History YMMV / TheOuterLimits1995

* {{Narm}}: In "The Human Factor", Cho looks like he's smiling when he says "All my men are dead".

** Season 5's finale "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E22BetterLuckNextTime Better Luck Next Time]]", which continues the story from the season's "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E11Ripper Ripper]]", has two alien {{serial killer}}s who have been living on earth for centuries, [[GrandTheftMe stealing host bodies]] and using them to commit murder after murder for amusement and to alleviate boredom. Detectives Terri Russo and Frank Girard end up each working with an alien, both claiming they are officers sent to hunt down the killer. At the end, the truth is revealed: the two are partners in crime and have been playing the officers for fun with the only excuse being how bored they are as immortals. The two have been spending centuries playing their games and corrupting good people into killing their friends and partners out of paranoia; they plan to hijack Terri's body after she mortally wounds Girard and use her police connections to have even more fun. When Terri and her dying partner mortally wound both killers' host bodies, Terri [[HeroicSacrifice opts to kill herself]] to prevent them from stealing her body, knowing they can't survive long without hosts and unwilling to allow them to continue their rampage.

** Season 5's finale "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E22BetterLuckNextTime Better Luck Next Time]]", which continues the story from the season's "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E11Ripper Ripper]]", has two alien {{serial killer}}s who have been living on earth for centuries, [[GrandTheftMe stealing host bodies]] and using them to commit murder after murder for amusement and to alleviate boredom. Detectives Terri and Girard end up each working with an alien, both claiming they are officers sent to hunt down the killer. At the end, the truth is revealed: the two are partners in crime and have been playing the officers for fun with the only excuse being how bored they are as immortals. The two have been spending centuries playing their games and corrupting good people into killing their friends and partners out of paranoia; they plan to hijack Terri's body after she mortally wounds Girard and use her police connections to have even more fun. When Terri and her dying partner mortally wound both killers' host bodies, Terri [[HeroicSacrifice opts to kill herself]] to prevent them from stealing her body, knowing they can't survive long without hosts and unwilling to allow them to continue their rampage.

** [[SerialKiller Wayne Haas]], from season 1's "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S1E9LivingHell Living Hell]]", is a vicious murderer who targets women. Several years before, he had a neural transmitter installed in his brain which inadvertently allows Haas to [[ElectronicTelepathy share his thoughts with any person who possesses the same implant]], although Haas is mistakenly believed to have since died. He's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first shown]] chasing a woman through the woods and killing her, before deciding to play around with the corpse when he notices his "audience," the episode's protagonist Ben Kohler. He later hires a prostitute, and, for fun, [[ForcedToWatch forces Bento witness]] how he gruesomely stabs her to death in his bathtub. When Ben investigates Haas's apartment with the doctor responsible for the implant, Haas kidnaps her to cut out her brain and leaves Ben behind to take the blame for the other women the police claim he murdered over the previous months.

