skydivermom 0 #1 August 10, 2006 During the last few weeks my life has closely resembled an episode of the Twilight Zone. So I've been thinking a lot about the show, and something eerie occurred to me. Just about everytime I see that show it's the same episode. That creepy one where the sun keeps getting closer, but the woman is dreaming and in reality the sun is moving away from the earth and everyone's gonna freeze to death. She dreamed about it being hot because she had an incredibly high fever. So what's your favorite episode and has there ever been a time where your life could have been one?Mrs. WaltAppel All things work together for good to them that love God...Romans 8:28 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #2 August 10, 2006 The one where the guy is completed henpecked by his wife and she'll never let him have any time to read, even though he LOVES to read. So one day he's in the below-ground vault at the bank where he works and the world ends (nuclear blast or something) and when he comes out he's the only one alive. He wanders around in a daze for a while, kind of sad, till he finds what used to be the library. Books! Thousands and thousands of them. And as he picks one up to read ... his glasses slip off his head, fall to the ground ... and shatter. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LisaH 0 #3 August 10, 2006 So what's your favorite episode and has there ever been a time where your life could have been one? The one where that couple find themselves in a fake town...keep hearing the little girl laughing. She had picked them up off of a road and put them into her doll house...or doll town... Creepy!! Edited to say...I felt like that my first time in Quartszite (sp) AZ Be yourself! MooOOooOoo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rickjump1 0 #4 August 10, 2006 Robert Duvall played a part involved with a doll house. He fell in love with a little doll in the doll house and talked to her. In the end, I believe he ended up in the doll house with his doll.Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LisaH 0 #5 August 10, 2006 QuoteRobert Duvall played a part involved with a doll house. He fell in love with a little doll in the doll house and talked to her. In the end, I believe he ended up in the doll house with his doll. Gotta love Twilight Zone...didn't see that one though.Be yourself! MooOOooOoo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douva 0 #6 August 10, 2006 "It's a cookbook! A cookbook!" The Twilight Zone is one of my favorites, so I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite. I like "The Eye of the Beholder," the one where all the doctors and nurses are waiting to take the bandages off the hideously deformed woman so they can see if the last treatment worked. Through the whole episode, you never see the doctors' or nurses' faces. In the end they take off her bandages to reveal a beautiful blonde bombshell, and everyone gasps in horror. Then the camera pulls back to reveal that all the doctors and nurses have hideous pig faces.I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydivermom 0 #7 August 10, 2006 I had heard about the one with the guy breaking his reading glasses, but not the dollhouse one. I collect dollhouse miniatures, so now I'm gonna hear the Twilight Zone music every time I walk past my shadow boxMrs. WaltAppel All things work together for good to them that love God...Romans 8:28 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydivermom 0 #8 August 10, 2006 Wow! That's a pretty good one too. Was the person who wrote these things on drugs or what?...and what's up with the cookbook thing? Yeah, you can tell I haven't seen a whole lot of these shows.Mrs. WaltAppel All things work together for good to them that love God...Romans 8:28 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mockingbird 0 #9 August 10, 2006 The one that always comes to mind first for me is one that I never saw the ending to--- or maybe it was so creepy I blocked it out of my memory? Naaa. It's one about a grandfather clock, and as I recall the owner had to keep it ticking, 'cos if it stopped, he'd die. He got pretty frantic about keeping it wound. Maybe someone knows the ending???Blue skies & happy jitters ~Mockingbird "Why is there something rather than nothing?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydivermom 0 #10 August 10, 2006 ***"It's a cookbook! A cookbook!" __________________________________________________ Quote UGGGHHHH!! My husband just explained this one to me. This one wins the creepy award hands down....or any other part of the human body they preferMrs. WaltAppel All things work together for good to them that love God...Romans 8:28 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites LisaH 0 #11 August 10, 2006 What about the one with William Shatner seeing the creature out on the wing of the plane... Who's jumping out to see what it is? Be yourself! MooOOooOoo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites rickjump1 0 #12 August 10, 2006 Miniature Writer: Charles Beaumont Director: Walter E. Grauman Charley Parkes, a shy bachelor, falls in love with a tiny, beautiful museum doll who he believes is alive. CAST: Robert Duvall, Pert Kelton, Barbara Barrie, Len Weinrib, William Windom, John McLiam, Claire Griswold, Nina Roman, Richard Angarola, Barney Phillips, Joan Chambers, Chet StrattonDo your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Douva 0 #13 August 10, 2006 Quote"It's a cookbook! A cookbook!" The Twilight Zone is one of my favorites, so I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite. After some thought, I think my favorite episode is probably "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," even though I've never actually seen it. It's based on the short story by Ambrose Bierce and has the distinct honor of being the only story to be made into both a Twilight Zone and an Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I've never seen the Twilight Zone episode or the Hitchcock episode, but "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is my second favorite short story of all time, behind Robert Bloch's "That Hell-Bound Train."I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites noblesmelissa 0 #14 August 10, 2006 QuoteWhat about the one with William Shatner seeing the creature out on the wing of the plane... Who's jumping out to see what it is? Oh...that one gave me nightmares as a kid. To this day Im still freaked out to look out my window at night because Im afraid I will see a horrible face pressed up against the window looking back at me... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites MC208B 0 #15 August 10, 2006 The one with that little prick kid that had powers. He made the adults do what he wanted and if they didn't, they ended up in the cornfield. One poor fucker got turned into a jack in the box! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Zing 2 #16 August 10, 2006 'Was the person who wrote these things on drugs or what?..." Rod Serling ???? 60s ... whaddaya think?Zing Lurks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites popsjumper 2 #17 August 10, 2006 I liked the one where the old lady on the farm was being chased around the house by tiny, miniature spacemen....turned out the "spacemen" were USAF astronaut explorers. I also liked the one where the guy got a stopwatch that actually stopped time. Oh, btw Krisanne...the book guy was Burgess Meridith. I remember almost crying when he broke his glasses...what a bummer. Rod Serling kicked ass!My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites sunshine 2 #18 August 10, 2006 The SciFi channel always runs a Twilight Zone marathon on new years eve. Pretty sad that i know that...but i ended up babysitting the nephews last year on new years and watched it all night long. One episode that always gets me is a love story. An astronaut is going into space for 40 years and will be in a deep sleep and wont age at all. He breaks up with his girlfriend before he leaves so she won't have to waste 40 years of her life waiting for him to come home. Well as a surprise he decides to stay awake his 40 years in space so he will age, but his GF back on earth decides to go into a deep sleep for 40 years so she won't age. So of course in 40 years he comes home and has aged, and she hasn't. It's sad. ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skydivermom 0 #19 August 10, 2006 ***Rod Serling ???? 60s ... whaddaya think? __________________________________________________ Since I didn't arrive here until 1974, I'll take your word for it! I've definately HEARD about them sixties!Mrs. WaltAppel All things work together for good to them that love God...Romans 8:28 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites NWFlyer 2 #20 August 10, 2006 There's a local theater here that sometimes does Twilight Zone episodes live ... late night on Saturdays. It's been a few years since I've gone; might have to do that again!"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites GTAVercetti 0 #21 August 10, 2006 Quote And as he picks one up to read ... his glasses slip off his head, fall to the ground ... and shatter. There is no way he could POSSIBLY find glasses close to his perscription anywhere huh? Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites NWFlyer 2 #22 August 10, 2006 QuoteQuote And as he picks one up to read ... his glasses slip off his head, fall to the ground ... and shatter. There is no way he could POSSIBLY find glasses close to his perscription anywhere huh? Hey! Suspend disbelief, you cynic. They're really thick coke-bottle glasses. At that point, he can barely find his hand in front of his face."There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites livendive 8 #23 August 10, 2006 I liked the one with the guy who got the stopwatch that could stop time, and then broke it while time was stopped. Blues, Dave"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites turtlespeed 226 #24 August 10, 2006 Gremlins Billy ShatnerI'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites fallfast69 3 #25 August 10, 2006 Quote"It's a cookbook! A cookbook!" That show was titled "To Serve Man" It was about aliens coming to earth to help out with new and improved ways of human life. They gave the earthlings a book called "To Serve Man", written in their alien language. After a long relationship with the aliens - were we were sending our people to their planet we finally deciphered the book...it was a cookbook on how to serve "man". yummy... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. 