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The Twilight Zone Zone – Episode 7: “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” and “The Living Doll”
Every week on The Twilight Zone Zone,we go down Donald Liebenson’s list The 26 Episodes We Talk About When We Talk About The Twilight Zone from Vanity Fair, chronologically by release date and compare two episodes and choose which one to recommend. This week we watched “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” and “The Living Doll.” We are always joined this week by guest Ben Worcester (co-host of the Hooked on TJ Hooker Podcast, check it out for more William Shatner talk!)
“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”
The Twilight Zone knows what scares you—like flying, or the desperation you might feel when when you’re the only one who knows of an impending disaster, but no one believes you. One of the series’s most famous episodes mostly gets its rep from the before-he-was-Kirk casting of William Shatner, as a man just released from a mental hospital who tries to—wait for it—klingon to his sanity when he spies outside his window seat a monster tearing at the airborne airplane’s wing. The costumed boogeyman hasn’t aged well, but Shatner is first class.
“Living Doll”
June Foray, the voice of Rocket J. Squirrel and Natasha Fatale on The Bullwinkle Show, was the also the original voice of Chatty Cathy, the iconic pull-string talking doll released by Mattel in 1959. Chatty Cathy said sweet things like, “Let’s play house.” But Talky Tina, also voiced by Foray, says things like, “My name is Talky Tina, and I’m going to kill you.” This she says to Telly Savalas, a grumpy new stepdad who resents his stepdaughter’s new doll. Like Tina warns, he’ll be sorry.
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There are many paths in life, but which one will you travel down in the Twilight Zone, Zone…
Host: Nic Hoffmann
Panel: Ben Worcester
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232: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
This week on Myopia Movies, we watch the classic film about shrinkage, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids! I cannot wait for Rick Moranis to return to acting!
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How will Honey, I Shrunk the Kids hold up when we put it on trial?
Host: Nic
Panel: Daniel, Lauren and Matthew… Read the rest
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The Twilight Zone Zone – Episode 6: “Eye of the Beholder” and “Twenty Two”
Every week on The Twilight Zone Zone,we go down Donald Liebenson’s list The 26 Episodes We Talk About When We Talk About The Twilight Zone from Vanity Fair, chronologically by release date and compare two episodes and choose which one to recommend. This week we watched “Eye of the Beholder” and “Twenty Two.”
“Eye of the Beholder”
A desperate woman, her face encased in bandages, is awaiting the outcome of her 11th operation to make her look “normal.” “I want to be like everybody,” she pleads. In a state where “ugliness” is a crime, she faces segregation to a ghetto with other unfortunates like herself. Douglas Heyes’s artful misdirection keeps the quintessential Zone reveal under wraps.
“Twenty Two”
This episode offered a plum role to Barbara Nichols, often cast in films as brassy comic relief (as in Where the Boys Are). Here, she plays a stripper (excuse me; professional dancer) hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. She is haunted by a recurring dream—or is it?—that brings her to the door of room 22, the hospital morgue, where a nurse greets her by saying, “Room for one more, honey.”
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There are many paths in life, but which one will you travel down in the Twilight Zone, Zone…
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The Twilight Zone Zone – Episode 5: “A World of His Own” and “The Howling Man”
Every week on The Twilight Zone Zone,we go down Donald Liebenson’s list The 26 Episodes We Talk About When We Talk About The Twilight Zone from Vanity Fair, chronologically by release date and compare two episodes and choose which one to recommend. This week we watched “A World of His Own” and “The Howling Man.”
From the Article:
“A Nice Place to Visit”
The Twilight Zone also delighted in dicking around characters in need of retribution. Another case in point: Rocky Valentine, a petty criminal shot to death. A jovial guide (Sebastian Cabot) in the afterlife tends to his every desire, giving him a swinging pad, sure-thing bank robberies, and beautiful dolls on demand. Sounds like heaven, right? This was the first episode to employ a classic Twilight Zone trope, in which the come-upper gets the last maniacal laugh at the eternal expense of the come-upped. (See also on this list: “The Grave” and “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?”)
“The Howling Man”
You’re lost in a torrential storm. You seek refuge in a foreboding castle. Inside are members of some kind of fanatical religious cult that is keeping a man imprisoned. The cult leader insists the man is actually the devil himself. Who are you going to believe: the desperate man pleading to be set free, or a staff-carrying John Carradine?
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There are many paths in life, but which one will you travel down in the Twilight Zone, Zone…
Host: Nic Hoffmann
Panel: Daniel, Jon and Matthew Quinn
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231: Transformers
This week on Myopia Movies, we look back and we see how Michael Bay made his millions and why Matt wanted to remake this lost episode, we watched Transformers, who knew you could sexualize teens this much and still be considered a blockbuster.
Last week we released an episode preview for Casino Royale (1967), sign up for the Patreon for the full episode! Join us, for all the back catalog, special episodes, and monthly newsletter! There will even be an additional full movie episode this month, as we slip into more recent Alien movies, starting with Prometheus next month!
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How will Transformers hold up when we put it on trial?
