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* The title character in "Mrs. Worthington" certainly qualifies. A prime example of a BabysitterFromHell and PsychoForHire, she's a prim, proper older woman who dresses in Victorian-era clothing and insists on proper manners...and has no problem enforcing those manners with voodoo dolls, scorpions, black magic, and tools including knives, a bear trap, and a ''badly rusted tooth-pulling device.'' As is the case with Uncle Howee and Big Yellow, the viewer has [[NothingIsScarier no idea where she comes from or how her powers work]]--she was [[YourMindMakesItReal willed to life by a boy named Nate]], who drew her as an outlet for his frustrations with his bullying older sister Molly. At the end of the episode, Mrs. Worthington starts threatening Nate's mother for ignoring Molly's teasing, and, when Nate tries to stand up to her, comes within an inch of ''cutting out his tongue.'' Thankfully, Nate destroys her by ripping up his drawing of her...[[spoiler: but the stinger reveals that her hand survived, and is ''redrawing the picture'']]. Brrr.
** Margot Kidder's [[DissonantSerenity ability to remain completely calm]] while discussing horrific ColdBloodedTorture adds to the creep factor. She's either totally placid or, even worse, barely contained in her glee at imagining inflicting massive physical harm on others.
** Nate's own behavior has traces of TheSociopath as well--all of Mrs. Worthington's punishments and tools come from his own drawings of things he'd like to do to his sister. He even hides those particular drawings, as if he knows he shouldn't let his mother see them. Luckily for Molly, the second half of the episode largely centers on [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing that he went too far in his desire for revenge]].
** Margot Kidder's [[DissonantSerenity ability to remain completely calm]] while discussing horrific ColdBloodedTorture adds to the creep factor. She's either totally placid or, even worse, barely contained in her glee at imagining inflicting massive physical harm on others.
** Nate's own behavior has traces of TheSociopath as well--all of Mrs. Worthington's punishments and tools come from his own drawings of things he'd like to do to his sister. He even hides those particular drawings, as if he knows he shouldn't let his mother see them. Luckily for Molly, the second half of the episode largely centers on [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing that he went too far in his desire for revenge]].
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* The title character in "Mrs. Worthington" certainly qualifies. A prime example of a BabysitterFromHell and PsychoForHire, she's a prim, proper older woman who dresses in Victorian-era clothing and insists on proper manners...and has no problem enforcing those manners with voodoo dolls, scorpions, black magic, and tools including knives, a bear trap, and a ''badly rusted tooth-pulling device.'' As is the case with Uncle Howee and Big Yellow, the viewer has [[NothingIsScarier no idea where she comes from or how her powers work]]--she work]], though it is implied that she was [[YourMindMakesItReal willed to life by a boy named Nate]], who drew her as an outlet for his frustrations with his bullying older sister Molly. At the end of the episode, Mrs. Worthington starts threatening Nate's mother for ignoring Molly's teasing, and, when Nate tries to stand up to her, comes within an inch of ''cutting out his tongue.'' Thankfully, Nate destroys her by ripping up his drawing of her...[[spoiler: but the stinger reveals that her hand survived, and is ''redrawing the picture'']]. Brrr.
**Margot Kidder's Mrs. Worthington's (Margot Kidder) [[DissonantSerenity ability to remain completely calm]] while discussing horrific ColdBloodedTorture adds to the creep factor. She's either totally placid or, even worse, barely contained in her glee at imagining inflicting massive physical harm on others.
** Nate's own behavior has traces of TheSociopath as well--all of Mrs. Worthington's punishments and tools come from his own drawings of things he'd like to do to hissister.sister (including punishments that didn't come true in the episode, like locking Molly in a closet filled with spiders, shoving a jack-o-lantern on her head, and trapping her with a bear trap). He even hides those particular drawings, as if he knows he shouldn't let his mother see them. Luckily for Molly, the second half of the episode largely centers on [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing that he went too far in his desire for revenge]].
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** Nate's own behavior has traces of TheSociopath as well--all of Mrs. Worthington's punishments and tools come from his own drawings of things he'd like to do to his
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** Nate's own behavior has traces of TheSadist as well--all of Mrs. Worthington's punishments and tools come from his own drawings of things he'd like to do to his sister. He even hides those particular drawings, as if he knows he shouldn't let his mother see them. Luckily for Molly, the second half of the episode largely centers on [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing that he went too far in his desire for revenge]].
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** Nate's own behavior has traces of TheSadist TheSociopath as well--all of Mrs. Worthington's punishments and tools come from his own drawings of things he'd like to do to his sister. He even hides those particular drawings, as if he knows he shouldn't let his mother see them. Luckily for Molly, the second half of the episode largely centers on [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing that he went too far in his desire for revenge]].
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* The title character in "Mrs. Worthington" certainly qualifies. A prime example of a BabysitterFromHell and PsychoForHire, she's a prim, proper older woman who dresses in Victorian-era clothing and insists on proper manners...and has no problem enforcing those manners with voodoo dolls, scorpions, black magic, and tools including knives, a bear trap, and a ''badly rusted tooth-pulling device.'' As is the case with Uncle Howee and Big Yellow, the viewer has [[NothingIsScarier no idea where she comes from or how her powers work]]--she was [[YourMindMakesItReal willed to life by a boy named Nate]], who drew her as an outlet for his frustrations with his bullying older sister Molly. At the end of the episode, Mrs. Worthington starts threatening Nate's mother for ignoring Molly's teasing, and, when Nate tries to stand up to her, comes within an inch of ''cutting out his tongue.'' Thankfully, Nate destroys her by ripping up his drawing of her...[[spoiler: but the stinger reveals that her hand survived, and is ''redrawing the picture'']]. Brrr.
** Margot Kidder's [[DissonantSerenity ability to remain completely calm]] while discussing horrific ColdBloodedTorture adds to the creep factor. She's either totally placid or, even worse, barely contained in her glee at imagining inflicting massive physical harm on others.
** Nate's own behavior has traces of TheSadist as well--all of Mrs. Worthington's punishments and tools come from his own drawings of things he'd like to do to his sister. He even hides those particular drawings, as if he knows he shouldn't let his mother see them. Luckily for Molly, the second half of the episode largely centers on [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing that he went too far in his desire for revenge]].
** Margot Kidder's [[DissonantSerenity ability to remain completely calm]] while discussing horrific ColdBloodedTorture adds to the creep factor. She's either totally placid or, even worse, barely contained in her glee at imagining inflicting massive physical harm on others.
** Nate's own behavior has traces of TheSadist as well--all of Mrs. Worthington's punishments and tools come from his own drawings of things he'd like to do to his sister. He even hides those particular drawings, as if he knows he shouldn't let his mother see them. Luckily for Molly, the second half of the episode largely centers on [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing that he went too far in his desire for revenge]].
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* The end of "My Old House," which is in the same vein as "The Girl in the Painting" and "Uncle Howee" in that the main character gets sucked into another dimension and will never escape. In this episode, [[spoiler:the house comes to life and sucks Alice inside of it when she realizes that she shouldn't have left her family in favor of the house...and now she lives forever as an imprint on the wall, which is discovered by a girl moving into the house]].
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** The fact that we don't know who or what Uncle Howee is (a demon, a RealityWarper, a living cartoon character, or an ordinary human with extraordinary powers are the most common conclusions to draw). All we know is that he has omnipotent powers, can interact with viewers, can slip between the TV world and the real world, can appear in many places at once, and turn people into characters that would be at home on his show.
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** The fact that we don't know who or what Uncle Howee is (a demon, a RealityWarper, a living cartoon character, the ghost of a long-dead children's entertainer whose spirit lives on because his show has been rerunning for years and the love and devotion of kids who watch his show keep his spirit alive, or an ordinary human with extraordinary powers are the most common conclusions to draw). All we know is that he has omnipotent powers, can interact with viewers, can slip between the TV world and the real world, can appear in many places at once, and turn people into characters that would be at home on his show.
