# Things I Learned Watching a Twilight Zone Marathon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [July 4, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519 "2023-07-04T00:40:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/21 "2023-07-04T13:49:55Z")
It can take several days before you finally realize you are dead. Even then, you may actually need someone to give you the news. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2023, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/22 "2023-07-04T15:57:02Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > The guys who fries your hamburgers all have Three Eyes. > That’s why they wear the hats. I just watched that one! Stupid aliens, they’re always up to no good. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/23 "2023-07-04T19:43:29Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > There are just as many Monsters on Main Street now as then. Nitpick: Maple Street. ---
**Author:** ![ColdBrew50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@ColdBrew50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdBrew50)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/24 "2023-07-04T22:23:23Z")
The Twilight Zone contains a curious number of clones of Burgess Meredith, James Best, and Jack Klugman. But, they’re all sort of different. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/25 "2023-07-04T23:53:30Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > _Nitpick: Maple Street._ Yes. Realized my mistake after the editing window closed. I expected someone would mention it sooner. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/26 "2023-07-05T00:01:45Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > If we ever receive a visitor from another planet, we’re screwed. Well, unless you have a harmonica. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/27 "2023-07-05T17:10:28Z")
Me, too! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/28 "2023-07-05T17:50:47Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > In the early 1960s, you could apparently bring a gun on an airplane and no one noticed or seemed to care. Which is true. In 1970 I brought a hamster onto an airplane in my camera case, and no one noticed. They might have cared, but I never found out. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/29 "2023-07-05T18:14:22Z")
Be careful about answering the phone twice, particularly when staying in the Jeopardy Room. > [@Voyager](#): > > Which is true. In 1970 I brought a hamster onto an airplane in my camera case, and no one noticed. They might have cared, but I never found out. Was the hamster loaded? ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/30 "2023-07-05T18:53:11Z")
The world is actually black, white and different shades of grey in between and sometimes you hear voices coming out of nowhere and they are not advertising anything. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/31 "2023-07-05T20:42:22Z")
Alien civilizations are capable of astounding feats of engineering. For example, although you would need a microscope to see them, they are capable of building, in just a few days, a life-sized statue of a human. For humans, that would be a statue about 10 miles tall. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/32 "2023-07-05T21:40:23Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > In the early 1960s, you could apparently bring a gun on an airplane and no one noticed or seemed to care. IIRC, he was a LEO. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/33 "2023-07-05T23:51:30Z")
An AQUARIUS would have a much harder time… ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/34 "2023-07-06T03:17:55Z")
Are you a LEO? If you’re a LEO, you have to tell me. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/75g0fjX0r4s/maxresdefault.jpg "Deep Purple - Maybe I'm a Leo") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75g0fjX0r4s) ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/35 "2023-07-07T05:38:50Z")
You’re never as genre savvy as you think you are. Don’t be a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/36 "2023-07-08T18:46:54Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Was the hamster loaded? With pellets. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/37 "2023-07-08T21:03:18Z")
I watched a marathon of the “New” Twilight Zone episodes and what I learned was that you can rip off ideas from other shows and movies, water them down and pad the fuck out of them to stretch out the thinnest of stories to fill an hour (with about 25 minutes of mind-numbing ads) and get Greenlighted. My God, those were _terrible!_ ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/38 "2023-07-08T21:07:22Z")
^^Totally agree. I was like WTF?! ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/39 "2023-07-08T21:45:57Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > \*My God, those were _terrible!_ Yeah, we’ve watched 3 or 4 of them on Freevee and they are not good. There’s too much padding for so little actual story, but these wouldn’t be good even if they were the length of the original T-Zone stories, which were about 23 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519/40 "2023-07-09T04:12:37Z")
I have the same reaction to the Alfred Hitchcock series. The half-hour _Alfred Hitchcock Presents_ is much easier to watch them the _The Alfred Hitchcock Hour_, though both have some terrific episodes that you could learn a few things from. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-watching-a-twilight-zone-marathon/986519.md?page=3)