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* BookEnds: The episode begins with Ady's previous husband frantically driving his car while being trapped with her, with the latter desperately begging him to love her for what's inside despite him repeatedly telling her to stay away while being scared out of his wits before dying in a car crash. It ends with Norman finding out the truth about Ady's nature with the latter pleading with him to look past her exterior and love her for who she is before forcing herself into him while he screams in utter terror, and later ends up being carried away by paramedics who put him in an ambulance, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation having gone insane]].
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* BookEnds: The episode begins with Ady's previous husband frantically driving his car while being trapped with her, with the latter desperately begging him to love her for what's inside despite him repeatedly telling her to stay away while being scared out of his wits before dying in a car crash. It ends with Norman finding out the truth about Ady's nature with the latter pleading with him to look past her exterior and love her for who she is before forcing herself into onto him while he screams in utter terror, and later ends up being carried away by paramedics who put him in an ambulance, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation having gone insane]].
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* BookEnds: The episode begins with Ady's previous husband frantically driving his car while being trapped with her, with the latter desperately begging him to love her for what's inside despite him repeatedly telling her to stay away while being scared out of his wits before dying in a car crash. It ends with Norman finding out the truth about Ady's nature and ends up being carried away in an ambulance, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation having gone insane]].
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* BedTrick: Ady and Barbara can fool their husband's senses to make them believe they are making out and making love to a beautiful human woman rather than the repulsive aliens that they truly are. Dennis, when meeting Norman while hiding from Barbara who's stalking him, tells him how horrified he is about the realization of ''what'' he was being intimate with.
* BookEnds: The episode begins with Ady's previous husband frantically driving his car while being trapped with her, with the latter desperately begging him to love her for what's inside despite him repeatedly telling her to stay away while being scared out of his wits before dying in a car crash. It ends with Norman finding out the truth about Ady's nature with the latter pleading with him to look past her exterior and love her for who she is before forcing herself into him while he screams in utter terror, and later ends up being carried away by paramedics who put him in an ambulance, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation having gone insane]].
* BookEnds: The episode begins with Ady's previous husband frantically driving his car while being trapped with her, with the latter desperately begging him to love her for what's inside despite him repeatedly telling her to stay away while being scared out of his wits before dying in a car crash. It ends with Norman finding out the truth about Ady's nature with the latter pleading with him to look past her exterior and love her for who she is before forcing herself into him while he screams in utter terror, and later ends up being carried away by paramedics who put him in an ambulance, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation having gone insane]].
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* VaderBreath: During Ady's final GlamourFailure, she breathes heavily, which is one of the final nails in Norman's coffin.
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: Dennis can see his wife Barbara in her true form, that of a repulsive aquatic alien, while his best friend Norman Glass sees her in the new form that she has assumed to trick him. This is because Dennis has developed a resistance to Barbara's ability to fool his senses after a year of close contact. Later, when the same thing happens to Norman, he sees his own wife Ady as she truly is while the paramedics who are taking him to hospital see her as the beautiful woman whose form she assumed when she first met Norman.
* BrokenAesop: Two aliens who are stranded on Earth use their shapeshifting/psychic powers to make themselves appear as beautiful women to seduce men. The problem is that the effect wears off after a year of exposure and reveals their hideous true forms to their husbands. The guys can't handle this revelation and are unable to see that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside. However, the aliens are not just ugly but so [[StarfishAliens downright inhuman]] that even touching them makes the men violently ill and eventually GoMadFromTheRevelation. As a result they look less like a bunch of superficial jerks and more like a bunch of duped victims; it's implied that the two aliens have been doing this for some time, and one of them has already stopped caring about the damaging effect she has on humans.