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* At the end of "Brush With Madness" it's revealed that [[spoiler: the entire episode was a comic written by an eccentric graphic novelist named Allan Miller who was upset over having an obsessive fan, so he decided to get rid of him -- and the fan's friend [[DidNotEatTheMousse who didn't do anything to Allan Miller (and even tried to convince her comic book geek friend to return the brushes]]) -- by having the work run through a paper shredder. The final shot of the episode was rather disgusting and blood-filled.]]
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* At the end of "Brush With Madness" it's revealed that [[spoiler: the entire episode was a comic written by an eccentric graphic novelist named Allan Miller who was upset over having an obsessive fan, so he decided to get rid of him -- and the fan's friend [[DidNotEatTheMousse who didn't do anything to Allan Miller (and even tried to convince her comic book geek friend to return the brushes]]) -- by having the work run through a paper shredder. The final shot of the episode was rather disgusting and blood-filled.]]
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** That's more of a Grey-Area ending. [[spoiler: That could've been yet ''another'' dream Alex was having, the AmbiguousEnding leaves it kinda vague.]]
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* "Terrible Love": Brendon's breakdown when Maggie confesses that Cupid hit him with two love arrows (which Cupid ethically can't do, as the chemicals in the love arrows drive whoever's been hit to become driven mad by love, but does anyway because he's a god and he's bound by ancient law to do whatever mortals say, even if it means their downfall) and that it's driving him crazy.
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* "Terrible Love": Brendon's breakdown when Maggie confesses that Cupid hit him with two love arrows (which Cupid ethically can't do, as the chemicals in the love arrows drive whoever's been hit to become driven mad by love, into a love-induced insanity, but does anyway because he's a god and he's bound by ancient law to do whatever mortals say, even if it means their downfall) and that it's driving him crazy.
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* "Scarecrow" has the most messed up ending ever, in which [[spoiler: a [[ScaryScarecrows scarecrow]] -- who turns out to be the man who sold the scarecrow to Jenny and her brother -- rids the world of everyone and everything in the world, except for Jenny's brother. The scarecrow man tells Jenny's brother that he was spared so that way he can join him in watching the world come to an end. In the original ending, the brother sets fire to the scarecrow and walks away. In an alternate ending, the brother is turned into a scarecrow]].
* "The Perfect Brother" Matt and Josh are brothers, very nice brothers -- but Matt seems ''too'' perfect and their parents are always complaining about their grades. Josh sees [[spoiler: Matt's legs 'taken away' by the facility]] as he's a non-functioning ''robot''. He escapes from the robot facility and the staff take a protesting Josh home to his own parents. It soon turns out that [[TomatoInTheMirror Josh]] is the only [[spoiler: ''human'' in their family and that his ''friend'' was fake.]] It isn't long before Josh's [[spoiler: robotic parents declare ''him'' defective and 'just an experiment' as they toss him in a crate (presumably headed to the ''same'' facility)]].
* "The Perfect Brother" Matt and Josh are brothers, very nice brothers -- but Matt seems ''too'' perfect and their parents are always complaining about their grades. Josh sees [[spoiler: Matt's legs 'taken away' by the facility]] as he's a non-functioning ''robot''. He escapes from the robot facility and the staff take a protesting Josh home to his own parents. It soon turns out that [[TomatoInTheMirror Josh]] is the only [[spoiler: ''human'' in their family and that his ''friend'' was fake.]] It isn't long before Josh's [[spoiler: robotic parents declare ''him'' defective and 'just an experiment' as they toss him in a crate (presumably headed to the ''same'' facility)]].
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* "Scarecrow" has the most messed up ending ever, ever (next to the twist endings for "Uncle Howee" and "The Girl in the Painting"), in which [[spoiler: a [[ScaryScarecrows scarecrow]] -- who turns out to be the man who sold the scarecrow to Jenny and her brother -- rids the world of everyone and everything in the world, except for Jenny's brother. The scarecrow man tells Jenny's brother that he was spared so that way he can join him in watching the world come to an end. In the original ending, the brother sets fire to the scarecrow and walks away. In an alternate ending, the brother is turned into a scarecrow]].
* "The Perfect Brother" Matt and Josh are brothers, very nice brothers -- but Matt seems ''too'' perfect and their parents are always complaining about theirgrades.grades and not being perfect. Josh sees [[spoiler: Matt's legs 'taken away' by the facility]] as he's a non-functioning ''robot''. He escapes from the robot facility and the staff take a protesting Josh home to his own parents. It soon turns out that [[TomatoInTheMirror Josh]] is the only [[spoiler: ''human'' in their family and that his ''friend'' was fake.]] It isn't long before Josh's [[spoiler: robotic parents declare ''him'' defective and 'just an experiment' as they toss him in a crate (presumably headed to the ''same'' facility)]].
* "The Perfect Brother" Matt and Josh are brothers, very nice brothers -- but Matt seems ''too'' perfect and their parents are always complaining about their
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* "Terrible Love": Brendon's breakdown when Maggie confesses that Cupid hit him with two love arrows and that it's driving him crazy.
* "Funhouse": A kid whose [[spoiler: father left him]] finds an outlet for his rage via a fake family in a creepy funhouse, and his rage brings out the beast within him. Seeing him get crazier and more addicted to the funhouse violence is truly horrifying.
** There's also the animatronic family within the funhouse. There are two adults and two children with blank white faces, who just make the motions of having a family dinner while the sound of gibberish plays through the speakers in their faces. However, the gibberish begins to sound angrier and more frustrated, until it's clear that the family is violently arguing and screaming with one another while one of the robots, a boy, is trying to cover its ears to block out the noise. Added to that is Chad's growing annoyance with the family in general. At first he scoffs at the idea of "Home Sweet Home" and then gets angry before he starts screaming "STOP IT! STOP IT! I HATE YOU! '''I HATE YOU'''!" And then he notices the giant mallet and the sound of someone saying "Destroy!" which prompts him to go to town on the set. And he goes back again and again...
** Don't forget the owner of the funhouse, who seems to know about the kid and his life due to how he mentioned "Family dinner night". When the kid and his sister turn around, [[spoiler: the funhouse vanished as if it was never there to begin with.]]
** What's really scary about this one is that, much like the episode "Headshot," the real horror comes from the protagonist's inner demons (in this case, it's Chad not expressing his anger over his broken family, then expressing it through violence and literally becoming a monster from it).
* "Funhouse": A kid whose [[spoiler: father left him]] finds an outlet for his rage via a fake family in a creepy funhouse, and his rage brings out the beast within him. Seeing him get crazier and more addicted to the funhouse violence is truly horrifying.
** There's also the animatronic family within the funhouse. There are two adults and two children with blank white faces, who just make the motions of having a family dinner while the sound of gibberish plays through the speakers in their faces. However, the gibberish begins to sound angrier and more frustrated, until it's clear that the family is violently arguing and screaming with one another while one of the robots, a boy, is trying to cover its ears to block out the noise. Added to that is Chad's growing annoyance with the family in general. At first he scoffs at the idea of "Home Sweet Home" and then gets angry before he starts screaming "STOP IT! STOP IT! I HATE YOU! '''I HATE YOU'''!" And then he notices the giant mallet and the sound of someone saying "Destroy!" which prompts him to go to town on the set. And he goes back again and again...
** Don't forget the owner of the funhouse, who seems to know about the kid and his life due to how he mentioned "Family dinner night". When the kid and his sister turn around, [[spoiler: the funhouse vanished as if it was never there to begin with.]]
