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* [[Bazaar of the Bizarre]] - Mr. Radford's World O' Stuff.
* [[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.
** {{spoiler|Professor Zircon's assistant meets a FEMALE one when he's planting the fake space 'thing'.}}
* [[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}}.
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* [[Elvis Lives]] - ...on Marshall's paper route.
* [[Everything Fades]] - ''The Losers'': the United States federal government has a black budget organization dedicated to "appropriating" the items people forget are sitting around their houses, forcing them to buy new things...and thus keeping the bloated American economy going strong. Easily one of the most believable concepts the show ever aired.
* [[Face Onon a Milk Carton]] - a strange example in ''The Lost Hour''.
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]] - Thanks to a mid-season [[Retool]]: Marshall is Mulder Melancholic (minus the depression), Simon is a chipper Sanguine, Radford is as Supine as they get, and Dash is down-right Choleric. Made obvious by the end of ''Mr. Chaney''.
* [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You]] - ''Scariest Home Videos'': a television remote control is revealed to contain the power to send people into the programs being televised. This seems to have predated the ''[[Simpsons]]'' Itchy & Scratchy example, and ''may'' be one of the [[Ur Example|first ever]] of its kind.
* [[Free-Range Children]] Especially [[When You Coming Home, Dad?|poor Simon]]
** Likewise, Sara Bob's family in "Who's Who." Dad's physically present, but Sara Bob has to care for him ''as well as'' her hellion brothers.
* [[Freeze -Frame Bonus]]: Whenever there's text big enough to read that goes by too fast, you can bet there's a joke in it. A really fun example is in "Reality Takes a Holiday", when Marshall reads the shooting script for the scene he just walked out on. In the direction, it says Simon sits there, looking "orphanish".
* [[Fun Withwith Acronyms]] In "The Retainer", the gang goes to the dog pound... owned by the Canine Arrest Team.
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Dash is a confused guy. His last two episodes confuse things even further.
* [[Human Popsicle]] - ''Foreverware'' (pilot episode): '''the''' most astoundingly effective tupperware in the history of mankind.
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** 16,661 is also a prime number, and a palindrome-- the smallest of what are known as [http://primes.utm.edu/curios/page.php/16661.html Beastly Primes].
* [[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 (TV)|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.
** [[Fridge Horror|Does that mean some poor Bank teller is tied up in a basement somewhere?]]
* [[Premiseville]]: Eerie, Indiana, where the happenings are of an unusual nature.
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