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Tales from the Darkside

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Tales from the Darkside	comment	Tales from the Darkside is an anthology TV series from The '80s produced by George A. Romero. Similar to The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling's Night Gallery, The Outer Limits and Tales from the Crypt, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. Unlike these other series, Tales from the Darkside centered mostly on horror stories. However, some episodes would more likely be considered science fiction or fantasy-based, and other episodes were more comical and light-hearted in tone. It's also known for its Cruel Twist Endings.After a one-off pilot aired in 1983, the series was picked up for First-Run Syndication from 1984 to 1988. In 1990, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (whose distributor Paramount acquired the rights to the TV series in 1999) was released.On February 21, 2016 the plans for a television reboot of the series were adapted to a four issue comic book miniseries authored by Joe Hill, illustreated by Gabriel Rodriguez and published by IDW; the first issue of which was released in June. The comic depicted an anthology of supernaturally ironic horror stories, much like the series, only this time loosely connected by the presence of a Reality Warper with unstable powers and a split personality. The second and third issues of the series detailed his backstory as world-building. While only slated for four issues, both Hill and IDW were open to expanding into a regular comic series if it was well received. It was not.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_115d318	comment	And Then John Was a Zombie: A rather unorthodox example, but the jerkass reporter in "The Circus" has his head ripped off and reattached to a reanimated husk, forced to entertain in a freak show forever. Inverted in "A Case of the Stubborns"—Grandpa Titus begins the episode as a sentient zombie who refuses to believe he's dead. The plot involves his frustrated family trying to convince him to stop being "alive."
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Tales from the Darkside / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Tales from the Darkside / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Harold in "The Grave Robbers". He would gladly leave his girlfriend behind in the mummy's tomb to save his own ass. He gets left behind instead when the mummy proves to be smarter than he looks.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
Tales from the Darkside / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Arnold in "Fear of Floating" slept with a girl, ditched her after getting her pregnant, and after agreeing to marry her, immediately makes moves on another girl.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Tales from the Darkside / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: The protagonist's wife in The Milkman Cometh is raped by the titular milkman after he wishes to have another child.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_135d58f9	type	Man of Wealth and Taste
Tales from the Darkside / int_135d58f9	comment	Man of Wealth and Taste: In "I'll Give You a Million", the Devil appears as a dapper young man in an exquisitely tailored morning suit.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Tales from the Darkside / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Astoundingly, a promo for "The Milkman Cometh" winds up including the ending scene of Sandy walking into the kitchen, holding the baby the milkman "gave" Garry... by impregnating his wife.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: If you compare it to The Twilight Zone, it is. In fact, this still holds true you compare it to The New Twilight Zone, which aired during this show's lifetime.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Tales from the Darkside / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Horace X, in "The False Prophet", comes across as a Domestic Abuser and a rapist when he tries coming onto Cassie.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_1520ad7e	type	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
Tales from the Darkside / int_1520ad7e	comment	In "Do Not Open This Box", we have a couple who learn the box they've mistakenly opened was meant to deliver souls. And the mailman who comes at midnight is meaning to take one of their souls as payment for their mistake. Ruth puts her husband Charlie up to murder the mailman while his back is turned. Upon hearing they're a pick-up, there's a chance that pick-up could've been Charlie's soul. He has every opportunity to save his own skin. ...But he can't bring himself to do it. Ruth can.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_15bf26d9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
Tales from the Darkside / int_15bf26d9	comment	Heel Face Doorslam: Medusa in "Miss May Dusa".
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Tales from the Darkside / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Tales from the Darkside / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: "The Grave Robbers" pits the titular thieves against the cursed, Affably Evil mummy.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Tales from the Darkside / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Anthony in "The Social Climber" is the kindest man in the series. He provides life advice to the protagonist and makes magic shoes that give luck to his customers at his shoe store.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_1759af2f	type	Feghoot
Tales from the Darkside / int_1759af2f	comment	Feghoot: "A New Lease on Life", which goes out of its way to make the following joke at the end: "And I found this last [tenant] especially hard to stomach." This is lampshaded by the group at the end, including the apartment building itself, laughing uproariously. "The Odds" ends with Tom Vale literally dying of laughter.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Tales from the Darkside / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: In "The Odds", it turns out Tommy recognized Billy right from the start, realizing what he was, and that he was genuinely seeing the future. And that he was still a loser and a coward, fooled at the end because Tommy tampered with the clock.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Tales from the Darkside / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: In The Shrine, Christine's mother couldn't accept her daughter for who she was and loved a shadow of her daughter instead of her real child.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_17b30e42	type	Pro Wrestling Episode
Tales from the Darkside / int_17b30e42	comment	Pro Wrestling Episode: "Basher Malone," the last show of the series.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Tales from the Darkside / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: A significant amount of episodes fall victim to this trope, including (but not limited to) "Distant Signals", "The Geezenstacks", "Let the Games Begin", "I Can't Help Saying Goodbye", "Levitation", "The Cutty Black Sow" and "Basher Malone".
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Tales from the Darkside / int_191e0d45	comment	Preacher Man: From "The Unhappy Medium," Reverend Farley pretended to be one of these.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Tales from the Darkside / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Boss Eddie in "No Strings" is a huge fan of You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. He goes to the trouble of having his favorite puppeteer kidnapped in the middle of the night just so that he can put on a special show in celebration for his recent offing of an old "business partner". Guess what he wants the puppeteer to use as the puppet?
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Tales from the Darkside / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
Tales from the Darkside / int_1b590025	comment	"The Spirit Photographer": Algernon was Dead All Along, but gets to move on after his Spirit Attractor is proven to have worked. As a bonus, he's happy over this development.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_1b7d59b6	type	Death by Materialism
Tales from the Darkside / int_1b7d59b6	comment	Death by Materialism: The fate of the protagonist in "The Social Climber".
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Tales from the Darkside / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Tales from the Darkside / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: In The Milkman Cometh, anyone who isn't specific about what they wish for will have it backfire because the milkman only reads notes the people leave for him, but does what he thinks they are asking for by any means.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Tales from the Darkside / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Although it's hard to tell upon first viewing it, the hairdresser Anne MacColl definitely does this at the end of "Snip, Snip", when mentioning to her latest client one of her new headpieces (which is actually Abe North turned into one)
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Tales from the Darkside / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Tales from the Darkside / int_1f6983f7	comment	Anyone stuck in "The Last Car", which is implied to be a train of the dead.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Tales from the Darkside / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: "Printer's Devil": In order to get his books promoted, Junior P. Harmon stumbles across one Alex Kellaway, who promises to deliver the success Junior desires... in exchange for animal sacrifices. And when Junior ultimately drops him as his agent, and his career tanks, he gets back in contact with Alex, who says that if he wants his dream novel to have the same level of success, he needs to broaden the pot, as it were... "The Deal": A screenwriter, Tom, needs help selling a script, and as it happens, his neighbor is T=the Devil. And in order to not go to Hell, he needs to find someone that can take his place. An inversion is in place in "I'll Give You A Million": One day, Duncan Williams offers Jack Blaine the titular million if he buys his soul. The stipulations? If the buyer dies before the taking the soul, the contract is null and void; if, however, the buyer dies of foul play, the million has to be paid back with interest. Jack dies, but comes back as a ghost to tell Duncan he has to take it, otherwise "he" will take it. Duncan can't bring himself to go along with this, and in trying to burn their contract, he dies of a heart attack. Then, The Devil shows up and, taking advantage of the "null and void" clause, takes both their souls.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_1fe9ccad	type	Puppet Permutation
Tales from the Darkside / int_1fe9ccad	comment	Puppet Permutation: Two variations (both technical subversions) occur in "No Strings": a mob boss wishes to string up his "business partner" (that he killed) and have him be used in a private one-man puppet show and the partner's spirit possesses a puppet (and then his own corpse) during the climax.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Tales from the Darkside / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Sarcasm or not, Joan Matlin in "Answer Me" initially assumes that the reason why her neighbor's phone keeps ringing in the next apartment is because the neighbors are vampires and they are "[talking] to their friends in Transylvania all night long on the telephone". Notice how at no point was it assumed that the phone was alive? Or was it also not assumed that there were no neighbors in that apartment? Downplayed: Ruby Cuzzins in "Baker's Dozen" immediately knew Aloysius had stolen a dozen of her voodoo gingerbread men and slipped them to Hogan in an attempt to bring her down, but she wasn't worried. She already knew Hogan using those cookies would only mean success for her (since she could counteract any negative voodoo Hogan would bring her way) and that Hogan would wind up getting screwed over in the long run. What she didn't count on was that Aloysius actually took 13 cookies, and kept the last one for himself.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: The angel that punishes the Jerkass debt collector in "Payment Overdue".
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Tales from the Darkside / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Tales from the Darkside / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The couple in "Anniversary Dinner" lure in an unsuspecting girl and eat her as the main course.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Tales from the Darkside / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The thirteenth cookie from the titular "Baker's Dozen". Specifically, the fact that Hogan never got it. The doorbell in "Effect and Cause". Specifically, that it sparks. The ceiling fan in "Fear of Floating". Upon arriving to babysit Buddy in "Hush", Jennifer finds a screwdriver wedged between some couch cushions.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_234073a4	type	Your Mind Makes It Real
Tales from the Darkside / int_234073a4	comment	Your Mind Makes It Real: Arguably the case in "Seasons of Belief," though it's pretty hard to tell if it's this trope at work, or if the creature always existed and the parents just didn't know. The Serpent's Tooth from the episode of the same name can make anything the wearer says come true.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Tales from the Darkside / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: In "Trick or Treat": "You're getting warmer." In "The Unhappy Medium": Caroline, ain't it wondrous!
