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{{quote|''"Lewis Vendredi made a deal with the devil to sell cursed antiques. But he broke the pact, and it cost him his soul. Now, his niece Micki and her cousin Ryan have inherited the store... and with it, the curse. Now they must get everything back--and the real terror begins."''|The [[Opening Narration]]}}
Despite its title, ''Friday the 13th: The Series'' (1987-1990) had nothing to do with Jason Voorhees or any of the characters or events of the ''[[Friday the
After their uncle broke the pact and the Devil claimed his soul, Micki and Ryan inherited "Vendredi's Antiques" and renamed it "Curious Goods." It became their base of operations as they set out to reclaim all of the cursed antiques with the help of Jack Marshak, a friend of their uncle. Marshak was an expert in the occult who had acquired many of the antiques for Vendredi during his world travels, and therefore was often familiar with their magical attributes.
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A textbook case of [[Gotta Catch Them All]].
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* [[Age Without Youth]]: How Uncle Lewis' [[Deal
* [[Artifact Collection Agency]]
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: One of the series' central tropes.
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* [[Attempted Rape]]: The episode "Wedding in Black" had Micki being captured by the Devil in a fantasy world from inside a magical snow globe and that he had attempted to impregnate her with a demonic child. Fortunately, she was able to get away before things got worse.
** The episode "Crippled Inside" had a young girl named Rachel Horn being attacked by four boys during a "supposed date" with one of them. When the leader of the group holds her down on the ground and attempts to have his way with her, Rachel [[Groin Attack|knees him in the groin]] and is able to get away from him and his friends.
* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]: When you have a slew of [[Artifact of Doom|Artifacts of Doom]] which either require someone to die in order to grant miracles to their users, or it just makes it easier to straightout kill someone, it is nearly impossible to use any of these items to do good, and the villain of the week is usually some unrepentant sociopath who uses the artifact to kill people or kills people to use the item.
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Some of the antiques allowed this. One in particular, the Coin of Ziocles, {{spoiler|killed and then later resurrected a main character.}}
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: "My Wife As A Dog", where one man uses it to [[Animorphism|turn his wife into a dog]], and [[Humanity Ensues|his dog into a wife]].
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* [[Creepy Doll]]: The pilot episode. Ironically, this was one of the very few items where it didn't actually require a death to operate (though it did kill people)
* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Lewis literally did this, which is how the objects got cursed in the first place. But each cursed object is effectively this as well, as its user is tempted into doing evil for the sake of using its power. Unfortunately for Lewis and the vast majority of cursed object users, these deals work out like all deals with the Devil do... badly, for everyone but the Devil.
* [[Death
* [[Death
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: During [[Time Travel]] episodes, the past is in black and white.
* [[Demonic Dummy]]: Surprisingly, the dummy itself wasn't one of the cursed items. Rather, {{spoiler|the curse was on the boutonniere it was wearing, which brought it to life.}}
* [[Devil but No God]]: Usually played straight, but notably averted in one episode, when {{spoiler|the Virgin Mary appears and acts as a literal [[Deus Ex Machina]].}}
* [[Dolled
* [[Eighties Hair]]
* [[
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: "The Shaman's Apprentice" had a Native American doctor who faced discrimination from his fellow doctors who had disrespected his Shamanist faith.
** And of course, there's "Hate on Your Dial".
* [[Finger
* [[Groin Attack]]: Happens in "Better Off Dead" and "Crippled Inside".
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]
* [[Halloween Episode]]: "Hellowe'en"
* [[Hoist
* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: Utterly averted in "The Voodoo Mambo".
* [[In Name Only]]: The series' tenuous connection with the movies.
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* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: "The Baron's Bride" and "Night Prey."
* [[Paranormal Investigation]]
* [[Portal Picture]]: Used in the last episode. A painting that allows a obsessed history professor to contact the [[Marquis
* [[Politically
* [[Psycho Electro]]: "The Electrocutioner"
* [[Scary Scarecrows]]: "The Scarecrow"
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* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]: Occasionally. "Badge of Honor" and "Crippled Inside" are two examples, with the added bonus of all of the victims being [[Asshole Victim|deserving of their fates]].
* [[Tele Frag]]: A combination of this and [[Portal Cut]] happens to the villain in "Eye of Death". The slide projector he'd been using to travel to the past gets shut off just as he tries to jump through the portal to the present, leaving him embedded in his wall. Ouch.
* [[The One With...]]: The one with the cursed [X].
* [[The Power of Blood]]: Often, this is used to make an object work when simply killing someone isn't enough.
* [[Time Stands Still]]: "13 O'Clock"
* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: The Book of Lucifer.
* [[Victim of the Week]]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Near the end of the episode "Shadow Boxer", the villain breaks into Curious Goods and takes Micki hostage, threatening to hurt her if Ryan and Jack don't give back the cursed boxing gloves. Ryan gets the gloves from the Vault and instead of giving it to the villain, he decides to use them in order to help save Micki. Of course, Ryan must've forgotten earlier on that in order to make the gloves work, he needs to use a random opponent as a punching bag so that his shadow can simultaenously attack its targeted victim and since Jack was near him during the time of the incident, it's safe to say that Jack got the short end of the stick and that he wasn't too pleased by Ryan's actions.
** Another example of this trope is Johnny during Season 3 of the series. He was able to get the cursed wheelchair in the episode "Crippled Inside", but decided to give it back to the [[Sympathetic Murderer]] of the episode out of sympathy and pity of her plight. "Hate on Your Dial" had Johnny carelessly selling a cursed car radio to the brother of a racist man and "Bad Penny" had Johnny getting the cursed coin from the villain of the episode, but instead of giving it to Jack and Micki, he decides to use it in order to resurrect his dead father.
* [[Who You Gonna Call?]]
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Several actors were recycled.
* [[Your Worst Nightmare]]: "The Quilt of Hathor" and "And Now the News"
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