The Story of Tales From The Cryptkeeper: EC Comics, the HBO Show, the Game Show & Its Many Deaths
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Tales from the Cryptkeeper is an animated horror children's television series made by Canada-based Nelvana.
It was based on the 1950s EC Comics series Tales from the Crypt and the live action television series Tales From The Crypt, which aired concurrently on HBO. Made for children, Tales from the Cryptkeeper was significantly milder than its live action version.
There was also a mostly forgotten game show called "Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House" a toyline and a whole bunch of other merch.
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Ah, the 90's. Where rated R stuff meant fun for the whole family.
Oh, how I miss that!
Oh yes, and it all began in the 80s where Rambo and Robocop were cartoons to eat your cereal with. lol
What a time to be alive. Things are so lame these days.
Rambo: the Force of Freedom, baby!
So true
Thanks for the Retro Rerun shout-out, Dan! Love your radical and awesome explanation of Tales From The Cryptkeeper's history!
Retro I watch all your vids
Hey retro i saw your channel is kids channel you might wanna change it. Lets just say 6teen was not really for kids just saying.
@@blueraccoon1088 agreed.
@@xXLunatikxXlul update it worked but some episodes haven't changed
@@blueraccoon1088 I have updated it lol but 99% of the shows are marked as "child content" and you can't even comment on them:/
I miss all of the horror themed shows aimed at children. There were cartoons like this one but the 90s also had Goosebumps and my personal favorite, Are You Afraid of the Dark?! They don’t make horror themed tv shows for children anymore. Tales of the Crypt Keeper was definitely an interesting cartoon to say the least! I also really liked the live Action Tales From the Crypt HBO series. The 90s were great for horror themed tv shows! The original EC Comics were fantastic! The artwork and crazy stories were all great! I’d love to see someone make an animated anthology Tales From the Crypt series thats based off the original comics. Now that would be a great cartoon!
Coincidence? I dont think so!
Don't forget Eerie Indiana!
I was there for it all and miss it everyday. Nothing like being a kid in the 90s. It was the best times. 👌 Nice job guys
I just finished watching In Praise of Shadows' essay on the history of horror comics, and your line about "until they're old enough to injure themselves in a factory or fight on foreign soil" made me cry-laugh.
Just showing up to say Tales from the Crypt : Demon Knight is a super fun horror movie that's well worth watching.
Hell yeah.
I saw Bordello of Blood in the theater, I was 8 or 9 at the time. Afterward, my dad looked me in the face and said, "Don't you ever tell your mother that you saw this movie. Understood?"
I still haven't told her. 😉
I was waiting for a mention about demon knight :(
One of my favorite horror flicks
I always watch that series on Tubi and Pluto TV!
Those two are my favs 😊
Me too
Man, the Cryptkeeper used to scare the crap outta me but as I got older, I started to love watching the show just to see him (the HBO version).
Man this channel keeps saving my sanity I love these history info videos
The Educational Content makes me think The Crypt Keeper is just spooky Mr. Rodgers which to be honest has me sold.
I just realized all the episodes this month have had a spooky theme; I’m dense af.
The best spooks are the ones you don't realize until too late.
@@Moonbeam143 Totally. I had a friend who was married to a teacher once, he ended up having a drinking problem she wasn't aware of, and the next thing she knew, she found herself in hotel bathroom in Colorado while he tried to attack her with an axe. It seemed to just happen over night.
@@aaronlea-art I meant harmless, fun spooks. Real life danger is so great.
@@Moonbeam143 I was making a Shining/Wendy Torrence reference based off your Shelley Duvall profile pic, sorry, now I feel bad.
@@aaronlea-art well I laughed.
8:20 The Cryptkeeper was not a puppet in universe. He was the bastard son of a two-faced sideshow freak and an ancient mummy.
I think he means the way the Muppets aren’t puppets in their universe but they’re still totally puppets. Does that make sense? Lol
I remember the episode!!! The show was awesome..
