While Bob and Millie's fate is indeed terrifying for them, their friends and family will likely be wondering what happened to them, possibly assuming that they died in a car accident, or were kidnapped. And it's even more scary if they have children, who's parents never came back from their social gathering.
Seeing as how big that "little" alien girl's hand was relative to the main characters, the fake food containers themselves as well as the relative quality in their artwork is astounding. There are professional Warhammer 40K mini painters that couldn't pull that off. So this leads to a question: who did paint the fine detail work in Centerville?
@@FlashTimberwolf Problem is that the outcome is too fantastic to be taken seriously. Nowhere near as haunting as the similar Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. I originally thought it would have turned out it was a nuclear testing sight but it also could been just as effective if the married couple were in a situation like the Maitlands in Beetlejuice where they wonder aimlessly as ghosts after going through a car accident.
the creepiest part of this is that if they only have prop food...theyre going to starve to death, arent they? i highly doubt this girl/her father will care enough to feed them, especially if he can just. bring more home-
I mean, her mom said they were pets and made them sound exotic with the "your father brought them all the way from Earth" tone to not damage something hard to get tone. I don't think they'd starve necessarily, but it's still terrifying that as pets they're going to be limited to the food and feeding times their alien overlords understand to be good for them. 😰 I guess the prop food is like a plastic bone you would give to your dog. Lots of enrichment activities in this little town and things to make them feel at home like you would for a lizard.
One Easter egg in the episode is the listed Reverend on the church sign - Kogh Gleason. He was a resident set director at MGM for over 40 years. I love this episode!
This is one of my favorite episodes because this was the first one I saw where I figured out the twist early. Once they pulled out the fake food and ripped the phone off the wall, I yelled at the TV screen, "You're in a dollhouse!" Well, close enough. I remember being confused by the message. That whole thing was a drinking and driving PSA? I think the "Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk" campaign was better.
Feels like this should’ve been the last episode of the series since it already echoes the very first episode making ‘The Twilight Zone’ the Beginning of The End, The End of The Beginning, Always there, Always somewhere within that very corner of space just within our grasp.
In hindsight, this would have been a better Finale episode, due to its book end Nature. It is kinda funny that the First episode is more subversive because the twist has no supernatural sci fi elements.
The twist surprised me. I thought it would turn out that the couple were dolls all along, and moved to a new dollhouse set. I thought they either didn't know or forgot they weren't human, kind of like Five Characters in Search of an Exit, or The After Hours. Instead, it was more akin to People Are Alike All Over!
If possible you should check out a British anthology series called Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (here in the US it was called FOX Mystery Theater). There was an episode called Child’s Play that starred Mary Crosby. (Bing Crosby’s daughter known mostly for playing Christen, Sue Ellen’s younger sister.)
I feel like when one considers this lead to their fates, and it really wasn't her fault, he probably owes her an apology either later or right before their deaths. No way she could have stopped a giant humanoid alien stone cold sober. They failed to stop the little girl from picking them up, so they had no chance against her full grown astronaut father. A huge plus is that they all speak English, so maybe they can broker a deal. It's always awkward to have pets who can speak your language, that was always one of the awkward parts about slavery, when they reminded you they were conscious people.
[male lead’s name] IS GETTING UPSET YOURE KILLING INDEPENDENT [male lead’s name] YOU KNOW, WERE LIVING IN A SOCIETY HERE “She picked me up jerry” “can’t have that” “nooo”
0:13 This the episode that I’ve been looking for since the start of Twilight-tober Zone. Because this is one of the first episodes that I remember watching but I never got the title of.
Another classic episode IMO and I'm now just realizing how many personal favorites are coming from season 5. I remember catching this episode on the SciFi network during their annual, "4th of July Twilight Zone Marathon", and absolutely loving it.
This is one of my favorite episodes!!!! I absolutely love this series thank you so much for your time and care that you put into it it is very much appreciated by many 🥰🥰
I was so pissed over the twist of this episode. I was sure it was gonna end with an alarm sounding followed by a countdown, revealing that they were in a nuclear bomb test site. Plus, I was head over heels in love with the woman in this episode.