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LisaH 0 #11 August 10, 2006 What about the one with William Shatner seeing the creature out on the wing of the plane... Who's jumping out to see what it is? Be yourself! MooOOooOoo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rickjump1 0 #12 August 10, 2006 Miniature Writer: Charles Beaumont Director: Walter E. Grauman Charley Parkes, a shy bachelor, falls in love with a tiny, beautiful museum doll who he believes is alive. CAST: Robert Duvall, Pert Kelton, Barbara Barrie, Len Weinrib, William Windom, John McLiam, Claire Griswold, Nina Roman, Richard Angarola, Barney Phillips, Joan Chambers, Chet StrattonDo your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douva 0 #13 August 10, 2006 Quote"It's a cookbook! A cookbook!" The Twilight Zone is one of my favorites, so I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite. After some thought, I think my favorite episode is probably "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," even though I've never actually seen it. It's based on the short story by Ambrose Bierce and has the distinct honor of being the only story to be made into both a Twilight Zone and an Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I've never seen the Twilight Zone episode or the Hitchcock episode, but "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is my second favorite short story of all time, behind Robert Bloch's "That Hell-Bound Train."I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
noblesmelissa 0 #14 August 10, 2006 QuoteWhat about the one with William Shatner seeing the creature out on the wing of the plane... Who's jumping out to see what it is? Oh...that one gave me nightmares as a kid. To this day Im still freaked out to look out my window at night because Im afraid I will see a horrible face pressed up against the window looking back at me... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MC208B 0 #15 August 10, 2006 The one with that little prick kid that had powers. He made the adults do what he wanted and if they didn't, they ended up in the cornfield. One poor fucker got turned into a jack in the box! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zing 2 #16 August 10, 2006 'Was the person who wrote these things on drugs or what?..." Rod Serling ???? 60s ... whaddaya think?Zing Lurks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #17 August 10, 2006 I liked the one where the old lady on the farm was being chased around the house by tiny, miniature spacemen....turned out the "spacemen" were USAF astronaut explorers. I also liked the one where the guy got a stopwatch that actually stopped time. Oh, btw Krisanne...the book guy was Burgess Meridith. I remember almost crying when he broke his glasses...what a bummer. Rod Serling kicked ass!My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunshine 2 #18 August 10, 2006 The SciFi channel always runs a Twilight Zone marathon on new years eve. Pretty sad that i know that...but i ended up babysitting the nephews last year on new years and watched it all night long. One episode that always gets me is a love story. An astronaut is going into space for 40 years and will be in a deep sleep and wont age at all. He breaks up with his girlfriend before he leaves so she won't have to waste 40 years of her life waiting for him to come home. Well as a surprise he decides to stay awake his 40 years in space so he will age, but his GF back on earth decides to go into a deep sleep for 40 years so she won't age. So of course in 40 years he comes home and has aged, and she hasn't. It's sad. ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydivermom 0 #19 August 10, 2006 ***Rod Serling ???? 60s ... whaddaya think? __________________________________________________ Since I didn't arrive here until 1974, I'll take your word for it! I've definately HEARD about them sixties!Mrs. WaltAppel All things work together for good to them that love God...Romans 8:28 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #20 August 10, 2006 There's a local theater here that sometimes does Twilight Zone episodes live ... late night on Saturdays. It's been a few years since I've gone; might have to do that again!"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GTAVercetti 0 #21 August 10, 2006 Quote And as he picks one up to read ... his glasses slip off his head, fall to the ground ... and shatter. There is no way he could POSSIBLY find glasses close to his perscription anywhere huh? Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #22 August 10, 2006 QuoteQuote And as he picks one up to read ... his glasses slip off his head, fall to the ground ... and shatter. There is no way he could POSSIBLY find glasses close to his perscription anywhere huh? Hey! Suspend disbelief, you cynic. They're really thick coke-bottle glasses. At that point, he can barely find his hand in front of his face."There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
livendive 8 #23 August 10, 2006 I liked the one with the guy who got the stopwatch that could stop time, and then broke it while time was stopped. Blues, Dave"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #24 August 10, 2006 Gremlins Billy ShatnerI'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fallfast69 3 #25 August 10, 2006 Quote"It's a cookbook! A cookbook!" That show was titled "To Serve Man" It was about aliens coming to earth to help out with new and improved ways of human life. They gave the earthlings a book called "To Serve Man", written in their alien language. After a long relationship with the aliens - were we were sending our people to their planet we finally deciphered the book...it was a cookbook on how to serve "man". yummy... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
