"Pick the right door and you'll be free, pick the wrong door and there he'll be..." This is easily one of the most fun and popular episodes, and kind of a mini-legend of this wonderful series, and for good reason! When I first saw this many years ago it seriously gave me the creeps. I found it just so eerie...all the scenes in the spookhouse with the brightly-coloured toy-box room of doors, and the Zeebo statue which still looks pretty twisted and scarifying to this day, and the smoke around the corner of the house, the footprint in the spilt chocolate pudding, and the balloon under the door, and the phone call with the menacing high squeaky voice - at the time I found it all downright chilling stuff! I truly wish it still did, it's fun to be scared sometimes, but it's still a great little corker of an episode, and I still really enjoy it a lot. For what it is I think it still displays a decent amount of atmosphere at certain points, mostly in the sequence where the little jerk steals the round red nose from the Zeebo statue. It's very hard to notice, but if you look closely at it just before he grabs the nose, you can see the barely perceptible motion of the statue shaking its head, now that is creepy! Also most frightful is the brief image of the real Zeebo that can be glimpsed in the warped spookhouse mirror. Now I'm afraid that I really don't like the acting of little Christian Tessier as the lead, because he really sucked! Whenever this cocky and obnoxious ginger-haired brat isn't treating his only two friends like crap, the way he's walking around constantly talking to himself with this annoying endless running commentary on everything he does is just awful. I know it was a very early episode of the show and that the child actors would slightly improve as it went on, but je-sus! Not particularly a likable kid at all, can't say I'd have been too upset about it if Zeebo had got ahold of "Josh" and throttled him! I just love the way that, for the most part and where it counts, we never see any evil clown. It's a real nice display of subtlety for this show, he's basically built-up as this eerie force and is mostly left to the imagination, what you don't see is more scary. It's sort of like a circus version of "The Tell-Tale Heart". Zeebo the spooky dead clown must have made some kind of strong impression on some people involved with the series' production, because if you keep an eye out, he's referenced more than a few times down the line. A big plus for me is that it's got Aron Tager in it. I always enjoyed the stories that he appeared in. I never remembered him in this one though, as he is hard to recognise without the beard. His performance is very well done and sets up the mood perfectly. His character of the mysterious carnival barker is a little unnerving in his own right, with the sinister yellow teeth and gaudy-striped red and white outfit. And the way it's suggested in the story that he may in fact be Zeebo is very cool and intriguing... The closing scene with him as the sinister carny smoking his cigar and laughing to the spooky funfair music is excellent and wraps things up in a highly satisfying way. Brava, what a creepy clowny classic!!!