Wes Craven‘s A Nightmare on Elm Street and its villain Freddy Krueger became a global phenomenon, breaking pop culture’s back and appearing everywhere. In fact, Freddy was so big that he once appeared on a Japanese variety show, laugh track and all.

While online for several years now, we’ve never seen the following video (sent over by Bloody reader Mike M.) in which Freddy appears in the nightmares of one of the stars of Japan’s “Kato-Chan Ken-Chan Gokigen” and eventually joins in on the fun. It’s all laughs until Freddy’s glove is struck by lightning, melting him like the wicked witch that he is.

There’s a bit of back-and-forth as to the year this aired, pegging it somewhere between Dream Warriors and Freddy’s Dead. It doesn’t help that the show aired until 1991.

And yes, it was indeed Robert Englund in the makeup!

[H/T] Thanks to iHorror for recently sharing the video.