** What's really scary about this one is that, much like the episode "Headshot," the real horror comes from the protagonist's inner demons (in this case, it's Chad not expressing his anger over his broken family, then expressing it through violence and literally becoming a monster from it).
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* "Terrible Love": Brendon's breakdown when Maggie confesses that Cupid hit him with two love arrows (which Cupid ethically can't do, as the chemicals in the love arrows drive whoever's been hit to become driven mad by love, but does anyway because he's a god and he's bound by ancient law to do whatever mortals say, even if it means their downfall) and that it's driving him crazy.
* "Funhouse": A kid whose [[spoiler: father left him]] finds an outlet for his ragevia by smashing a fake model replica of an arguing family in a creepy traveling funhouse, and his rage brings out the beast within him. Seeing which makes him get crazier and more addicted to the funhouse violence is truly horrifying.
** There's also the animatronic family within the funhouse. There are two adults and two children with blank white faces, who just make the motions of having a family dinner while the sound of gibberish plays through the speakers in their faces. However, the gibberish begins to sound angrier and more frustrated, until it's clear that the family is violently arguing and screaming with one another while one of the robots, a boy, is trying to cover its ears to block out the noise. Added to that is Chad's growing annoyance with the family in general. At first he scoffs at the idea of "Home Sweet Home" and then gets angry before he starts screaming "STOP IT! STOP IT! I HATE YOU! '''I HATE YOU'''!" And then he notices the giant mallet and the sound of someone saying "Destroy!" which prompts him to go to town on the set. And he goes back again and again...
** Don't forget the owner of the funhouse, who seems to know about the kid and his life due to how he mentioned "Family dinner night". When the kid and his sister turn around, [[spoiler: the funhouse vanished as if it was never there to begin with.]]
**violence. What's really scary about this one is that, much like the episode "Headshot," the real horror comes from the protagonist's inner demons (in this case, it's Chad not expressing his anger over his broken family, then expressing it through violence and literally becoming a monster from it).
* "Funhouse": A kid whose [[spoiler: father left him]] finds an outlet for his rage
** There's also the animatronic family within the funhouse. There are two adults and two children with blank white faces, who just make the motions of having a family dinner while the sound of gibberish plays through the speakers in their faces. However, the gibberish begins to sound angrier and more frustrated, until it's clear that the family is violently arguing and screaming with one another while one of the robots, a boy, is trying to cover its ears to block out the noise. Added to that is Chad's growing annoyance with the family in general. At first he scoffs at the idea of "Home Sweet Home" and then gets angry before he starts screaming "STOP IT! STOP IT! I HATE YOU! '''I HATE YOU'''!" And then he notices the giant mallet and the sound of someone saying "Destroy!" which prompts him to go to town on the set. And he goes back again and again...
** Don't forget the owner of the funhouse, who seems to know about the kid and his life due to how he mentioned "Family dinner night". When the kid and his sister turn around, [[spoiler: the funhouse vanished as if it was never there to begin with.]]
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** The curse [[spoiler: the grim reaper puts on Jake, causes him to decompose, during the climax, half his face is rotted away.]]
* From ''Uncle Howee'', [[spoiler: Uncle Howee transforms Jared into a full body marionette who is introduced as a "new friend", all while Cynthia, his sister, laughs and giggles at the new edition to her favorite TV show. Consider the AdultFear of the mother--who was just gone to do work and has no idea what was happening at the time--it makes you wonder the full extent of Uncle Howee's powers.]]
* From ''Uncle Howee'', [[spoiler: Uncle Howee transforms Jared into a full body marionette who is introduced as a "new friend", all while Cynthia, his sister, laughs and giggles at the new edition to her favorite TV show. Consider the AdultFear of the mother--who was just gone to do work and has no idea what was happening at the time--it makes you wonder the full extent of Uncle Howee's powers.]]
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** The curse [[spoiler: the grim reaper Grim Reaper puts on Jake, causes him to decompose, during decompose. During the climax, half his face is rotted away.]]
* From ''Uncle Howee'', [[spoiler: Uncle Howee transforms Jared into a full body marionette who is introduced as a "newfriend", friend" on the show, all while Cynthia, his sister, laughs and giggles at the new edition to her favorite TV show. Consider the AdultFear of the mother--who was just gone to do work and has no idea what was happening at the time--it makes you wonder the full extent of Uncle Howee's powers.]]
* From ''Uncle Howee'', [[spoiler: Uncle Howee transforms Jared into a full body marionette who is introduced as a "new
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** Also [[spoiler: Jake's attempts on Anna's life. If not scary enough, it comes off as a rape vibe.]]
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* "Sick": The idea of a little boy trapped with an unseen EldritchAbomination, and [[spoiler: the government being willing to sacrifice ''him'' and gas his whole house just to kill it.]] And the final scene where the boy wakes up and thinks it was AllJustADream... [[spoiler: Until the morning-news show hosts come back suddenly on TV (again) and tell him that--''nope'', ''[[SubvertedTrope this is not a dream]]'' and the government really is gonna blow-up his house and ''everyone'' in it. The last thing the boy sees and ''hears'' before getting killed is a bright white light and a loud flat-line noise.]]
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* "Sick": The idea of a little boy trapped with an unseen EldritchAbomination, and [[spoiler: and the government [[spoiler: being willing to sacrifice ''him'' and gas his whole house just to kill it.]] And the final scene where the boy wakes up and thinks it was AllJustADream... [[spoiler: Until the morning-news show hosts come back suddenly on TV (again) and tell him that--''nope'', ''[[SubvertedTrope this is not a dream]]'' and the government really is gonna blow-up explode his whole house and ''everyone'' in it. The last thing the boy sees and ''hears'' before getting killed is a bright white light and a loud flat-line noise.]]
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* At the end of "Brush With Madness" it's revealed that [[spoiler: the entire episode was a comic written by an eccentric graphic novelist named Allan Miller who was upset over having an obsessive fan, so he decided to get rid of him -- and the fan's friend [[DidNotEatTheMousse who didn't do anything to Allan Miller (and even tried to convince her comic book geek friend to return the brushes]]) -- by having the work run through a paper shredder.]]
* "Sick": The idea of a little boy trapped with an unseen EldritchAbomination, and [[spoiler: the government being willing to sacrifice ''him'' and gas his whole house just to kill it.]] And the final scene where the boy wakes up and thinks it was AllJustADream... [[spoiler: Until the morning-news show hosts come back suddenly on TV (again) and tell him that--''nope'', ''[[SubvertedTrope this is not a dream]]'' and the government really is gonna blow up his house and ''everyone'' in it. The last thing the boy sees and hears before getting killed is a bright white light and a flat line.]]
** That's more of a Grey Area ending. [[spoiler: That could've been another dream he was having, the ending leaves it kinda vauge.]]
* "Mascot", which has Willie trying to get rid of the school's old mascot Big Yellow, and somewhere down the line wonders who's under the costume. [[spoiler: There's ''no one'' under the costume, because the costume ''is alive'' and eats Willie. [[AndIMustScream It also appears that the people either don't die or at least aren't digested immediately after they're eaten]].]]
* "Sick": The idea of a little boy trapped with an unseen EldritchAbomination, and [[spoiler: the government being willing to sacrifice ''him'' and gas his whole house just to kill it.]] And the final scene where the boy wakes up and thinks it was AllJustADream... [[spoiler: Until the morning-news show hosts come back suddenly on TV (again) and tell him that--''nope'', ''[[SubvertedTrope this is not a dream]]'' and the government really is gonna blow up his house and ''everyone'' in it. The last thing the boy sees and hears before getting killed is a bright white light and a flat line.]]
** That's more of a Grey Area ending. [[spoiler: That could've been another dream he was having, the ending leaves it kinda vauge.]]
