Five Things Make a Post: Silvery Thursday Edition

[scarlettina]

1) With thanks to terri_osborne for the tip, I offer a spoof of Extreme's "More than Words" video as done by the cast of "How I Met Your Mother," including Nuno himself playing guitar. This song figured large in a relationship I had many years ago that was very important to me, but I'd never seen the video. Now I've seen both it and the parody, and the

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[twilight2000]

on October 2, 1959, "The Twilight Zone" premiered.

And on the following Monday, I was born - I knew I was waiting for *something* ;>

(3 weeks late I was...)

Oh - and I'd drop by, but I'm doing the same thing - and after yesterday's New Alternator and New Serpentine Belt, driving feels like spending money...

[scarlettina]

It doesn't feel like spending money; it is spending money! I'd love the company but I totally understand.

[twilight2000]

yea, but if I weren't also spending all day just finding 3 places I can actually apply for something, i might have been less worried about it... *sigh*

[redaxe]

There are several TZ episodes I love but which, reviewed objectively, don't crack the top 10:

1. "A Game of Pool": Jack Klugman as a pool player who wishes he could play the legendary champ. Spoiler: He beats him and is doomed to answer challenges through eternity or until he's beaten.

2. "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up": Someone at a diner is a Martian whose ship was spotted coming down, but who can't be picked out of the crowd. Spoiler: We find out who the Martian is, and that he's an advance scout for an invasion -- and that the diner's counterman is a Venusian, who tells the Martian that his people are invading, and have already intercepted the Martian force.

3. "Five Characters In Search Of An Exit": A clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer, a bagpiper, and an army major are stuck together in a featureless prison with no exit. Spoiler: They're dolls in a Christmas donation barrel.

[holyoutlaw]

Your #2 and its spoiler reminded me of this classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE

Spoiler: Made you look!

[twilight2000]

also 3 of my favorites :>

[skidspoppe]

Have you seen the remake of A Game of Pool from the 80s version? It has Johnson's original ending where Jessie (Klugman's Character) loses...

[marykaykare]

I would love to come by but I'm trying to defeat a cold. Which makes my staying home a good idea for both of us! Maybe one day next week we could do lunch or something?

MKK

[e_bourne]

The trouble with answering "ten most memorable" is most memorable for what? (never mind that I get TZ confused with The Outer Limits and Night Gallery) Nightmare at 20,000 Feet is probably my most memorable because it scared the bejeezus out of me. But I always found "Time Enough" to be the most poignant. Those are all good picks, but some of them have a pretty different feel which makes it difficult for me to judge them together. And then there's the confusion. Which one had that terrifying devil doll? And was it Night Gallery or TZ who did such a great job with the Lovecraftian stories?

[bedii]

The terrifying devil doll is probably the Dan Curtis (he produced the series Dark Shadows) TV movie Trilogy of Terror. If that's the one you're thinking of, it starred Karen Black and was based on a Richard Matheson short story called "Prey." Not sure on the Lovecraft, but according to Stephen King the series that Boris Karloff hosted (it may have been called "Terror" but my copy of Danse Macabre isn't available right now) did a dynamite version of "Pigeons from Hell."

[scarlettina]

Actually, Bruce, I think the evil doll episode she's thinking of is "Living Doll," which is included in Time's list.

[bedii]

You're probably right: when she said "devil doll" I jumped to "Trilogy of Terror" probably because it's doll/figurine is much more grotesque than TZ's "Living Doll," which I suspect was modeled after "Chatty Cathy." Mind you, neither is quite as creepy as the teddy bear in "The Professor's Nightmare" (Sturgeon?) or Sturgeon's little chiller which starts with anecdotes about a very unusual thinker, progresses through a little figurine in a bell jar and finishes with something much, much worse. I swear, "Bianca's Hands" was a walk in the spring rain after that one...

[oldmangrumpus]

Pretend I made a virtual visit.

(between the demands of the Portfolio, my boss's long-distance crazy-making causing the AA to go crazy, and not finishing my batch of stuff, I'm not sure I'd be good company anyway)