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* ''Series/OneStepBeyond'' has an episode called "The Clown", where a clown haunts a man, appearing in reflections reaching for his throat. [[spoiler:AvertedTrope as the clown is the good guy, avenging the man's murdered wife.]]
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* ''Series/OneStepBeyond'' ''Series/OneStepBeyond1959'' has an episode called "The Clown", where a clown haunts a man, appearing in reflections reaching for his throat. [[spoiler:AvertedTrope as the clown is the good guy, avenging the man's murdered wife.]]
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* ''Series/SecondChance2016'': Clowns as AcceptableTargets invoked when Jimmy and Duvall visit an old amusement park.
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* ''Series/SecondChance2016'': Clowns as AcceptableTargets invoked Invoked when Jimmy and Duvall visit an old amusement park.
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* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "We All Scream For Icecream", the ghost of an ice cream-truck-driving clown who the main character and his JerkAss friend accidentally murdered when they were kids comes back for revenge with his disturbingly happy attitude. And because he drove an ice cream truck, everything around suddenly gets immeasurably cold (by the way, the JerkAss friend inexplicably and gruesomely melted. It was a really weird episode.)
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* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "We "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS2E10WeAllScreamForIceCream We All Scream For Icecream", for Ice Cream]]", the ghost of an ice cream-truck-driving clown who the main character and his JerkAss {{Jerkass}} friend accidentally murdered when they were kids comes back for revenge with his disturbingly happy attitude. And because he drove an ice cream truck, everything around suddenly gets immeasurably cold (by the way, the JerkAss {{Jerkass}} friend inexplicably and gruesomely melted. It was a really weird episode.)
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* The guys at ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' had the clowns' number, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnyvA2pdQvo riffing on the short "Here Comes The Circus" (aka "Here Comes The DEVIL!")]]
** Joel can't turn off the holo-clown sequencer and after three weeks it gets really tense and scary. "Hey little girl, would you like a salted nut roll?"
** Joel can't turn off the holo-clown sequencer and after three weeks it gets really tense and scary. "Hey little girl, would you like a salted nut roll?"
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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
** In the prologue of "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E06AttackOfTheGiantLeeches Attack of the Giant Leeches]]", Joel can't turn off the holo-clown sequencer, and after three weeks, it's gotten really tense and scary. "Hey, little girl, would you like a salted nut roll?"
** "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E22TheDayTheEarthFroze Theguys at ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' had Day the Earth Froze]]" has the clowns' number, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnyvA2pdQvo riffing on the short "Here Comes The the Circus" (aka (a.k.a. "Here Comes The DEVIL!")]]
** Joel can't turn off the holo-clown sequencer and after three weeks it gets really tense and scary. "Hey little girl, would you like a salted nut roll?"DEVIL!")]]
** In the prologue of "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E06AttackOfTheGiantLeeches Attack of the Giant Leeches]]", Joel can't turn off the holo-clown sequencer, and after three weeks, it's gotten really tense and scary. "Hey, little girl, would you like a salted nut roll?"
** "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E22TheDayTheEarthFroze The
** Joel can't turn off the holo-clown sequencer and after three weeks it gets really tense and scary. "Hey little girl, would you like a salted nut roll?"
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* Used in a third-season episode of ''Series/ScareTactics'' for a teenager set to babysit a little girl, only instead of a clown statue, it's the little girl's NotSoImaginaryFriend.
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* Used in a third-season episode of ''Series/ScareTactics'' ''Series/ScareTactics2003'' for a teenager set to babysit a little girl, only instead of a clown statue, it's the little girl's NotSoImaginaryFriend.
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** And brought out for ''real'' when Rodney [=McKay=] and Sheppard are being attacked by an entity that feeds on [[YourWorstNightmare their worst nightmares]]: rowing a boat through a stormy [[MonsterWhale whale-infested sea]]... with a clown sitting behind them.
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** And brought out for ''real'' when Rodney [=McKay=] and Sheppard are being attacked by an entity that feeds on [[YourWorstNightmare their worst nightmares]]: nightmares: rowing a boat through a stormy [[MonsterWhale whale-infested sea]]... with a clown sitting behind them.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In the episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E10Nightmares Nightmares]]", everyone was menaced by [[YourWorstNightmare their worst dreams]], including public nudity, death, and...
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In the episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E10Nightmares Nightmares]]", everyone was menaced by [[YourWorstNightmare their worst dreams]], dreams, including public nudity, death, and...
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* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' episode "Look (Stop Me if You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellas..." has a pair of killer clowns whose boss is a Punch and Judy puppet.
