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Will wrote:

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I remember all the ones you've mentioned. I remember the Leprechaun one being really creepy and the pinball one is one of the few downer endings of the show.

Anybody remember the one about the chick who was in the mirror and was asking for help by writing things and the main character doesn't figure it out until she looks in the mirror. Or the one where the kid

I think one of the creepiest episodes was the one with the monster behind a locked down in the basement. I don't remember the whole episode except that the main character locks an enemy down there by mistake and then the monster's like "Thanks! Here's a bike" and then the main character decides to send his little brother down there.

I loved this series and one day I'll order them all from Canada.

"The Tale of the Dark Music", is what you're thinking of, and I like that one too. It's a really clever take on the monster in the basement myth when you think about it. Will it end up on the list? It is a mystery.


I got the DVDs a few years ago. There's no commentary or anything, but it's totally worth it.

10. The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQBOQIiCoQY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH7s1to9Rmg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv2DbMJKzMU

This episode was just as good, if not better, than I remembered. It bears a very strong similarity to "Wes Cravens New Nightmare" as well as the first "Elm Street" film, which I consider my personal best horror movie. And you know what? The villain in this episode is genuinely scary, especially for a kids show. There are also some speculative qualities that they leave unanswered, which I find intriguing. For example, the Ghastly Grinner is presumably bound by his own continuities rules, so he can't just go around like Freddy and kills mass loads of people. Why does he leave the comic book store owners father alive for what must have been many years? Also, does the main character get to keep his superpowers at the end?

There is some palpable satire going on here. The main character(Ethan) has parents that are a pair of zombies, both figuratively and later on, literally. They tell him that comics are a waste of time, but they watch "Mind numbing, spirit crushing game shows"(Nod to Irving Welsh) and mooch off his success as an artist. Either as zombies or just as bad parents, they were also very weird to look at. The nerd girl(With a weird last name) has funny dialogue, and both her and Ethan have funny reactions when they encounter the Grinner.

9. The Tale of Station 109.1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoWNLjOxVFQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVBQhuzbX5w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V67oJ41hZAg


The concept of Death personified has always irked me because it doesn't explain how he deals with war, famine and pestilence. I had the same problem with Bergman, with "Beetlejuice", with "Discworld" and with "Dead Like Me". This episode is pretty clever in how it deals with that problem. An annoying radio host that looks and sounds like Gilbert Gottfried directs the dead to the station so they can cross over. Most people when they die are totally lost and this is an act of public service. In this episode, a kid obsessed with death inadvertently finds himself in this radio station and is confused for a real dead guy named Daniel Carpenter.

I'm not particularly morbid, but I love the dark humor in this episode. Gilbert Gottfried may be annoying to some, but he's hilarious here. Such a weaselly, bureaucratic prick. The kid in question is also funny at the beginning of the episode, and people might be reminded of "Harold and Maude". Ryan Gosling is the kids older brother, but who cares? There are also a lot of sly jokes and dialogue relevant to the plot, such as a website that directs the dead to the crossover point. All in all, a solid episode.



ETA: If anyone ever watched "Beyond Belief", doesn't the dead guy in the segment about the funeral home bear a striking similarity to the dead guy in this episode? It's not him, but the resemblance is uncanny.

Will wrote:

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Watcher's Woods had the whistles right? Was Jewel playing the main character?

Mmm Hmm to both questions. AYAOTD actually has a lot of notable cameos which you can see on its Wikipedia page. The girl who plays Samantha is pretty well known for her other TV roles, and most of the other Midnighters have sucessful careers, if not too high profile(Elisha Cuthbert excepted).

The Purple Parrot wrote:

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*looks at wiki*

Wow, I never knew that Samantha was Cheyenne from Reba.

OMG Tucker is the guy from Mean Girls that asks Lindsay Lohan if he can butter her muffin!

EDIT: OMG again! I didn't know that The Tale of the Night Shift was the series finale of the original years!!!! :O It was always my favorite. <3

The Night Shift episode is definitely one of the episodes that strays the farthest from its kiddie show roots, and is pretty scary too. It's on my list, but I'm not saying where.

yope3041 wrote:

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I liked that one with the jesters who had blue drool. I don't remember what it was, but it scared me for like a week, and for some reason it made me afraid of my babysitter. :iiam What one was that?

"The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner", it's #10 on my list! There was only one jester, but there was a crazy bus driver in it too!

chapera rocks wrote:

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I was scared by most of them as a kid, but one stood out over all the rest: The one with the cyber green brain virus thing terrified me. I had nightmares, I would never watch the episode after that. I only recently watched it a few months ago for the first time in soooooooooooo many years.

Do you know what it was called?

"The Tale of the Renegade Virus". There's a pretty good Youtube parody of that episode, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAwhehowiU0 here.


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