* BrokenAesop: Two aliens who are stranded on Earth use their shapeshifting/psychic powers to make themselves appear as beautiful women to seduce men. The problem is that the effect wears off after a year of exposure and reveals their hideous true forms to their husbands. The guys can't handle this revelation and are unable to see that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside. However, the aliens are not just ugly but so [[StarfishAliens downright inhuman]] that even touching them makes the men violently ill and eventually GoMadFromTheRevelation. As a result they look less like a bunch of superficial jerks and more like a bunch of duped victims; it's implied that the two aliens have been doing this for some time, and one of them has already stopped caring about the damaging effect she has on humans.
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: Dennis can see his wife Barbara in her true form, that of a repulsive aquatic alien, while his best friend Norman Glass sees her in the new form that she has assumed to trick him. This is because Dennis has developed a resistance to Barbara's ability to fool his senses after a year of close contact. Later, when the same thing happens to Norman, he sees his own wife Ady as she truly is while the paramedics who are taking him to the hospital see her as the beautiful woman whose form she assumed when she first met Norman.
* BookEnds: The episode begins with Ady's previous husband frantically driving his car while being trapped with her, with the latter desperately begging him to love her for what's inside despite him repeatedly telling her to stay away while being scared out of his wits before dying in a car crash. It ends with Norman finding out the truth about Ady's nature and ends up being carried away in an ambulance, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation having gone insane]].
* BrokenAesop: Two aliens who are stranded on Earth use their shapeshifting/psychic powers to make themselves appear as beautiful women to seduce men. The problem is that the effect wears off after a year of exposure and reveals their hideous true forms to their husbands. The guys can't handle this revelation and are unable to see that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside. However, the aliens are not just ugly but so [[StarfishAliens downright inhuman]] that even touching them makes the men violently ill and eventually GoMadFromTheRevelation. As aresult result, they look less like a bunch of superficial jerks and more like a bunch of duped victims; it's implied that the two aliens have been doing this for some time, and one of them has already stopped caring about the damaging effect she has on humans.
* BookEnds: The episode begins with Ady's previous husband frantically driving his car while being trapped with her, with the latter desperately begging him to love her for what's inside despite him repeatedly telling her to stay away while being scared out of his wits before dying in a car crash. It ends with Norman finding out the truth about Ady's nature and ends up being carried away in an ambulance, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation having gone insane]].
* BrokenAesop: Two aliens who are stranded on Earth use their shapeshifting/psychic powers to make themselves appear as beautiful women to seduce men. The problem is that the effect wears off after a year of exposure and reveals their hideous true forms to their husbands. The guys can't handle this revelation and are unable to see that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside. However, the aliens are not just ugly but so [[StarfishAliens downright inhuman]] that even touching them makes the men violently ill and eventually GoMadFromTheRevelation. As a
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* LikeParentLikeSpouse: Implied with Norman as Ady finds a picture of a woman who's presumably her mother and changes her appearance to match hers.
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* ObliviouslyEvil: Ady doesn't seem to see anything wrong with [[BedTrick deceiving her husbands into making out or having sex]] with an abominable StarfishAlien by making them believe that she's a human, and once they inevitably GoMadFromTheRevelation, she has no regard for their boundaries and tries to force herself onto them in a desperate attempt to get them to love her despite her true nature. Ady, along with Barbara, are by definition committing sexual assault through deception.
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Subverted: the "hot wife" is actually a hideous-looking alien using MindControl to ''appear'' to be a beautiful woman. They're really ''nice'' aliens, though, so when the control breaks, we'll all learn that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside, right? [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Not a chance.]]
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Subverted: the "hot wife" is actually a hideous-looking alien using MindControl to ''appear'' to be a beautiful woman. They're really ''nice'' aliens, though, so when the control breaks, we'll all learn that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside, right? [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Not a chance.]]]]
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* ShapeshiftingSound: The two {{Shapeshifting Seducer}}s alter their form with a distinctive "whooshing" sound effect - though technically, they're not actually shapeshifting, but merely altering the perceptions of others.
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* AdaptationExplanation: The episode is based on a Richard Matheson short story which has much the same plot...except while the wife is still a monster, it never exactly says ''what'' she is. The "stranded alien" explanation is exclusive to the episode.