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Tales from the Darkside / int_25b4ad2f	type	Surprisingly Happy Ending
Tales from the Darkside / int_25b4ad2f	comment	Surprisingly Happy Ending: "Let the Games Begin": Harry gets to live and the angel and devil become an item. "Djinn, No Chaser": The genie has become a lot more nicer and complacent after being freed by means of a can opener. "Word Processor of the Gods": Just before the titular device goes kaput, Richard manages to rewrite reality so that his nephew, Jonathan, is brought back to life... and is his son, along with Belinda (Jon's mother) being Richard's wife. "The Spirit Photographer": Algernon was Dead All Along, but gets to move on after his Spirit Attractor is proven to have worked. As a bonus, he's happy over this development. "Ring Around the Red-Head": Just when things look hopeless and our protagonist is about to be executed for a crime he didn't commit, his alien girlfriend returns at the last minute to take him away to her home planet where they live happily ever after. There really is no twist, she actually takes him to live a new life together.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_263b090b	comment	Cooking the Live Meal: In the episode "Anniversary Dinner", a young woman on the run from her abusive boyfriend takes shelter with an older couple. They invite her to relax in their hot tub with a glass of wine while they prepare dinner. After a while, the older woman enters the room and starts throwing vegetables into the hot tub. The young woman passes out from the drugged wine as the older couple throw more vegetables and wine into the tub and push her head under in order to cook her as soup.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Bubba in The Swap. He constantly has sex with his younger wife, but since she's a Gold Digger we don't feel sorry for her.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Tales from the Darkside / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Linda in "Parlour Floor Front" acts like The Ingenue and wants her husband and herself to live a loving life together in a big house, but she kills her cat and pretends she lost her unborn baby to force a man out of her apartment complex by blaming his voodoo practices for ruining her life. She then cause him to be Driven to Suicide by making him feel guilty for something he didn't do. Then she tries to steal a ring she gave to him from his coffin. Despite being told to not steal anything from his coffin due to a curse, she does it anyway. Her former tenant then returns as a spirit and kills her for the stolen ring. Caroline in "The Unhappy Medium" may seem like a morally conservative, devout Christian who only wants the best for her family. However, near the end she reveals her true colors as an uncaring, selfish, sinful monster who's willing to throw her own daughter and family friend into Hell just to save her own skin. However, she fails the Secret Test of Character because of this revelation and ends up Dragged Off to Hell. Arguably, Janice, the mother searching for her missing husband and son in "Family Reunion" qualifies; she knows the reason her ex keeps her son hidden and locked away during the full moon is due to him being a werewolf who sees people as prey but is intent on freeing him and seeks the aid of a social worker to do so. There's also the point of Janice being a werewolf herself.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: In "The Cutty Black Sow". A little boy tries to save his grandmother's soul from the titular Celtic demon, but the Cutty Black Sow comes and takes his soul. In the end, the demon has the little boy backed into a corner crying and the last shot shows the demon closing in on him.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_2969dda7	comment	Nightmare Fetishist: The ringleader running "The Circus" believes that his show truly entertains children, despite the show involving a lot of nightmarish images.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: Surprisingly, only three occurred in the show's lifespan: "Trick or Treat", which is actually the pilot, concerning Gideon Hackles's haunted house and his eventual Karmic Death via a witch. "Halloween Candy", from Season 2, which concerns Mr. Killip being besieged by a goblin, demanding candy. And "The Cutty Black Sow"note albiet airing in May 1988 instead of October, which concerns a child, Jaime, trying to protect the souls of his family from the titular creature on Halloween, only to get killed by the creature in the end.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_2b9e3fb0	type	Give Me a Sign
Tales from the Darkside / int_2b9e3fb0	comment	Give Me a Sign: The Farley family from "The Unhappy Medium" await a sign from their deceased relative from Heaven. Unfortunately, that's not where he's calling from.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_2cac89cf	type	The Ingenue
Tales from the Darkside / int_2cac89cf	comment	Linda in "Parlour Floor Front" acts like The Ingenue and wants her husband and herself to live a loving life together in a big house, but she kills her cat and pretends she lost her unborn baby to force a man out of her apartment complex by blaming his voodoo practices for ruining her life. She then cause him to be Driven to Suicide by making him feel guilty for something he didn't do. Then she tries to steal a ring she gave to him from his coffin. Despite being told to not steal anything from his coffin due to a curse, she does it anyway. Her former tenant then returns as a spirit and kills her for the stolen ring.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Tales from the Darkside / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: In a horror series this trope is expected.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_2fd62e54	type	The Killer in Me
Tales from the Darkside / int_2fd62e54	comment	The Killer in Me: The ending of "Florence Bravo".
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Tales from the Darkside / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Tales from the Darkside / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The Jerkass reporter in "The Circus" is completely disgusted that the performers entertain children with gruesome animal deaths, Body Horror, and vicious monsters that would scar anyone for life.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_31c101b9	type	Artificial Afterlife
Tales from the Darkside / int_31c101b9	comment	Artificial Afterlife: In the episode "A Choice of Dreams", Jake Corelli is a mobster with terminal cancer. A strange scientist comes to him and offers him a way to cheat death by keeping his brain alive after his body dies and experiencing pleasant dreams forever for ten million dollars. Corelli accepts, but the scientist changes the dreams he gives Corelli, and instead he is forced to relive the pain of his victims for all eternity.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_32768814	type	Kick the Son of a Bitch
Tales from the Darkside / int_32768814	comment	Kick The Son Of A Bitch: The Villain Protagonist that loses to the Big Bad will usually get this. Perhaps the greatest moment on the show would be the ending to "The Grave Robbers". The mummy outsmarts the grave robbers in a poker match by counting the cards the whole time and Obfuscating Stupidity. Then, the mummy tricks Harold, the evil grave robber, into taking his place as the cursed mummy of the tomb while the mummy escapes from his Hell. For bonus points, the mummy steals his girlfriend since she reminded him of The Lost Lenore from his past.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_32785419	type	Redemption Rejection
Tales from the Darkside / int_32785419	comment	Redemption Rejection: In "Fear of Floating," Arnold refuses to give up his bad habits and continues to carry on womanizing and lying. This eventually leads up to his death.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_34d7d9b	type	Things That Go "Bump" in the Night
Tales from the Darkside / int_34d7d9b	comment	Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: The plot of "Monsters in My Room" sees Tommy dealing with the fact that there's... guess. Eventually, he gets so fed up that he calls out said monsters, and when his stepdad enters his room to abuse him, the monsters proceed to kill him. By the end of the episode, the trope winds up being inverted of sorts: Tommy isn't afraid of the monsters. The monsters are afraid of Tommy. Half of the twist for "Inside the Closet" hinges on this: Gail discovers to her horror that the noises she keeps hearing at night in the room she is renting from Dr. Fenner is a small monster that proceeds to murder her. The other half is the ending reveal that said monster is his daughter.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Tales from the Darkside / int_34dcfc96	comment	In "Family Reunion", Janice's ex-husband and father of her son learns the hard way what happens when you come between a mother werewolf and her cub. And unfortunately, so does the social worker that had been trying to help her prior.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_36754cc7	type	"Freaky Friday" Flip
Tales from the Darkside / int_36754cc7	comment	"Freaky Friday" Flip: In "The Swap," Bubba and his wife's boyfriend switch places at the last second before his wife kills him. Giving Bubba a younger body to live on.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
Tales from the Darkside / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: Karen in "I Can't Help But Say Goodbye" causes the death of everyone around her with her psychic death predictions.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Tales from the Darkside / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: Towards the end of "The Yattering and Jack", when the demon keeps locking the front door, preventing Jack and Amanda from leaving the house, Jack suggests they use the back door. Or, rather, he puts his hand to the side of his mouth and announces it into the house.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_38f5ed1a	type	Dragged Off to Hell
Tales from the Darkside / int_38f5ed1a	comment	In "The Unhappy Medium": Caroline, ain't it wondrous!
