I hope everybody had a happy 4th.

[conuly]

This year, I did something new, I did *not* watch the vast majority of the Twilight Zone Marathon. Instead, I slept. A lot.

However, if I had watched it, I would no doubt have had nightmares tonight due to the thought of watching a few of my most hated episodes, chiefly "To Serve Man" and that one where the earth is out of its old orbit and going first closer to and then farther from the sun.

I did watch out for my favorites, though, ones like Eye of the Beholder, and the one with the girl in leg braces, and that one with the dying man and the masks.

Anyway, this leads to a semi-interesting question, which is YOUR favorite/least favorite Twilight Zone episode? Answer, or be un-American.

Comments

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

My favorite is and always be the one with Burgess Meredith and the glasses. Dude, that is my personal nightmare.

I also liked the one with Billy Mumy as the kid who could make anything he wanted happen, but mostly because it's fun to threaten people that if they piss you off, you're going to wish them into the cornfield.

God, I can't even think of a Twilight Zone episode I didn't like. Then again, that one where Jack Klugman played pool against Jonathan Winters never did amuse me all that much.

[conuly]

I also liked the one with Billy Mumy as the kid who could make anything he wanted happen, but mostly because it's fun to threaten people that if they piss you off, you're going to wish them into the cornfield.

Y'know, I didn't see that until AFTER I'd already seen the Simpson's spoof AND read the short story on which it's based. Have to say, it's not my favorite. Another nightmare inducer for me. Not that that's BAD, but when I was little I had nightmares for two weeks from "To Serve Man", and this was ON TOP of having to explain to everyone why it was stupid (there's no reason aliens would react to lie detectors the same way humans do, lie detectors aren't very reliable anyway, the translation hinges on a very peculiar aspect of the English language, which is unlikely to be replicated in a non-human language, it's a lot of effort to go through to get some meat....) and it kind of turned me off the whole concept of trying to scare myself. Well, for a few years, anyway.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I really shouldn't have gone to IMDb to double-check the whole Jack Klugman/Jonathan Winters thing, because then I sat there skimming the episodes and thinking, "Ooo, I love that one! Ooo, Telly Savalas and the creepy doll! Billy Mumy calling his dead grandmother! 'Eye of the Beholder'!" There aren't too many episodes of that show I didn't adore, quite frankly.

Another favorite -- the one with the writer who had an audio device that, when he described a character on it, they came to life. I want one of those recording devices yesterday.

[conuly]

That one, I never saw. I usually run screaming when To Serve Man comes on, and miss about an hour's worth of Twilight Zone fun. More if I have to eat.

What about the one with "people are the same everywhere", where the guy ends up in an alien zoo? That was a good one. And too true, too true.

[catsluvdmb.livejournal.com]

I like the one with the cookbook on how to cook people. Or was that Outer Limits? I always get the two confused.

[conuly]

That's To Serve Man. See my mini-rambling in my reply above. I may just add that to this entry, in fact.

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

Would it make me unholy if I said I'd never seen one?

Yes

[catsluvdmb.livejournal.com]

Seriously? You've never seen a single one? You belong in a freak show!

[conuly]

Never? *backs away slowly*

[minkhollow]

I've seen To Serve Man, and bits of a couple others (I remember one about a department store, and one where the people had pig faces at the end), and that's it. Hardly enough to pull a favorite out of.
Then again, I also watched Are You Afraid of the Dark sometimes, while it was still on Nickelodeon. You might say I got the kid equivalent.

[conuly]

The one with the pig faces, is that the one with the masks, or the one with the plastic surgery?

[minkhollow]

Masks, I think. And I remember Mom telling me about the plastic-surgery one.

[deathchibi.livejournal.com]

I like the one with the guy breaking his glasses ... after he got to have all those books. Or Talking Tina.

