Same here, that opening always creeped me out.

I'm hard pressed to remember ANY episodes of Tales of Darkside - I guess they were that unmemorable - except for "Inside the Closet" (which still gives me a shiver). I have vague recollections of a voodoo episode with Mabel King as a baker, and she makes a gingerbread cookie of someone who crossed her; the last scene is a cat or a dog nibbling on the cookie and horrible screams coming from the victim's shower?

"The important question is not, are there aliens on other worlds? No. The important question is, do they have ray guns?"