Drew Carey did a great parody of this where he dreamed he was sitting in his basement after a nuclear explosion wipes out the world leaving only him and his lifetime collection of porn. Then his glasses break and the “NOOOOOOOOOOO!” is just classic.
This post would of course be a lot funnier if I had beat wolf_meister to the first porn TZ parody.
Justin
Wow - that gives you an idea of the Twilight Zone’s influence. There have been 2 (at least) porn-related parodies of just 1 episode??
Incredible.
Holy paparaziaia bread do I love this freaking place. Just yesterday I was going to start THE SAME EXACT thread. I had saw it on the Simpson’s, then Futurama, and finally Family Guy before I knew for sure it was something of a spoof.
Anyways, the reason why I did not start is because that I my threads always bombed and when a neutron bomb, which made people here love me, went off, I began to type. Then I forgot untill I was reminded by this very thread.
Oh lamentable future…
As long as we are talking about Twilight Zone… was the Twilight Zone supposed to be something else than the name of the show? So many of the narrations contain something like “about to enter the Twilight Zone” or “a visitor from the Twilight Zone” or similar, but the episodes have very little in common and the Twilight Zone is never (to my knowledge) mentioned in an episode.
Is the Twilight Zone just a catchall name for anything weird and outside the normal human sphere of experience, or is it another dimension or is it just a cool name?
I always enjoyed Twilight Zone as a kid, but was more amused and entertained by the stories, rather than scared. That episode, though…it absolutely horrified me! I’m a heavy reader, always have been, so I guess it hit a little too close to home. It’s still the first episode I think of if the Twilight Zone comes up in conversation, and I’ve been known to sit through a TZ marathon just to see that ep!
Could it have been the “Weird Science” TV series? The Guest Appearances section lists an ep called “Sci-Fi Zoned” that sounds like it could be it.
The Twilight Zone is a metaphor of Rod Serling’s wicked imagination. Notice that every story in the series starts with normal activity. Even in “A Game of Pool”, we had Jack Klugman playing a very realistic pool bum, who never had the privilege of playing the house champ.
Leaper
No more phone calls, we have a winner !!!
Thank you very much. (For a while, I thought my question was forgotten). I looked it up on TV Tome and found it was Episode 36 to be precise. I notice that it had June Foray doing the voice of several characters. (Ms Foray was the voice of “Talky Tina” on a Twilight Zone episode as well as the voice of zillions of cartoon characters). That was the only episode of "Weird Science I ever saw and I purposely sought it out because I had heard that some show was going to parody Twilight Zone. It was great.
Thanks again Leaper
Doesn’t To Serve Man start with the aliens already having landed?
Yes. The whole “To Serve Man” episode is done as a flashback.
Which is odd, because in the original Damon Knight story it was based on, the immortal words “It’s a cookbook.” are the very last sentence of the story.
Was the other The Scary Door mentioned on Futurama a parody of a TW episode?
It’s the one with
Mr Smith: “Haha, a casino where I’m winning? A car must have killed me, I must be … in heaven! … A casino where I always win. That’s boring. I must really be … in hell!”
Speaker: “No Mr Smith, you are not in heaven or hell. You are on an air plane.”
Mr Smith: “There is a gremlin destroying the plane! You’ve gotta believe me!”
Speaker: “Why should I believe you? You’re Hitler!”
Mr Smith: “Noo! Eva Braun, help me! Aaaaargh!”
tracer points out what is, in my humble opinion, the only major weakness of many Twilight Zone episodes: sometimes they’re a little too long. That is, they explain a little too much, they go on past the wicked sucker-punch ending.
Now, frequently something resembling explanation is neccessary, but To Serve Man would have been *more * effective if the aforementioned classic line was the last thing spoken (aside from the usual wrap-up). That’s all that really needs to be said, after all 
Y’know what’s always bothered me about the ending of “All the Time in the World”? Well, since you ask. It’s two things: one, it’s a pointless “twist” that doesn’t add anything to the story; two, if you’re nearsighted, you can probably read fine without your glasses, although breaking them might make survival in general more difficult. I generally take my glasses off when I settle down with a book.
Not if you’re very nearsighted. Without my contact lenses, I have to put my face so close to the book to read it that I usually don’t bother reading until I can put the lenses back in again. It isn’t hard to imagine someone even more nearsighted than me.
Yeah, those glasses were thicker than mine, and I can’t see more than an inch or so in front of my eyes. Reading without glasses would be quite painful for me. (FTR, my correction is about -12 diopters.)