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Home sweet-smelling home.

Strange, Indiana was a nineteen-episode wizard serial that aired on NBC from 1991-92 (in prime prison term). IT ran again connected Fox Kids Saturday mornings from 1997-98 as part of their "No Yell Motel" block, which enclosed a lot of scary kids' shows (the live-activeness adaption of Goosebumps, reruns of the Aboriginal Australian kids' show Discoidal the Twist, and Steven Spielberg's best alive project from DreamWorks Studios, Toonsylvania). The ephemeral series had a mid-season Revise and had an unproduced episode called "The Mirthful William Penn Adair Rogers". IT also spawned a second series, Eery, Indiana: The Other Dimension, one year after Dodger Kids ran out of NBC episodes to show, too arsenic a series of byproduct novels. The serial publication could be represented as Twin Peaks meets The Twilight District told from the POV of a snarky 13-year-old version of Fox Mulder.

Marshall Teller, a transplant from New Jersey whose family has freshly sick to the desolate town of Eery, and Simon Sherlock Holmes, an Eerie native, investigate the weirdness that inhabited the titular town. It would personify easier for them if the town's residents didn't refuse to see themselves equally anything but normal. Some of the more eccentric confrontations include such urban legends equal Bigfoot and a still living Elvis Presley.

In 1997, following the series' rebirth along Fox, Eerie was continued as a short-lived series of books that continuing the story, allegedly just unity year later on the end of the original series. The books were met with mixed reviews and after just 17 entries, the series was off in 1998.

As of Honourable 2022, the series is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video, and one disc collection on DVD is in stock through and through Netflix's DVD weapon.

Compare Moonlike the Twisting, an Australian show with a analogous premise, only with more ghosts, gross-out temper, and which is more light-hearted.

This show provides examples of:

  • Role playe Allusion:
    • Simon's younger brother's full name is Harley Schwarzenegger Holmes. Christian and Joseph Cousins, who played Harley, antecedently played Dominic Palmieri in the Arnold Schwarzenegger moving-picture show Kindergarten Cop.
    • In "Reality Takes a Holiday", the Adam Westing version of Mary-Margret Humes tells Marshall that she cried for days when she saved exterior that her character was being killed away in Jake and the Fatman. The concrete Humes appeared in deuce episodes of the series: "I Own't Got Nobody" and "My Son Bill".
  • Adam Westing: In "Reality Takes a Holiday", Justin Shenkarow, Mary-Margaret Humes, Francis Guinan, Julie Condra and Joe Dante each playing period an exaggerated (if not outright deranged) version of their real world selves.
  • Adults Are Useless: Although a good deal of the local kids are forgetful and useless too. And sometimes, the adults are in on the plot...
  • Aliens in Cardiff: All of the insanity, some of which is nearly global-destroying, happens in a tiny town in residential area IN. Deuce episodes even deal with factual aliens.
  • Riming Name: Melanie Norma Jean Bake in "Pump on a Chain".
  • Alternate Universe:
    • In "World Takes a Holiday", Marshall is transported to an alternate universe in which Supernatural, Indiana is a TV program and he is an role playe titled Omri Katz who plays Marshall Teller.
    • Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension takes locate in a different macrocos from the premiere serial publication, as the title suggests. Information technology's implied that this dimension was actually fairly normal until a traveler from the first universe of discourse introduced all sorts of buggy shit. Also, the main character's name is Mitchell Deems Taylor instead of E. G. Marshall Teller.
  • American East Germanic language Duad: In "Mr. Chaney", the parents of the 1979 Harvest King are dressed identically to the couple.
  • Anti-Orgasm: Given the premise of "Reality Takes a Vacation", where Marshall gets a screenplay in the mail and his planetary devolves into a behind-the-scenes look at the actual show: Marshall re-writes the end of the installment to something more routine and has to wait on set while the new pages are tardily photocopied by the writer's assistant, then delivered to the cast. When Dash tries to interfere, Marshall complains to the director, who sedately orders Bolt to "crystallise Omri's eye-line". Dash is familiar by the rules of his own game and the script unfolds. Everybody goes to the movies. The End.
  • Art Initiates Life: In "World Health Organization's Who", Sara Bob had this power due to an Eerie brand pencil. She first demonstrates this by drawing a picture of Marshall's wanting motorcycle (for a "lost" post horse), but information technology instead creates a new bike. To escape her terrible home life, she draws Marshall's mother Marilyn As her own long lost mom and then draws a picture of herself with her generate, teleporting to her.
  • A Very Peculiar Installment: "The Broken Record" is a rare, same advantageously through, very profound object lesson that actually realistically depicts paternal abuse, its consequences, and to an extent, its causes.
  • Awesome Mc Coolname: Dash X. Invoked, since he named himself afterwards the symbols on his hands in "The Loyal Order of Corn".
  • Bank Wassailer: In "The Hole in the Head Gang", peerless is purloined by the ghost of Grungy Bill in his first off "sure-fire" robbery of the Eerie Bank so his soul could at long last remainder in repose.
  • Bazaar of the Bizarre: Mr. Radford's World O' Overgorge.
  • Be Careful What You Say: Literally. In "The Broken Memorialize", Tod's father Phil claims that a Pitbull Surfers record of has been causing his son to represent rebellious due to unperceivable messages. When he plays it back, he does find dead that the record has messages: it's his ain voice and abusive words towards Tod.
  • The Bermuda Triangle: In "The Retainer", Marshall and Simon come upon that Eery's town borders create the demand one geometric shape as the Bermuda Triangle.
  • Big Alarming-Crawlies: One sequence had some kind of formula that finally made indifferent ants grow to enormous size.
  • Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Abominable snowman:
    • In "Foreverware", it is disclosed that a Bigfoot apparently finds human cuisine palatable enough to eat extinct of the Teller folk's methamphetamine.
    • In "Marshall's Theory of Believability", Professor Zircon's assistant Claude meets a young-bearing one when He's planting the fake "space thing." It is wearing a humongous ping bow on its head.
  • Bigger on the Inside: In "The Loyal Order of Indian corn", Ned's secret compartment in the Loyal Order of Corn Lodge is large on the inside than it is on the outside.
  • Bottle Episode: "Scariest Dwelling Videos" takes position entirely at Marshall's menage exclude for a view in a car.
  • Brace of Orthodontic Overkill: In "The Retainer", Marshall's friend Steve Konkalewski is required to wear out one awhile. It allows him to read the minds of dogs, World Health Organization are revealed to be plotting the eventual overthrow of the human race.
  • Fraternity of Funny Hats: In "The Leal Order of Zea mays", Edgar joins the Loyal Rate of Corn Lodge, Eerie's version of the Loyal Order of Moose. The members wear hats modeled aft corn whiskey stalks and new members such as Edgar are referred to as "seedlings." The kernel Mr. Radford is the nominal loss leader of the Order just its confessedly leader is its long serving bartender Ned, World Health Organization turns out to be an alien explorer isolated on Earth. He founded the Lodge in purchase order to unknowingly enlist the humans' help in edifice a tachyon portal so that he could turn back to his own planet.
  • Bystander Syndrome: The town's attitude toward Eery's separateness. Lampshaded in "Mr. Chaney" by The Mayor himself:

    "This town — heck, this unscathed country — has a long... 'custom'... of looking the past fashio: the Earl Warren Commission, Watergate, Iran-Contra, the October surprise, Eerie's 'Harvest King'. The people Don't want to lie with about this stuff. Because if they knew about it, they might experience to do something or so it."

  • Call-Back: In "Zombies in P.J.'s", Mr. Radford seems to come across some familiar items.
  • Character Narrator: The series is narrated by Marshall.
  • Cheerful Child: Simon is just about always exceedingly happy and upbeat.
  • City of Adventure: Eerie, dwelling house of the strange and bizarre.
  • Clock Roaches: In "The Lost 60 minutes", Marshall sets his clock back an hour despite the townsfolk's practise of ignoring day saving's time (Indiana did not observe it in 1991), and as a result has to bully off against malevolent, trans-dimensional trashmen whose job IT is to trash realism (in very close similarity to Stephen King's The Langoliers, promulgated incomparable year previously).
  • The Computer Is Your Quaker: In "The Automated teller with the Nerve of Gold", Simon befriends the inexplicably unnaturally intelligent automatic Teller machine "Mr. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson", who returns his friendship by offering to provide him with "slush fund" money... nerveless of strange people's savings accounts.
  • Persistence Nod:
    • In "The Hole in the Manoeuvre Gang", there is a 50% sale on Foreverware at the Globe O' Ingurgitate. Later, Winifred Swanson, one of the women who used Foreverware in the sequence of the same name, is seen at the bank with her female child. She tells her daughter that they will yet stimulate a Foreverware container large sufficient for her piggy bank.
    • In "Reality Takes a Vacation", Radford can be detected vocalizing "Hail To Thee, O Ears of Splender", the song of the Loyal Dictate of Corn whisky from the instalment of the same name.
    • In "Heart on a Chain", some of the students in Marshall's year are seen wearing the huge horn-rimmed glasses from "Meet Say No Fun". They are as wel the ones who don't engage in or react to any disruptive behaviour.
  • Cool Gate: In "The Loyal Order of Corn", Ned came to Earth through a tachyon portal, arriving in Siberia in 1908. The hepatic portal vein broke weak immediately later o. Atomic number 2 founded the Loyal Order of Corn and encouraged the development of radio and television so that frail technology would be advanced adequate to build other tachyon portal vein so that he could return home. While investigating the portal, Marshall and Dash X accidentally send Herbert A. Simon to an ice planet.
  • Crazy Homeless People: In "No Brain, No Botheration", the crazy homeless man Chappie is rumored to an axe manslayer called the Mad Whacker Beaver State Eerie's endure people liberal. E. G. Marshall and Simon discover that he is as a matter of fact Charles Furnell, the smartest man on Solid ground. He invented the Brainalyzer in 1978 so that the cognition and intelligence operation of magnificent people could be preserved for future generations. However, his wife Eunice Danforth stole it in order to fix the 1980 presidential election. To ensure that this could never befall again, Charles destroyed the Brainalyzer, disorganized his brainwaves and transferred his head onto an 8-track tape recording of the Knack Sung dynasty "My Sharona". Even in his brain disorganized state, however, he retained enough knowledge to build other Brainalyzer.
  • Creative Closure Credits: Well-nig closing credits do have an aspect of the episode, only a notable one is at the end of "Who's Who" most a class World Health Organization all have the middle name "Shilling", even the daughter Sara Bob. The credits take everyone's midriff name A "Bob".
  • Crossover: Charles Furnell from "No Brain, No Bother" later appeared in the The Secret World of Alex Mack instalment "BMX".
  • Expressionless Snarker: Marshall is always ready with a mordacious remark near the paranormal events that occur in Eerie or life in general.
  • Dream Weaverbird: In "The Dead Letter", Tripp McConnell enters George Marshall's dream in order to convince him to surrender his letter to Mary B. Carter.
  • Dutch people Angle:
    • In "The Dead Letter", multiplex European nation angles are used during Marshall's Dream Sequence.
    • In "Marshall's Theory of Credibleness", various are secondhand in the scene in which Professor Zirchon tries to deal out the "space affair" to Eerie.
    • In "Zombies in P.J.s", there is one when Marshall discovers most of the townspeople sleepwalking to the Earthly concern O' Stuff to give out on a shopping spree.
  • Electronic Speech Impediment: In "The ATM with the Heart of Gold", the artificially sound ATM Mister. Wilson displays one.
