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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The boys each get a wish apiece from Shawn, the leprechaun they capture. In his frustration at being caught, Shawn has their wishes backfire in comedic fashion. Buddy's wish for X-Ray vision makes him see peoples' innards and skeletons, J.P.'s wish for the trio's parents to do eveything they tell them turns them into mindless drones who have to be told every single step of what to do, and Richie's wish for a "real hot" car has the boys arrested by police, since their car was deemed stolen. For some reason, Shawn takes pity on his kidnappers and resets everything to normal.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The boys each get a wish apiece from Shawn, the leprechaun they capture. In his frustration at being caught, Shawn has their wishes backfire in comedic fashion. Buddy's wish for X-Ray vision makes him see peoples' innards and skeletons, J.P.'s wish for the trio's parents to do eveything everything they tell them turns them into mindless drones who have to be told every single step of what to do, and Richie's wish for a "real hot" car has the boys arrested by police, since their car was deemed stolen. For some reason, Shawn takes pity on his kidnappers and resets everything to normal.
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* EasilyForgiven: Even though the trio captured Shawn, kept him in their treehouse for days, and gave him only junk food to snack on, the leprechaun takes pity on the three of them when they're arrested by the police. He grants them a free wish that ensues the cops have no memory of the car theft, allowing the trio to go home.
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* EasilyForgiven: Even though the trio captured Shawn, kept him in their treehouse for days, and gave him only junk food to snack on, the leprechaun takes pity on the three of them when they're arrested by the police. He grants them a free wish that ensues ensures the cops have no memory of the car theft, allowing the trio to go home.
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* {{Leprechaun}}: One of them named Shawn is travelling to the United States on vacation, and he's caught by a trio of teenagers who he is forced to grant three wishes to.
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* {{Leprechaun}}: One of them named Shawn is travelling traveling to the United States on vacation, and he's caught by a trio of teenagers who he is forced to grant three wishes to.
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** J.P. wishes for his and his friends' parents to do everything that they tell them, but the parents are turned into mindless drones, as J.P. has to tell his mother every individual step when he asks her to make him and his friends pizza.
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** J.P. wishes for his and his friends' parents to do everything that they tell them, but the parents are turned into mindless drones, as J.P. has to tell his mother every individual single step when he asks her to make him and his friends pizza.
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* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: While in the police station, the boys tell the officer interrogating them that he wouldn't believe how they got in the back seat of a stolen car.
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* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: While in the police station, the boys tell the officer interrogating them that he wouldn't believe how they got in the back seat backseat of a stolen car.
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* CelestialBureaucracy: Johnny begins working as a transporter taking condemned souls to Hell. Within hours, he discovers that many of the damned don't deserve to be there, such as one woman was too self-centered in life, one man who only saw the dirt in life instead of the beauty, and another man who was an atheist. When the souls riot, Johnny is brought to meet the Dispatcher, who has the final say on who is sent where because God abdicated the responsibility long ago. He explains to Johnny that he is instituting "time-honored Biblical standards" in holding the departed souls to a high standard. He sees it as his duty to combat the "secular, intellectual propaganda" of the modern age, and ensure that pornographers, heathens, atheists, and humanists receive the punishment that they deserve. Johnny is disgusted by this, and helps a draft dodger, a junkie, a librarian who fought against banned books being removed from her shelves, and a young gay man escape to Heaven.
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* CelestialBureaucracy: Johnny begins working as a transporter taking condemned souls to Hell. Within hours, he discovers that many of the damned don't deserve to be there, such as one woman who was too self-centered in life, one man who only saw the dirt in life instead of the beauty, and another man who was an atheist. When the souls riot, Johnny is brought to meet the Dispatcher, who has the final say on who is sent where because God abdicated the responsibility long ago. He explains to Johnny that he is instituting "time-honored Biblical standards" in holding the departed souls to a high standard. He sees it as his duty to combat the "secular, intellectual propaganda" of the modern age, and ensure that pornographers, heathens, atheists, and humanists receive the punishment that they deserve. Johnny is disgusted by this, and helps a draft dodger, a junkie, a librarian who fought against banned books being removed from her shelves, and a young gay man escape to Heaven.
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* CoolOldLady: In life, the old librarian Johnny talks to fought for banned books to be kept on her shelves.
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* CoolOldLady: In life, the old librarian Johnny talks to is said to have fought for banned books to be kept on her shelves.
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* InvincibleVillain: No one is able to stop the wrongful condemnation that the Dispatcher authorizies, since he and his crew likely have divine/demonic abilities.
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* InvincibleVillain: No one is able to stop the wrongful condemnation that the Dispatcher authorizies, allows, since he and his crew likely have divine/demonic abilities.
