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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: The premise of "Dead Men Don't Jump"; the antagonist tricks Nathan into a basketball game where losing means being turned into a zombie at his service.
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** Mr Krump saves Sally in "All the Gory Details"... because she was the one with the camera.
* KarmicTransformation: Happens to the {{Jerkass}} StrawMisogynist reporter in "All the Gory Details". [[spoiler: When his female partner leaves him behind, he tries to expose Dr. Kromwell's creations to the public on his own, only to end up becoming one of Kromwell's creations]].
* KarmicTransformation: Happens to the {{Jerkass}} StrawMisogynist reporter in "All the Gory Details". [[spoiler: When his female partner leaves him behind, he tries to expose Dr. Kromwell's creations to the public on his own, only to end up becoming one of Kromwell's creations]].
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** Happens to the {{Jerkass}} StrawMisogynist reporter Mr Klump in "All the Gory Details". [[spoiler: When his female partner leaves him behind, he tries to expose Dr. Kromwell's creations to the public on his own, only to end up becoming one ofKromwell's creations]].them]].
** Chuck at the end of "Sleeping Beauty" abandons Melvin to the vampires, [[spoiler:only to become a vampire himself]]. [[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better]] by the time of "Chuck (and Melvin) and the Beanstalker", though.
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** Happens to the {{Jerkass}} StrawMisogynist reporter Mr Klump in "All the Gory Details". [[spoiler: When his female partner leaves him behind, he tries to expose Dr. Kromwell's creations to the public on his own, only to end up becoming one of
** Chuck at the end of "Sleeping Beauty" abandons Melvin to the vampires, [[spoiler:only to become a vampire himself]]. [[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better]] by the time of "Chuck (and Melvin) and the Beanstalker", though.
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* DugTooDeep: The premise behind "The Haunted Mine", where workers end up re-opening the titular mine and accidentally unleashing something dangerous. [[spoiler:namely a bunch of vicious troglodyte critters who prey on humans]].
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* FrankensteinsMonster: "All the Gory Details" features ''several'' of them, all created by a MadScientist. [[spoiler:They turn out to not actually be evil, and just wish to be left alone - though they can become dangerous if their security is threatened.]]
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** Basically every time Chuck appears to actually be nice to Melvin, it will turns out to be this trope. Most notably, "Sleeping Beauty" has him seemingly trying to save him from the vampire, when he was actually going back to get his mirror, and "Chuck (and Melvin) and the Beanstalker" has him notice Melvin look terrible after their trip through the forest, to then clarify he felt he look dirty.
** Mr Krump saves Sally in "All the Gory Details"... because she was the one with the camera.
** Basically every time Chuck appears to actually be nice to Melvin, it will turns out to be this trope. Most notably, "Sleeping Beauty" has him seemingly trying to save him from the vampire, when he was actually going back to get his mirror, and "Chuck (and Melvin) and the Beanstalker" has him notice Melvin look terrible after their trip through the forest, to then clarify he felt he look dirty.
** Mr Krump saves Sally in "All the Gory Details"... because she was the one with the camera.
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* OurTrollsAreDifferent: "The Brothers Gruff" features a troll of the "hiding under bridge" variety as the antagonist.
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* OurTrollsAreDifferent: "The Brothers Gruff" features a troll of the "hiding under bridge" variety as the antagonist. He is portrayed as a stout, muscular humanoid who follows home people who cross his bridge to then play gradually more mischevious pranks on them, before stealing something important from them. It's possible to keep him away by various practices such as bathing in vinegar or wearing bright colors, and he is absolutely terrified by [[OurOgresAreHungrier giant ogres]].
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** "Transylvania Express" sees Ben and Mike sneak onto a train, where they find a coffin and suspect one of the "weird dudes" from the station is a vampire. However, it turns out all the vampires sneaked onto the train, too.
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** "Transylvania Express" sees Ben and Mike sneak onto a train, where they find a coffin and suspect one of the "weird dudes" from the station is a vampire. However, [[spoiler:While vampires ''are'' indeed onboard, they merely sneaked onto it as well; the "weird guys" are actually all humans- and well-prepared to deal with vampires, as it turns out all the vampires sneaked onto the train, too.when Ben and Mike finally dare ask them for help.]]