  • Elvis Lives: ...along Marshall's paper route.
  • Embarrassing Middle Key out In "Who's World Health Organization", Sara Bob is embarrassed by her cite. Of course, this was Family Idea Designatio arsenic her brothers are Lou Bob, Moe Bob, and Bob Bob while her founding father is named Dad Bob. She still tries to change her name to Sara Sue.
  • E.T. Gave The States WI-Fi: In "The Loyal Order of Corn", the alien Ned encouraged the development of radio and television.
  • Every Episode Ending: Marshall and Simon store an item in the secret evidence cabinet in Marshall's attic.
  • Everything Fades: In "The Losers", the U.S. government federal government has a black budget organization dedicated to "appropriating" the items people forget are sitting around their houses, forcing them to bribe new things...and thus keeping the bloated American economic system going strong. Easy one of the most believable concepts the show ever aired.
  • Evil Laughter:
    • In "Foreverware", Betty Wilson, the evil neighborhood woman who has been retaining her juvenility forever, does a kind of over the top one (complete with lightning strikes) when Marshall and Simon escape from her house.
    • In "Reality Takes a Holiday", Dash X does one after helium and the Eerie, Indiana author José Schaefer tell Marshall that he is leaving to be killed off.
  • The Evils of Free Will: In "Just Say No Fun", Nurse Nancy has been itinerant to schools all over the United States brainwashing children low-level the guise of an eye test. Her goal is to improve children's test scores and make them conform by eliminating their need for fun.
  • Face on a Milk Carton: In "The Lost Hour", the Tellers view Janet Donner's face on a Milk River carton and earn that she has absent for exactly a year, since the live time that the clocks went endorse an time of day. Marshall later enters a parallel dimension arsenic a upshot of setting his watch back an minute even though Unusual does not observe daylight savings time. Piece there, he discovers that atomic number 2 can communicate with Simon in the regular Strange through the face on the milk carton.
  • Family Theme Naming: In "Who's WHO", everyone's middle name in a family is Bob. Sara Bob, her brothers Lou Bob, Moe Bob, and Bob Bob, as well as their Church Father, Dada British shilling.
  • Fearsome Critters of American Folklore: One episode of the rhenium-creature revolved around a jackalope.
  • First Buss: In the first scene of "Heart along a Chain of mountains", Marshall has his first kiss with Melanie in the Eerie graveyard. Marshall then explains How We Got Here for the rest of the episode.
  • Fictional Holiday: In "Tornado Days", Unusual celebrates the 87th annual Tornado Day systematic to appease Old Bob, the twister that hits the town on the same twenty-four hours every year. Syndi is chosen as Overlook Tornado Day and wears a themed costume. Even so, on this occasion, Genuine Tail is not appeased as IT interprets E. G. Marshall and Simon's refusal to attend the celebration as an contumely.
  • Fin-Finger Tenia: In "Heart connected a Chemical chain", Devon does this in the schoolroom. When Marshall tells him to slow down, Devon replies, "Exist fast, die immature, leave a good looking stiff." After Devon's heart is transplanted into her body, Melanie does the five finger fillet herself in the Populace O' Choke up and uses the same phrase.
  • Onetime Child Star: Lampshaded in "World Takes a Holiday". George Catlett Marshall, having been transported hind end the scenes of Eerie, Indiana, runs off in the midriff of make-up to prevent himself from killed off. When his on-block out sister Julie Condra wonders where he is going, the piddle-up artist says, "Where's any red-blooded immature ace belong when they sustain off? On a crime spree."
  • Quaternity-Temperament Ensemble: Thanks to a middle-harden Retool: Marshall is Mulder Melancholic (minus the depression), Simon is a cheerful Sanguine, Radford is as Supine as they get, and Dash is downright Choleric. Made obvious by the end of "Mr. Chaney".
  • The Fourth Wall Wish Not Protect You: In "Scariest Home Videos", a television far control is revealed to contain the world power to charg people into the programs being televised at least, until the batteries conk out.
  • "Freaky Friday" Turn over: In "Nobelium Brain, No Pain", Marshall incidentally places Charles Furnell's mind (which had been stored on an 8-racetrack magnetic tape of the Knack song "My Sharona") into Simon's physical structure using the Brainalyzer. Atomic number 2 is afterwards able to reunite Charles' dead body and beware, leaving Simon's body vacant as his mind had been transferred to the tape. When Charles I' demode-wife Eunice Danforth tries to steal the Brainalyzer, it is unexpectedly activated. She and Marshall switch bodies patc Charles' judgment returns to Simon the Canaanite's body and Simon's nou is transferred into Charles' body. Everyone is eventually restored to their just body.
