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.