I find it cool that the comics version of the Crypt Keeper looks like his father, while the TV version takes more after his Mummy.
I got my MFA in comics, so I learned pretty much all of the history of EC Comics from Steve Bissette's incredible Comics History course, but he didn't go into the later history of the comic's spinoffs as much. So I really enjoyed that you've filled in the missing gaps in my comics history knowledge here!
I always wanted to watch this show more but I always missed it as a kid.
its streaming on pluto tv app
If you want to own it Walmart usually has the dvd box set this time of year.
My dad has hours upon hours of Tales from Crypt the original HBO series I do fondly remembering this cartoon during the cartoon blocks during Saturday mornings... Great upload
You missed the 1970s movies with a human crypt keeper! They made 2 films. Neat fact they did a series of kids aimed tales from the crypt comic trades a few years ago based more on the cartoon! Fun series. Another great video! Love this videos.
I can hear him saying AND YOU!!!!!!!
Great flick with some great stories.
the crazy thing about the town the show takes place in, that it isn't fictional. it actually is a real life town in Canada ... not too far from where the people who make the show. cool stuff man
I think it's important to note that it was DC and Marvel who provided the Comic's Code of Authority's rules as they could easily comply to them but also in an effort to take down EC as they were their main competitor and had a large share of sales at that time which gave way to the superhero genre to take better hold on the market.
You could say the industry tried to specifically make life harder for Gaines, but otherwise
1) It was DC and Archie that were the ringleaders for the CCA. While Marvel (then Atlas) was part of it, they were not the behemoth they would go on to be. They were more like a slightly high rent Charlton--basically flooding the market with ripoffs and would swiftly turn gears at the next big thing. They had their own tawdry horror comics line, and were themselves severely crippled by the whole affair as anyone--it's said it only survived because Martin Goodman didn't want to explain to his wife that her cousin (Stan Lee) no longer had a job.
2) The dominance of superheroes was the effect, not the cause of the CCA restrictions. By that point, only a handful of superhero comics were being regularly published, half of them being part of the Superman family. The revived DC superheroes were pretty incrimental, and not officially here to stay until 1960. Fantastic Four #1 would not be published until 1961, which would seem to be quite the long game from all the parties involved, and a entire generation of readers as far as the industry was concerned at the time.
3) The biggest publisher of the era was not Marvel. It was not DC. It was Dell Comics. According to Helen Meyer's testimony, which was very much about throwing E.C. under the bus, was that their comics did about a quarter of Dell's business. As their comics tended to sell about a million copies a month, this would put "Tales From the Crypt" at about 250,000. Healthy sales, and pretty much unheard of for today, but this was about the numbers a book like "New Warriors" did in the early 90's. Definitely popular enough for spinoffs, but not something the sent a chill down the spine of competitors. It should also be said, in her testimony, that "crime" always preceded "horror". The genre was the junior partner in the twosome. People forget that "Crime Does Not Pay" was a super popular book at the time, and Lev Gleason had socialist leanings.
Gaines was definitely a pariah in the industry, because of his colorful, aggressive personality, and because he gave the industry media attention they did not want. (Half the times comics were a front for mob activity.) Not because Stan Lee was sitting on Spider-Man and knew as long as the Cryptkeepr was around, nobody would read his adventures.
@@RABartlett That's very informative, thank you. Do you have any links to where I can read more on this?
I'm turning 40 in November. Your channel is everything to me. Thank you.
"I'm paraphrasing, but _just barely_." You got that right, Wertham claimed Superman was communist because he had a red cape... Let that sink in.
Nelvana did a great job of converting creepy, grown up content into fun and, I'll say it, more memorable cartoons.
I mean, he's the "Man of Steel" just like Stalin. All ground that would be explored even further in Red Son. Along with anarchist Batman and his Bat-ushanka.
