Tales from the Crypt Gameshow

[Mr. Marshmallow]

The last game was the skull duggery one, and it was basically a big race to find as many skulls in various, dark creepy locations and then both teams would place them on a pike at the end and the host would count how many you had. They had a lot of interesting games.

One was a shrinking room, where you had to pick up letter blocks and put them on the wall and spell out the word/phrase before the room shrank too much you couldn't move. Another was walking over a CGI lava pit and you had to make it across without falling in (obviously).

One of the weirder ones was this game where the partners are split up, and one is on a tread mill and as he/she ran, they would see pictures of animals or objects and they would tell their partner what they saw through head sets. The other partner would then be presented with a sentence or a phrase from the host and have to try and fit that picture/object with the sentence.

They also had "Vampire's coffin", where you go in this pitch black room and one partner stays outside and has a map of the whole room and that person has to verbally direct you towards the vampire's coffin, where they then impale the vampire in the coffin with a stake nearby. This was a VERY hard one to accomplish.

The corpse related jokes actually never bothered me on the HBO show or the animated series, it was one of the things I loved about the Crypt keeper. However, because it was a expensive game show and operating a prop figure like the Crypt keeper costs money, they end up reusing certain phrases or words he says for different episodes of the show and it got annoying.

Shows like Power rangers and VR Troopers did this too, they'd reuse old fighting footage or explosion scenes that they already used before to work in a newer scene. It's always noticeable but not always bad, only in Crypty's case because it was reusing "talking clips", it made it look alot worse.