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American businessman Ellis Travers (Creator/BobCrane) moves to London with his overbearing wife Iris (Jo Anne Worley), (Creator/JoAnneWorley), largely to be together with his lover Sherry (Trisha Noble), who is getting impatient waiting for Ellis to leave Iris. To this end, Ellis purchases a haunted house so Iris, who suffers from dizzy spells and has a strong interest in ghosts, will be scared enough to "accidentally" fall down the stairs. The only factor in his plan is just how long it takes for any potential ghosts haunting the house to show themselves and do their duty, which soon costs Ellis much more than his wife.
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-> '''Rod Serling:''' Good evening, art lovers. For your enjoyment and edification, three paintings on display; part of a collection of kookery unique to this special exhibit. Painting number one: out of the real estate section of "The Ghost Town Weekly". A gingerbready item quite appropriately called: '''House -- with Ghost'''. Ghost.''' This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Night Gallery.
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Bells.'''
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* TheReveal: The insurance agent was a ghost who had killed his wife in the same fashion.
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A vampire breaks into a woman's room for a late-night snack...only to find out she's unavailable.
* AffablyEvil: Once the woman confirms she's already given blood, the vampire apologizes for intruding and leaves.
* AntiClimax: The vampire leans in, but the woman rebuffs him by telling him she's already given blood. He leaves, story over.
* BreakingAndBloodsucking: Parodied. A vampire breaks into a woman's room and goes down to suck her blood. At the last second, she wakes up and says "I gave at the office." He apologizes, makes a note in his book, and flies off.
* TheReveal: The insurance agent was a ghost who had killed his wife in the same fashion.
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A vampire breaks into a woman's room for a late-night snack...only to find out she's unavailable.
* AffablyEvil: Once the woman confirms she's already given blood, the vampire apologizes for intruding and leaves.
* AntiClimax: The vampire leans in, but the woman rebuffs him by telling him she's already given blood. He leaves, story over.
* BreakingAndBloodsucking: Parodied. A vampire breaks into a woman's room and goes down to suck her blood. At the last second, she wakes up and says "I gave at the office." He apologizes, makes a note in his book, and flies off.
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American businessman Ellis Travers (Creator/BobCrane) moves to London with his overbearing wife Iris (Jo Anne Worley), largely to be together with his lover Sherry (Trisha Noble), who is getting impatient waiting for Ellis to leave Iris. To this end, Ellis purchases a haunted house so Iris, who suffers from dizzy spells and has a strong interest in ghosts, will be scared enough to “accidentally” fall down the stairs. The only factor in his plan is just how long it takes for any potential ghosts haunting the house to show themselves and do their duty, which soon costs Ellis much more than his wife.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Ellis can't stand his nagging wife Iris and wants to be with his mistress Sherry instead, so he intends to have the potential ghost inhabiting the supposedly haunted house he and the missus buy and move into scare Iris to death.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Ellis buys a haunted house in London to scare his wife to death so he can be with Sherry. Once Iris finally dies, Ellis, who no longer has any use for the house, is told by Mr. Canby that he'll have to keep making a monthly payment of $2,000 to keep it. And also, Sherry broke up with him just before Iris died.
* BittersweetEnding: Iris dies, just as Ellis wanted her to, but he loses Sherry just before she goes down the stairs. Furthermore, Mr. Canby tells him that he'll have to pay $2,000 a month every month for the rest of his life to keep the house he clearly no longer has a use for.
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: The segment's universe is one where ghosts not only exist, but people are so accustomed to their presences that they've been reduced to tourist attractions, with travel agencies charging travelers to rent and stay in the places they haunt.
* FrightDeathtrap: Ellis hopes for the haunted house to be the literal death of his obnoxious wife. It comes to pass in the end, but it costs Ellis his mistress and a good chunk of his finances.
* HauntedHouse: Ellis buys one with the express interest in having the overbearing Iris frightened to death.
* HenpeckedHusband: Ellis, who pines for Sherry while thinking up a way to kill the overbearing Iris.
