History YMMV / TalesFromTheDarkside

** "The Geezenstacks": A father realizes his daughter's dollhouse can change their family's future when the dolls were played with, yet only he believes in it. Things become strained in the household until near the end... [[spoiler: when the dollhouse transports the ''whole'' doll-sized family into it, like all its other owners.]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ... also, the violin music didn't make things better.]]

** "The Geezenstacks": A father realizes his daughter's dollhouse can change the future when played with, yet only he believes it. Things become strained in the household until near the end... [[spoiler: when the dollhouse transports the family into it, like its other owners.]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ...also, the violin music didn't make things better.]]

** "Trick or Treat" : A hated and spiteful old man with an obsession for documenting and exploiting debts owed to him, offers trick-or-treaters the chance to search his house for their parents' mortgages, only to terrify them with animatronic "spirits." Unfortunately for him, the old man finds himself the victim of a particularly frightening trick-or-treater, namely a real demon.
** "Halloween Candy": A misanthropic old man torments trick-or-treating children and is visited by a terrifying goblin demanding candy. Believed by many to be the most disturbing episode, along with "Ursa Minor", and "The Geezenstacks".

** "Madness Room": A sleazy couple trick an old husband into ''having a heart attack'' by playing a Ouija board to lead them to a dark ''hidden'' room, only for the husband to ''drop'' the (only) key to outside into a crack of the room's floorboard... Then a [[ItGotWorse fire suddenly starts up]]- they're all locked in the hidden room. Cue screaming and coughing.

** "Madness Room": A sleazy couple trick an old husband into ''having a heart attack'' by playing a Ouija board to lead them to a HiddenRoom, only for the husband to ''drop'' the (only) key to outside into a crack of the room's floorboard... Then a [[ItGotWorse fire suddenly starts up]]- they're all locked in the hidden room. Cue screaming and coughing.

** "Madness Room": A sleazy couple trick an old husband into ''having a heart attack'' by playing a Ouija board to lead them to a hidden room, only for the husband to ''drop'' the (only) key to outside into a crack of the room's floorboard... Then a [[ItGotWorse fire suddenly starts up]]- they're all locked in the hidden room. Cue screaming and coughing.

** "Madness Room": A sleazy couple trick an old husband into ''having a heart attack'' by playing a Ouija board to lead them to a hidden room, only for the husband to ''drop'' the (only) key to outside into a crack of the room's floorboard... Then a [[ItGotWorse fire suddenly starts up]]- they're all locked in the HiddenRoom. Cue screaming and coughing.

** "Madness Room": A couple trick an old husband into ''having a heart attack'' and playing a Ouija board in a {{Hidden Room}}, only for the husband to ''drop'' the only key to outside into a crack of the room's floorboard. Then a fire starts up- they're all locked in the HiddenRoom. Cue screaming.

** "Madness Room": A couple trick an old husband into ''having a heart attack'' and playing a Ouija board in a HiddenRoom, only for the husband to ''drop'' the only key into a crack of the room's floorboard. Then a fire starts up- they're all locked in the HiddenRoom. Cue screaming.

** The opening music/narration. That is all.

* TooDumbToLive: The mother in the closing minute of "Ursa Minor". Yeah, don't bother climbing out of your window and escaping with your daughter. Screaming in the corner, while [[spoiler: Ursa Major is about to break bown the door with her arm and enter the room]] is CLEARLY safer! ...sigh...

* TearJerker: The ending of "Miss May Dusa". [[spoiler: May catches sight of herself in the mirror and turns into a statue again, her blind boyfriend goes in to find her, only to get shot by the burglar from the opening. He dies, not three feet away from the May-statue, weakly calling out for her.]]