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Tales from the Darkside / int_39684516	type	Kill the Ones You Love
Tales from the Darkside / int_39684516	comment	Kill the Ones You Love: At the end of "I Can't Help but Say Goodbye," Karen's sister decides to kill Karen after realizing that she can't stop her ability of causing death around her. What really makes this tragic is that viewers know Karen isn't causing the deaths, just foreseeing them.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Tales from the Darkside / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: In "I Can't Help But Say Goodbye," Karen foresees her impending death, but does nothing to prevent it, accepting her fate.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Tales from the Darkside / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: In "A Case of the Stubborns," every medical, religious, and philosophical attempt to convince Grandpa Tolliver that he's dead fails, so Jody goes to see a "conjure woman" for some magical assistance. After hearing about the problem, she offers a rather mundane solution—a satchel full of strong black pepper. Ma Tolliver is unimpressed, but the pepper does the trick when it makes Grandpa sneeze his own nose off, which finally convinces him that he's dead.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_39e6c49e	type	Compulsive Liar
Tales from the Darkside / int_39e6c49e	comment	Compulsive Liar: Arnold from "Fear of Floating" can never be honest. His constant lying is what eventually gets him killed.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Tales from the Darkside / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: In "I Can't Help But Say Goodbye," Karen can predict when someone dies, most of the victims being people who are close to her. In "Fear of Floating," Arnold begins floating uncontrollably whenever he lies.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
Tales from the Darkside / int_3cb6468e	comment	Bad Liar: Arnold in "Fear of Floating," makes up the poorest lies ever when he's on the spot.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Tales from the Darkside / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: "Fear of Floating" ends with Sgt. Buzz Caldwell witnessing Arnold floating into the ceiling fan. Not only is he more focused on the fact that Arnold is flying again than the fact that he's flying into the fan, but he's more bummed out than shocked upon seeing him get chopped up.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Tales from the Darkside / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: The moral of "Going Native".
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Tales from the Darkside / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
Tales from the Darkside / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: In fact, the episode was called Going Native, about an alien disguised as a human doing research on earth culture but finding herself experiencing more emotions uncommon to her people.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Tales from the Darkside / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: "Seasons of Belief" opens with the parents declaring to their children that they're going to spend their Christmas Eve the time-honored way (no television, no radio) for the sake of spending time together as a family. Not one minute into this hiatus, one of the children gets bored and starts pestering their parents. They suggest to the children they put on the television or radio in order to stop bothering them, but the kids remind them it's not traditional. People learn very quickly that without these modern conveniences, it's hard to entertain one's self.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Tales from the Darkside / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: An adulterous couple plan to kill the woman's husband in a few of the episodes. The couple usually suffer a Karmic Twist Ending for their troubles.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Tales from the Darkside / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: The twist of "Payment Overdue". And as a result of refusing to admit her role in the death of Rita Valdez, Jeanette's life is changed into that of the woman herself.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Tales from the Darkside / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: In "Strange Love," Edmond fully intended to kill his wife's medical doctor once he healed her wounds.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Tales from the Darkside / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: A Gold Digger who was rejected by a Corrupt Corporate Executive kills him in "Red Leader".
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Tales from the Darkside / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
Tales from the Darkside / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: "Trick or Treat" borders on this. The townsfolk are forced by Mr. Hackles to bring their kids to go trick-or-treating at his house in order to win their IOUs. Given how severely scary his Haunted House is, no loving parent would ever make their kids attend something so cruel, but they have no choice: they are in debt to Mr. Hackles, and making their kids go is the only way to appease him for another year or so.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_40b1b353	type	Chess with Death
Tales from the Darkside / int_40b1b353	comment	Chess with Death: "The Grave Robbers" challenge the mummy to a game of poker in exchange for their freedom.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Tales from the Darkside / int_40bb59d0	comment	"Seasons of Belief" from season 3: two parents decide to tell their children a delightful story about the Grither, a monster that will come from the North Pole and kill those who dare speak its name. Guess the punchline.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Tales from the Darkside / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: "Baker's Dozen". Henry winds up being crushed to death when his wife crumples up the last cookienote The cookies essentially act as voodoo dolls: whatever happens to the cookie happens to the person you want affected Ruby Cuzzins gave him, assuming it's from a mistress, and Ruby once again turns her assistant, Aloysius, into a rat... But, due to Aloysius stealing a cookie from the titular baker's dozen made for Henry, he at least has something to eatnote Remember: whatever happens to the cookie happens to the person you want affected.... "Hush" ends with Jennifer managing to get the Noise Eater to kill itself, saving both her and Buddy's lives in the process. However, before this could happen, the Noise Eater managed to kill Buddy's dog, bird, and mom.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
Tales from the Darkside / int_423f5a19	comment	Similarly inverted at the end of "Leviation". As a result of the magician performing the act dying mid-act, the episode ends with Frank floating out of the tent and into the sky, unable to stop his ascent. While he isn't killed in the process, it's highly unlikely he has much longer to live if he keeps going up.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Tales from the Darkside / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: The episode "The Old Soft Shoe" starts with a lady in a fox coat showing up at a motel, and a guy tries to hit on her (after he assured his wife on the phone was just getting his car towed). The lady in the fur brushes him off, and she lives through the episode unlike that guy. Another episode starts with a gal in a bus stop wearing a white and brown rabbit fur jacket.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_45ad2569	type	Vagueness Is Coming
Tales from the Darkside / int_45ad2569	comment	An inversion is in place in "I'll Give You A Million": One day, Duncan Williams offers Jack Blaine the titular million if he buys his soul. The stipulations? If the buyer dies before the taking the soul, the contract is null and void; if, however, the buyer dies of foul play, the million has to be paid back with interest. Jack dies, but comes back as a ghost to tell Duncan he has to take it, otherwise "he" will take it. Duncan can't bring himself to go along with this, and in trying to burn their contract, he dies of a heart attack. Then, The Devil shows up and, taking advantage of the "null and void" clause, takes both their souls.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Tales from the Darkside / int_469e3e2f	comment	Linda in "Parlour Floor Front" frequently blames accidents that happen to her on her voodoo practicing tenant. She would eventually talk him into killing himself by guilt-tripping him. She also steals her ring back from his coffin despite leaving it with him on purpose. However, his ghost returns and kills her for the ring.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_46e53efd	type	Screams Like a Little Girl
Tales from the Darkside / int_46e53efd	comment	Screams Like a Little Girl: The bogeyman at the end of "Monsters In My Room" screams like this when confronted by Seth Green's character.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Tales from the Darkside / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In "The Unhappy Medium," Jonathan is slightly harsh towards his daughter Jenny for her lack of faith in Christianity, but he does care for her. He even jumps into Hell to save her.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Tales from the Darkside / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: "The Cutty Black Sow" ends with the titular demon claiming the soul of a little boy.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_4977559e	type	Our Angels Are Different
Tales from the Darkside / int_4977559e	comment	Our Angels Are Different: An angel has appeared in "Let the Games Begin" in the guise of Harry's best friend, and "Payment Overdue" in the guise of city welfare worker Michael Nelson. In the case of the latter, it's heavily implied Michael Nelson is the Archangel Michael.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Tales from the Darkside / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Every death in "Baker's Dozen" is intentionally not shown on-screen. Only two get close to being shown: Henry bring crushed to death in the shower, and Ruby's head being eaten.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_4aa98555	type	Evil All Along
Tales from the Darkside / int_4aa98555	comment	Evil All Along: Usually the character you'd least suspect is revealed to have been the Big Bad.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Eddie in "No Strings" is the most irredeemable villain in the series. The supernatural force is "the hero" of the episode.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_4c49b8f7	type	Hot as Hell
Tales from the Darkside / int_4c49b8f7	comment	Hot as Hell: The demon in "Let the Games Begin" is a seductive woman, as a counterpart to the male angel.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Tales from the Darkside / int_4e3d253b	comment	And "The Cutty Black Sow"note albiet airing in May 1988 instead of October, which concerns a child, Jaime, trying to protect the souls of his family from the titular creature on Halloween, only to get killed by the creature in the end.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_4e690511	type	The Alleged Computer
Tales from the Darkside / int_4e690511	comment	The Alleged Computer: Subverted in "The Word Processor of the Gods". Writer Richard Hagstrom receives a homemade word processor from his nephew Jonathan. The machine struggles with mundane text processing, but when it's commanded to rewrite Richard's life, the results are astounding. Especially with the last change Richard types up before it finally breaks down in flames.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Tales from the Darkside / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Right at the end of "A Choice of Dreams", as Jake Corelli is undergoing the procedure to keep his brain alive forever, the doctor, Michaelson, decides to start talking aloud. As if you needed more proof that Jack knew more about what was going on than what he was letting on, then take the following line from "The Yattering and Jack" into consideration, after Jack's daughter runs out of the house in fear, and the Yattering mistakenly grabs Jack. As part of their scheme against Edward in "The Madness Room", Cathy and Michael take him into the titular room, and pretend to get in contact with the ghost of Benjamin Fairchildnote the home's original owner. Among the messages Ben "tells" Cathy and Michael is to lock the door to the room behind them, and to take the key and drop it down a crack on the floor. By the end of the episode, after Edward (now dying of a heart attack) spites them both by setting the room on fire, Cathy and Michael attempt to escape, only to learn they don't have a second key. It is here where Cathy decides to ask a question:
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Tales from the Darkside / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Tales from the Darkside / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The newspaper at the end of "The Spirit Photographer". Or, more to the point, the obituaries section: Anne's new headpiece at the end of "Snip, Snip". Or rather, that it looks uncannily similar to Abe North. Mannequin!Mary at the end of "Mary, Mary". Doubles as The Reveal due to how we're shown it. At the end of "Everybody Needs a Little Love", a woman covered in shadow enters the interrogation room and watches Roberts fruitlessly explain his story to the cops. She asks the officer next to her for a light for her cigarette, whereupon we discover the woman is actually a now human Estelle. During the climax of "Family Reunion", the social worker is trying to lock Bobby in his room after seeing him turn into a werewolf, and Robert proceeds to enter the living room, armed with a gun, telling them he'll take care of it. All of a sudden, Janice proceeds to cold-cock him hard enough to send him to the floor... and we see that she too is now a werewolf. Played for Laughs: "A Case of the Stubborns" ends with Jody sitting at the table, looking at the napkin Grandpa sneezed into. After being informed by his mom that Grandpa finally passed on (having gotten proof that he was dead), Jody opens the napkin, where we see Grandpa's nose. He sneezed it off. When the Yattering grabs Jack at the end of, well, "The Yattering and Jack". Not so much the act itself, but rather Jack's reaction: instead of being shocked, he tenses up in frustration and glares at it.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Tales from the Darkside / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: The majority of villainous protagonists are unlikable, smug jerks.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Tales from the Darkside / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: A hallmark of various supernatural beings on the series, but more so with a certain episode. "Halloween Candy" is a story about a rather grumpy old man who refuses to give out candy on Halloween. He is frightened to death by a malevolent being that he refused to give candy to. Or how about the episode "Season Of Belief?" A couple have an extended Jerkass moment where they terrify their young children with a scary story on Christmas Eve, even getting another family member to play along with the joke. At the end they smile, say they were only joking...and out of nowhere, the very monster they were talking about appears and crushes their skulls. Okay, sure, the parents weren't being very nice, and told their six-year-old daughter there was no Santa, but did that really make them deserve to die?