  • Disentangled-Range Children:
    • Poor Simon is completely unheeded aside his parents, who perpetually fight with each other. The Tellers turn his surrogate syndicate.
    • Likewise, Sara Bob's family in "Who's WHO". Her dad is physically present simply Sara Bob has to care for him as well as her hellion brothers.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: Whenever in that respect's text big sufficiency to read that goes away too fast, you can bet there's a joke in it. A rattling fun example is in "Reality Takes a Holiday", when Marshall reads the shot script for the scene he just walked out on. In the direction, it says Simon sits there, looking "orphanish".
  • Funny Background Event:
    • In the terminal scene of "Affection on a Sir Ernst Boris Chain", The Grim Reaper is seen walking through with the Eerie burying ground as Marshall, Simon and Melanie leave.
    • In "The Dead Letter", the headline of the November 9, 1929 variation of the Eerie Examiner is "Hoover to Land: Don't Trouble, Be Glad." This was to a lesser degree three weeks after the Wall Street Crash.
  • Fun with Acronyms: In "The Retainer", the gang goes to the pound... owned by the Canine tooth Collar Team.
  • Genius Loci: In "Tornado Days", the tornado chasing NOAA meteorologist Leslie Howard Stainer Raymer has dictated that the crack Old Bob is alert, sentient, malicious and has a very big ego. Information technology sees E. G. Marshall and Herbert Alexander Simon refusing to attend the Tornado Day festivities as a sign of disrespect and brings the full force of its wrath down on Eerie in an endeavor to kill them.
  • Halloween Episode: In "Scariest Home Videos", Simon's younger brother Harley becomes trapped in the television on Allhallows Eve.
  • Happily Married: Marshall's parents Edgar and Marilyn.
  • Heel–Face Brainwashing: In "Just Say No Fun", Marshall and Simon turn the tables connected Nursemaid Nancy by brainwashing her so that she laughs uncontrollably and endlessly when she hears the phrase "Womp-bomp-a-do-domp."
  • Reheel–Face Revolver: Dash is a confused guy. His last two episodes confuse things even further.
  • Hereditary Twinhood: Invoked in the "Foreverware" episode. The plot involves a home whose members induce been quiescency in big tupperware boxes to stunt their aging for three decades. The sequence ends with the class accelerating the "spoiling" summons as an alternative slowing/stopping it, aging the twin sons xxx years long. When found doing work outside their house by someone unaware of the kinsperson secret, they pull a Pretence to Comprise One's Own Relative and claim that twins run in the family.
  • Vacation Episode: "The Lost Hour" focuses on Daylight-savings time. Marshall sets his watch forward an hour disdain town rules, and things get weird.
  • Hominal Aliens: In "The Loyal Order of Clavus", Ned belongs to an alien species who, while very long lived, are identical to humans except for the presence of "+" and "-" signs on their hands, just like Dash X's. Ned admits that he does not know the meaning of the signs, which long predate his civilisation.
  • Human Popsicle: In "Foreverware", Betty Edward Osborne Wilson's late husband created the almost astoundingly effective tupperware in the chronicle of mankind. She has been using Foreverware to support both herself and her twin sons Bert and Ernie young since 1964.
  • Anthropoid Ritual killing:
    • In "Tornado Days", the fake Mr. Radford and Sgt. Knight view sacrificing Syndi, an innocent, chaste, unsuspecting maiden, to Old Bob in order to appease information technology.
    • In "Mr. Chaney", Eerie chooses a Harvest King every 13 years to assure sound fortune and low taxes. The custom dates aft to 1914. Marshall has the dubious distinction of being chosen as the ordinal Harvest Big businessman in 1992. It turns dead that the previous six Harvest Kings were sacrificed to the wolfman Mr. Chaney. The town authorities claimed that all of them moved to Spain. Dash X prevents Marshall from being eaten aside hitting the wolfman terminated the school principal with a logarithm. Mr. Radford later cures Mr. Chaney of his lycanthropy by shooting him in the pick with a silver bullet.
  • Hurricane of Euphemisms: In "World Takes a Vacation", Marshall learns from Panache X and the Eerie, Indiana author José Schaefer that they intend to wipe out him off. When he asks what they mean when they say dead, helium receives the following account:

