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* AmbiguousSituation: If the fish are from the past and have been long since deceased, how was the Young Man able to become a ghost, like them? In the original short story, the Old Man was able to do this by riding himself of the impurities of the modern world, even removing his own ''teeth'', but here the young man was able to join them just by removing his clothes.
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* AmbiguousSituation: If the fish are from the past and have been long since deceased, how was the Young Man able to become a ghost, like them? In the original short story, the Old Man was able to do this by riding ridding himself of the impurities of the modern world, even removing his own ''teeth'', but here the young man was able to join them just by removing his clothes.
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* GiantEyeOfDoom: The first sight of the sea creatures is a shot of a huge eye staring at the old man through the car window.
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* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The ghostly fish and other marine live swim through the sky as if it were still an ocean. Somehow, the young man is able to join them.
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* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The ghostly fish and other marine live life swim through the sky as if it were still an ocean. Somehow, the young man is able to join them.
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* AmbiguousSituation: If the fish are from the past and have been long since deceased, how was the Young Man able to become a ghost, like them? In the original short story, the Old Man was able to do this by riding himself of the impurities of the modern world, even removing his own ''teeth'', but here the young man was able to join them just by removing his clothes.
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* DownerEnding: Unable to hear the Old Mans's warning, the Young Man is eaten by a ghost shark, leaving the Old Man devastated.
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* DownerEnding: Unable to hear the Old Mans's Man's warning, the Young Man is eaten by a ghost shark, leaving the Old Man devastated.devastated and alone. It's also unclear what will become of the Old Man, as the radiator of the car they were traveling in is still busted, meaning he will have to walk back several miles to the nearest station.
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* SkinnyDipping: Since they didn't bring any swimsuits, the young man strips naked when he decides to join the ghost fish for their night time swim.
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* SkinnyDipping: Since they didn't bring any swimsuits, the young man strips naked when he decides to join the ghost fish for their night time nighttime swim.
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* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: The Young Man's excitement to swim with the fish without considering the consequences of it is ultimately what seals his fate.
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* DownerEnding: Unable to hear the Old Mans's warning, the Young Man is eaten by a ghost shark, leaving the Old Man devastated.
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* DeathByAdaptation: The young man survived the original short story; here he is eaten.
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* DeathByAdaptation: The young man survived the original short story; story as it was the older man who decided to join the sea-life; here he is eaten. eaten instead.
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* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Justified, since the animals are ghosts.
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* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: The sea-life flies through the air. Justified, since the animals are ghosts.
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* FossilRevival: Not exactly, but the idea is similar.
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* FossilRevival: Not exactly, since the prehistoric sea-life are all ghosts, but the idea is similar.
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* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The ghostly fish and other marine live swim through the sky as if it where still an ocean. Somehow, the young man is able to join them.
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* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The ghostly fish and other marine live swim through the sky as if it where were still an ocean. Somehow, the young man is able to join them.
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* FormulaBreakingEpisode: A mind-screwy GhostStory in a predominately sci-fi anthology, applying an unique style of animation to it.
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* FormulaBreakingEpisode: A mind-screwy GhostStory in a predominately sci-fi anthology, applying an a unique style of animation to it.
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* FormulaBreakingEpisode: A mind-screwy GhostStory in a predominately sci-fi anthology, applying an unique style of animation to it.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: A mind-screwy GhostStory in a predominately sci-fi anthology, applying an unique style of animation to it.
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* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Justified, since the animals are ghosts
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* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Justified, since the animals are ghostsghosts.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: There are ghosts of many marine animals that lived in the place over the course of earth's history.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: There are ghosts of many marine animals that lived in the place over the course of earth's Earth's history.
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* ThreateningShark: The young man is ambushed and consumed by a ghostly, prehistoric shark.
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* ThreateningShark: The young man is ambushed and consumed by a ghostly, prehistoric shark. shark; despite numerous other prehistoric marine predators being among the ghosts, the shark is the only one to be actively hostile.
