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* KnowsAGuyWhoKnowsAGuy: Every episode started with "This is a true story. It happened to a friend of a friend of mine". (Except for the MusicalEpisode where, for reasons of rhyme and scansion, it happened "to a friend of a friend of a friend".)
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** One story revolves around a nerdy girl who scores herself a date, but is so busy arranging everything perfectly via her computer that she has nothing to eat but some nasty old chili left in the back of the fridge. Needless to say, the episode ends with her letting a monstrously foul fart... and discovering, too late, that there was another couple in the back of the car when she let it out.
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** One story revolves around a nerdy girl who scores herself a date, but is so busy arranging everything perfectly via her computer that she has nothing to eat but some nasty old chili left in the back of the fridge. Needless to say, the episode ends with her letting a monstrously foul fart... fart during a brief moment that her date was outside of the car... and discovering, too late, that there was another couple he had brought along his parents to meet her, and they were in the back of the car when she let it out.
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* OnceAnEpisode: "This is a true story. It happened to a friend of a friend of mine."
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* BalloonBelly: One of the stories is about a pageant contestant who, in a desperate attempt to stay thin, takes black market diet pills. The pills make her outrageously thirsty so she drinks a lot of water, but doesn't realize that the pills were "micro sponges." All of the drinking causes the sponges to absorb the water and the woman to bloat almost [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]]-style.
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* BalloonBelly: One of the stories is about a pageant contestant who, in a desperate attempt to stay thin, takes black market diet pills. The pills make her outrageously thirsty so she drinks a lot of water, but doesn't realize that However, the pills were "micro sponges." All of the come with a warning label saying not to drink anything with them. After going days or possibly even weeks without drinking causes the sponges a drop, she is obviously extremely thirsty. A fit of nervous hiccups forces her to absorb take a small sip of water to try and remedy them, but since she's so thirsty, tasting that one sip makes her snap and start drinking all the water she can get her hands on. It's at that point that she finds out ''why'' the pill bottle told her not to drink anything: the pills are actually tiny sponges, which absorb all the water she drank and the woman to bloat almost [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]]-style.expand inside of her, making her swell up. [[ArtisticLicenseBiology Even her arms and legs swell up for some reason]].
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* 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.
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* 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 ate a jar of peanuts when she left the room, after he apologized she responded with:
----> That's alright, with teeth like mine, all I can do is suck the chocolate off of them.
----> That's alright, with teeth like mine, all I can do is suck the chocolate off of them.
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* {{Squick}}: One story involved a delivery boy dealing with an elderly woman at her house, who went off to get her purse. While she was gone, he saw a jar of peanuts and was rather hungry eating the whole thing. When she returned he apologized and said he'd pay for them. Her response:
---->Elderly Woman: It's okay, with teeth like mine all I can do is suck the chocolate off of them.
---->Elderly Woman: It's okay, with teeth like mine all I can do is suck the chocolate off of them.
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* {{Squick}}: One story involved a delivery boy dealing with an elderly woman at her house, who went off to get her purse. While she was gone, he saw a jar of peanuts and was rather hungry eating the whole thing. When she returned he apologized and said he'd pay for them. Her response:
---->Elderly Woman: It's okay, with teeth like mine all I can do is suck the chocolate off of them.
---->Elderly Woman: It's okay, with teeth like mine all I can do is suck the chocolate off of them.
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* NoExportForYou: ABCFamily aired each individual story as part of their AnimatedAnthology shows, so viewers south of the border didn’t get to see Larry or Maurice. The diner did appear, but [[TheRemnant only in the title card]].
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** One story revolves around a nerdy girl who scores herself a date, but is so busy arranging everything perfectly via her computer that she has nothing to eat but some nasty old chili left in the back of the fridge. Needless to say, the episode ends with her letting a monstrously foul fart... and discovering, too late, that there was another couple in the back of the car when she let it out.
* GrossOutShow: Some of the stories revolve around disgusting revelations, particularly of the IAteWhat variety. One of the comparatively tame example involves a delivery boy who eats all of the peanuts at an old woman's home and, when he apologises, she waves it off, explaining that with her bad teeth all she can do is ''suck the chocolate off them''.
* GrossOutShow: Some of the stories revolve around disgusting revelations, particularly of the IAteWhat variety. One of the comparatively tame example involves a delivery boy who eats all of the peanuts at an old woman's home and, when he apologises, she waves it off, explaining that with her bad teeth all she can do is ''suck the chocolate off them''.
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* BalloonBelly: One of the stories is about a pageant contestant who, in a desperate attempt to stay thin, takes black market diet pills. The pills make her outrageously thirsty so she drinks a lot of water, but doesn't realize that the pills were "micro sponges." All of the drinking causes the sponges to absorb the water and the woman to bloat almost [[WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] style.
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* AgeWithoutYouth: One story was about a wealthy businessman who wanted to live forever out of fear his estate would be inherited by someone who'd squander it all. [[{{Irony}} Not only his immortality costed him his wealth]] (he hoped to build another one - never happened), but he forgot about the trope.
