Tales From The Crypt “For Cryin’ Out Loud”

The late Sam Kinison made a lot of people laugh by screaming stuff.  He gets to do a lot of that here.

Meanwhile, rocker Iggy Pop appears as himself, gets second billing for the episode, and basically has a somewhat extended cameo.

We open with rock promoter Marty Flash (recognizable character actor Lee Arenberg) racing to the electric chair, arguing with seemingly nobody.  What gives?  Flashback time!

Two years earlier, Marty visited a doctor about what sounds like a muffled voice in his ear.  The doctor sees nothing but gives him some drops and cotton swabs, so you know that doctor is a quack because no doctor ever tells people to put stuff in their ears, even gently.

Anyhoo, Marty’s club, which doesn’t look that big, just raised a million dollars to save the rainforest.  There’s just one small problem:  Marty is keeping the money for himself.  How he raised a million, I don’t know, but he did.  And when Peg Bundy herself, Katey Segal, shows up as his banker and demands half, he kills her.

But wait, what was that muffled voice?  It was Marty’s conscience (voice of Kinison), and he is a very loud thing that only Marty can hear.  There’s a cop nearby, a corpse, a lot of stolen money, can he get past the cops to his getaway flight with the splitting headache that is Kinison’s screaming voice in his head?  Especially when people seem to be reacting like they can hear the conscience speaking?

Actually, yeah, he can.  The reactions aren’t because Kinison is shouting Marty’s crimes.  He has a long cotton swab sticking out of one ear.  It’s bleeding and gross.  They only really know about Marty’s crimes because he shouts them out under the impression that everyone already knows.  They did not before he shouted.

So, really, the conscience never stopped talking, and Marty gleefully went to the chair.

You know, a better twist might have been if dying and going to hell didn’t stop the conscience from screaming at him, maybe even as a live person.  Eh, it’s still a good ending.

What about the Cryptkeeper?  He’s rocking out, actually.

Notable Names:  Arenberg, Segal, Pop, Kinison, director and co-writer Jeffrey Price made Doc Hollywood, and the other co-writer, Peter S. Seaman, wrote the script for that movie too.