What’s that one episode of Twilight Zone where something weird is going on, and some people are like, this is weird, but then at the end, there’s aliens or robots or some such shit
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It’s the one where Robert Redford freaks out while Burgess Meredith is tearing apart the wing of plane that drops the atomic Bomb while William Shatner is stuck in a vault. When his glasses break, the robots read him a story about the aliens that own the diner.
We had to read the short story (that we had to memorize), then we saw the episode. It was the Othering that she was interested in, and how quickly people could turn on one another.
I suddenly wonder if enjoying Twilight Zone is a good predictor of being left or right. I know conservatives are capable of unironically loving Starship Troopers and uncritically loving Rage Against the Machine, but I'm having a lot of trouble imagining many conservatives liking Twilight Zone.
“The Night of the Meek”, with Art Carney! When he plays Kick The Can with a bunch of old folks, and they turn young. Then he survives a nuclear war, and breaks his reading glasses! And then, the Cow jumped over the moon, and the moral of the story was MacCarthy was the real communist, all along!
I wrote the title down in case anyone asked. Let me just see what it is. Hold on...Oh..oh god no! I broke my glasses and now I can't read what it says. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
There's that one episode where everyone's happy with the Old Man on the Hill telling them which food is good and which is contaminated, then some assholes led by James Coburn ride into town and eff it all up.
"Throw them into darkness for a few hours, and then sit back and watch the pattern."
"And this pattern is always the same?"
"With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find, and it's themselves. All we need to do is sit back and watch."
I think it's the one where Mulder and the smoking Man find out like they have to go to Domino's to pick up the pizza but somebody else paid for it already with their Pizza points or something and then they drove home smoking guy called up Scully see if she needs anything from the store
That sounds a lot like The Muppet Show, you know, the one where the astronaut goes through the wormhole and ends up on the spaceship with all the Muppets.
Yeah I remember this one it was called something like "Ah Damn The Alien Is Here And It Keeps Eating Our Cats And Everyone Keeps Laughing About It"; weirdest thing to me about it was the episode was in full color and released in the mid 80's
Yup. It featured Debbie Harry and eventually they found out it wouldn't eat up cats when the TV's on, so it went back up to space where it wouldn't have hassle with the human race.
Gail, I think you might mean Night Gallery. Nothing weird ever happened on Twilight Zone except the episode where Aunt Bea bakes too much bread and Opie has to eat it all.
The one where Bill Shatner teaches the hawt robot babe how to love, and her head melts? It was written by Harlan Ellison or Orson Bean, I’m not sure which.
That one time kids weren't being creepy and everyone was like, "wtf? How are these kids not creepy?" And it turned out the kids had been drinking alien cow milk produced by the US government.
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Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? From IMDB: Following a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship on a winter night, state troopers Bill Padgett and Dan Perry try to determine who among the bus passengers at a snowed-in roadside diner is a visitor from another world.
Meet George Milliner (Smith?), a man who spends his days as a small cog in a large corporate machine. But tonight, Mr. Milliner, will find himself in a weird world where soon there will be aliens or robots or some such shit. [Devil? Time travel? Talk to Matheson.]
Note - can we get Klugman again?
I think it was the one that updated a classic Agatha Christie story into a near-future Dystopia where everything is named for a corporate sponsor: Miss Marple is on Mountain Dew Street.
Bake/Off, the little known and less successful sequel to Face/Off, stars Gordon Ramsay and Paul Hollywood as embittered chef rivals who attempt to destroy the reputations of their respective restaurants
I never think of Charles in Charge if I can help it. I'm embarrassed that 8 year old me would watch an episode of it from time to time. I'd be far less embarrassed if I could say I spent those minutes of my life smoking weed.
I think I remember that one. It was written by either Rod Serling or maybe Charles Beaumont… though it could have been a Richard Matheson episode now you mention it.
Pretty sure Gail was making a more general joke about the series, but her description does fit that episode particularly well. That episode has a special place in my heart, as we had to read the script one day in English class back in high school.
I am a huge fan of Twilight Zone from back in the day (boomer) and that particular episode just so perfectly captured us as humans. I was a kid but it really sent shock waves through me. Rod Serling was way before his time. I love that you studied it in English class!!!! ❤️
GenX here. I grew up watching old episodes of Twilight Zone, and always loved it. A couple of days ago we watched a movie called Coherence (2013). If you haven't seen it, you should. It starts off very much like "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" but then veers off in wild directions.
Oh I will look that up right now! My son is Gen X also. Rod Serling always had the wisest thing to say about the human condition. Guess I was "woke" as a child.
They garbled the most important punchline at the end. After lecturing the kid ("Ride a bike! Read a book!") and sending him off to play in the fresh air, he turns and says "Enough of this lying and hypocrisy. Time for what Television's REALLY about!" and they go to an ad.
Yeah, I remember the classic era one. I - shockingly - haven't seen much of the modern Doctor Who yet :( I must get around to it! There was a Twilight Zone episode with mannequins. It was also adapted into a graphic novel.
I don’t think that was a Twilight Zone episode. Those stories were always very clear and unambiguous. I think you’re thinking of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Lost In Space never brought up the fact that Will Robinson was the Lathe of Heaven. Probably because it would have destroyed any and all dramatic tension.
No, you're thinking about that British show where an alien has a blue box that can travel anywhere in time and space, but somehow always ends up in contemporary South Wales.
Gail, you obviously already know. It's called "Something Weird Is Going On, and Some People Are Like, This Is Weird, But Then At The End, There’s Aliens Or Robots Or Some Such Shit". Jordan Peele just remade it in his TZ reboot with Al Pacino as "People" and Robert DeNiro as "Some Such Shit".
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Best of Both Worlds Pt. II
Monsters on Elm St
basically something comes and paranoia gets ahold of the neighborhood and they start turing on each other
Someone knows this episode better
For some reason the teacher made us memorize this story.
As a kid
For me
The repeated hush call of
Marsha Marsh
turn on each other
Throw someone under the bus
But also "The Invaders"?
'What You Need'
"And this pattern is always the same?"
"With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find, and it's themselves. All we need to do is sit back and watch."
the one where Maggie shoots Mr. Burns?
It was me… … the Adam from the Bible… or was it a man you slowly realize was Hitler?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/
Note - can we get Klugman again?
you're thinking of the inferior Twilight Zone clone show,
The Inner Limits
Wait it wasn’t Twilight Zone, it was that British show.
Masterchef.
Although Masterchef was devised by Franc Roddam, the director of Quadrophenia and creator of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
“Which one?”
“They were all like that.”
Great episode, and I love that they got Sly Stallone to reprise his role as Rocky to Schwartzenegger's Bullwinkle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-hcCLFa4rs
...come to think of it, that may have been Dr. Who...
I think it was called TJ Hooker. I think this is an image from the show:
Geez Gail.
https://youtu.be/_OF2uOy5r5k?si=VizhII-tmNuwKoAh
I cant remember the name of the episode though.