The Corner Penthouse

About 10 years ago, I typed up notes intended to be used to write reviews for a lot of different items. As I was cleaning up the digital clutter on my hard drive recently, I found all of these notes. Most of the products are out-of-print and no longer available for their original cheap prices, so there is no reason to use most of the notes. However, for a few items, the information contained in my notes doesn't seem to be available elsewhere online, so it still seems prudent to write the reviews as intended.

Read on as I tell you all about the Tales from the Cryptkeeper - All The Gory Details: The Complete Second Season DVD released in 2008 by kaBOOM! Entertainment...

Tales from the Cryptkeeper, an animated kid-friendly spin-off of the adult HBO series Tales from the Crypt, aired from 1993-1994 Saturday mornings on ABC (it was revived for a third season in 1999 on CBS). I loved it as a kid, so I was quick to purchase the Pleasant Screams: The Complete First Season DVD. Being quite pleased with it, I bought the second season as soon as it was released. Back in 2008, the second season DVD was released exclusively in Canada, so I had to buy it through Amazon Canada, which meant paying a pretty hefty shipping fee to have it shipped from Canada to the United States.

Unfortunately, the All The Gory Details/Second Season DVD contains a MAJOR ERROR. Someone incorrectly tacked on the same end credits onto every episode! This means that the end credits are incorrect on 12 of the 13 episodes. (I'm making the assumption that they're the correct end credits for ONE episode.) If you watch the endings of all 13 episodes (two episodes are comprised of two stories, which gives the 15 stated on the box cover), you'll see the same actors and characters listed on each one, even though those actors and characters are not in every episode. If someone wanted to know who provided the voices in each episode, they'd have no way of knowing since the end credits are incorrect.

The only reason I could surmise as to why all of the credits are incorrect, is that either whomever did the transfers was lazy and didn't want to be bothered transferring the end credits for all of the episodes, or someone wanted to cut costs by not spending the money to transfer those additional 30 seconds of footage in each episode. Either way, they probably didn't realize that the cast is different on each episode, so that's a tell-tale sign that there's something wrong.

Four of these episodes were released on VHS by Sony Wonder back in the 1990s, and they contain the correct end credits.

I e-mailed Kaboom about it on October 9, 2008 (within the first month of the DVD's release), but never received a reply. That tells me that Kaboom never bothered to correct the problem and issue replacement discs. So sad. Even sadder is that the third season, or a correct "complete series" set, was never released.