"The power of money compels you" actually made me laugh along with that "Negative Freddy" gag. This show is truly something.

You've never heard of "racky"? It's a perfectly cromulent word.

I am obsessed with the word Racky. Why did this show make up a slang word and try so hard to make it happen? That's so funny

Ok but the pipeline from "Oliver looks kind of familiar" to "Is that GABRIEL FROM SUPERNATURAL?" was a trip.

Proposal to make "Sonar wasn't invented when the Titanic sailed!" The hot new gotcha line

I love the star of this show, Bobby Duke, who Mildred thought up after consuming a marijuana edible.

Bobby Duke, when are you going to reveal to us all that Mildread is just a hallucination you thought up of while high on worms? So Racky.

That "power of money compels you" joke genuinely made me laugh tho

So back when I was renting my soul to the American military apparatus, I worked on sonar, and the "who was watching the sonar" thing is wacky as hell even if sonar had existed at the time. Commercial ships having actual sonar domes is something that is only becoming common relatively recently, and it's mostly on merchant and research ships operating in the arctic. For the most part, commercial ships have range finders that look under the ship and tell them how deep the water is. They can see a something like a reef or underwater mountain coming up but they can't see an iceberg, and definitely couldn't even back when this show was made, much less in the black and white days. The two main reasons for that are that you need a specialized team to operate and maintain the kind of big complicated sonar system military ships have and that that kind of sonar is loud af. You couldn't just keep it running on something like a cruise ship without the passengers being able to hear it, so ships that have it tend to turn it on in unfamiliar or known dangerous waters, and leave it off most of the time. For the most part, radar is better than sonar for navigation if you are above the surface, being cheaper, easier to work with, higher resolution, longer range, and faster updating, and can be run without disturbing your passengers, so front facing sonar tends to only be seen on certain ships doing certain things in certain places. Even if sonar had existed when the Titanic was built, I'm not sure it would have been installed. I mean, the "Yarghhh me maties. Man the sonar ye gundecking landlubbers" performance wasn't great either, but she should have researched her lies a tiny bit better if she wanted to retain plausible deniability.

I am EXTREMELY stoked that you are doing more episodes about this show. Couple notes: 1) This wasn't cable tv, it was on FOX Network back when it was UHF. Like, back when it was a Weird Al-ass UHF channel that didn't always come in because it was so high up the frequency band. This was before The Simpsons and COPS and FOX NEWS turned it into a major contender. 2) That Oliver character is played by the same actor as Loki on Supernatural, and honestly you can't convince me that character himself isn't just Loki from Supernatural. 3) FREDDYS PROM HAS GOT IT GOING ON... ok had to get that off my chest. 4) I literally cannot wait until you get to the super homoerotic episode with John Cameron Mitchell.

when I was 12 I convicned my parents to let me watch Nightmare on Elm, invited all my cool friends because we were gonna watch a freaking classic, but when I put the VHS from Blockbuster (which clearly had the label FREDDY KRUEGER 1), this show appeared on the 14' tv... my cool friends never talked to me again

You can’t convince me that Mildred now doesn’t use the Bobby Duke voice as their everyday voice, and the Mildred voice is just for us.

I just realized the cat logo kinda looks like Grumbletum. No doubt my inability to notice that sooner contributed to his hunger

Love that Bobby Duke respects his dates intelligence and time

I feel like since Mike Deluca had a major hand in Freddy’s Nightmares and wrote Freddy’s Dead around the same time, Freddy’s Dead is actually a theatrical sequel/finally to Freddy’s Nightmares. Freddy’s Dead has way more in common with Freddy’s Nightmares than any movie in the franchise.

Richard Speight Jr alert! I'm totally asking him about this the next time I see him at a Supernatural convention lol

I wonder if the fake psychic was meant to be a genuine medium in the first draft of the script. (Yes, I'm assuming these stories had more than one draft.) The possession thing would make perfect sense if she was genuinely channelling spirits and just had really bad luck with who she made contact with. And now I'm thinking what if they made her the real deal, but still did the Titanic bit, not because she was faking, but because the spirit was. She actually contact Jim, the former convience store clerk turned roofer who died because he went to work stoned one day and fell off the scaffold. Wanting some attention and realising that nobody in the room would care what he had to say, he decided to pretend to be someone more interesting.

They say "Racky" and I hear "Reccy" and I'm wondering why a fashion photographer is being sent on reconnaissance. Do we need to know the hem length of the enemy? Maybe.

10:34 This is hilarious. The fake rat prop wasn't convincing enough and a little living mouse just chilling there wouldn't be scary enough on its own so they had to do them both at once

Yooo I recognized the actor that played the trickster/Gabriel in Supernatural with his baby face right away - Richard Speight Jr. is apparently in just these 2 episodes of Freddy's nightmares

Another racky classic, love it Mildred

Freddy's Nightmare wasn't on cable but syndicated over-the-air, usually relegated to late nights on UHF stations. I loved all the syndicated Horror shows as a kid in the 80's: Monsters, Tales from the Dark Side, War of the Worlds, Friday the 13th the series and of course Freddy's Dead.

