Mundane Ghost Story: Difference between revisions

Someone tells a [[Ghost Story]] in classic fashion, probably around a campfire or with a flashlight aimed up under the face, only the ghost story is about something that is not really scary in the traditional nightmare sense, but is more like [[Adult Fear|Adult Fears]]s: being stuck in a loveless marriage, dying alone, bigotry, living an unfulfilling life, being homeless after losing your job, sexual inadequacy, or the death of offspring. However, this is usually played for laughs, avoiding anything involving physical pain or death, dealing with [[Faux Horrific|something sillier]] like having to wear a stupid outfit to school, having a bad haircut, or eating something terrible.

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': The season eight episode "The Springfield Files" (the [[BLAM Episode]]-cum-[[Crossover]] episode with ''[[The X-Files]]'' that had [[Leonard Nimoy]] narrating it for the first two acts) had Homer and Bart out in the woods in search of the alien. Bart asks Homer if he can have some beer, with Homer telling him that beer is only for "...daddies and kids with fake IDs ,<ref>Ironic, considering that Bart had a fake ID on the season seven episode in which he creates a phony driver's license while stuck at the DMV with Patty and Selma, and he did use it to get beer at Moe's, but once he saw Barney and [[Those Two Guys|the two drunks named Larry and Sam]], he decided not to do it</ref>," then Homer suggests that they tell ghost stories to pass the time. This was Bart's: