Freaky Stories (1997– ) User Reviews

A fun show

[Rectangular_businessman · 8/10 · 26 December 2023]

I remember how back then in the early 2000s, the Latin American feed of Cartoon Network used to show many segments from this series during commercials.

These shorts were pretty entertaining to watch, often switching from comedy to horror, sometimes with very gross twists at the end. I liked how each episode had a different animated style and a fun narration. And despite being a show for kids, it still managed to include its fair share of mature elements and black comedy from the urban legends which served as inspiration.

Then again, this was produced in a time when family shows weren't as sanitized and dumbed down as they have become in the last few years.

It would be nice to have another animated anthology inspired by folklore and urban legends these days.

FIRST REVIEW OF 2021: cLASSIC FREAK SHOW

[ThunderKing6 · 10/10 · 1 January 2021]

Freaking stories is a classic scary or freaky show about events that happened to friends of a friend of mine. It tell stories through narration, animation and very minimal voice work not including the maggot and the cockroach segments.

This show was a great addition to TYV late nights back during television's golden age. Freaky Stories was a witty, full of twists and freaky show. It has very innocent content for the children viewers. They have an episode about a serial killer but they were very indirect about it without showing any blood or violence.

My favourite episode was the future Robot police one, it was so freaky.

Verdict: From Goosbumps, to Dark to Freaky. Freaky Stories is a classic YTV gold.

Flying on the wings of a dove.

[Carmo-2 · 26 January 2002]

To watch this show, one needs to appreciate the theory that forms the basis for its storytelling conceit. Forming the basis of the thesis I am currently working on at Fretwell Tech U., I have grown to marvel at the intense allegorical sinews that support the five minutes of short storytelling.

The show begins and ends, for example, the same way each time. This repetition serves to reflect the banality of the post-modern soul, while at the same time reflecting its kineticism, through dynamic visual juxtapositions: colour and light fuse with motion to render the viewer helplessly enamoured with the final product.

Zeugma, asyndeton and anaphora are used to elucidate the complexity of the 90s soul. Consciousness is explored, and yet never fully realized - the viewer gets to experience the orgasmic reality of a perpetual silence.

I once wrote on my hand "Freaky Stories" to remember to watch it.

Urban legends

[safenoe · 6/10 · 28 February 2022]

I enjoyed Freaky Stories in the lead up to the Millenium. I got hooked on Jan Harold Brunvand's urban legend books, so Freaky Stories fit the bill and introduced urban legends to a new audience of youngsters.

Maybe Freaky Stories can be rebooted please to cover the urban legends that snopes covers.