It's funny how John Kassir did the voice of the Crypt Keeper these shows and the voice of Buster Bunny on Tiny Toons. And he does Buster Bunny as the Crypt Keeper in the Tiny Toons Halloween special titled Toons from the Crypt.
he also voiced Adam The Clown for the first dead rising game
He also did a cameo appearance on Tales from the Crypt; and he was a regular on the series First And Ten.
That's the sign of a great impressionist some say. (Referring to doing a character that is impersonating someone else)
Charlie Adler voiced Buster Bunny for all but four episodes of _Tiny Toons,_ at which point Kassir *took over,* like right at the end of the show's life. That being said, I do believe _Night Ghoulery_ was the grand finale of _Tiny Toons,_ so that's sort of fitting.
Also a fun note: in season three of the 2012 TMNT series, there was an episode titled "In Dreams", which featured monsters called The Dream Beavers. He voiced two of them, Rober Englund did the other two.
That whole season is excellent and full of horror nods. :)
Frighteners started as the 3rd film in the series (which is why it's produced by Zemeckis and company)
Dusk Till Dawn was supposedly planned as Crypt movie too initially.
@@darkwoods1954 It actually has that Tales from the Crypt feel to it.
extra points for the detail of making Beetlejuice pass by the third time you named him hahaha you are good!
Please make sure you add that Beetlejuice cartoon to The List, I swear I watched that show 12 times a day on Nickelodeon!
This was/is one of my all time favourite childhood cartoons along with the real ghostbusters and he-man
Im 38 now and still revist tales from the cryptkeeper every now and again
Omg yes! I loved the EC comics and had quite a few of them. Another home run guys!
Loved Tales from the Crypt Keeper!!!
This is just a small point but you guys didn't touch on the two British movie adaptations from the 70s by Amicus Studios - Tales From The Crypt and Vault Of Horror.
Got to love all those Amicus and Hammer Horror anthology movies.
@@daverage4729 The House That Dripped Blood and From Beyond The Grave were two standout films. I put them on the same level as the original Creepshow.
I can still here his booming voice saying "AND YOU???!!!"
the Cryptkeeper talking doll is almost a myth in today's era.
Although I found it terrifying (to the point where certain episodes still stick in my mind near 30 years later) it was still one of my all time favourite cartoons. :D
I enjoyed watching this show as a child and now continue to enjoy it as an adult. I also believe that you can rate the season from best to worst in chronological order. Season's one and two were pretty amazing and then the government started intervening in Saturday morning cartoons with a push on education and moral storylines that taught children right from wrong because some parents started complains and writing to their local and state representatives that their children weren't perfect little angels. News flash, if you have children it is your responsibility to teach them moral values not the government, which brings us to season three. After a two year run of thirteen episodes each from 1993-1994 it returned in 1999 with a new season of educational and moral values with happy endings after someone learned their lesson, which was a complete opposite of seasons one and two in which sometime there was no happy ending, except for us the audience who was able to enjoy 30 minutes with the Cryptkeeper.
I always saw the live action TV show as scary Sesame Street for teenagers...lol
I think my favorite thing is when you give social commentary on where we were as a society at the time of the cultural experience you're talking about.
My 6 year son loves this show. We just watched an episode on Tubi this week. Awesome video guys
I like tales from the crypt keeper also I got all seven seasons of tales from the crypt on DVD. 😀👍💿
A good childhood friend of mine was the nephew of the voice actor for the Crypt Keeper.
Part of me was kinda hoping Tales From The Crypt would show up!
I really disliked the CBS version. They toned something already toned down until it was more like "Tales from that One Corner of the Basement that's Slightly Darker than the Others, But the Light is Still On, so It's Not as Bad." Suffice to say, Goosebumps it was not.
I never really watched the 'Tales' live action show on HBO because I was young and that stuff scared me. But I always watched the intro with the puppet Crypt Keeper, he was great.
3:44 "Hey who's the old lady? That's my old lady!"
