My Crazy Youth: The Time that Freddy Kreuger Taught Brad Pitt About... Teen Pregnancy?!?

 Since it is Robert Englund's Birthday, let's look at some Elm Street stuff.  Hell, let's do more this week- just because!

Let's begin with Freddy's Nightmares aka *deep breath* Freddy's Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street- The Series.

The real nightmare is me having to write out that full Title multiple times...so I won't.

This Show featured Freddy sometimes interacting with his victims, but usually just popping up between Scenes a la The Cryptkeeper.

What about this Episode?
Let's see...

A young couple- hey look, it is Brad Pitt- run away from home because there Parents don't want them to get married.

Hit the road!

They wander around a tiny Studio Set that is lit black so you can't tell that it is a small Studio Set.

See how well it worked?

Their car breaks down and a nice couple robs them.

Is this a dream?  Dunno.
They go back and forth between them so long that I almost expect to wake up suddenly and...

Nope- still here.  Shit.

They end up at a crazy Hotel thanks to Bill Moseley.

Everything goes wrong between dream sequences and they learn that maybe they should go home.

That's a weird way to tell a lesson, but you do you, Freddy.

So we're done here, right?

Nope.  This is a 2-Part Story, instead of featuring two tales.

Now we see the Couple together in Springwood- Freddy's Town- and they have a pregnancy scare.

This leads to a bunch of Nightmare Sequences focusing on her- with Pitt popping up randomly- imagining the worst.

It's not subtle.

Her Nightmares continue until she finally wakes up in bed and checks the test.  She's not pregnant.

She jumps around on the bed to celebrate...and falls off, hitting her head and putting her in a vegetative state.

See- it's ironic, because she's a baby now...I guess.

Also Freddy didn't do that, so...huh?!?

It's a weird one, to say the least.  For folks that don't know, Pitt worked a bunch before hitting it big in the '90s.  This isn't his only Horror Film/TV appearance.  If you know the big one, you know.

The problem here is that Freddy does nothing.  Unless you assume that any Nightmare is him doing it, he's absent for the whole thing story-wise.  He does the interstitial bits- so that they could call it Freddy's Nightmares- but that's it.

Also that Title is a bit confusing thanks to lazy Grammar.  Is it the Nightmares that Freddy makes OR the Nightmares had by Freddy?  Fans want to know!

The two-part natures of this Episode is also quite odd.  They both feature the duo, but the connection is tenuous at best.  Were they from Springwood?  If so, what was the point of scaring them in Town if the first lesson was NOT TO LEAVE TOWN?!?

I still enjoyed the bits as a whole, but it definitely leaned more on the 'what is real?' schtick.  That said, there's probably a real reason to watch for many of you out there...

A weird bit of a Morality Play in a Nightmare on Elm Street tale.  It's really disjointed, but kind of fun all the same.