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* AgeWithoutYouth: One story was about a wealthy businessman who wanted to live forever out of fear his estate would be inherited by someone who'd squander it all. [[{{Irony}} Not only did his immortality costed cost him his wealth]] (he hoped to build another one - never happened), but he forgot about the trope.
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* AgeWithoutYouth: One story was about a wealthy businessman who wanted to live forever out of fear his estate would be inherited by someone who'd squander it all. [[{{Irony}} Not only his immortality costed him his wealth]] (he hoped to build another one - never happened), but he forgot about the trope.
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* OrganTheft: Although they moved it into the future to slightly reduce the {{Squick}} factor. Basically, the victim's heads are attached to machines that keep them alive.
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* PottyEmergency: This is what causes the woman attending the LonelyFuneral to be there at all.
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*BalloonBelly: One of the stories is about a pageant contestant who, in a desperate attempt to stay thin, takes black market diet pills. The pills make her outrageously thirsty so she drinks a lot of water, but doesn't realize that the pills were "micro sponges." All of the drinking causes the sponges to absorb the water and the woman to bloat almost [[WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] style.
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The series, described as "a TwilightZone for kids," centers on the kind of myths and legends that are told as scary campfire or bedtime stories. Every episode always starts with and finishes with the phrase: "This is a true story, and it happened to friend of a friend of mine." And by the words of Larry, "Just because they never happened, doesn't mean they ain't true." Animation styles and musical scoring varied within each half-hour episode, incorporating [[ArtShift 20 different looks]] in the first season alone. The short stories and changing styles were specifically designed to keep viewers' attention span.
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The series, described as "a TwilightZone ''Series/TwilightZone'' for kids," centers on the kind of myths and legends that are told as scary campfire or bedtime stories. Every episode always starts with and finishes with the phrase: "This is a true story, and it happened to friend of a friend of mine." And by the words of Larry, "Just because they never happened, doesn't mean they ain't true." Animation styles and musical scoring varied within each half-hour episode, incorporating [[ArtShift 20 different looks]] in the first season alone. The short stories and changing styles were specifically designed to keep viewers' attention span.
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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.
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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.
person. On said "perfect person"'s wedding day, the two of them were calmly talking to each other until they remembered 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.
* VandalismBackfire: One story featured an overjealous man whose wife was constantly receiving a male visitor who even once took her for a car ride. The husband one day covered the car with concrete. The visitor was a car salesman and the woman had just bought the car for her husband's birthday.
* VandalismBackfire: One story featured an overjealous man whose wife was constantly receiving a male visitor who even once took her for a car ride. The husband one day covered the car with concrete. The visitor was a car salesman and the woman had just bought the car for her husband's birthday.
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* NowDoItAgainBackwards: A kid fond of making silly faces catches a trick wind which causes his face to be stuck like that. The only cure is to dangle him from a helicopter and fly it backwards hoping to catch the same wind in reverse.
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* StereoFibbing: A pair of students oversleep and miss their final exam, 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?"
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* TwinDesynch: One story ends with bitter rival twin sisters eventually patching things up and dying their hair different colours.
* 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.
* 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.
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** The worst part is that the person who convinced her was his sister, who [[FreudianExcuse caused his fear in the first place when they were kids]].
* DeadPetSketch: An airport crew went through a lot to find a replacement for a dog believed to have died during flight, unaware that it was already dead.
* DeadPetSketch: An airport crew went through a lot to find a replacement for a dog believed to have died during flight, unaware that it was already dead.
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* ImmortalitySeeker: A wealthy old man spends his entire fortune in the search for immortality [[spoiler: He got it, but forgot to specify he also wanted to stop aging.]]
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* BuriedAlive: One episode involved a man who was deathly afraid of being buried alive, a fact his wife learned when he had a panic attack from the rice being thrown at their wedding. She promises him that if he died, she'd install a hot line phone that linked directly to the house, where she would wait for a year so he can call her to get him out if he's still alive. The rest of the plot involves her actually going through with this promise after her husband dies suddenly. Her friends finally convince her to go out for the evening on the 365th day. Just after she leaves, [[spoiler:the phone rings]].
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* OnOneCondition: She LonelyFuneral above.
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* OnOneCondition: She See LonelyFuneral above.
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* OnOneCondition: She LonelyFuneral above.
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* NeverTrustAHairTonic: One story involves a boy inventing a hair tonic that, while capable of growing hair on any surface, doesn't seem to work on him. After dousing himself with it in a panic, he realize all to late that it takes longer for the tonic to grow hair on a human, and it turns him into a werewolf.
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* LonelyFuneral: One episode featured a wealthy man who wasn't on speaking terms with any friend or relative and made a will leaving his fortune to anyone who bothered to attend the funeral. The only person to do it was [[spoiler:an old woman who didn't even know him. She simply needed a bathroom and crashing the funeral was the only option.]]
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* LonelyFuneral: LonelyFuneral / UnexpectedInheritance: One episode featured a wealthy man who wasn't on speaking terms with any friend or relative and made a will leaving his fortune to anyone who bothered to attend the funeral. The only person to do it was [[spoiler:an old woman who didn't even know him. She simply needed a bathroom and crashing the funeral was the only option.]]
