Ayaotd renegade virus

MacHale original creator Andrew Mitchell. Top credits Director Ron Oliver. See more at IMDbPro. Photos 7. Top cast Edit.

Eric Fink Mr. Poe as Mr. Melissa Galianos Sonya as Sonya. Mark Trafford Mr. Smith as Mr. Jason Alisharan Frank as Frank. I wasn't afraid of the dark before ensconcing myself in my living room with Gushers and Capri Sun on hand, mind you to watch the first episode, but I definitely needed to sleep with the lights on once the credits rolled.

My lack of sleep aside, AYAotD is still one of my favorite '90s shows to date. Each story was carefully crafted in a way that left my childhood self enthralled, and one classic episode may have even been the inspiration behind The Sixth Sense. You may not remember which member of The Midnight Society what a sardonic weekly ritual those guys had — amright?

In case you need a refresher, I have compiled a list of the AYAotD villains that still haunt your nightmares. You can buy anything you need from it, but if you don't have the money to pay for it, the proprietor will take something else in exchange. She steals the protagonist's outer and inner beauty, turning her from an kind, attractive girl into a hideous Jerkass. Don't worry, she gets better at the end. He sees that it belongs to the girl Donna.

Erica asked if he was sure it's hers. Johnny is positive, she's the only Donna Maitland. Erica asked how did he know it would even be there. Johnny said he didn't. But Erica believes deep down he already knew.

Since he was Donna's boyfriend, and they were both killed by the train. Human Pet : "The Tale of The Zombie Dice" features a malevolent game shop owner who shrinks people down to just a few inches tall and ships them out to exotic places as pets if they lose his challenge.

Hypno Trinket : In "The Tale of the Hungry Hounds," a girl finds a horse-riding jacket worn by her aunt that possesses her into feeding the dogs that she left to starve when she died. Idiosyncratic Episode Naming : "The Tale of the This is at complete odds with Kristen's actual personality and just makes Kiki seem like a Jerkass.

After the story, the current members of the Midnight Society all vote on whether or not to invite the new member to join; in order to be accepted, the vote must be unanimous. Stig, appropriately enough, didn't pass the initiation the first time Ironically enough, with "Dead Man's Float", often considered one of the scariest stories featured on the show and had to tell a second story to pass "Station In fact, the tie-in game The Tale of Orpheo's Curse is actually about one big initiation ceremony, since you're playing a potential new member, and the Tale of Orpheo's Curse is the story you're telling to prove you have what it takes to be part of the society.

Notably, you don't get accepted unless you end the story with both protagonists surviving, which obviously means you have to win the game. However, if you get a "game over", you don't get kicked out; instead, one of the other members of the Midnight Society will just give a dismissive "That's it?! No 'mister', accent on the 'do'. Lampshaded in one of the later episodes where someone actually says his name right, and he launches into the correction anyway, stopping short with surprised when he realized someone pronounced his name right.

Internal Homage : Zeebo the Monster Clown is apparently the writing team's favorite character: in later episodes, "zeeb" is a common insult, people reference his carnival ride and such.

Heck, the guy even has a couple of video games dedicated to him in-universe. Interestingly, almost every single one of these Call Backs come from a different writer. Fortunately, it is discovered that the hooded ones realize that the little boy is too young and that it is, indeed, not his time to die, so they toss him back out alive.

Just Woke Up That Way : "The Tale of the Hunted", in which after a girl named Diana finds a necklace in the woods and has a strange dream about a wolf known as The Blaze, ends up in the body of a wolf to learn what it feels like to be hunted down like an animal. Karmic Jackpot : After helping the ghost in "The Tale of the Frozen Ghost" the protagonists end up finding the gold coins the ghost had stopped the thieves from getting away with in the first place.

Kick the Dog : Of the 80 victims that Peter Season 1, Episode 7 killed with his life-draining machine Kill It with Fire : How do you defeat a vampire? Burn its coffin. How do you defeat a witch who gets her power from a Magic Mirror? Throw it in the fire. Need to stop a demon coming after you?

Threaten to burn his "precious woods. Burn it. This was used so often that the the tales of "The Bookish Baby-sitter" and "Many Faces" deliberately deconstructed it. Large Ham : The Sandman and Roy. And he is even attempting to kill off Danny and her parents Doug and Sally with the same mechanism. Unlike many examples of this trope, however, Sardo did not appear to make the magical items in his shop, or often that he was ever even aware that he was selling anything that was actually magical.

Also appeared in "The Tale of the Vacant Lot," a Deal with the Devil episode, where the more magic stuff a girl bought from the owner, the uglier she became. The toy factory in "The Thirteenth Floor". Mad Artist : Vink takes this role often in his appearances. In "The Tale of the Midnight Madness," he's a mad filmmaker who, when the manager of a theater he's helped immensely refuses to give him one night each week to show his films, brings the vampire in one of his films to life to get revenge.

In "The Tale of the Dangerous Soup," he's a mad Supreme Chef who uses a magic statue to scare people and turn their fear into a liquid he uses as the key ingredient in his soup. Match Cut : In "Dead Man's Float", a shot of an underwater pool wall fades into a shot of a class assignment.

Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane : Used a few times. In "The Tale of Laughing in the Dark," we never know for certain whether it really was the ghost of the original Zeebo, or if it was just the carny trying to scare Josh. The ending somewhat suggests the latter, while one camper speculates that the carny IS the ghost of Zeebo, but it's left deliberately vague. There's also a subtle one at the end of "The Tale of Jake and the Leprechaun.