** Wayne Haas, from season 1's "Living Hell", is a vicious {{serial killer}} who targets women. Several years before, he had a neural transmitter installed in his brain which inadvertently allows Haas to [[ElectronicTelepathy share his thoughts with any person who possesses the same implant]], although Haas is mistakenly believed to have since died. He's first shown chasing a woman throught the woods and killing her, before deciding to play around with the corpse when he notices his "audience," the episode's protagonist Ben Kohler. He later hires a [[DisposableSexWorker prostitute]], and [[ForTheEvulz for kicks]], [[MindRape forces Ben]] to [[ForcedToWatch witness]] how he gruesomely stabs her to death in his bathtub. When Ben investigates Haas's apartment with the doctor responsible for the implant, Haas kidnaps her to cut out her brain and leaves Ben behind to take the blame for the other women the police claim he murdered over the previous months.
** Karl Rademacher, from season 5's "Tribunal", is the (former) [[ThoseWackyNazis SS commandant]] of an Auschwitz subcamp made up to look like a "model" camp for inspections by the Red Cross. When they leave, he usually has the prisoners [[DeadlyGas gassed by the hundreds]]. The episode opens in 1944 as Rademacher makes his daily rounds to select a prisoner to execute in front of the rest, which he considers "the only joy I get from this miserable job." When he selects a random man, the wife begs him not to, so he selects her instead and shoots her in front of her husband and daughter. He later [[WouldHurtAChild has the child gassed to death]]. He gives instructions to the prisoners to write letters to their relatives to tell them how wonderful they have it there. When one man objects, Rademacher orders him sent outside and shot, before amending the order so he can personally shoot the prisoner. After the war this unrepentant war criminal lives incognito for many decades in the United States. Rademacher's cruelty and brutality ultimately becomes his own doom when, thanks to a TimeTravel device, he is sent back to his own camp dressed up as an inmate. When his younger version runs into him, he demands that the rowdy old man beg for his life before [[KarmicDeath he kills his older self for (he thinks) being Jewish]].
** Season 5’s "Better Luck Next Time", which continues the story from that season’s "Ripper", has two alien {{serial killer}}s who have been living on earth for centuries, [[GrandTheftMe stealing host bodies]] and using them to commit murder after murder for [[ItAmusedMe amusement]] and [[ForTheEvulz boredom]]. Detectives Terri and Frank end up each working with an alien, both claiming they are officers sent to hunt down the killer. At the end, the truth is revealed: the two are partners in crime and have been playing the officers for fun with the only excuse being how bored they are as immortals. The two have been spending centuries playing their games and corrupting good people into killing their friends and partners out of paranoia; they plan to hijack Terri's body after she mortally wounds Frank and use her police connections to have even more fun. When Terri and her dying partner mortally wound both killers' host bodies, Terri [[HeroicSuicide opts to kill herself]] to prevent them from stealing her body, knowing they can't survive long without hosts and unwilling to allow them to continue their rampage.

* {{Narm}}: In "The Human Factor" Cho looks like he's smiling when he says "All my men are dead".

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "From Within" has Howie Morrison, a mentally disabled young man with a good heart and an untapped well of courage. Despite his shortcomings, he frees his hometown from the parasitic worms. Even before he became a hero, he chivalrously stood up for his sister Sheila when a miner (under the influence of the parasite worm) tried to take advantage of her. [[RealityEnsues Sure the miner just punches Howie and someone else has to step in]], but Sheila makes it clear how much Howie's bravery means to her.

** Karl Rademacher, from season 5's "Tribunal", is the (former) [[ThoseWackyNazis SS commandant]] of an [[POWCamp Auschwitz subcamp]] made up to look like a "model" camp for inspections by the Red Cross. When they leave, he usually has the prisoners [[DeadlyGas gassed by the hundreds]]. The episode opens in 1944 as Rademacher makes his daily rounds to select a prisoner to execute in front of the rest, which he considers "the only joy I get from this miserable job." When he selects a random man, the wife begs him not to, so he selects her instead and shoots her in front of her husband and daughter. He later [[WouldHurtAChild has the child gassed to death]]. He gives instructions to the prisoners to write letters to their relatives to tell them how wonderful they have it there. When one man objects, Rademacher orders him sent outside and shot, before amending the order so he can personally shoot the prisoner. After the war this unrepentant war criminal lives incognito for many decades in the United States. Rademacher's cruelty and brutality ultimately becomes his own doom when, thanks to a TimeTravel device, he is sent back to his own camp dressed up as an inmate. When his younger version runs into him, he demands that the rowdy old man beg for his life before [[KarmicDeath he kills his older self for being Jewish]].

* HarsherInHindsight: In the episode "Gettysburg", a Confederate fanboy is slated to assassinate the first black President of the United States at a 2013 memorial to forever bury the legacy of hateful racism, and is only stopped by a time traveler intervening in an attempt to change his ways. In 2015, a Confederate fanboy stormed a church in Charleston, South Carolina to murder black people during the second administration of the first black President.

