Eat Cheese and Barf!

by R.U. Slime

When it comes to milk products, Billy-boy Fudder isn't a cheese whiz.  In fact, he's a milk dud, a dairy dork, and a hurling horror.  Too bad his family inherits Breakwind Farms and has to move to the dairy capital of the world! But Billy isn't bummed for long!  He and his new friend, Fanny, discover a cheese brain and unwittingly unleash a cottage cheese monster.  But Martha the talking cow is on their side, and Fanny's smelly burps are their secret weapon against Chunk-O-Cheese!  

Genres: Humor, Middle Grade

129 pages, Paperback

First published October 3, 1995

Reviews

[Justin Tate · Rating 4 out of 5]

About as fun as R.U. Slime’s other Goosebumps spoof, Stay Out of the Bathroom (1995). While Bathroom earns its laughs through potty jokes, this one leans into farting, barfing, and dairy-related humor. For example, there’s a dramatic moment where the villain brandishes a switchblade and is about to slice into a supernatural glob of cheese. To which Billy screams in earnest, “Nooooo! Don’t cut the cheese!”

Structurally, this book matches Stine’s formula more closely, with shorter chapters and more outlandish cliffhangers. Despite being “udderly” ridiculous—which is the point, of course—it has a compelling plot that somehow works. Good luck finding a more exciting lactose intolerant-themed adventure!

More reviews from this series:
Gooflumps 2 ½ - Stay Out of the Bathroom

[Thomas · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[Make bolduc · Rating 5 out of 5]

R.U. Slime

[Mindy Lee · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book would have been fine if it was about 100 pages less. I like the idea of a satirical series based off of Goosebumps but honestly I’d rather just read a Goosebumps book and not waste my time with something like this.

The puns could have been great fun if it wasn’t just so overdone. Plus there was a talking cow. That was kinda fun.

As someone who is in their 30’s and lactose intolerant, I can confidently say that this book was not for me.

[Corina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was so stupid but also fantastic - the kids laughed the whole way through. It's basically lots of dairy, plenty of belching, tons of barfing, and plentiful cow pies wrapped in a Goosebumps like plot: a mystery, a monster, and crazy cliffhanger chapter endings. Not too scary at all.

Guess I'll go look for the other Gooflumps book now??

[Bianca Patricia]

Read it just for the novelty of it. Quite enjoyable.

[Brandon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitely better then the first book in this short lived series if you're a fan of goosebumps it's definitely worth a read just for fun

[Kathryn Hart · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny.

[Siskiyou-Suzy · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's funny how well I remember this from reading it as a kid -- I remember it better than many Goosebumps books, I think. Weirdly, it's not that much different from Goosebumps. At least not the two that I've read as an adult so far. There are fake-out scares, a lot of goofiness in general. The main difference I guess is the focus on puns and gross stuff -- barf and burping, etc.

It's a unique concept, and I actually enjoyed reading it, maybe mostly for the nostalgia.

[Ariel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ahhhh I remember these. Riffing on R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series - which was actually a riff on Steven King's thrillers, if I remember aright.

Anyways. This book is probably the grossest book I've ever read, in that little-kid sort of way that makes it totally hilarious for all the eleven-year-olds reading it.

[Shaun · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gooflumps is a spoof of the Goosebumps series. Where Goosebumps is goofy, Gooflumps is gross. At least this book is, I don't remember the previous one beings so gross. As a kid I would have loved all the burps, poo, and puke, but as an adult it wears thin pretty fast. This is the kind of a book a kid loves purely because he knows his parents wouldn't want him to read it.

[cloverhopscotch · Rating 2 out of 5]

Found one in a free little library. I was rather disappointed in it but then maybe it would have been better reading it as a kid. As an adult it just was not that funny and I found myself longing for an actual Goosebumps book instead.

[Tory · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book freaked me out even more than the actual Goosebumps books.

[Lynne Page · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was really hoping for a good parody of Goosebumps, but this certainly wasn't it.

It was a very negative read.

[Kat ♡ · Rating 3 out of 5]

First half was good, I find the 2nd half was rushed and didn't make sense. Like the part where the go to the barn after lunch and next thing it's 'getting dark'. The ending was a bit abrupt.

[Ilze Dempsey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was exactly what I thought it would be, and 10-year-old was pleased as punch.