Anyone remember Tales From the Cryptkeeper?

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Moving on to another subject, let's talk about probably one of the most unusual animated programs to air on Saturday morning television, namely Tales From the Cryptkeeper. I'm sure you all might remember that program, base on the HBO program, Tales From the Crypt, with the grotesque-looking Cryptmaster, played by actor John Kassir. The program carried rather similar scary stories, this time involving primarily teenagers. The strange thing is that the animated Tales From the Cryptkeeper was feared to be too scary for the young audience that ABC ordered the program to be toned down. Another strange thing, the toned-down scary stories proved to be moralistic enough to be declared educational, later in its first season, 1993-94. The show also had a scary intro, which included flashes of lightning, attacking zombies and a slime spill, leading to the show's title card, complete with John Kassir's gruesome announcement, which was equally scary. The show's theme music was also intensely scary, but all in all entertaining. To this day, I don't think Saturday morning television has ever had animated dramas that could be as scary or as frightening as Tales From the Cryptkeeper. Still, strange as it is, the program still manage to educate its audience with moral values in each story. It's a real shame that we don't have programs like that on television, anymore.
 
I remember it. Probably one of my favorite cartoons of the 90s.

I really enjoyed Season 2 when they brought in the Witch and the Vault Keeper. I liked how they used to fight over who was going to host the show.
 
Was there an episode involving two teenagers who kept skiving off of school to play arcade games and somehow wound up being attacked by the video game monsters themselves?

And, after defeating quite a few of them, losing?

I've been wondering where that was from...
 
9 times out of 10, they were ironic/poetic revenge stories. I remember one about a house full of Frankenstein-like monsters. However, they were peaceful and just wanted to be left alone. Two kids agree to this but a greedy adult sees a chance to make some cash. We then find out what they do to such people- he's lobotomised and used to answer the door to keep people away.
 
I didn't know there was an animated series but I do remember accidentily seeing the Live Action version when I was really young...and just about everything scared me :crying:
 
Even though it was not a bad cartoon I can't help but wonder how this show was even made.

"Hey lets make a kids show based on a M rated HBO horror show. It will be a hit."

Right.
 
Well, it was originally based on a popular EC Comics horror series from the '50s that kids liked a lot back then. Of course, the content did get EC in trouble, particularly with screwy psychologist Fredric Wertham.
 
Yup, they lose and dissapear like the video game monsters and the DRAMATIC REVEAL is that the monsters are controlled by two alien teens who are skiving school to play an arcade game where they stop the 'evil humans' (who are less advanced than them??)...then the shot pans out showing menacing tentacles closing in on the aliens...


Personally I never liked that show much.
 
Again, another series that has been part of my childhood - it creeped the life life out of me but, at the same time, I always wanted more. A few episodes I roughly remember were:

- A new girl arrives at a school and takes a fancy to one of her classmates. But when some bullies give them trouble, she turns out to be a plant creature who attacks them.
- "Dead Men Don't Jump", the only title I can fully remember. A couple o' kids have to play a basketball match against a zombie player.
- A father tries teaching his son to fish bus ends up caught by the fish themselves and ends up canned (literally).

TBH, I was totally unaware of the live-action series and the comic books this series was based from, but it's fun to find out so much "history" behind one show alone. And I reckon it got better when the Witch and the Vault Keeper were brought into the act. More interactivity amongst characters there.
 
Guess I was backwards. Even though I was like 8 when this aired, I started watching it because it was easier than staying up to watch the Live Action show, which I saw first.

Also, it's on DVD in Canada. Import them and you can watch them in America. They go great with Canadian Are You Afraid of The Dark? DVDs.
 
Well, they were probably trying to jump onto the "creepy stuff for kids" bandwagon that stuff like Goosebumps started and Tales from the Crypt had enough brand recognition for them to utilize it.
 
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