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Tales from the Darkside / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
Tales from the Darkside / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: Platonic example. In "The Shrine", Christine's mother has kept her daughter's old room exactly the same as when she was a child. It gets taken to a literal level when a spirit in the form of her child tries luring Chris' mother to loving her over her real daughter.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_51ecf708	type	Self-Disposing Villain
Tales from the Darkside / int_51ecf708	comment	Self-Disposing Villain: In "Fear of Floating," Arnold dies by his own floating abilities after he refuse to stop lying and reform for the better.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_51ed5fb9	type	Straw Hypocrite
Tales from the Darkside / int_51ed5fb9	comment	Straw Hypocrite: From "The Unhappy Medium" Caroline and Reverend Farley are not devout Christians despite preaching it.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Tales from the Darkside / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: "Fear of Floating" starts and ends with Arnold floating into a ceiling fan. The only difference is that he's pulled down before reaching the blades the first time. The first and last episodes (not counting the pilot) have Vic Tayback making appearances.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Tales from the Darkside / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The couple in "Anniversary Dinner" who kill and then eat their guest in a soup. They continue acting like sane people while doing so. The mailman in "Do Not Open This Box" could count as this. He gets along with the nicer of the two couples, offers him his heart's desire for not being greedy, and when it's revealed he's a demon whose been sent to pick up a soul rather than deliver it, he mentions it as though he were your everyday mailman picking up a package. And let's not forget, when he takes Ruth's soul, he consoles the mortified Ruth it won't hurt a bit. The Mummy in "The Graverobber." Throughout the entire game up until his victory, he is very polite, even joking around with his opponent.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_53e1ce4e	type	Please Wake Up
Tales from the Darkside / int_53e1ce4e	comment	Please Wake Up: In The Odds, the bookie's coworker attempts to wake him up, but learns that his friend passed away.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Tales from the Darkside / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: The episode "Red Leader" revolves around Satan recruiting a Corrupt Corporate Executive to become this. He joins him.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
Tales from the Darkside / int_54321e11	comment	Innocent Fanservice Girl: Keena from "Ring Around the Red Head" is an attractive alien who doesn't understand human modesty and gets really close to the main protagonist.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Tales from the Darkside / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: "Florence Bravo" is set in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and involves a married couple moving into the same house where Florence Bravo murdered her husband... even though said murder occured in Englandnote Balham, London, specifically.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
Tales from the Darkside / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: The plot of "A Case of the Stubborns" is built upon this: Grandpa died, but he wakes up the next day regardless, and outright refuses to believe he's dead.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Tales from the Darkside / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: In some episodes we follow a Villain Protagonist who has been doing awful stuff and getting away with it for years. They eventually get what's coming to them by the end of the episode, along with a valuable lesson.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Tales from the Darkside / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Inverted at the end of "Fear of Floating". Instead of falling to his death, Arnold floats into a Deadly Rotary Fan. Similarly inverted at the end of "Leviation". As a result of the magician performing the act dying mid-act, the episode ends with Frank floating out of the tent and into the sky, unable to stop his ascent. While he isn't killed in the process, it's highly unlikely he has much longer to live if he keeps going up.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Tales from the Darkside / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: In Everybody Needs a Little Love, the detective visualizes a nightmarish setting where his best friend is a mannequin while his wife is the real person.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_5cc25ed	type	Not-So-Imaginary Friend
Tales from the Darkside / int_5cc25ed	comment	Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Teddy in "Ursa Minor", Ã¡lÃ¡ Chucky.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
Tales from the Darkside / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: The machine in "Hush" delivers a soul-sucking scream of a sound whenever it drains the noise of something.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Tales from the Darkside / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: "No Strings", which consists of five characters (one of whom is dead sort-of), one puppet, and one set (a storage room, where a puppet stage has been set up). In "Answer Me", we focus on one character dealing with a haunted telephone in an apartment room and a boarded up apartment next-door with the phone. "Fear of Floating" takes place entirely within an army recruiting office on a hot summer day and features two army recruiters, a man with the ability to float, the girl he knocked up and ditched, and her dad. There's even a death by ceiling fan, but all we see of it it the blood spray. â€œThe Devilâ€™s Advocateâ€� takes place entirely within a broadcast booth at a talk radio station, has two characters (not counting the voiceovers) and takes place over a night. â€œThe Oddsâ€� has seven characters and is set entirely at a local bar.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Tales from the Darkside / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Averted. In "The Unhappy Medium," Jenny attempts to sacrifice herself in order to save her family, but her selfless sacrifice allows her and her boyfriend Johnathan to be spared from death.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Tales from the Darkside / int_658f7193	comment	The debt collector in "Payment Overdue" loves to inform people that their rent is overdue and kick them out on the streets. One of these many people included a poor, dying woman who begged for more time. She ignored her pleas anyway. She gets what she deserves in the end when she is put in the poor woman's place.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_671681af	type	Jackass Genie
Tales from the Darkside / int_671681af	comment	Jackass Genie: Subverted. The genie in "Djinn, No Chaser" was only acting like a Jerkass because he wanted to be free from his prison.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_67c287fe	type	Karmic Twist Ending
Tales from the Darkside / int_67c287fe	comment	Karmic Twist Ending: If the character we follow is a Jerkass or extremely annoying then this is the kind of ending that awaits them. Surprisingly, the show has as many as these as they do Cruel Twist Ending.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Tales from the Darkside / int_685a6461	comment	Circus of Fear: "The Circus", aptly enough. The ringmaster thinks it fulfills a purpose, though, and isn't happy about the jerkass reporter threatening to shut them down.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_69e4c5a3	type	BullyingTheDragon
Tales from the Darkside / int_69e4c5a3	comment	Bullying the Dragon: "A New Lease on Life" has Fenton spite his landlady's warnings about contributing his share to the living building by feeding it broken plates, cleaner fluids, and lighter fluids. He is eaten in response.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Tales from the Darkside / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: The father/ex-husband in "Family Reunion" who keeps his son under lock and key during the full moon, since the son is a werewolf and is implied to have killed at least one person. Furthermore, the son implies that he is fully aware of his actions and enjoys it.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Tales from the Darkside / int_6b2b3b59	comment	Mannequin!Mary at the end of "Mary, Mary". Doubles as The Reveal due to how we're shown it.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Tales from the Darkside / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The episode "A Serpent's Tooth" is based on the idiom "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child" Which basically describes the protagonist's situation. In "Trick or Treat", we have Mr. Hackles. Hackles are the back hairs on a canine that raise when it's feeling hostile. Fittingly, it describes Mr. Hackle's cruel mistrust towards, well, everyone. "Black Widows" has Audrey Webster, who comes from a family of human/spider hybrids. The women in her family also murder and eat their husbands when they marry. Based on the ancient myth, it's obvious that the St. George building from "A New Lease on Life" is eventually revealed to be a dragon in the shape of a building. Its landlady, Madame Angler, acts like an anglerfish, luring new tenants in so they can become food for the dragon.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Tales from the Darkside / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Mars in "Parlour Floor Front" is guilt-tripped into doing this when he thinks he killed a baby.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_6e23669f	type	Antagonistic Offspring
Tales from the Darkside / int_6e23669f	comment	Antagonistic Offspring: The evil witch in "Baker's Dozen" tracked down her father who abandoned her and her mother for being witches and enslaved him as an assistant in her bakery. She regularly transforms him into a mouse in an implicitly painful process to punish him but mostly for kicks.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Tales from the Darkside / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "Seasons of Belief" from season 3: two parents decide to tell their children a delightful story about the Grither, a monster that will come from the North Pole and kill those who dare speak its name. Guess the punchline. The Yattering and Jack from season 4: A demon is tormenting one Jack Polo, who is seemingly unaware of his existence.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Tales from the Darkside / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: The protagonist of "Pain Killer."
