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* BewareOfHitchHikingGhosts: One episode (which was set {{Twenty Minutes into the Future}}, complete with hover cars) had the driver discover that the teenaged hitchhiker was really a (non-evil) old hag when she returns his borrowed jacket to him.

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* BewareOfHitchHikingGhosts: One episode (which was set {{Twenty Minutes into the Future}}, complete with hover cars) had the driver discover that the teenaged hitchhiker was really a (non-evil) old hag when she returns his borrowed jacket to him.him - replacing the 'ghost' aspect with time travel. Another episode took on the same concept, this time taking place in the present day and instead switching out the hitchhiking aspect.

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Officially described as "a ''[[Franchise/TheTwilightZone Twilight Zone]]'' for kids", the series centers around UrbanLegends, specifically the kinds that are told as scary campfire or bedtime stories. Every story would start and end with the phrase "This is a true story, and it happened to a friend of a friend of mine...". But what made the series truly stand out however was that as an anthology series, [[ArtShift the animation style and musical scoring of each half-hour episode varied between each of the stories being told]]. Furthermore, different narrators were brought on board with every story, with a wide variety of Canadian actors and voice artists appearing in the series to tell Larry and Maurice's myths and legends.

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Officially described as "a ''[[Franchise/TheTwilightZone Twilight Zone]]'' for kids", the series centers around UrbanLegends, specifically some based on well-known tales, others wholly original to the kinds that are told as scary campfire or bedtime stories.show. Every story would start and end with the phrase "This is a true story, and it happened to a friend of a friend of mine...". But what made the series truly stand out however was that as an anthology series, [[ArtShift the animation style and musical scoring of each half-hour episode varied between each of the stories being told]]. Furthermore, different narrators were brought on board with every story, with a wide variety of Canadian actors and voice artists appearing in the series to tell Larry and Maurice's myths and legends.


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* ElvisLives: One story involves a tortilla that appears to have Elvis' face on it launching a Mexican food vendor to fame and success, only for said tortilla to be lost when a man implied to be Elvis himself comes by the vendor's shop and is accidentally given the tortilla.
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* GreasySpoon: Larry and Maurice hang out at one called Ted's Diner.
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* AreaFiftyOne: One story has a reporter sneak in there to find the supposed stored alien spacecraft. [[spoiler:He only ends up with photos of a hi-tech super-sized potato peeler, and gives up on his search... at least until he finds the real alien and spaceship disguised in plain sight as exhibitions in a modern art museum.]]

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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: One particularly interesting one pops up in "Fifi to Go". Whereas the original urban legend involved a Chinese restaurant killing and serving a dining family's pet dog, ''Freaky Stories'' changes the Chinese cooks to aliens in a {{Zeerust}}-styled future (presumably to avoid controversies about racist stereotypes).



* AreaFiftyOne: One story has a reporter sneak in there to find the supposed stored alien spacecraft. [[spoiler:He only ends up with photos of a hi-tech super-sized potato peeler, and gives up on his search... at least until he finds the real alien and spaceship disguised in plain sight as exhibitions in a modern art museum.]]



* AssholeVictim: Quite a few stories end with characters being punished in some way for their disreputable behaviors (greed, selfishness, laziness, rudeness, etc.), often involving an ironic twist that leads to them changing who they are.



* BadSanta: How about Jack the Ripper kidnapping and impersonating Santa Claus?



* BrainInAJar: One story, "The Man Who Picked His Brain", has a MadScientist transform himself into one, only to be struck with crippling loneliness and a yearning for freedom as a result of his state. He manages to escape by tricking a burglar into switching places with him, [[spoiler:only to be [[{{Irony}} sentenced to solitary confinement for the rest of his life]] when the police arrest him and he is unable to convince them of his story.]]



* DangerTakesABackseat: Plenty of these ones, including a musical take in "The Getaway".



* DeanBitterman: "The Iron Fist Principal" sees a troublemaking new girl at school discovering her principal's fearsome reputation as TheDreaded amongst the staff and students, so much so that his secretary won't even allow her to meet him for her own safety when she gets sent to his office. [[spoiler:Because the principal is secretly a puppet the teachers have created and made up stories about to keep the students in line.]]



* EyelessFace: Maurice.

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* EyelessFace: Maurice. Despite this, he's still able to see perfectly fine, and even puts on eyeglasses on a few occasions.



* ForcedTransformation: In "Hokus Pokus", a mischievous boy is transformed by a witch into a bird for spoiling her stage magic performances.