Yay, just what I need to treat this case of anxiety-insomnia. Can't have nightmares if you can't sleep!

Did you watch this entire series? Its surreal. It's like being in a different dimension where they know Freddy was a character but didn't know anything but the basics. Sweater, hat, razor fingers, yeah yeah we got it.

I literally found this out the week this episode was announced and I need you to know this, Mildred, but the reason these episodes are so horny is because they are part of the 4 episodes directed by Tom DeSimone who got big as a pornography director in the 70's before getting cult classic horror and comedy hits Hell Night (1981) and The Concrete Jungle (1982). I found out about him because of the porno title Confessions of a Male Groupie or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Electric Banana

This unlocked a memory for me, for some reason my mom had lots of episodes of this that she had taped back in the late 80s and so I would watch this show all the time and absolutely loved it as a 10 year old in the early 2000s.

look, I'm 42. I grew up in the 80s. I loved Freddy... I even sometimes caught this show on tv because it aired in the middle of the day. but NO ONE has ever said "racky" except in this show.

Bobby Duke. Greatest polyam representation in modern media.

OH MY GOD. OLIVER IS GABRIEL FROM SUPERNATURAL. OH MY GOD.

Bobby being an iconic king as per usual ❤

I'm really glad your work on this channel can be properly financially appreciated, the incentive helps I'm certain.

this is certainly one of the shows of all time

"A cable TV budget"? Oh no, my friend, Freddy's Nightmares aired not only on regular ass antenna TV, but syndicated, UHF dial, probably kinda fuzzy antenna TV. THAT's the kind of budget that show was getting.

yo mildred i gotta recommend midnight mass, not just for scaredy cats but just in general it’s good religious horror and it’s very fun

Hallucinations are kinda dream like, I can accept the logic even if it may appear contradictory.

Ol' Bloodred's looking tanned rested and ready to front a band. You look sharp dude.

I'm so grateful to learn that the ancient baltic finnic steam bath sauna was actually invented in the 20th century from the 80s freddy gruger tv-anthology. You learn new things everyday, even of your own culture!

The "Power of money" joke is fucking hilarious.

Freddy's nightmares is on paper a show that I should love, but in practice it's kind of unwatchable outside of the episodes where Freddy is the direct villain. Every single episode has themes of dreams and the implication with all of them is that Freddy is fucking with the residents of springwood through their dreams to direct them to the ironic bad ends they come to. But the problem with that is that in practice it's never clear what is a dream and what is actually happening, and while you understand Freddy is involved with these weird nightmares, the characters usually don't, which means their foregone deaths is kind of anticlimactic because they never even realize there's a third party making things worse for them. The constraint also makes the episodes very, very, very repetitive, which is a horrific flaw for an anthology series to have. Usually the benefit of such shows is that outside of sticking to a main genre (horror, sci fi, etc.) you can tell very diverse stories with rotating guest actors. In this show every single episode involved dreams, confusing Freddy-related imagery, and being in Springwood. Don't watch it!

This assistant is Gabriel from Supernatural.

“Oliver” is in Easy Company in band of brothers!!! How racky is that -ish??

It's 2023 and we're bringing 'racky' back and plastering it on t-shirts everywhere and there is nothing you can do about, it's just that racky!

About the fifth time I heard "racky" I had to pause the video, I feel like I'm losing my mind

Cover all the nonsensical Freddy stuff your heart desires, I'm sure most of us are 100% down for it!

Not the commissioned All-Seeing Goat artwork reminding me of a oddball random dream where I was the only family member freaked out about why we just letting in a tall horse-looking dog with eyeballs all over its body. Also "negative energy" Freddy is gonna sit with me. That was hilarious.

"Introduced and sometimes featured in" - I watched that show almost every week hoping Freddy would actually be IN the episode rather than at the beginning and I don't know that I ever saw one like that. It must have been very rare.

Howard Nehamkin is an anagram for "naked rhino wham" and I think that explains everything

I love Freddy's Nightmares so much Freddy's prom night I seen this episode 3 times need to watch it again

Full disclosure I only knew about Freddy’s Nightmares because I used to have a hardcore crush on Robert Englund and seek out his obscure stuff

It warms my heart that Bobby Duke doesn't play games.

And here I thought Bobby Duke would've turned that situation into a double date - the more the merrier

I thought he was a molestar because of how strongly it's implied in the first movie. In fact, it was going to be explicitly stated, but in the wake of the McMartin witchhunt-- I mean, trial; Wes rewrote parts of the script, vanishing all mentions of sexual assault to the realm of subtext.

