Freddy's Nightmare's S1E5
Episode 5 "Judy Miller, Come on Down!"
A woman wakes up early in the morning and she totally looks like me when I wake up before my partner and just staring into the fucking void waiting for him to wakeup only to find it meaningless so you just get the hell up and start your day? Good times.
She beelines to the kitchen and tunes on the radio to eagerly waiting for the latest lotto numbers while she is cooking some breakfast. Bummer, not the numbers she was hoping for. Oh well.
In walks her hubby who complains like a baby because she didn't iron his favorite shirt evahhh. Get a load of pampered princess over here. She is actually the working woman of the house and he is taking some college coarses. Husband storms, off. Don't worry, guys, Freddy is here to give some advice for the discord in the hizzouse.
Just as quickly in he takes his leave, his parents help themselves to the breakfast he refused to eat. The father is being such a perv and looking at her tushie while the mother is being a nagging old lady. She continues to shit talk her saying she needs to up her cleaning game and to stop fucking around with these game shows she's watching.
Later that night, Judy stays up at night to watch her current favorite game show, Beat the House in which she gleefully watches. Of course that is short lived as Tom comes strolling in reigning on her parade with these "stupid" shows.
This discussion leads into a hella rant on Judy's end because she tells him she is fed up living in his parent's house doing slave labor (exaggeration lol) while she is the one paying for him to go to college. She is stuck in an identity crisis. Poor Judy Miller.
Husband refuses to emphasize with her and leaves the room. Shitty husbands, amirite?
That night while she is trying to get some ZZZ's the TV in her room turns on. The host of the show finally says her name. "Judy Miller! Come on Down!"
Judy is now in the actual game show in all its pastel glamor and cartoonish glee the host exudes. All the contestants get introduced in which the first two have lovely brief intros but when it gets to Judy the announcer refers to her as "Leading a pathetic existence with all her hopes and dreams stripped away by the uncaring folks around her." Thanks, Mr. Announcer man.
Dora, the first contestant, spins the wheel first. All looks fine and normal but when you look at the choices..ehh?
Judy is next. The wheel is spun and it lands on none other than DREAMS! The host proceeds to ask a simple question in which she gets right! Woo! Now lets see what she has won! The announcer comes back on and while the camera pans to the side it's a model dressed like Judy sitting down in a desk while there is a fake teacher in front of chalkboard with the game show model in the back goofily smiling. The announcer says that has won night classes all paid from a local University. However, there is a backhanded comment at the end where he says so she won't rot away at home or something.
Judy gets the creeps like huh??? That's a little personal there, dood.
Nonetheless, the show much go on. Since she got the question right, she gets to go again. She decides to go for another question in the same category. Alrighty then so the host goes for the jugular with:
"Who in your life makes you life a living hell?"
Yes, quite personal indeed moreso now. However time is ticking since she is hesitant to answer because like, real game shows aren't REALLY this personal, right? Ehh....I mean 80s wise. Remember that show on Fox where you have to honestly to PERSONAL lie detector tests? It was called Moment of Truth. Twas real, look it up if you don't believe me.
I digress, but the seconds are ticking and she is forced indeed say that the people who are making her life a living hell are none other than her in laws. Holy fuck, the host determined that was the truth! Now, let's see what she has won!!!
In Freddy Kruger's voice "A soon to be empty house!"
The model pours honey all over the 2. In this strange turn of events, Judy is hella unnerved and sees everyone, especially the host, in diabolical laughter. She even looks down at her feet and it's in this weird puddle of goop. She pleads with the host to stop but then the host points to a random blob in the air to trigger a scene where she previously said to her husband earlier in the episode that she wishes they would just get out of their life.
This riles up the roaring audience and therefore, the show must go on! Model proceeds to pour a jar of ants on both of her in laws while they both muffle screams in agony.
All Judy can do is just look in horror when she turns to her left and the previous contestants she was playing with were mannequins all along. In response to her horrified look the host to say not to worry and that all these shows are fixed anyway.
She is next seen to straight out of the studio and into her car to drive the fuck away from that crazy ass place. As she returns home, she calls for her in laws but both are at the table. Just...sitting at the table with no expression on their faces. They look kinda dead, bro. She inches closer to them and picks up her mother in law's hand and sees an open wound in the palm of her hand with ants continuing to run about.
At this very second is when her husband pops the fuck out of nowhere and sternly asked WTF she did?!! Only for this scene to be revealed as a part of a fake scene in a studio. Walls are being moved and husband is now a mannequin being hauled off.
Well, fuck. She never left that game show studio, did she?
Judy is being manhandled the fuck to get back to the contestant podium. She is just frozen in fear while all this is happening but too late to act now because the game has started again!
This one in particular is called "Beat the Reaper" same model, same host but holy fuck her ankles are now in shackles and nailed to the floor so she can no longer flee. Everyone ignores her pleas to stop and the same exact host wastes no time to show her the visual of her husband lying on a table not too far off. I hope he's comfortable.
The host offers Judy, being the recent winner, a spin at the win along with 5 rapid fire questions for her to win. With her husband's intestines on the line, she has no choice but to play.