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* NiceGuy: Johnny is a humble trucker who only takes the damned to Hell because he desperately needs work and no insurance company will cover for him thanks to his accident record. He takes personal offense at the fact that the innocent are being condemned ''en masse'', and when he's unable to change "management's" minds, he personally checks every soul in his loads and releases anyone who doesn't deserve damnation. He even compares his actions to Jesus' Harrowing of Hell, where He spent the three days between His Crucifixion and Ressurection rescuing the damned from the infernal realms.
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* NiceGuy: Johnny is a humble trucker who only takes the damned to Hell because he desperately needs work and no insurance company will cover for him thanks to his accident record. He takes personal offense at the fact that the innocent are being condemned ''en masse'', and when he's unable to change "management's" minds, he personally checks every soul in his loads and releases anyone who doesn't deserve damnation. He even compares his actions to Jesus' Harrowing of Hell, where He spent the three days between His Crucifixion and Ressurection Resurrection rescuing the damned from the infernal realms.
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* TakeThat: The episode is a ''very'' unsubtle dig at conservative Christianity, especially in regard to who "deserves" to go to Hell or Heaven. The Dispatcher and his affiliates are modeled after the Moral Majority, which was nototrious for their similar strictness in enforcing the Bible's writings throughout the 1980s.
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* TakeThat: The episode is a ''very'' unsubtle dig at conservative Christianity, especially in regard to who "deserves" to go to Hell or Heaven. The Dispatcher and his affiliates are modeled after the Moral Majority, which was nototrious notorious for their similar strictness in enforcing the Bible's writings throughout the 1980s.
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Shawn [=McGool=] is a leprechaun on vacation and hoping to visit family in the United States. In his travels, Shawn runs afoul of Buddy, J.P., and Richie, three teenage boys who spot him in the open and manage to capture him. In doing this, Shawn is forced by his peoples' laws to grant the boys three wishes before he can be let go. Letting their youthful and rambunctious natures get the better of them, the boys respectively wish for X-Ray vision, for their parents to do everything they tell them, and a fancy car with a driver who can think for himself. In his anger for being caught, however, Shawn's wishes tend to backfire pretty roughly for the boys.
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Shawn [=McGool=] (Cork Hubbert) is a leprechaun on vacation and hoping to visit family in the United States. In his travels, Shawn runs afoul of Buddy, Richie, and J.P., (Creator/DannyNucci, Creator/BradleyGregg, and Richie, Joey Green), three teenage boys who spot him in the open and manage to capture him. In doing this, Shawn is forced by his peoples' laws to grant the boys three wishes before he can be let go. Letting their youthful and rambunctious natures get the better of them, the boys respectively wish for X-Ray vision, for their parents to do everything they tell them, and a fancy car with a driver who can think for himself. In his anger for being caught, however, Shawn's wishes tend to backfire pretty roughly for the boys.
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Johnny Davis (Steve Railsback), a good-hearted trucker whose accident record has left him unemployed, is offered a job by one of his father's old friends. Johnny learns that his new job has him carrying the souls of the damned to Hell, which appears as a prison-like area in the backwoods in the midst of an insurrection. In the chaos, Johnny meets damned souls who insist that they don't belong in Hell, including a former manager who tells Johnny that a new bureaucratic group has taken over the duties of who goes where when they die. Seeing the turmoil that the group's incredibly-rigid standards are causing, Johnny talks with "upper management" in the hopes of straightening things out.
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Johnny Davis (Steve Railsback), (Creator/SteveRailsback), a good-hearted trucker whose accident record has left him unemployed, is offered a job by one of his father's old friends. Johnny learns that his new job has him carrying the souls of the damned to Hell, which appears as a prison-like area in the backwoods in the midst of an insurrection. In the chaos, Johnny meets damned souls who insist that they don't belong in Hell, including a former manager who tells Johnny that a new bureaucratic group has taken over the duties of who goes where when they die. Seeing the turmoil that the group's incredibly-rigid standards are causing, Johnny talks with "upper management" in the hopes of straightening things out.
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-> "Centuries ago, Hell was reached by chalk-white horses pulling shuttered coaches; by Spanish galleons borne on black sails through uncharted seas. Legend has it Leonardo da Vinci was once commissioned to build a flying machine to carry souls to Hell, but it never returned from its maiden flight. But along this particular road to Hell, lies redemption for the damned, as well as for drivers who have found work -- in The Twilight Zone.
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-> "Centuries ago, Hell was reached by chalk-white horses pulling shuttered coaches; by Spanish galleons borne on black sails through uncharted seas. Legend has it Leonardo da Vinci was once commissioned to build a flying machine to carry souls to Hell, but it never returned from its maiden flight. But along this particular road to Hell, lies redemption for the damned, as well as for drivers who have found work -- in The Twilight Zone."
