Directed by Rodman Flender (The Unborn, Idle Hands) and written by Larry Wilson, who wrote five episodes of this show, “Food for Thought” has that most basic of all EC Comics sins, jealousy. Zambini (Ernie Hudson), a carnival psychic, thinks that his wife and assistant Connie (Joan Chen) is sleeping with the fire eater, Johnny (John Laughlin).

“Hmm, frankly your hacks-rays look terrible. You’ve got to pay closer attention to your oral die-giene or you’ll end up looking like me. I want you to brush after every meal, floss and gargoyle twice a day. Hmm, yes, looks like I’ll have to drill. This won’t hurt me a bit! In the meantime, to take your mind off the pain, I’ve got a little dose of fright-rous oxide for you. It’s about a sideshow mind-reader who’s lost his head over a pretty girl. I call it “Food for Thought.””

After abusing his wife and keeping her with his mental powers before killing Johnny before he can steal her away. Johnny’s best friend, the ape Nabunga, reaches into the mind of the psychic and makes him think that it’s Connie coming back to him. Oh, how wrong he is.

This episode also has Doug Jones as a contortionist, Debbie Lee Carrington as a circus member, Kathryn and Margaret Howell as twins and Phil Fondacaro as Emmet, the ring master.

There are three “Food for Thought” stories in EC Comics. One is in Incredible Science-Fiction #32, written by Jack Oleck and drawn by Al Williamson. The other is in Crime SuspenStories #24 and is written by Al Feldstein and William Gaines and drawn by Jack Orlando. It’s about a mine robbery and collapse. The story that inspired this one was in Tales from the Crypt #40 and was written by Feldstein and Gaines and also drawn by Davis. The end of this story is even more gruesome, as the wife loses her lion tamer lover and when her psychic husband is paralyzed, she has him buried alive and then he’s consumed by a ghoul who robs his grave!