That said, I'm the first to recognize the show's flaws, from its uncanny ability to find the absolute worst child actors ever (The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street), to some truly craptastic special effects (almost any episode involving an airplane), not to mention the adorably quaint belief that in the future spray-painted vintage football helmets and stretchy jumpsuits would provide suitable protection for interplanetary travel.
But one thing you begin to notice when you've spent a certain amount of time watching TTZ is that over its five seasons, there was a rather significant amount of repitition of themes, premises, and formats. And so, as a service to those of you who may be wishing to brush up on your cocktail-party TZZ-related banter ability, or need a term paper topic for your pop culture class, I've compiled the following extremely condensed guide to approximately 133 of the original 156 episodes of The Twilight Zone.
Here ya go:
Be careful what you wish for.
The enemy is just like us/is us!
Conformity bad, individuality good.
It's a cookbook!/She's a robot!/The other planet is Earth!
You can't change the past. And even if you could, you really, really wouldn't want to.
We're dead/in the future/in the past/post-apocalyptic/the creatures in the zoo/very small/very large, and don't know it!
There you are.
The enemy is just like us/is us!
Conformity bad, individuality good.
It's a cookbook!/She's a robot!/The other planet is Earth!
You can't change the past. And even if you could, you really, really wouldn't want to.
We're dead/in the future/in the past/post-apocalyptic/the creatures in the zoo/very small/very large, and don't know it!
There you are.
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