History Recap / CreepshowS4E12BabyTeeth

The teenaged Shelby Murphy (Alison Thornton) comes to at the dentist's office, having had her wisdom teeth removed. Her overbearing, overprotective mother Miranda (Creator/RochelleGreenwood) strokes an iron pendant around her neck and questions why her daughter's matching pendant was taken off, before asking if she can keep the extracted teeth. Once they're home, Miranda asks her drugged-up daughter some questions, asking Shelby if she's been keeping any secrets, to which Shelby reveals that she recently gave herself a naval piercing at her friend Kaitlyn's house. An aghast Miranda laments that she defiled the stomach she used to blow kisses on when Shelby was a baby, to which Shelby claims that she's ready to try "new blows and kisses", further revealing that she and Kaitlyn snuck out and went to a party where she tried Schnapps for the first time, prompting her horrified mother to say she could have been kidnapped and tortured "by them", and she puts Shelby on lockdown as a precaution. Shelby rebuts that Miranda did the same thing to her father, who left her after she smothered him too much, and argues that everyone will leave her if she doesn't stop coddling them.

Back in Shelby's room, as Kaitlyn takes some of Shelby's painkillers, they get the idea to go look for Shelby's teeth. Entering the wrecked room, Kaitlyn begins to look for the teeth, with Shelby saying she'll catch up because her mouth hurts. In the closet, Kaitlyn cuts her thumb on one of the iron nails sewn into Shelby's old dresses. Just as she remembers that her Irish grandmother talked about old stories of how iron sewn into one's clothes was supposed to protect them from something, Kaitlyn peeks into the closet, spying the Fae peeking through the dresses. She trips over a toy car trying to run, as the Fae skitters around the room and savagely attacks her. Miranda enters the nursery and notices its destroyed state, just as Shelby walks into the room. Miranda immediately blames Shelby and her friend for trashing the nursery. Noticing that the teeth are missing and that Shelby she's not wearing her pendant, Miranda reveals that Shelby's grandmother didn't abandon her, but she was actually taken away by the Fae, as they tried to take swap her with a changeling as a baby and her mother saved her. Rather than being shocked, Shelby thinks that the Fae story is something Miranda tells herself to hide from the fact that her mother abandoned her. This is disproven when the Fae peeks out from a pile of toys, whereupon Shelby declares that the mess they're in now is all her mother's fault for keeping the baby teeth. As she tries to flee, Shelby spots Kaitlyn's corpse in the corner of the room, her lips having been torn off.

* ColdIron: Miranda has iron objects housed all around Shelby's old nursery to keep the Fae away, including a horseshoe above the door, a pair of shears in her crib, and nails sewn into the hems of all her old dresses, as well as an arrangment of them fashioned into a mobile. She also has Shelby and herself wear matching iron pendants as a precautionary measure.

* TheFairFolk: The primary threat of the episode, as they tried to take Miranda away as a baby and her mother let herself be taken in her place, hence why she's so protective of Shelby. The one that menaces Miranda and Shelby is formed from the latter's baby teeth, a lock of her hair, and one of her dresses, and it looks like a shrivelled, skinless infant with unnatural strength.

* SealedEvilInACan: The Fae manifests from Shelby's baby teeth and a lock of her hair, locked in a box in her old nusery closet.

* VomitDiscretionShot: Shelby vomits in an empty extraction dish after seeing her removed wisdom teeth.

The teenaged Shelby Murphy (Creator/AlisonThornton) comes to at the dentist's office, having had her wisdom teeth removed. Her overbearing, overprotective mother Miranda (Creator/RochelleGreenwood) strokes an iron pendant around her neck and questions why her daughter's matching pendant was taken off, before asking if she can keep the extracted teeth. Once they're home, Miranda asks her drugged-up daughter some questions, asking Shelby if she's been keeping any secrets, to which Shelby reveals that she recently gave herself a naval piercing at her friend Kaitlyn's house. An aghast Miranda laments that she defiled the stomach she used to blow kisses on when Shelby was a baby, to which Shelby claims that she's ready to try "new blows and kisses", further revealing that she and Kaitlyn snuck out and went to a party where she tried Schnapps for the first time, prompting her horrified mother to say she could have been kidnapped and tortured "by them", and she puts Shelby on lockdown as a precaution. Shelby rebuts that Miranda did the same thing to her father, who left her after she smothered him too much, and argues that everyone will leave her if she doesn't stop coddling them.