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* TreacherousQuestGiver: In "Ghost Ship", Ben and Mike, after escaping the skeleton pirate crew of the titular ship, meet with the seemingly friendly ghost captain who asks for their help in finding a treasure. [[spoiler:It eventually turns out there is no treasure- the whole thing merely was a way for him to lure them into signing up to join his crew, which is how he recruited all the skeletons on his ship.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: The opening segment for "Fare Tonight" has the Cryptkeeper introduce the story with multiple wolf-related puns, heavily implying the story will be about a werewolf. The monster in the actual story quickly turns out to be a vampire instead, and the closing segment has the Cryptkeeper actually apologizing to the viewers for his mistake.
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* DeathByAdaptation: The original "Sleeping Beauty" comic ended with [[spoiler:the Beauty drinking the Prince's blood as a CruelTwistEnding, with the implication she would keep doing this for all the princes to come]]. In the animated episode, Melvin [[spoiler:manages to slay her]].
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* AdaptationalUgliness: We only get a one-panel glimpse of the Sleeping Beauty's vampiric GameFace in the original comic, but it appears to be relatively unchanged compared to her human face, only with slightly shadier features and fangs. In the animated adaptation, she takes a much more monstrous apperance, with WildHair, green skin, red eyes, VillainousCheekbones and tusk-like fangs.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Enoch and Myrna, who in the live-action series died when the Crypt Keeper was just a baby. While they don't make an actual appearance here, they do send him a birthday card.
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** Enoch and Myrna, who in the live-action series died when the Crypt Keeper was just a baby. While they don't make an actual appearance here, they do send him a birthdaycard. card.
** Played with in "Sleeping Beauty"; the original comic made it rather clear all the princes before the protagonist who went after the Beauty died (first believed to have been killed by the wall of thorns but later revealed to have [[spoiler:ended up as the Beauty's meal]]), a fate [[spoiler:the protagonist eventually shares]]. In this adaptation, they ''did'' technically died, but [[spoiler:were brought back as vampires]], and Chuck [[spoiler:does end up with a similar fate, but has been restaured to human offscreen by the time of the sequel episode]].
** Enoch and Myrna, who in the live-action series died when the Crypt Keeper was just a baby. While they don't make an actual appearance here, they do send him a birthday
** Played with in "Sleeping Beauty"; the original comic made it rather clear all the princes before the protagonist who went after the Beauty died (first believed to have been killed by the wall of thorns but later revealed to have [[spoiler:ended up as the Beauty's meal]]), a fate [[spoiler:the protagonist eventually shares]]. In this adaptation, they ''did'' technically died, but [[spoiler:were brought back as vampires]], and Chuck [[spoiler:does end up with a similar fate, but has been restaured to human offscreen by the time of the sequel episode]].
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* TemptingFate: At the beginning of "The Wailing Woman", Mildred mentions she picked collecting teddy bears as a new hobby because, unlike meeting monsters, this was completely harmless and wouldn't cause trouble. [[spoiler:The teddy bear she collects later in the junk store turns out to have belonged to the titular ghost's daughter, making it her BerserkButton- meaning the entire reason she becomes dangerous to them was ''because'' of Mildred's new hobby.]]
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* AdaptationExpansion: "The Sleeping Beauty" story from the comic merely was a retelling of the classic fairy tale with a CruelTwistEnding revealing the Beauty was a vampire all along. In this version, this twist is revealed halfway through the episode rather than at the end, and the rest of the episode focuses on the two protagonists trying to escape the vampire. Melvin, who merely was MrExposition in the original tale, also is made Prince Charming's younger brother and the true hero of the story.
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* AllMenArePerverts: With the female vampire in "The Sleeping Beauty" disposed of, Melvin comes upon the actual sleeping beauty. He acknowledges this could be yet another vampire, but he decides to chance it in return for a kiss.
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* AllMenArePerverts: With the female vampire in "The Sleeping Beauty" disposed of, Melvin comes upon the actual sleeping beauty. He acknowledges this could be yet another vampire, but he decides to chance it in return for a kiss. [[spoiler:Luckily for him, her reflection is shown in his glasses, thus confirming she ''is'' human.]]