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Tales from the Darkside / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Tales from the Darkside / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Explored in "Family Reunion". The father wants to shelter his son and cure him of his lycanthropy so he's not a threat to society, but his approach is rather controlling, to the point where it borders on possessive. His son just wants to be free and embrace his werewolf heritage, but he neglects the fact that his werewolf side kills people. The mother, genuinely loves her son and wants custody of him. The problem is, she embellishes her husband as an abusive monster, lies to a social worker's face and sheds crocodile tears in order to achieve it.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Tales from the Darkside / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: Lord Draco, the vampire lord in My Ghostwriter-The Vampire.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Tales from the Darkside / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The original short story version of "Hush" has everyone die and the machine exit out into the world to make everything quiet. In the episode, however, Jennifer and Buddy live and the machine is tricked into killing itself.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Tales from the Darkside / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs: "A Case of the Stubborns" ends with Jody sitting at the table, looking at the napkin Grandpa sneezed into. After being informed by his mom that Grandpa finally passed on (having gotten proof that he was dead), Jody opens the napkin, where we see Grandpa's nose. He sneezed it off.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_767f84ea	type	Does Not Like Men
Tales from the Darkside / int_767f84ea	comment	Does Not Like Men: Florence Bravo, from the episode of the same name.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_77c9a628	type	Your Soul Is Mine!
Tales from the Darkside / int_77c9a628	comment	Your Soul Is Mine!: After a boy tries everything to stop "The Cutty Black Sow" from coming after the souls of his family, the demon takes his soul instead in the Cruel Twist Ending.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Tales from the Darkside / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: The milkman in "The Milkman Cometh" never shows his true form.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_7c58fe32	type	Louis Cypher
Tales from the Darkside / int_7c58fe32	comment	Louis Cypher: At the end of "The Geezenstacks", a real estate agent enters the now empty house. You can barely see it, but you get a quick glimpse at her name tag:
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Tales from the Darkside / int_7cd6822e	type	Significant Name Overlap
Tales from the Darkside / int_7cd6822e	comment	The mannequin, Estelle, in "Everybody Needs a Little Love" manages to pin Roberts for the death of Curtis, and post-humorously pinned Curtis for the death of his wife, Estelle.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_7cda47b	type	Dying Declaration of Love
Tales from the Darkside / int_7cda47b	comment	Dying Declaration of Love: In "Miss May Dusa", Jimmy Jones confesses his feelings for Medusa after getting shot.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
Tales from the Darkside / int_7d163c9c	comment	Dating Catwoman: After constantly fighting with each other over a man's soul, the angel and devil hook up at the end of "Let the Games Begin."
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Tales from the Darkside / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Tales from the Darkside / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: "Trick or Treat" starts with Gideon Hackles not only rebuffing a job offer to accountants out of sheer distrust, but also charges them for coffee he offers them. "A Choice of Dreams" gives us Jake Corelli, who has just been diagnosed with cancer. When he tries to ask his doctor if he got the wrong diagnose or something, he gets to a point where he ominously suggests he has connections. The doctor then gives exposition that Mr. Corelli is no innocent patient and is indeed hated as a mob boss in the drug business.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Tales from the Darkside / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: "Distant Signals", which deals with a mysterious investor (later revealed to be an alien) getting the director of an unpopular detective Cut Short 1960s series called "Max Paradise" to film the last episodes. Really, that's as far as this episode gets in terms of conflict, getting those episodes made. "A Case of the Stubborns" also qualifies: it's largely a comic piece, and while a few people are shocked by Grandpa Titus's return from the dead, they aren't scared or upset — in fact, they're mostly annoyed at how bullheaded he's being about the whole situation. Grandpa himself also doesn't have a mean bone in his (decaying) body, and promises that he'll go to his eternal rest if anyone can prove that he's actually deceased. When his grandson manages to do just that, he keeps his end of the bargain and goes to his deathbed without a fuss.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
Tales from the Darkside / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: The Jerkass family learn this lesson the hard way at the end of "Grandma's Last Wish."
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Tales from the Darkside / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Tales from the Darkside / int_8409a385	comment	When the Yattering grabs Jack at the end of, well, "The Yattering and Jack". Not so much the act itself, but rather Jack's reaction: instead of being shocked, he tenses up in frustration and glares at it.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
Tales from the Darkside / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: In "I'll Give You a Million", Jack agrees to Oliver's offer to buy his soul. As they clink glasses to seal the deal, there is a dramatic peal of thunder from outside.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Tales from the Darkside / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: "Ring Around the Red Head" and "Going Native" have a human male and a female alien falling in love. Unfortunately, the latter relationship quickly fell apart.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Tales from the Darkside / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: The Milkman in "The Milkman Cometh". Although we don't see his face, his arms are shown to be green and reptilian.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
Tales from the Darkside / int_853b7948	comment	Archie Fenton in "A New Lease on Life" moves into an apartment complex that bleeds when he tries to hang a picture, rumbles and roars occasionally, and is staffed by Ambiguously Evil workers committing bizarre actions every day, yet he doesn't suspect anything strange from any of this. Then, when the Apartment is revealed to be alive the first thing he does is... piss it off by trying to kill it. Apparently, it never occurred to him that attacking a sentient building would result in his death.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Tales from the Darkside / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Grither. All we see of the creature is two jaundiced, abnormally long arms, with gigantic hands.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Tales from the Darkside / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: At first, near the end of "Inside the Closet", you assume that Dr. Fenner is the next to be killed by the monster. As it happens, it's his daughter.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_8950ea66	type	"Strangers on a Train"-Plot Murder
Tales from the Darkside / int_8950ea66	comment	"Strangers on a Train"-Plot Murder: A variant in "Pain Killer" where it is a chain rather than a swap. A mysterious doctor arranges the removal of a troublesome individual from a person's life. The person is later contacted to kill someone in another person's life.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Tales from the Darkside / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: An interesting case in "Let the Games Begin": in order to settle who gets Harry's soul, the angel (in the form of Harry's best friend) and the devil (in the form of Harry's sister-in-law) resurrect his corpse in order to have him choose. Grampa Titus gets this treatment in "A Case of the Stubborns"—after passing away of a heart attack, he gets up the next morning and tries to go about his daily routine.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Tales from the Darkside / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: In The Swap, Bubba punishes his wife this way in the ending after she tried to murder him.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Tales from the Darkside / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: The zombie in "The Circus" didn't feast on living beings and could still move without a head.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_8bff32a8	type	Creepy Doll
Tales from the Darkside / int_8bff32a8	comment	Creepy Doll: "The Geezenstacks."
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Tales from the Darkside / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
Tales from the Darkside / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: There are two major antagonists in "Ursa Minor": the teddy bear, and the bearskin rug.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Tales from the Darkside / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	The fate of Eddie in "No Strings".
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Tales from the Darkside / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Tales from the Darkside / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: The Jerkass debt collector in "Payment Overdue" is comforted by a city welfare worker who visits her. When asked about why a ghost would ever haunt her, the worker, Michael Nelson, has her listen to a recorded interview she had with the deceased client. The audience hears her acting incredibly cruel and ignoring the poor woman begging her for a little more time to pay. Michael looks at her with great disgust, but she defends herself by claiming she didn't know the situation.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Tales from the Darkside / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: The witch in "The Moth" had a Batman Gambit and took her mother's body after she died.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_9075ac17	type	Just a Machine
Tales from the Darkside / int_9075ac17	comment	Just a Machine: Cassie's friend argues that Horace X is this, but she knows he's real.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Tales from the Darkside / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Usually present in the Karmic Twist Ending.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Tales from the Darkside / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: A staple in most episodes, with such examples as Trick or Treat, but the most flagrant examples being Baker's Dozen and Seasons of Belief.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Tales from the Darkside / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Reverend Farley from "The Unhappy Medium."
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Tales from the Darkside / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Tales from the Darkside / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In "Strange Love," Edmond uses a doctor to treat his wife's wounds, only to secretly plot his death afterwards once he's finished.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Tales from the Darkside / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Mob Boss Eddie in "No Strings" may have a polite attitude, but he uses people and throws them away like cleanex. Edmond from "Strange Love" is a very polite when describing the protagonist's eventual death.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Tales from the Darkside / int_99298c71	comment	As part of their scheme against Edward in "The Madness Room", Cathy and Michael take him into the titular room, and pretend to get in contact with the ghost of Benjamin Fairchildnote the home's original owner. Among the messages Ben "tells" Cathy and Michael is to lock the door to the room behind them, and to take the key and drop it down a crack on the floor. By the end of the episode, after Edward (now dying of a heart attack) spites them both by setting the room on fire, Cathy and Michael attempt to escape, only to learn they don't have a second key. It is here where Cathy decides to ask a question:
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Tales from the Darkside / int_997392ec	type	Killer Teddy Bear
Tales from the Darkside / int_997392ec	comment	Killer Teddy Bear: The episode "Ursa Minor".
