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The show follows a young boy Marshall Teller, played by Omri Katz , whose family moves to the aptly named town of Eerie, where bizarre goings-on require investigation. Plots included a family that preserved their children in Tupperware, finding out that dogs are planning something naughty, and a tornado hunter with an Ahab-like quest. Naturally, Elvis is around to put his two cents in from time to time.
The characters deal with the scenarios with dead seriousness, adding to the camp flavor of the show. It predated The X-Files with its investigative storylines into the paranormal, and echoed the theme of community weirdness as normality found on the show The Adventures of Pete and Pete.
The show's cult following brought about a brief spinoff Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension in 1998. It followed a different boy in a different, yet similar, reality solving mysteries in his own Eerie.