"Bestabinate" is my new favorite word.

I initially missed that the model escaped Freddy’s clutches once but ended up in his vicinity and dying to Freddy later by complete chance. That’s really rotten luck

New Scaredy Cats! Let's Gooooooo

Bobby Dook does indeed not play games.

"THE POWER OF MONEY COMPELS YOU" is the most 80s thing I've ever heard.

Bruh, the negative Freddy thing made me laugh out loud

Stop trying to make Racky happen, Freddy's Nighmares. Racky's never gonna happen

apparently the actor who played oliver went on to be a recurring character on Supernatural?! never watched it, but from what I can tell this definitely helped

The photo episode had a moral that *would’ve* worked: be careful who you trust.

You covering this show made me adhd associate it with Tubi which also has 1971 Kamen Rider which has a lot of psychedelic horror stuff I’d love to see this channel tackle. It’s like 90something episodes though and I think there’s maybe like 3 wet puppets throughout with all the others being dry and sandy

I've seen every episode of this show. I love it unironically.

Mildred, and I mean this sincerely: The glory which you've unearthed is enough for me to create a personal movie collection where one didn't exist before to hold this *gem* ...and also enough where I _must_ refrain from watching any more of your coverage for fear of spoilers. I've commented, and will leave a like on my way out for you friend. Cheers❣

This world is not pure enough for Bobby, we do not deserve him.

God this sounds like such a good drunk watch

Random John Fujioka appears! This whole series was among a list of series that were.

i do feel the need to point out that the dude that played the assistant Oliver also played the archangel Gabriel and Loki in Supernatural

The class reunion episode is my absolute FAVORITE!!!!!

Why, is that the incomparable Richard Speight Jr as Oliver?!

I love the guy dressing as a ghost to get the drop on Freddy. You can see the thin thread of logic there. Freddy is a ghost, so if I dress as a ghost then he'll trust me as a fellow ghost and never see it coming. It's a shame the second part of the plan was to shoot him with a gun, not something ghosts are known as being susceptible to.

When those over-the-top, racky photos have the same racy edge as a Spirit Halloween advertisement. Magnificent.

The purple elephant doodle turned out so cute! Thank you and thanks for the always entertaining videos ❤

oh hey it's my favorite horror video series, Racky Cats

Damn algorithm, why the hell am I only seeing this absolute gold 3 months later? A delight as always

10:34 I was especting some comment about the food being a prop of a dead rat with a smaller, alive rat on the top

Oliver played by the same guy who was Gabriel in Supernatural... looks like he didn't change much.

I loved Freddy’s nightmares. I wish they’d release them on dvd

I have no idea what the definition of 'racky' is, but this series absolutely fits it.

I refuse to believe everything described here all occurs in a single episode.

Love you Scaredy Friend and Bobby Duke! ❤️ I always knew Boddy don't play games...

Holy shit I just watched this with a buddy a couple weeks ago.

The power of money and the Negative Freddy jokes both made me genuinely laugh out loud. They’re cheesy as hell but I’m into that

They say that Oliver is still making $10 an hour to this day

Bobby Duke out here being a class act. Star of the channel and the dating scene!

i think i used to watch this show on chiller or something. it was so dang weird

Mil-dread, you're being pretty Rakey rn fr fr

My brain, unbidden and unwelcome: FREDDY'S PROM, HAS GOT IT GOING ON...

The original Nightmare on Elm Street had a lot more sexual overtones and Freddy was absolutely a child abuser, but the Kern County child abuse hysteria was in full force at the time and Wes Craven thought it was in bad taste, so he toned down Freddy’s pervyness and ditched all the child abuse stuff which is why it’s a little vague in the original. The Kern County child abuse hysteria is a wild story on its own. 30-something people falsely convicted of satanic child abuse because some crazy old lady coached her grandkids to say they were abused at a daycare and it just blew up into 60 kids being coerced into falsely accusing innocent people. The convicted got their sentences overturned like a decade later, but the prosecutor was still in office 20 years after the hysteria. Peak injustice.

yo that guy was in supernatural

Holly shit it’s a young Richard Speight Jr. !

The techie guy is played by Richard speight jr., the guy that played Gabriel in supernatural. Neat-o

Good timing. You just beat RLM to the punch.

Let's be real, Robert Englund can show up and do vaudeville schtick anywhere and we'd all stan

I can't tell whether Mildred is just picking out the best bits or whether this show is actually hilarious.

This vid was perfect, no notes

There's only one word to describe this video, and that word is...good, this video is quite good.

Mil-dew we got your back

This show was nuts. I only ever caught a couple episodes on chiller like 15 years ago or something like that. I like the dentist one.

Love and support, Mil-dread; you are so wrackie!