History WesternAnimation / TalesFromTheCryptKeeper

Despite this, the show has a cult following and episodes can be found on [=YouTube=].

** Season two had slight one by dropping one of the studios[[note]] Funbag; both WangFilmProductions and Creator/BardelEntertainment were kept[[/note]].

* TheBadGuyWins: The episode "The Weeping Woman" ends without the Crypt Keeper getting even with the Old Witch for trying to invade his show, instead having him bursting into tears as he is forced to watch her perform in the opera.

* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: In "Hunted," a {{Jerkass}} hunter is poaching in South America and runs afoul of a supposedly mythical beast. Determined to catch this beast and make a profit, the hunter pursues it deeper and deeper into the jungle. Just when he thinks he has it, the beast springs its own trap to capture him instead. [[spoiler: Turns out the beast was once a JerkAss hunter himself and had been cursed. Forced him to live in the wild, he learned to respect nature and its creatures. He regains his human form and passes the curse onto his captive to start the cycle over again.]]

* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: In "Hunted," a JerkAss hunter is poaching in South America and runs afoul of a supposedly mythical beast. Determined to catch this beast and make a profit, the hunter pursues it deeper and deeper into the jungle. Just when he thinks he has it, the beast springs its own trap to capture him instead. [[spoiler: Turns out the beast was once a JerkAss hunter himself and had been cursed. Forced him to live in the wild, he learned to respect nature and its creatures. He regains his human form and passes the curse onto his captive to start the cycle over again.]]
* JerkAss: There is a fair number of them. You can expect one to appear in just about every episode.

* NeverSayDie: Played with. Some episodes would directly mention death and some would simply imply it. The LighterAndSofter third season, oddly enough, subverted this trope in the episode "Monsters Ate My Homework" when the monsters threatened to eat the boy if he didn't give them homework to eat and explicitly mentioned the monster the boy blamed for eating his homework as having recently passed on.

* BigBadDummvirate[=/=]BigBadEnsemble: The Vault Keeper and the Old Witch were both introduced in the second season as antagonists that tried to steal the spotlight from the Crypt Keeper. Both of them hated each other as much as they hated the Crypt Keeper, but they would occasionally work together.

* TheCameo: During the first season, the Crypt Keeper would sometimes appear briefly ''during'' a story. Unlike in the third season, though, these were usually unimportant to the overall plot (one episode simply shows his face on a penny), but [[spoiler:the end of "The Cat's Away" reveals that the boys had broken into ''his'' spooky house, and they encounter him returning from vacation as they're fleeing in terror.]]

* ADogAteMyHomework: A boy accused a monster instead of a dog. Being an AnimatedAdaptation of TalesFromTheCrypt, that episode actually had monsters who ate homeworks. When one showed up at the boy's home, the boy said another monster showed up before and ate it. The monster then took the boy to monster land to find the monster the boy described. When the boy eventually confessed he didn't do the homework, the monster took the boy home and forced him to do two homeworks: one to be eaten and another to be presented at school.

* JerkAss: a fair number of them.

* {{Leitmotif}}: The Crypt Keeper had one in the first season where a soft, ominous tune would play during his vignettes.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The first episode, "While the Cat's Away", subtly reveals that the Crypt Keeper's real name is [[spoiler: G. Charles Kingman]].

* NothingIsScarier: Due to [[ExecutiveMeddling Standards & Practices giving them a draconian list of things they could not show on television]], (being a kid's show, gore was a given, but the list also had vague generalizations like "Eyeballs floating in a pink ooze" and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "Nothing overly terrifying"]]), so the writers were forced to use this trope [[TropesAreNotBad to great effect.]]

* SiblingSenioritySquabble: Chuck and Melvin. Chuck justifies bossing him around by being the older brother. Melvin always points out Chuck is only ten minutes older.

* WrongGenreSavvy: In "The Sleeping Beauty", for all his awareness of the tropes of a "romantic quest", Chuck apparently forgets that the YoungestChildWins in fairy tales (even if he's only ten minutes younger).

An animated spin-off of ''TalesFromTheCrypt'' that ran for three seasons. The first two were on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1993 to 1994, the last on Creator/{{CBS}} from 1999 to 2000. Unlike its live-action counterpart, ''Cryptkeeper'' usually had kids as the heroes in its stories; therefore, most of the stories had to lack blood and gore. With the horror factor that were more akin to ''{{Goosebumps}}'' and usually having an aesop. During the second season, the show brought in Cryptkeeper's co-[[HorrorHost Horror Hosts]] from the comics, the Old Witch and the Vault Keeper, who would usually try to steal the spotlight away from the Cryptkeeper.

** Season two had slight one by dropping one of the studios[[note]] Funbag; both WangFilmProductions and BardelEntertainment were kept[[/note]].