* "Mascot", which has Willie trying to get rid of the school's old mascot Big Yellow, and somewhere down the line wonders who's under the costume. [[spoiler: There's ''no one'' under the costume, because the costume ''is alive'' and eats Willie. [[AndIMustScream It also appears that the people either don't die or at least aren't digested immediately after they're eaten]].]]
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* At the end of "Brush With Madness" it's revealed that [[spoiler: the entire episode was a comic written by an eccentric graphic novelist named Allan Miller who was upset over having an obsessive fan, so he decided to get rid of him -- and the fan's friend [[DidNotEatTheMousse who didn't do anything to Allan Miller (and even tried to convince her comic book geek friend to return the brushes]]) -- by having the work run through a paper shredder. The final shot of the episode was rather disgusting and blood-filled.]]
* "Sick": The idea of a little boy trapped with an unseen EldritchAbomination, and [[spoiler: the government being willing to sacrifice ''him'' and gas his whole house just to kill it.]] And the final scene where the boy wakes up and thinks it was AllJustADream... [[spoiler: Until the morning-news show hosts come back suddenly on TV (again) and tell him that--''nope'', ''[[SubvertedTrope this is not a dream]]'' and the government really is gonnablow up blow-up his house and ''everyone'' in it. The last thing the boy sees and hears ''hears'' before getting killed is a bright white light and a flat line.loud flat-line noise.]]
** That's more of aGrey Area Grey-Area ending. [[spoiler: That could've been another yet ''another'' dream he Alex was having, the ending AmbiguousEnding leaves it kinda vauge.vague.]]
* "Mascot", which has Willie trying to get rid of the school's old mascot Big Yellow, and somewhere down the line wonders who's under the costume. [[spoiler: There's ''no one'' under the costume, because the costume ''is alive'' and also eats Willie.[[AndIMustScream It also appears that the people either don't die or [[AndIMustScream at least aren't digested immediately after they're eaten]].]]
* "Sick": The idea of a little boy trapped with an unseen EldritchAbomination, and [[spoiler: the government being willing to sacrifice ''him'' and gas his whole house just to kill it.]] And the final scene where the boy wakes up and thinks it was AllJustADream... [[spoiler: Until the morning-news show hosts come back suddenly on TV (again) and tell him that--''nope'', ''[[SubvertedTrope this is not a dream]]'' and the government really is gonna
** That's more of a
* "Mascot", which has Willie trying to get rid of the school's old mascot Big Yellow, and somewhere down the line wonders who's under the costume. [[spoiler: There's ''no one'' under the costume, because the costume ''is alive'' and also eats Willie.
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* The entirety of "Catching Cold": The young boy that mail man was talking about? [[spoiler: He was the creepy old fat guy. He was trapped in the truck for over thirty years, waiting for someone as obsessed with ice cream as he was to take his place since the ice-cream truck "needs a soul" in order to survive. Imagine putting up with that [[HellIsThatNoise demented ice-cream jingle]] for over ''thirty years''.]]
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* The entirety of "Catching Cold": The young boy that mail man was talking about? [[spoiler: He was the creepy old fat guy. He was trapped in the truck for over thirty years, waiting for someone as obsessed with ice cream as he was to take his place since the ice-cream truck "needs a soul" in order to survive. Imagine putting up with that [[HellIsThatNoise demented ice-cream jingle]] jingle for over ''thirty years''.]]
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* "Funhouse": A kid whose [[spoiler: father left him]] finds an outlet for his rage via a fake family in a creepy funhouse, and his rage brings out the beast within him. Seeing him get crazier and more addicted to the funhouse is truly horrifying.
* "Funhouse": A kid whose [[spoiler: father left him]] finds an outlet for his rage via a fake family in a creepy funhouse, and his rage brings out the beast within him. Seeing him get crazier and more addicted to the funhouse is truly horrifying.
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* "Terrible Love" starts out as more of a supernatural romantic comedy about a girl named Love": Brendon's breakdown when Maggie who meets confesses that Cupid after getting knocked out during a chemistry class explosion and asks hit him to help her make a popular boy in science class fall for her and only her, but it does get dark when Brendon gets another hit from one of Cupid's with two love arrows (which Cupid tries to warn Maggie against), especially when he gives Maggie a tarantula that bites her on the neck or when he chases after her when she tries to explain that she got Cupid to do her dirty work for her and that the two should just break up. Then there's the part where Cupid removes the love spell from Brendon and he ends up falling down the stairs. Thankfully, he doesn't die from it, but it's implied that he's out of school for a few days so he can recover from his injuries in the hospital.
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* "Funhouse": A kid whose [[spoiler: father left him]] finds an outlet for his rage via a fake family in a creepy funhouse, and his rage brings out the beast within him. Seeing him get crazier and more addicted to the funhouse violence is truly horrifying.
* "Funhouse": A kid whose [[spoiler: father left him]] finds an outlet for his rage via a fake family in a creepy funhouse, and his rage brings out the beast within him. Seeing him get crazier and more addicted to the funhouse violence is truly horrifying.
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**The fact that we don't know who or what Uncle Howee is (a demon, a RealityWarper, a living cartoon character, or an ordinary human with extraordinary powers are the most common conclusions to draw). All we know is that he has omnipotent powers, can interact with viewers, can slip between the TV world and the real world, can appear in many places at once, and turn people into characters that would be at home on his show.
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* From ''Uncle Howee'', [[spoiler: Uncle Howee transforms Jared into a full body marionette who is introduced as a "new friend", all while Cynthia, his sister, laughs and giggles at the new edition to her favorite TV show. Consider the AdultFear of the mother--who was just gone to do work and has no idea what was happening at the time--it makes you wonder the full extent of Uncle Howee's powers.]]
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** That's more of a Grey Area ending. [[spoiler: That could've been another dream he was having, the ending leaves it kinda vauge.]]
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** [[spoiler: At the very end, it looks like [[ABadassOutOfHell Jake has broken free]].]]
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* From ''Dead Bodies'' - '''[[spoiler: [[DraggedOffToHell Jake Skinner, you Belong to me now]]!!]]'''
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* From ''Dead Bodies'' - '''[[spoiler: [[DraggedOffToHell Jake Skinner, you Belong belong to me now]]!!]]'''now]]!!]]'''
** Also [[spoiler: Jake's attempts on Anna's life. If not scary enough, it comes off as a rape vibe.]]
--> Come on babe, I just need you to do one thing for me.
** [[spoiler: At the very end, it looks like [[ABadassOutOfHell Jake has broken free]].]]
** Also [[spoiler: Jake's attempts on Anna's life. If not scary enough, it comes off as a rape vibe.]]
--> Come on babe, I just need you to do one thing for me.
** [[spoiler: At the very end, it looks like [[ABadassOutOfHell Jake has broken free]].]]
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* From ''The Dead Bodies'' - '''[[spoiler: [[DraggedOffToHell Jake Skinner, you Belong to me now]]!!]]'''
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* From ''The Dead Bodies'' - '''[[spoiler: [[DraggedOffToHell Jake Skinner, you Belong to me now]]!!]]'''
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* In "Afraid of Clowns", the dream scene where the clown [[spoiler: cuts off his hand]].
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** What's really scary about this one is that, much like the episode "Headshot," the real horror comes from the protagonist's inner demons (in this case, it's Chad not expressing his anger over his broken family, then expressing it through violence and literally becoming a monster from it).
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** Don't forget the owner of the funhouse, who seems to know about the kid and his life due to how he mentioned "Family dinner night". When the kid and his sister turn around, [[spoiler: the funhouse vanished as if it was never there to begin with.]]