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* CelestialBureaucracy: Johnny begins working as a transporter taking condemned souls to Hell. Within hours, he discovers that many of the damned don't deserve to be there, such as one woman was too self-centered in life, one man only saw the dirt in life instead of the beauty, and another man who was an atheist. When the souls riot, Johnny is brought to meet the Dispatcher, who has the final say on who is sent where because God abdicated the responsibility long ago. He explains to Johnny and he is instituting "time-honored Biblical standards" in holding the departed souls to a high standard. He sees it as his duty to combat the "secular, intellectual propaganda" of the modern age, and ensure that pornographers, heathens, atheists, and humanists receive the punishment that they deserve. Johnny is disgusted by this, and helps a draft dodger, a junkie, a librarian who fought against banned books being removed from her shelves, and a young gay man escape to Heaven.
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* CelestialBureaucracy: Johnny begins working as a transporter taking condemned souls to Hell. Within hours, he discovers that many of the damned don't deserve to be there, such as one woman was too self-centered in life, one man who only saw the dirt in life instead of the beauty, and another man who was an atheist. When the souls riot, Johnny is brought to meet the Dispatcher, who has the final say on who is sent where because God abdicated the responsibility long ago. He explains to Johnny and that he is instituting "time-honored Biblical standards" in holding the departed souls to a high standard. He sees it as his duty to combat the "secular, intellectual propaganda" of the modern age, and ensure that pornographers, heathens, atheists, and humanists receive the punishment that they deserve. Johnny is disgusted by this, and helps a draft dodger, a junkie, a librarian who fought against banned books being removed from her shelves, and a young gay man escape to Heaven.
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* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Shawn wears one a Hawaiian shirt under his regular Leprechaun attire, showing that he's on vacation in the States, where the trio capture him.
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* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Shawn wears one a Hawaiian shirt under his regular Leprechaun attire, showing that he's on vacation in the States, where the trio capture him.
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** Buddy wishes for X-Ray vision so he can see girls' underwear, but the power works too strongly and lets him see see their organs and skeletons.
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** Buddy wishes for X-Ray vision so he can see girls' underwear, but the power works too strongly and lets him see see their organs and skeletons.
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!! The Leprechaun Artist
Three American boys capture a vacationing leprechaun and force him to grant each of them one wish.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Make your parents do everything you tell them to? What could go wrong?
* BreatherEpisode: A humorous little romp, especially compared with the other half of the episode.
* CoolCar: The last wish is for one of these. Or rather a "really hot" car.
* ExactWords: The trio does try to learn from their mistakes with each wish, but no matter how carefully they word things... (One "hot" car, coming up!)
* HawaiianShirtedTourist: The leprechaun is wearing one of these.
* {{Leprechaun}}: If the title didn't make it clear.
* JerkassGenie: A leprechaun, but the basic idea applies.
* PunBasedTitle: Lepre-Con Artist.
* ResetButton: At the end, the leprechaun takes pity on the boys and resets everything to normal.
* SelflessWish: This option is considered and rejected.
* ThreeWishes: One apiece, so plan carefully!
* VanityLicensePlate: The hot car has a "THIRD WISH" plate.
* XRayVision: One wish is to have this.
Three American boys capture a vacationing leprechaun and force him to grant each of them one wish.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Make your parents do everything you tell them to? What could go wrong?
* BreatherEpisode: A humorous little romp, especially compared with the other half of the episode.
* CoolCar: The last wish is for one of these. Or rather a "really hot" car.
* ExactWords: The trio does try to learn from their mistakes with each wish, but no matter how carefully they word things... (One "hot" car, coming up!)
* HawaiianShirtedTourist: The leprechaun is wearing one of these.
* {{Leprechaun}}: If the title didn't make it clear.
* JerkassGenie: A leprechaun, but the basic idea applies.
* PunBasedTitle: Lepre-Con Artist.
* ResetButton: At the end, the leprechaun takes pity on the boys and resets everything to normal.
* SelflessWish: This option is considered and rejected.
* ThreeWishes: One apiece, so plan carefully!
* VanityLicensePlate: The hot car has a "THIRD WISH" plate.
* XRayVision: One wish is to have this.
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!! The Leprechaun Artist
Three American boys captureLeprechaun-Artist
-> "Consider for avacationing moment, if you were a leprechaun, making your home under the roots of trees or in the hollows between rocks. Wouldn't you want to get away from it all now and then? A winter in Pismo Beach? A summer trip to Disneyland, where no one would even notice you? But if you really ''were'' a leprechaun, where else would you vacation -- but in the Twilight Zone?"