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Tales from the Darkside / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Tales from the Darkside / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: A common trope utilized throughout the series. Many characters die a gruesome death related to a unique character trait they possess.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Tales from the Darkside / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: Mob boss Eddie makes one for his partner. He even makes it put on a show to entertain himself.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
Tales from the Darkside / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: "Anniversary Dinner" and "The Closet" play this perfectly straight and lay down the following ground rule for future episodes: If the protagonist is ever an innocent naÃ¯ve girl, don't expect her to live.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_9c73b5b2	type	Let Them Die Happy
Tales from the Darkside / int_9c73b5b2	comment	Let Them Die Happy: The couple in "Anniversary Dinner" prefer to eat animals that are given a death without them knowing they'll die. Including the people they lure into their home to eat.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Tales from the Darkside / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: One of the first things we see Luther Mandrake do in "The Devil's Advocate" is bring up that part of the reason why he was late is that someone died in his car, behind the steering wheel. In "The Odds", Tom Vale's lackey, Horace, buys his boss a digital day planner; one of the planner's features is playing chiptune songs. During a horserace (where a mysterious man in white, later revealed to be Bill Lacey back from the dead, bets $500 on Ryan's Daughter, a horse in dead last with 40 to 1 odds), Horace decides to smugly play Chopin's "Funeral March". The scene of Arnold showing off his condition in "Fear of Floating" basically telegraphs how he will die. While trying to get his dad to give out Halloween candy during "Halloween Candy", Michael Killip makes the point of saying the following: Doubles as a Double-Meaning Title: In "Baker's Dozen", when Aloysius gives Hogan the gingerbread cookies, he's confused since Cuzzins' Dozens only sells twelve types of cookies, and he's never seen gingerbread men be sold. Aloysius mentions that it's a baker's dozen; Ruby Cuzzins doesn't include the gingerbread men on the menu. But then you get to the end of the episode, and learn that Aloysius also meant he had taken 13 cookies from Ruby...
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Tales from the Darkside / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
Tales from the Darkside / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: The protagonist of "The Social Climber" wants to become rich and powerful, but has no desire to work for it at all.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Tales from the Darkside / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: The vampires in "Strange Love" were sophisticated, nightwalkers who socialized a lot. The vampire in "The Circus" was a feral beast that feasted on living animals.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Tales from the Darkside / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas/Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Bubba in The Swap loves both his mother and his wife. He wants to carry on his mother's witchcraft for her and revealed that he knew about his wife's adulterous relationship with a house worker, but wanted her to be happy. His mother's spells later save his life when he switches minds with his wife's lover and punishes her for betraying his trust in her.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
Tales from the Darkside / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Out of everyone, Satan is this in "Red Leader". He genuinely offers the protagonist a chance to become The Dragon of his evil forces.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_a25b0db9	type	Murderous Mannequin
Tales from the Darkside / int_a25b0db9	comment	Murderous Mannequin: Appeared in at least one episode.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_a29a7058	type	Not Quite Flight
Tales from the Darkside / int_a29a7058	comment	Not Quite Flight: In "Fear of Floating," Arnold floats whenever he tells lies.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Tales from the Darkside / int_a4905771	comment	Doubles as a Double-Meaning Title: In "Baker's Dozen", when Aloysius gives Hogan the gingerbread cookies, he's confused since Cuzzins' Dozens only sells twelve types of cookies, and he's never seen gingerbread men be sold. Aloysius mentions that it's a baker's dozen; Ruby Cuzzins doesn't include the gingerbread men on the menu. But then you get to the end of the episode, and learn that Aloysius also meant he had taken 13 cookies from Ruby...
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Tales from the Darkside / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
Tales from the Darkside / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: It really says a lot about this show that the number of episodes that have an unambiguous happy ending is less than half of the total number of episodes of the show, including the pilot.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_a4f81481	type	Circus Episode
Tales from the Darkside / int_a4f81481	comment	Circus Episode: In "The Circus", an investigative journalist who enjoys debunking tales of the strange and bizarre investigates a circus that offers monsters on display.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
Tales from the Darkside / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: At the end of "Halloween Candy", the police state that Mr. Killip starved to death, with only a bag of candy to eat for several weeks. Michael Killip doesn't believe this; he saw his dad the previous night...
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Tales from the Darkside / int_a6c677c4	type	Not Hyperbole
Tales from the Darkside / int_a6c677c4	comment	Not Hyperbole: In "A Serpent's Tooth", the titular tooth has the power to make this happen. It doesn't help that it's in the hands of Pearl King, who has a tendency to exaggerate things.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Tales from the Darkside / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The robber in "Miss May Dusa" gets away with murdering two people by accident and leaves the store the protagonist was in without punishment.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Tales from the Darkside / int_a7aef9ff	comment	As if you needed more proof that Jack knew more about what was going on than what he was letting on, then take the following line from "The Yattering and Jack" into consideration, after Jack's daughter runs out of the house in fear, and the Yattering mistakenly grabs Jack.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_a8660c25	type	Soft-Spoken Sadist
Tales from the Darkside / int_a8660c25	comment	Soft-Spoken Sadist: The vampire Edmond from "Strange Love" has such a soothing voice for a deranged, Ax-Crazy, blood-sucking monster.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Tales from the Darkside / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: The end of "A Choice of Dreams", a mobster is forced to relive the suffering he caused his victims, over and over, forever. The end of "Levitation". Just imagine... having the levitation trick done on you... only for the magician to have a heart attack, and can't bring you down... and prevent you from floating into the sky... Implied with "The Geezenstacks": the family is seemingly sucked into the dollhouse. The reporter in "The Circus" is turned into a zombie. Anyone stuck in "The Last Car", which is implied to be a train of the dead.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_a977e7bc	type	SelfMadeWoman
Tales from the Darkside / int_a977e7bc	comment	Self-Made Woman: Jeanette in "Payment Overdue" is a debt collector who claims to be this trope. However, as the episode unfolds, we learn that she is nothing but a Hypocrite who enjoys making others suffer and takes her place in life for granted, even assuming that everyone could easily live a rich life like her if they tried. She ends up in a world where she doesn't have these privileges anymore by an angel who was sent to test her.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_abcb9af1	type	Eaten Alive
Tales from the Darkside / int_abcb9af1	comment	Eaten Alive: The fate of anyone who angers the sentient apartment building in "A New Lease On Life".
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Tales from the Darkside / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Tales from the Darkside / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: In "I Can't Help Saying Goodbye", Max's death is harsh for a man whose only crime was being afraid of a Creepy Child. It's depressing to watch as he painfully and slowly loses his ability to breathe from his asthma attack, with the color fading from his face as he Dies Wide Open, his last words begging not to die as his wife watches.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_ac546cd4	type	Worth It
Tales from the Darkside / int_ac546cd4	comment	Worth It: At the end of "The Yattering and Jack", after it's pointed out to Jack by the Yattering that, by having a demon as a servant, he most likely is not going to go to Heaven, Jack... doesn't really care.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
Tales from the Darkside / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: In "Fear of Floating," the US Army is trying to save Arnold because of his power of floating. It doesn't pay off in the end, as Arnold ends up killing himself by accident.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Tales from the Darkside / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: A Gold Digger who was rejected by the rich Villain Protagonist kills him for rejecting her advances. However, the protagonist becomes The Dragon to Satan in Hell.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Tales from the Darkside / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: In "Do Not Open This Box", we have a couple who learn the box they've mistakenly opened was meant to deliver souls. And the mailman who comes at midnight is meaning to take one of their souls as payment for their mistake. Ruth puts her husband Charlie up to murder the mailman while his back is turned. Upon hearing they're a pick-up, there's a chance that pick-up could've been Charlie's soul. He has every opportunity to save his own skin. ...But he can't bring himself to do it. Ruth can. "The Unhappy Medium" gives us three towards the climax. Jenny sacrifices herself to Hell in order to make sure Farley's ghost faces justice, Johnathan goes with her because he lost her once and won't risk losing her again. And Carol? She simply throws in Farley's will with them so nobody will know that Farley willed most of his assets to her daughter. She turns it up when, alone in Farley's study, she grouses about how she never needed her family and so greedily claims the estate and the church as her own.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
Tales from the Darkside / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: Arnold in "Fear of Floating" is the dumbest villain in the series.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Tales from the Darkside / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: The episode "The Milkman Cometh" features a mysterious figure whose silhouette is shaped like a milkman granting wishes of anyone who leaves a note for him. The main character of the episode, a struggling father, begins to take advantage of the wishes despite his family and others who had their wishes backfire begging him to stop. At the end of the episode, he begs to the silhouetted figure to grant him a second child. While his face isn't shown to the viewer it's revealed that the Milkman isn't human and that the second child was conceived because the Milkman raped the wife.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Tales from the Darkside / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: When it's not under And I Must Scream the endings will sometimes fall under this. For instance, the protagonist in "Lifebomb" gets a device from his insurance company that will never let him die...ever.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_b2a06892	type	Fourth Wall Psych
Tales from the Darkside / int_b2a06892	comment	Fourth Wall Psych: For most of "Everybody Needs a Little Love", it appears that Roberts is narrating the events of the episode to the audience... until he gets to the part where he's knocked out while struggling with Curtis, where it's revealed that he's telling this story to the cops, who think he killed Curtis. Although she is very clearly talking to herself, Joan Matlin's ranting about the neighbors in "Answer Me" comes off as this due to the overhead shot of her as she lays in bed, staring at the ceiling (which is where the viewer is currently positioned).
