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* AnimatedEpisode: The very last episode, "The Third Pig", is a violent FracturedFairyTale retelling of ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs''. It's the only animated episode in the entire series, and was produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}}, which also animated the LighterAndSofter cartoon spin-off, ''WesternAnimation/TalesFromTheCryptKeeper''.
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* FirstPersonDyingPerspective: The season 6 finale ''[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS6E15YouMurderer You, Murderer]]'', centers on the view of protagonist Lou Spinelli. He is murdered by his wife and best friend, and the entire episode is viewed through his eyes. As such, we see through his POV when his wife [[BludgeonedToDeath bashes in his head]] with [[ImprovisedWeapon a nude statue]], and kills him. However, as is the episode's theme, while Lou is still dead, he can still [[AndIMustScream hear, see, and feel]] everything that goes on around him, including the rigor mortis of his body.
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A critically acclaimed [[GenreAnthology horror anthology]] series that ran from 1989 to 1996. Every week, the show featured the [[HorrorHost Crypt Keeper]] telling horrifying tales based on stories from the gruesome Creator/ECComics of the 1950s. Because the show was on the premium cable channel Creator/{{HBO}}, it was not subject to FCC censorship and featured lots of gore and sexual situations. The Crypt Keeper, a gruesome undead puppet voiced by Creator/JohnKassir and performed by Creator/PattyMaloney, served as the host and {{narrator}} in a manner similar to that of Creator/RodSerling on ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'', providing lead-ins to the stories and closing comments... all of which were filled with {{pun}}s of a macabre nature.
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A critically acclaimed [[GenreAnthology horror anthology]] series that ran from 1989 to 1996. Every week, the show featured the [[HorrorHost Crypt Keeper]] telling horrifying tales based on stories from the gruesome Creator/ECComics of the 1950s. Because the show was it aired on the premium cable channel Creator/{{HBO}}, it the show was not subject to FCC censorship and featured lots of gore and sexual situations. The Crypt Keeper, a gruesome undead puppet voiced by Creator/JohnKassir and performed by Creator/PattyMaloney, served as the host and {{narrator}} in a manner similar to that of Creator/RodSerling on ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'', providing lead-ins to the stories and closing comments... all of which were filled with {{pun}}s of a macabre nature.
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A critically acclaimed [[GenreAnthology horror anthology]] series that ran from 1989 to 1996. Every week, the show featured the [[HorrorHost Crypt Keeper]] telling horrifying tales based on stories from the gruesome Creator/ECComics of the 1950s. Because the show was on the premium cable channel Creator/{{HBO}}, it was not subject to FCC censorship and featured lots of gore and sexual situations. The Crypt Keeper, a gruesome undead puppet voiced by Creator/JohnKassir and performed by Creator/PattyMaloney, served as the host and {{narrator}} in a manner similar to that of Creator/RodSerling on ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', providing lead-ins and closing comments... which were filled with {{pun}}s of a macabre nature. The show was very influential, and helped bring along more anthology horror shows to come in the 1990s and 2000s, both for adults and for children. The show still currently holds the distinction of being the [[LongRunner longest running]] original series ever to run on HBO.
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A critically acclaimed [[GenreAnthology horror anthology]] series that ran from 1989 to 1996. Every week, the show featured the [[HorrorHost Crypt Keeper]] telling horrifying tales based on stories from the gruesome Creator/ECComics of the 1950s. Because the show was on the premium cable channel Creator/{{HBO}}, it was not subject to FCC censorship and featured lots of gore and sexual situations. The Crypt Keeper, a gruesome undead puppet voiced by Creator/JohnKassir and performed by Creator/PattyMaloney, served as the host and {{narrator}} in a manner similar to that of Creator/RodSerling on ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'', providing lead-ins to the stories and closing comments... all of which were filled with {{pun}}s of a macabre nature. The nature.
This show was very influential, and helped bring along more anthology horror shows to come in the 1990s and 2000s, both for adults and for children.The show still It also currently holds the distinction of being the [[LongRunner longest running]] longest-running]] original series ever to run on HBO.
This show was very influential, and helped bring along more anthology horror shows to come in the 1990s and 2000s, both for adults and for children.
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* HeadSmashesScreen: In "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS4E1NoneButTheLonelyHeart None But The Lonely Heart]]," the VillainProtagonist uses a video dating service to scam rich old ladies, murdering them for their money. When he suspects the dating service manager is blackmailing him, he responds by violently ramming the poor bastard's skull through the service's big-screen video player. In a wonderful bit of BlackComedy, the TV keeps sparking (and the corpse keeps spasming) until the killer clicks it off with the remote control.
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* ExactWords: The MadScientist protagonist of "Spoiled" catches his unfaithful wife and her paramour in the act as both of them are telling each other how much they want the other's body. So he gives them both exactly what they wanted... [[spoiler:by switching their heads]].
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* TheCon: A man gets his wife and brother, a coroner, to help him fake his own death to collect the $500,000 insurance money. After going to South America with a small part of the money, he keeps waiting for them to join him with the rest. Eventually, what money he has runs out and he returns to find his "widow" and brother are now married and living off the rest of the money. When he tries to turn them in to the police for insurance fraud, ''he'' gets arrested, convicted, and ''sentenced to death'' for his own murder.
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: A man gets his wife and brother, a coroner, to help him fake his own death to collect the $500,000 insurance money. After going to South America with a small part of the money, he keeps waiting for them to join him with the rest. Eventually, what money he has runs out and he returns to find his "widow" and brother are now married and living off the rest of the money. When he tries to turn them in to the police for insurance fraud, ''he'' gets arrested, convicted, and ''sentenced to death'' for his own murder.
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* AnAesop: Much like the original comics, many of the episodes are morality plays showing that bad people deserve what's coming to them. Most of the main characters are villains indulging in vice or their worst instincts and their fates are usually richly deserved.
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* VillainProtagonist: Most of the main characters of each episode.
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* VillainProtagonist: Most of the main characters of each episode. And most of them end up suffering horrible ends due to their selfishness.
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* DismemberingTheBody: In the episode "Two For the The Show", the protagonist hacks up his wife's corpse and stuffs it in a suitcase after murdering her. He then boards a train, intending to get rid of that suitcase by throwing it out of the baggage car. Unfortunately, things don't go accordingly to plan.
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* DismemberingTheBody: In the episode "Two For the The Show", the protagonist hacks up his wife's corpse and stuffs it in a suitcase after murdering her. He then boards a train, intending to get rid of that suitcase by throwing it out of the baggage car. Unfortunately, things don't go accordingly according to plan.