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** There's also the animatronic family within the funhouse. There are two adults and two children with blank white faces, who just make the motions of having a family dinner while the sound of gibberish plays through the speakers in their faces. However, the gibberish begins to sound angrier and more frustrated, until it's clear that the family is violently arguing and screaming with one another while one of the robots, a boy, is trying to cover its ears to block out the noise. Added to that is Chad's growing annoyance with the family in general. At first he scoffs at the idea of "Home Sweet Home" and then begins screaming "STOP IT! STOP IT! I HATE YOU! '''I HATE YOU'''!"
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** There's also the animatronic family within the funhouse. There are two adults and two children with blank white faces, who just make the motions of having a family dinner while the sound of gibberish plays through the speakers in their faces. However, the gibberish begins to sound angrier and more frustrated, until it's clear that the family is violently arguing and screaming with one another while one of the robots, a boy, is trying to cover its ears to block out the noise. Added to that is Chad's growing annoyance with the family in general. At first he scoffs at the idea of "Home Sweet Home" and then begins gets angry before he starts screaming "STOP IT! STOP IT! I HATE YOU! '''I HATE YOU'''!"YOU'''!" And then he notices the giant mallet and the sound of someone saying "Destroy!" which prompts him to go to town on the set. And he goes back again and again...
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* "Funhouse": A kid whose [[spoiler: father left him]] finds an outlet for his rage via a fake family in a creepy funhouse, and his rage brings out the beast within him. Seeing him get crazier and more addict to the funhouse is truly horrifying.
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* "Funhouse": A kid whose [[spoiler: father left him]] finds an outlet for his rage via a fake family in a creepy funhouse, and his rage brings out the beast within him. Seeing him get crazier and more addict addicted to the funhouse is truly horrifying. horrifying.
** There's also the animatronic family within the funhouse. There are two adults and two children with blank white faces, who just make the motions of having a family dinner while the sound of gibberish plays through the speakers in their faces. However, the gibberish begins to sound angrier and more frustrated, until it's clear that the family is violently arguing and screaming with one another while one of the robots, a boy, is trying to cover its ears to block out the noise. Added to that is Chad's growing annoyance with the family in general. At first he scoffs at the idea of "Home Sweet Home" and then begins screaming "STOP IT! STOP IT! I HATE YOU! '''I HATE YOU'''!"
** There's also the animatronic family within the funhouse. There are two adults and two children with blank white faces, who just make the motions of having a family dinner while the sound of gibberish plays through the speakers in their faces. However, the gibberish begins to sound angrier and more frustrated, until it's clear that the family is violently arguing and screaming with one another while one of the robots, a boy, is trying to cover its ears to block out the noise. Added to that is Chad's growing annoyance with the family in general. At first he scoffs at the idea of "Home Sweet Home" and then begins screaming "STOP IT! STOP IT! I HATE YOU! '''I HATE YOU'''!"
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* "Funhouse": A kid whose [[spoiler: father left him]] finds an outlet for his rage via a fake family in a creepy funhouse, and his rage brings out the beast within him. Seeing him get crazier and more addict to the funhouse is truly horrifying.
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* "Terrible Love" starts out as more of a supernatural comedy about a girl named Maggie who summons Cupid to help her make a popular boy in science class fall for her and only her, but it does get dark when Brendon gets another hit from one of Cupid's love arrows, especially when he gives Maggie a tarantula that bites her on the neck or when he chases after her when she tries to explain that she got Cupid to do her dirty work for her and that the two should just break up. Then there's the part where Cupid removes the love spell from Brendon and he ends up falling down the stairs. Thankfully, he doesn't die from it, but it's implied that he's out of school for a few days so he can recover from his injuries in the hospital.
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* "Terrible Love" starts out as more of a supernatural romantic comedy about a girl named Maggie who summons meets Cupid after getting knocked out during a chemistry class explosion and asks him to help her make a popular boy in science class fall for her and only her, but it does get dark when Brendon gets another hit from one of Cupid's love arrows, arrows (which Cupid tries to warn Maggie against), especially when he gives Maggie a tarantula that bites her on the neck or when he chases after her when she tries to explain that she got Cupid to do her dirty work for her and that the two should just break up. Then there's the part where Cupid removes the love spell from Brendon and he ends up falling down the stairs. Thankfully, he doesn't die from it, but it's implied that he's out of school for a few days so he can recover from his injuries in the hospital.
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* "Sick": The idea of a little boy trapped with an unseen EldritchAbomination, and [[spoiler: the government being willing to sacrifice ''him'' and gas his whole house just to kill it.]] And the final scene where the boy wakes up and thinks it was AllJustADream... [[spoiler: Until the morning-news show hosts come back suddenly on TV (again) and tell him that--'''NO''', ''[[SubvertedTrope this is not a dream]]'' and the government really is going to '''BLOW UP''' his house and ''everyone'' in it. The last thing the boy sees and hears before getting killed is a bright white light and a flat line.]]
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* "Sick": The idea of a little boy trapped with an unseen EldritchAbomination, and [[spoiler: the government being willing to sacrifice ''him'' and gas his whole house just to kill it.]] And the final scene where the boy wakes up and thinks it was AllJustADream... [[spoiler: Until the morning-news show hosts come back suddenly on TV (again) and tell him that--'''NO''', that--''nope'', ''[[SubvertedTrope this is not a dream]]'' and the government really is going to '''BLOW UP''' gonna blow up his house and ''everyone'' in it. The last thing the boy sees and hears before getting killed is a bright white light and a flat line.]]
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* "Scarecrow" has the most messed up ending ever, in which [[spoiler: a scarecrow -- who turns out to be the man who sold the scarecrow to Jenny and her brother -- rids the world of everyone and everything in the world, except for Jenny's brother. The scarecrow man tells Jenny's brother that he was spared so that way he can join him in watching the world come to an end. In the original ending, the brother sets fire to the scarecrow and walks away. In an alternate ending, the brother is turned into a scarecrow]].
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* "Scarecrow" has the most messed up ending ever, in which [[spoiler: a scarecrow [[ScaryScarecrows scarecrow]] -- who turns out to be the man who sold the scarecrow to Jenny and her brother -- rids the world of everyone and everything in the world, except for Jenny's brother. The scarecrow man tells Jenny's brother that he was spared so that way he can join him in watching the world come to an end. In the original ending, the brother sets fire to the scarecrow and walks away. In an alternate ending, the brother is turned into a scarecrow]].
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* "Red Eye": A little girl named Georgia has been getting pictures from her father who's doing work abroad. Eventually, a shadowy, demonic figure called an Alp ''begins appearing'' in the background of each photo, steadily getting closer (and closer) to her father. As Georgia gets more and more scared, [[AdultsAreUseless and her mother refuses to listen to her concerns]], she's worried that monster followed her father home. The truth, revealed in the last second of the episode is far worse.
-->'''Georgia's Dad:''' [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession ''Daddy's not here]].'']]
-->'''Georgia's Dad:''' [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession ''Daddy's not here]].'']]
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* "Red Eye": A little girl named Georgia has been getting pictures from her father who's doing work abroad. Eventually, a shadowy, demonic figure called an Alp ''begins appearing'' in the background of each photo, steadily getting closer (and closer) to her father. As Georgia gets more and more scared, [[AdultsAreUseless and her mother refuses to listen to her concerns]], she's worried that the monster followed her father home. The truth, revealed in the last second of the episode is far worse.
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* The DirectorsCut of ''Spaceman''. Whereas Aaron was sympathetic to the woman trying to cling to the memories of her deceased, space-loving son in the original version, the DirectorsCut [[spoiler: had him realize that the woman was frickin' insane, but before he can do anything about it, she locks him in with her son's corpse and Aaron is forced to play "Spaceman" with the dead boy forever.]]