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* DeathByAdaptation: The young man survived the original short story; here he is eaten.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation / DeathByAdaptation: In the original story it was the old man who got eaten,not the young one.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation / DeathByAdaptation: SparedByTheAdaptation: In the original story it was the old man who got eaten,not eaten, not the young one.one. Here the young one gets the chomp while the old one lives.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation / DeathByAdaptation: In the original story it was the old man who got eaten,not the young one.
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Kirk Thornton voices the old man and Creator/YuriLowenthal voices the young man.
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* StockDesertInterstate: The episode begins with the traveling salesmen's car breaking down somewhere in the Arizona desert. Since it's too hot to walk back to a gas station in the day, they plan to wait the night out there and start walking in the early morning.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: A mind-screwy GhostStory in a predominately sci-fi anthology, applying an unique style of animation to it.
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* IfItSwimsItFlies: The ghostly fish have no trouble 'swimming' through the air.
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* TheAllegedCar: The plot is kicked off when the car that the two men are driving in breaks down in the middle of the Arizona desert, forcing them to spend the night there.
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* SkinnyDipping: Since they didn't bring any swimsuits, the young man strips naked when he decides to join the ghost fish for their night time swim.
* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The ghostly fish and other marine live swim through the sky as if it where still an ocean. Somehow, the young man is able to join them.
* TheSkyIsAnOcean: The ghostly fish and other marine live swim through the sky as if it where still an ocean. Somehow, the young man is able to join them.
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* AnachronismStew: Justified, since the prehistoric animals are the ghosts of every animal that lived in the place since the dawn of time.
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* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Justified, since the animals are ghosts
* FossilRevival: Not exactly, but the idea is similar.
* FossilRevival: Not exactly, but the idea is similar.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: There are ghosts of many marine animals that lived in the place over the course of earth's history.
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* BloodIsSquickerInWater: This happens when the shark eats the son, even though there's no water.
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* BloodIsSquickerInWater: This happens when the shark eats the son, young man, even though there's no water.
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* MindScrew: Ghostly fish come out at night, the man's son somehow swims up to join them, then a ghost shark eats him.
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* MindScrew: Ghostly fish come out at night, the man's son young man somehow swims up to join them, then a ghost shark eats him.
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A pair of traveling salesmen happen upon something extraordinary when they are stranded in the Arizona desert.
desert. Based on the short story of the same name by Joe Landsale.
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->''"If the ghosts of people can haunt a house, well, why can't the ghost of creatures haunt where they once lived?"''
A pair of traveling salesmen happen upon something extraordinary when they are stranded in the Arizona desert.
Kirk Thornton voices the old man and Creator/YuriLowenthal voices the young man.
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* BloodIsSquickerInWater: This happens when the shark eats the son, even though there's no water.
* IcarusAllusion: The young man, overjoyed at the concept of swimming with the prehistoric creatures, ventures upward to join them despite the old man's warning. Cue the shark about to eat him.
* MindScrew: Ghostly fish come out at night, the man's son somehow swims up to join them, then a ghost shark eats him.
* MinimalistCast: Only two characters and some animals appear.
* NamelessNarrative: The protagonists are just credited as "Old Man" and "Young Man".
* ThreateningShark: The young man is ambushed and consumed by a ghostly, prehistoric shark.
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A pair of traveling salesmen happen upon something extraordinary when they are stranded in the Arizona desert.
Kirk Thornton voices the old man and Creator/YuriLowenthal voices the young man.
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!!Tropes:
* BloodIsSquickerInWater: This happens when the shark eats the son, even though there's no water.
* IcarusAllusion: The young man, overjoyed at the concept of swimming with the prehistoric creatures, ventures upward to join them despite the old man's warning. Cue the shark about to eat him.
* MindScrew: Ghostly fish come out at night, the man's son somehow swims up to join them, then a ghost shark eats him.
* MinimalistCast: Only two characters and some animals appear.
* NamelessNarrative: The protagonists are just credited as "Old Man" and "Young Man".
* ThreateningShark: The young man is ambushed and consumed by a ghostly, prehistoric shark.
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