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When CBS gained the rights to the show, it commissioned a third season under the title "The New Tales from the Cryptkeeper". However, this season had a much more simplified animation compared to the comic book style of the first two. And the stories toned down on the scares. Not helping matters was the fact that the Cryptkeeper was actually part of the stories rather than leading them in, as he usually does.
Despite this, the show has a cult following and episodes can be found on [=YouTube=] and purchased from iTunes.
Despite this, the show has a cult following and episodes can be found on [=YouTube=] and purchased from iTunes.
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When CBS Creator/{{CBS}} gained the rights to the show, it commissioned a third season under the title "The New Tales from the Cryptkeeper". However, this season had a much more simplified animation compared to the comic book style of the first two. And the stories toned down on the scares. Not helping matters was the fact that the Cryptkeeper was actually part of the stories rather than leading them in, as he usually does.
Despite this, the show has a cult following and episodes can befound on [=YouTube=] and purchased from iTunes.
Despite this, the show has a cult following and episodes can be
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** Season two had a slight one by dropping one of the studios[[note]]Creator/FunbagAnimation; Creator/WangFilmProductions and Creator/BardelEntertainment were kept[[/note]].
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** Season two had a slight one by dropping one of the studios[[note]]Creator/FunbagAnimation; studios[[labelnote:*]]Creator/FunbagAnimation; Creator/WangFilmProductions and Creator/BardelEntertainment were kept[[/note]].kept[[/labelnote]].
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** The end segment of "Growing Pains" sees [[Film/TheWizardOfOz a tornado dropping a house on the Old Witch]]. She ends up chasing the Crypt Keeper and a dog down a yellow brick road towards an emerald castle, vowing, "I'll get you my pretty, AndYourLittleDogToo"
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** The end segment of "Growing Pains" sees [[Film/TheWizardOfOz a tornado dropping a house on the Old Witch]]. She ends up chasing the Crypt Keeper and a dog down a yellow brick road towards an emerald castle, vowing, "I'll get you my pretty, AndYourLittleDogToo"Cryptie, AndYourLittleDogToo!" For bonus points, one of John Kassir's favorite tricks is his ability to do "the Wizard of Oz in two and a half minutes," and he actually based the Crypt Keeper's cackle on Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West.
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* ParentalBonus: In "Fare Tonight," Camille and Mildred are running from the vampire, who rips out a factory's staircase and throws it at them. They just miss getting crushed because of some missed steps they broke off earlier. Relieved, they exclaim, "Cool! Creator/BusterKeaton!"--a reference to the famous stunt from ''Film/SteamboatBillJr''.
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* ParentalBonus: In "Fare Tonight," Camille and Mildred are running from the vampire, who rips out a factory's staircase and throws it at them. They just [[ByWallThatIsHoley miss getting crushed because of some missed steps missing steps]] they broke off earlier. Relieved, they exclaim, "Cool! Creator/BusterKeaton!"--a reference to the famous stunt from ''Film/SteamboatBillJr''.
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* ChessWithDeath: "Dead Men Don't Jump!" had high-school basketball player Nathan wanting to join the professional leagues being signed up to take on a challenger who can do just that [[OnOneCondition IF he beats the challenger]] by his manager Marvin. His younger brother Erin knows something's wrong, and when asks "But what if you lose?" gets pointed to a bench by the "challenger" and the zombie bodies there slide over to make room for Nathan. [[spoiler: When Nathan can't go on due to a leg injury, Erin substitutes for him, and wins, even with the challenger trying to cheat. As part of a VillanousBreakdown, the arena [[ItsGoingDown collapses on itself]] with Erin and Marvin barely making it out with Nathan in time.]]
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* ChessWithDeath: "Dead Men Don't Jump!" had high-school basketball player Nathan wanting to join the professional leagues being signed up to take on a challenger who can do just that [[OnOneCondition IF he beats the challenger]] by his manager Marvin. His younger brother Erin knows something's wrong, and when asks "But what if you lose?" gets pointed to a bench by the "challenger" and the zombie bodies there slide over to make room for Nathan. [[spoiler: When Nathan can't go on due to a leg injury, Erin substitutes for him, and wins, even with the challenger trying to cheat. As part of a VillanousBreakdown, VillainousBreakdown, the arena [[ItsGoingDown collapses on itself]] with Erin and Marvin barely making it out with Nathan in time.]]
