History YMMV / TheOuterLimits1995

* 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 Creator/CathyWeseluck. 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.

** "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E12Tribunal Tribunal]]": [[NaziGrandpa Karl Rademacher]], during UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust, was the 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, later having [[WouldHurtAChild 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]].

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: This show ran on so many uses of the CruelTwistEnding that ''it was the former TropeNamer''. This says it all.

** Creator/DavidHydePierce won an Emmy for his performance as a charismatic scientist who gets a BreakTheHaughty and TheAtoner arc in "The Sentence".

* IdiotPlot: The entirety of 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]].