* IdiotPlot: The entirety the conflict from the TimeTravel episode "Breaking Point" stems from each of the characters holding on to their own personal IdiotBall and never letting go, all topped off with a remarkably unnecessary CruelTwistEnding. The protagonist has a ''working'' time machine at his disposal, and his problems all stem from the fact that no one ''believes'' him, including his wife and the company that he made the machine for! He never actually thinks of just showing anyone, but instead falls into a very obvious SelfFulfillingProphecy. Apparently his solution in the end is [[spoiler: deciding that DeathIsTheOnlyOption, and so travels back to the day he meets his future wife, holds his past self at gun point (who, mind you, starts pleading for another way after recognizing himself) and pulls the trigger so that the machine won't be built, thus erasing himself from existence. Which, incidentally, leads to his past self not being there to prevent his future wife's suicide attempt that same exact night.]] Um, why didn't you just go back to the day before you used the machine in the first place? [[spoiler: Or just ''warn'' your past self to not build it]].
* MagnificentBastard: From the episode "Zig Zag", Zig Fowler is a cyberterrorist in a near-future society where almost all data is controlled by the Department of Information Technology. Founding the Syndrome cell from the shadows with the mission to free people at any cost, Zig fakes his own death and assumes the meek Cliff Unger persona in order to infiltrate the department and gain access to its central processor room. After a year, Zig's implant reverts back to its original settings, whereupon he joins up with his old comrades again, who were not even privy to his real identity. Zig stages an armed takeover of the Department offices to bomb it, manipulating his former boss through word trickery into arming the bomb with his own implant, ultimately dying in a blaze of glory as the entire city is destroyed.
* {{Narm}}: In "The Human Factor" Cho looks like he's smiling when he says "all my men are dead".

** "The New Breed" the BodyHorror transformations that the main character goes through, not to mention his increasingly desperate attempts to stop the nanobots [[spoiler:culminating in an attempted suicide that fails due to the bots fixing him]].

** In "If These Walls Could Talk" Leviticus Mitchell wears a t-shirt that says on the back "capitalism is organized crime", In real life Dwight Schultz (who plays Leviticus) is a hardcore free market conservative.

* HilariousInHindsight: In the episode "Simon Says", Simon has an obsession with wanting to ride the horses on the merry-go-round and is voiced by Cathy Weseluck. His yells of "Horsey, horsey, horsey" become this in light of Weseluck going on to voice Spike in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' who is surrounded by horses (well, ponies) and has a crush on one of the pony characters.

** Grace Park played Satchko in "Time to Time".

* Narm: In "The Human Factor" Cho looks like he's smiling when he says "all my men are dead".

* {{Genius Bonus}}: In "Joyride", the Mercury astronaut Theodore Harris encountered aliens while aboard the Aspire 7 on September 16, 1963. Cliff Robertson played the present day version of Harris. In ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' pilot "The Galaxy Being", an engineer named Alan Maxwell, who was also played by Robertson, accidentally makes contact with an alien from the Andromeda galaxy. That episode aired on September 16, 1963.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "From Within" has Howie Mowerson, a mentally disabled young man with a good heart and an untapped well of courage. Despite his shortcomings, he frees his hometown from the parasitic worms. Even before he became a hero, he chivalrously stood up for his sister Sheila when a miner (under the influence of the parasite worm) tried to take advantage of her. [[RealityEnsues Sure the miner just punches Howie and someone else has to step in]], but Sheila makes it clear how much Howie's bravery means to her.

** Simon from "Simon says" mainly for the UncannyValley aspect of it.

** Season 5’s "Better Luck Next Time," which continues the story from that season’s "The Ripper", has two alien {{serial killer}}s who have been living on earth for centuries, [[GrandTheftMe stealing host bodies]] and using them to commit murder after murder for [[ItAmusedMe amusement]] and [[ForTheEvulz boredom]]. Detectives Terri and Girard end up each working with an alien, both claiming they are officers sent to hunt down the killer. At the end, the truth is revealed: the two are partners in crime and have been playing the officers for fun with the only excuse being how bored they are as immortals. The two have been spending centuries playing their games and corrupting good people into killing their friends and partners out of paranoia; they plan to hijack Terri's body after she mortally wounds Girard and use her police connections to have even more fun. When Terri and her dying partner mortally wound both killers' host bodies, Terri [[HeroicSuicide opts to kill herself]] to prevent them from stealing her body, knowing they can't survive long without hosts and unwilling to allow them to continue their rampage.

* {{Retroactive Recognition}}:

** James Marsden played Brav in "Rite of Passage".

** Teryl Rothery played Janet Preston in "Trial by Fire" and Dr. Lucy Cole in "Re-Generation".

* ParanoiaFuel: "Free Spirit" is a prime example of this, as a [[TheDisembodied a disembodied person]] with a grudge goes after the scientists responsible for his state by [[BodySurf possessing all sorts of people]] to off them one by one, his victims never being able to know where the danger might come from. In the end he reveals [[spoiler:that he framed the protagonist for several murders by taking control of her body, then visits her in prison to assure her that he'll be tormenting her for some time to come.]]