The final episode of Tales from the Crypt was animated and directed by Bill Kopp and Patrick A. Ventura, with Kopp and Steven Dodd writing the script.

Hmm, Son of Dracula. Return of the Son of Dracula. The Son of Dracula’s Revenge? Is that all you can do? Vampire movies?! I’m afraid that’s not good enough. You’d have to be a bite more versatile to be on the fright-ing staff of Tales from the Crypt. Oh, hello creeps!

As you can see, we’ve got an opening for a story dead-itor. I’ve been conducting chop interviews all morning. No one seems to get what I’m looking for! Oh well, let’s see who’s next. (pulls a book closer to him) Interesting, a brother team. Grimm. I think I’ve heard of them. This has potential, boils and ghouls. It’s a twisted bit of gory-telling about three scare-acters you may recognize… at first. It’s called: “The Third Pig.”

You may have read the story of the Three Little Pigs, but these are different. There’s the intelligent Dudley (Cam Clarke), the aptly named Drinky (Brad Garrett) and the angry Smokey (Charlie Adler). Dudley lives in a sturdy house made of bricks, while his brothers live in a whiskey keg and a house made of cigarettes.

The Big Bad Wolf (Bobcat Goldthwait) blows two of their houses down, so Drinky and Smokey come to live with Dudley. They repay him by treating him horribly. Don’t get too used to them, as the wolf soon kills them and sets up Dudley, thanks to a wolf cop (Corey Burton) and judge (Jim Cummings). He’s sentenced to death by frying pan, but his fellow pigs come back from the dead as ghosts and show him how to combine their corpses to make a zombie Frankenswine. He gets his revenge, but feels as if he’s become as evil as the wolf. Well, the wolf comes back too and turns him into a sandwich.

Animated by Nelvana, which also produced the Tales from the Crypt Keeper kids cartoon, this series features the Crypt Keeper narrating the entire story and engaging in on-screen battles with some of the characters. This was initially planned as an episode of the children’s show, but it was rejected for being too violent.

This is the only episode not based on an EC Comics story.

Is that it? Not yet. Over the next few months, we’ll explore other EC Comics series that HBO aired, including Two Fisted Tales, Perversions of Science (based on the EC science fiction comics) and Weird World.