* IronicEcho: Ellis' habit of using the old "A., B., C.," trope in his conversations is spat back at him at Sherry before she breaks up with him, and again by Mr. Canby to continue his monthly payments on his now useless haunted house under the threat of being hounded to death.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After cheating on his wife and plotting to have her killed, Ellis gets what he wants, but loses his mistress' love, and is forced to pay $2,000 a month for a house he no longer needs.
* LighterAndSofter: The segment is set in a world where haunted houses are regularly sold as commercial real estate and rental properties, realtors and buyers treating the ghosts within as additions to their properties. Ellis intends to use one of these houses to scare his nagging and superstitious wife to death so he can start a new romance with his mistress, but it doesn't happen fast enough for his tastes.
* NightmareFetishist: Iris has a strong interest in ghosts and the supernatural, and she's eager to move into a haunted house housing genuine phantoms, telling Ellis that it's "not very hip to be unspiritual these days". This rebuttal and the brochures Ellis reads in the same scene indicate that all of London is similarly ghost-crazy, as haunted houses "with or without ghosts" are freely advertised for purchase or rental to travelers.
* PyrrhicVictory: Ellis still has Iris killed by the haunted house's resident ghost, but his romance with Sherry ended just before Iris died, and he'll need to pay an additional $2,000 a month for a house he no longer needs for the rest of his life.
* TheReveal: The
* ShaggyDogStory: Iris dies by being thrown down the stairs by Mr. Canby, which Ellis was hoping for all along, but she dies ''immediately'' after Sherry breaks up with him.
* StaircaseTumble: Iris is killed when she is yanked down the stairs by Mr. Canby and breaks her neck.
* VillainProtagonist: Ellis, who aspires to use his new haunted house to scare his wife
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Ellis finds out that the
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* AffablyEvil: Once the woman confirms that she's already given blood, the vampire apologizes for
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* EverybodyLives: Unusually for the show, no one dies or even suffers.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A vampire sneaks up on an unsuspecting woman. Just as he's about to bite, she calmly tells him that she already donated to a local blood bank. He makes a note, apologizes, and leaves.
!!"Dr.Stringfellow's Rejuvenation"
* BaitAndSwitch: It seems like Dr. Stringfellow was killed by being clobbered by a falling sign, turns out being tense from seeing the ghost of the girl he killed combined by the fear of the sign hitting him, caused him to have a heart attack. The sign actually missed him by at least a foot.
* DeathByIrony: As lampshaded by his assistant, he made a living off deceiving others and died by his own eyes deceiving him.
* LastDisrespects: Dr. Stringfellow's assistant gloats about the man's death the burns his stage coach destroying everything inside
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never said if the girl's ghost came back to avenge her death or if the guilt from killing her caused Dr. Stringellow to imagine seeing her.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Dr.Stringfellow sells a sham rejuvenator.
* UndignifiedDeath: Dr. Stringfellow dies of a heart attack combined from the guilt of killing a young girl and a sign flying at him.
!!"Hell's Bells"
* AffablyEvil: The devil is rather polite with the hippie, explaining everything in a calm and reasonable manner.
* BottleEpisode: Aside from the opening on the highway, the rest of the story takes place entirely in two rooms, mostly the second one.
* CloudCuckooLander: The people the hippie is stuck with, consisting of an old farmer who seems to live in his own little world and a couple who have a very long slideshow of their vacation that they're just dying to show him. Justified in that they're acting like that to annoy him.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Besides smoking, the hippie doesn't really seem to be the kind of guy who deserves to go to Hell.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: What the hippie expected and wanted. Not what he got.
* MundaneAfterlife: At least, the hippie's hell is. All it consists of is a room with ugly wallpaper, a record collection of the most boring music possible, and roommates who absolutely bore him.
* NightmareFetishist: The hippie was actually looking forward to a FireAndBrimstoneHell. Too bad that's not what he got.
* SelfInflictedHell: Before the devil leaves him to his fate, he comments that there is a room exactly like the one they're in up in Heaven, meaning this is only Hell for the hippie because he sees it that way.
* TemptingFate: Subverted. After asking "How bad can it (Hell) be?" The hippie immediately begins imagining images of all sorts of horrible punishments, though he's not fazed by that. Turns out Hell isn't anything like that... it's much worse (for him, anyway).
