of a cliff, and Buzz is confusedly reading a map] This is strange!
- Denny Crocker: [annoyed] We're lost, aren't we?
- [imitating Buzz in a whiny voice]
- Denny Crocker: Don't sweat, Denny! I know how to plot a course, you never trust me!
- [back to his normal voice]
- Denny Crocker: I DID trust you, and you got us lost, cheeseball!
- Buzz Crocker: We're not lost!
- [accidentally kicks over a water thermos onto the map]
- Denny Crocker: Great, lamewad! Now we're lost and we can't read the map! You are SUCH a loser.
- Frank: Nobody ever saw the Phantom Cab again. And when the boys brought the police back to Dr. Vink's cottage, all that was left was an old stone foundation, covered with weed.
- Eric: Wait a minute, wait a minute, no fair. You can't put a riddle in a story that can't be solved.
- Betty Ann: Maybe it can.
- Eric: Yeah, right. It's weightless, you can see it, and if you put it in a barrel it makes the barrel lighter. No way.
- Kiki: Sounds like one of those riddles you can't solve.
- Kristen: That's a cheat.
- Gary: No - maybe it *can* be solved.
- Frank: *Maybe* you should all just lighten up, and let me finish the story.
- Frank: Denny and Buzz were brothers. Denny was big, strong, and smart. Buzz was, well, kind of a geek, who wanted to prove himself to his big brother. What neither guy knew, was that on this hiking trip, Buzz was gonna get the chance!
- Ranger: You two boys Denny and Buzz Crocker?
- Denny Crocker: ...Yeah?
- Ranger: [looking amused] Your parents have been going nuts looking for you. The whole town's in an uproar! Come on, get in.