anyone else watching the Twilight Zone marathon?

Another marathon on today!

Watching right now...

God, how many of these DON'T wind up with somebody getting fucked over or winding up in Hell? I mean, yeah twist endings are great and all, but seriously, why do they always end with "...but they're really in HELL"? It's like you can distill down each plot to "See this guy? He's a cunt! Look how cunty he is! Watch him get his!"

Hey! Donald Pleasence is in this one!

I saved it to my DVR but watched the MonsterQuest marathon on the "History" channel.

Spoilers: they didn't end up finding any Bigfoots.

"See this guy? He's a cunt! Look how cunty he is! Watch him get his!"

There is the occasional plot of "Look as the poor sod. Does everything he can to make this a better world and he just gets stomped on! Humanity what hath though wrought!!"

"adam" and "eve", get it?!

I never realized there was a whole epilogue to the "It's a cookbook!" episode. Guy in a holding cell throws his food down, alien picks it back up, guy takes a bite out of the sandwich, looks at the camera and basically says, "Eh, what you gonna do?" Like a freaking Bugs Bunny cartoon.

Just saw the Shatner/diner ep. It strikes me as genius how much they could do with like one set and a street, and how this show sticks together with the dominant transmission form of mid-20th Century sci-fi, that of short stories.

Oh, so THIS is the first production of "The Electric Grandmother"

i wanted to watch more of this today, but the only one i watched in full was the one w/ the woman who's visited by her mother's murderer and keeps hallucinating a little girl that's a younger version of herself. mainly it held my attention because Janice Rule was bangin', though.

Alright, the 'Talking Tina' ep is on!

Encore had a Planet of the Apes marathon. Skipped the first cause I've seen it many tmes, watched the next two, and taped the last two (there was a PotA thread here that described one of the last two as especially good).

God, every wife is shrewish and emasculating, every husband is either aggro or a hollow shell

I like that episode! Talking about Willoughby, right?

I love the Twilight Zone. I think it can be pretty hit or miss, but the best episodes can compete with just about anything in American television. Stuff like 'The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street' = perfect gems, TV as art.

TURNS OUT IT'S MAN.

no, wait, THERE IS NO NINTH FLOOR!!!!

^this

I had a good lol at the episode (Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up) where a bunch of people are in a diner, and it's understood that one of them is an alien, and it's up to everyone to figure out who it is. all the while I'm expecting a cute, "thoughtful" ending, à la "Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", where it turns out that none of these people is the monster, and in fact you are the monster, dear viewer, for playing Joe McCarthy and looking for a bogeyman where none exists. but the way it plays out is that the businessman was the martian all along, and he has three arms, and the diner owner is from Venus, and he has three eyes. it's like Rod Serling realized that the "oh, you never expected THIS, did you?" story arc was getting a little stale, and he tacked on the hokiest, most unsubtle ending he could come up with, just to jaded regular viewers for a loop.

("just to throw jaded regular viewers for a loop", that is)

"adam" and "eve", get it?!

― andrew m., Thursday, January 1, 2009

My mom spent about eight minutes today detailing this episode to me over the phone.

I get it.

Bought the TZ Compendium book at a rummage sale over the summer, always wanted to have it on hand during one of the marathons.

Unfortunately, I don't have that channel right now, so I had to make due with flipping back & forth bet/w it and "Dogs 101" on the cafe flatscreen during lunch.