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** "Myth Conceptions" [[spoiler: had it where Medusa was really defending the Tomb from would-be robbers, including a Perseus [[who wasn't the hero AdaptationalVillainy]] his myth claimed him to be.]]
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** "Myth Conceptions" [[spoiler: had it where Medusa was really defending the Tomb from would-be robbers, including a Perseus [[who [[AdaptationalVillainy who wasn't the hero AdaptationalVillainy]] hero]] his myth claimed him to be.]]
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"Dead Men Don't Jump!" had a basketball game where the soul of a player was at stake.
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* ChessWithDeath: "Dead Men Don't Jump!" had high-school basketball player Nathan wanting to join the professional leagues being signed up to take on a challenger who can do just that [[OnOneCondition IF he beats the challenger]] by his manager Marvin. His younger brother Erin knows something's wrong, and when asks "But what if you lose?" gets pointed to a bench by the "challenger" and the zombie bodies there slide over to make room for Nathan. [[spoiler: When Nathan can't go on due to a leg injury, Erin substitutes for him, and wins, even with the challenger trying to cheat. As part of a VillanousBreakdown, the arena [[ItsGoingDown collapses on itself]] with Erin and Marvin barely making it out with Nathan in time.]]
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* AdaptationalHeroism: The Crypt Keeper himself. He retains a dark sense of humor, but his live-action counterpart was much more vicious.
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** The Crypt Keeper himself. He retains a dark sense of humor, but his live-action counterpart was much morevicious.vicious.
** "Myth Conceptions" [[spoiler: had it where Medusa was really defending the Tomb from would-be robbers, including a Perseus [[who wasn't the hero AdaptationalVillainy]] his myth claimed him to be.]]
** The Crypt Keeper himself. He retains a dark sense of humor, but his live-action counterpart was much more
** "Myth Conceptions" [[spoiler: had it where Medusa was really defending the Tomb from would-be robbers, including a Perseus [[who wasn't the hero AdaptationalVillainy]] his myth claimed him to be.]]
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** The Season 2 intro involves the Old Witch and the Vault Keeper trying to steal the Crypt Keeper's book. When it goes flying, the pages are shown to be comics.
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** The Season 2 intro involves the Old Witch and the Vault Keeper trying to steal the Crypt Keeper's book. When it goes flying, the pages are shown to be comics. For LaserGuidedKarma, the two end up in the pages themselves, and the book gets closed by a laughing Crypt Keeper.
** "The Works...In Wax!" had a young boy find out the wax museum's statues secret [[spoiler: they came alive]] and the villain was a scheming businessman wanting to take over the museum. [[spoiler: Instead of the wife of the wax museum's owner being strangled and the statues coming to life to turn HIM into a candle for her tableau, the statues chased the businessman then turned HIM [[TakenForGranite into a wax statue]] himself for one of the museum's exhibits.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: The little girl in "Myth Conceptions" was really an alternate form Medusa took. However, this version of Medusa was really stopping robbers from raiding Medusa's tomb, and Perseus here [[AdaptationalVillainy was not the hero]] most pictured him as.]]
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** "The Works...In Wax!" [[spoiler: has a crooked businessman wanting to take over a wax museum being chased by some of the monster statues in the museum...and becoming part of the exhibits as a wax statue himself.]]
** "Myth Conceptions" [[spoiler: is a more literal fate as the archaeologist is petrified by Medusa, who CAN'T be affected by her reflection--and in a flip on the myth, was trying to keep robbers like the archaeologist and the "legendary Perseus" from stealing the tomb's artifacts.]]
** "The Works...In Wax!" [[spoiler: has a crooked businessman wanting to take over a wax museum being chased by some of the monster statues in the museum...and becoming part of the exhibits as a wax statue himself.]]