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A vampire sneaks up on an unsuspecting woman. Just as he's about to bite, she calmly tells him that she already donated to a local blood bank. He makes a note, apologizes, and leaves.
!!"Dr.Stringfellow's Rejuvenation"
* BaitAndSwitch: It seems like Dr. Stringfellow was killed by being clobbered by a falling sign, turns out being tense from seeing the ghost of the girl he killed combined by the fear of the sign hitting him, caused him to have a heart attack. The sign actually missed him by at least a foot.
* DeathByIrony: As lampshaded by his assistant, he made a living off deceiving others and died by his own eyes deceiving him.
* LastDisrespects: Dr. Stringfellow's assistant gloats about the man's death the burns his stage coach destroying everything inside
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never said if the girl's ghost came back to avenge her death or if the guilt from killing her caused Dr. Stringellow to imagine seeing her.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Dr.Stringfellow sells a sham rejuvenator.
* UndignifiedDeath: Dr. Stringfellow dies of a heart attack combined from the guilt of killing a young girl and a sign flying at him.
!!"Hell's Bells"
* AffablyEvil: The devil is rather polite with the hippie, explaining everything in a calm and reasonable manner.
* BottleEpisode: Aside from the opening on the highway, the rest of the story takes place entirely in two rooms, mostly the second one.
* CloudCuckooLander: The people the hippie is stuck with, consisting of an old farmer who seems to live in his own little world and a couple who have a very long slideshow of their vacation that they're just dying to show him. Justified in that they're acting like that to annoy him.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Besides smoking, the hippie doesn't really seem to be the kind of guy who deserves to go to Hell.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: What the hippie expected and wanted. Not what he got.
* MundaneAfterlife: At least, the hippie's hell is. All it consists of is a room with ugly wallpaper, a record collection of the most boring music possible, and roommates who absolutely bore him.
* NightmareFetishist: The hippie was actually looking forward to a FireAndBrimstoneHell. Too bad that's not what he got.
* SelfInflictedHell: Before the devil leaves him to his fate, he comments that there is a room exactly like the one they're in up in Heaven, meaning this is only Hell for the hippie because he sees it that way.
* TemptingFate: Subverted. After asking "How bad can it (Hell) be?" The hippie immediately begins imagining images of all sorts of horrible punishments, though he's not fazed by that. Turns out Hell isn't anything like that... it's much worse (for him, anyway).
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Rejuvenator
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-> '''Rod Serling:''' As our third selection, an item from the past. That uniquely American institution known as the "pitchman". The wheeler and dealer of magical nostrums, guaranteed to cure, to palliate, to bring back the glow of health to everything but a cadaver. Model dreams, if you will. Our painting is called: '''Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator'''. Drink hearty.
In the Old West, Ernest Stringfellow (Forrest Tucker) is a fraudulent doctor who makes a living peddling phony medicine he calls “Rejuvenator” to swindle gullible townsfolk out of their cash. Soon after his latest pitch, a farmer approaches Ernest and begs him to heal his ailing daughter, suffering from acute appendicitis. Ernest gives the sick girl doses of Rejuvenator, but his fake medicine exacerbates the girl’s illness and ultimately kills her, which Ernest shows no fear or remorse about as he and his assistant Rolpho (Don Pedro Colley) prepare to head to the next town. Before he can do so, Ernest is confronted by what appears to be the ghost of the young girl that his phony medicine killed.
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* AssholeVictim: Ernest, who made a living scamming people with fake medicine, is killed by a heart attack brought on by the fear of seeing the ghost of an ailing girl his medicine killed.
* BaitAndSwitch: Itseems like Dr. Stringfellow looks as though Ernest was killed by after being clobbered by a falling sign, sign. It turns out being tense that his tension from seeing the ghost of the girl he killed his phony medicine indirectly killed, combined by the fear of the sign potentially hitting him, caused him to have a heart attack. The sign actually missed him by at least a foot.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In keeping with how he sells "dreams" and "faith" to those who buy his Rejuvenator, Ernest promises the farmer that he's going to sell his daughter so much belief that she'll burst out of a pine coffin. This seemingly comes to pass near the end, as the girl's ghost returns from the grave to seek vengeance on the peddler, moments after she's hauled off in a hearse.