Her father sees her wolf self in her cabin and assumes she killed her. Diana evades the hunting posse until the transformation wears off. When the protagonist investigates the witch's house after her friends who work at the shop go missing, she realizes something is wrong when she can't find any mirrors in the house. Danny the heroine soon finds out through the mirror monitors in his secret laboratory that he is really years old and that he has killed off visitors by Rapid Aging using the laboratory's Vampiric Draining mechanism.

David Lee, a young Chinese-American who is dissatisfied with his family's lifestyle and longs for fame and fortune as a comic book author, opens a special fortune cookie from his father's restaurant. The fortune cookie promises him "perfect living within imperfect living" and transports him to an Alternate Universe where everything he's ever wanted is his. But even though he has the fame and fortune he desired, he's now estranged from his family and has no friends. Although neither of them were really going after the protagonists for kicks: Zeebo just wanted his nose back after it was stolen, and left the kid alone after he gave it back and apologized, while the Crimson Clown was simply scaring his kid straight.

The Ghastly Grinner, an evil jester who stares into people's eyes and leaves them grinning, drooling idiots. Motifs : Almost all of the kids in the Midnight Society have recurring themes in their stories. Here they are, as follows: Betty Ann tends to tell stories about supernatural creatures either breaking into our world, or dragging the main character into theirs.

David tends to tell stories about what happens if you don't resolve unpleasant past events or deal with the evil inside people in the present. Eric had only two full stories before leaving, but his Irish ancestry inspired him to tell a leprechaun story.

Gary's stories usually feature magical or cursed objects and the dangerous effects they have on people. No Mister, accent on the do! Kiki tends to tell stories about the dangers of being careless or deceitful, and warning against letting history repeat itself.

She also tends to feature people of color and athletes to a greater extent than the others do. Kristen tells a lot of "unfinished business" stories about ghosts who need mortals to help them complete their business. Additionally she usually brings a prop or costume to match the theme of her story.

The only one she doesn't do this for is "The Tale of the Frozen Ghost". Sam tells mostly love stories, particularly love that lasts from beyond the grave. Stig only told two stories, but both were about outsiders being judged based on appearance or tastes. Tucker tends to tell stories involving frayed family relationships that later mend, and in his stories the villain tends to appear because someone released him by accident.

Frank's stories mostly consist of Dr. Additionally, each of the seven seasons had thirteen episodes. Shaffner's face says it all in "The Tale of Locker 22" when he realizes, at the end, that his own carelessness almost killed an innocent student.

Thankfully, Chris and Julie were able to prevent said tragedy right in the nick of time , and when they get back to the present, things are obviously different. Characters in her other stories reference Zeebo a few times. In both stories he drove something off a bridge; a car in the former, a bike in the latter.

Nephewism : A large number of the protagonists were either living with aunts, uncles, and grandparents or visiting for the weekend, summer, holiday, etc. Used as a way for the kid to stumble into the episode's inherent weirdness without having people wonder why they had lived beside it for years and not noticed it before.

Notably when Kristen has a book of dark fairy tales, Betty Ann says her favourite is one where a prince is kidnapped and the kidnapper puts blood on the queen's mouth to make it look like she ate him. Also it turns out her pet is a snake. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished : The titular ghost from "The Tale of the Frozen Ghost" prevented a group of thieves from getting away with their ill gotten goods only to freeze to death after losing his jacket while evading capture by them.

No Immortal Inertia : "The Tale of the Captured Souls" Season 1 Episode 7 features a Big Bad named Peter who uses a machine to take life force from other people and even animals to stave off the effects of aging. The protagonist saves her parents by sabotaging his lab and giving back the life force he took from them, ultimately forcing him to spend his last remaining moments as a helpless, lonely old man.

Urban legend says she injected Emily with poison to kill her. However it turns out Emily was allergic to penicillin and her medical bracelet had fallen off. This even continued into the revival seasons.

One Steve Limit : Quite a few names get reused across various stories: The name Julie is one of the most common, re-used in a lot of episodes, especially in Season 7. Or Was It a Dream? Our Ghosts Are Different : Some of them really are. You have the "Fire Ghost" and the "Frozen Ghost", for instance. The vampire's weakness is his coffin; destroying it will destroy the vampire itself.

Betty Ann: With ghosts and ghouls, there are no rules; but a vampire's bite, only comes at night. Poor Communication Kills : The aliens in "The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor" could have saved themselves a lot of trouble if they had told Karin she was an alien early on instead of waiting until after they were forced to leave the planet. In "The Tale of the Night Nurse", a girl was killed by her nurse after breaking a leg from a fall down the stairs.

The story goes that she injected her with poison, but the nurse swore she was innocent until she died in prison. Turns out that the nurse was actually innocent and had actually given her a penicillin shot, not knowing that she was allergic. She didn't know because the girl dropped her medical bracelet when she fell. Mr Poe laughingly dismisses the idea. When Simon persists, Mr Poe angrily orders him out. Simon then finds himself surrounded by a reverse procession of students, who, reverse-followed by Mr Smith, back into a classroom.

A boy suggests five. A girl then suggests six - six minutes left. Simon suggests four - and finds himself stood in only his underwear. From the scornful laughter, he runs back to the corridor, and finds himself once more fully dressed.

Seated atop a display, the Virus announces Simon to have five minutes left. Simon shows his augmented palm. A suddenly very worried Evan tries to enter the abort code, but has been frozen out.

Simon can abort from within the game, but needs the code. As the Virus knocks on the barricaded door, Simon prepares to enter a code. Several failed attempts prompt a mocking message of Simon to have forgotten his combo.