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Tales from the Darkside / int_b36ae36a	type	Collector of the Strange
Tales from the Darkside / int_b36ae36a	comment	Collector of the Strange: The Tear Collector is about a man who, well... collects tears from people.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
Tales from the Darkside / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: In "A Choice of Dreams", terminally ill mobster Jake Corelli attempts to cheat death by salvaging his mind in an unethical experiment.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Tales from the Darkside / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: "If the Shoe Fits". AKA: "The One The Equates Politicians to Clowns". Inverted; one episode of "The Ben Stiller Show" had a sketch directly parodying / taking the piss out of the episode "The Devil's Advocate" (which starred, appropriately enough, Ben's father Jerry Stiller). To hit the point home, the sketch was an episode of "Low Budget Tales of Cliched Horror" called "A Call From Hell". "Payment Overdue" is one to the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality that was rampant in The '80s as no less than the Archangel Michael condemns a heartless debt-collector into experiencing life as a poor, Spanish-speaking immigrant.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Tales from the Darkside / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Joan, at the end of "Ursa Minor". After cutting open the teddy bear's stomach with scissors, the sound of growling emanates throughout the house, as (what is implied to be) the bear skin rug comes to life and shambles down to Susie's bedroomnote Ursa Major avenging the death of Ursa Minor, as it were. Although she immediately shuts and locks the door, instead of going out the window with her daughter to safety, she huddles in the corner in fear as the bear skin rug begins attacking the door. The mother in the ending of "The Serpent's Tooth." After she tries to reform and give up the magical item that makes everything she says come true, she retakes it because she is too attached to its power despite being warned by her family and friends that it is too dangerous. When her daughter gives her a What the Hell, Hero? speech the mother says that she loves her children so much that, if anyone harbors greater love for their chilren, she will turn into a pillar of salt. She pretty much made herself suffer a Fate Worse than Death. Cybil in Anniversary Dinner fails to notice that her hosts are cooking her alive in their "hot tub". They even throw in alcohol and vegetable pieces in with her tub and she still doesn't get the idea that they're going to eat her. In fairness, she was in a relaxed state due to the water temperature, and she had been getting drunk on Henry's homemade booze while they were cooking her, but still. Archie Fenton in "A New Lease on Life" moves into an apartment complex that bleeds when he tries to hang a picture, rumbles and roars occasionally, and is staffed by Ambiguously Evil workers committing bizarre actions every day, yet he doesn't suspect anything strange from any of this. Then, when the Apartment is revealed to be alive the first thing he does is... piss it off by trying to kill it. Apparently, it never occurred to him that attacking a sentient building would result in his death. "Love Hungry" involves Betsy using mysterious dietary aids that cause her to see and hear her food as sentient beings. Because she can't bring herself to eat anything out of fear of killing them, she resorts to sewing her mouth shut. All this winds up resulting in the end is Betsy dying from hunger, and the food rotting.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Tales from the Darkside / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: The main protagonist of "The Serpent's Tooth."
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Tales from the Darkside / int_b5b4b485	type	The Bet
Tales from the Darkside / int_b5b4b485	comment	The Bet: "The Odds" revolves around a mysterious stranger betting that his bookie will die by the end of the day. The bookie accepts the bet, thinking he'll win. He makes it through the day, but dies minutes after winning.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_b63019a5	type	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn
Tales from the Darkside / int_b63019a5	comment	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn: In "Strange Love," Edmond's wife falls in love with her doctor and helps him murder her abusive husband.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Tales from the Darkside / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: The fate Mary Hobbs experiences in "Auld Acquaintances": turned into a cat, because of the talisman she and Elizabeth Eaton were fighting over.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Tales from the Darkside / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: In "The Unhappy Medium", Caroline complains all about how her life is horrible, despite being judgmental towards her own daughter. The entire family in "Grandma's Last Wish" are more preoccupied with their own wants and concerns than each other ... including Grandma, who's too busy being pleased that her wish is coming true to mind that her own relatives are being injured and even brain-damaged.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_bfad4265	type	I Have You Now, My Pretty
Tales from the Darkside / int_bfad4265	comment	I Have You Now, My Pretty: The Cruel Twist Ending of "The False Prophet."
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Tales from the Darkside / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Tales from the Darkside / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: Too many to count. The most notable ones would be in "Halloween Candy".
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Tales from the Darkside / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Tales from the Darkside / int_c10da874	comment	"Payment Overdue" is one to the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality that was rampant in The '80s as no less than the Archangel Michael condemns a heartless debt-collector into experiencing life as a poor, Spanish-speaking immigrant.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_c2d6bd47	type	Redemption Earns Life
Tales from the Darkside / int_c2d6bd47	comment	Redemption Earns Life: In "The Unhappy Medium," Jenny is spared from eternity in Hell after offering herself in Hell in order to save her mother and boyfriend. Johnathan is also spared after jumping after her, and earns a second chance to pursue a relationship with her. Unfortunately, her mother is Dragged Off to Hell.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
Tales from the Darkside / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: How Tina murders her cousin Nicholas while under "The Casavin Curse." Also, How Gail Aynsley meets her end at the hands of the creature living "Inside the Closet."
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Tales from the Darkside / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
Tales from the Darkside / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: The moral in "The Tear Collector" involves a woman trying to stop herself from crying too much. With some help from the titular collector, she learns to overcome her depression and restore her faith in life.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
Tales from the Darkside / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: Appears in a few episodes. Depending on the overall tone of the story, he'll either be portrayed tongue-in-cheek or sinister.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Tales from the Darkside / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Near the end of "The Cutty Black Sow", our child protagonist is supposedly saved from the titular demon when his father comes into his bedroom and comforts him. Then, we see the father's eyes glowing...
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Tales from the Darkside / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Tales from the Darkside / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Cassie in "The False Prophet" believes in everything Horace X says. This later proves to be her undoing.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
Tales from the Darkside / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: In "The Unhappy Medium," a preacher named Farley attempts to possess his granddaughter Jenny in order to avoid Hell.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Tales from the Darkside / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The ending of "I Just Can't Help But Say Goodbye" is a nod to the infamous ending of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Tales from the Darkside / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Inverted in "Baker's Dozen"; while in the process of torturing her suffering employee Aloysius by turning him into a rat, Ruby Cuzzins launches into a monologue that reveals he's her father, and that she keeps abusing him as payback for abandoning her and her mother to go hunt moonshine.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Tales from the Darkside / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The fate of Eddie in "No Strings". The fate of Edmond the vampire in "Strange Love".
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Tales from the Darkside / int_cb83d23b	type	I Just Want to Be Special
Tales from the Darkside / int_cb83d23b	comment	I Just Want to Be Special: The protagonist in "The Social Climber" seeks a better life, but has no desire to work for it and doesn't appreciate what he has. This leads him down a bad path.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Tales from the Darkside / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: The protagonist of "Red Leader", to the point where at the end of the episode, he 100%' willingly hitches his saddle to Red.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_cc19006	type	Mouth Stitched Shut
Tales from the Darkside / int_cc19006	comment	Mouth Stitched Shut: "Love Hungry" ends with the reveal that Betsy had to do this to herself to prevent her from eating her food (since her diet aids made them appear and sound sentient to her), resulting in her starving to death.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Tales from the Darkside / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: In "Inside the Closet," We last see Gale being dragged away by the monster back inside the closet. It's clear that she's dead before the monster takes her, but it still takes her corpse back with it.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Tales from the Darkside / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: "A Case of the Stubborns", in a sense. All the plot concerns is a son (Jody) and mother (Ma) having to put up with the fact that Grandpa, who died earlier the previous night, refuses to acknowledge that he should be dead. Jody and Ma aren't even scared; they're just shocked, then annoyed, that he does not know he should be dead. The only real horror in the episode is Grandpa continuing to rot, culminating in him literally sneezing his nose off.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
Tales from the Darkside / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Jenny in "The Unhappy Medium" refuses to believe in Farley and his Christian ethics. She changes her view by the end of the episode after he haunts her family. Her mother, on the other hand, refuses to change her greedy ways despite witnessing that Heaven and Hell both exist. Jack Polo, in â€œThe Yattering and Jackâ€�, acts like one at the beginning of the episode, blaming the damage caused by the invisible Yattering demon on such things as the house settling and raccoons getting into the house while he was away. He's well aware of whatâ€™s really going on, and is acting that way in order to drive the Yattering nuts.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Tales from the Darkside / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Roberts in "Everybody Needs a Little Love" tells the cops that a Murderous Mannequin killed his buddy. Naturally, no one believes him. To rub salt in the wound, the mannequin is there watching him in the end of the episode.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
Tales from the Darkside / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: The fate of the protagonist in "The Serpent's Tooth."