The teenaged Shelby Murphy (Alison Thornton) comes to at the dentist's office, having had her wisdom teeth removed. Her overbearing, overprotective mother Miranda (Rochelle Greenwood) strokes an iron pendant around her neck and questions why her daughter's matching pendant was taken off, before asking if she can keep the extracted teeth. Once they're home, Miranda asks her drugged-up daughter some questions, asking Shelby if she's been keeping any secrets, to which Shelby reveals that she recently gave herself a naval piercing at her friend Kaitlyn's house. An aghast Miranda laments that she defiled the stomach she used to blow kisses on when Shelby was a baby, to which Shelby claims that she's ready to try "new blows and kisses", further revealing that she and Kaitlyn snuck out and went to a party where she tried Schnapps for the first time, prompting her horrified mother to say she could have been kidnapped and tortured "by them", and she puts Shelby on lockdown as a precaution. Shelby rebuts that Miranda did the same thing to her father, who left her after she smothered him too much, and argues that everyone will leave her if she doesn't stop coddling them.

The distraught Miranda goes to Shelby's old nursery, which has been turned into an untouched shrine, to grab a pair of rusty iron shears that reside in the crib. She walks over to a rocking chair in the corner and looks through old photo albums. She spots a photo of her own mother, who allegedly left her without saying goodbye or even leaving a note, telling her that Shelby got her wisdom teeth removed and hoping that she's happy wherever she is now. After some reflection, Miranda goes over to the closet, filled with kids' dresses with hems laced with iron nails and a box full of Shelby’s baby teeth, where she places the removed wisdom teeth. As Miranda walks out of the room, the iron horseshoe over the door inverts itself and a gold light starts to emanate from the box.

* ChangelingTale: The Fae, born of Shelby's collected baby teeth, turns into a changeling of her when Miranda kills it. After it previously killed Shelby herself, Miranda is all too happy to smother the new baby with love and have a second chance to raise her daughter right. Miranda also was nearly swapped with a changeling as a baby, if not for her mother protecting her.

* ChromosomeCasting: This is the first episode in the series not to feature any men whatsoever.

* CreepySouvenir: Miranda has compulsively saved all of Shelby's baby teeth, which even the dentist finds disgusting. Kaitlyn is quick to point out how unsettling it is, and the teeth are later broken out of their magic box to create the Fae. She's also revealed to have kept a lock of her daughter's hair in her old photo album, which she creepily sniffs.

* TheFairFolk: The primary threat of the episode, as they tried to take Miranda away as a baby and her mother let herself be taken in her place, hence why she's so protective of Shelby. The one that menaces Miranda and Shelby is formed from the latter's baby teeth and one of her dresses, and it looks like a shrivelled, skinless infant with unnatural strength.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The Fae are malevolent beings that live up to the old Gaelic tales about how they abduct children. The one that harasses the cast is formed from Shelby's baby teeth and one of her dresses, and it becomes a changeling baby when Miranda smashes the box the teeth were housed in.

* SealedEvilInACan: The Fae manifests from Shelby's baby teeth, locked in a box in her old nusery closet.