The wheel lands on LIFE in which triggers a ticking clock and 5 quick questions. All are super duper personal and all on the topic of the husband being the root of her pain and despair. Judy realizes that if she actually does win, that means that will slice right through him. She doesn't want him to like, die, you know? She purposely gets one of the questions wrong and it's so diabolical looking at this host because the more that time goes on, the more creepy looking his fucking eye brows are. Eek!
With the host back to normality, the host nonetheless named Judy the grand prize winner!!! That must have been the ultimate test anyways.
As the credits roll on the tv the husband is in bed looking shabby as fuck looking at the phone while Judy is calling from the stupid. He just drops it the fuck back. Realizing that she is the $1 Million winner he comes to the brutal conclusion that she really is the bread winner all along. Wishes he never met her
AAAAHHHH! His bedroom now transforms into the game show thingy again and the host pops out at him inquiring him to be the next contestant! LoLz.
In pops a few encouraging words from your 'ol pal Freddy
So in this next scene is a time skip much further out Judy and the husband making out in bed all happy and shit. They have since moved out of his parents home and live with just each other. He told her is happy they are millionaires and he shouldn't have laughed at her love for game shows. They continue loving each money, er, I mean each other.
Being in much better spirits is Judy in the kitchen along with Tom waltzing in in his buisness suit. On his way out, she reveals that she hired a new maid, even though she is a stay at home wifey for no fucking reason.
The maid arrives and introduces herself but upon first glance, she gets the heebie jeebies from her. She can't explain why. She quickly tells her husband who only says to just rip the bandaid and fire her already. Boi, hasn't even met her yet!
Just as she got off the phone, she heard something break outside. She rushes to her aid and help with the mess. Judy makes an off hand comment that well, shoot, they both have the same exact scar at the same exact location. As she is walking away with fragments of the broken pot, the maid replies "We got it when we were 12 after being pushed off the swing."
DAFUQ.
Why would she say that??? She tells her to get out. The maid whips out a newspaper article from her pocket and hands it to her. The headline was a caption that millionaire winner, Judy fatally stabs her husband. Thinking this is some kind of sick joke she still tells her to leave despite the maid saying they must talk as she has came a long way to get there.
Despite Judy believing the maid is really her in the future, she doesn't want to hear if when the maid says that this is fake happiness both her and Tom are expressing. It's only hiding the real root of their misery. Sooner or later, she is going to resent him enough to murder him. On top of that, Tom will eventually have an affair with a woman seeking to take over her wealth.
Sounds just so crazy, right?
Money is the root of all evil I guess. The maid thinks she can convince her to avert all this disaster over one simple little teeny tiny thing: give up the money.
Say again?!? The second she heard getting rid of the money, she rage quit the conversation. She ignorantly believes that the money truly made Tom love her and it brought them together. She cries in anger at the audacity of this woman and continues to tell her to leave the property.
Judy locks herself in her room and continues to cry. The mad knocks on the door warning her that in about 60 seconds the phone will ring and after the phone call should she still want her to leave, she will have to tell her to her face and will actually comply. She will be waiting downstairs.
As predicted, the phone does indeed ring. All you can see if just her expression on this 1 sided conversation. She is silent.
She meets the maid at the kitchen in which that phone call was the bank saying that Tom opened up a bank account and deposited a portion of her winnings but all she does is make excuses for him. The maid pleads that this is her sign and options to stay for dinner to see the look on Tom's face. Judy actually complies!
Husband comes home in an unusually happy mood. He wastes no time to say that he opened up the account. He was pretty much saying all the right things. She swooned over the very mention of him saying it was a joint account.
The maid decides to actually leave the house on her own volition seeing as maybe she was wrong somewhere along the way and there's nothing she can say to truly change her mind. Judy claims that she will get rid of the money and swears she will never fulfill the crime her future self will do.
After a nice hug, the maid bids adieu and she vanishes in the darkness.
As Judy walks back in the kitchen, she comes across the same newspaper article along with a knife on the ground. Creeped out, she proceeds to place the knife back where it belonged only to get startled when Tom comes in the kitchen to say he got off the phone with the maid service apologizing for not being able to send anyone out.
Dun dun DUNNNNN!!!!!
The lovely married couple are now cuddling in their room watching TV when she brings up the possibility of giving away all her money. Tom dismisses it completely and love bombs her before heading to bed. Her too.
The next morning, she wakes up along in her bed. Huh. peculiar eh? She sees something that sticks out of his pocket. Awwww shit, it's another woman's number!! She hears Tom talking on the phone so she sneaks a peak and picks up the phone in her bedroom and hears the conversation between him and a young woman confirming the affair.
All she can do is have all these memories of the past day or so echo in her head.
She is no longer the happy rich millionaire wife. So she moves like a zombie the entire morning. She stares at the knife and she dares to pick it up while beckoning Tom. Saying she loves him...creepily I might add. All Tom replies in return is his coffee..
She slowly walks towards him with the knife...
THE END
Creepy AF ending....
Special Guest this episode:
Siobhan E. McCafferty