Things I Learned Watching a Twilight Zone Marathon

It can take several days before you finally realize you are dead. Even then, you may actually need someone to give you the news.

I just watched that one! Stupid aliens, they’re always up to no good.

Nitpick: Maple Street.

The Twilight Zone contains a curious number of clones of Burgess Meredith, James Best, and Jack Klugman. But, they’re all sort of different.

Yes. Realized my mistake after the editing window closed. I expected someone would mention it sooner.

Well, unless you have a harmonica.

Me, too!

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.

Be careful about answering the phone twice, particularly when staying in the Jeopardy Room.

Was the hamster loaded?

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.

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.

IIRC, he was a LEO.

An AQUARIUS would have a much harder time…

Are you a LEO? If you’re a LEO, you have to tell me.

You’re never as genre savvy as you think you are.

Don’t be a jerk.

With pellets.

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!

^^Totally agree. I was like WTF?!

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.

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.