History Series / FreddysNightmares

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Randy Jennings, the teenager from "Dream Come True", is offhandedly mentioned to have died towards the end of the first segment of the SequelEpisode, "Dreams That Kill".]]

* AnachronicOrder: [[Spoiler:John Johnson and his wife Debbie are shown alive in "It's My Party and You'll Die If I Want You To" despite being killed in the last segment of "Photo Finish"]].

* AmbiguousSituation: Due to the plot twist of "Identity Crisis"' second vignette[[note]]Specifically that [[spoiler:the vignette never actually happened; it was in reality a fantasy Christina has been stuck in due to being in a vegetative state in an orphanage ever since surviving a house fire as a child which killed her parents]].[[/note]], it's unclear if the ''first'' vignette[[note]]where a former hippie is struggling with having sold out by joining a law firm, and his inability to connect with his son John[[/note]] actually happened [[spoiler:due to the fact that John is a major part of the second vignette's plot as Christina's friend]].

** "No More Mr. Nice Guy" [[spoiler: As expected from a Freddy origin story, but Freddy comes back from the dead and kills Lt. Blocker. Also things are about to get worrse for the town of springwood , now that Freddy is a supernatural force of evil.]]

* Downerending: A lot of episodes end this way such as:

** [[spoiler: Freddy never loses in his episodes]].

-->'''John''': [[spoiler:(confused) I'm the Chopper?]]
-->'''Coach Gacey''': [[spoiler:[[TheScapegoat Yes.]]]]

** Freddy himself.

* AxCrazy: The Chopper in "Do Dreams Bleed?", who runs around Sprinfield at night, chopping his victims with [[AnAxeToGrind an axe]].

* AxeCrazy: The Chopper in "Do Dreams Bleed?", who runs around Sprinfield at night, chopping his victims with [[AnAxeToGrind an axe]].

* HollywoodLaw: The circumstances around the collapse of Freddy's trial in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet the first film]] were already an example of this, but the pilot episode of this series turns the trope UpToEleven, by having the entire case instantly thrown out simply because Freddy claims he wasn't read his rights when he was arrested. In real-life, any remotely competent judge would instantly dismiss Freddy's claims as hearsay unless either the arresting officer confessed to the mistake or a reliable witness confirmed Freddy's account. And even if Freddy's claim ''was'' accepted, it would only render anything that Freddy himself said following his arrest to be inadmissible; it wouldn't affect the eyewitness accounts or the material evidence that the prosecutor presented.

* PetTheDog: "It's My Party and You'll Die If I Want You To" reveals that Freddy had [[OnlyFriend one]] friend growing up, a socially awkward dweeb named Howard who, to this day, insists that Freddy "wasn't such a bad guy, once you got to know him". After an annoyed Freddy murders a Hollywood screenwriter who had wrote a script about him, he lets Harold steal the dead man's screenplay.

* TheEndingChangesEverything: The plot of the first vignette involves a trio of guys going camping in the woods, accompanied by a female guide, Tracker, who one of the guys, Johnny, [[spoiler:believes to be a vampire]]. Just when it starts to shape up that way, [[AllJustADream Johnny proceeds to wake up]]. [[spoiler:Except he ''isn't'' camping; the actual reality is that Johnny is a business man going on a business trip, Tracker was his pilot, and they crashed into a ravine in the woods. The reason he was dreaming of vampires was because they ran out of food, and Tracker was trying to convince him [[IAmAHumanitarian they had to eat the corpses of the other two men]].]]

* DrunkenMaster: Variation: The first vignette of "Judy Miller, Come on Down" implies that Judy managed to win the million dollar prize on "Beat the House"... despite spending the entire show ''daydreaming''.

* WhamShot: Towards the end of "Do Dreams Bleed?"'s second vignette, Roni is alone in her house, terrified of the prospect of [[spoiler:John (who is believed to be]] the "Springwood Chopper" coming to get her, when an axe begins chopping down her bedroom door. As she falls back to the bed in horror, she ducks to the ground... [[spoiler:[[TwistEnding as Coach Gacey, wielding the axe, bursts through, as John tackles him]]]].

* AlternateContinuity: The circumstances of Freddy's death are completely different from what was eventually shown in ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'' and ''Film/FreddyVsJason'', and the finale indicates that the films are just that (films) in this timeline, as the episode ends with Freddy's friend Howard stealing and getting rich off of a script titled ''"A Nightmare on Elm Street"''.

--> '''Freddy:''' That afternoon, my old buddy Howard caught a flight to Hollywood, sold his screenplay, and the rest, as they say, well, the rest is history. Fame, fortune, [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 my life story on the silver screen]]. If my friends could see me now. But, of course, they're all dead.

* BadHumorTruck: The first episode shows that Freddy used an ice cream truck to lure in children.

** Several, most episodes of the second season are either a SequelEpisode or have one. How connected they are to one another varies.

* ActorAllusion: Of course the doctor played by Creator/GeorgeLazenby is [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService associated]] with the Central Inteligence Agency.

** A [[WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}} Gumby]] commercial plays in the episode "The End Of The World." Gumby is later seen melting as a character dreams of a nuclear war. (This may count as a CompanyCrossReference -- ''Gumby'' reruns were being distributed at the time by Lorimar-Telepictures, which also co-produced this show.)

* IKnowMaddenCombat: In one episode, two characters involved in the FakePsychic business perform an exorcism based on their knowledge of ''Film/TheExorcist''. Only problem is that the possessed woman's religion is not Christianity, but money, so they [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments throw money on her chanting "power of money compels you."]]

** A [[WesternAnimation/Gumbi Gumbi]] commercial plays in the episode "The End Of The World." Gumbi is later seen melting as a character dreams of a nuclear war.

* ContinuitySnarl: The pilot has the technicality that gets Freddy off changed from the search warrant not being signed to Freddy not being read his rights.

** A [[WesternAnimation/Gumby Gumbi]] commercial plays in the episode "The End Of The World." Gumbi is later seen melting as a character dreams of a nuclear war.

* RecycledTheSeries: [[ZigZaggedTrope In a very loose sense]]: some episodes take place in Springwood, and some ''do'' involve Freddy in a prominent role, but more often than not, the episodes are just bare-boned horror tales [[InNameOnly with the smallest of connections to "A Nightmare on Elm Street"]].