Main cast: Kristen Bone (Katie), Pearl Richman (Mom), Ruby Smith-Merovitz (Shauna), Tracy Ryan (Sharon), and John Kassir (The Crypt Keeper)
Director: Rick Marshall

The third season of Tales from the Cryptkeeper, now rebranded as New Tales from the Cryptkeeper, was completely revamped. It was now aired on a different channel, CBS instead of ABC, and with some new TV rules in place for kiddie shows, the episodes of this season are obligated to have some kind of preachy moral messaging, delivered by the Crypt Keeper himself.

So, new credits, new direction, and new horror, at least new horror in the form of seeing the Crypt Keeper acting like a lecturing schoolmarm. Really? Someone decided that this character would make a great spokesperson for kiddie afterschool shows?

Sharon Sharalike is basically about this teenage girl, Katie, that hates sharing her toys with her younger sister, so the Crypt Keeper sends over a magical doll to teach her a lesson. 

That’s right, kids, share your kids or else you will be haunted by jump scares that will only be scary to kids below five!

The whole episode is more poorly animated than the previous seasons, which have already set the bar low enough as it is, but more importantly, I have to wonder: just who is the target audience? Very young kids? The episode is so banal and didactic, without any smart humor to make things less like a lecture masquerading as a cartoon, that I have my doubts about many older kids enjoying this episode.

Still, on the bright side, they have ditched the shrill voice acting that plagued female characters in the past two seasons, so at least I don’t feel like my eardrums are in danger of being decimated each time these characters speak. 

Anyway, just because this is a kid’s show, there’s no reason why it also has to be so condescending and patronizing, surely.