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* FamilialCannibalismSurprise: One story involved a man who came to America to find his fortune, and upon doing so, would dote gifts to his relatives back in their native country village. Eventually, a jar with what was assumed a brown spice came, along with a letter that was, unfortunately, ate by a stray goat before anyone could read it. The family and even neighbors enjoyed the spice, until another package, containing an urn, explained that said relative died and wanted his remains to rest back in the family home. Needless to say, the village was both horrified and disgusted that they accidentally ate the remains of said beloved man.
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* FamilialCannibalismSurprise: One story involved GenreMashup: The stories featuring Joe The Traveling Salesman are a man who came to America to find his fortune, mix of sci-fi, and upon doing so, would dote gifts to his relatives back in their native country village. Eventually, a jar with what was assumed a brown spice came, along with a letter that was, unfortunately, ate by a stray goat before anyone could read it. The family and even neighbors enjoyed the spice, until another package, containing an urn, explained that said relative died and wanted his remains to rest back in the family home. Needless to say, the village was both horrified and disgusted that they accidentally ate the remains of said beloved man.noir drama.
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* MusicalEpisode: Has quite a few that feature varied musical genres. "The Hook"Hook" is done through do-wap music, while "Pirates" is in the style of sea shanties.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Pretty much every featured character is this.
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* AcidRefluxNightmare: The plot of "Sweet Dreams". It's brought about by a boy named Jordon eating macaroni and cheese, a chili burger loaded with onions, a strawberry float, and and week old sweet and sour kimchi.
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* MessyMaggots:
** One of the hosts of the show is Maurice the maggot. He's constantly dripping slime and is ridiculously gassy.
** One episode features a new girl taking a shine to the biggest loser in the school, happily trading her candy bars for his disgusting lunches. Eventually, he starts giving her random scraps of garbage instead, which she still accepts for the candy bars. In reality, she has been harvesting the trash to use as a breeding ground for maggots, [[spoiler:the main ingredient for her experimental candy bars]].
** One of the hosts of the show is Maurice the maggot. He's constantly dripping slime and is ridiculously gassy.
** One episode features a new girl taking a shine to the biggest loser in the school, happily trading her candy bars for his disgusting lunches. Eventually, he starts giving her random scraps of garbage instead, which she still accepts for the candy bars. In reality, she has been harvesting the trash to use as a breeding ground for maggots, [[spoiler:the main ingredient for her experimental candy bars]].
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The series, described as "a ''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 spans.
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The series, described as "a ''Series/TwilightZone'' ''[[Franchise/TheTwilightZone Twilight Zone]]'' 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 spans.
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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".) Occasionally the relationship between the narrator and the subject is a big more direct (a barber telling a story about one of their customers, or a teacher telling a story about one of their students), but the stories will still start this way before the narrator clarifies.
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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".) Occasionally the relationship between the narrator and the subject is a big bit more direct (a barber telling a story about one of their customers, or a teacher telling a story about one of their students), but the stories will still start this way before the narrator clarifies.
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*SparedByAdaptation: Tends to happen in the case of adaptations of horror urban legends, where the main characters usually die, while here they survive.
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*{{Bowdlerise}}: Some of the shorts inspired in horror urban legends tone down the violence and make the main characters survive. Other shorts omit or tone down adult themes from the original legends.
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* HarassingPhoneCall: One story involves a babysitter constantly being called and asked "Have you checked the children?". She loses it when she finds out the calls are coming from a second line in the house, but it's strongly implied that it was the children making the calls.
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* LemonyNarrator: Some narrators are more snarky than others. Usually, the adult narrators are more prone to this trope (especially if they've interacted with the story's protagonist), while children or teenager narrators tend to speak without sarcasm.
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* FamilialCannibalismSurprise: One story involved a man who came to America to find his fortune, and upon doing so, would dote gifts to his relatives back in their native country village. Eventually, a jar with what was assumed a brown spice came, along with a letter that was, unfortunately, ate by a stray goat before anyone could read it. The family and even neighbors enjoyed the spice, until another package, containing an urn, explained that said relative died and wanted his remains to rest back in the family home. Needless to say, the village was both horrified and disgusted that they accidentally ate the remains of said beloved man.