* "Terrible Love" starts out as more of a supernatural comedy about a girl named Maggie who summons Cupid to help her make a popular boy in science class fall for her and only her, but it does get dark when (despite Cupid's warning and speech about the consequences of a second dose. Keep in mind the alleged "love potion" in these arrows are all dopamine, adrenaline, and serotonin, all of which are real human hormones that go into overdrive whenever strong emotions are at play), Brendon gets another hit with one of Cupid's love arrows, especially when he gives Maggie a tarantula that bites her on the neck or when he chases after her when she tries to explain that she got Cupid to do her dirty work for her and that the two should just break up (though it may seem a little {{Narm}}y as he's calling out pet names to her). Then there's the part where Cupid removes the love spell from Brendon and he ends up falling down the stairs. Thankfully, he doesn't die from it, but it is implied that he's out of school for a few days so he can recover from his injuries in the hospital.
** What's ''really'' disturbing about this episode is that the themes about love being a scary and dangerous thing when mixed with possessiveness, jealousy, insanity, and rejection is a RealLife problem. If you took away Cupid from this story, it'd be a Lifetime Movie of the Week or a very special episode of ''Degrassi''. The only thing that makes it an R.L. Stine story is that (a) a mythical creature (Cupid) is involved, (b) while it does make a good point about possessiveness, jealously, and insanity being a bad mix with love, the moral doesn't come off as {{Anvilicious}}, and (c) it has a twist ending that's kinda funny in a sick way: [[spoiler:Maggie excuses herself from class to confront Cupid about what he did to Brendon, and meets a nerd in her chemistry class named Stuart, who comforts her after she admits that she didn't want to be alone and that she's glad to see someone after what happened to Brendon. Stuart assures her she'll find love again -- and who should appear, but Cupid, giving Maggie a taste of her own medicine and cursing her to fall for Stuart the same way she cursed Brendon to fall for her.]]
* "Terrible Love" starts out as more of a supernatural comedy about a girl named Maggie who summons Cupid to help her make a popular boy in science class fall for her and only her, but it does get dark when (despite Cupid's warning and speech about the consequences of a second dose. Keep in mind the alleged "love potion" in these arrows are all dopamine, adrenaline, and serotonin, all of which are real human hormones that go into overdrive whenever strong emotions are at play), Brendon gets another hit with one of Cupid's love arrows, especially when he gives Maggie a tarantula that bites her on the neck or when he chases after her when she tries to explain that she got Cupid to do her dirty work for her and that the two should just break up (though it may seem a little {{Narm}}y as he's calling out pet names to her). Then there's the part where Cupid removes the love spell from Brendon and he ends up falling down the stairs. Thankfully, he doesn't die from it, but it is implied that he's out of school for a few days so he can recover from his injuries in the hospital.
** What's ''really'' disturbing about this episode is that the themes about love being a scary and dangerous thing when mixed with possessiveness, jealousy, insanity, and rejection is a RealLife problem. If you took away Cupid from this story, it'd be a Lifetime Movie of the Week or a very special episode of ''Degrassi''. The only thing that makes it an R.L. Stine story is that (a) a mythical creature (Cupid) is involved, (b) while it does make a good point about possessiveness, jealously, and insanity being a bad mix with love, the moral doesn't come off as {{Anvilicious}}, and (c) it has a twist ending that's kinda funny in a sick way: [[spoiler:Maggie excuses herself from class to confront Cupid about what he did to Brendon, and meets a nerd in her chemistry class named Stuart, who comforts her after she admits that she didn't want to be alone and that she's glad to see someone after what happened to Brendon. Stuart assures her she'll find love again -- and who should appear, but Cupid, giving Maggie a taste of her own medicine and cursing her to fall for Stuart the same way she cursed Brendon to fall for her.]]
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* The DirectorsCut of ''Spaceman''. Whereas Aaron was sympathetic to the woman trying to cling to the memories of her deceased, space-loving son in the original version, the DirectorsCut [[spoiler: had him realize that the woman was frickin' insane, but before he can do anything about it, she locks him in with her son's corpse and Aaron is forced to play "Spaceman" with the dead boy forever.]]
* "Terrible Love" starts out as more of a supernatural comedy about a girl named Maggie who summons Cupid to help her make a popular boy in science class fall for her and only her, but it does get dark when(despite Cupid's warning and speech about the consequences of a second dose. Keep in mind the alleged "love potion" in these arrows are all dopamine, adrenaline, and serotonin, all of which are real human hormones that go into overdrive whenever strong emotions are at play), Brendon gets another hit with from one of Cupid's love arrows, especially when he gives Maggie a tarantula that bites her on the neck or when he chases after her when she tries to explain that she got Cupid to do her dirty work for her and that the two should just break up (though it may seem a little {{Narm}}y as he's calling out pet names to her).up. Then there's the part where Cupid removes the love spell from Brendon and he ends up falling down the stairs. Thankfully, he doesn't die from it, but it is it's implied that he's out of school for a few days so he can recover from his injuries in the hospital.
** What's ''really'' disturbing about this episode is that the themes about love being a scary and dangerous thing when mixed with possessiveness, jealousy, insanity, and rejection is a RealLife problem. If you took away Cupid from this story, it'd be a Lifetime Movie of the Week or a very special episode of ''Degrassi''. The only thing that makes it an R.L. Stine story is that (a) a mythical creature (Cupid) is involved, (b) while it does make a good point about possessiveness, jealously, and insanity being a bad mix with love, the moral doesn't come off as {{Anvilicious}}, and (c) it has a twist ending that's kinda funny in a sick way: [[spoiler:Maggie excuses herself from class to confront Cupid about what he did to Brendon, and meets a nerd in her chemistry class named Stuart, who comforts her after she admits that she didn't want to be alone and that she's glad to see someone after what happened to Brendon. Stuart assures her she'll find love again -- and who should appear, but Cupid, giving Maggie a taste of her own medicine and cursing her to fall for Stuart the same way she cursed Brendon to fall for her.]]hospital.
* "Terrible Love" starts out as more of a supernatural comedy about a girl named Maggie who summons Cupid to help her make a popular boy in science class fall for her and only her, but it does get dark when
** What's ''really'' disturbing about this episode is that the themes about love being a scary and dangerous thing when mixed with possessiveness, jealousy, insanity, and rejection is a RealLife problem. If you took away Cupid from this story, it'd be a Lifetime Movie of the Week or a very special episode of ''Degrassi''. The only thing that makes it an R.L. Stine story is that (a) a mythical creature (Cupid) is involved, (b) while it does make a good point about possessiveness, jealously, and insanity being a bad mix with love, the moral doesn't come off as {{Anvilicious}}, and (c) it has a twist ending that's kinda funny in a sick way: [[spoiler:Maggie excuses herself from class to confront Cupid about what he did to Brendon, and meets a nerd in her chemistry class named Stuart, who comforts her after she admits that she didn't want to be alone and that she's glad to see someone after what happened to Brendon. Stuart assures her she'll find love again -- and who should appear, but Cupid, giving Maggie a taste of her own medicine and cursing her to fall for Stuart the same way she cursed Brendon to fall for her.]]
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* "Checking Out": [[spoiler:A family on vacation stop by this really fancy hotel run by a cult that brainwashes parents into forgetting that they have children and sacrifice the children by tossing them into a room with a white void in it hidden behind a large painting of the hotel's founder. The story itself is a more twisted version of the first episode of ''TheNightmareRoom'' episode "Don't Forget Me." The good news is: the family came out alive and defeated the cult. The bad news: all of the kids who have been sacrificed in years' past pretty much died with the hotel.]]
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* "Checking Out": [[spoiler:A family on vacation stop by this really fancy hotel run by a cult that brainwashes parents into forgetting that they have children and sacrifice the children by tossing them into a room with a white void in it hidden behind a large painting of the hotel's founder. The story itself is a more twisted version of the first episode of ''TheNightmareRoom'' ''Literature/TheNightmareRoom'' episode "Don't Forget Me." The good news is: the family came out alive and defeated the cult. The bad news: all of the kids who have been sacrificed in years' past pretty much died with the hotel.]]
