History WesternAnimation / TalesFromTheCryptKeeper

* PrinceCharmless: Chuck in "The Sleeping Beauty". He even [[DoNotCallMePaul insists on being called "Prince Charming"]].

** Melvin in "Sleeping Beauty" and "Chuck (and Melvin) and the Beanstalker". Having to deal with a brother like [[ItsAllAboutMe Chuck]] will do that.

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* GreenAesop: In the season three episode "Waste Not, Haunt Not".

Despite this, the show has a cult following and episodes can be purchased from iTunes.

* AnimatedAdaptation

* SpinOff

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In "Hunted", the Crypt Keeper sings the first verse up to the chorus of "Highway To Hell", before [[CurseCutShort saying]] [[StealthPun "Hello"]] to the viewers. To top it off, on the back of his biker jacket is the saying "Shriek Happens".
** In "Hyde and go Shriek", we have two men driving through the city at the dead of night hollering "Calling all babes! Come out wherever you are!" Yep, this show went there.

** Can also be seen as early as Season 2 with its switch to digital ink & paint.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Usually happened to mean or very greedy characters, [[with special mentions being the car thieves in "A Little Body of Work" being scared by a living car into confessing to their crimes, and Mr. Bowswick at the end of "The Works...In Wax".]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: Usually happened to mean or very greedy characters.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In "All the Gory Details", Sally has one such moment. [[spoiler:When she and Mr. Klump are faced with Dr. Cromwell's creations, she promises them that if they allow the duot to them leave, they'll hand over the photographic evidence of the creatures' existence and won't publish the story. Later when they're outside, Klump believes [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Sally made that promise as a ruse to help them escape]] and schemes that instead of photographic evidence, they can back each other up once they return to the city. However, Sally tells him "[[SincerityMode I meant what I said, I'm publishing that story]]".]]

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In "All the Gory Details", Sally has one such moment. [[spoiler:When she and Mr. Klump are faced with Dr. Cromwell's creations, she promises them that if Dr. Cromwell lets them leave, they'll hand over the photographic evidence of his creatures' existence and won't publish the story. Later when they're outside, Klump believes that instead of photographic evidence, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Sally made that promise as a ruse to help them escape]] and schemes they can back each other up once they return to the city. Instead, Sally tells him "I meant what I said".]]

** Another example was about a teen nerd who was being constantly harassed by a psychotic bully, until he finds a salve that temporarily turns him into a werewolf and fights back. The bully after finding out exactly what's going on tries the salve on himself to fight the nerd on equal terms [[spoiler: only to be immediately spotted by civilians and tranquilized by the police then have his face all over the news as a "Monster Boy" then is implied to be taken to a government lab for extreme testing, while the nerd continues a happy life with no-one ever finding out he was involved]]

--> '''Uncle Ned:''' I said I was gonna teach you how to fish, and I meant it.
--> '''Randy:''' What do ''you'' know about fishing? You're not a fisherman, you're a ''bully''!!

* SadlyMythtaken: "Myth Conceptions" changes the story of Medusa, but it acknowledges doing so. The archaeologist discusses the story with a little girl, saying he actually believes Perseus failed to defeat Medusa. He ends up being right, but that's not the whole story. [[spoiler:Medusa ''heroically'' defended her temple lair from those like of Perseus, who was trying to rob the treasures within. It also turns out the little girl was Medusa--meaning she can shapeshift. She also can't be turned to stone by looking at her reflection.]]

** The ending of "Hunted" is another one. [[spoiler:The hunter is captured by the beast he pursued, who turns out to have been just like him years ago. He was cursed and had to learn to respect nature. He knew he could pass the curse on to someone else and knew only villainous hunters would go this deep into the jungle.]]

* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Played straight in most episodes, but [[spoiler: averted in "The Weeping Woman", where the titular ghost is the spirit of a deceased child]].

* TownWithADarkSecret: The town in "All the Gory Details" is implied to be willingly hiding Dr Kromwell's creations in the mansion atop of it. [[spoiler:It turns out ''all the town'' is inhabited by Kromwell's creations; the ones in the mansion are just happens to be the more grotesque ones.]]

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In "All the Gory Details", Sally has one such moment. [[spoiler: When she and Mr. Klump are faced with Dr. Cromwell's creations, she promises them that if Dr. Cromwell lets them leave, they'll hand over the photographic evidence of his creatures' existence and won't publish the story. Later when they're outside, Klump believes that instead of photographic evidence, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Sally made that promise as a ruse to help them escape]] and schemes they can back eachother up once they return to the city. Instead, Sally tells him "I meant what a I said".]]

* MeaningfulName: Rose from "Growing Pains" is an alien plant.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Invoked in "Booked Up" as part of the ReadingIsCoolAesop; the main character, who dislikes reading and usually sticks to watching movies adaptations, is sent by the Cryptkeeper inside various literature classics and forced to live the stories in them. Since he primarily knows the movies, he ''does'' know the basic stories of each, but is taken aback by how different the books are; most notably, he is dumfounded to find out the FrankensteinsMonster is an eloquent and intelligent being who just wants a mate.
* 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 fraternal twin brother and the true hero of the story.
* 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.
* AesopAmnesia: The two bullies in "Growing Pains" are back to harrassing Wendell, even though they really should know after "Hyde and Go Shriek" that it's a ''bad'' idea to piss him off.

* 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 VillainousBreakdown, the arena [[ItsGoingDown collapses on itself]] with Erin and Marvin barely making it out with Nathan in time.]]

* CashLure: What does in a wasteful {{Jerkass}} fisherman who catches fish, and just dumps this on the beach to rot when a anthro fish and his son go "fishing" for him.

* ActorAllusion: The hunter in "Hunted" is voiced by George Buza, so of course he becomes an actual [[WesternAnimation/XMen beast]] later on.