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* AdaptationExplanation: AdaptationalExplanation: The episode is based on a Richard Matheson short story which has much the same plot...except while the wife is still a monster, it never exactly says ''what'' she is. The "stranded alien" explanation is exclusive to the episode.
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* AdaptationExplanation: The episode is based on a Richard Matheson short story which has much the same plot...except while the wife is still a monster, it never exactly says ''what'' she is. The "stranded alien" explanation is exclusive to the episode.
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* BrokenAesop: Two aliens who are stranded on Earth use their shapeshifting/psychic powers to make themselves appear as beautiful women to seduce men. The problem is that the effect wears off after a year of exposure and reveals their hideous true forms to their husbands. The guys can't handle this revelation and are unable to see that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside. However, the aliens are not just ugly but so [[StarfishAliens downright inhuman]] that even touching them makes the men violently ill and eventually GoMadFromTheRevelation. As a result they look less like a bunch of superficial jerks and more like a bunch of duped victims; it's implied that the two aliens have been doing this for some time, and one of them has already stopped caring about the damaging effect she has on humans.
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* FantasticAesop: Two aliens who are stranded on Earth use their shapeshifting/psychic powers to make themselves appear as beautiful women to seduce men. The problem is that the effect wears off after a year of exposure and reveals their hideous true forms to their husbands. The guys can't handle this revelation and are unable to see that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside. However, the aliens are not just ugly but so [[StarfishAliens downright inhuman]] that even touching them makes the men violently ill and eventually GoMadFromTheRevelation. As a result they look less like a bunch of superficial jerks and more like a bunch of duped victims; it's implied that the two aliens have been doing this for some time, and one of them has already stopped caring about the damaging effect she has on humans.
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* TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: Ady removes her glamor and begs her husband to lover her regardless, but he GoesMadFromTheRevelation instead.
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* TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside: Ady removes her glamor and begs her husband to lover her regardless, but he GoesMadFromTheRevelation instead.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' When we look in a mirror we see a reflection of ourselves. But how much more powerful than this is the reflection we see in the eyes of another? Especially in the eyes of one we hold to be more beautiful than ourselves.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' We all wear masks, illusions of what we want the world to see. But when we hide our true selves from those we love... what price do we pay for that deception?
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* CruelTwistEnding: Despite her attempts to keep Norman Glass as her husband, Ady is unable to do so and when the effects of her hallucinogenic disguise wear ofFf, he becomes so repulsed by her true form that he is carried off by paramedics. Her friend's husband dies under similar circumstances. A while later Ady is seen changing her form again and is being chatted up by another man meaning she will have to repeat the cycle every year and will never find true love. (Oh, and she'll also probably drive many more men to insanity or death.)
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* CruelTwistEnding: Despite her attempts to keep Norman Glass as her husband, Ady is unable to do so and when the effects of her hallucinogenic disguise wear ofFf, of, he becomes so repulsed by her true form that he is carried off by paramedics. Her friend's husband dies under similar circumstances. A while later Ady is seen changing her form again and is being chatted up by another man meaning she will have to repeat the cycle every year and will never find true love. (Oh, and she'll also probably drive many more men to insanity or death.)
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After their first anniversary, two men suspect something is off with their wives.
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After their first anniversary, two men suspect something is off with their wives.wives.
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: Dennis can see his wife Barbara in her true form, that of a repulsive aquatic alien, while his best friend Norman Glass sees her in the new form that she has assumed to trick him. This is because Dennis has developed a resistance to Barbara's ability to fool his senses after a year of close contact. Later, when the same thing happens to Norman, he sees his own wife Ady as she truly is while the paramedics who are taking him to hospital see her as the beautiful woman whose form she assumed when she first met Norman.
* CanonForeigner: The hideous female alien who married Norman Glass and took the form of a beautiful woman named Ady Sutton has a companion who married Norman's best friend Dennis and calls herself Barbara. Neither Dennis nor Barbara appear in the short story by Creator/RichardMatheson. The same is true of Norman's other friend Roy, [[HereWeGoAgain who is approached by Ady in the form of a different woman in the final scene after Norman goes insane]].
