Korman's Kalamity story
Jim Korman, a cartoonist who works on the Tales from the Crypt comic, is put- upon by his shrewish wife Mildred to take experimental fertility pills. Later that night, an attractive policewoman, Lorelei Phillips, is saved from a rapist when a monster suddenly emerges from a washing machine and tears the rapist's head off. Seeing the same monster on an issue of Tales from the Crypt, along with other monsters that were sighted recently, Lorelei interrogates Jim, believing that he is somehow making his drawings come to life. Tom Woodruff Jr. performs the utility monsters. The Cryptkeeper makes a reference to Tales from the Crypt starting out as a magazine at the beginning of the episode. Directed by: Rowdy Herrington. Story by: Terry Black.
16 total · 1 choice · 9 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| what if my thoughts became reality | choice | The cartoonist Jim Korman's monster sketches coming to life owing to his taking of an experimental fertility drug constitutes a main novelty of the story. |
| coping with a nag | major | Jim was dealing with his ill-tempered wife nagging him over his alleged infertility and likewise alleged romantic infidelities. |
| drawing | major | The viewer is shown the cartoonist Jim Korman's day-to-day work activities at a certain horror comic book studio. |
| husband and wife | major | The mild-mannered Jim was dealing with his ill-tempered wife, Mildred. |
| law enforcement | major | The beat cop Lorelei was investigating the sudden and mysterious appearance of multiple monsters in town. |
| monster | major | The story is about a horror cartoonist whose monster sketches come to live and go about terrorizing people. |
| romantic courtship | major | The unhappily married man Jim was vying to win the young policewoman's Lorelei's heart, and in the end he did. |
| romantic infidelity | major | Jim was courting the attractive policewoman Lorelie behind his ill-tempered wife's back. |
| romantic love | major | Jim won Lorelie's heart by drawing a romantic sketch of them, knowing full well it would become reality. |
| shrew character | major | Mildred was a stereotypical battle-axe wife to Jim. She stormed into his office and berated him in from out of colleagues for missing a dose of his fertility medicine, and twice angrily accused him of being unfaithful to her without evidence. Her instincts were, however, correct as she ultimately walked in on him arranging a date over the phone. |