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** Creator/BrianDennehy's character in "Quiet Please" is such an insensitive {{Jerkass}} that it's hard to feel bad when he's [[spoiler:murdered by a serial killer.]]
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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Gerald in "Quiet Please" is revealed to be a SerialKiller in the twist ending, driven to murder by his hatred of noise.]]
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* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:Gerald]] in "Quiet Please" is revealed to be one.
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: The mother in "Harmony" strangles her son to death with a wire for listening to music. Comes off as DisproportionateRetribution at first, but the end of the episode proves that its not without reason, as his rebelliousness put the entire town at risk]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: In "The Maze," the worlds still going to end via an asteroid hitting the earth in two years, but the protagonist decided to get Wes a chance and will live her last days to the fullest]].
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* FalseFriend: Lucy in "Used Car," who manipulates Charlottes trust to get her to leave her husband [[spoiler: so she can be with him. She then murders Charlotte so she’ll no longer have a rival for his affection]].
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* MurderTheHypotenuse: In "Used Car," Lucy asked this of Charlotte’s husband because he was having an affair with her. Then she killed herself when he refused, [[spoiler: possessing the car he bought her and using it to kill his wife herself at the end of the episode]].
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** In "Used Car," Charlotte leaves her husband in solidarity and disgust for how he treated Lucy, his previous lover whom he impregnated… [[spoiler: then Lucy reveals herself to be no friend to Charlotte at all, revealing that she was sleeping with her husband while they were still married and asked him to kill her so they can be together. The episode ends with Lucy successfully killing Charlotte and letting the husband know she’s still obsessively in love with him]].
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* {{Yandere}}: The cursed car in "Used Car." [[spoiler: By the end of the episode, she kills Charlotte so she can be closer to her husband]].
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* EyeScream: The series' intro title is a needle falling onto someone's exposed eye, but stopping just before the impact to flash forward through the upcoming stories.
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* EyeScream: EyeScream:
** The series' intro title is a needle falling onto someone's exposed eye, but stopping just before the impact to flash forward through the upcoming stories.
** The series' intro title is a needle falling onto someone's exposed eye, but stopping just before the impact to flash forward through the upcoming stories.
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* AndIMustScream: In "Switch", a woman seeing a psychiatrist to find her alternate personality and eliminate it found that [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie she WAS the alternate]], created by her child-like real self after her parents died when she was five. The real twist? [[spoiler: She murdered them. The episode ended with this woman -- trapped in her mind, unable to speak, and unable to move -- totally encased in eight big hollow bricks that spelled out "ETERNITY," with holes only for her forearms.]]
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* AndIMustScream: AndIMustScream:
** In "Switch", a woman seeing a psychiatrist to find her alternate personality and eliminate it found that [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie she WAS the alternate]], created by her child-like real self after her parents died when she was five. The real twist? [[spoiler: She murdered them. The episode ended with this woman -- trapped in her mind, unable to speak, and unable to move -- totally encased in eight big hollow bricks that spelled out "ETERNITY," with holes only for her forearms.]]
** In "Switch", a woman seeing a psychiatrist to find her alternate personality and eliminate it found that [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie she WAS the alternate]], created by her child-like real self after her parents died when she was five. The real twist? [[spoiler: She murdered them. The episode ended with this woman -- trapped in her mind, unable to speak, and unable to move -- totally encased in eight big hollow bricks that spelled out "ETERNITY," with holes only for her forearms.]]
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* EvilLearnsOfOutsideContext: The episode "A View Through the Window" involves a dimensional portal appearing in the middle of the desert, apparently leading to a quiet farming community some indeterminate time in the past. [[spoiler:Eventually, the "humans" are revealed to actually be ravenous aliens who use their technology to close the portal on our end and start to look for a way to travel to Earth.]]
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* SurpriseCreepy: The ending to "A View Through A Window" (based on the Creator/BobLeman short story ''Literature/{{Window}}''), which is played a lot like ''The Twilight Zone's'' more heartwarming episodes... [[spoiler:right up until the main character manages to enter the idyllic world inside the anomaly, and meets the woman he's been fawning over. They kiss... [[MoodWhiplash Then she proceeds to tear out his throat]], quickly joined by her children. Turns out the inhabitants of that world LOOK human, [[DownerEnding but are anything but]].]]
