# "Actually, Mr. Frisbee, you're staying." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364 "2008-12-31T16:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/1 "2008-12-31T16:19:15Z")
The annual Twilight Zone marathon has come again, and I was wondering what some of your favorite episodes were personally? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/2 "2008-12-31T16:43:10Z")
Poor schlub Burgess Meredith’s glasses break just as he was savoring the thought of a lifetime of solitary reading. A future historian saves JFK (this episide was in the Eighties revival of the series). A simple phrase will drive you instantly mad… and someone’s headed for the radio station to tell everyone! (also from the Eighties revival). The televised version of _An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge_. Haunting. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/3 "2008-12-31T17:12:07Z")
Yep, the Burgess Meredith one and the one where the dolls are trapped in the trashcan (uh, spoiler alert…) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/4 "2008-12-31T18:21:48Z")
My favorite is the one where everyone falls out of a window and dies. Oh wait - that’s one third of the episodes!! Seriously, watch a season or two of the original TZ, and upwards of 30% of the episodes will involve defenestration. It’s a smaller percentage of the classic episodes usually run during marathons, but episodes like the “camera that takes pictures of the future” average out the body count. :rolleyes: My favorite TZ episode is the one where Keenan Wynn is a writer with [quite](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734553/) a knack for describing characters. The epilogue is a hoot! There are too many classic TZ episodes to list, but I’m looking forward to watching the TZ marathon, and getting my MDR of irony. “And I have all the time in the world!” … “Oh, my. That’s not fair. That’s just not fair!” ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/5 "2008-12-31T18:54:09Z")
I received the complete, unabridged, total, all-inclusive, grand Twilight Zone DVD set last year. We’ve been watching them, a few a night, every couple of days since then. There are too many good ones to mention then all, although the quality does go down during the third season. Here’s a few: _A penny for your thoughts._ Man gains mind-reading ability with odd coin flip. _Nick of Time._ Shatner escapes clutches of evil fortune-telling machine. _In His Image._ Who’s more real? The Man or the Machine? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/6 "2008-12-31T18:55:55Z")
The After Hours To this day, manniquins creep me out. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/7 "2008-12-31T19:08:29Z")
Oh, what’s that one? The guy and his wife run some sort of second hand/antique store and he gets three wishes and turns into Hitler or something? Anyway, the marathon has already begun, I believe. Enjoy! Also, love the one with the parallel universe: girl in bus station “keeps” getting up to use the restroom, etc. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/8 "2008-12-31T19:19:06Z")
The most perfect episode: “Eye of the Beholder.” ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/9 "2008-12-31T19:34:22Z")
SciFi must figure that everyone knows what “To Serve Man” means, because they totally spoil it in one of the commercials. “Eye of the Beholder” is one of my favorites, too, though it creeped me out the first time I saw it as a kid. Also, “It’s a Good Life”: evil Billy Mumy! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/10 "2008-12-31T19:50:44Z")
Way too many to mention but the first two that come to mind: The one where the nurse says “room for one more, honey” as she’s standing outside the morgue \ Also the one where the greedy family visits the grandfather one his deathbed and they must wear masks in order to keep from being disinherited. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/11 "2008-12-31T19:51:59Z")
I like the one where the man wants to live in an idyllic small town of the past. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/12 "2008-12-31T19:58:44Z")
I love a great number of the episodes of the original Twilight Zone. One that chills me that hasn’t been mentioned here is the one where the boy talks to his dead grandmother on his toy phone. Yikes! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/13 "2008-12-31T20:04:50Z")
To agree with **WOOKINPANUB** , way too many to have a favorite. What I enjoy is seeing the now well-known stars when they were just bit actors. Such as Robert Redford in [_Nothing in The Dark._](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734603/) ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/14 "2008-12-31T20:22:00Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > _Nick of Time._ Shatner escapes clutches of evil fortune-telling machine. This was one I came in to mention–the _other_ William Shatner episode, in which a grown man gets so caught up in his superstitions that he’s ready to let a card-dispensing bobble-head make life decisions for him. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/15 "2008-12-31T20:28:05Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > I like the one where the man wants to live in an idyllic small town of the past. Heh. Willoughby, Ohio is not far from here. I drove through it earlier this week. IIRC, the screenwriter or someone on the production staff was from Willoughby. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/16 "2008-12-31T20:58:47Z")
The very best episode: [“It’s a Good Life”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Zone)) YouTube: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfGWvexg90w) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/17 "2008-12-31T21:15:20Z")
Any of the many with an airplane. “The Odyssey of Flight 33” “The Arrival” “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet” In a pinch, aliens and flying saucers will do. Psst … wasn’t the one in the Andy Devine episode the Jupiter 2 from Lost In Space? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/18 "2008-12-31T21:24:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > A future historian saves JFK (this episide was in the Eighties revival of the series). > > A simple phrase will drive you instantly mad… and someone’s headed for the radio station to tell everyone! (also from the Eighties revival). Two of my favorites were from the 80’s revival - “A Small Talent for War”, with its end line from (I believe) Ed Wynn - > [@](#): > > Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. [The first I could find with no spoiler.](http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/a-small-talent-for-war/episode/75276/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;36) And [“I Of Newton”](http://www.rapidshareindex.com/The-Twilight-Zone-I-of-Newton-_24997.html). The slogan on the devil’s T-shirt keeps changing. As good as Serling ever did. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/19 "2008-12-31T21:34:50Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > The most perfect episode: “Eye of the Beholder.” [Entire episode online](http://video.yahoo.com/watch/233027/1858562) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364/20 "2008-12-31T21:35:18Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > I like the one where the man wants to live in an idyllic small town of the past. “Willoughby.” There’s a town near here named Willoughby; it’s nothing at all like the TZ one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-mr-frisbee-youre-staying/479364.md?page=2)