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''[[Twin Peaks]]'' meets ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' told from the POV of a snarkier 14-year old version of Fox Mulder.

 

 

Marshall Teller, a recent transplant from New Jersey, and Simon Holmes, an Eerie native, investigate the weirdness that inhabited the titular town. It would be easier for them if the town's residents didn't refuse to see themselves as anything but normal.

 

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* [[Adults Are Useless]] - Although a lot of the local kids are oblivious and useless too.

* [[Alternate Universe]] - The Other Dimension, as the title suggests.

* [[Anticlimax]] - Given the premise of ''Reality Takes a Holiday'', where everyone is suddenly the cast and crew of a weekly TV show trying to shoot an episode, the only way to end the episode is in a drably realistic anti-climax: {{spoiler|Marshall re-writes the end of the episode to something more mundane and has to wait on set while the new pages are slowly photocopied by the writer's assistant, then delivered to the cast. When Dash tries to interfere, Marshall complains to the director, who calmly orders Dash to "clear Omri's eye-line". Dash is beaten by the rules of his own game and the script unfolds. Everybody goes to the movies. The End.}}

* [[The Bermuda Triangle]] - Marshall once discovers that Eerie's town borders create the exact same geometric shape as the Bermuda Triangle.

* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]] - One of them, anyway. It apparently finds human cuisine palatable enough to eat out of the Teller family's trash.

* [[Braces of Orthodontic Overkill]] - ''The Retainer'': Marshall's friend is required to wear one for awhile. {{spoiler|It allows him to read the minds of dogs, who are revealed to be plotting the eventual overthrow of the human race}}.

* [[Brotherhood of Funny Hats]] - The Loyal Order of Corn Lodge.

** In "Broken Record," Marshall and Simon's friend tries to escape town to see the "Pit Bull Surfers" by commandeering a milk truck.

** Bertrand and Ernest appear in a number of different roles after Marshall liberates them in the pilot, including as a milkmen.

** And in "Heart on a Chain," the boy whose heart is transplanted into [[Danielle Harris]] collides with a milk truck while skateboarding, as the milkman, among others, attends the scene of the accident.

** While this could just be a motif (the show is about suburban weirdness, after all), in "The Lost Hour," Marshall is rescued from the lost hour by a milkman, who implies that he is, in fact, {{spoiler|future Marshall}}.

* [[Number of the Beast]] - Eerie's official population is 16,661 people.

** Like that comma actually does anything!

* [[Only Sane Man]] - Marshall, who seems to be the only person in town who knows Elvis Presley when he sees him.

* [[The Other Darrin]] - An amusing subversion: it eventually turns out that the Mr. Radford who started the series was a compulsive impersonator named Fred Suggs, who had the real Radford (played by [[The Addams Family|John Astin]]) tied up in the basement all along. Radford doesn't press charges because the guy was such a good salesman, and he later turns up as a teller for the Bank of Eerie. Only Marshall notices.

* [[The Quisling]] - Dash

* [[Real After All]]: "Marshall's Theory of Believability".

* [[Shout-Out]]: Several episodes reference movies, music and television shows, including [[Twin Peaks]]

** 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 as creative consultant for Eerie, Indiana and frequently directed episodes.

* [[Soul Fragment]]: The episode in which an [[Ill Girl]] fell in love with a risk-taking skateboarder. When he forgot to [[Look Both Ways]], he died and she [[Heart Trauma|got his heart]] for the transplant she needed. She then proceeded to act like him, skateboarding recklessly and carving graffiti on the desks.

* [[Speaks Fluent Animal]]: In one episode a kid's braces give him the ability to talk to dogs.

* [[Welcome to The Real World]]: "Reality Takes a Holiday"

* [[We Need to Get Proof]] - In an effort to back up their claims to any potential future readers, Marshall and Simon make it a point to take, and tag, at least one item involved in each respective adventure, and lock it away in a makeshift wooden safe-deposit box located in Marshall's room.

** The line in question came about from Todd's father, [[The New Rock and Roll|a hater of rock music]], playing one of his records backwards, thinking ''the music'' caused his son to become a punk.

* [[Your Favorite]] - According to ''ATM With a Heart of Gold'', Marshall's favorite dinner is Swedish Chicken.

* [[Your Soul Is Mine]] - ''Zombies in P.J.'s'': a strange PR guru called "The Donald" brainwashes most of the town into going on exorbitant shopping sprees, without going into the fine print on the credit rate.

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