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* SurpriseCreepy: SurprisinglyCreepyMoment: The ending to "A View Through A Window" (based on the Creator/BobLeman short story ''Literature/{{Window}}''), which is played a lot like ''The Twilight Zone's'' more heartwarming episodes... [[spoiler:right up until the main character manages to enter the idyllic world inside the anomaly, and meets the woman he's been fawning over. They kiss... [[MoodWhiplash Then she proceeds to tear out his throat]], quickly joined by her children. Turns out the inhabitants of that world LOOK human, [[DownerEnding but are anything but]].]]
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* ObsessivelyOrganized: In "Patterns", Creator/MalcolmMcDowell plays a man that obsessively does number-related rituals (e.g., patting himself in certain places, flicking behind his ear a certain number of times). He believes that if he stops, the world will unravel. [[spoiler:And it turns out that he's right.]]
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* SuperOCD: In "Patterns", Creator/MalcolmMcDowell plays a man that obsessively does number-related rituals (i.e. patting himself in certain places, flicking behind his ear a certain number of times). He believes that if he stops, the world will unravel. [[spoiler:And it turns out that he's right.]]
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* AfterlifeAngst: A variation in the episode "If A Tree Falls...". Three college students get into a car accident and drown--but they discover that since no one witnessed their deaths, they're somehow still allowed to be alive (and immortal at that), so long as no one ever learns the truth by seeing their bodies. Two of them are fine with the arrangement, but the third has strong religious and moral convictions that cause him to crack. He returns to the scene of the accident with the intention of only releasing his own body to be found, which will allow him to pass into the next world. In a CruelTwistEnding, though, he only manages to free his friends' corpses (which, upon being seen, cause the friends to fade into nothingness) before the car they all died in tumbles to the bottom of the lake with his own body still trapped inside, where it will never be found or recovered, leaving him [[AndIMustScream permanently stuck on Earth with no chance of escape.]]
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* AfterlifeAngst: A variation in the episode "If A Tree Falls...". Three college students get into a car accident and drown--but they discover that since no one witnessed their deaths, they're somehow still allowed to be alive (and immortal at that), so long as no one ever learns the truth by seeing their bodies. Two of them are fine with the arrangement, but the third has strong religious and moral convictions that cause him to crack. He returns to the scene of the accident with the intention of only releasing his own body to be found, which will allow him to pass into the next world. In [[spoiler:In a CruelTwistEnding, though, he only manages to free his friends' corpses (which, upon being seen, cause the friends to fade into nothingness) before the car they all died in tumbles to the bottom of the lake with his own body still trapped inside, where it will never be found or recovered, leaving him [[AndIMustScream permanently stuck on Earth with no chance of escape.]]]]]]
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* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler: In "My So-Called Life and Death", the mother takes the lighter from the son, scolding his sister and father for allowing him to be "tempted by it". It's revealed in the end that the lighter is what killed them all in the first place, as he accidentally caused a house fire while playing with it5]].
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* Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: In "My So-Called Life and Death", the mother takes the lighter from the son, scolding his sister and father for allowing him to be "tempted by it". It's revealed in the end that the lighter is what killed them all in the first place, as he accidentally caused a house fire while playing with it5]].it]].
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** [[spoiler: It's implied in "My so-called Life and Death" that the family will have to live in the "purgatory" that is their vacation home for all eternity, [[BarredFromTheAfterlife with no indication that they will ever be able to move on]]. As if realizing this, or as though the mother simply wants to make the best of a bad situation, they accept this and continue on the facade of a happy family in the remains of their home. It's particularly horrible for the daughter, as all she wanted to do was escape from the miserable family that she hated but is now trapped with them forever]].
