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Yet another animated series from Creator/{{Disney}}, premiering on April 19, 1997. Ned Needlemeyer is a nervous young boy with several intense fears, which play themselves out in exaggerated fashions in his dreams. Each episode is basically one long NightmareSequence of Ned facing a different fear. The show lasted for 12 episodes, each of which contained 2 segments except for the last which had 3, making a total of 25 stories.
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!!This TV show contained examples of the following tropes:
* AnimalTalk: In Neds Life as a Dog, in which Ned is turned into a dog, he tries to tell his parents about his condition. But the only thing they hear is canine barks.
%%* AlienInvasion: "Abduction".
* AllJustADream: Nearly every episode Ned is startled awake after having a nightmare...[[spoiler: except in "Abduction".]]
%%* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation
%%* AmusementParkOfDoom: Dream!Eddie Land from "Show Me The Infidel".
%%* AnthropomorphicFood: The produce audience from "Steamed Vegetables".
* ArtShift: They are dreams so of course the setting will get altered.
* BigNo: One of the defining lines of Ned in the show. It is used several times in the intro alone.
* BigOlUnibrow: The movie theater ticket booth guy from [[BoyMeetsGhoul "Until Undeath Do Us Apart"]] has one, combined with BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill.
** The twins from “A Dolls House” counts as this as well.
* BlackComedy: The monsters and freaks are quite funny and ridiculous along with terrifying so one could say that this trope's mixed with SurrealHorror and SurrealHumor.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: In "Until Undeath Do Us Apart," Ned through hilarious circumstances makes an AccidentalProposal to a zombie bride, much to his dismay.
* ChessWithDeath: One sequence has Ned playing checkers with the Tooth Fairy over his teeth.
* CruelTwistEnding: Not the endings of episodes, but rather the endings of Ned's nightmares, as they often end with Ned's dream-self dying or being transformed. One example is the episode "Willie Trout"; Ned's nightmare is a rather light adventure that's an homage to ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' and it even seems to have a happy ending. [[spoiler:But then the Blue Fairy appears, mistakes Ned for Pinocchio and says that he'll now become a real boy... before turning Ned into a wooden puppet. Ned screams in horror and wakes up.]]
* DefangedHorrors: The nightmares Ned comes across...for the most part.
%%* DemonicDummy: The little girl's puppet in "Magic Bus."
* DemotedToExtra: Ned's family and classmates from the TV show to the game.
* DepravedDentist: In the episode "The Dentist" where Ned visits a mad and sadistic dentist.
* DownerEnding: In the show, almost all the nightmares end this way. Of course, Ned wakes up and depending on the episode it might have a positive or negative influence on him. It is averted thankfully in [[spoiler: the "Abduction"]] since it was the only real one.
* DownOnTheFarm: In "Canadian Bacon" Ned dreams about his pet pig taking him to live with his pig family on a farm in Canada.
%%* EnfantTerrible: The [[CreepyTwins Evil Twins]] from "A Doll's House."
* FaceYourFears: In the dreams Ned attempts to do that though usually he still fails. In the game however....
* ForcedTransformation: Ned is often turned into something against his will.
* HellHotel: The Tumbleweed Motel where Ned and his oblivious family are forced to stay at in "Along for the Ride".
* {{Homage}}: The Willie Trout episode was a play on ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', with [[{{Expy}} Geppetto himself, and Cicero as Figaro.]]
** In Neds Life as a Dog, Neds transformation scene is somewhat a nod to the movie ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Ned dreams he's the size of a doll in "A Doll's House" and at the mercy of his two bratty [[CreepyTwins twin cousins.]]
%%* KillerRobot: Sammy-7 from "Robot Ned."
* InkSuitActor: Florence Henderson portrays herself in "Monster Ned."
* MagicBus: In [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Magic Bus"]] where Ned is stuck on a flying bus piloted by a demented ventriloquist dummy.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Dream!Frank Grimes [[spoiler: seems to treat clinics like ''magic shows''.]]
* MutagenicFood: Ned is tricked into eating dog food by Conrad and Vernon in one episode, and naturally winds up dreaming that he's transformed into a dog. He gets his revenge on the bullies (in the dream, anyway) by tricking them into eating ''cat'' food, then chasing them down when they turn into cats.
* NightmareSequence: The entire premise of the show is based around Ned dealing with his problems through his dark and twisted nightmares.
* NinjaPirateRobotZombie: Dream!Frank Grimes is a doctor...[[spoiler: who's also a magician.]]
* NotWearingPantsDream: One episode's nightmare is about Ned forgetting to put his clothes on and arriving to school wearing nothing but a raincoat, which he's forced to abandon before class. [[spoiler:The episode's end has the same nightmare happen to his father.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The zombies preparing Ned and [[StalkerWithACrush the zombie girl]]'s wedding in "Until Undeath Do Us Apart."
* {{Parental Obliviousness}}: In his dreams, Ned's parents are often completely oblivious to their surroundings, and Ned has to be the one to get them out of peril.
* PottyEmergency: In “A Dolls House” where Ned’s twin cousins play with him like a doll and force feed him water.
%%* PrimalFear: Too many too count. It could be an alternative title for the show.
%%* SeaMonster: "Willie Trout".
* SeriousBusiness: In "Until Undeath Do Us Apart," [[spoiler: WHO KNEW THAT THIS [[StalkerWithACrush ZOMBIE GIRL]] TOOK WEDDINGS SERIOUSLY?!]]
%%* TeensAreMonsters: "My, How You've Grown". The [[LeanAndMean skinny]] camp master from "Headless Lester" counts too.
%%* ToyTime: "A Doll's House"
* TwistEnding: "Headless Lester": [[spoiler: Ned isn't the one with nightmares this time around. Also in "Abduction," Ned isn't having dreams this time.]]
* ToServeMan: The [[PigMan pig]] [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether family]]'s real purpose in "Canadian Bacon."
* UnwillingRoboticisation: In the episode "Robot Ned", Ned's new robot "brother" Sammy, still mad from being smashed to pieces by the former, roboticises Ned by implanting a computer chip into his hand. It's shortly revealed afterwards that [[spoiler: Sammy already did the same thing to the ''rest of Ned's family!'']]
* ViciousVac: The goblin from [[HellHotel "Along for the Ride"]] owns one (to suck up Ned).
%%* WombLevel: "Willie Trout" and "The Dentist".
%%* WorldOfSymbolism: Every one of Ned's nightmare worlds.
* WouldHurtAChild: Most of the adversaries seemed ''very'' focused on attacking Ned [[PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize who's just a kid]].
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