Which was based on a short story. Just sayin’…
“I thought you never missed, Bishop.”
It may “make [you] sad” but that is one of the most famous episodes of the original Twilight Zone and a cultural touchstone far more broadly referenced than the original short story. This is kind of like complaining that references to John Carpenter’s The Thing should really be directed to John W. Campbell’s novella Who Goes there?
Stranger
Well, it is a great novella. But I take your point.
When I first heard it used here, I thought it was a ref. to Field of Dreams, which also had a mystical cornfield.
You forget the demographic here is far too old to make a pop culture reference that’s as recent as 1989.
First time I heard/saw it, I too was thinking Field of Dreams.
I never knew about the Twilight Zone usage until I saw the movie in the 80s. I’d only read the Bixby story.
I’m too young to have seen the Twilight Zone. Should I start wandering on you geezers’ lawns? 
Good God! What pre-industrial backwater did you grow up in that didn’t have Twilight Zone reruns aired multiple times on a daily basis?
I think I’m younger than you, but I grew up on Twilight Zone and Star Trek reruns. Is this a weird Canadian thing? I know it isn’t a bagpipe thing.
The reruns I remember are Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and I Love Lucy. Don’t remember ever seeing Twilight Zone.
Pre-cable.
How sad to miss out on such gems as Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Get Smart, Bewitched and even Hogan’s Heroes.
I’ll admit to not discovering The Dick Van Dyke Show until I was like 20, for some reason that one was not in heavy syndication even though crappy shows like Father Knows Best, My Favorite Martian and Leave it to Beaver were.
These I saw in their original runs (I remember when Max proposed to 99!). Don’t remember seeing reruns very much. (Get Smart was in reruns a few years after the original run, after school, which was fun.)
Don’t remember Start Trek in the original run, and then didn’t see reruns until university days.
Pre-cable. We watched what we caught from the sky. Northerners, surviving on natural means.
It was absolutely ubiquitous on U.S. TV pre-cable as Elmer_J.Fudd alludes. In fact annual Twilight Zone marathons seem to have started as early as the 1970’s by stations holding syndication rights from CBS (Syfy channel still does it every New Year these days). Apparently they were always solid ratings performers. For Americans of a certain age growing up in the 1970’s and '80’s the series was inescapable, considerably more so than similar anthology shows like Outer Limits or TZ’s Rod Serling’s successor show Night Gallery.
Apparently Canadian stations just didn’t buy the rights back then and then flog the show ad nauseam like in the states. Seems in Canada Citytv currently holds the broadcast rights.
“I really like those sequined shirts.”
Stranger
Strictly speaking, nothing is ever entirely deleted. Even when something is deleted, it’s still in the database somewhere, and mods can still see it (though even we need to jump through a few extra hoops). This seems to be the norm for Internet sites these days. I think it’s for legal reasons: If law enforcement subpoenas all of the posts by some troublemaker, the sites want to be able to comply.
That said, “nobody but mods can see something, and mods only by jumping through extra hoops” is pretty darned close to “deleted”.
It’s good that you said that Darren_Garrison. Real good.
It makes it a good day.
(Need to be careful, since I’m similar to a three-headed gopher)
Tell the mods I brought the tomato soup because I heard they liked it.
Oh, good, the curtains are on fire.
I read the story first, saw the Simpsons episode later (and was disappointed when I learned it was a parody of a Twilight Zone episode and not the story directly) and saw the Twilight Zone episode for the first time decades after either.