This is my first thread initiation and, as a newbie, I am aware of my unworthiness but WTF, here it is anyway. This thread is, of course, inspired by the SciFi Channel Twilight Zone marathon today.
I did a search and was unable to find any reference to this particular question, if it is a repeat, my humblest apologies.
Here’s my pick for all-time creepiest line; ***“My name is Talking Tina and you better be nice to me.” *** This is right after the aforementioned Talking Tina doll murders Telly Savalis’ character.
When this episode first aired, I was the owner of a Chatty Cathy doll whose talking mechanism had a mysterious malfuntion the very next day(caused by me dumping a container of dusting powder into the speaker holes in her back).
What a coincidence, once I was at a country fair in Biloxie, and someone was showing off a midget horse. They kept saying over and over “Meet Talking Tina, the world’s smallest horse! Eats only a handful of grain a day!” I can still hear that voice clearly…
Is “To Serve Mankind” from Twilight Zone or something else?
Twilight Zone did present “To Serve Man”. The most memorable line is, of courseIt’s a cookbook!The last line of “A Nice Place To Visit” is good, too. After being shot to death, Rocky Valentine (Larry Blyden) encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip (Sebastian Cabot) who gives Rocky everything he wishes. The end:Rocky gets very bored and frustrated with everything going his way effortlessly and decides he really belongs in “the other place”. Pip’s reply, “This is the other place.” (cue devilish laughter)
Bugnorton: welcome, and you pose a good question. I’m recalling an episode with Robert Redford, way back when - so long ago I’ve lost all memory as to the plot, much less the lines.
Many good ones so far. A couple scary episodes I saw at 1AM on WPIX years ago still scare me:
The slot machine’s gravelly voice in “The Fever”:
“Frr~aaaa~nk~linn…”
The eerie, disembodied moaning amidst the statici n*“Night Call”:*
“He-llll…Oooo…”
And from Number 12 looks just like you:
My SIL and I were watching it yesterday. We caught “The Eye of the Beholder.” She’d never seen it before, but I had, so I was watching her instead of the tv when they took off the woman’s bandages.
It’s funny, when you watch that episode again, you see how very carefully they shoot it so you don’t see anyone’s face until the “reveal.” My SIL confirmed she didn’t think anything of it, but then she realized why they had shot it like that.
I didn’t get to watch the “Twilight Zone Marathon” the other day - I am at work (see my location and occupation). However, I have watched episodes on The Sci-Fi channel when I am home, and I am often surprised that the story isn’t exactly the way I remember it. I seem to add details in my memory that aren’t really there, or I don’t recall some of the details that do exist. And in a lot of TZ episodes, it’s the details that are important.
For example, in an episode starring Agnes Moorehead, I remember the final (?) scene where the surprising letters on the spaceship are revealed just as the broom is coming down; but, is that the way it really was shown? Seems like the last time I saw that episode, there was more to the story after the ship is destroyed…
I don’t remember any chilling lines from one specific episode, but I am sure there were many. It was the one about the schoolteacher (?) who gets lost and asks for directions at a farmhouse where a little boy has altered reality with his mind. She gets trapped along with the boy’s family members and can’t get away. The one scary line is something like, “I wished him away!” or something like that.
That was the movie- the schoolteacher was giving the kid a ride home, IIRC… I know she already knew the boy. Either way, it was a general takeoff of the episode Rabid Child already mentioned- “It’s a GOOD Life.” Creeeeeeeepy.
Watched most of the marathon, got to see a lot of great episodes I hadn’t seen in ages. Creepy line would have to be from “Jess-Belle” when Billy-Ben comes back to find his bride out in the front yard. He asks her what she’s doing out there, and she gives him this look and says “Dance with me here in the moonlight, Billy-Ben” in Jess-Belle’s voice. ::shudder::