This is my favorite Zone episode of them all, which says a lot since it's one of my favorite series ever and so manyof its episodes are favorites of any show ever (heck, I even use to get the comic series). It was creepy but still very 'real' and down to earth, where, since it was the TZ literally any explanation could have ended up being possible leaving the imagination to jumo about even faster than the characters. It also hit home in a standing hairs on the back if the neck way because coming from area in manyways like this and having seen as a kid how creepy a small town can feel on those ceratin days when businesses are closed and everyone is outside of town at a fair or funeral or big church doing, I could instantly feel the peaceful-turn-to-uncomfortable "all alone in the world" vibe when watching it. It's one of those shows that not only (probably) would've payed off no matter what the reveal had been, but that I in many ways wish I could watch again for the first time.
You know the continuation of The Twilight Zone from 2019. In season 2 there was an episode called A Small Town where a person with a model of a town would change stuff in the model which would affect the real town. It’s a good episode and I hope they cover this show in the future.
This was one of the first episodes I ever watched of the Twilight Zone, so that twist came as a bigger shock to me as a kid. It seemed like taking the basics of what you think is true and making you question literally everything. One of my favorite episodes for that reason
You forgot to mention that Barry Nelson, who played Bob, was the first James Bond! That's right--he played Bond in a 1954 live TV adaptation of Casino Royale that was featured on the anthology series Climax. (Peter Lorre played Le Chiffre.) This adaptation made Bond American, and nicknamed him "Card Sense" Jimmy Bond, no less!
This was my second episode of The Twilight Zone (the first being The Jeopardy Room) I ever saw. The premise is actually quite similar to the first TZ episode "Where is Everybody?" as a couple wakes up in a deserted town without any memory of how they got there. The main difference of course being that the twist to this one is an alien abduction. I'll be honest, this one has a twist you really don't see coming the first time viewing it but it's definitely memorable.
In 1980, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater did an episode similar to this called "A Holiday Visit." From what I remember, I liked the ending to that one better.
Walter makes a good point about the episode story having too many similarities with other Twilight Zone episodes! How this episode is “Where is Everybody?”, “The Little People”, “The Invaders” & “Human Zoo” all roll into one. But, that’s art. Hardly anything in fiction is original. Creation needs inspiration
JERRY: You know, this is like that Twilight Zone where the guy wakes up, and he's the same - but everyone else is different! KRAMER: Which one? JERRY: They were all like that!
Any Rush fans enjoying this recap? Their song, 'The Twilight Zone' has lyrics referencing both this TZ episode, and 'Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?' from the second season.
@@kdusel1991 Nope, Barry played Bond (rewritten as an American) in a live TV adaptation of Casino Royale that aired on the anthology series Climax in 1984.
I imagined two possible twists : One, the characters ended up into a fake town, as a nuclear test site, and they witness in the horizon a nuclear mushroom. Two, the characters are actually puppets/dolls that became alive/aware, wandering in a town replica toy. I was kinda close to the truth with the last one.
This is one of the first episodes I saw on a vacation. To me this is a textbook by the numbers episode. Shoutout to The Twilight Pwn and stage bread. I remember the first time I listened to that podcast in the college gym and was dying laughing.
You wake up lost in an empty town, wondering why no one else is around. Look up to see a giant boy, you've just become his brand new toy! No escape, no place to hide here where time and space collide.
It also reminded me somewhat of 'Five Characters in Search of an Exit' with the lead characters attempting to figure out their circumstances and escape their confinement, only to find out in the end they are really only mere playthings to a child.
I wonder if this and similar episodes inspired Irwin Allen's, Land of the Giants sci-fi series. Still love that show and its concept even when some episodes got a little silly plotwise.
Oakwood, albeit a figment of a man's disturbed R.E.M. sleep, is presented as a surrealistic village. The difference between that and SIAQT is that the village, and happily the story was paced appropriately enough to keep it from the quagmire of predictability, was merely a model diorama. As I said, the mystery experienced by the irresponsible couple fresh out of a DWI accident, remains just that until the end, with both the diorama and the eerie laughter of that little girl being elements for the disturbed couple to chase out. Stopover In a Quiet Town is as mysterious as it is spooky. Then, the revelation (monstrous shot of a giant hand) and it's a masterstroke, summing up the mystery, revealing the crazy village's diorama status, and the little girl behind the laughter. It IS questionable, however, as Bob and Millie descend to yet no escape, what will become their unspeakable fate, and can they survive the experience. They WILL remain marooned within the diorama village with no escape....in the diorama prison of the Twilight Zone!