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* The entirety of "Catching Cold": The young boy that mail man was talking about? [[spoiler: He was the creepy old fat guy. He was trapped in the truck for over thirty years, waiting for someone as obsessed with ice cream as he was to take his place since the ice-cream truck "needs a soul" in order to survive. Imagine putting up with that [[HellIsThatNoise demented ice-cream jingle]] for over ''thirty years''.]]
** And of course [[spoiler: "It's all you can eat!"]] repeated over and over.
* In ''Alien Candy'', the main character [[spoiler: has one of his pinky toes ''bitten off'']] and the ending is a rather nightmarish IAteWhat
* In "Afraid of Clowns", the dream scene where the clown [[spoiler: cuts off his freaking hand!?]]
** [[spoiler:And the end, in which the boy's family reveals that they're clowns and the whole circus act is his rite of passage into becoming a man. Usually in stories like "Vampire Breath," the kid accepts the fact and likes that he'll be a vampire when he hits puberty, but in this story, the boy is cuolrophobic and absolutely hates the idea of becoming what he fears most.]]
* How about "Scary Mary"? Mary in the mirror, the masks, The Faceless Girls and [[BodyHorror Scary Mary's face]] were all ''terrifying''. There's also something very disturbing about being so obsessed with beauty that you're oblivious to ''burning to death''.
* At the end of "Brush With Madness" it's revealed that [[spoiler: the entire episode was a comic written by an eccentric graphic novelist named Allan Miller who was upset over having an obsessive fan, so he decided to get rid of him -- and the fan's friend [[DidNotEatTheMousse who didn't do anything to Allan Miller (and even tried to convince her comic book geek friend to return the brushes]]) -- by having the work run through a paper shredder.]]
* "Sick": The idea of a little boy trapped with an unseen EldritchAbomination, and [[spoiler: the government being willing to sacrifice ''him'' and gas his whole house just to kill it.]] And the final scene where the boy wakes up and thinks it was AllJustADream... [[spoiler: Until the morning-news show hosts come back suddenly on TV (again) and tell him that--'''NO''', ''[[SubvertedTrope this is not a dream]]'' and the government really is going to '''BLOW UP''' his house and ''everyone'' in it. The last thing the boy sees and hears before getting killed is a bright white light and a flat line.]]
* "Mascot", which has Willie trying to get rid of the school's old mascot Big Yellow, and somewhere down the line wonders who's under the costume. [[spoiler: There's ''no one'' under the costume, because the costume ''is alive'' and eats Willie. [[AndIMustScream It also appears that the people either don't die or at least aren't digested immediately after they're eaten]].]]
* "Scarecrow" has the most messed up ending ever, in which [[spoiler: a scarecrow -- who turns out to be the man who sold the scarecrow to Jenny and her brother -- rids the world of everyone and everything in the world, except for Jenny's brother. The scarecrow man tells Jenny's brother that he was spared so that way he can join him in watching the world come to an end. In the original ending, the brother sets fire to the scarecrow and walks away. In an alternate ending, the brother is turned into a scarecrow]].
* "The Perfect Brother" Matt and Josh are brothers, very nice brothers -- but Matt seems ''too'' perfect and their parents are always complaining about their grades. Josh sees [[spoiler: Matt's legs 'taken away' by the facility]] as he's a non-functioning ''robot''. He escapes from the robot facility and the staff take a protesting Josh home to his own parents. It soon turns out that [[TomatoInTheMirror Josh]] is the only [[spoiler: ''human'' in their family and that his ''friend'' was fake.]] It isn't long before Josh's [[spoiler: robotic parents declare ''him'' defective and 'just an experiment' as they toss him in a crate (presumably headed to the ''same'' facility)]].
* "The Cast": Take your pick: [[spoiler: A revelation that the Cat-Lady cursed Lex into making his cast into a ''rats' nest'' for her pet cats, Lex later sawing his own cast off- and, his arm, according to paramedics- just to get the cast off, the rats afterwards appearing in the ambulance, or the fact that, even though Lex confessed that he was the one who threw eggs at the cat lady's house, he'll be haunted by those rats.]]
* "Red Eye": A little girl named Georgia has been getting pictures from her father who's doing work abroad. Eventually, a shadowy, demonic figure called an Alp ''begins appearing'' in the background of each photo, steadily getting closer (and closer) to her father. As Georgia gets more and more scared, [[AdultsAreUseless and her mother refuses to listen to her concerns]], she's worried that monster followed her father home. The truth, revealed in the last second of the episode is far worse.
-->'''Georgia's Dad:''' [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession ''Daddy's not here]].'']]
** What's worse, that's final scene of this episode. [[spoiler: The screen blacks out as we hear Georgia's ''screams''.]]
* The BiggerBad in ''Girl in the Painting''; [[spoiler: it's a dragon -- or some kind of reptilian creature -- that basically holds the girl and her mother hostage, and they have to lure people from the real world in so they can feed the beast and not end up as dinner themselves.]]
* "Checking Out": [[spoiler:A family on vacation stop by this really fancy hotel run by a cult that brainwashes parents into forgetting that they have children and sacrifice the children by tossing them into a room with a white void in it hidden behind a large painting of the hotel's founder. The story itself is a more twisted version of the first episode of ''TheNightmareRoom'' episode "Don't Forget Me." The good news is: the family came out alive and defeated the cult. The bad news: all of the kids who have been sacrificed in years' past pretty much died with the hotel.]]
* The DirectorsCut of ''Spaceman''. Whereas Aaron was sympathetic to the woman trying to cling to the memories of her deceased, space-loving son in the original version, the DirectorsCut [[spoiler: had him realize that the woman was frickin' insane, but before he can do anything about it, she locks him in with her son's corpse and Aaron is forced to play "Spaceman" with the dead boy forever.]]
* "Terrible Love" starts out as more of a supernatural comedy about a girl named Maggie who summons Cupid to help her make a popular boy in science class fall for her and only her, but it does get dark when (despite Cupid's warning and speech about the consequences of a second dose. Keep in mind the alleged "love potion" in these arrows are all dopamine, adrenaline, and serotonin, all of which are real human hormones that go into overdrive whenever strong emotions are at play), Brendon gets another hit with one of Cupid's love arrows, especially when he gives Maggie a tarantula that bites her on the neck or when he chases after her when she tries to explain that she got Cupid to do her dirty work for her and that the two should just break up (though it may seem a little {{Narm}}y as he's calling out pet names to her). Then there's the part where Cupid removes the love spell from Brendon and he ends up falling down the stairs. Thankfully, he doesn't die from it, but it is implied that he's out of school for a few days so he can recover from his injuries in the hospital.
** What's ''really'' disturbing about this episode is that the themes about love being a scary and dangerous thing when mixed with possessiveness, jealousy, insanity, and rejection is a RealLife problem. If you took away Cupid from this story, it'd be a Lifetime Movie of the Week or a very special episode of ''Degrassi''. The only thing that makes it an R.L. Stine story is that (a) a mythical creature (Cupid) is involved, (b) while it does make a good point about possessiveness, jealously, and insanity being a bad mix with love, the moral doesn't come off as {{Anvilicious}}, and (c) it has a twist ending that's kinda funny in a sick way: [[spoiler:Maggie excuses herself from class to confront Cupid about what he did to Brendon, and meets a nerd in her chemistry class named Stuart, who comforts her after she admits that she didn't want to be alone and that she's glad to see someone after what happened to Brendon. Stuart assures her she'll find love again -- and who should appear, but Cupid, giving Maggie a taste of her own medicine and cursing her to fall for Stuart the same way she cursed Brendon to fall for her.]]