[conuly]

Talking Tina scares me a little, but the glasses one didn't make any sense to me. Why didn't he just visit his friendly neighborhood optometrist and pick a new pair of glasses? Or rob somebody else who wore glasses? SOMEBODY in this world had a pair of glasses, and even if the prescription was a little off, he would be able to read.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

My favorites are: the one with the guy in the isolation tank and the one with the kid who has to pass a test at the age of 12, lest he die. Then he turned out to be too smart and he was killed because he might have overthrown the government. Too cool.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! And the one where people try to escape prison, and it turns out that they're dolls in a charity bin.

[conuly]

Oh god, that one. I'm torn between liking it and not understanding it.

[malantha.livejournal.com]

the two that scare me the worst are the one with the earth out of it's orbit (i think the closer part was the dream of a girl who was sick with a fever) and the one with the talking doll who killed people.

i'm not sure exactly why the earth/orbit one frightens me so much.. maybe just because it's something that isn't so far from possible and we wouldnt be able to do anything about it. but dolls ALWAYS frighten me. there's just something creepy about them.

[georgiapeachy.livejournal.com]

My least favorite: the one with the creepy little boy who controls his town and turns people he doesn't like into scary clown toys!
My favorite: I think the most relevant one to society today and my personal favorite is the plastic surgery one where the women is fine in our eyes, but in her world that's just not normal and they try to force her to conform. It's more relevent now than it was when the episode was made.

[conuly]

Are you speaking of Eye of the Beholder (where most people are, to us, deformed) or that other one where they brainwash people into thinking they all should look the same, and there's only about 12 different templates for adult women?

[drewaline.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not American, but I'm going to answer anyway.

I don't really have a favourite, because I never got into the series as a whole. Needless to say I don't really have a least favourite either.

Of the ones I've seen, I liked the one with the camera that took pictures of the future, if I'm remembering correctly, aswell as the one with the mannequins.

Hmm, well, those are the only two episodes that I can recall. I suck. :P

[firingneurons.livejournal.com]

You don't suck as much as me! I haven't seen more than the first few seconds of the opening credits of a couple shows! Woo! Social outcast!

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

I hate the charity bin/doll episode, as I guessed it within two minutes and the "people" just argued idiotically the entire time. Though I did kinda like the clown. I like when people dressed in silly outfits turn out to be quite pensive.

One of my favorite episodes is the one with the young man who's paid to be in the isolation chamber--I think someone mentioned it already? Where he's on a bet not to talk for a year, or somesuch. I quite like that one.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

My favorite is and always be the one with Burgess Meredith and the glasses. Dude, that is my personal nightmare.

I also liked the one with Billy Mumy as the kid who could make anything he wanted happen, but mostly because it's fun to threaten people that if they piss you off, you're going to wish them into the cornfield.

God, I can't even think of a Twilight Zone episode I didn't like. Then again, that one where Jack Klugman played pool against Jonathan Winters never did amuse me all that much.

[conuly]

I also liked the one with Billy Mumy as the kid who could make anything he wanted happen, but mostly because it's fun to threaten people that if they piss you off, you're going to wish them into the cornfield.

Y'know, I didn't see that until AFTER I'd already seen the Simpson's spoof AND read the short story on which it's based. Have to say, it's not my favorite. Another nightmare inducer for me. Not that that's BAD, but when I was little I had nightmares for two weeks from "To Serve Man", and this was ON TOP of having to explain to everyone why it was stupid (there's no reason aliens would react to lie detectors the same way humans do, lie detectors aren't very reliable anyway, the translation hinges on a very peculiar aspect of the English language, which is unlikely to be replicated in a non-human language, it's a lot of effort to go through to get some meat....) and it kind of turned me off the whole concept of trying to scare myself. Well, for a few years, anyway.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I really shouldn't have gone to IMDb to double-check the whole Jack Klugman/Jonathan Winters thing, because then I sat there skimming the episodes and thinking, "Ooo, I love that one! Ooo, Telly Savalas and the creepy doll! Billy Mumy calling his dead grandmother! 'Eye of the Beholder'!" There aren't too many episodes of that show I didn't adore, quite frankly.