* BittersweetEnding: The farmer's daughter dies thanks to Ernest's actions, but Ernest himself dies soon after she does. Rolpho also burns his stagecoach so his phony Rejuvenator can't harm anyone else.
* CowboyEpisode: The setting is the Wild West, but the main character is a peddler instead of a cowboy.
* DeathByIrony: As lampshaded byhis assistant, he Rolpho, Ernest made a living off by deceiving others others, and he died right after he was deceived by his own eyes deceiving him.
eyes.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Ernest treats his black assistant Rolpho with very little respect, calling him stupid, giving him insulting nicknames, and essentially using him as cheap labor. It fits with the time period, but whether the peddler's attitude towards him is because of the generalized racism or his overall rotten attitude is unrevealed.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The desperate farmer genuinely trusts Ernest and his Rejuvenator to save his daughter's life, even as Snyder, an actual (albeit disgraced) doctor, warns him against it. Sure enough, the Rejuvenator exacerbates the daughter's illness and kills her.
* LastDisrespects:Dr. Stringfellow's Ernest's assistant Rolpho gloats about the man's death the his boss' undignified death, then burns his stage coach destroying stagecoach and destroys everything inside
inside, getting revenge for Ernest's treatment of him and his willingness to let the farmer's daughter die in the name of easy money.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never said if thegirl's farmer's daughter's ghost came back to avenge her death death, or if the his guilt from killing her caused Dr. Stringellow Ernest to imagine hallucinate seeing her.
* MeaningfulName: Ernest Stringfellow is a classic Western scamster, and thus, he naturally "strings fellows" along with his phony promises and phony products to make a living.
* NoNameGiven: The desperate farmer and his sick daughter are unnamed.
* OnlySaneMan: Snyder, the former doctor-turned-town drunk who cautions the farmer about trusting Ernest, is the only person in town to deduce Stringfellow as a total fraud.
* SeeminglyProfoundFool: Town drunk Snyder was once a licensed doctor, and as such, he's the only person in the segment who tries to tell everyone else, especially the desperate farmer, that Ernest (a doctor in name only) is nothing more than a con artist.
* SnakeOilSalesman:Dr.Stringfellow Ernest makes a living as a phony healer who sells fake medicine he calls "Rejuvenator" (said to be a sham rejuvenator.
mixture of caramel coloring, wood alcohol, and burnt cork) to gullible people throughout the West.
* UndignifiedDeath:Dr. Stringfellow Ernest dies of a heart attack combined brought on from the his guilt of killing a young girl local farmer's daughter, and the overwhelming fear he experiences when he comes across what looks like her ghost, coupled with a sign flying dropping in front of him.
* VengefulGhost: The farmer's daughter seemingly becomes one when the Rejuvenator kills her, and she stares down Ernest from across the road, ultimately giving him a heart attack.
* WouldHarmAChild: Ernest doesn't care about saving the farmer's daughter, giving her more and more Rejuvenator so he gets more money, fully anticipating her death. When the Rejuvenator does kill her, Ernest isn't athim.
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!! Hell's Bells
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-> '''Rod Serling:''' Our final selection this evening; an import from that outer region. That infernal inferno down below. Offered to you now in living color, and with a small scent of sulfur. Our painting is called: '''Hell's Bells'''.
Aging hippie Randy Miller (Creator/JohnAstin) dies in a fiery car crash on a dark highway, and soon finds himself in Hell’s waiting room. Realizing what’s happened to him, and actually looking forward to a land of fire, brimstone, demons, torture, and ceaseless agony, Randy is shocked to find that Hell appears to be a dull-looking room with drab wallpaper, a collection of boring music on vinyl, and the only company he has being an apparently-senile farmer and a couple of tourists who have a massive collection of vacation photos to share with him. Growing impatient, Randy demands an explanation as to why Hell is so boring, prompting the Devil to appear and straighten things out.
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* AffablyEvil: Thedevil Devil is rather polite with the hippie, Randy, explaining everything about his eternal torment in a calm and reasonable manner.