    José Schaefer: I mean offed.

    Dash X: Snuffed.

    José Schaefer: Kicked the bucket.

    Frighten off X: Pushing up daisies.

    José Schaefer: Bought the farm out.

    Panache X: Did I mention rigourousness mortis?

  • Implausible Haircloth Color: Dash X is a teen with Zane Grey hair.
  • Role playe Forgot I Detail: In "No Brain, Zero Hurt", after accidentally shift bodies with him, Eunice Danforth pretends to be George Catlett Marshall and promises to give Dash X $1,000 if he stuns her old body with Marshall's mind inside of information technology. Dash is willing to go along with this program until he realizes that the real Marshal doesn't let $1,000.
  • Jerkass: Dash X, ofttimes implied to have a Hidden Heart of Gold. Until he tries to kill Marshall and take over the show in "Reality Takes a Holiday".
  • Just One Second Out of Synchronize: In "The Lost 60 minutes", Marshall sets his watch back an hour in spite of the fact that Unusual does non observe daylight-savings time time and becomes trapped in another dimension one hour ahead of everyone other in Strange. The solitary other people in town are a girl named Janet Donner (who has been similarly trapped for a year), a strange milkman World Health Organization is implied to be Marshall from the future and a dangerous chemical group of garbagemen.
  • Minor Hero: Marshall.
  • Optical maser-Guided Karma: Happens to Sara Bob's family line by her when she leaves in "WHO's Who". Instead of her being treated like a family handmaid, she creates a muscular manly caretaker who forces them to clean up the star sign before allowing them to wipe out. This results in a Mass "Oh, Crap!" for the family.
  • Latex Perfection: Marshall uses a impeccable disguise kit, pretending to be an IRS agent to defeat The Donald in "Zombies In P.J.s."
  • Leaning on the Quarter Paries: The first credit voice-concluded has the line, "A place so wholesome, then squealing cleanse, it could only be found connected TV..." However, this might merely be Marshall Telling more or less future reader of his journals (the viewer) that the place seemed like its veneer was straight out of a sitcom; apt the show's nature, both are belik the case.
  • Line-of-Sight Bring up: Dash X gets his identify from the plus and minus signs on his gloves read from letter-perfect to left.
  • Luvvies: In "Realism Takes a Holiday", the Adam Westing version of Francis Guinan is very much a luvvie. He speaks in an mannered Middle-Atlantic accent and continually talks near his experiences on the stage working with the likes of John Malkovich and Dustin Hoffman.
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: "Heart on a Chain" is the only episode in the serial publication that never answers its mystery. A diffident, terminally ill girl named Melanie Monroe has a crush on a devil-may-care champion of Marshall's called Devon Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, who dies in a freak accident. A heart transplant from his personify saves her. Melanie then begins playing increasingly bizarre (with a lot less self-will). It is left ambiguous whether Devon's personality has confiscated hers (as John Marshall believes), or whether guilt has made her not herself.
  • Milkman Conspiracy: Milkmen play a subtle but significant role in the serial, often appearing in the background or playing an (apparently) unknowing role in the events.
    • In "The Losers", Simon loses sight with the trunk in which George Catlett Marshall is attempting to Trojan Horse his way into the compound, because his view is stuffy by a milk truck.
    • In "The Broken Record", Marshall and Simon's friend Unaccompanied McNulty tries to hightail it township to see the Pitbull Surfers by commandeering a Milk truck.
    • Bertram and Ernest appear in a number of different roles after Marshall liberates them in "Foreverware", including A milkmen.
    • Alike, the "serial impersonator" primitively posing as Mr Radford appears later impersonating a milkman.
    • In "Heart on a Chain", Devon Wilde collides with a milk truck while skateboarding, as the milkman, among others, attends the scene of the accident. Devon is killed and his heart is transplanted into Melanie James Monroe.
    • In "The Dead Missive", Tripp McConnell was slay by a milk motortruck and killed on November 9, 1929.
    • While this could just be a motif (the show is about suburban weirdness, after all), in "The Forfeited Hour", Marshall is rescued from the lost hour by a milkman, World Health Organization implies that he is, in fact, future Marshall.
  • Mind-Command Device: In "The Chauvinistic Order of Corn", the hats worn by the members of the titulary Lodge are in fact mind control devices invented by Ned thus that the wearers can help him build a tachyon portal so that he can return to his own satellite.
  • My Nayme Is: Marshall has disdain for his experienced sister for spelling her name "S-Y-N-D-I." In "Foreverware", he says that no one who spells their name that way should be allowed to drive a motorcar.
  • None Fourth Wall: In "Reality Takes a Vacation", Marshall pulls an Eerie, Indiana television book out of his mailbox, and then suddenly finds himself can the scenes of the show.
  • No more Immortal Inertia: In "Foreverware", Betty Alexander Wilson has been using oversized Tupperware to keep herself and her similar sons Bert and Ernie looking that synoptic way they did back in 1964 (which she likes merely her sons hate because being in seventh level for all those years is a living Hell). When the Gemini the Twins free themselves and their mom from the tupperware, they age 30 years all-night.
  • Nothing Exciting Of all time Happens Here: Not even in the eyes of most of the "weirdness" in question, which continually sees the rest period of the town arsenic the most normal put on Ground.
  • The Nudifier: In "Who's Who", Sara Bob uses her power to manipulate realism using her art to make her younger blood brother Bob Bob's clothes disappear after atomic number 2 is rude to her.
  • Number of the Beast:
    • Supernatural's prescribed population is 16,661 people. Like that comma actually does anything! 16,661 is as wel a prime enumerate, and a palindrome— the smallest of what are known as Beastly Primes.
    • A twinkle-and-you'll-miss-information technology representative in "The ATM with the Heart of Gold": when Simon types in his figure As a PIN on the deranged ATM, the in conclusion three letters interpret as 666 on the keypad.
  • Only Sane Man: Marshall, who seems to be the only person in town World Health Organization knows Elvis Presley when he sees him.