* IAteWhat: Almost OnceAnEpisode. Examples include a cheapskate siphoning from the wrong tank of an RV, a couple finding a corpse in their wine barrel, and an escaped convict blindly looting the contents of a fridge, which turned out to be storing things like medical waste. One story had a man visiting an elderly woman's house, and eating a jar of mixed nuts when she left the room; after he apologized, she responded with:

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* IAteWhat: Almost OnceAnEpisode.OnceAnEpisode, especially in the first season. Examples include a cheapskate siphoning from the wrong tank of an RV, a couple finding a corpse in their wine barrel, and an escaped convict blindly looting the contents of a fridge, which turned out to be storing things like medical waste. One story had a man visiting an elderly woman's house, and eating a jar of mixed nuts when she left the room; after he apologized, she responded with:



ItBeganWithATwistOfFate: "The Bookkeeper" involves a guy attempting to get a job as one, except he couldn't read or write, instead leading to a string of events where his decisions result in him earning more amounts of money than the last, until he ends up a wealthy tycoon owning all sorts of businesses. When discussing in an interview how he never learned to read or write, he concludes that if he had, all he might have accomplished was becoming a bookkeeper in the first place.

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* {{Irony}}: A common theme in the series, particularly in the more karmic stories. A particularly good example however is "The Man Who Picked His Brain", in which a BrainInAJar seeking freedom and companionship tricks a criminal into switching places with him, [[spoiler:only to be sentenced to solitary confinement for life when the police mistake him for who they're looking for.]]
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ItBeganWithATwistOfFate: "The Bookkeeper" involves a guy attempting to get a job as one, except he couldn't read or write, instead leading to a string of events where his decisions result in him earning more amounts of money than the last, until he ends up a wealthy tycoon owning all sorts of businesses. When discussing in an interview how he never learned to read or write, he concludes that if he had, all he might have accomplished was becoming a bookkeeper in the first place.



* LaserGuidedKarma: Occasionally happens either to the subject of a story or someone else in the story.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: Occasionally happens either to the Many stories end with their subject being hit by this in some fashion, often of a story or someone else the ironic variety. Both stories involving Murray the Moocher for instance see his freeloading methods come back to bite him in the story.behind when he ends up accidentally ingesting the contents of a septic tank when trying to steal gasoline in the first story and later have his entire fortune eaten by rats infesting the rundown apartment he's landlord of in the second. Similarly, many IAteWhat stories are often at the expense of a gluttonous character (such as "Traders" and "Choc-Roaches").



* {{Mummy}}: Subject of "Creeping Curse of the Mummy's Tomb"", one of the more overtly supernatural episodes. Here, two kids are inspired by their favorite movie to imitate its ritual for summoning a mummy, and soon find their home under attack by one.



* NotSoImaginaryFriend: "Invisible Shirley" sees a young girl being picked on by her BigBrotherBully for having an imaginary friend... until an invisible force gives him so well-deserved humiliation for his cruelty.



* StereoFibbing: A pair of troublemaking students oversleep and miss their final exam. They make up an excuse about getting a flat tire, so the teacher allows them to take a make-up exam that involves them in separate rooms with only one question to answer: "Which tire was flat?"



* TheVoice: Rosie the waitress, though what might have been an animated version of her appeared in "Free Gas."



* StereoFibbing: A pair of troublemaking students oversleep and miss their final exam. They make up an excuse about getting a flat tire, so the teacher allows them to take a make-up exam that involves them in separate rooms with only one question to answer: "Which tire was flat?"



* {{Tuckerization}}:
** Larry de Bug was named and designed after creator Steve Schnier's friend and longtime animator at Creator/{{Nelvana}} Larry Jacobs. Similarly, a bird remarked by the narrator to resemble a neighborhood boy named Larry Jacobs appears in the story "Hokus Pokus" (possibly also a reference to Jacobs' own series ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdz}}'').
** Maurice the Maggot was named after an unpleasant supervisor of Steve Schnier and Larry Jacobs that the pair had when the former was working at Nelvana. Schnier has gone on record saying the show's legal team were aware of this, but knew they could get away with it because Maurice only shared the guy's name and no other qualities.



* TwinSwitch: One story involves twin brothers who use this to live as a single person, combining their completely different interests and talents to come off as the perfect person. On said "perfect person's" wedding day, the two of them were calmly talking to each other until they remembered that at least one of them should show up. When they do, they see their bride marrying their [[LongLostRelative long-lost brother]]. They were triplets after all.

