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Subject: The Twilight Zone

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/20/03 at 05:19 p.m.

I noticed that few people have been remarking about AstringOfPoloponies' avitar with Talking Tina. So, I figured why not have a thread devoted to that beloved show. What were some of your favorite episodes?



Cat




Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: Butterball on 05/20/03 at 10:15 p.m.

I think my all time favorite was the episode with William Shatner as a guy with mental problems on an airplane. Sooooooo, was that troll out there for real, or did he imagine it?

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/21/03 at 03:42 p.m.

I always like the one with the little girl who had something wrong with her leg and the old man who was from another planet. I thought it was a very sweet story. There were just so many of them that I like.



Cat

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: dagwood on 05/21/03 at 05:17 p.m.

The episode where the air force pilot crashed his plane and he was in a parallel time where the time was moving really slow.  So slow that you couldn't see things move, everything appeared frozen.  The part that sticks out in my mind is the man tying a seatbelt around a gear shift of a truck that is on a path to hit his daughter on a tricycle.

Then there was the episode where the child falls through the wall....

(at least I think these are Twilight Zone.  Who knows, they could be The Outer Limits.  I used to watch both every Saturday afternoon. ;D)

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: Arcfire on 05/21/03 at 09:22 p.m.


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The episode where the air force pilot crashed his plane and he was in a parallel time where the time was moving really slow.  So slow that you couldn't see things move, everything appeared frozen.  The part that sticks out in my mind is the man tying a seatbelt around a gear shift of a truck that is on a path to hit his daughter on a tricycle.

Then there was the episode where the child falls through the wall....

(at least I think these are Twilight Zone.  Who knows, they could be The Outer Limits.  I used to watch both every Saturday afternoon. ;D)
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Aye you are right Dagwood that is the Outer limits, I have seen that episode like 3 times on Sci Fi channel,

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/22/03 at 10:36 a.m.

Didn't the Outer Limits have some of the same stories as the Twilight Zone did?



Cat

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: Arcfire on 05/22/03 at 05:11 p.m.


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Didn't the Outer Limits have some of the same stories as the Twilight Zone did?
Cat
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I dont think so cat, maybe the same producer/production team.

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: AstringOfPoloponies on 05/22/03 at 05:31 p.m.

Favorite Episode - "It's A Good Life" starring Billy Mumy as  monster child (and my first avatar here) Anthony Freemont from Peekskill, Ohio, Cloris Leachman as his mom and Gidget's dad as his dad.

This episode symbolizes  how manipulative people are.In a recent remake for the current TZ, the actor's revived their roles.

I also like "Ring A Ding Girl".This is the one in which an actress thinks she's visiting her hometown, but she's really dead and gets the images through a large-stoned ring she's wearing.

I just love them all. "The Bewitchin' Pool" is another favorite-that was my second avatar.About coping with parents who are getting divorced.This episode was voted least liked episode by TZ fans.It was poorly put together and it was actually the last of the original episodes ever to air. I love it, though.The voice of the Talking Tina doll is used for Jeb's voice during the end segment of this episode.

I love the one with Carol Burnett, too. Just love them all. Stay tuned for my next avatar. :D

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: AstringOfPoloponies on 05/22/03 at 05:35 p.m.


Quoting:
Didn't the Outer Limits have some of the same stories as the Twilight Zone did?



Cat
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I think the reason why the episodes were confused was because in the 60s, at least where I lived, they ran The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits ,not together , but during the same time. So, a person would watch a TZ and than an OL, and than years later, we confuse the stories. It would make sense  if they did have the same writers as the tone and mood of both series was very similar.

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/22/03 at 06:07 p.m.

Quoting:
Favorite Episode - "It's A Good Life" starring Billy Mumy as  monster child (and my first avatar here) Anthony Freemont from Peekskill, Ohio, Cloris Leachman as his mom and Gidget's dad as his dad.

This episode symbolizes  how manipulative people are.In a recent remake for the current TZ, the actor's revived their roles.

I also like "Ring A Ding Girl".This is the one in which an actress thinks she's visiting her hometown, but she's really dead and gets the images through a large-stoned ring she's wearing.

I just love them all. "The Bewitchin' Pool" is another favorite-that was my second avatar.About coping with parents who are getting divorced.This episode was voted least liked episode by TZ fans.It was poorly put together and it was actually the last of the original episodes ever to air. I love it, though.The voice of the Talking Tina doll is used for Jeb's voice during the end segment of this episode.

I love the one with Carol Burnett, too. Just love them all. Stay tuned for my next avatar. :D

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I remember all of these. "Take him to the cornfield" I know that is a classic episode but not one of my favorites.

I was thinking of the "Ring-a-Ding Girl" (couldn't remember the title). That one was a good one.

I also like the "Bewitching Pool". I always thought that one a bit sad.

Another one I liked was the one that a young girl sees her older self who came to warn her not to make a mistake.

One had a guy who died with his dog. Someone tried to get him to go into a place but the dog couldn't go. He wouldn't go without the dog. (Turns out the place was Hell.)

There was one with Agnas Moorhead. She was trying to get rid of "little green men" that landed in her house. Come to find out that the "little green men" were from NASA.

Another classic was the woman on her porch in the south during the Civil War as all the men went walking by.



Cat

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: FloydsGarage on 05/27/03 at 01:15 a.m.

I liked that Twilight Zone episode where the man and women wake up in their car after driving drunk and there's nobody around. The whole neighborhood is deserted. Then they discover the trees are fake.

Turns out giant aliens captured them while they were on earth and brought them back to his home planet to be a pet for his daughter.

The last line was.........

"Now dear be careful with your new pets. Daddy had to go all the way to Earth to get them!"