* CruelTwistEnding: Despite her attempts to keep Norman Glass as her husband, Ady is unable to do so and when the effects of her hallucinogenic disguise wear ofFf, he becomes so repulsed by her true form that he is carried off by paramedics. Her friend's husband dies under similar circumstances. A while later Ady is seen changing her form again and is being chatted up by another man meaning she will have to repeat the cycle every year and will never find true love. (Oh, and she'll also probably drive many more men to insanity or death.)
* FantasticAesop: Two aliens who are stranded on Earth use their shapeshifting/psychic powers to make themselves appear as beautiful women to seduce men. The problem is that the effect wears off after a year of exposure and reveals their hideous true forms to their husbands. The guys can't handle this revelation and are unable to see that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside. However, the aliens are not just ugly but so [[StarfishAliens downright inhuman]] that even touching them makes the men violently ill and eventually GoMadFromTheRevelation. As a result they look less like a bunch of superficial jerks and more like a bunch of duped victims; it's implied that the two aliens have been doing this for some time, and one of them has already stopped caring about the damaging effect she has on humans.
* GlamourFailure: Two stranded female aliens [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm whose true form is beyond the ability of human senses and sensibilities]], decided to mimic humans to cope with their loneliness. By using their PsychicPowers / VoluntaryShapeshifting, they could make themselves look and act like any man's ideal woman. [[DeconstructedTrope Unfortunately, humans develop an immunity to their powers after a year of close contact]], and the men inevitably go insane when they realize their [[StarfishAliens wives' true nature]]. WordOfGod is that they are FishPeople (given the episode descriptions of aquatic people). By the end of the episode, "Ady's" glamour has stopped working on her "husband" whose last appearance in the episode is strapped to a gurney on the way to a mental hospital. In the final scene she already has her sights set on her ex's best friend and has already taken a new form to appeal to his tastes.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: A man's gorgeous wife of one year turns out to be a FishPerson / TheGreys hybrid alien who is suffering GlamourFailure because his mind is starting to develop an immunity. He's eventually carted off to a mental asylum and she [[HereWeGoAgain finds herself a new husband]].
* HereWeGoAgain: A hideous ([[TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside but nice]]) alien turns herself into a beautiful woman to marry an average-looking dude. After he finds out what she really looks like when the effect wears off after a year and is [[GoMadFromTheRevelation driven to madness]], the alien is last seen changing her form again to seduce one of her husband's colleagues. (Considering that the revelation left the last husband insane and the one before dead, maybe she wasn't so nice after all.)
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The protagonist's name is Norman Glass. In the short story by Creator/RichardMatheson, his surname is not given.
* NonhumanLoverReveal: Two aliens are stranded on Earth use their power to fool people's senses in order to pass as human. Specifically, as [[UglyGuyHotWife very pretty human women who act romantically interested in some rather plain-looking men]]. Unfortunately, people tend to become resistant to their power after about a year or so, and the men who marry them tend to GoMadFromTheRevelation after seeing their true appearances. (In an aversion of TakeOurWordForIt, when they let down their disguise, it's on-screen - and they really are horrifying.)
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: The protagonist's wife is actually a foul shapeshifting alien, whose power makes her appear as every man's perfect woman. Unfortunately, the power starts to fade when used too much on someone, such as her husband.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Subverted: the "hot wife" is actually a hideous-looking alien using MindControl to ''appear'' to be a beautiful woman. They're really ''nice'' aliens, though, so when the control breaks, we'll all learn that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside, right? [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Not a chance.]]
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: Dennis can see his wife Barbara in her true form, that of a repulsive aquatic alien, while his best friend Norman Glass sees her in the new form that she has assumed to trick him. This is because Dennis has developed a resistance to Barbara's ability to fool his senses after a year of close contact. Later, when the same thing happens to Norman, he sees his own wife Ady as she truly is while the paramedics who are taking him to hospital see her as the beautiful woman whose form she assumed when she first met Norman.
