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Tales from the Darkside Episode 80: Love Hungry

July 2, 2018 2 Comments

A woman finds a surefire way to lose weight that comes at a heavy price.

Betsy

Betsy Cowland – yes, that’s her name

Episode Summary

A woman named Betsy who desperately wants to lose weight gets a mysterious package from a company called “Your Weight Is Over” – inside is a hearing aid guaranteed to help cut down on food intake. Cool, right?

Betsy opening package

Betsy gets a mysterious package

She puts it in and goes on a date with her old high school sweetheart who’s back in town.

Elmo eating close up

Betsy’s date stuffs his face

In the restaurant she hears blood curdling screams when people eat their food. It becomes so unbearable that she passes out. Okay, maybe not cool.

Betsy putting on glasses

Betsy gets glasses

Talking Fruit

The next day, she gets another package in the mail: a pair of glasses. But as soon as she puts them on, she starts seeing cute little faces on her food and they start talking to her like they’re living beings!

A pear, banana, and apple

They can talk!

They implore her not to eat them and she’s torn between wanting to satiate her hunger and not wanting to kill her new friends. She chooses to sew her mouth shut and dies of starvation.

Betsy with sewn mouth

Betsy’s final solution

Thoughts

I’m glad the very first episode of Tales from the Darkside I ever saw was this one. Both memorable and hilarious, Love Hungry is also very disturbing (and a little frightening) when you think about it.

surprised Betsy

Just fantastic

Betsy was a very sympathetic, likeable character. If a normal person was put in her situation, you can bet they would eat the freakin’ fruit without a second thought, but she didn’t. With her pure heart, she recognized them as living beings and preferred to die than hurt them. And the actress who played Betsy, Sharon Madden, did a remarkable job face acting; through the whole episode, she makes one horrified expression after another, and each one was totally different!

apple

An apple a day…

The food puppets looked cheap but fulfilled their purpose, and whatever imperfections they may have had were masked by their outstanding voices and accents: Southern belle, tough guy, intellectual. Everything they say and the way they say it will make you laugh out loud – I love this episode.

Rating

5 out of 5 eggs rating

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Series: Tales from the Darkside Decade: 1980s Filed Under: TV Show Reviews Tagged: anthology, horror, live action

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Comments

  1. Steve says

    July 2, 2018 at 11:25 am

    Agreed that this is a superior episode of TotDS. I wonder if it inspired the talking food one sometimes saw in Pee-Wee’s Playhouse (notably the Christmas Special)?

    Reply
    • Michael says

      July 2, 2018 at 11:18 pm

      Probably not, since this episode aired two years after Pee Wee’s Playhouse made its debut, but they do certainly look similar!

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