This shit cracked me up. Every time they'd cut to a commercial on this one episode, they'd show a screencap of Freddy having a gay old time as a disk jockey.

This show is gold.

I'm watching s1e12 "The End of the World" and it's become very clear to me that this episode must have been the inspiration for The Butterfly Effect (2004). A teen's mother died when she was a kid and now she has dreams of how it happened... and she is able to change the details of her dream. When she wakes, her reality is different based on what changed in the dream. As she learns this, she tries to change the past to fix her present. Obviously, it never works out well, but yeah... the concept is definitely the same.

If you didn't already know it, every episode in this series is a two-parter. The second half of this episode... as the title suggests... is the one where Freddy nearly nukes Springwood. I always thought that idea was pretty hilarious/outrageous.

I have mentioned this here in TE before, but never in connection with Freddy's Nightmares, so I'm just gonna mention it again.

There is a book by Ursula K. Leguin called The Lathe of Heaven, which was made into a TV movie, years ago... I will include a link to that. It is a lot like the episode you are talking about: a guy (George Orr) can change the real world though his dreams. But, in The Lathe of Heaven, he doesn't WANT to change the world, he just thinks it's too much responsibility, no matter how much better things could be if he dreamed in a successful, positive way. Plus, it is George's subconscious mind that is in charge of creating the dreams, so he has good reasosn to be scared about that.

So, he starts going to a psychiatrist, in hopes that he can be cured of this ability. But, the psychiatrist thinks "holy crap, this is amazing, think of all the things I could do if I harnessed this power," so he tries to hypnotize George into solving all the world's problems. Gradually he reshapes the world so he, the psychiatrist, gets more and more power, and he regularly changes the world in really enormous ways.

There is a freaky thing that happens in the ending, that is either hard to understand or just doesn't make any sense. I'm not sure which. The book goes into more detail about it, so, you could read it if you want, or I can come back here and fill in more details if anybody cares. Anyway, here is the movie:

Another thought regarding Freddy and his hosting duties...

There are sometimes cutaways where he's torturing someone while giving his thoughts. Of course, we all want to believe that anything with Englund in makeup is canon, so these must be actual victims of his throughout his NoES4 to NoES6 run. But the funny part is the victim's point of view. They'll be tortured by this burnt maniac, only to see him periodically turn away and address an audience. That's got to be weird.

Gotta mention this: I recently saw an old episode of Cold Case, and Amanda Wyss played one of the characters. Her character had severe burns all over the side of her face, and her neck... they had some of her scenes be at a pool, so they could show her in a bathing suit, so we could see her burns. Anyway, the burns were pretty Freddy-esque... I imagine that the make-up people on the show who applied her scars were making a lot of NOES jokes as they did it, to make Amanda chuckle and pass the time. The episode was called Disco Inferno, if anybody wants to check it out.