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* TwinSwitch: One story involves twin brothers who use this to live as a single person, combining their completely different interests and talents to come off as the perfect person. On said "perfect person's" wedding day, the two of them were calmly talking to each other until they remembered that at least one of them should show up. When [[spoiler:When they do, they see their bride marrying their [[LongLostRelative long-lost brother]]. They were triplets after all.]]


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* TheVoice: Rosie the waitress, though what might have been an animated version of her appeared in "Free Gas."


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* WholePlotReference: Several episodes. "Deep Forest Diver", for instance, reimagines the famous "Scuba Diver Found in Aftermath of Forest Fire" story as a parody of ''Series/TheXFiles''.
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''Freaky Stories'' is a Canadian AnimatedAnthology series created by Decode Entertainment (now part of Creator/WildBrain) and Creator/FunbagAnimation. The show is hosted by two animatronic puppets, a cockroach named Larry de Bug (voice of Creator/JamesRankin), and his gooey sidekick, Maurice Maggot (voice of Creator/DanRedican), the two of whom hang out at Ted's Diner - a 1940s-style GreasySpoon staffed by a waitress named Rosie [[TheVoice who is heard but never seen]] (voice of Creator/JayneEastwood).

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''Freaky Stories'' is a Canadian AnimatedAnthology series created by Steve Schnier and produced by Decode Entertainment (now part of Creator/WildBrain) and Creator/FunbagAnimation. The show is hosted by two animatronic puppets, a cockroach named Larry de Bug (voice of Creator/JamesRankin), and his gooey sidekick, Maurice the Maggot (voice of Creator/DanRedican), the two of whom hang out at Ted's Diner - a 1940s-style GreasySpoon staffed by a waitress named Rosie [[TheVoice who is heard but never seen]] (voice of Creator/JayneEastwood).



As the brainchild of Steve Schnier, the pilot to ''Freaky Stories'' debuted in English-speaking Canada as part of Creator/{{YTV}}'s "Dark Night 3" Halloween block on October 28, 1995. Due to the positive reception it received, the full series was greenlit shortly afterwards and premiered as a one-hour special as part of "Dark Night 5" on October 24, 1997. The show proceeded to run for 35 episodes over 3 seasons (with each episode featuring 4 shorts for a total of 140 stories), with the final episode being shown on October 1, 2000. Outside of Canada, the show aired on Creator/FoxFamily in the United States, although they dropped the show after Season 2.

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As the brainchild of Steve Schnier, the The pilot to ''Freaky Stories'' debuted in English-speaking Canada as part of Creator/{{YTV}}'s "Dark Night 3" Halloween block on October 28, 1995. Due to the positive reception it received, the full series was greenlit shortly afterwards and premiered as a one-hour special as part of "Dark Night 5" on October 24, 1997. The show proceeded to run for 35 episodes over 3 seasons (with each episode featuring 4 shorts for a total of 140 stories), with the final episode being shown on October 1, 2000. Outside of Canada, the show aired on Creator/FoxFamily in the United States, although they dropped the show after Season 2.
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Officially described as "a ''[[Franchise/TheTwilightZone Twilight Zone]]'' for kids", the series centers around UrbanLegends, specifically the kinds that are told as scary campfire or bedtime stories. Every episode would start Larry telling the audience, "This is a true story, and it happened to a friend of a friend of mine," and also end with Larry saying, "Just because they never happened doesn't mean they ain't true." But what made the series truly stand out however was that as an anthology series, [[ArtShift the animation style and musical scoring of each half-hour episode varied between each of the stories being told]]. Furthermore, different narrators were brought on board with every story, with a wide variety of Canadian actors and voice artists appearing in the series to tell Larry and Maurice's myths and legends.

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Officially described as "a ''[[Franchise/TheTwilightZone Twilight Zone]]'' for kids", the series centers around UrbanLegends, specifically the kinds that are told as scary campfire or bedtime stories. Every episode story would start Larry telling and end with the audience, phrase "This is a true story, and it happened to a friend of a friend of mine," and also end with Larry saying, "Just because they never happened doesn't mean they ain't true." mine...". But what made the series truly stand out however was that as an anthology series, [[ArtShift the animation style and musical scoring of each half-hour episode varied between each of the stories being told]]. Furthermore, different narrators were brought on board with every story, with a wide variety of Canadian actors and voice artists appearing in the series to tell Larry and Maurice's myths and legends.

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