In the 1930s, Bob (Jason Lee) and John (Jamie Kennedy) are just two guests of a Halloween party where everyone is losing their minds over the Mercury Theatre production of The War of the Worlds. It gets out of hand as people start turning up dead.

What a cast! Harvey Korman, Larraine Newman, Edie McClurg, Kria Reed, Tracey Middendorf, Steve Monroe, Bryce Ingman and the one person you should never trust: Chris Sarandon. He’s the Orson Welles! Tobe Hooper directs! Andrew Kevin Walker, who also wrote Brainscan, 8mm and Se7en, scripted!

Yes, somehow all of these people joined to make an episode where the alien threat isn’t a hoax and Harvey Korman has flown through the stars to sodomize Jason Lee and Jamie Kennedy.

This is taken from the story “Panic!” in Weird Science #15 — numbered issue four — and it was written and drawn by Al Feldstein. In that story, a radio station replays the show years later and no one panics, but when a real invasion happens, no one pays attention when a Jupiter ship lands.

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When Walter (George Newbern) can’t handle the grief of losing his wife because of an intruder — despite having Dr. Joyce Brothers as a therapist — an ex-NASA scientist, Dr. Kurt Rotwang (Vincent Schiavelli), sends him to other realities where Ruth (Elizabeth Berkley!) could still be alive with his Probability Engine. None of those are what he wants, and if there’s a lesson in this, it’s that sometimes you have to take the hand that the world has dealt you.

Directed by Russel Mulcahy (Highlander, Razorback) and written by Peter Atkins (Hellraiser II, Hellraiser III, Fist of the North Star, Wishmaster, Prisoners of the Sun), this is one of the better episodes of this show. Oddly enough, Meadow Soprano is watching this one in The Sopranos episode “I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano.”

This episode is based on “Planely Possible” from Weird Fantasy #21, written by Al Feldstein and William Gaines and drawn by Jack Kamen. Unlike many episodes of this show, this one is actually close to the original story, including the moment when Walter’s alternate reality self is put into an incinerator and tries to assume his place, which sets off a series of events that only worsen from there. You’ll see where this time loop is going, but that’s part of why this works so well.

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A woman named Lisa Gerou (Yancy Butler) has shaped her body to perfection. Then, she goes a decade backward by a scientist (Paul Williams) to meet Nick Boyer (William McNamara), who is obsessed with an ideal of perfection. They have the best lovemaking of their lives, but then he’s the one who screws himself, so to speak. David Leisure shows up, too.

Director Ramón Menéndez also made Stand and Deliver, while writer Mark Verheiden wrote the Dark Horse Aliens and Predator comic books, as well as Superman. He also wrote the movies Timecop, The Mask and My Name Is Bruce.

This episode was based on “Given the Heir” from Weird Science #16, which was written by William Gaines and Al Feldstein and drawn by Jack Kamen. It’s the story of a man who meets one of his future descendants who is traveling back in time, ready to murder the first husband of one of their ancestors so she can inherit his wealth. Yeah, it goes bad.

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In a future where murders are sporadic, a sadistic serial killer — and scientist — by the name of 50557 (Jeffrey Combs) tests the theory of Dr. Nordhoff (David Warner) that everybody can be rehabilitated. Maybe they can get even worse. Even the advice of 40132 (Ron Perlman), a rehabilitated killer, isn’t enough. So what else can they do but send him to a world that he can do little to damage.

As he’s sent down, a tech asks, “What about the inhabitants of the planet?”

Dr Nordhoff says, “I wouldn’t worry. He’s just one man. How much damage could he possibly do?”

Cue the Hitler speech.

This episode is based on “The Exile” from Weird Fantasy #14, written by William Gaines and Al Feldstein and drawn by Wally Wood, in which it’s revealed that yes, the Führer was a space alien.

This episode was directed by William Malone, who also made Scared to Death, Creature, House on Haunted Hill, Feardotcom and the “Only Skin Deep” episode of Tales from the Crypt. It was written by David J. Schow.

Also: Did you know Chrome the robot wants to have sex? She’s to bad sex puns as The Cryptkeeper was to horror ones, except, you know, most people love that guy. No one likes Chrome.

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For years, Kevin Pollak has done a Shatner impersonation. So why not have him in a Shatner-directed and starring episode as the potential son-in-law of the man who is Kirk?

A pilot (Pollak) has been engaged to Adm. Kornfeld’s (Shatner) daughter Dulcine (meta here, it’s Shatner’s real-life daughter Melanie, who was also in Syngenor, Cthulhu Mansion, Bloodstone: Subspecies II and Bloodlust: Subspecies III). He’s been forced to wait until the wedding night to consummate their union. While waiting for her — and her father to deactivate the chastity device that keeps him away from her lady business — he falls for Emmy (the Swedish Bikini Team’s Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst), a sex bot who he gets stuck inside, just when that device is hacked by his soon-to-be bride.

Not based on an E.C. Comic, this episode was written by National Lampoon alumnus Chris Miller and Kevin Rock.

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“Anatomy Lesson” is directed by Gilbert Adler and written by Kevin Rock. Billy Rabe (Jeremy London) is the son of a small-town coroner (Jim Metzler) who keeps wanting to kill things. However, he’s stopped over and over again by The Bearded Man (Jeff Fahey). When he turns 18, Billy decides to kill that person so that he can finally be the murderer he’s dreamed of becoming. There’s also Linda (Devon Odessa), a girl who is in love with him, but he just wants to watch her die.

Want to know what happens? The Bearded Man and Billy’s mom (Joanna Gleason) are robots who keep watch over killers on Earth. They’ve already taken out Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac, so now it’s Billy’s turn.

This episode isn’t based on an E.C. Comic story. However, the story “A Lesson in Anatomy!!” was in Weird Fantasy #12. The plot is sort of close. “Chased away from his father’s lab while he dissects a body, Stevey finds a stranger in the forest. Wanting to brag, Stevey tells the man all sorts of falsehoods, which he believes; But Stevey soon learns a secret about the stranger he doesn’t expect to discover.” It was written by William Gaines and Al Feldstein and drawn by Jack Kamen.

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From June 7 to July 23, 1997, HBO attempted something similar to Tales from the Crypt, adapting the science fiction books of EC Comics for pay cable. But where the Crypt Keeper had bad puns about horror and death, sexy robot Chrome (Maureen Teefy) seems DTF years before we knew what that meant, constantly hitting us with sexual innuendo.

In “Dream of Doom,” Arthur Bristol (Robert Carradine) is trapped in a dream that turns into another dream, an art film like way of kicking off a dirty science fiction anthology TV show. Lolita Davidovich appears as a doctor, Adam Arkin is a therapist, Lin Shaye is a nurse, and Peter Jason is a priest.

Descartes gets name dropped and this gets weird. It’s a good start, directed by one of the shows producers, Walter Hill, and written by David S. Goyer.

This story is based on “Dream of Doom” from Weird Science #12, which was written by William Gaines and Al Feldstein and drawn by Wally Wood. In that story, just like this one,  Aman experiences a sequence of dreams occurring after dream after dream. He’s also a comic book artist who works for Gill Baines. What’s the company, CE Comics?

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