Shawn [=McGool=] is a leprechaun on vacation andforce hoping to visit family in the United States. In his travels, Shawn runs afoul of Buddy, J.P., and Richie, three teenage boys who spot him in the open and manage to capture him. In doing this, Shawn is forced by his peoples' laws to grant each the boys three wishes before he can be let go. Letting their youthful and rambunctious natures get the better of them, the boys respectively wish for X-Ray vision, for their parents to do everything they tell them, and a fancy car with a driver who can think for himself. In his anger for being caught, however, Shawn's wishes tend to backfire pretty roughly for the boys.
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* AllMythsAreTrue: The teenage boys discover that leprechauns are real when they capture Shawn, and he is forced to grant themone wish.
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three wishes so he can leave their treehouse.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:Make your The boys each get a wish apiece from Shawn, the leprechaun they capture. In his frustration at being caught, Shawn has their wishes backfire in comedic fashion. Buddy's wish for X-Ray vision makes him see peoples' innards and skeletons, J.P.'s wish for the trio's parents to do eveything they tell them turns them into mindless drones who have to be told every single step of what to do, and Richie's wish for a "real hot" car has the boys arrested by police, since their car was deemed stolen. For some reason, Shawn takes pity on his kidnappers and resets everything you tell them to? What could go wrong?
to normal.
* BindleStick: Shawn carries one as he strolls through the woods, on his way to visit his kin.
* BreatherEpisode:A The episode is a humorous little romp, especially compared with romp involving three rowdy teenage boys who meet a wise-cracking leprechaun.
* BrokenRecord: Under theother half effects of the episode.
second wish, J.P.'s mother only repeats "Yes, dear." with everything her son tells her. Richie's father also repeats "Yes, son." when Richie orders him to drive home.
* CoolCar:The Richie uses the trio's last wish is for one of these. Or rather a "really "real hot" car, and a driver with "a mind of his own". The car conjured is indeed fancy, but the police suddenly start chasing after them. Thanks to the phrasing, the driver bails on the boys when the cops catch up to them, bringing them to the station for riding in a stolen car.
* CovertPervert: Buddy wishes for X-Ray vision to sneak a peek at girls' undergarments.
* EasilyForgiven: Even though the trio captured Shawn, kept him in their treehouse for days, and gave him only junk food to snack on, the leprechaun takes pity on the three of them when they're arrested by the police. He grants them a free wish that ensues the cops have no memory of the car theft, allowing the trio to go home.
* ExactWords: The triodoes ''do'' try to learn from their mistakes with each wish, but no matter how carefully they word things... (One "hot" car, coming up!)
things, Shawn's magic finds a way to screw them over. The X-Ray vision lets Buddy see peoples' innards instead of under their clothes, the obedient parents have to be told every single step of what to do, and their hot car is pulled over for being stolen.
* HawaiianShirtedTourist:The Shawn wears one a Hawaiian shirt under his regular Leprechaun attire, showing that he's on vacation in the States, where the trio capture him.
* JackassGenie: Played with. Shawn's magic makes the trio's wishes rather literal, but the leprechaun himself claims he only ''grants'' the wishes, and iswearing one of these.
not responsible for the effects they bring.
* KarmaHoudini: Thanks to Shawn inexplicably feeling bad for them, the three boys get away with essentially holding him hostage, trying to peek under girls' clothes, turning their parents into mindless slaves, and hitching a ride in a stolen car.
* {{Leprechaun}}:If One of them named Shawn is travelling to the title didn't make it clear.
United States on vacation, and he's caught by a trio of teenagers who he is forced to grant three wishes to.
*JerkassGenie: A leprechaun, but LighterAndSofter: Three teenage wise-crackers catch a snarky leprechaun who is forced to grant them three wishes. The wishes promptly go off the basic idea applies.
rails as punishment for catching said leprechaun.
* PunBasedTitle:Lepre-Con Artist.
It's a combination of "leprechaun" and "con artist".
* ResetButton:At the end, the leprechaun For whatever reason, Shawn inexplicably takes pity on the boys who captured him and resets returns everything to normal.
normal, allowing them to go home unscathed.
* SelflessWish:This option is considered The boys consider using their three wishes for world peace or a cure for cancer, but they instead use them to peep at girls' underwear, turn their parents into drones, and rejected.
ride around in a fancy car. When they're arrested and brought to the police station after their car is deemed stolen, Buddy mopes that he should've wished for the cancer cure instead.
* TakeThat: Shawn takes a few digs at the suburban American way of life, such as modern TV and domestic issues, as well as the greasy fast food and heavily processed candy that the trio feed him.
--> '''Shawn:''' You ''are'' a primitive country, aren't you? My brother was right.
* ThreeWishes:One apiece, The boys are granted three wishes by Shawn after they capture him, as is set by the rules of leprechauns. Though he says he's not responsible for the effects, Shawn's magic screws the boys over on each wish, but he also reverses them when he determines the boys have learned a valuable lesson.
