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  • Freaky Stories Stolen Lunchbox/Front Row Seats/The Vanishing/Dead Man Walking (Season 2, Episode 4)
  • TV-Y7
    TV Episode | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

Freaky Stories

Stolen Lunchbox/Front Row Seats/The Vanishing/Dead Man Walking (Season 2, Episode 4)
TV-Y7
TV Episode | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

Sung in a funky pop style, this little ditty is about Penny, a small, urban city girl being bullied by a group of street tough female classmates. When Penny reaches the end of her rope she uses her newly gained Tai Kwan Do moves to ...See moreSung in a funky pop style, this little ditty is about Penny, a small, urban city girl being bullied by a group of street tough female classmates. When Penny reaches the end of her rope she uses her newly gained Tai Kwan Do moves to retrieve her stolen lunchbox from the female toughie. But when Penny opens the lunchbox she realizes that it isn't her lunch at all. Had Penny become the bully? Now, she had stolen her lunchbox./A teenage boy posing as a restaurant valet takes off with a couple's shiny, new, red convertible. A few days later the car reappears in the couple's driveway with a note: "Sorry I had to borrow your car..." as recompense there were two tickets for the opera that night. The couple went to the opera in their newly returned convertible. When they returned home, they are shocked to find their house empty. It seems some burglar was aware they wouldn't be home that evening./Set in the future with a 1920's feel, this story is about Joe, a travelling salesman who, on a rainy night, picks up a young girl with one green eye and one blue eye. He offers her his coat to keep warm. But just before they arrive at her home he realizes she has vanished from the back seat, and so has his coat. When he arrives at the address she gave him, he finds this old crone who passes him his coat and thanks him for the ride. When he looks at her he sees the eyes of a teenager - one green and one blue./A teenage boy, Clinton takes a summer job at a retirement home and gets totally freaked when the senior he's taken out for the day, dies in his care. Worried about losing his job, he carries on with the errands around town as if the senior is only sleeping. Then Clinton returns to the retirement home and sneaks the body into bed. When he calls for the nurse to come check out the body the "formerly dead" old man is sitting up straight in his bed. Turns out this happens all the time, he's a narcoleptic. See less
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Director
Writers
Jackie May (segment "Stolen Lunchbox") | Simon Muntner (segment "Front Row Seats") (puppet segments) | Steve Schnier (segment "The Vanishing") | Ian James Corlett (segment "Dead Man Walking")
Composer
Alex Khaskin (composer)
Status
Edit Released
Updated Nov 13, 1998

Release date
Nov 13, 1998 (Canada)

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8 cast members
Name Known for
James Rankin
Larry de Bug (voice) Larry de Bug (voice)   See fewer
Dan Redican
Maurice Maggot (voice) Maurice Maggot (voice)   See fewer
Stephen Brathwaite
Larry's Assistant (voice) Larry's Assistant (voice)   See fewer
Wendy Lands
Singer (segment "Stolen Lunchbox") (voice) Singer (segment "Stolen Lunchbox") (voice)   See fewer
Jennifer Dodge
Narrator (segment "Front Row Seats") (voice) Narrator (segment "Front Row Seats") (voice)   See fewer
Cal Dodd
Narrator (segment "The Vanishing") (voice) Narrator (segment "The Vanishing") (voice)   See fewer
Paul Essiembre
Narrator (segment "Dead Man Walking") (voice) Narrator (segment "Dead Man Walking") (voice)   See fewer
Dawn Ford
Various Various   See fewer
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