Later, Shelby's best friend Kaitlyn (Micaela Nyland) comes over to check up on her, and as Miranda leaves to make Jell-O for them, she hears rattling noises from the nursery closet, hastily grabbing the shears after noting that "Iron repels them." After finding nothing out of the ordinary, Miranda leaves, only for the box to begin glowing again. As Shelby and Kaitlyn lay in bed together and chat about Miranda's smothering, Kaityln shares some liquor in a flask with Shelby. When Shelby reveals that her mom saved all of her baby teeth, Kaitlyn is very much taken aback, though the girls just laugh it off. In the kitchen, Miranda prepares Jell-O for the girls, when she suddenly senses a presence and tells it "You can’t have her!", just as her face appears in the spoon she's using and echoes Shelby's sentiment about how everyone leaves her. Meanwhile, the box in the nursery continues glowing and ultimately falls over, spilling the teeth. The teeth are then sucked into a dress that similarly falls off its hanger, combining themselves into a hideous and malevolent Fae, which soon trashes the nursery.

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Shelby, who is shown to have gotteb a naval piercing, is a fan of liquor, painkillers, and parties, and can't wait to leave home when she turns 18. She also despises her overprotective mother and enjoys rubbing her "bad girl" lifestyle in her face.

* DesignatedHero: Miranda, Shelby's suffocating and overbearing mother, is ostensibly the main character. The end of the episode shows that she's learned nothing from her experience, preparing to smother the changeling baby of her daughter all over again.

** During her rant to Shelby for sneaking to a party, Miranda claims that she's seen ''Film/{{Taken}}'' and warns Shelby that she could've been kidnapped and held hostage on "some pedophile's yacht halfway around the world".

** The Fae's appearance and voice is highly similar to those of [[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt the Crypt Keeper]].

* POVCam: The opening scene is largely from Shelby's point of view as she revives from her wisdom teeth extraction.

* IJustWantToBeLoved: Miranda's mother was taken by the Fae in her place when she was an infant, and she's so protective of Shelby and refuses to let her leave home to protect her from the same fate, but mostly because she just wants someone to keep loving her. It's later shown that her clingy attitude ends up driving everyone around her away, including her husband, but she learns nothing from this and goes onto coddle her new baby all over again.

* IJustWantToBeLoved: Miranda's mother was taken by the Fae in her place when she was an infant, and she's so protective of Shelby and refuses to let her leave because she wants the Fae not to take her, but mostly because she just wants someone to keep loving her. It's later shown that her clingy attitude ends up driving everyone around her away, including her husband, but she learns nothing from this and goes onto coddle her new baby all over again.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Miranda is quick to point out that Shelby's desires for a thrill-packed lifestyle could easily get her into trouble, but Shelby is just as quick to rebut that her mother's smothering attitude isn't doing her any favors either.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Shelby, who got a naval piercing, is in to liquor, painkillers, and parties, and can't wait to leave home when she turns 18. She also utterly despises her overprotective mother and enjoys rubbing her "bad girl" lifestyle in her face.

Back in Shelby's room, as Kaitlyn takes some of Shelby's painkillers, they get the idea to go look for Shelby's teeth. Entering the wrecked room, Kaitlyn begins to look for the teeth, with Shelby saying she'll catch up because her mouth hurts. In the closet, Kaitlyn cuts her thumb on one of the iron nails sewn into Shelby's old dresses. Just as she remembers that her Irish grandmother talked about old stories of how iron sewn into one's clothes was supposed to protect them from something, Kaitlyn peeks into the closet, spying the Fae peeking through the dresses. She trips over a toy car trying to run, as the Fae skitters around the room and savagely attacks her. Miranda enters the nursery and notices its destroyed state, just as Shelby walks into the room. Miranda immediately Shelby blames Shelby and her friend for trashing the nursery. Noticing that the teeth are missing and that Shelby she's not wearing her pendant, Miranda reveals that Shelby's grandmother didn't abandon her, but she was actually taken away by the Fae, as they tried to take swap her with a changeling as a baby and her mother saved her. Rather than being shocked, Shelby thinks that the Fae story is something Miranda tells herself to hide from the fact that her mother abandoned her. This is disproven when the Fae peeks out from a pile of toys, whereupon Shelby declares that the mess they're in now is all her mother's fault for keeping the baby teeth. As she tries to flee, Shelby spots Kaitlyn's corpse in the corner of the room, her lips having been torn off.