** Buddy wishes for X-Ray vision soplan carefully!
he can see girls' underwear, but the power works too strongly and lets him see see their organs and skeletons.
** J.P. wishes for his and his friends' parents to do everything that they tell them, but the parents are turned into mindless drones, as J.P. has to tell his mother every individual step when he asks her to make him and his friends pizza.
** Richie wishes for a "really hot" car, with a driver who has a mind of his own. While the boys enjoy their new stretch limo, they are suddenly chased by the police. The driver, given that he has a mind of his own, refuses their instructions to stop and leads the cops into a chase, then flees the scene after a short while. When the police catch up with them, the boys are brought to the station, as their limo was "hot" as in ''stolen''.
* UnnamedParent: None of the boys' parents have spoken names.
* VanityLicensePlate: Thehot car "hot car" Richie wishes for has a plate reading "THIRD WISH" plate.
WISH".
* WinWinEnding: Shawn finally escapes the boy's treehouse and continues his vacation, and he also resets everything to normal so the boys aren't thrown in jail for riding in a stolen car... for some reason.
* XRayVision:One Buddy wishes for X-Ray vision so he can see through girls' clothes. His power starts working the next morning, and he is initially able to see under his female classmates' clothes. However, after a few seconds of concentrating on one girl, he sees her internal organs and faints in shock. When J.P. and Richie come to his aid, he can only see their skulls. Branding Buddy as a "little deviant," Shawn eventually removes the wish is when it becomes clear to have this.him that Buddy has learned his lesson.
* YeahShot: The episode ends with one, as Buddy, J.P., and Richie leap in celebration as they exit the police station.
* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: While in the police station, the boys tell the officer interrogating them that he wouldn't believe how they got in the back seat of a stolen car.
Three American boys capture
-> "Consider for a
Shawn [=McGool=] is a leprechaun on vacation and
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* AllMythsAreTrue: The teenage boys discover that leprechauns are real when they capture Shawn, and he is forced to grant them
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
* BindleStick: Shawn carries one as he strolls through the woods, on his way to visit his kin.
* BreatherEpisode:
* BrokenRecord: Under the
* CoolCar:
* CovertPervert: Buddy wishes for X-Ray vision to sneak a peek at girls' undergarments.
* EasilyForgiven: Even though the trio captured Shawn, kept him in their treehouse for days, and gave him only junk food to snack on, the leprechaun takes pity on the three of them when they're arrested by the police. He grants them a free wish that ensues the cops have no memory of the car theft, allowing the trio to go home.
* ExactWords: The trio
* HawaiianShirtedTourist:
* JackassGenie: Played with. Shawn's magic makes the trio's wishes rather literal, but the leprechaun himself claims he only ''grants'' the wishes, and is
* KarmaHoudini: Thanks to Shawn inexplicably feeling bad for them, the three boys get away with essentially holding him hostage, trying to peek under girls' clothes, turning their parents into mindless slaves, and hitching a ride in a stolen car.
* {{Leprechaun}}:
*
* PunBasedTitle:
* ResetButton:
* SelflessWish:
* TakeThat: Shawn takes a few digs at the suburban American way of life, such as modern TV and domestic issues, as well as the greasy fast food and heavily processed candy that the trio feed him.
--> '''Shawn:''' You ''are'' a primitive country, aren't you? My brother was right.
* ThreeWishes:
** Buddy wishes for X-Ray vision so
** J.P. wishes for his and his friends' parents to do everything that they tell them, but the parents are turned into mindless drones, as J.P. has to tell his mother every individual step when he asks her to make him and his friends pizza.
** Richie wishes for a "really hot" car, with a driver who has a mind of his own. While the boys enjoy their new stretch limo, they are suddenly chased by the police. The driver, given that he has a mind of his own, refuses their instructions to stop and leads the cops into a chase, then flees the scene after a short while. When the police catch up with them, the boys are brought to the station, as their limo was "hot" as in ''stolen''.
* UnnamedParent: None of the boys' parents have spoken names.
* VanityLicensePlate: The
* WinWinEnding: Shawn finally escapes the boy's treehouse and continues his vacation, and he also resets everything to normal so the boys aren't thrown in jail for riding in a stolen car... for some reason.
* XRayVision:
* YeahShot: The episode ends with one, as Buddy, J.P., and Richie leap in celebration as they exit the police station.
* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: While in the police station, the boys tell the officer interrogating them that he wouldn't believe how they got in the back seat of a stolen car.
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A trucker (Steve Railsback) is given a job to deliver souls to hell.
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* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: The new manager tells Johnny that he's only using "time-honored Biblical standards", though his standards seem insanely picky, to the point where non-violent people go to hell for minor misdemeanors.
* CoolOldLady: In life, the librarian wouldn't take it lying down that banned books were about to be removed from her shelf and fought for them.