Love this cartoon. Have the first two seasons on DVD. Now I get to watch with my own kids 🎃
One show I loved as a kid was Toonsylvania. It was one of those Spielberg produced cartoons.
I love this show.
I have one more toy to collect for my collection, not including the eyes you can buy.
Also the cell art
There were two movies produced by Amicus in the 70s that adapted ten stories from Tales From The Crypt and Vault of Horror. There was also a Tales From the Crypt audio series in the early 2000s that served as an 8th season to the TV series with Kassir returning to voice the Cryptkeeper and the Danny Elfman score being adapted with lyrics added sung by the Cryptkeeper.
John Kassir may be known for his role as the Cryptkeeper, but I'll always remember him for that one freaky Legend of Zelda commercial he did back in the day.
"Which? Way? To? Go?"
I had that cryptkeeper doll. The skin under that suit was absolutely grotesque. Withered, scabby and covered in scars. I don't know which was scarier the fact that it was anatomically incorrect or the idea of it being the other way around.
I loved watching Tales From The Crypt, and it was for Crypty.
Glad people remember the gameshow. I used to watch it all the time (prob a lot of reruns)
You’ll always be my Crypt Keeper, Dan.
This is definitely a case where I show up to hear what the host is talking about, regardless of what it is. 😁
Ah man, I had that 12" talking crypt keeper! It was dope. Great likeness
The stories were adapted from the EC horror story comics, and didn't dumb down the stories for television, but found ways to make the stories kid friendly by focusing on new characters.
Nelvana was the animation company that made the final episode for the HBO series, "The Third Pig", which featured the voices of Cameron Clark, Brad Garrett, Charlie Adler, and Bobcat Goldthwait. But you probably already knew that.
And funny enough Jhon kassir would replace Charlie addler as the voice of buster bunny when addler left tiny toons
@@sjmhadsock4586 Interesting. That would explain how Buster sounded exactly like the Crypt Keeper in the TftC parody.
@@williamcrowe2576 he replaced him later but yes
I was introduced to Tales from the Crypt in 92 thanks to my stepmom, who was and still is a huge horror fan. It was during one of those 'Free HBO' Weekends they used to do. I was 9/10 (depends on the time of year), so I was a little disappointed when they made the 'kid friendly' cartoon.
I got two Halloween videos from my favorite toy collectors this week I hope to see more thank you!
Don't know why the "or was he? He was" made explote in laughter
Yeah, how they could botch the set up for Bordello of Blood so badly, especially after how good Demon Knight was, is something that has always bugged me.
Yes you!!!❤️❤️❤️ I literally watch every video that comes out because of the host, regardless of the topic! You sir are truly the host...with the most😉
Thanks for this. Fantastic job yet again on making me relive my childhood. 👍😆
I had the Cryptkeeper Christmas audio cassette. I still cant hear or sing the 12 Days of Christmas the right way.
Four thousand VOLTS!
I have these on dvd. Love this cartoon. I watch them with my son. Amazingly Gaines was ahead of his time when you think about it because now all comics are geared toward adults.
this video is structured so strangely. The HBO series isn't even mentioned until halfway in
Awesome I just finished Binge Watching This Show on RUclips This was a great cartoon even tho im 28 and also the youngest in the family but this show was both Amazing and Fun but aside i still watch Cartoons and still stands the test of time but aside cool review.
I love this channel, and you're not half bad yourself.
Loved this! I hadn't made the link with the EC comics so I was surprised by how far back the franchise stretched. Entertained and educated once again.
Good stuff Dan. My brother was a big fan of this one.
So much 90s stuff lately... I would love to see some older subject matter soon. Like one on Scooby Doo!
love your vids. Very well done and good rhetoric. Loved this show and the EC comics that were reprointed at this time. Was always great animation at the time. Shadow style that became a norm for awhile
I was always fascinated by the ec comics, so loved the movies, tv shows and cartoon BUT I never knew they had a game show! and that looked creepy! :-D
Damn! I loved that Tales From The Crypt pinball when I was a pre-teen!
