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The Tuckers are about to move. Richard is looking forward to it because he will have to spend less time commuting. His wife as well as their kids is a bit reluctant. She likes their house and she's convinced that the ghosts of the Chumskys, a couple that lived there earlier, are still there and acting as guardian angels for the family. When the Tuckers have gone, Tony, a producer of porn movies, moves in together with his brainless wife (and 'star' of his movies) Sheena. Things are not so bad at first, and even when it gets worse, the ghosts hesitate to frighten away their new fellow-lodgers: the ghosts must be careful, for if their house was destroyed in the conflict, they would have to stay in limbo forever, and their souls would never find rest. But Sheena's awful singing and Tony's intention to sell the Chumskys' jewellery (which is still in the attic) make the ghosts change their minds and take the risk. But driving away Tony and Sheena proves to be difficult...

The plot of this episode is quite simple. (It reminded me a bit of 'The Canterville Ghost'. When the ghosts try to frighten away Tony and Sheena, they are not frightened at first.) But there were some good points. I liked Robert Picardo (the holographic doctor on 'Star Trek: Voyager') as Tony, and the other actors are good, too. There were some funny scenes, for example when the ghosts comment on Tony and Sheena, saying they are too stupid to be frightened, when the ghosts eat burgers, or when Tony explains why he named his dog Sheena. And there's some black humour, when Tony is in the attic and comments on Mr Chumsky's bicycle accident. All in all I liked this episode.

This is another Amazing Story that appears to go out of it's way to proceed on the silly side instead of a little subtlety to provide it's humor. A couple consisting of a porn star producer (Robert Picardo) and his dumb as a rock wife and star performer (Wendy Schaal), buy a nicely detailed suburban home, only to be told by the previous owners that the house is haunted. They remain nonplussed, dismissing the advice in favor of setting the home up as a recording studio. Aware of the the new tenants, the ghosts of the Chumsky's (Eddie Bracken and Evelyn Keyes) decide to throw a few scares at them in an effort to rid their home of the undesirables. They eventually get through to the dismissive couple, with definite hair raising results (at least in the case of Picardo's character)! The only puzzler with the story's conclusion is how and why the original Tucker family decided to return to their old neighborhood, especially when they had already purchased a new home about an hour away and close to Mr. Tucker's (Bruce Davison) job. I guess you're not supposed to think about stuff like that with one of these shows, but when you do, the logic kind of works against it.