* BoringVacationSlideshow: The married couple in Randy's personal hell have one of their trip to Tijuana that they're dying to show him... one that's ''8,500'' slides long.
* BottleEpisode: Aside from the opening scene on the highway, the rest of the story takes placeentirely in two rooms, mostly the second one.
* BreatherEpisode: The preceding segment was emotional and gripping, so this one is much more light-hearted to take the edge off.
* CloudCuckooLander: The peoplethe hippie is that Randy ends up stuck with, consisting of an old farmer who seems to live in his own little world world, and a couple who have a very ''very'' long slideshow of their vacation that they're just dying to show him. Justified in that It's justified since they're acting like that this way to annoy torture him.
* CreatorCameo: Theodore Flicker, director and writer of the segment, plays the Devil.
* DenserAndWackier: The segment goes out its way to be over-the-top while ironically giving Randy the most painfully mundane Hell ever. Randy's journey to Hell even has him spiraling in a black void as ridiculous looking demons yell the names of villainous people and their sins to the viewers, providing an additional sort of comedic irony to Randy's fate.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Besidessmoking, the hippie smoking weed and potentially driving while stoned, Randy doesn't really seem to be the kind of guy who deserves Hell, especially a Hell as mind-numbingly boring as his.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Randy's car crash comes about because he weaves up and down the road like a madman, likely being behind the wheel while stoned out of his mind. It's even possible that his driving high is what got him sent togo Hell to Hell.
begin with.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell:What the hippie Randy expected and wanted. Not this to be what he got.
* MundaneAfterlife: At least, the hippie's hell is. All it consists of is a room with ugly wallpaper, a record collection of the most boring music possible,Hell was like and roommates who absolutely bore him.
* NightmareFetishist: The hippiewas actually looking forward to a FireAndBrimstoneHell.interested in seeing it. Too bad that's not what he got.
* HawaiianShirtedTourist: The married couple in Randy's personal hell appear as such, and they have an ''8,500'' slide-long slideshow of their Tijuana vacation to show him.
* IronicHell: Randy, who craves excitement, ends up in the most boring situation imaginable once he dies.
* MundaneAfterlife: Randy's personal hell. It consists of a room with ugly wallpaper, a record collection of the most boring music possible, and roommates who absolutely bore him.
* NiceGuy: Randy is a pretty chill guy who notably doesn't look like he belongs in Hell, likely being sent there just for smoking weed, or as indicated by the opening scene, driving while high.
* NightmareFetishist: Randy was actually ''looking forward'' to a FireAndBrimstoneHell in the waiting room. Unfortunately, the Devil had other ideas in store for him.
* OffscreenTeleportation: The Fat Lady usually appears from nowhere to clean up rolling paper Randy throws on the floor when he tries toking up, then disappears when she finishes. The Devil also does the same when Randy calls on him for an explanation.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Randy's death in a firey car crash at the start of the segment.
* {{Satan}}: He shows up to tell Randy the truth behind his personal hell, and to fit with the comedy stylings of the segment, he's portrayed as a short and stocky middle-aged man in a cheesy costume, complete with a sparkly pitchfork.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: The old farmer, who answers Randy's questions with completely different answers, usually regarding agriculture.
* SelfInflictedHell: Before thedevil Devil leaves him Randy to his fate, he comments notes that there is there's a room exactly like the one they're in up hippie's personal hell in Heaven, meaning that this is only Hell for the hippie Randy because he ''he'' sees it that way.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Randy's firey death and his trip down to Hell, along with the eerie/comedic screaming demons, is all accompanied to the groovy music he was driving to.
* TemptingFate: Subverted. After learning that he's in Hell and asking "How bad can it(Hell) be?" The hippie be?", Randy immediately begins imagining images of all sorts of horrible punishments, ancient illustrations of the horrific punishments that potentially await him, though he's not fazed by that. Turns out out, Hell isn't anything like that... it's is much worse (for him, anyway).him).
* TotallyRadical: Randy interjects over-the-top hippie slang in his dialogue.
* VisualPun:
** In the waiting room, Randy meets the Fat Lady, who serves as Hell's cleaning woman. True to form, she doesn't do any singing, since Randy's ordeal is far from over.