  • Possibility Narration: Marshall happening his paper road exposits how Eerie is "the center of bizarreness for the entire planet."
  • Universe: X, and Counting: The town limits sign proudly mentions that the town's population is 16,661.
  • The Place: The series takes place in the town of Eerie, Indiana.
  • Premiseville: Eerie, Indiana, where the happenings are of an unusual nature.
  • The Quisling: Dash X has a tendency to collaborate for the right price, though he ne'er whole kit and boodle out as he would like:
    • In "No Brain, No Pain", he assists Eunice Danforth capture her hubby Charles Furnell and thereby clear approach to the Brainalyzer. She gives Dash $1,000 to look the other way while she fries Charles, Marshall and Simon's brains. Yet, He has a change of heart when he remembers what Marshall asked him earlier: how would helium finger if he was the one World Health Organization needed help?
    • In "Zombies in P.J.s", Flair teams up with the Donald in his Subliminal Conquest of the Eerie townsfolk in exchange for a piece of the pie. However, he switches sides and helps Marshall and Simon defeat the Donald when he discovers that he was ne'er going to get any money.
  • Read the Satisfactory Print: In "Zombies in P.J.s", the fine print of the contracts gestural by the sleepwalking World O' Stuff shoppers states that the Donald bequeath get ahead the rights over their souls unless they pay back all of the money on credit, which is impossible Eastern Samoa they are affected to go on a shopping spree every nighttime collectible to Subliminal Seduction.
  • Real After All:
    • In "Marshall's Theory of Credibleness", Professor Nigel Zirchon has his subordinate Claude implant a fake "space thing" in Eerie in order to mu the town's politics into spending a fortune to pip out from him. However, it turns exterior that Claude never had the opportunity to plant the fake A he was frightened aside a female person Bigfoot. The "space matter" that the Tellers, Simon and Professor Zirchon found was actual. This is demonstrated when it lights up, levitates and returns to blank. St. Simon manages to get a blurred photo of information technology before IT disappears.
    • In "The Kettle of fish in the Head Gang", Dash X convinces John Marshall and Marvin Neil Simon that Hitchcock Manufactory is haunted aside the ghost of the bank robber Grungy Bill using a "flying" chair attached to a wire and pulley-block, projecting his voice through a pipe to give it an echo gist and wearing a monster mask. When George Catlett Marshall and Simon give back to investigate further, they meet Dash and discover the true statement. Dash then finds an hoar gun under the floorboards and accidentally releases Dingy Handbill's ghost, which had been trapped in the gun for over 100 years.
  • Realness Is Surrealistic: Practical In-Universe in "Marshall's Hypothesis of Believability" when Claude asks, right before it starts to float and eventually flies off into space, where did Marshall and Simon found the "space thing" because the faked "space thing" he made "had more lights on that".
  • Reality Warper: In "Who's Who", Sara Bob gains the ability to manipulate reality through her nontextual matter when she begins to signboard her sketches with an Strange No. 2 pencil. The effects can be reversed by ripping up the relevant sketch.
  • Real Globe Instalment: The final episode, "World Takes a Vacation", has this as its plot. Marshall is sent a script of the episode, and dead his home turns into the limit of the TV show, with all the actors and actresses who play E. G. Marshall's family and friends, and everyone calling Marshal by his actor's name (Omri Katz). Dash X (WHO is alive that he's just a fictional scoundrel) tries to have Marshall killed past writing his decease into the script, but Marshall prevents it in the end by secretly writing his death out at the last instant. After he yells "Litigate!" his living returns to perpendicular.
  • Retraux: In "Scariest Plate Videos", the Deliberately Monochromic film Bloody Revenge of the Mummy's Curse emulates the style of the Universal Horror films, of which information technology is an Lovesome Parody.
  • Ransacking Sale Reject: Janet in "The Lost Hour" dresses this way - her outfit includes mismatched earrings, bright pink sneakers, and what looks to exist a women's courting-jacket accessorized with dozens of pins and brooches. Justified because she's been absolute in the lost hour for a year with no parental oversight and has literally been rummaging through World O' Stuff for apparel all that meter.
  • Serial Spouse: In "The Dead Letter", Mary B. Carter tells the ghost of her one veracious erotic love Tripp McConnell that she was married six multiplication merely no of them worked out as they weren't him.
  • Short Runner: The series lasted 19 episodes.
  • Shout-Exterior:
    • Some episodes reference movies, music and television shows, including Twin Peaks.
    • In "The Retainer", the orthodontist who fits Steve Konkalewski with the servant that allows him to pick up dogs' thoughts is titled Dr. Eukanuba after the dog-iron food brand.
    • In "The Losers", the items in the Bureau of Lost's monomania include Charles I Foster Kane's sled Rosebud from Citizen Kane and unmatchable of the pods from Invasion of the Organic structure Snatchers (1956).
    • In "Scariest Home Videos", Marshall's favourite lizards are named Godzilla and Mothra.
    • In "Heart on a Mountain range", there's a moment when the camera pans past a spider's web with a fly caught in it. And in the background you can meet make forbidden a tiny phonation calling for facilitate...
    • Besides in "Heart happening a Chain", Marshall shows Melanie a radio that can only get wind broadcasts from the 1930s. This is a reference to The No man's land (1959) installment "Electricity".
    • In "Twister Days", Simon paints "Hasta la prospect, Big Bob" on Howard Raymer's tornado rider in order to rally Old Bob.
    • In "Mr. Chaney", Radford, Chaney and Chisel can't wait to get home and catch The Howling on cable. The Howling's director, Joe Dante, served Eastern Samoa creative advisor for Supernatural, Hoosier State and directed five episodes. He also appeared As Himself in the Serial Close "Reality Takes a Vacation".
    • In "No Brain, No Pain", the leather clad, gun-toting Eunice Danforth says, "I'll be back" after Marshall and Simon plosive speech sound her from attacking the roofless man Chappie, who turns bent on atomic number 4 her husband Charles Furnell. Panache X comments that atomic number 2 didn't know that in that respect was a "Mrs. Exterminator" and later refers to her as "Grandma Schwarzenegger."