Host: Nic
Panel: Daniel and Matthew
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230: Casino Royale (1967) Preview
Why hello there! This is a peak behind the Patreon paywall! Today, if you were a Patreon member (even at the $1 level, you would get a full episode on 1967’s Casino Royale, the Bond spoof no one wanted, even some of the actors. Peter Sellers (who left midway through production), David Niven, Orson Welles (who insists on doing magic on film, which then loses the point, since it is on film), Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr, William Holden, and John Huston (who is one of the five directors). Even costarring former Bond actors including Ursula Andres.
Sign up for the Patreon for the full episode of 1967’s Casino Royale for the Patreon only! Join us, for all the back catalog, special episodes, and monthly newsletter! There will even be an additional full movie episode this month, as we slip into more recent Alien movies, starting with Prometheus.
Host: Jon
Panel: Nic… Read the rest
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The Twilight Zone Zone – Episode 4: “A Nice Place to Visit” and “The After Hours”
Every week on The Twilight Zone Zone,we go down Donald Liebenson’s list The 26 Episodes We Talk About When We Talk About The Twilight Zone from Vanity Fair, chronologically by release date and compare two episodes and choose which one to recommend. This week we watched “A Nice Place to Visit” and “The After Hours.”
This week, there is going to be a Patreon bonus! Regular Jon called in for a special Mission Briefing episode! Sign up for the Patreon for 1967’s Casino Royale for the Patreon only! Join us, for all the back catalog, special episodes, and monthly newsletter! There will even be an additional full movie episode this month!
“A Nice Place to Visit”
The Twilight Zone also delighted in dicking around characters in need of retribution. Another case in point: Rocky Valentine, a petty criminal shot to death. A jovial guide (Sebastian Cabot) in the afterlife tends to his every desire, giving him a swinging pad, sure-thing bank robberies, and beautiful dolls on demand. Sounds like heaven, right? This was the first episode to employ a classic Twilight Zone trope, in which the come-upper gets the last maniacal laugh at the eternal expense of the come-upped. (See also on this list: “The Grave” and “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?”)
“The After Hours”
A.k.a. the “Marsha episode.” Anne Francis stars as a department-store shopper who gets some very off-putting service by a strange clerk when she purchases a thimble on the otherwise-completely empty ninth floor. Her eerie odyssey begins when she complains to management, only to be told that the store has no ninth floor. Locked in overnight, she will come face to face with her reality.
In the meantime, please continue to rate and review us! We are on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and now Spotify and could use the support; the more ratings you give the easier it is for others to find us. Also, do you follow us elsewhere? Facebook? Twitter? Myopia? Also, for those of you who are truly film folks, I have created a Letterboxd page! Check out what episodes we have done here (including other TV Shows).
There are many paths in life, but which one will you travel down in the Twilight Zone, Zone…
Host: Nic Hoffmann
Panel: Daniel and Matthew Quinn
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229: Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
This week on Myopia: Defend Your Childhood, we try to get a man’s bike back. We watched Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, some say Pee-wee’s bike is still out there…wait, Tim Burton directed what?
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How will Pee-wee’s Big Adventure stand when we put it on trial?
Host: Nic
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The Twilight Zone – Episode 3: “The Hitch-Hiker” and “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”
Every week on The Twilight Zone Zone,we go down Donald Liebenson’s list The 26 Episodes We Talk About When We Talk About The Twilight Zone from Vanity Fair, chronologically by release date and compare two episodes and choose which one to recommend. This week we watched “The Hitch-Hiker” and “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.”
By the way, some of you may be wondering, where the episode was last week? Well, last week we released a full episode on Alien Resurrection for the Patreon only! Join us, for all the back catalogue, special episodes, and monthly newsletter! There will even be an additional full movie episode this month!
From the Article:
“The Hitch-Hiker”
One of The Twilight Zone’s most insinuating nightmares. There are a couple of effective jump starts, but for the most part, this is a slow dread of an episode. Inger Stevens stars as 27-year-old Nan Adams, driving cross-country. Emerging unscathed from a blown-out tire (“By rights . . . somebody should have called for a hearse,” a mechanic tells her), she is haunted by a seemingly omnipresent hitchhiker. You can probably guess where this one’s heading, but like the “shabby, silly-looking scarecrow man” himself, this episode is hard to shake.
“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”
“We are in a time where we fear the other,” Jordan Peele told his audience following the premiere screening of Us at South by Southwest. “Maybe the monster that we’re looking at has our face.” This was a recurring theme on The Twilight Zone—and it reached its bleakest apotheosis in this first-season nightmare, in which an idyllic suburban street runs riot from a creeping paranoia that pits neighbor against neighbor. “For the record,” Serling intones at the episode’s end, “prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy . . . and the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the ‘Twilight Zone.’” It’s like Serling was looking right into our souls.
In the meantime, please continue to rate and review us! We are on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and now Spotify and could use the support; the more ratings you give the easier it is for others to find us. Also, do you follow us elsewhere? Facebook? Twitter? Myopia? Also, for those of you who are truly film folks, I have created a Letterboxd page! Check out what episodes we have done here (including other TV Shows).
There are many paths in life, but which one will you travel down in the Twilight Zone, Zone…
Host: Nic Hoffmann
Panel: Daniel and Matthew Quinn… Read the rest