Later, Shelby's best friend Kaitlyn (Micaela Nyland) comes over to check up on her, and as Miranda leaves to make Jell-O for them, she hears rattling noises from the nursery closet, hastily grabbing the shears after noting that "Iron repels them." After finding nothing out of the ordinary, Miranda leaves, only for the box to begin glowing again. As Shelby and Kaitlyn lay in bed together and chat about Miranda's smothering, Kaityln shares some liquor in a flask with Shelby. When Shelby reveals that her mom saved all of her baby teeth, Kaitlyn is very much taken aback, though the girls just laugh it off. In the kitchen, Miranda prepares Jell-O for the girls, when she suddenly senses a presence and tells it "You can’t have her!", just as her face appears in the spoon she's using and echoes Shelby's sentiment about how everyone leaves her. Meanwhile, the box in the nursery continues glowing and ultimatley falls over, spilling the teeth. The teeth are then sucked into a dress that similarly falls off its hanger, combining themselves into a hideous and malevolent Fae, which soon trashes the nursery.

The distraught Miranda goes to Shelby's old nursery, which has been turned into an untouched shrine, to grab a pair of rusty iron shears that reside in the crib. She walks over to a rocking chair in the corner and looks through old photo albums. She spots a photo of her own mother, who allegedly left her without saying goodbye or even leaving a note,telling her that Shelby got her wisdom teeth removed and hoping that she's happy wherever she is now. After some reflection, Miranda goes over to the closet, filled with kids' dresses with hems laced with iron nails and a box full of Shelby’s baby teeth, where she places the removed wisdom teeth. As Miranda walks out of the room, the iron horseshoe over the door inverts itself and a gold light starts to emanate from the box.

* IJustWantToBeLoved: Miranda's mother was taken by the Fae in her place in her infancy, and she's protective of Shelby and refuses to let her leave because she just wants someone to keep loving her. It's later shown that her clingy attitude ends up driving everyone around her away, including her husband, but she learns nothing from this and goes onto coddle her new baby all over again.

Teenager Shelby Murphy (Alison Thornton) comes to at the dentist's office, having had her wisdom teeth removed. Her overbearing, overprotective mother Miranda (Rochelle Greenwood) strokes an iron pendant around her neck and questions why her daughter's matching pendant was taken off, before asking if she can keep the extracted teeth. Once they're home, Miranda asks her drugged-up daughter some questions, asking Shelby if she's been keeping any secrets, to which Shelby reveals that she recently gave herself a naval piercing at her friend Kaitlyn's house. An aghast Miranda laments that she defiled the stomach she used to blow kisses on when Shelby was a baby, to which Shelby claims that she's ready to try "new blows and kisses", further revealing that she and Kaitlyn snuck out and went to a party where she tried Schnapps for the first time, prompting her horrified mother to say she could have been kidnapped and tortured "by them", and she puts Shelby on lockdown as a precaution. Shelby rebuts that Miranda did the same thing to her father, who left her after she smothered him too much, and argues that everyone will leave her if she doesn't stop coddling them.

* VomitDiscretionShot: Shelby vomits in an empty extraction dish after waking up from her wisdom teeth removal and seeing the removed teeth.

* HereWeGoAgain: The Fae ends up turning into a changeling baby that looks like Shelby when Miranda smashes the sacred box that held Shelby's baby teeth. She happily cuddles the baby and sings it a lullaby, planning to smother it with love all over again and showing that she hasn't learned at thing.

-> '''Creep:''' Open wide, bores and ghouls. It's time for your check up. This is going to be extreeeeemely panful! Heh-heh-heh. You won't feel a thing... until it's too late. Remember to stash your teeth under your pillow... along with your courage. A sinister something is coming to collect them, in this toothy tidbit of terror I call...