In the world of E.C. Comics, there is no shortage of cheating spouses or the price they pay for giving into sin.

“Hello, golfing fiends, and welcome to the Crypt. Oh, don’t mind him. That’s just my caddie, Juan. He got me teed off while I was playing a round…so I shot a hole in Juan! Which brings to mind the young woman in tonight’s tale. She’s also playing around, except that her game isn’t golf. It’s love. I call this disgusting drama “Spoiled.””

This episode is so meta that there’s an argument for buying cable in it.  “The picture is so much better. Plus, you get HBO and everything. It would really improve the quality of your life,” says Louise (Annabelle Gurwitch) to her put-upon friend, soap opera obsessive Janet (Faye Grant). And once our heroine actually does get the cable, her husband Leon (Alan Rachins) demands that she turn off the Crypt Keeper!

Janet loves Fuchsia (Anita Morris), the star of her favorite daytime show There’s Always Tomorrow. When Fuschia’s husband ignores her, she gets the passion she needs from younger and way more desirable men. So you can understand when cable guy Abel (Anthony LaPaglia) comes into her home that she wants nothing more to pound his brains out while all her mad scientist hubby cares about is taking brains and moving them from body to body.

Well, not exactly. He actually switches the heads on the bodies and by the end of this story, he’s done that to Janet and Abel with some of the worst effects that 1991 can deliver.

Directed by Andy Wolk, who has mostly been in episodic television, and written by Connie Johnson (who assisted producers on this show for 17 episodes) and Doug Ronning (who also wrote another episode, “The Secret”), this is what happens when this show tries to be too cute. Sure, humor is part of E.C. but it’s not all of it. It’s why I prefer the Amicus version to so many of the HBO episodes.

Grant and Rachins would play another married couple — and the parents to Brian Austin Green — in the TV movie Unwed Father.

This is based on “Spoiled” from The Haunt of Fear #26. It was written by Otto Binder (who wrote more than half of the Captain Marvel family stories and created Supergirl) and drawn by Jack Kamen.