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Nightmare Ned

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Yet another animated series from Disney, premiering on April 19, 1997. Ned Needlemeyer is a nervous young boy with several intense fears, which play themselves out in exaggerated fashions in his dreams. Each episode is basically one long Nightmare Sequence of Ned facing a different fear. The show lasted for 12 episodes, each of which contained 2 segments except for the last which had 3, making a total of 25 stories.
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Twist Ending
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Twist Ending: "Headless Lester": Ned isn't the one with nightmares this time around. Also in "Abduction," Ned isn't having dreams this time.
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: The monsters and freaks are quite funny and ridiculous along with terrifying so one could say that this trope's mixed with Surreal Horror and Surreal Humor.
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Defanged Horrors
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Defanged Horrors: The nightmares Ned comes across...for the most part.
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Down on the Farm
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Down on the Farm: In "Canadian Bacon" Ned dreams about his pet pig taking him to live with his pig family on a farm in Canada
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Potty Emergency
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Potty Emergency: In “A Dolls House” where Ned’s twin cousins play with him like a doll and force feed him water.
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Mutagenic Food
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Mutagenic Food: Ned is tricked into eating dog food by Conrad and Vernon in one episode, and naturally winds up dreaming that he's transformed into a dog. He gets his revenge on the bullies (in the dream, anyway) by tricking them into eating cat food, then chasing them down when they turn into cats.
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Chess with Death
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Chess with Death: One sequence has Ned playing checkers with the Tooth Fairy over his teeth.
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Would Hurt a Child
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Would Hurt a Child: Most of the adversaries seemed very focused on attacking Ned who's just a kid.
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Unwilling Roboticisation
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Unwilling Roboticisation: In the episode "Robot Ned", Ned's new robot "brother" Sammy, still mad from being smashed to pieces by the former, roboticises Ned by implanting a computer chip into his hand. It's shortly revealed afterwards that Sammy already did the same thing to the rest of Ned's family!
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: In the show, almost all the nightmares end this way. Of course, Ned wakes up and depending on the episode it might have a positive or negative influence on him. It is averted thankfully in the "Abduction" since it was the only real one.
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Nightmare Sequence
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Nightmare Sequence: The entire premise of the show is based around Ned dealing with his problems through his dark and twisted nightmares.
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Serious Business
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Serious Business: In "Until Undeath Do Us Apart," WHO KNEW THAT THIS ZOMBIE GIRL TOOK WEDDINGS SERIOUSLY?!
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Face Your Fears
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Face Your Fears: In the dreams Ned attempts to do that though usually he still fails. In the game however....
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Vicious Vac
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Vicious Vac: The goblin from "Along for the Ride" owns one (to suck up Ned).
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Animal Talk
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Animal Talk: In Neds Life as a Dog, in which Ned is turned into a dog, he tries to tell his parents about his condition. But the only thing they hear is canine barks.
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Our Zombies Are Different
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Our Zombies Are Different: The zombies preparing Ned and the zombie girl's wedding in "Until Undeath Do Us Apart."
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Art Shift
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Art Shift: They are dreams so of course the setting will get altered.
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Homage
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Homage: The Willie Trout episode was a play on Pinocchio, with Geppetto himself, and Cicero as Figaro. In Neds Life as a Dog, Neds transformation scene is somewhat a nod to the movie An American Werewolf in London.
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Parental Obliviousness
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Parental Obliviousness: In his dreams, Ned's parents are often completely oblivious to their surroundings, and Ned has to be the one to get them out of peril.
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Cruel Twist Ending
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Cruel Twist Ending: Not the endings of episodes, but rather the endings of Ned's nightmares, as they often end with Ned's dream-self dying or being transformed. One example is the episode "Willie Trout"; Ned's nightmare is a rather light adventure that's an homage to Pinocchio and it even seems to have a happy ending. But then the Blue Fairy appears, mistakes Ned for Pinocchio and says that he'll now become a real boy... before turning Ned into a wooden puppet. Ned screams in horror and wakes up.
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Big Ol' Unibrow
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Big Ol' Unibrow: The movie theater ticket booth guy from "Until Undeath Do Us Apart" has one, combined with Braces of Orthodontic Overkill. The twins from “A Dolls House” counts as this as well.
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Ink-Suit Actor
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Ink-Suit Actor: Florence Henderson portrays herself in "Monster Ned."
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Demoted to Extra
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Demoted to Extra: Ned's family and classmates from the TV show to the game.
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Forced Transformation
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Forced Transformation: Ned is often turned into something against his will.
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Incredible Shrinking Man
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Incredible Shrinking Man: Ned dreams he's the size of a doll in "A Doll's House" and at the mercy of his two bratty twin cousins.
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To Serve Man
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To Serve Man: The pig family's real purpose in "Canadian Bacon."
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Boy Meets Ghoul
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Boy Meets Ghoul: In "Until Undeath Do Us Apart," Ned through hilarious circumstances makes an Accidental Proposal to a zombie bride, much to his dismay.
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Big "NO!"
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Big "NO!": One of the defining lines of Ned in the show. It is used several times in the intro alone.
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"Not Wearing Pants" Dream
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"Not Wearing Pants" Dream: One episode's nightmare is about Ned forgetting to put his clothes on and arriving to school wearing nothing but a raincoat, which he's forced to abandon before class. The episode's end has the same nightmare happen to his father.
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Mundane Made Awesome
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Mundane Made Awesome: Dream!Frank Grimes seems to treat clinics like magic shows.
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Magic Bus
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Magic Bus: In "Magic Bus" where Ned is stuck on a flying bus piloted by a demented ventriloquist dummy.
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Depraved Dentist
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Depraved Dentist: In the episode "The Dentist" where Ned visits a mad and sadistic dentist.
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Hell Hotel
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Hell Hotel: The Tumbleweed Motel where Ned and his oblivious family are forced to stay at in "Along for the Ride".
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All Just a Dream
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All Just a Dream: Nearly every episode Ned is startled awake after having a nightmare... except in "Abduction".
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