** Demanding an explanation as to the constant boredom of his eternal fate, Randy demands to see the Devil (speaking of him), who instantly appears.
* WorldOfHam: Randy and his above-mentioned hippie slang, as well the Fat Lady and his new roommates. His trip to Hell is accompanied by pale-faced demons screaming insults and sins at the viewers as he falls through a black void.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A vampire sneaks up on an unsuspecting woman. Just as he's about to
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-> '''Rod Serling:''' As our third selection, an item from the past. That uniquely American institution known as the "pitchman". The wheeler and dealer of magical nostrums, guaranteed to cure, to palliate, to bring back the glow of health to everything but a cadaver. Model dreams, if you will. Our painting is called: '''Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator'''. Drink hearty.
In the Old West, Ernest Stringfellow (Forrest Tucker) is a fraudulent doctor who makes a living peddling phony medicine he calls “Rejuvenator” to swindle gullible townsfolk out of their cash. Soon after his latest pitch, a farmer approaches Ernest and begs him to heal his ailing daughter, suffering from acute appendicitis. Ernest gives the sick girl doses of Rejuvenator, but his fake medicine exacerbates the girl’s illness and ultimately kills her, which Ernest shows no fear or remorse about as he and his assistant Rolpho (Don Pedro Colley) prepare to head to the next town. Before he can do so, Ernest is confronted by what appears to be the ghost of the young girl that his phony medicine killed.
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* AssholeVictim: Ernest, who made a living scamming people with fake medicine, is killed by a heart attack brought on by the fear of seeing the ghost of an ailing girl his medicine killed.
* BaitAndSwitch: It
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In keeping with how he sells "dreams" and "faith" to those who buy his Rejuvenator, Ernest promises the farmer that he's going to sell his daughter so much belief that she'll burst out of a pine coffin. This seemingly comes to pass near the end, as the girl's ghost returns from the grave to seek vengeance on the peddler, moments after she's hauled off in a hearse.
* BittersweetEnding: The farmer's daughter dies thanks to Ernest's actions, but Ernest himself dies soon after she does. Rolpho also burns his stagecoach so his phony Rejuvenator can't harm anyone else.
* CowboyEpisode: The setting is the Wild West, but the main character is a peddler instead of a cowboy.
* DeathByIrony: As lampshaded by
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Ernest treats his black assistant Rolpho with very little respect, calling him stupid, giving him insulting nicknames, and essentially using him as cheap labor. It fits with the time period, but whether the peddler's attitude towards him is because of the generalized racism or his overall rotten attitude is unrevealed.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The desperate farmer genuinely trusts Ernest and his Rejuvenator to save his daughter's life, even as Snyder, an actual (albeit disgraced) doctor, warns him against it. Sure enough, the Rejuvenator exacerbates the daughter's illness and kills her.
* LastDisrespects:
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never said if the
* MeaningfulName: Ernest Stringfellow is a classic Western scamster, and thus, he naturally "strings fellows" along with his phony promises and phony products to make a living.
* NoNameGiven: The desperate farmer and his sick daughter are unnamed.
* OnlySaneMan: Snyder, the former doctor-turned-town drunk who cautions the farmer about trusting Ernest, is the only person in town to deduce Stringfellow as a total fraud.
* SeeminglyProfoundFool: Town drunk Snyder was once a licensed doctor, and as such, he's the only person in the segment who tries to tell everyone else, especially the desperate farmer, that Ernest (a doctor in name only) is nothing more than a con artist.
* SnakeOilSalesman:
* UndignifiedDeath:
* VengefulGhost: The farmer's daughter seemingly becomes one when the Rejuvenator kills her, and she stares down Ernest from across the road, ultimately giving him a heart attack.
* WouldHarmAChild: Ernest doesn't care about saving the farmer's daughter, giving her more and more Rejuvenator so he gets more money, fully anticipating her death. When the Rejuvenator does kill her, Ernest isn't at
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!! Hell's Bells
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-> '''Rod Serling:''' Our final selection this evening; an import from that outer region. That infernal inferno down below. Offered to you now in living color, and with a small scent of sulfur. Our painting is called: '''Hell's Bells'''.
