This episode is full of homages to great cinema. In the intro the Crypt Keeper is playing his version of FORREST GUMP in a park and we then go in our story of the day: Lou Spinelli was a businessman that one day was murdered and when in the past he had some plastic surgery he had a striking resemblance with Humphrey Bogart (even tho we see it in few scenes). We see the days he was the president of an advertising company where he tried to advertise a product using variations of the classic Bogart line ''Here's lookin at you, kid''. After he was murdered we see flashbacks of when he was found dead by his old friend Oscar Charles (John Lithgow) and his wife Betty (Isabella Rossellini) that tried to hide his body in the closet but he was too heavy for being hung in the closet and so Oscar and Betty went out in the woods for digging some sort of grave and bury Lou. Unfortunately, Erica (Oscar's occasional lover) comes by and she is shot while she goes in the car: her body falls on the emergency brake and makes the car move towards them (and Lou's voice will have the last laugh).
A great episode very reminiscent of the Alfred Hitchcock movies and full of suspense throughout. The perfect conclusion for another great season (despite two losers).
A great episode very reminiscent of the Alfred Hitchcock movies and full of suspense throughout. The perfect conclusion for another great season (despite two losers).