* NothingIsScarier: Due to [[ExecutiveMeddling Standards & Practices giving them a draconian list of things they could not show on television]], (being a kid's show gore was a given, but the list also had vague generalizations like "Eyeballs floating in a pink ooze" and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "Nothing overly terrifying"]]), so the writers were forced to use this trope [[TropesAreNotBad to great effect.]]

* SadlyMythtaken: "Myth Conceptions," which changes the story of Medusa, though acknowledges so. [[spoiler:Medusa ''heroically'' defended her temple lair from the likes of Perseus, who was trying to rob the treasures within. Oh, and Medusa can shapeshift and can't be turned to stone by looking at her reflection.]]
* SiblingSenioritySquabble: Chuck and Melvin. Chuck justifies bossing him around by being the older brother. Melvin always points out Chuck is only ten seconds older.

* WrongGenreSavvy: In "The Sleeping Beauty", for all his awareness of the tropes of a "romantic quest", Chuck apparently forgets that the YoungestChildWins in fairy tales (even if he's only ten seconds younger).

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Mildred and Camille respectively.

** Season two had slight one by dropping one of the studios[[note]] Funbag; WangFilmProductions and BardelEntertainment were kept[[/note]].

** Also happened in season two to a lesser extent by dropping one of the studios[[note]] Funbag was dropped, leaving WangFilmProductions and BardelEntertainment[[/note]].

** This was even truer in the third season, to the point where it became {{Anvilicious}}.

* TwistEnding: A few episodes had these.

* HeyItsThatVoice: David Hemblen [[WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}} Magneto]]/[[CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture Lord Dread]] is the Vault Keeper.

* HeyItsThatVoice: David Hemblen ([[WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}} Magneto]])/[[CaptainPowerAndTheSoldiersOfTheFuture Lord Dread]] is the Vault Keeper.

An animated spin-off of ''{{Tales from the Crypt}}'' that ran for three seasons. The first two were on {{ABC}} from 1993 to 1994, the last on {{CBS}} from 1999 to 2000. Unlike its live-action counterpart, ''Cryptkeeper'' usually had kids as the heroes in its stories; therefore, most of the stories had to lack blood and gore. With the horror factor that were more akin to ''{{Goosebumps}}'' and usually having an aesop. During the second season, the show brought in Cryptkeeper's co-[[HorrorHost Horror Hosts]] from the comics, the Old Witch and the Vault Keeper, who would usually try to steal the spotlight away from the Cryptkeeper.

!!The show has the following tropes:
* {{Animated Adaptation}}
* {{An Aesop}}: As it was a kids' show, this was pretty mandatory.

* {{Fractured Fairy Tale}}: The Chuck and Melvin episodes.

* {{Gainax Ending}}: The "Game Over" episode.

* HostileShowTakeover: The Old Witch and the Vault Keeper tried this on occasion in Season 2. They rarely succeeded.

* {{JerkAss}}: a fair number of them.
* {{Laser Guided Karma}}: Usually happened to mean or very greedy characters.
* {{Lighter and Softer}}: While the show obviously had to be toned down for its target audience, the third season definitely took this a step further.

* SadlyMythtaken: "Myth Conceptions," which changes the story of Medusa, though acknowledges so. [[spoiler:Medusa ''heroically'' defended her temple lair from the likes of Perseus, who was trying to rob the treasures within. Oh, and Medusa can shapeshift and can't be turned to stone by looking at her reflection.]]

* {{Uncanceled}}: Though it took a four-year hiatus, and the CBS series wasn't exactly well regarded.

** Also happened in season two to a lesser extent by dropping one of the [[hottip:studios: Funbag was dropped, leaving WangFilmProductions and [[VivaPinata Bar]][[ThePrinceOfEgypt del]] [[BobsBurgers Enter]][[{{Chaotic}} tain]][[PlanetSheen ment]]]].

* {{Callback}}: Three sets of characters got more than one episode in the show: Camille and Mildred in ''Fare Tonight'' and ''The Weeping Woman''; Chuck and Melvin in ''The Sleeping Beauty'' and ''Chuck (and Melvin) and the Beanstalker''; and Ben and Mike in ''Ghost Ship'' and ''Transylvania Express''.

* {{Nightmare Fuel}}: Despite the lack of gore, the show (at least the ABC seasons) did manage to be pretty scary.

An animated spin-off of ''{{Tales from the Crypt}}'' that ran for three seasons. The first two were on {{ABC}} from 1993 to 1994, the last on {{CBS}} from 1999 to 2000. Unlike its live-action counterpart, ''Cryptkeeper'' usually had kids as the heroes in its stories; therefore, most of the stories had to lack blood and gore. With the horror factor that were more akin to ''{{Goosebumps}}'' and usually having an aesop. During the second season, the show brought in Cryptkeeper's co-hosts from the comics, the Old Witch and the Vault Keeper, who would usually try to steal the spotlight away from the Cryptkeeper.