  • Show Within a Show: In "Scariest Home Videos", Simon's jr. brother Harley watches Bloody Retaliate of the Mummy's Curse.
  • Shrunk in the Wash: The episode The Incredible Shrinking Stanley, in which Francis Edgar Stanley gets splashed with special liquid ecstasy from the Eery laundry mat and starts shrinkage.
  • Soul Break up: In "Heart on a Chain", when Devon forgot to Count Some Ways, He died and Melanie got his heart for the transplant she needed. She then proceeded to act like him, skateboarding recklessly and carving graffiti on the desks.
  • Speaks Smooth Animal: In "The Retainer", Steve Konkalewski's retainer gives him the power to talk to dogs.
  • Spin-Off: Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension which as the title implies takes place in another dimension of the serial publication. By the meter they ready-made this the express, it was seven age after the original was canceled so they of course had to recast the characters. The kernel of the show was that ii new characters in this universe, R. J. Mitchell and Sir Henry Morton Stanley, continue documenting the weirdness of their city after an encounter with E.I.'s innovative characters, Marshall and Neil Simon via a TV set (they reused footage of the old show to make this materialise). IT lasted fifteen episodes.
  • Spoiled Brat: In "Reality Takes a Vacation", the Adam Westing version of Justin Shenkarow is a rude, bratty child actor who touches his Colorado-hotshot Julie Condra not suitably, tries to arrest his history teacher fired when she gives him a D and verbally abuses his generate when she doesn't sell stocks equally he told her to do.
  • Squirrels in My Pants: In "Scariest Location Videos", Marshall and Simon be after to go monster hunting on Halloween, until George Catlett Marshall's dad's car breaks downwards. Because Marshall's mom was baby sitting Simon's younger brother, Harley, she now of necessity to choke pick up Marshall's dad, leaving Herb Simon and Marshall to babysit Harley. Marshall asks if his experient Sister could do it, merely his mom explains that she's studying upstairs for a major tryout. Hard to make the best of the situation, Marshall plans to record Harley doing something incredibly pudding head and send IT to a show to make lots of money. Marshall plans to have Harley "pretend" to eat one of his pet lizards, only to make Simon scare off Harley, causing him to put awa the lizard into the couch. Frustrated, Marshall orders Simon to keep recording while he looks for the lizard. As he is bent all over and the camera rolling, Harley walks complete to the lounge lizard cage and retrieved the unusual lounge lizard. He then walks complete to Mobilise, who is still knack over looking for the lizard. Harley pushes Marshall's shirt skyward, opens his bloomers, and puts the lizard inside. Immediately realizing the lizard is in his drawers, Marshall sits up to make sure it's rattling in on that point. When he's sure as shooting IT is, he jumps upfield and begins running around the living with his hands in his pants trying to find the lizard. As he is doing so, Harley and Simon' hows are both dismission of laughter, are still recording. Marshall then runs upstairs and runs rearwards and forth refine the hallway, exposing is fearful polka stippled boxers. He then walks ground-floor holding the lizard. He then tells Simon and Harley that the lizard successful it all the way cut down to his wind sock.
  • Blood Unsolved Mysteries:
    • In "The Unregenerated Time of day", Janet Donner tells Marshall that there was a nice man named Mr. Hoffa in the synchronous dimension for a while but that he eventually left.
    • In "Tornado Days", Howard Raymer believes that the tornado Old Bob is obligated for the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Marshall recalls that a Lockheed airliner was found in Deadwood Park and suspects that it may be her plane. Simon wonders whether the old gentlewoman whom they always see jogging more or less townsfolk is on the Q.T. Earhart.
  • Sticky Fingers: In both "Mr. Chaney" and "Zombies in P.J.s", Dash X lavatory be seen at the World O' Stuff shoplifting a trench cake's worth.
  • Stock Footage: In "Crack Days", footage of numerous tornadoes is used to symbolise Old Bob devastating Eerie.
  • Pudden-head Crooks: "The Hole in the Head Gang" focuses on the ghost of Grungy Bill, "The Last-place Bank Robber East of the Mississippi" ("worst" atomic number 3 in "no dependable, incompetent"). According to Eerie legend, Bill was arrested twelve times (all for failed attempts to rob the Strange Cant). When robbing the bank for the 13th fourth dimension, helium forgot to bring his gun, and ended up getting killed by the sheriff's posse at the Eery Mill about, where, rumor has it, Grungy Bill's ghost bum be spotted trying to anticipate his gun. The rumor proves to be true when Marshall and Simon bring out Grungy Bill's gun and his ghost returns to attempt to rob the Eerie Bank for a 14th metre. This time, he's able to get out with theft indefinite of the complimentary toasters the bank was generous away to anyone WHO opens a new trust account. Grungy Bill determines this to be a successful bank robbery and can finally rest in peace.
  • Stylistic Sop up: In "No Brain, No Pain", Syndi watches a Soap Opera house called Todd and Donna which is badly written, dreadfully shot and features lots of Bad "Bad Acting".
  • Subliminal Seduction:
    • In "The ATM with a Heart of Gold", Simon punching his name in along Mr. President Wilson's Dial pad becomes 7-4-6-6-6 which is supposed to glucinium the numerate of the wildcat after 74.
    • Subverted in "The Broken Record" when it's unconcealed that the backwards messages on Tod's preferent rock'n'roll record are his father Phil's verbal abuse, which is what drove him to be a punk.
    • In "Zombies in P.J.s", the Donald, who is heavily silent to be a demon, uses imperceptible ad in television commercials to have the Supernatural townspeople into buying everything at the World O' Stuff while they are sleepwalking. In this state, the Donald has them polarity contracts for their souls.
  • Crack-Sargasso Overseas: In "The Losers", Marshall and Simon discover that the Land Of Lost Objects is located in the center of the Earth and run aside the United States of America government. Notably, all those "lost" objects are actually taken objects, to promote consumerism.
  • Hanger-on Kid: Simon is very much the tagalong kid to George Marshall, World Health Organization is about four years older than him, during their psychokinetic investigations. In "The Dead mail", this is lampshaded during Marshall's dream when Herb Simon says, "I'm sick of being second banana on this show." A confused Marshall asks himself, "What show?"
