History Recap / TalesFromTheCryptS2E2TheSwitch

This episode was directed by Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, who appears in the opening scene with the Crypt Keeper to properly introduce it.

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Carlton Webster, a very rich, very elderly man, is obsessed with Linda, a beautiful young woman whom he wants to marry. After admitting his feelings to Linda, but lying about his fortune to make sure that her love for him is genuine, Linda says that Carlton could never be in a relationship with her. Thinking that she's referring to his aged apperance, and as a means to appeal to her request, Carlton decides to visit a mad scientist, and spends his fortune on a series of surgeries that will let him swap bodies with a musclebound Adonis by the name of Hans.

* MadDoctor: Carlton visits one of them to have a face, torso, and lower body transplant on three seperate occasions.

* RuleOfThree: Carlton goes through three separate rejections by Linda, and thus goes through three separate surgeries in the mad doctor's lab to become a musclebound hunk.

->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(wearing a headband and struggling to lift a dumbbell made of bones)'' Welcome, horror hooligans. This is your shiver chef. It's ''disgusting'' what people will do to stay young!
->''(Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, wearing a'' Tales From the Crypt ''shirt, suddenly appears next to him)''
->'''Arnold:''' What's the matter with you? Want to keep that 90-pound corpse for the rest of your death? Keep pumping while ''I'' tell the story! ''(as the Crypt Keeper gets back to pumping; to the viewers)'' Tonight's story is about an old man who finds a new wrinkle in the fountain of youth. A twisted tale that we call: '''The Switch.'''

Carlton Webster, a rich elderly man, is obsessed with Linda, a beautiful young woman whom he wants to marry. After admitting his feelings to Linda, but lying about his fortune to make sure her love is genuinely for him, Linda says that Carlton is way too old to be in a relationship with her. To appeal to her request, he decides to visit a mad scientist, and spends his fortune on several surgeries that will allow him to be young again. This episode was directed by Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, who appears in the opening scene with the Crypt Keeper.

* AgeGapRomance: Carlton, who is madly and desperately in love with Linda, is old enough to be her grandfather. She even brings this up when Carlton meets with her.
* AllForNothing: After spending all of his money to switch bodies with Hans to impress Linda, Carlton finds out that Linda is married to Hans, who now has Carlton's old body and lavish lifestyle.
* AutopsySnackTime: The MadDoctor is shown casually slicing up salami for a sandwich in the same room where he is about to perform surgery.
* BadassNormal: With his new body, Carlton fights off a couple of would-be carjackers and throws one over the roof of his Bentley with ease. He can do exercises such as running, pull ups, and weightlifting, feats which wouldn't have been possible in his old body.
* CreatorCameo: Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger appears with the Crypt Keeper in his tomb to introduce the episode, as he is its director.
* EverybodyLives: A rare example for this series. All of the characters in this episode are alive from start to finish.
* EvilLaugh: Hans gives one when Carlton sees Linda is married to him, now with Carlton's old body and his fortune.
* FaceHeelTurn: Carlton's butler Fulton, who was the only person trying to convince Carlton that he was embarking on a fool's crusade, ends up working for Hans when he gets Carlton's fortune.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Thanks to the repeated surgeries, Carlton and Hans gradually switch bodies with one another.
* GeniusBruiser: While Hans is noted to be the perfect specimen of masculinity, the MadDoctor also notes that he has a very powerful brain.
* GenreSavvy: Fulton, Carlton's butler, is the only person who questions Carlton about his crush on Linda and whether he's doing the right thing regarding the surgery, correctly deducing that his boss has been blinded by his crush on an obvious GoldDigger.
* GoldDigger: At first, it seems that Linda doesn't want to be with Carlton cause he's too old for her, but it's later revealed to be because Carlton never told her that he was rich, since he wanted her to love him for who he was and not for his money. Unfortunately, Carlton learns this far too late, after discovering that Linda has married the now old and newly rich Hans.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Carlton is devoted to Linda, who is actually a blatant GoldDigger. The only reason that Linda doesn't want to marry him, besides his age, is that he lies about being rich as a way to be sure that she loves him for ''him'' and not his money. When she keeps denying him marriage due to different parts of his aged body, Carlton ends up spending his entire fortune to get Linda to love him. But in the end, he finds out Linda's true self far too late.
* {{Irony}}: Carlton spends his entire fortune on a younger body for Linda, only for her to be with someone who has his old body and his money. He could've had her from the very beginning if he simply said he was rich, but of course, he wanted her to love him for himself instead.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Carlton is head over heels in love with Linda, and gradually spends all of his money on surgically swapping bodies with a muscleman to win her over. In the end, he was unable to sense that she's a GoldDigger, as she's since married Hans, who now has Carlton's old body and his fortune. Fulton the butler even brings this up a few times, noting that love has been known to make people ignorant and blind.
* MadDoctor: Carlton visits a mad doctor who performs a face, then a torso, and finally a lower body transplant on him.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Carlton intentionally doesn't tell Linda that he's a millionaire because he wants to be certain that she loves his personality and not his money. Upon hearing her say that she could never be with someone like him, Carlton eventually spends his entire fortune to be given the body of Hans, but when he finally returns to Linda, she has married Hans, who now has Carlton's body and his fortune, and thereby revealing herself to have been a GoldDigger from the very start. Carlton could've had her in seconds if he only told her the truth, but his certainty in wanting to make sure that Linda's love for him was genuine was his own undoing.
* RayOfHopeEnding: As noted in the EsotericHappyEnding, Carlton may be broke, but he dodged marrying a woman who didn't love him, has his youth back, and could possibly rebuild his wealth with enough time to enjoy it.
* RuleOfThree: Carlton goes through three separate rejections by Linda, and thus goes through three separate surgeries to become a musclebound hunk.

* TaeKwonDoor: When a street gang attempts to carjack Carlton in his newly young body, he slams one of them in the face with the car door.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Carlton visits a MadDoctor to have a young face transplanted on to him. The doctor tells him how he had successfully performed this operation in his native land, but everyone in America just called him a charlatan and laughed him out of the medical community, but he vows that they would one day have to acknowledge his brilliance.

->'''Crypt Keeper:''' Poor Carlton. Looks like he blew it! But no pain, no gain! I like a body that's nice and... ''strong.'' ''(to a corpse covered under a blanket)'' It's your lucky day, fella. We want to '''''pump''''' you up! ''(he cackles and begins pumping the corpse with embalming fluid)''