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froodleTALES FROM THE CRYPT – SEINFELD – TAPE 1934
Over to Sky One for a packed tape, starting with Tales from the Crypt and an episode called Spoiled. Danny Elfman’s theme is very familiar, but I think it was from the compilation CD of Elfman music.
It’s another of the seemingly endless anthology series that proliferated in the late 80s and early 90s. I can list about ten of them just off the top of my head, and that would only cover a fraction of them. And yet, it’s not a format that’s perennially popular. I don’t see tons of new ones on Netflix or HBO – Black Mirror feels like an exception, but in the 90s it would just have been one of many.
This one was a bit more high profile than some, having a glittering array of Executive Producers – Richard Donner, David Giler, Walter Hill, Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis.
This episode features Faye Grant, off of V, as Janet, a woman who’s very bored with her home life.
Her heroine is Fuschia Monroe, played by Anita Morris, who was great in Ruthless People.
The next episode is Mournin’ Mess. It features Vincent Schiavelli and John Astin.
The next episode is Undertaking Palor. There’s a couple of familiar faces. Jason Marsden was in Eerie Indiana.
Over to Sky One for a packed tape, starting with Tales from the Crypt and an episode called Spoiled. Danny Elfman’s theme is very familiar, but I think it was from the compilation CD of Elfman music.
It’s another of the seemingly endless anthology series that proliferated in the late 80s and early 90s. I can list about ten of them just off the top of my head, and that would only cover a fraction of them. And yet, it’s not a format that’s perennially popular. I don’t see tons of new ones on Netflix or HBO – Black Mirror feels like an exception, but in the 90s it would just have been one of many.
This one was a bit more high profile than some, having a glittering array of Executive Producers – Richard Donner, David Giler, Walter Hill, Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis.
This episode features Faye Grant, off of V, as Janet, a woman who’s very bored with her home life.
Her heroine is Fuschia Monroe, played by Anita Morris, who was great in Ruthless People.
The next episode is Mournin’ Mess. It features Vincent Schiavelli and John Astin.
The next episode is Undertaking Palor. There’s a couple of familiar faces. Jason Marsden was in Eerie Indiana.
A+ use of hypothetical obscene wealth
Sep. 20th, 2018 06:04 pmfroodleYou have Bezos money and control of a streaming platform.
— Tony! Toni! Toné! Stark (@StarkTTT) September 20, 2018
What movie or TV series do you fund, consumer demand and ratings be damned?
Saved By The Bell
— Nando (@TooOldTooStupid) September 20, 2018
Frasier
Married With Children
Eerie Indiana
George Wallace: Enemy of the Loyal Order
Sep. 20th, 2018 08:29 pmfroodleDon't go into corn mazes this fall you'll die I've lost 70+ friends in corn mazes when will enough be enough corn mazes are death traps okay bye
— George Wallace (@MrGeorgeWallace) September 20, 2018
— George Wallace (@MrGeorgeWallace) September 20, 2018
The corn maze lobby is tryin' to shut me up 3 corn maze people just came to my house I had to punch them in the mouth over & over. They hide the real numbers but in 7 states corn mazes are the #1 cause of death. They don't know if the corn gets haunted or what but stay out.
— George Wallace (@MrGeorgeWallace) September 20, 2018
Bad news my friend Ramon grows all the corn for Ohio and he says all that shit is already haunted this season the dark spirits overtook the corn last week don't go in no damn corn mazes I am trying to save your life #cornmazes #darkspirits #dontgointothatshit
— George Wallace (@MrGeorgeWallace) September 20, 2018
This is pure nightmare fuel...
Sep. 20th, 2018 08:36 pmfroodleIn European folklore, corn spirits can take on different forms, ranging from either animal to humanoid. Art by Troy Nixey. #FolkloreThursday pic.twitter.com/Wy7GO6id8K
— Neil Gravino (@n6eil) September 20, 2018
100% would help crowdfund
Sep. 20th, 2018 08:41 pmfroodleEERIE INDIANA revival with Lilimar as the lead. https://t.co/HXS5DjYPSq
— Leftwing Trashbelle, Trashbook & Trashcandle (@d_m_elms) September 20, 2018
Twilight Zone reboot is great, but...
Sep. 20th, 2018 08:44 pmfroodleSure, this will be awesome, but when are we getting an Eerie Indiana reboot?
— J D Burroughs (DocGarby) (@_JDBurroughs_) September 20, 2018
LogLady on childhood terrors
Sep. 20th, 2018 08:46 pmfroodleMore things that scared me really bad. the evil bird monsters in the dark crystal, the murderous sister in So I married an axe murderer, the orcs in the lord of the rings, the Halloween ep of eerie indiana, and the entire show growing up creepie.
— fvck you flip flops (@loglady0) September 20, 2018
froodleLessee: Books? Too many to be able to reliably pick a first. Let's go with Jupiter the Cat in Robin Jarvis' "The Final Reckoning"
— Jamie TMWReviews (@TheMadWelshman) September 20, 2018
Movies: Puppetmaster's Leech Lady, hands down.
TV Show: Eerie, Indiana's Tupperware episode.
Game: Not... Really until relatively recently? https://t.co/JEHezDO8Dp
Dang that Tupperware episode scared the hell out of me when I was little, thanks for bringing that trauma back
— Uncle Stonebender Granola (@skippygranola) September 20, 2018
froodleI only recently got to watch that series all the way through. I'm not sure it quite holds up, but the Tupperware thing was a good one to open with.
— Nidoking (@IAmNidoking) September 20, 2018
That, the ATM AI, and the one where the main character escapes into the filming of the show are the three really memorable episodes for me.
— Nidoking (@IAmNidoking) September 20, 2018