* DisproportionateRetribution: A lot of people are going to Hell for relatively mild offenses. For one, a construction worker is sent there because he loves dirt. In fact, one such person is a sweet old librarian who fought to keep banned books in her library.
* DraftDodging: One of the innocent souls is wrongfully sent to Hell for this.
* DrugsAreBad: The new owners of Hell think so. One of the damned was a drug addict who was trying to clean herself up, only to die before she could kick the habit. Her using drugs at all was enough to send her to Hell under the new rules.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The new manager of Hell (played by Creator/JohnDeLancie) tries his [[{{Pun}} damnedest]] to come across as an upstanding, righteous type... but he casually sends people to Hell for the slightest of offenses.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Johnny is able to tell which souls deserve to go to Hell because, unlike the innocent souls, they're unrepentant of what they've done.
* StraightGay: One of the damned souls in the last truckload we see is a man who, until he realizes he was sent to Hell for his orientation, looks no different from anyone else.
* TakeAThirdOption: Johnny is faced with the choice of either giving up the job or continuing to condemn the innocent. [[spoiler:He chooses instead to keep the job, but halfway to Hell, pull over, open the trailer, and let out anyone who doesn't deserve to go to Hell, letting them take the road to Heaven.]]
* TakeThat: The episode is a ''very'' unsubtle dig at conservative Christianity in regard to who "deserves" to go to Hell or Heaven.
* ThouShaltNotKill: The reason the draft-dodging soul didn't go to the Vietnam war was because he knew he wouldn't have the heart to kill anybody.
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* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: The new manager tells Johnny that he's only using "time-honored Biblical standards", though his standards seem insanely picky, to the point where non-violent people go to hell for minor misdemeanors.
* CoolOldLady: In life, the librarian wouldn't take it lying down that banned books were about to be removed from her shelf and fought for them.
* DisproportionateRetribution: A lot of people are going to Hell for relatively mild offenses. For one, a construction worker is sent there because he loves dirt. In fact, one such person is a sweet old librarian who fought to keep banned books in her library.
* DraftDodging: One of the innocent souls is wrongfully sent to Hell for this.
* DrugsAreBad: The new owners of Hell think so. One of the damned was a drug addict who was trying to clean herself up, only to die before she could kick the habit. Her using drugs at all was enough to send her to Hell under the new rules.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The new manager of Hell (played by Creator/JohnDeLancie) tries his [[{{Pun}} damnedest]] to come across as an upstanding, righteous type... but he casually sends people to Hell for the slightest of offenses.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Johnny is able to tell which souls deserve to go to Hell because, unlike the innocent souls, they're unrepentant of what they've done.
* StraightGay: One of the damned souls in the last truckload we see is a man who, until he realizes he was sent to Hell for his orientation, looks no different from anyone else.
* TakeAThirdOption: Johnny is faced with the choice of either giving up the job or continuing to condemn the innocent. [[spoiler:He chooses instead to keep the job, but halfway to Hell, pull over, open the trailer, and let out anyone who doesn't deserve to go to Hell, letting them take the road to Heaven.]]
* TakeThat: The episode is a ''very'' unsubtle dig at conservative Christianity in regard to who "deserves" to go to Hell or Heaven.
* ThouShaltNotKill: The reason the draft-dodging soul didn't go to the Vietnam war was because he knew he wouldn't have the heart to kill anybody.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Johnny decides to help the wrongfully condemned souls whom he had been transporting to Hell only a day after taking the job. In the short story by Greg Bear, he's on the job for two years before his conscience gets the better of him, and he begins to help the damned escape to Heaven.
* AdaptationNameChange: The former member of the CelestialBureaucracy who has been condemned to Hell is named Gary Frick. In the short story, his name is ''Charlie'' Frick.
* AdaptedOut: The episode omits two supporting characters from the short story: a young hitchhiker named Bill and his recently deceased girlfriend Sherill, whom he managed to rescue from Hell.
* AfterlifeExpress: Under the new rules, truckers like Johnny and Pete drive the condemned to Hell in semi-trucks, though only condemned Americans. According to Pete, trains are used in India and China, tramlines in Russia, and buses in Mexico.
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: The Dispatcher, new manager of the ethereal planes, tells Johnny that
* CanonForeigner: Pete is exclusive to the episode, and he is the one who teaches Johnny about the job of transporting condemned souls to Hell.
* CelestialBureaucracy: Johnny begins working as a transporter taking condemned souls to Hell. Within hours, he discovers that many of the damned don't deserve to be there, such as one woman was too self-centered in life, one man only saw the dirt in life instead of the beauty, and another man who was an atheist. When the souls riot, Johnny is brought to meet the Dispatcher, who has the final say on who is sent where because God abdicated the responsibility long ago. He explains to Johnny and he is instituting "time-honored Biblical standards" in holding the departed souls to a high standard. He sees it as his duty to combat the "secular, intellectual propaganda" of the modern age, and ensure that pornographers, heathens, atheists, and humanists receive the punishment that they deserve. Johnny is disgusted by this, and helps a draft dodger, a junkie, a librarian who fought against banned books being removed from her shelves, and a young gay man escape to Heaven.