Another favorite -- the one with the writer who had an audio device that, when he described a character on it, they came to life. I want one of those recording devices yesterday.

[conuly]

That one, I never saw. I usually run screaming when To Serve Man comes on, and miss about an hour's worth of Twilight Zone fun. More if I have to eat.

What about the one with "people are the same everywhere", where the guy ends up in an alien zoo? That was a good one. And too true, too true.

[catsluvdmb.livejournal.com]

I like the one with the cookbook on how to cook people. Or was that Outer Limits? I always get the two confused.

[conuly]

That's To Serve Man. See my mini-rambling in my reply above. I may just add that to this entry, in fact.

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

Would it make me unholy if I said I'd never seen one?

Yes

[catsluvdmb.livejournal.com]

Seriously? You've never seen a single one? You belong in a freak show!

[conuly]

Never? *backs away slowly*

[minkhollow]

I've seen To Serve Man, and bits of a couple others (I remember one about a department store, and one where the people had pig faces at the end), and that's it. Hardly enough to pull a favorite out of.
Then again, I also watched Are You Afraid of the Dark sometimes, while it was still on Nickelodeon. You might say I got the kid equivalent.

[conuly]

The one with the pig faces, is that the one with the masks, or the one with the plastic surgery?

[minkhollow]

Masks, I think. And I remember Mom telling me about the plastic-surgery one.

[deathchibi.livejournal.com]

I like the one with the guy breaking his glasses ... after he got to have all those books. Or Talking Tina.

[conuly]

Talking Tina scares me a little, but the glasses one didn't make any sense to me. Why didn't he just visit his friendly neighborhood optometrist and pick a new pair of glasses? Or rob somebody else who wore glasses? SOMEBODY in this world had a pair of glasses, and even if the prescription was a little off, he would be able to read.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

My favorites are: the one with the guy in the isolation tank and the one with the kid who has to pass a test at the age of 12, lest he die. Then he turned out to be too smart and he was killed because he might have overthrown the government. Too cool.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! And the one where people try to escape prison, and it turns out that they're dolls in a charity bin.

[conuly]

Oh god, that one. I'm torn between liking it and not understanding it.

[malantha.livejournal.com]

the two that scare me the worst are the one with the earth out of it's orbit (i think the closer part was the dream of a girl who was sick with a fever) and the one with the talking doll who killed people.

i'm not sure exactly why the earth/orbit one frightens me so much.. maybe just because it's something that isn't so far from possible and we wouldnt be able to do anything about it. but dolls ALWAYS frighten me. there's just something creepy about them.

[georgiapeachy.livejournal.com]

My least favorite: the one with the creepy little boy who controls his town and turns people he doesn't like into scary clown toys!
My favorite: I think the most relevant one to society today and my personal favorite is the plastic surgery one where the women is fine in our eyes, but in her world that's just not normal and they try to force her to conform. It's more relevent now than it was when the episode was made.

[conuly]

Are you speaking of Eye of the Beholder (where most people are, to us, deformed) or that other one where they brainwash people into thinking they all should look the same, and there's only about 12 different templates for adult women?

[drewaline.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not American, but I'm going to answer anyway.

I don't really have a favourite, because I never got into the series as a whole. Needless to say I don't really have a least favourite either.

Of the ones I've seen, I liked the one with the camera that took pictures of the future, if I'm remembering correctly, aswell as the one with the mannequins.

Hmm, well, those are the only two episodes that I can recall. I suck. :P

[firingneurons.livejournal.com]

You don't suck as much as me! I haven't seen more than the first few seconds of the opening credits of a couple shows! Woo! Social outcast!

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

I hate the charity bin/doll episode, as I guessed it within two minutes and the "people" just argued idiotically the entire time. Though I did kinda like the clown. I like when people dressed in silly outfits turn out to be quite pensive.

One of my favorite episodes is the one with the young man who's paid to be in the isolation chamber--I think someone mentioned it already? Where he's on a bet not to talk for a year, or somesuch. I quite like that one.