Surprisingly the game show was the first (and one of only two) kids’ game shows to be nominated for a daytime Emmy.
This channel is ridiculously good!
I’m Team Ghoulardi. I’m biased though because I’m from NEOhio, where Ernie Anderson got his start. The guy oozed class, even if he was a campy weirdo. FunFact: Anderson narrated the opening to Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. But that’s not the fun part: did you know that J. Michael Stracz- _[chokes to death on candy corn]_
This show started me on a path of E.C. Fan addict! Great job keep them coming!!
Read the biography of William Gaines in High School freshman year. Was promptly called a "Wildman!" by seniors. You always find a way to my heart. Happy Halloween! 🔥❤🎃
They show this show all the time on Pluto TV. They're always advertising it on other kids channels and, while she hasn't watched it, my five-year-old is intrigued by it and really wants to watch it and the crappy Archie's Weird Mysteries cartoon from the 90s for some reason.
I'm just disappointed that the real Tales From The Crypt series isn't on HBO Max, but apparently the rights to the show are a tangled nightmare and getting streaming rights negotiated is a no-go.
One of my fondest memories growing up was sitting on the couch with my mom beside me and her arm around my shoulder while we watched tales from the crypt on Saturday mornings.
This is such an underrated channel.
How could someone argue comic books contribute to illiteracy? Comic books have, y'know, *text* on the pages.
The argument that was they have fewer words per page than novels do. Also, they tried to legit argue that the quality of the printing damaged children's eyes.
@@wayn0r That is hilariously stupid. Going by that logic, handwritten letters made kids dumb unless they were a research thesis.
It's ignorance and the need to blame harmless fun things for their failures
Loved it when the keeper fight with the so other former host
My grandmother had a cryptkeeper figure scared the hell out as a kid
Another fun thing to look for is the Christmas Album with John Kassir singing spookified Cryptmas Carols.
Was looking for the game show awhile back and couldn't find it anywhere or anything about it...but I didn't have the correct name. Got to the point thought I was crazy and it never existed ... Now I finally got the name of the game show lol thanks.
This is my 5 year-old daughter's favorite cartoon. So glad I hunted down those DVDs.
This is honestly a really good show. I loved it back in the day
I like you mentioned the game show nobody ever remembers the game show.
This episode was such a comprehensive run down of the history of Tales From The Crypt that 8 people couldn't handle all of the interesting and insightful information.
I own the this and Tales from the Crypt both series on dvd and enjoy the memories of both. Thank you for doing this episode
Tales from the Crypt never dies!
Secrets of the Cryptkeepers Haunted House was basically built off of the back of the Legends of the Hidden Temple set.
Love your channel fam. Been binging videos on your channel for hours now 👻
Loved the Beetlejuice gag! (And the rest of the video, too.)
Twilight Zone for kids was also what The Nightmare Room was advertised as when it first made it to TV I remember, so this looks like a good precursor to that.
I would say Goosebumps deserves the moniker more.
@@darkknight5541 Goosebumps is more Night Gallery for kids though.
@@TV-Tony How so?
@@darkknight5541 Because Goosebumps is more horror themed, like Night Gallery was.
@@TV-Tony So was The Nightmare Room.
Great episode and your Mullet is on point today.
and just to add,....."THE HOUSE AND BASEMENT ARE HIS!!!!" TEAMCRYPTKEEPER"!!
“ Puppets be creepin “ 😂
The Cryptkeeper is the Horatio Caine of horror. He has the best bad puns and one-liners.
Great video Dan!!! Tales from the Cryptkeeper really was a fun show. It's a shame it didn't last longer. But still, it could have done worse.
He was also the host for certain events on Kid's WB.
I vividly watched the animated series but I used to watch the live action series on fox at 11 pm before I went to bed.
I would love for the show to come back again