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Tales from the Darkside / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Tales from the Darkside / int_d39e327f	comment	The mother in the ending of "The Serpent's Tooth." After she tries to reform and give up the magical item that makes everything she says come true, she retakes it because she is too attached to its power despite being warned by her family and friends that it is too dangerous. When her daughter gives her a What the Hell, Hero? speech the mother says that she loves her children so much that, if anyone harbors greater love for their chilren, she will turn into a pillar of salt. She pretty much made herself suffer a Fate Worse than Death.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_d3aad64a	type	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
Tales from the Darkside / int_d3aad64a	comment	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: The doctor in "Pain Killer" offers to cure his patients if they commit murders for him.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Tales from the Darkside / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Jeanette the debt collector in "Payment Overdue" acts like she's a good person who struggled in life and worked hard to get by where she is. However, she earned her money by collecting it from lower class people and tricking others into paying her for insurance they didn't need. To an even worse extent, she claims that she's also a fair debt collector before telling off those who actually can't pay her.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Tales from the Darkside / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: In "Slippage," Rich Hall discovers that he is slowly disappearing from reality. All records of his existence disappear, and by the end Rich's wife forgets that he ever existed and ends up married to Rich's former best friend.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Tales from the Darkside / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Linda's husband in "Parlour Floor Front" ditches her when he realizes that she's a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. Turns out that this was the right thing to do when she suffers a Karmic Twist Ending.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_dbea19b0	type	LivingToy
Tales from the Darkside / int_dbea19b0	comment	Living Toy: "Ursa Minor" has a little girl whose teddy bear comes to life and starts wreaking havoc; her parents, particularly the mother, are understandably concerned when she blames the damage on the bear. The mother eventually realizes that something about "Teddy" is off and ends up stabbing it to death, only to learn that the fully-grown bearskin rug in the attic has also come life. The episode ends with mother and daughter terrified and huddling in the daughter's bedroom while the "mama bear" breaks in to exact its revenge.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_dcd2459e	type	Anthropomorphic Food
Tales from the Darkside / int_dcd2459e	comment	Anthropomorphic Food: "Love Hungry" has this Played for Horror. A "revolutionary weight loss system" consists of a hearing aid and glasses that cause the woman who wears them to perceive (ordinary, inanimate) food as alive and desperate not to be eaten. And they don't come off...
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Tales from the Darkside / int_e08f3fed	type	Chair Reveal
Tales from the Darkside / int_e08f3fed	comment	Chair Reveal: Inverted at the end of "Mary, Mary": David is trying to talk to Mary, but she isn't responding. So, he turns her around, revealing she's now a mannequin. Similarly, after regaining consciousness from being knocked out in "Everybody Needs a Little Love", Roberts notices that Curtis is sitting in a chair with his back to him. Upon reaching him, he spins the chair around, revealing that Curtis was stabbed to death.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Tales from the Darkside / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: From "Ursa Minor." The mother, learning that her daughter's teddy bear is terrorizing the house, stabs the bear to death. The trope repeats, however, when the bear's mother attacks. In "Family Reunion", Janice's ex-husband and father of her son learns the hard way what happens when you come between a mother werewolf and her cub. And unfortunately, so does the social worker that had been trying to help her prior.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Tales from the Darkside / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: When faced with the fact that he sneezed his nose off his face at the end of "A Case of the Stubborns", Grandpa has no other choice but to accept that he is, in fact, dead.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
Tales from the Darkside / int_e2d7b14c	comment	A similar occurance happens at the end of the first act of "I Can't Help Saying Goodbye": after Karen and Libby's mom accidentally kills herself by trying to light the oven with a match (unaware that it was flooding the kitchen with gas), Libby runs into the kitchen in horror as the camera pans down to show Karen looking directly into the camera with a Single Tear.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Tales from the Darkside / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Andrea in "Dream Girl" has the stereotypical appearance of a butch lesbian and hates the idea of men checking her out. Given the time the show was on this may have been intentional.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_e3a7d2e6	type	Karmic Jackpot
Tales from the Darkside / int_e3a7d2e6	comment	Karmic Jackpot: In "The Unhappy Medium", Jenny sacrifices herself to Hell in order to make sure the ghost of her corrupt uncle faces justice, while her boyfriend joins her so he won't lose her again. In contrast, Caroline throws the will in there with them so no one will be the wiser of who inherited what. The very next morning, Jenny and Johnathon find themselves (and the will) safe and sound. Now the two not only have a second chance to rekindle their relationship again, but to use their inheritance to help the less fortunate. In contrast, Caroline isn't so fortunate.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Tales from the Darkside / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: "Barter" centers around a small family obviously themed after the family from I Love Lucy.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
Tales from the Darkside / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: An example that borders on Breaking the Fourth Wall, the last shot of "Dream Girl" sees Andrea, in close up and now in someone else's dream, turning and staring dead-eyed into the camera as the credits start up. A similar occurance happens at the end of the first act of "I Can't Help Saying Goodbye": after Karen and Libby's mom accidentally kills herself by trying to light the oven with a match (unaware that it was flooding the kitchen with gas), Libby runs into the kitchen in horror as the camera pans down to show Karen looking directly into the camera with a Single Tear.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_e9327f58	type	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
Tales from the Darkside / int_e9327f58	comment	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: In â€œThe Yattering and Jackâ€�, the Yattering demon sent to drive Jack to despair instead finds itself driven crazy by Jackâ€™s complete refusal to get upset about anything it does or even acknowledge that anything unusual is happening. Which is what Jack was banking on.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Tales from the Darkside / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Mr. Hackles in "Trick or Treat" is true on one account, he doesn't harm the trick-or-treaters physically. He just emotionally scars them with his haunted house tricks.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_eb002293	type	Shrinking Violet
Tales from the Darkside / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: The protagonist in "Mary, Mary."
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Tales from the Darkside / int_eb0a92ca	type	Ineffectual Death Threats
Tales from the Darkside / int_eb0a92ca	comment	Ineffectual Death Threats: After a certain point in "Answer Me", Joan Matlin gets so fed up with the constant phone ringing in the apartment next door that she decides it's "time for violence", and promptly goes next door and demands that the occupant unplug their phone "or die". And then towards the end, she outright decides to try and beat whoever is causing the phone to ring to death with her bare hands. But given how she's a commercial actress who gets strangled to death by the phone at the end, it's clear none of these threats hold weight.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Tales from the Darkside / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Or how about the episode "Season Of Belief?" A couple have an extended Jerkass moment where they terrify their young children with a scary story on Christmas Eve, even getting another family member to play along with the joke. At the end they smile, say they were only joking...and out of nowhere, the very monster they were talking about appears and crushes their skulls. Okay, sure, the parents weren't being very nice, and told their six-year-old daughter there was no Santa, but did that really make them deserve to die?
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Tales from the Darkside / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Tales from the Darkside / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: A key trait to a Villain Protagonist or a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing supporting character.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Tales from the Darkside / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The protagonist in "The Cutty Black Sow" performs a ritual to save his grandmother's soul. A demon comes and takes his soul as compensation. Did we forget to mention that the protagonist is a young boy who was only trying to save his entire family.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
Tales from the Darkside / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: The couple in "Anniversary Dinner" act kind and caring, but they eat people. Gideon Hackles from "Trick Or Treat" is an old man who holds the entire town he lives in under his heels through their various IOUs and forces them to bring their children to his house every Halloween so they can be scared half to death by his ghoulish decorations and animatronics in a vain attempt to wipe their parents' debts.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_edc22fe8	type	Cartwright Curse
Tales from the Darkside / int_edc22fe8	comment	Cartwright Curse: "The Casavin Curse" forces anyone to kill their lover.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_f0982bbf	type	Aliens Steal Cable
Tales from the Darkside / int_f0982bbf	comment	Aliens Steal Cable: The twist to "Distant Signals": Smith was an alien, whose planet was 20 light years away and only now got the broadcast of "Max Paradise", hence why he came to Earth (his people were upset it had no ending).
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Tales from the Darkside / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Tales from the Darkside / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: The Mummy in "The Grave Robbers" had a crush on a girl in his past, but he never admitted his feelings for her before becoming the cursed guardian of the tomb. Harold mocks him for it, but his girlfriend takes pity on him. The mummy gets over it when he escapes from the tomb and moves on with Harold's girlfriend.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_f12c6fb1	type	Surprisingly Sudden Death
Tales from the Darkside / int_f12c6fb1	comment	Surprisingly Sudden Death: In "Seasons of Belief," the Grither comes out of nowhere and murders the parents who spoke of its origin right at the last minute of the episode.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Tales from the Darkside / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Every so often an episode would feature one of these. The most notable ones being in "The New Guy" and "The Last Car".
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Tales from the Darkside / int_f3fac450	type	Brain in a Jar
Tales from the Darkside / int_f3fac450	comment	Right at the end of "A Choice of Dreams", as Jake Corelli is undergoing the procedure to keep his brain alive forever, the doctor, Michaelson, decides to start talking aloud.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_f4f01ac	type	Deadly Rotary Fan
Tales from the Darkside / int_f4f01ac	comment	Inverted at the end of "Fear of Floating". Instead of falling to his death, Arnold floats into a Deadly Rotary Fan.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_f594c8a9	type	Fed to the Beast
Tales from the Darkside / int_f594c8a9	comment	Fed to the Beast: In "Inside the Closet", Gale is a young college student moving into a questionable professor's apartment. She gets killed by a monster living in the professor's closet, which turned out to be his daughter. He intended to have this girl move in with him so he could feed her to his monster. The next morning, he dismisses her death and keeps it secret when her mother, worried where her daughter disappeared to, calls to find her. Then, it's implied that she was not the first or last victim of his monster in the end.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Tales from the Darkside / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Richard Hagstrom in "Word Processor of the Gods". Literally.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
Tales from the Darkside / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: A few episodes feature these. They usually get what's coming to them... and it's never gold.
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Tales from the Darkside / int_f7040ef0	type	Trumplica
Tales from the Darkside / int_f7040ef0	comment	Trumplica: Alex Hayes from "Red Leader", an outer boroughs construction mogul whose shady dealings have raised Hell's interest, is an early example.
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