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* DysfunctionalFamily: The family in "My so-called Life and Death". The mother and daughter don't get along, [[SpoiledBrat the son is an immature brat that is coddled by his mother regardless of what he does]], and [[HenpeckedHusband the father]] is implied to be an alcoholic that bought a vacation home to escape his family. Despite this, the mother wants to keep up the facade of a perfect, loving family and attempts to force this image on the daughter, who wants nothing more than to escape. [[spoiler: It's revealed at the end of the episode that they're all ghosts that died in a house fire that the son caused, which the mother was trying to conceal from the daughter. With no indication that they'll ever be able to move on from purgatory, it's likely that they'll be stuck in this unhappy situation for all of eternity]].
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* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler: In "My So-Called Life and Death", the mother takes the lighter from the son, scolding his sister and father for allowing him to be "tempted by it". It's revealed in the end that the lighter is what killed them all in the first place, as he accidentally caused a house fire while playing with it5]].
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* NoMereWindmill: In "Harmony", [[spoiler:The Beast turns out to be real after all]].
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* AdultFear: "Neighborhood Watch" deals with a possible child molester.
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** "A View Through The Window": Projecting your own ideals and fantasies on other people will only ever lead to disappointment and disaster, possibly even fatal ones. Trying to replace your lost loved ones with complete strangers will only lead to tragedy.
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* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: [[spoiler: The family on the other side of the dimensional window in "A View Through The Window" seem to be a close, strongly bonded group, even after their true inhuman, monstrous nature is revealed. Since they didn't know the window existed until the main character gets through the barrier, they genuinely were as happy and close as they appeared, rather than pretending to lure in new victims.]]
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* AfterlifeAngst: A variation in the episode "If A Tree Falls...". Three college students get into a car accident and drown--but they discover that since no one witnessed their deaths, they're somehow still allowed to be alive (and immortal at that), so long as no one ever learns the truth by seeing their bodies. Two of them are fine with the arrangement, but the third has strong religious and moral convictions that cause him to crack. He returns to the scene of the accident with the intention of only releasing his own body to be found, which will allow him to pass into the next world. In a CruelTwistEnding, though, he only manages to free his friends' corpses (which, upon being seen, cause the friends to fade into nothingness) before the car they all died in tumbles to the bottom of the lake with his own body still trapped inside, where it will never be found or recovered, leaving him [[AndIMustScream permanently stuck on Earth with no chance of escape.]]
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* AnAesop: Delivered in no uncertain terms at the end of each episode. Almost always [[UnfortunateImplications questionable]], [[BrokenAesop broken]] or just outright [[SpaceWhaleAesop weird]].
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* AnAesop: Delivered in no uncertain terms at the end of each episode. Almost always [[UnfortunateImplications questionable]], [[BrokenAesop broken]] episode.
** "Dead Air": Don't piss off people on a regular basis or you'll eventually run into somebody that will not take any of your guff.
** The episode "Neighborhood Watch" shows that taking the law into your own hands is a terrible idea and justoutright [[SpaceWhaleAesop weird]].because you hear ugly rumors about a person, you should ''never'' assume that they are guilty.
** "The Maze" delivers a pretty important one at the end: Nothing lasts forever, and you never know when the end might come, so don't put off your dreams, because you might not get another chance at living them.
** "Dead Air": Don't piss off people on a regular basis or you'll eventually run into somebody that will not take any of your guff.
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** "The Maze" delivers a pretty important one at the end: Nothing lasts forever, and you never know when the end might come, so don't put off your dreams, because you might not get another chance at living them.
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-->'''Gerry''': Just one lousy weekend... Is that so much to ask...
-->'''Ben''': (ashamed) No...
-->'''Gerry''': (turns around to face Ben; is wiping his glasses with his shirt) I-I-I-I even tried [[spoiler:killing your dog]], but... (Ben's face drops in shock) you still wouldn't leave...
-->'''Ben''': (ashamed) No...
-->'''Gerry''': (turns around to face Ben; is wiping his glasses with his shirt) I-I-I-I even tried [[spoiler:killing your dog]], but... (Ben's face drops in shock) you still wouldn't leave...
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** Towards the end of "Quiet Please", after Ben refuses to leave Gerry alone, even after a bear had killed Ben's dog, Gerry loses all patience he has, and snaps, proceeding to have breakdown about how he just wanted a weekend of quiet and relaxation...