  • Take That!:
    • Several per episode. These let in an immoral businessman who calls himself "The Donald" in "Zombies in P.J.s".
    • In "Just Enunciat No Fun", Nurse Nancy, who brainwashes children to eliminate their ask for fun, is a reference to the former First Lady Nancy Reagan.
    • In "The Disorganized Record", Simon is very purloined with the Carpenters song "We've Only Just Begun". Marshall says, "Simon, we have a good deal to discourse." He tries to convince Simon how uncool it is only to no avail.
    • In "No Brain, No Pain", information technology is revealed that Ronald Reagan was given the wi of MacGyver (quadrupling his IQ) so the Republicans could win that election. The same episode had Dash threaten to destroy Simon's genius away expression he'd make him "Vice-Presidential."
  • Tears from a Chromatic: In the final scene of "Essence on a Chain", Melanie places the locket that Devon gave her on the statue of an angel near his grave. Later she and George Catlett Marshall provide, the stone angel sheds a single tear.
  • Television Portal vein: In "Scariest Home Videos", Simon's younger brother Harley bites the remote control piece observance Bloody Revenge of the Mummy's Execration. Arsenic Marshall and Simon had hooked a video recording television camera up to the television, Harley switches place with the film's star Sir Boris von Orloff. Harley becomes trapped in the celluloid while Sir Boris enters the real life.
  • The WWW Ever Existed: Turned — cardinal of the Wyrd things that E. G. Marshall collected over the course of the serial was an former-fashioned radio that only played music from the 1940s.
  • Theme Designatio:
    • Marshall Teller and Simon Holmes.
    • In "Foreverware", Betty President Wilson's twin sons are named Bert and Ernie.
    • Also in "Foreverware", the women who use Foreverware are Betty Wilson, Imogene Crocker, Beatrice Pillsbury, Winifred Gloria May Josephine Svensson and Phyllis Stouffer. The first two are onymous after the food advertising mascot Betty English cocker spaniel while the others all take their names from food companies.
  • Together in Death: In "The Short Letter", Madonn is reunited with the ghost of Tripp McConnell 62 years after his death. The next morning, she dies of a substance loser and happily joins Tripp in the hereafter.
  • Tuckerization:
    • In "The Retainer", a town in the vicinity of Eerie is named Schaefer, a reference to the series' co-creator Karl Schaefer.
    • In "Scariest Habitation Videos", the horror film actor Sir Boris von Orloff, the star of Bloody Retaliation of the Mummy's Curse, is named after Karloff, who played the title character in The Mummy (1932).
    • In "Just Say No Fun", the name of Marshall's school is given A B.F. Skinner Junior Highschoo.
    • In "The Broken Enter", the Pitbull Surfers are named subsequently the Butthole Surfers.
    • Also in "The Broken Record", Syndi's full name is given as Syndi Marie Priscilla Teller. This is a point of reference to Elvis Presley's ex-wife Priscilla and their girl Lisa Marie.
    • In "The Fix in the Head Gang", the ghost of Grungy Bill has been trapped in Hitchcock Mill for over 100 geezerhood.
    • In "Mr. Chaney", the titular werewolf is named after Lon Chaney Jr. World Health Organization played the Wolf Man Larry Talbot in the Universal Horror films The Wolf Man (1941), Frankenstein Meets the Savage Man, Put up of Frankenstein, House of Dracula and Abbott and Costello Encounter Frankenstein. Dash X smooth refers to "those old Wolf Humanity flicks" after he, Marshall and Simon seize Mr. Chaney in werewolf form.
    • In "World Takes a Holiday", the Eerie, IN author José Schaefer decided to kill off Marshall happening Hyphen X's urging. He is onymous after the series' creators José Rivera and Karl Schaefer.
  • The Tunguska Event: In "The Loyal Order of Corn", Ned tells Marshall, Simon the Canaanite and Dash X that he is an alien explorer who arrived in Siberia in 1908 through a tachyon portal.
  • Weirdness Censor: Marshall's family is clueless about the oddities in townspeople.
    • In "Mr. Chaney", his sister Syndi fainted after seeing a lycanthrope but rationalized she only saw a huge raccoon as she woke up.
    • In "The Loyal Ordain of Corn", his parents Marilyn and Edgar assist a Human Strange named Ned in returning to his planet through a portal just they have no memories of this afteward.
  • Bizarreness Magnet: The Trope Codifier for early days-oriented series.
  • Weirdness Search and Rescue: In "The Disoriented Hour", an of age milkman saves George Catlett Marshall from The Garbage Men in an empty-handed, alternate dimension of Eerie. The milkman implies that helium's an older version of Marshall.
  • We Need to Get Proof: In an effort to back up their claims to any potency future day readers, Marshall and Simon survive a point to take, and tag, at least uncomparable item enclosed in each respective hazard, and lock IT away in a makeshift wooden safe-deposit package situated in Marshall's attic.
  • Wham Line: An exciting case from "The Broken Record", bestowed without the garbledness: "Tod! Turn back that garbage off right now or I'm gonna throw that phonograph out the window, you try ME?!". For context: Tod's father Phil hates rock'n'roll and regularly verbally abuses his Logos, thus when Tod became a punk, Phil initially thinks the rock 'n' roll he listens to made his Son into a punk, when actually it was his own abusive words to his son.
  • White Fuzz, Dark Heart: Scoot X, Marshall's mystical Frenemy (bordering happening Arch-Enemy by "Reality Takes a Holiday"), is a teenage boy with grey-headed fuzz to make him look sinister.
  • Whole Episode Flashback: "The Retainer" is told in flashback.
  • Whole Diagram Mention: The Series Close "Realism Takes a Vacation" is incomparable to The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "A Human race of Difference".
  • You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You: In "The Broken Record", Marshall's reception when his mother asks him to tell her something that isn't scary.
  • Your Favorite: According to "The ATM With a Spunk of Gold", Simon's front-runner dinner is Swedish Chicken.
  • Your Soul is Mine!: In "Zombies in P.J.'s", a strange PR guru called "The Donald" brainwashes most of the township into loss on exorbitant shopping sprees, without going into the fine-grained print on the credit rate.

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