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* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'': The episode "Look (Stop Me if You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellas..." has a pair of killer clowns whose boss is a Punch and Judy puppet.
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* The Clown in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "The Thaw" was created as [[LotusEaterMachine virtual-reality entertainment for a race in suspended animation]]. The Clown [[InstantAIJustAddWater became self-aware]] and [[AIIsACrapshoot sadistically scared to death anyone who opposed it]].
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* The Clown in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "The Thaw" "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E23TheThaw The Thaw]]" was created as [[LotusEaterMachine virtual-reality entertainment for a race in suspended animation]]. The Clown [[InstantAIJustAddWater became self-aware]] and [[AIIsACrapshoot sadistically scared to death anyone who opposed it]].
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'s'' episode "To What End?" had a guy dressed as a clown who walked into a bakery and shot the owner point blank as the man was decorating the place for his son's 6th birthday party. Turns out, the owner wasn't who he seemed and had hired a hitman to off the other guy, who was just trying to survive.
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'s'' episode ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':
** Double subverted in "Uncertainty Rules." A young man gets held hostage on his 21st birthday by two clowns with really scary faces including pointed teeth, one of whom forces a gun into the guy's mouth. The birthday boy is revealed to be an introvert and the clowns were his best friends there to force him to go out on the town to celebrate. And the gun? It's a water pistol filled with vodka.
** Invoked in "To What End?"had a A guy dressed as steals a clown who walked party clown's costume, dresses up in it, walks into a bakery bakery, and shot shoots the owner point blank as the man was is decorating the place for his son's 6th birthday party. Turns out, the owner wasn't who he seemed to be and had hired a hitman to off the other guy, who was just trying to survive.
** Double subverted in "Uncertainty Rules." A young man gets held hostage on his 21st birthday by two clowns with really scary faces including pointed teeth, one of whom forces a gun into the guy's mouth. The birthday boy is revealed to be an introvert and the clowns were his best friends there to force him to go out on the town to celebrate. And the gun? It's a water pistol filled with vodka.
** Invoked in "To What End?"
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* ''[[Series/RetroGameMaster GameCenter CX]]'': In the beginning of the 18th Season, a pair of tuxedo-clad clowns [[BalefulPolymorph transform the king into an elephant]] and turn his castle into a [[CircusOfFear haunted circus]]. In each episode, they ask the King a trivia question at the beginning. At the end of the episode, the King answers; if he gets it wrong, they attack him.
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* ''[[Series/RetroGameMaster GameCenter CX]]'': In the beginning of the 18th Season, a pair of tuxedo-clad clowns [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcedTransformation transform the king into an elephant]] and turn his castle into a [[CircusOfFear haunted circus]]. In each episode, they ask the King a trivia question at the beginning. At the end of the episode, the King answers; if he gets it wrong, they attack him.
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** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]" inevitably features a clown as one of the apparitions created by an evil hotel which torments people with their greatest fear.
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** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]" inevitably features a clown as one of the apparitions created by an evil hotel which torments people with their greatest fear. However, by the time the main characters appear whoever feared the clown is now long dead, so it just sits sadly on a bed.
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** Sounds like a ShoutOut to ''The Hogan Family'' example below.
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* ''Series/{{Elementary}} has two brief examples:
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* ''Series/{{Elementary}} ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' has two brief examples:
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* ''Series/{{Elementary}} has two brief examples:
** "Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown" deals with the murder of a man who was impersonating a Monster Clown as a publicity stunt for a horror film, and accidentally stumbled on criminal activity.
** "Red Light, Green Light" begins with Sherlock having a nightmare about encountering Captain Dwyer at the grave of Captain Gregson (who was dangerously ill in hospital at the time), before they are interrupted by an ax-wielding Monster Clown that kills Dwyer.
** "Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown" deals with the murder of a man who was impersonating a Monster Clown as a publicity stunt for a horror film, and accidentally stumbled on criminal activity.
** "Red Light, Green Light" begins with Sherlock having a nightmare about encountering Captain Dwyer at the grave of Captain Gregson (who was dangerously ill in hospital at the time), before they are interrupted by an ax-wielding Monster Clown that kills Dwyer.
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* ''Series/InLivingColor'': Although not evil per se, Homey D. Clown is still one big jerk. The reason for his {{Jerkass}}ery? He's actually an ex-convict working as a clown, which is part of his prison release work program, and his lifelong enemy is TheMan.
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* ''Series/InLivingColor'': Although not evil per se, Homey D. Clown is still one big jerk. The reason for his {{Jerkass}}ery? He's actually an ex-convict working as a clown, which is part of his prison release work program, and his lifelong enemy is TheMan.The Man.