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* LonelyFuneral: One episode featured a wealthy man who wasn't on speaking terms with any friend or relative and made a will leaving his fortune to anyone who bothered to attend the funeral. The only person to do it was [[spoiler:an old woman who didn't even know him. She simply needed a bathroom and crashing the funeral was the only option.]]
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* 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.
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''Freaky Stories'' is a Canadian television series. It is an animated show about urban legends, hosted by two animatronic puppets, Larry de Bug, a cockroach, and his gooey sidekick, Maurice the maggot, in Ted's Diner - a 1940s-style diner setting staffed by Rosie the waitress ([[TheVoice who is heard but never seen]]).
The series, described as "a TwilightZone for kids," centers on the kind of myths and legends that are told as scary campfire or bedtime stories. Every episode always starts with and finishes with the phrase: "This is a true story, and it happened to friend of a friend of mine." And by the words of Larry, "Just because they never happened, doesn't mean they ain't true." Animation styles and musical scoring varied within each half-hour episode, incorporating [[ArtShift 20 different looks]] in the first season alone. The short stories and changing styles were specifically designed to keep viewers' attention span.
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** A man picks up a hitchhiking girl on the road; she disappears during the drive but leaves her jacket. The man goes to her house to return the jacket, but is greeted by a woman saying the girl died several years ago, wearing that same jacket.
** Another episode (one actually set {{Twenty Minutes into the Future}}, complete with hover cars) had the teenaged hitchhiker turn out to be a (non-evil) old hag.
* {{Gasshole}}: Maurice the Maggot was continually farting. At one point he gets the "Maggot Flu", which is like the normal flu, except you also fart whenever you sneeze. That said, Larry the Cockroach was able to beat him at a fart-off.
* HookHand: The classic urban legend 'The Hook' was done as a MusicalEpisode.
* MissingFloor: One story story has an obsessive man trying to figure out the secret of a building's 13th floor. When he finally gets to it, [[spoiler:he finds that the door to the 13th floor locks from the inside, trapping him with everyone else who had discovered it.]]
* MusicalEpisode: "The Hook"
* OnOneCondition: One episode featured a wealthy man who wasn't on speaking terms with any friend or relative and made a will leaving his fortune to anyone who bothered to attend the funeral. [[spoiler:The only person to do it was an old woman who didn't even know him. She simply needed a bathroom and crashing the funeral was the only option.]]
* OrganTheft: Although they moved it into the future to slightly reduce the {{Squick}} factor.
* RulesOfTheRoad: One of the episodes involves an incredibly picky police officer, who expects everyone to follow traffic laws EXACTLY. Naturally, once he acquires a Speed Gun, he begins pulling people over for even going 1 Km/h faster/slower than the posted speed limit.
* TheVoice: Rosie the waitress
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The series, described as "a TwilightZone for kids," centers on the kind of myths and legends that are told as scary campfire or bedtime stories. Every episode always starts with and finishes with the phrase: "This is a true story, and it happened to friend of a friend of mine." And by the words of Larry, "Just because they never happened, doesn't mean they ain't true." Animation styles and musical scoring varied within each half-hour episode, incorporating [[ArtShift 20 different looks]] in the first season alone. The short stories and changing styles were specifically designed to keep viewers' attention span.
!!FreakyStories contains examples of:
* BewareOfHitchHikingGhosts: $
** A man picks up a hitchhiking girl on the road; she disappears during the drive but leaves her jacket. The man goes to her house to return the jacket, but is greeted by a woman saying the girl died several years ago, wearing that same jacket.
** Another episode (one actually set {{Twenty Minutes into the Future}}, complete with hover cars) had the teenaged hitchhiker turn out to be a (non-evil) old hag.
* {{Gasshole}}: Maurice the Maggot was continually farting. At one point he gets the "Maggot Flu", which is like the normal flu, except you also fart whenever you sneeze. That said, Larry the Cockroach was able to beat him at a fart-off.
* HookHand: The classic urban legend 'The Hook' was done as a MusicalEpisode.
* MissingFloor: One story story has an obsessive man trying to figure out the secret of a building's 13th floor. When he finally gets to it, [[spoiler:he finds that the door to the 13th floor locks from the inside, trapping him with everyone else who had discovered it.]]
* MusicalEpisode: "The Hook"
* OnOneCondition: One episode featured a wealthy man who wasn't on speaking terms with any friend or relative and made a will leaving his fortune to anyone who bothered to attend the funeral. [[spoiler:The only person to do it was an old woman who didn't even know him. She simply needed a bathroom and crashing the funeral was the only option.]]
* OrganTheft: Although they moved it into the future to slightly reduce the {{Squick}} factor.
* RulesOfTheRoad: One of the episodes involves an incredibly picky police officer, who expects everyone to follow traffic laws EXACTLY. Naturally, once he acquires a Speed Gun, he begins pulling people over for even going 1 Km/h faster/slower than the posted speed limit.
* TheVoice: Rosie the waitress
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