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In the second episode Carl comes up against Voodoo and a vengeful zombie on a killing spree. This is the sort of episode that could only come out of the 1970s,as it mashes up Sugar Hill style Blaxploitation horror with the other popular genre of the decade the gangster flick. .So we get a sort of watered down version of Across 110th Street (1972) meets White Zombie with just a smidgen of Marvel's Tales of the Zombie. And just to hammer home its grindhouse connections the episode features appearance's from Hong Kong Phooey and caretaker of the OverLook Hotel Scatman Crothers and Huggy Bear Antonio Fargas..We also get John Fiedler as Gordy Spangler the money loving morgue attendant, but people maybe more familiar with his dulcet tones as Piglet in the Winnie The Pooh films. In fact this episode has a great cast with Monique Marmelstein making her first appearance, played by Carol Ann Susi who would later become the voice of Mrs. Wolowitz on the The Big Bang Theory. You do the get the feeling that they wanted to tackle all the major horror icons first before getting into all the weird stuff later on, of course most modern audiences tend to forget that not all zombies were flesh eaters, yes were looking at you Mr Romero...A nicely done episode if a some what over familiar story line...