* TearJerker: The last segment of TheMovie focuses on an artist who witnesses a gargoyle kill a man in an alley. The gargoyle makes the man promise not to ever, '''EVER''', tell anyone what he saw at the cost of his life. Apparently, making this promise proves more beneficial then he thought, as he immediately meets a beautiful woman whom he starts dating, and his artwork is bought by an exclusive gallery. Years later, he's HappilyMarried to the woman and they have two kids, but he feels guilty for keeping the secret about the gargoyle from her. So, he tells her... [[spoiler: and it's revealed that SHE was the gargoyle the whole time, and that by breaking his promise she can't stay in human form. At the same time, their children turn into gargoyles as well. The man tearfully tells his wife that he truly loved her, as did she, right before she kills him. It ends with the gargoyle and her children sadly watching as his body is taken away, before turning to stone.]]
** The ending of Miss May Dusa. [[spoiler: May catches sight of herself in the mirror and turns into a statue again, her blind boyfriend goes in to find her, only to get shot by the burglar from the opening. He dies, not three feet away from the May-statue, weakly calling out for her.]]

* NightmareFuelUnleaded

* NightmareRetardant: The series finale. Seriously, a ''momma's boy wrestler'' (said momma is his manager) fights a ''demon from hell''. But, [[YourMileageMayVary that's just one troper's opinion]].
** The monster from "Inside the Closet." ...[[YourMileageMayVary yes, really.]] ...it looked like an aborted Muppet...

** The Cutty Black Sow in ... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Cutty]] [[CaptainObvious Black Sow"]]. ...seriously, ''look me in the eye'' and TELL me it doesn't look like a black-furred {{ALF}}.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The entire episode "Deliver Us From Goodness," which is also a pretty light-hearted, humorous episode, a sharp contrast to the tone of the other episodes.
** The ending of "Seymourlama". The obnoxious teenage boy finally gets what's coming to him when it is revealed that he ''isn't'' the next Dalai Lama. His parents, whom he had been bossing around the entire episode, kick his ass.
** The end of "Monsters in My Room" when the bogeyman pokes his head around the closet door, sees SethGreen's character, gives a terrified little scream, and ducks back out of sight.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: "The Tear Collector".

* TearJerker: The last segment of TheMovie focuses on an artist who witnesses a gargoyle kill a man in an alley. The gargoyle makes the man promise not to ever, '''EVER''', tell anyone what he saw at the cost of his life. Apparently, making this promise proves more beneficial then he thought, as he immediately meets a beautiful woman whom he starts dating, and his artwork is bought by an exclusive gallery. Years later, he's HappilyMarried to the woman and they have two kids, but he feels guilty for keeping the secret about the gargoyle from her. So, he tells her... [[spoiler: and it's revealed that SHE was the gargoyle the whole time, and that by breaking his promise she can't stay in human form. At the same time, their children turn into gargoyles as well. The man tearfully tells his wife that he truly loved her, as did she, right before she kills him. It ends with the gargoyle and her children sadly watching as his body is taken away, before turning to stone.]]

** The Cutty Black Sow in ... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Cutty]] [[CaptainObvious Black Sow"]]. ...seriously, ''look me in the eye'' and TELL me it doesn't look like a black-furred {{ALF}}.

** The ending of "Seymourlama". The obnoxious teenage boy finally gets what's coming to him when it is revealed that he ''isn't'' the next Dalai Lama.

** "The Geezenstacks": A father realizes his daughter's dollhouse can change the future when played with, yet only he believes it. Things become strained in the household until near the end... [[spoiler: when the dollhouse transports the family into it, like its other owners.]] [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking ...also, the violin music didn't make things better.]]

*** This troper, as a child, lived in a rural part of Texas. The way to his grandma's house included scenery uncannily like that seen in the opening...

** The monster from "Inside the Closet." ...[[YourMileageMayVary yes, really.]]

** "Ursa Minor": A little girl blames her new teddy bear for various pranks in her parent's house. They do not believe her-until giant claw marks on the walls and lumbering sounds at night convince them. The mother destroys the teddy, but forgets one of the most basic rules of the wild--harm the child, and you must meet the mother...

** The monster from "Inside the Closet." ...[[YourMileageMayVery yes, really.]]

** "The Geezenstacks": A father realizes his daughter's dollhoUse can change the future when played with, yet only he believes it. Things become strained in the household until near the end... [[spoiler: when the dollhouse transports the family into it, like its other owners.]]

* NightmareRetardant: The series finale. Seriously, a ''momma's boy wrestler'' (said momma is his manager) fights a ''demon from hell''. But, [[YourMileageMayVary that's just one troper's opinion]].