* CanonForeigner: The hideous female alien who married Norman Glass and took the form of a beautiful woman named Ady Sutton has a companion who married Norman's best friend Dennis and calls herself Barbara. Neither Dennis nor Barbara appear in the short story by Creator/RichardMatheson. The same is true of Norman's other friend Roy, [[HereWeGoAgain who is approached by Ady in the form of a different woman in the final scene after Norman goes insane]].
* CruelTwistEnding: Despite her attempts to keep Norman Glass as her husband, Ady is unable to do so and when the effects of her hallucinogenic disguise wear ofFf, he becomes so repulsed by her true form that he is carried off by paramedics. Her friend's husband dies under similar circumstances. A while later Ady is seen changing her form again and is being chatted up by another man meaning she will have to repeat the cycle every year and will never find true love. (Oh, and she'll also probably drive many more men to insanity or death.)
* FantasticAesop: Two aliens who are stranded on Earth use their shapeshifting/psychic powers to make themselves appear as beautiful women to seduce men. The problem is that the effect wears off after a year of exposure and reveals their hideous true forms to their husbands. The guys can't handle this revelation and are unable to see that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside. However, the aliens are not just ugly but so [[StarfishAliens downright inhuman]] that even touching them makes the men violently ill and eventually GoMadFromTheRevelation. As a result they look less like a bunch of superficial jerks and more like a bunch of duped victims; it's implied that the two aliens have been doing this for some time, and one of them has already stopped caring about the damaging effect she has on humans.
* GlamourFailure: Two stranded female aliens [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm whose true form is beyond the ability of human senses and sensibilities]], decided to mimic humans to cope with their loneliness. By using their PsychicPowers / VoluntaryShapeshifting, they could make themselves look and act like any man's ideal woman. [[DeconstructedTrope Unfortunately, humans develop an immunity to their powers after a year of close contact]], and the men inevitably go insane when they realize their [[StarfishAliens wives' true nature]]. WordOfGod is that they are FishPeople (given the episode descriptions of aquatic people). By the end of the episode, "Ady's" glamour has stopped working on her "husband" whose last appearance in the episode is strapped to a gurney on the way to a mental hospital. In the final scene she already has her sights set on her ex's best friend and has already taken a new form to appeal to his tastes.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: A man's gorgeous wife of one year turns out to be a FishPerson / TheGreys hybrid alien who is suffering GlamourFailure because his mind is starting to develop an immunity. He's eventually carted off to a mental asylum and she [[HereWeGoAgain finds herself a new husband]].
* HereWeGoAgain: A hideous ([[TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside but nice]]) alien turns herself into a beautiful woman to marry an average-looking dude. After he finds out what she really looks like when the effect wears off after a year and is [[GoMadFromTheRevelation driven to madness]], the alien is last seen changing her form again to seduce one of her husband's colleagues. (Considering that the revelation left the last husband insane and the one before dead, maybe she wasn't so nice after all.)
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The protagonist's name is Norman Glass. In the short story by Creator/RichardMatheson, his surname is not given.
* NonhumanLoverReveal: Two aliens are stranded on Earth use their power to fool people's senses in order to pass as human. Specifically, as [[UglyGuyHotWife very pretty human women who act romantically interested in some rather plain-looking men]]. Unfortunately, people tend to become resistant to their power after about a year or so, and the men who marry them tend to GoMadFromTheRevelation after seeing their true appearances. (In an aversion of TakeOurWordForIt, when they let down their disguise, it's on-screen - and they really are horrifying.)
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: The protagonist's wife is actually a foul shapeshifting alien, whose power makes her appear as every man's perfect woman. Unfortunately, the power starts to fade when used too much on someone, such as her husband.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Subverted: the "hot wife" is actually a hideous-looking alien using MindControl to ''appear'' to be a beautiful woman. They're really ''nice'' aliens, though, so when the control breaks, we'll all learn that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside, right? [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Not a chance.]]
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