Aging hippie Randy Miller (Creator/JohnAstin) dies in a fiery car crash on a dark highway, and soon finds himself in Hell’s waiting room. Realizing what’s happened to him, and actually looking forward to a land of fire, brimstone, demons, torture, and ceaseless agony, Randy is shocked to find that Hell appears to be a dull-looking room with drab wallpaper, a collection of boring music on vinyl, and the only company he has being an apparently-senile farmer and a couple of tourists who have a massive collection of vacation photos to share with him. Growing impatient, Randy demands an explanation as to why Hell is so boring, prompting the Devil to appear and straighten things out.
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* AffablyEvil: The
* BoringVacationSlideshow: The married couple in Randy's personal hell have one of their trip to Tijuana that they're dying to show him... one that's ''8,500'' slides long.
* BottleEpisode: Aside from the opening scene on the highway, the rest of the story takes place
* BreatherEpisode: The preceding segment was emotional and gripping, so this one is much more light-hearted to take the edge off.
* CloudCuckooLander: The people
* CreatorCameo: Theodore Flicker, director and writer of the segment, plays the Devil.
* DenserAndWackier: The segment goes out its way to be over-the-top while ironically giving Randy the most painfully mundane Hell ever. Randy's journey to Hell even has him spiraling in a black void as ridiculous looking demons yell the names of villainous people and their sins to the viewers, providing an additional sort of comedic irony to Randy's fate.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Besides
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Randy's car crash comes about because he weaves up and down the road like a madman, likely being behind the wheel while stoned out of his mind. It's even possible that his driving high is what got him sent to
* FireAndBrimstoneHell:
* MundaneAfterlife: At least, the hippie's hell is. All it consists of is a room with ugly wallpaper, a record collection of the most boring music possible,
* NightmareFetishist: The hippie
* HawaiianShirtedTourist: The married couple in Randy's personal hell appear as such, and they have an ''8,500'' slide-long slideshow of their Tijuana vacation to show him.
* IronicHell: Randy, who craves excitement, ends up in the most boring situation imaginable once he dies.
* MundaneAfterlife: Randy's personal hell. It consists of a room with ugly wallpaper, a record collection of the most boring music possible, and roommates who absolutely bore him.
* NiceGuy: Randy is a pretty chill guy who notably doesn't look like he belongs in Hell, likely being sent there just for smoking weed, or as indicated by the opening scene, driving while high.
* NightmareFetishist: Randy was actually ''looking forward'' to a FireAndBrimstoneHell in the waiting room. Unfortunately, the Devil had other ideas in store for him.
* OffscreenTeleportation: The Fat Lady usually appears from nowhere to clean up rolling paper Randy throws on the floor when he tries toking up, then disappears when she finishes. The Devil also does the same when Randy calls on him for an explanation.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Randy's death in a firey car crash at the start of the segment.
* {{Satan}}: He shows up to tell Randy the truth behind his personal hell, and to fit with the comedy stylings of the segment, he's portrayed as a short and stocky middle-aged man in a cheesy costume, complete with a sparkly pitchfork.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: The old farmer, who answers Randy's questions with completely different answers, usually regarding agriculture.
* SelfInflictedHell: Before the
* SoundtrackDissonance: Randy's firey death and his trip down to Hell, along with the eerie/comedic screaming demons, is all accompanied to the groovy music he was driving to.
* TemptingFate: Subverted. After learning that he's in Hell and asking "How bad can it
* TotallyRadical: Randy interjects over-the-top hippie slang in his dialogue.
* VisualPun:
** In the waiting room, Randy meets the Fat Lady, who serves as Hell's cleaning woman. True to form, she doesn't do any singing, since Randy's ordeal is far from over.
** Demanding an explanation as to the constant boredom of his eternal fate, Randy demands to see the Devil (speaking of him), who instantly appears.
* WorldOfHam: Randy and his above-mentioned hippie slang, as well the Fat Lady and his new roommates. His trip to Hell is accompanied by pale-faced demons screaming insults and sins at the viewers as he falls through a black void.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The painting is creepy, but the story itself is a comedy.