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* The entirety of "Catching Cold": The young boy that mail man was talking about? [[spoiler: He was the creepy old fat guy. He was trapped in the truck for over thirty years, waiting for someone as obsessed with ice cream as he was to take his place since the ice-cream truck "needs a soul" in order to survive. Imagine putting up with that [[HellIsThatNoise demented ice-cream jingle]] for over ''thirty years''.]]
** And of course [[spoiler: "It's all you can eat!"]] repeated over and over.
* In ''Alien Candy'', the main character [[spoiler: has one of his pinky toes ''bitten off'']] and the ending is a rather nightmarish IAteWhat
* In "Afraid of Clowns", the dream scene where the clown [[spoiler: cuts off his freaking hand!?]]
** [[spoiler:And the end, in which the boy's family reveals that they're clowns and the whole circus act is his rite of passage into becoming a man. Usually in stories like "Vampire Breath," the kid accepts the fact and likes that he'll be a vampire when he hits puberty, but in this story, the boy is cuolrophobic and absolutely hates the idea of becoming what he fears most.]]
* How about "Scary Mary"? Mary in the mirror, the masks, The Faceless Girls and [[BodyHorror Scary Mary's face]] were all ''terrifying''. There's also something very disturbing about being so obsessed with beauty that you're oblivious to ''burning to death''.
* At the end of "Brush With Madness" it's revealed that [[spoiler: the entire episode was a comic written by an eccentric graphic novelist named Allan Miller who was upset over having an obsessive fan, so he decided to get rid of him -- and the fan's friend [[DidNotEatTheMousse who didn't do anything to Allan Miller (and even tried to convince her comic book geek friend to return the brushes]]) -- by having the work run through a paper shredder.]]
* "Sick": The idea of a little boy trapped with an unseen EldritchAbomination, and [[spoiler: the government being willing to sacrifice ''him'' and gas his whole house just to kill it.]] And the final scene where the boy wakes up and thinks it was AllJustADream... [[spoiler: Until the morning-news show hosts come back suddenly on TV (again) and tell him that--'''NO''', ''[[SubvertedTrope this is not a dream]]'' and the government really is going to '''BLOW UP''' his house and ''everyone'' in it. The last thing the boy sees and hears before getting killed is a bright white light and a flat line.]]
* "Mascot", which has Willie trying to get rid of the school's old mascot Big Yellow, and somewhere down the line wonders who's under the costume. [[spoiler: There's ''no one'' under the costume, because the costume ''is alive'' and eats Willie. [[AndIMustScream It also appears that the people either don't die or at least aren't digested immediately after they're eaten]].]]
* "Scarecrow" has the most messed up ending ever, in which [[spoiler: a scarecrow -- who turns out to be the man who sold the scarecrow to Jenny and her brother -- rids the world of everyone and everything in the world, except for Jenny's brother. The scarecrow man tells Jenny's brother that he was spared so that way he can join him in watching the world come to an end. In the original ending, the brother sets fire to the scarecrow and walks away. In an alternate ending, the brother is turned into a scarecrow]].
* "The Perfect Brother" Matt and Josh are brothers, very nice brothers -- but Matt seems ''too'' perfect and their parents are always complaining about their grades. Josh sees [[spoiler: Matt's legs 'taken away' by the facility]] as he's a non-functioning ''robot''. He escapes from the robot facility and the staff take a protesting Josh home to his own parents. It soon turns out that [[TomatoInTheMirror Josh]] is the only [[spoiler: ''human'' in their family and that his ''friend'' was fake.]] It isn't long before Josh's [[spoiler: robotic parents declare ''him'' defective and 'just an experiment' as they toss him in a crate (presumably headed to the ''same'' facility)]].
* "The Cast": Take your pick: [[spoiler: A revelation that the Cat-Lady cursed Lex into making his cast into a ''rats' nest'' for her pet cats, Lex later sawing his own cast off- and, his arm, according to paramedics- just to get the cast off, the rats afterwards appearing in the ambulance, or the fact that, even though Lex confessed that he was the one who threw eggs at the cat lady's house, he'll be haunted by those rats.]]
* "Red Eye": A little girl named Georgia has been getting pictures from her father who's doing work abroad. Eventually, a shadowy, demonic figure called an Alp ''begins appearing'' in the background of each photo, steadily getting closer (and closer) to her father. As Georgia gets more and more scared, [[AdultsAreUseless and her mother refuses to listen to her concerns]], she's worried that monster followed her father home. The truth, revealed in the last second of the episode is far worse.
-->'''Georgia's Dad:''' [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession ''Daddy's not here]].'']]
** What's worse, that's final scene of this episode. [[spoiler: The screen blacks out as we hear Georgia's ''screams''.]]
* The BiggerBad in ''Girl in the Painting''; [[spoiler: it's a dragon -- or some kind of reptilian creature -- that basically holds the girl and her mother hostage, and they have to lure people from the real world in so they can feed the beast and not end up as dinner themselves.]]
* "Checking Out": [[spoiler:A family on vacation stop by this really fancy hotel run by a cult that brainwashes parents into forgetting that they have children and sacrifice the children by tossing them into a room with a white void in it hidden behind a large painting of the hotel's founder. The story itself is a more twisted version of the first episode of ''TheNightmareRoom'' episode "Don't Forget Me." The good news is: the family came out alive and defeated the cult. The bad news: all of the kids who have been sacrificed in years' past pretty much died with the hotel.]]
* The DirectorsCut of ''Spaceman''. Whereas Aaron was sympathetic to the woman trying to cling to the memories of her deceased, space-loving son in the original version, the DirectorsCut [[spoiler: had him realize that the woman was frickin' insane, but before he can do anything about it, she locks him in with her son's corpse and Aaron is forced to play "Spaceman" with the dead boy forever.]]
* "Terrible Love" starts out as more of a supernatural comedy about a girl named Maggie who summons Cupid to help her make a popular boy in science class fall for her and only her, but it does get dark when (despite Cupid's warning and speech about the consequences of a second dose. Keep in mind the alleged "love potion" in these arrows are all dopamine, adrenaline, and serotonin, all of which are real human hormones that go into overdrive whenever strong emotions are at play), Brendon gets another hit with one of Cupid's love arrows, especially when he gives Maggie a tarantula that bites her on the neck or when he chases after her when she tries to explain that she got Cupid to do her dirty work for her and that the two should just break up (though it may seem a little {{Narm}}y as he's calling out pet names to her). Then there's the part where Cupid removes the love spell from Brendon and he ends up falling down the stairs. Thankfully, he doesn't die from it, but it is implied that he's out of school for a few days so he can recover from his injuries in the hospital.
** What's ''really'' disturbing about this episode is that the themes about love being a scary and dangerous thing when mixed with possessiveness, jealousy, insanity, and rejection is a RealLife problem. If you took away Cupid from this story, it'd be a Lifetime Movie of the Week or a very special episode of ''Degrassi''. The only thing that makes it an R.L. Stine story is that (a) a mythical creature (Cupid) is involved, (b) while it does make a good point about possessiveness, jealously, and insanity being a bad mix with love, the moral doesn't come off as {{Anvilicious}}, and (c) it has a twist ending that's kinda funny in a sick way: [[spoiler:Maggie excuses herself from class to confront Cupid about what he did to Brendon, and meets a nerd in her chemistry class named Stuart, who comforts her after she admits that she didn't want to be alone and that she's glad to see someone after what happened to Brendon. Stuart assures her she'll find love again -- and who should appear, but Cupid, giving Maggie a taste of her own medicine and cursing her to fall for Stuart the same way she cursed Brendon to fall for her.]]
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