** "Myth Conceptions" [[spoiler: is a more literal fate as the archaeologist is petrified by Medusa, who CAN'T be affected by her reflection--and in a flip on the myth, was trying to keep robbers like the archaeologist and the "legendary Perseus" from stealing the tomb's artifacts.]]
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** "This Wraps it Up" is also of far lesser quality compared to even the rest of season 1, with characters' faces getting distorted quite often.
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* ViewersAreMorons: The third season, the Crypt Keeper would sometimes step in to instruct viewers to "pay close attention" to whatever misdeed was being committed.
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** The [=GhoulLunatics=] themselves. Given the option to do serious, lasting harm to one another, they never do.
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* SameCharacterButDifferent: Season 3 Crypt Keeper. He goes from a character who doesn't particularly care what anyone does to one whose sole motivation is correcting children's behavior, [[ScareEmStraight by any means necessary.]] For some reason, he can also disappear into thin air.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the third season, the Crypt Keeper would usually interact with various characters. No one finds the decaying green guy without a nose to be particularly unusual.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the third season, the Crypt Keeper would usually interact with various characters. No one finds the decaying green guy without a nose to be particularly unusual. "So Very Attractive" provides the rather amusing exception.
-->'''Julia:''' I just wasn't expecting someone selling beauty products to look so, uh...
-->'''Crypt Keeper, knowingly:''' Well aged?
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-->'''Julia:''' Yes, uh... something like that.
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-->'''Julia:''' I just wasn't expecting someone selling beauty products to look so, uh...
-->'''Crypt Keeper, knowingly:''' Well aged?
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-->'''Julia:''' Yes, uh... something like that.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: Melvin may be the most notable example. He is repeatedly dragged into danger by his older brother Chuck, has to do all the heavy-lifting no matter how dangerous, and is repeatedly abandoned when things get tough. In both appearances, he wins in the end (getting the love of a princess and some gold, respectively), while Chuck gets hit with karma.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: "While the Cat's Away" kept the basic plot of the original comic story (which was about two thieving travel agents breaking into a spooky mansion to claim possible treasure and encountering horrific sights); it just softened the more adult details, replaced the adults with kids, and shortened how long the characters were trapped in the house. The TwistEnding ([[spoiler:it being the Crypt Keeper's house all along]]) was left intact.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: PragmaticAdaptation:
** "While the Cat's Away" kept the basic plot of the original comic story (which was about two thieving travel agents breaking into a spooky mansion to claim possible treasure and encountering horrific sights); it just softened the more adult details, replaced the adults with kids, and shortened how long the characters were trapped in the house. The TwistEnding ([[spoiler:it being the Crypt Keeper's house all along]]) was leftintact.intact.
** "The Sleeping Beauty" is pretty much the same (including the vampire twist), but it adds in a non-identical twin brother for the prince so that most of the episode isn't just one character alone in the woods and castle.
** Similarly, "Pleasant Screams" is mostly the same, but it adds in a second character (a teenage student) so that Mr. Purdy has someone to interact with. It also tones down the violence for obvious reasons. Unlike the the above two examples, though, the twist was tweaked. In the original story, Purdy's suffering was just the fantasy of a student in his class that he regularly yelled at. The episode changes it to a DreamWithinADream in order for Purdy to learn a lesson about his antagonistic behavior.
** "While the Cat's Away" kept the basic plot of the original comic story (which was about two thieving travel agents breaking into a spooky mansion to claim possible treasure and encountering horrific sights); it just softened the more adult details, replaced the adults with kids, and shortened how long the characters were trapped in the house. The TwistEnding ([[spoiler:it being the Crypt Keeper's house all along]]) was left
** "The Sleeping Beauty" is pretty much the same (including the vampire twist), but it adds in a non-identical twin brother for the prince so that most of the episode isn't just one character alone in the woods and castle.
** Similarly, "Pleasant Screams" is mostly the same, but it adds in a second character (a teenage student) so that Mr. Purdy has someone to interact with. It also tones down the violence for obvious reasons. Unlike the the above two examples, though, the twist was tweaked. In the original story, Purdy's suffering was just the fantasy of a student in his class that he regularly yelled at. The episode changes it to a DreamWithinADream in order for Purdy to learn a lesson about his antagonistic behavior.
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