History Series / TalesFromTheDarkside

** Cybil in ''Anniversary Dinner'' fails to notice that her hosts [[spoiler: are cooking her alive in their "hot tub". They even throw in alcohol and vegetable pieces in with her tub and she ''still doesn't get the idea'' that they're going to eat her. In fairness, she ''was'' in a relaxed state due to the water temperature, and she had been getting drunk on Henry's homeade booze, while they were cooking her, but still.]]

** As part of their scheme against Edward in "The Madness Room", Cathy and Michael take him into the titual room, and pretend to get in contact with the ghost of Benjamin Fairchild[[note]]the home's original owner[[/note]]. Among the messages Ben "tells" Cathy and Michael is [[spoiler:to lock the door to the room behind them, and to take the key and drop it down a crack on the floor]]. By the end of the episode, [[spoiler:after Edward (now dying of a heart attack) [[RatherDieThanBeKilled spites them both by setting the room on fire]], Cathy and Michael attempt to escape, only to learn they don't have a second key]]. It is here where Cathy decides to ask a question:

** Cybil in ''Anniversary Dinner'' fails to notice that her hosts [[spoiler: are cooking her alive in their "hot tub". They even throw in alcohol and vegetable pieces in with her tub and she ''still doesn't get the idea'' that they're going to eat her. In fairness, she was somewhat drunk while they were cooking her, but still.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:The fate of "The Spirit Photographer."]]

** As part of their scheme against Edward in "The Madness Room", Cathy and Michael take him into the titual room, and pretend to get in contact with the ghost of Benjamin Fairchild[[note]]the home's original owner[[/note]]. Among the messages Ben "tells" Cathy and Michael is [[spoiler:to lock the door to the room behind them, and to take the key and drop it down a crack on the floor]]. By the end of the episode, [[spoiler:after Edward (now dying of a heart attack) [[RatherDieThanBeKilled spites them both by setting the room on fire[[/note]], Cathy and Michael attempt to escape, only to learn they don't have a second key]]. It is here where Cathy decides to ask a question:

** The plot of "Monsters in My Room" sees Tommy dealing with the fact that... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guess.]] Eventually, [[spoiler:he gets so fed up that he ''calls out'' said monsters, and when his stepdad enters his room to abuse him, the monsters proceed to kill him]]. By the end of the episode, [[spoiler:the trope winds up being inverted of sorts: Tommy isn't afraid of the monsters, but ''the monsters'' are afraid of ''Tommy'']].

--->'''Michael''': [[spoiler:[[RealAfterAll (confused) I didn't spell it out! I thought you did!]]]]

** Also see FamousLastWords abovr.

--->'''Cathy''': [[spoiler:(beginning to choke on the smoke) [[OhCrap No...]]]]][[note]]The implication being, of course, that [[spoiler:Ben ''was'' talking to them...]][[/note]]

** As part of their scheme against Edward in "The Madness Room", Cathy and Michael take him into the titual room, and pretend to get in contact with the ghost of Benjamin Fairchild[[note]]the home's original owner[[/note]]. Among the messages Ben "tells" Cathy and Michael is [[spoiler:to lock the door to the room behind them, and to take the key and drop it down a crack on the floor[[/note]]. By the end of the episode, [[spoiler:after Edward (now dying of a heart attack) [[RatherDieThanBeKilled spites them both by setting the room on fire[[/note]], Cathy and Michael attempt to escape, only to learn they don't have a second key]]. It is here where Cathy decides to ask a question:

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''a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit... '''A DARKSIDE'''."''\\
--'''OpeningNarration'''

** Cybil in ''Anniversary Dinner'' fails to notice that her hosts [[spoiler: are cooking her alive in their "hot tub". They even throw in alcohol and vegetable pieces in with her tub and she ''still doesn't get the idea'' that they're going to eat her.]]
** Fenton in "A New Lease on Life" moves into an apartment complex with AmbiguouslyEvil workers committing bizarre actions every day, yet he doesn't suspect anything strange from it. [[spoiler: Then, when the Apartment is revealed to be alive the first thing he does is... piss it off by trying ''to kill it''. Apparently, it never occurred to him that attacking a sentient building would result in his death.]]

** In "Inside the Closet", Gale is a young college student moving into a questionable professor's apartment. [[spoiler: She gets killed by a monster living in the professor's closet, which turned out to be ''his pet''. He intended to have this girl move in with him so he could feed her to his monster. The next morning, he dismisses her death and keeps it secret when her mother, worried where her daughter disappeared to, calls to find her. [[NightmareFuel Then, it's implied that she was not the first or last victim of his monster in the end.]]]]

* BaitAndSwitch: At first, near the end of "Inside the Closet", you ''assume'' that [[spoiler:Dr. Fenner is the next to be killed by the monster]]. As it happens, ''[[spoiler:it's his pet]]''.

** Half of the twist for "Inside the Closet" hinges on this: Gail discovers to her horror that the noises she keeps hearing at night in the room she is renting from Dr. Fenner is a small monster [[spoiler:that proceeds to murder her]]. The ''other'' half is the ending reveal that [[spoiler:said monster is his pet]].

* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: In ''Miss May Dusa'', Jimmy Jones confesses his feelings for Medusa after getting shot.]]

* HeelFaceDoorslam: [[spoiler: Medusa]] in ''Miss May Dusa''.

* WhamLine: Right at the end of "A Choice of Dreams", as Jake Corelli is undergoing the procedure [[BrainInAJar to keep his brain alive forever]], the doctor, Michaelson, decides to start talking aloud.
-->'''Michaelson''': You are not a nice man, Mr. Corelli. Not nice at all. [[spoiler:[[IronicHell But then, none of my clients are.]]]]

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The moral in "The Tear Collector" involves a woman trying to stop herself from crying to much. With some help from the titular collector, she learns to overcome her depression and restore her faith in life.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: In "A Choice of Dreams", a mobster, Jake Corelli, is dying of terminal illness and attempts to cheat death by salvaging his mind in an unethical experiment.

* YourSoulIsMine: [[spoiler: After trying everything to stop "The Cutty Black Sow" from coming after the souls of his family, the demon takes ''his soul'' instead in the CruelTwistEnding.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: A common trope in the series. The cheater usually gets what's coming to them.

** [[spoiler: Caroline in "The Unhappy Medium"]] may seem like a morally conservative, devout Christian who only wants the best for her family. However, near the end she reveals her true colors as an uncaring, [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]], [[StrawHypocrite sinful]], monster who's willing to throw her own daughter and husband into Hell just to save her own skin. [[spoiler: However, she fails the SecretTestOfCharacter because of this revelation and ends up DraggedOffToHell.]]

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Keena from ''Ring Around the Red Head'' is an attractive alien who doesn't understand human modesty and gets [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace really close]] to the main protagonist.

** "Ring Around the Red-Head": Just when things look hopeless and our protagonist is about to be executed for a crime he didn't commit [[spoiler: his alien girlfriend returns at the last minute to take him away to her home planet where they live happily ever after. There really ''is no twist'', she actually takes him to live a new life together.]]

* BlackBestFriend: Frank's best friend in "Levitation", who also acts as the OnlySaneMan.

* TheLostLenore: The Mummy in "The Grave Robbers" had a crush on a girl in his past, but he [[CannotSpitItOut never admitted his feelings for her]] before [[MonsterSobStory becoming the cursed guardian of the tomb]]. [[{{Jerkass}} Harold]] [[KickTheDog mocks him]] for it, but his girlfriend takes pity on him. [[spoiler: The mummy gets over it when he escapes from the tomb and moves on with [[KickTheSonOfABitch Harold's girlfriend]].]]