Tales from the Darkside (1984)

Episode Overview

Title: Djinn, No Chaser Plot: A couple stumbles upon an enchanted lamp that houses a rather irritable genie. After being imprisoned for millennia, the genie is far from friendly, unleashing chaos on them with bizarre plagues and showers of frogs instead of fulfilling their wishes. In desperation, the husband checks himself into a mental health facility, but his wife soon brings him back home. To his surprise, their apartment is lavishly furnished, and they have suddenly come into great wealth. The wife’s unconventional approach to liberating the genie involves a can opener, changing everything.