Weird man.

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: AstringOfPoloponies on 05/27/03 at 05:22 p.m.


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I liked that Twilight Zone episode where the man and women wake up in their car after driving drunk and there's nobody around. The whole neighborhood is deserted. Then they discover the trees are fake.

Turns out giant aliens captured them while they were on earth and brought them back to his home planet to be a pet for his daughter.

The last line was.........

"Now dear be careful with your new pets. Daddy had to go all the way to Earth to get them!"

Weird man.
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That's actually the last episode I 've watched (have it on tape) - I loved that one.When I saw it as a child, I thought it would be cool to have "little real dolls" like that - what a strange thing.It's like "Honey, You Got Drunk and We Shrunk".The wife was complaining throughout the whole episode that if it wasn't for her husband getting drunk at a party, they wouldn't be there.

The acting is so good in this one. They really freak out. And one of the best parts is the train ride , round and round, going nowhere.

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: CatwomanofV on 05/27/03 at 05:39 p.m.

I remember one where this woman was driving across country. She got into an accident and had her car fixed. She kept seeing this hitchhiker everywhere she went. She finally called home only to find out that she died in the car accident.



Cat

Subject: Gimmee That Camera

Written By: AstringOfPoloponies on 06/01/03 at 01:54 p.m.

One of my all time favorites is , "The Camera".

These two guys rob a store or something and one of the items is an old box camera. The camera actually develops a picture of whatever is going to happen three minutes later.A camera which foretells the future ! As a kid, who could resist getting excited over this ? (Even today  LOL).

TZ brought concepts to me that I would have never thought up on my own.

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: bj26 on 06/05/03 at 11:14 a.m.

The episode I identify with was when the guy couldn't get the girl.  This scary portly dude named "Catwalliger" gave the guy a potion to give the girl which then made her love him too much.  It got scarier, I think Catwalliger was the devil and he ultimately got the poor guy's soul.  Anyway, I need a lover that want drive me crazy!

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: Sioux_Denim on 06/06/03 at 08:10 p.m.

Nobody's mentioned "To Serve Man"!

The Kanamits, 9-foot tall aliens, come to Earth posing as mankind's benefactors. They solve all of our problems, and then start taking larger and larger numbers of humans away to "visit" their planet.  Meanwhile, a man and a woman working for the CIA are trying to decypher the book left behind by one of them.  For the longest time they can't get past the title - "To Serve Man".  Then, as the man is about to board the spaceship for a trip to their benefactors' planet, the woman runs up and yells "Don't get on that ship! We've translated 'To Serve Man' - it's a cookbook!"  

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: CatwomanofV on 06/07/03 at 08:00 a.m.


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Nobody's mentioned "To Serve Man"!

The Kanamits, 9-foot tall aliens, come to Earth posing as mankind's benefactors. They solve all of our problems, and then start taking larger and larger numbers of humans away to "visit" their planet.  Meanwhile, a man and a woman working for the CIA are trying to decypher the book left behind by one of them.  For the longest time they can't get past the title - "To Serve Man".  Then, as the man is about to board the spaceship for a trip to their benefactors' planet, the woman runs up and yells "Don't get on that ship! We've translated 'To Serve Man' - it's a cookbook!"  

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The Simpsons did a parody of that eposode during one of their Halloween shows.



Cat

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: AstringOfPoloponies on 06/08/03 at 11:47 a.m.


Quoting:
The episode I identify with was when the guy couldn't get the girl.  This scary portly dude named "Catwalliger" gave the guy a potion to give the girl which then made her love him too much.  It got scarier, I think Catwalliger was the devil and he ultimately got the poor guy's soul.  Anyway, I need a lover that want drive me crazy!
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I can't believe that I don't even know which episode that is-would like to see it.Good luck on getting the perfect girlfriend ! ;)

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: bj26 on 06/09/03 at 07:59 a.m.

The underlying metaphor of the episode is deep and I can't put it in words, but it was brilliant in black and white.  

Anyway, the guy got what he wished for, the beautiful babe, who initially teased and spurned him,  now hung on to him in a deep smothering love.  The guy who now had to return to the devil (Catwalliger) and offer his soul to rid himself of the extreme love (is that possible?) he initially coveted.  Catwalliger gave him another potion, "Glove Remover" on the condition he received the dude's soul.  The guy accepted the potion and was about to administer it, while being smothered with love by the girl, but he dropped the vial and it broke.

You make me wonder, would I be willing to give up my soul for perfect love?  

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I can't believe that I don't even know which episode that is-would like to see it.Good luck on getting the perfect girlfriend ! ;)
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Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: AstringOfPoloponies on 06/10/03 at 02:57 p.m.


Quoting:
Nobody's mentioned "To Serve Man"!

The Kanamits, 9-foot tall aliens, come to Earth posing as mankind's benefactors. They solve all of our problems, and then start taking larger and larger numbers of humans away to "visit" their planet.  Meanwhile, a man and a woman working for the CIA are trying to decypher the book left behind by one of them.  For the longest time they can't get past the title - "To Serve Man".  Then, as the man is about to board the spaceship for a trip to their benefactors' planet, the woman runs up and yells "Don't get on that ship! We've translated 'To Serve Man' - it's a cookbook!"  

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"Eat, Mr. Chambers.We wouldn't want you to lose any weight."(One of my favorite lines from that episode) ;)

Subject: Re: The Twilight Zone

Written By: WildWildWest on 07/06/03 at 08:11 p.m.

I remember the episode where this guy had something ugly inside a jar.  He had people coming to his house to look at it.  I still don't know what was inside that jar.  Can anyone tell me if they saw that episode.