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* TemptingFate: Subverted. After asking "How bad can it (hell) be?" The hippie immediately begins imagining images of all sorts of horrible punishments, though he's not fazed by that. Turns out Hell isn't anything like that... its much worse (for him, anyway).
* TemptingFate: Subverted. After asking "How bad can it (hell) be?" The hippie immediately begins imagining images of all sorts of horrible punishments, though he's not fazed by that. Turns out Hell isn't anything like that... its much worse (for him, anyway).
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never said if the girl's ghost came back to avenge her death or if the guilt from killing her caused Dr. Stringellow to imagine seeing her.
* LastDisrespects: Dr. Stringfellow's assistant gloats about the man's death the burns his stage coach destroying everything inside
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* SnakeOilSalesman: Dr.Stringfellow sells a sham rejuvenator.
* UndignifiedDeath: Dr. Stringfellow dies of a heart attack combined from the guilt of killing a young girl and a sign flying at him.
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* AffablyEvil: Once the woman confirms she's already given blood, the vampire apologizes for intruding and leaves.
* AntiClimax: The vampire leans in, but the woman rebuffs him by telling him she's already given blood. He leaves, story over.
!!"Dr.Stringfellow's Rejuvenation"
!!"Hell's Bells"
* AffablyEvil: The devil is rather polite with the hippie, explaining everything in a calm and reasonable manner.
* BottleEpisode: Aside from the opening on the highway, the rest of the story takes place entirely in two rooms, mostly the second one.
* CloudlandCuckooLander: The people the hippie is stuck with, consisting of an old farmer who seems to live in his own little world and a couple who have a very long slideshow of their vacation that they're just dying to show him. Justified in that they're acting like that to annoy him.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Besides smoking, the hippie doesn't really seem to be the kind of guy who deserves to go to hell.
* FireandBrimstoneHell: What the hippie expected and wanted. Not what he got.
* MundaneAfterlife: At least, the hippie's hell is. All it consists of is a room with ugly wallpaper, a record collection of the most boring music possible, and roommates who absolutely bore him.
* NightmareFetishist: The hippie was actually looking forward to a FireandBrimstoneHell. Too bad that's not what he got.
* SelfInflictedHell: Before the devil leaves him to his fate, he comments that there is a room exactly like the one they're in up in heaven, meaning this is only hell for the hippie because he sees it that way.
* TemptingFate: Subverted. After asking "How bad can it (hell) be?" The hippie immediately begins imagining images of all sorts of horrible punishments, though he's not fazed by that. Turns out Hell isn't anything like that... its much worse (for him, anyway).
!!"A Midnight Visit to the Blood Bank"
* AffablyEvil: Once the woman confirms she's already given blood, the vampire apologizes for intruding and leaves.
* AntiClimax: The vampire leans in, but the woman rebuffs him by telling him she's already given blood. He leaves, story over.
!!"Dr.Stringfellow's Rejuvenation"
!!"Hell's Bells"
* AffablyEvil: The devil is rather polite with the hippie, explaining everything in a calm and reasonable manner.
* BottleEpisode: Aside from the opening on the highway, the rest of the story takes place entirely in two rooms, mostly the second one.
* CloudlandCuckooLander: The people the hippie is stuck with, consisting of an old farmer who seems to live in his own little world and a couple who have a very long slideshow of their vacation that they're just dying to show him. Justified in that they're acting like that to annoy him.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Besides smoking, the hippie doesn't really seem to be the kind of guy who deserves to go to hell.
* FireandBrimstoneHell: What the hippie expected and wanted. Not what he got.
* MundaneAfterlife: At least, the hippie's hell is. All it consists of is a room with ugly wallpaper, a record collection of the most boring music possible, and roommates who absolutely bore him.
* NightmareFetishist: The hippie was actually looking forward to a FireandBrimstoneHell. Too bad that's not what he got.
* SelfInflictedHell: Before the devil leaves him to his fate, he comments that there is a room exactly like the one they're in up in heaven, meaning this is only hell for the hippie because he sees it that way.
* TemptingFate: Subverted. After asking "How bad can it (hell) be?" The hippie immediately begins imagining images of all sorts of horrible punishments, though he's not fazed by that. Turns out Hell isn't anything like that... its much worse (for him, anyway).