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* SpeakingSimlish: Rare for an animated cartoon, often when characters are talking to each other, they aren't actually speaking English, just muttering to each other in gibberish. It's only when the narrator is quoting them directly that they actually speak coherently.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Occasionally happens either to the subject of a story or someone else in the story.
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* PottyFailure: One story had a small kid in boy scouts that would wet himself from nearly anything, including making him laugh too hard, scaring him, or hurting his feelings. Which is why his fellow scouts nicknamed him "Puddle".
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* ArtShift: The show did not have a set animation style; instead, the stories cycled through a couple of different styles, some more cartoony than other depending on the story.
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The series, described as "a ''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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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The protagonist of one story is only referred to as "Tuesday At Two", because the narrator is a hair stylist and he knows the protagonist because she comes in for an appointment every Tuesday, at 2.
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* 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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* 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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* 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".) Ocassionally the relationship between the narrator and the subject is a big more direct (a barber telling a story about one of their customers, or a teacher telling a story about one of their students), but the stories will still start this way before the narrator clarifies.
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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".) Ocassionally Occasionally the relationship between the narrator and the subject is a big more direct (a barber telling a story about one of their customers, or a teacher telling a story about one of their students), but the stories will still start this way before the narrator clarifies.
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* 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.]]
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* 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.]]
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The protagonist of one story is only refereed to as "Tuesday At Two", because the narrator is a hair stylist and he knows the protagonist because she comes in for an appointment every Tuesday, at 2.
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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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* StereoFibbing: A pair of troublemaking students oversleep and miss their final exam, 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?"
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* WeightLossHorror: A woman buys a new mysterious diet pill in preparation for a beauty contest, on the condition that she must not drink water for the duration of the diet. The diet pill was actually filled with several tiny sponges, and when she breaks and drinks gallons of water, they cause her to bloat uncontrollably.
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* WeightLossHorror: A woman buys a new mysterious diet pill in preparation for a beauty contest, on the condition that she must not drink water for the duration of the diet. The diet pill was pills were actually filled with several tiny sponges, and when she breaks and drinks gallons of water, they cause her to bloat uncontrollably.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The protagonist of one story is only refereed to as "Tuesday At Two", because the narrator is a hair stylist and he knows the protagonist because she comes in for an appointment every Tuesday, at 2.
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re-categorized it into a (hopefully) more accurate trope.
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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. However, the pills come with a warning label saying not to drink anything with them. After going days or possibly even weeks without drinking a drop, she is obviously extremely thirsty. A fit of nervous hiccups forces her to 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 expand inside of her, making her swell up. [[ArtisticLicenseBiology Even her arms and legs swell up for some reason]].
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* InflatingBodyGag: One of the stories is about a pageant contestant who, in a desperate attempt to stay thin, takes black market diet pills. However, the pills come with a warning label saying not to drink anything with them. After going days or possibly even weeks without drinking a drop, she is obviously extremely thirsty. A fit of nervous hiccups forces her to 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 expand inside of her, making her swell up. [[ArtisticLicenseBiology Even her arms and legs swell up for some reason]].
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* HarsherInHindsight: One story involves the pilots locked out of the cockpit while the plane is heading towards a mountain range. It's very similar to how Germanwings 9525 crashed.
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* HarsherInHindsight: One story involves the pilots locked out of the cockpit while the plane is heading towards a mountain range. It's very similar to how Germanwings 9525 crashed.
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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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* '''UrbanLegends''': Forms the entire premise of the show to the point where several shorts are straight up retellings of classic urban legends.
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* WeightLossHorror: A woman buys a new mysterious diet pill in preparation for a beauty contest, on the condition that she must not drink water for the duration of the diet. The diet pill was actually filled with several tiny sponges, and when she breaks and drinks gallons of water, they cause her to bloat uncontrollably.
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* SewerGator: An episode is about a young boy who flushes his pet baby alligator down the toilet because his parents won't let him keep it. As an adult, he encounters the now-grown alligator while he is working in the sewers.
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* NoExportForYou: Creator/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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* TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse: A story involves a babysitter repeatedly getting mysterious calls from a voice that asks "Have you checked the children?" that she eventually traces and then freaks out to find they are coming from a second line in the house. While the narration never confirms it, the visuals strongly imply it is just the kids playing a prank.
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