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When CBS gained the rights to the show, it commissioned a third season under the title "The New Tales from the Cryptkeeper". However, this season had a much more simplified animation compared to the comic book style of the first two. And the stories toned down on the scares. Not helping matters was the fact that the Cryptkeeper was actually part of the stories rather than leading them in, as he usually does.

 

Despite this, the show has a cult following and episodes can be found on YouTube.

* [[Animated Adaptation]]

* [[An Aesop]]: As it was a kids' show, this was pretty mandatory.

* [[The Cameo]]: During the first season, the Crypt Keeper would sometimes appear briefly ''during'' a story. Unlike in the third season, though, these were usually unimportant to the overall plot (one episode simply shows his face on a penny), but {{spoiler|the end of "The Cat's Away" reveals that the boys had broken into ''his'' spooky house, and they encounter him returning from vacation as they're fleeing in terror.}}

* [[Channel Hop]]: From ABC to CBS

* [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]: The Chuck and Melvin episodes.

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: The Vault Keeper

* [[Gainax Ending]]: The "Game Over" episode.

* [[Guest Host]]: The Old Witch tells "Cold Blood, Warm Heart", "Dead Men Don't Jump" and "Growing Pains." The Vault Keeper, meanwhile, "All the Gory Details" and "The Haunted Mine". Note that each case is ''against'' the Crypt Keeper's will.

* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: The Old Witch and the Vault Keeper tried this on occasion in Season 2. They rarely succeeded.

* [[The Hunter Becomes the Hunted]]: In "Hunted," a [[Jerkass]] hunter is poaching in South America and runs afoul of a supposedly mythical beast. Determined to catch this beast and make a profit, the hunter pursues it deeper and deeper into the jungle. Just when he thinks he has it, the beast springs its own trap to capture him instead. {{spoiler|Turns out the beast was once a [[Jerkass]] hunter himself and had been cursed. Forced him to live in the wild, he learned to respect nature and its creatures. He regains his human form and passes the curse onto his captive to start the cycle over again.}}

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Despite the lack of gore, the show (at least the ABC seasons) did manage to be pretty scary.

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: Due to [[Executive Meddling|Standards & Practices giving them a draconian list of things they could not show on television]], (being a kid's show gore was a given, but the list also had vague generalizations like "Eyeballs floating in a pink ooze" and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|"Nothing overly terrifying"]]), so the writers were forced to use this trope [[Tropes Are Not Bad|to great effect.]]

* [[Retool]]: Season 1 was pretty faithful to the format of the live-action series - a story bookended by Crypt Keeper segments taking place in his old house. For Season 2, [[EC Comics]]' other horror hosts (the Old Witch and the Vault Keeper) were added as antagonists - each bent on stealing the show. This prompted the Crypt Keeper to leave his house and "take the show on the road," with his segments taking place in different locales and him being pestered by the competition. Season 3 dropped the Old Witch and the Vault Keeper and instead had the Crypt Keeper a part of the stories (usually setting them in motion). And while the preceding two seasons contained aesops, Season 3 was arguably more [[Anvilicious]] (with one plot revolving around teaching a boy the importance of reading).

* [[Sadly Mythtaken]]: "Myth Conceptions," which changes the story of Medusa, though acknowledges so. {{spoiler|Medusa ''heroically'' defended her temple lair from the likes of Perseus, who was trying to rob the treasures within. Oh, and Medusa can shapeshift and can't be turned to stone by looking at her reflection.}}

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