* CirclesOfHell: Newly-condemned souls are brought to the Outer Circles, which resemble ordinary countryside, and are eventually brought to Hell's center, where they are to spend eternity. The Dispatcher and his crew don't care whether the damned suffer, as long as they are kept in a place where they can't hurt others.
* CopKiller: One of the damned in Johnny's last truckload claims that he killed a cop.
* CoolOldLady: In life, the old librarian
* DisproportionateRetribution:
* DraftDodging: One of the innocent souls
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In spite of his good nature, Johnny is a pretty reckless driver, as he's introduced nearly running a car off the road and almost running over a group of cyclists. He tells Pete that he's gotten into four accidents in two years, and can no longer get any insurance company to take risks on him.
* DrugsAreBad: The
* FauxAffablyEvil: The
* FoodAsBribe: Pete tells Johnny that the demonic guards love cigarettes, and he should always keep a pack on him in case he needs to bribe, trade, or negotiate with one of them.
* GodIsEvil: The Dispatcher claims that God Himself abdicated the duty of judging every soul to him, who follows His biblical standards so strictly that the innocent are indiscriminately thrown into Hell, simply because He was tired of the job.
* {{Hell}}: Johnny is taken there by Pete, a friend of his father, to learn about his new job. It appears as an industrial center in the sticks where the damned are locked up for minor offenses, even undergoing a riot like in a federal prison.
* InvincibleVillain: No one is able to stop the wrongful condemnation that the Dispatcher authorizies, since he and his crew likely have divine/demonic abilities.
* IronicEcho: The Dispatcher tells Johnny that he's applying "time-honored Biblical standards" by condemning people to Hell for minor transgressions. After helping four such people escape to Heaven, Johnny recalls the Harrowing of Hell, where Jesus journeyed to Hell in the three days between the Crucifixion and Resurrection to give the damned another chance at redemption, declaring that he's using his own time-honored Biblical standards.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Johnny is able to tell which souls deserve to go to
* KarmaHoudini: The Dispatcher and his workers are free to keep damning the innocent, but Johnny ensures that the souls who don't deserve any punishment slip through their fingers.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: Every soul who gets wrongfully sentenced to damnation, which Garry outright calls injustice.
* MundaneAfterlife: The center of Hell is a dark industrial complex surrounded by the Outer Circles, which are indistinguishable from ordinary countryside.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The episode's protagonist is named Johnny Davis, while his name is not given in the short story.
* NiceGuy: Johnny is a humble trucker who only takes the damned to Hell because he desperately needs work and no insurance company will cover for him thanks to his accident record. He takes personal offense at the fact that the innocent are being condemned ''en masse'', and when he's unable to change "management's" minds, he personally checks every soul in his loads and releases anyone who doesn't deserve damnation. He even compares his actions to Jesus' Harrowing of Hell, where He spent the three days between His Crucifixion and Ressurection rescuing the damned from the infernal realms.
* NoNameGiven: The Dispatcher's name is never revealed.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Dispatcher and the new owners of the afterlife, who blindly follow the literal interpretations of the Bible and condemn the innocent to Hell in the process.
* PlayingWithFire: The demons who guard the condemned can light cigarettes by pressing them into their palms.
* ReroutedFromHeaven: Johnny takes a job delivering the souls of the dead to Hell. However, most of the people that he's delivering don't seem to have actually ''done'' anything that warrants damnation. It turns out the new CelestialBureaucracy that has taken over the afterlife uses an overly-literal fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible, mainly due to them being paper-pushers instead of naturally malevolent.
* SharpDressedMan: The Dispatcher wears an extremely expensive-looking suit during his meeting with Johnny.
* StraightGay: One of the damned souls in
* TakeAThirdOption: Johnny is faced with the choice of either giving up
* TakeThat: The episode is a ''very'' unsubtle dig at conservative
* ThouShaltNotKill: The
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Pete and the other truckers treat the souls of the dead simply as "the cargo", outright ignoring their pleas of innocence.
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-> "Centuries ago, Hell was reached by chalk-white horses pulling shuttered coaches; by Spanish galleons borne on black sails through uncharted seas. Legend has it Leonardo da Vinci was once commissioned to build a flying machine to carry souls to Hell, but it never returned from its maiden flight. But along this particular road to Hell, lies redemption for the damned, as well as for drivers who have found work -- in The Twilight Zone.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Make your parents do everything you tell them to? What could go wrong?
* BreatherEpisode: A humorous little romp, especially compared with the other half of the episode.
* CoolCar: The last wish is for one of these. Or rather a "really hot" car.
* ExactWords: The trio does try to learn from theirwishes.
mistakes with each wish, but no matter how carefully they word things... (One "hot" car, coming up!)
* HawaiianShirtedTourist: The leprechaun is wearing one of these.
* {{Leprechaun}}: If the title didn't make it clear.
* JerkassGenie: A leprechaun, but the basic idea applies.
* PunBasedTitle: Lepre-Con Artist.
* ResetButton: At the end, the leprechaun takes pity on the boys and resets everything to normal.
* SelflessWish: This option is considered and rejected.
* ThreeWishes: One apiece, so plan carefully!
* VanityLicensePlate: The hot car has a "THIRD WISH" plate.
* XRayVision: One wish is to have this.
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[[folder: The Leprechaun Artist]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Make your parents do everything you tell them to? What could go wrong?
* BreatherEpisode: A humorous little romp, especially compared with the other half of the episode.
* CoolCar: The last wish is for one of these. Or rather a "really hot" car.
* ExactWords: The trio does try to learn from their
* HawaiianShirtedTourist: The leprechaun is wearing one of these.
* {{Leprechaun}}: If the title didn't make it clear.
* JerkassGenie: A leprechaun, but the basic idea applies.
* PunBasedTitle: Lepre-Con Artist.
* ResetButton: At the end, the leprechaun takes pity on the boys and resets everything to normal.
* SelflessWish: This option is considered and rejected.
* ThreeWishes: One apiece, so plan carefully!
* VanityLicensePlate: The hot car has a "THIRD WISH" plate.
* XRayVision: One wish is to have this.
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* DrugsAreBad: The new owners of Hell think so. One of the damned was a drug addict who was trying to clean herself up, only to die before she could kick the habit. Her using drugs at all was enough to send her to Hell under the new rules.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The new manager of Hell {played by Creator/JohnDeLancie) tries his [[IncrediblyLamePun damnedest]] to come across as an upstanding, righteous type... but he casually sends people to Hell for the slightest of offenses.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The new manager of Hell {played by Creator/JohnDeLancie) tries his [[IncrediblyLamePun damnedest]] to come across as an upstanding, righteous type... but he casually sends people to Hell for the slightest of offenses.
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* StraightGay: One of the damned souls in the last truckload we see is a man who, until he realizes he was sent to Hell for his orientation, looks no different from anyone else.
* TakeAThirdOption: Johnny is faced with the choice of either giving up the job or continuing to condemn the innocent. [[spoiler:He chooses instead to keep the job, but halfway to Hell, pull over, open the trailer, and let out anyone who doesn't deserve to go to Hell, letting them take the road to Heaven.]]
* TakeAThirdOption: Johnny is faced with the choice of either giving up the job or continuing to condemn the innocent. [[spoiler:He chooses instead to keep the job, but halfway to Hell, pull over, open the trailer, and let out anyone who doesn't deserve to go to Hell, letting them take the road to Heaven.]]
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* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: The new manager tells Johnny that he's only using "time-honored biblical standards", though his standards seem insanely picky, to the point where non-violent people go to hell for minor misdemeanors.
* CoolOldLady: In life, the librarian wouldn't take it lying down that banned books were about to be removed from her shelf and fought for them.
* DisproportionateRetribution: A lot of people are going to hell for relatively mild offenses. For one, a construction worker is sent there because he loves dirt. In fact, one such person is a sweet old librarian who fought to keep banned books in her library.
* DraftDodging: One of the innocent souls is wrongfully sent to hell for this.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Johnny is able to tell which souls deserve to go to hell because, unlike the innocent souls, they're unrepentant of what they've done.
* ThouShaltNotKill: The reason the draft-dodging soul didn't go to the Vietnam war was because he knew he wouldn't have the heart to kill anybody.
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* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: The new manager tells Johnny that he's only using "time-honored biblical standards", though his standards seem insanely picky, to the point where non-violent people go to hell for minor misdemeanors.
* CoolOldLady: In life, the librarian wouldn't take it lying down that banned books were about to be removed from her shelf and fought for them.
* DisproportionateRetribution: A lot of people are going to hell for relatively mild offenses. For one, a construction worker is sent there because he loves dirt. In fact, one such person is a sweet old librarian who fought to keep banned books in her library.
* DraftDodging: One of the innocent souls is wrongfully sent to hell for this.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Johnny is able to tell which souls deserve to go to hell because, unlike the innocent souls, they're unrepentant of what they've done.
* ThouShaltNotKill: The reason the draft-dodging soul didn't go to the Vietnam war was because he knew he wouldn't have the heart to kill anybody.
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