-->'''Gerry''': Just one lousy weekend... Is that so much to ask...
-->'''Ben''': (ashamed) No...
-->'''Gerry''': (turns around to face Ben; is wiping his glasses with his shirt) I-I-I-I even tried [[spoiler:killing your dog]], but... (Ben's face drops in shock) you still wouldn't leave...
*** "Uh, w-wha-[[spoiler:what about the bear]]?" "Oh, there-[[spoiler:there is no bear... I'm-I'm the bear]]..."
** Towards the end of "Quiet Please", after Ben refuses to leave Gerry alone, even after a bear had killed Ben's dog, Gerry loses all patience he has, and snaps, proceeding to have breakdown about how he just wanted a weekend of quiet and relaxation...
-->'''Gerry''': Just one lousy weekend... Is that so much to ask...
-->'''Ben''': (ashamed) No...
-->'''Gerry''': (turns around to face Ben; is wiping his glasses with his shirt) I-I-I-I even tried [[spoiler:killing your dog]], but... (Ben's face drops in shock) you still wouldn't leave...
*** "Uh, w-wha-[[spoiler:what about the bear]]?" "Oh, there-[[spoiler:there is no bear... I'm-I'm the bear]]..."
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: "Neighborhood Watch" ends with a two-fold example: Jim Osgoode being given a piece of paper from his wife. The paper is from the police, [[spoiler:reporting that they had accidentally printed the incorrect address for the sexual predator that moved into the neighborhood,]] and ends by apologizing for any inconveniences this may have caused. As both adults [[OhCrap silently contemplate this revelation]], their daughter, Janey, looks at the letter and (unaware of what's going on) asks her dad if this means there's another "bad guy". [[spoiler:The previous night, Jim had murdered who he ''thought'' was the predator.]]
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: "Neighborhood Watch" ends with a two-fold example: Jim Osgoode being given a piece of paper from his wife. The paper is from the police, [[spoiler:reporting that they had accidentally printed the incorrect address for the sexual predator that moved into the neighborhood,]] and ends by [[DramaticIrony apologizing for any inconveniences this may have caused.caused]]. As both adults [[OhCrap silently contemplate this revelation]], their daughter, Janey, looks at the letter and (unaware of what's going on) asks her dad if this means there's another "bad guy". [[spoiler:The previous night, Jim had murdered who he ''thought'' was the predator.]]
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* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: "Neighborhood Watch" ends with a two-fold example: Jim Osgoode being given a piece of paper from his wife. The paper is from the police, [[spoiler:reporting that they had accidentally printed the incorrect address for the sexual predator that moved into the neighborhood,]] and ends by apologizing for any inconveniences this may have caused. As both adults [[OhCrap silently contemplate this revelation]], their daughter, Janey, looks at the letter and (unaware of what's going on) asks her dad if this means there's another "bad guy". [[spoiler:The previous night, Jim had murdered who he ''thought'' was the predator.]]
-->'''Janey''': Is- is there another bad guy, Dad? Dad? Who's the bad guy, Dad? Dad? Who is it, Dad? Dad? Who's the bad guy, Dad?
-->'''Janey''': Is- is there another bad guy, Dad? Dad? Who's the bad guy, Dad? Dad? Who is it, Dad? Dad? Who's the bad guy, Dad?
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* ParanoiaFuel: Invoked to great effect in the opening speech of "The Occupant."
--> "When Mary Hughes got divorced, she was afraid to be alone. Now she's terrified that she isn't."
--> "When Mary Hughes got divorced, she was afraid to be alone. Now she's terrified that she isn't."
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* EveryEpisodeEnding: Each episode ends with some sort of quip, one-liner, or [[BrokenAesop Broken]] or FamilyUnfriendlyAesop by Henry Rollins.
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* AnAesop: Delivered in no uncertain terms at the end of each episode. Almost always [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop [[UnfortunateImplications questionable]], [[BrokenAesop broken]] or just outright [[SpaceWhaleAesop weird]].