Along with the best stock music on the show, you have an episode that freaked me out so much when it originally aired, my parents made me stop watching it. I literally panicked when the train didn't take them anywhere. LOVE this episode of my favorite TV show.
Just like The Invaders and The Little People, this episode feels heavily like an episode from the TV show "Land of the Giants" as it involves humans being in a planet inhabited by giant humanoid aliens. Thanks Doug for pointing out the episodes focused on giants.
I remember first watching the Pokemon anime's shout out to this episode, when Sabrina first battles against Ash and this twist was the punishment. Then watching this episode and being blown away that they were referencing the Twilight Zone all along!
The only issue I had was the ending. I would have preferred the couple be living toys in a toy set on Earth, instead of being humans taken from Earth to somewhere in outer space
A lot of things in art are hardly original. A lot of paintings, sculptures, stories in books, TV shows and movies have a lot of similarities with other art. Creation needed inspiration. Star Wars for example is movie serial, Flash Gordon, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Sword Fighting movies from the 1930s, Sci-fi movies from the 1950s, World War II movies and World War II itself all roll into one
First time I loaded it, it didn't have any audio. I was then confused if it was intentional giving the name of the episode - reminds me when a friend told me they rented lost in translation and it had no audio, and they thought that it was an artistic choice. Then 30 minutes in they decided to check and realized it was just a bad copy. 😅
I love this episode. One of my Top 10 favorite TZ episodes. Don't get the hate for it that some give. The only bad part is the special effects at the end.
Moral of the story: Never drink and drive, as you could be kidnapped by giants, and forced to act as a little girl's plaything.
Yeah didn't you know that?
Ha!
This is why you take a cab , people!
@@ciarameehanbravo7690For this very specific totally realistic and not at all fantastic reason.😅😂😎
I once told a friend if I disappeared with no signs of foul play. I hitched a ride off this rock.
I really like these TZ episodes where there's no overt threat, but a creeping sense of danger all the same
"This is a Dollhouse?!"
"Everything here is made of plastic! INCLUDING THE FOOD!!!"
*cue giggling of a giant alien child here*
If the alien child doesn't put some real food in that play town, her new pets are going to die.
While Bob and Millie's fate is indeed terrifying for them, their friends and family will likely be wondering what happened to them, possibly assuming that they died in a car accident, or were kidnapped. And it's even more scary if they have children, who's parents never came back from their social gathering.
Truly horrifying.
Dang you right..... You right on the money about friends and family. I hope they didn't have.
Millie seems like the kind of woman to mention it.
Well, at least they're alive. Their friends and loved ones could assume that and have it be true.
Seeing as how big that "little" alien girl's hand was relative to the main characters, the fake food containers themselves as well as the relative quality in their artwork is astounding.
There are professional Warhammer 40K mini painters that couldn't pull that off.
So this leads to a question: who did paint the fine detail work in Centerville?
They kidnapped little construction workers for that...😊
@@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat Of course, the Doozers!
These beings mastered space travel. I’m pretty sure they can make realistic miniatures.
I like to think this episode & The Invaders are in the same universe.
Aahhh yes. Arguably the episode with one of the best twists. So glad we covered this 4 years
I agree, it's one of the more memorable twists that came late in the show's run.
@@trinaq it's very fun and kinda terrifying too!
@@kdusel1991 Exactly. The twist also isn't predictable, which makes it refreshing.
I honestly think it's one of the dumbest twist
@@kdusel1991 VERY TERRIFYING
I've been waiting a long time for this episode. This would also make a great Drunk Driving PSA.
It's pretty effective I'd say 😂😂
@@FlashTimberwolf Problem is that the outcome is too fantastic to be taken seriously. Nowhere near as haunting as the similar Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. I originally thought it would have turned out it was a nuclear testing sight but it also could been just as effective if the married couple were in a situation like the Maitlands in Beetlejuice where they wonder aimlessly as ghosts after going through a car accident.
the creepiest part of this is that if they only have prop food...theyre going to starve to death, arent they? i highly doubt this girl/her father will care enough to feed them, especially if he can just. bring more home-
It's so scary!
I mean, her mom said they were pets and made them sound exotic with the "your father brought them all the way from Earth" tone to not damage something hard to get tone. I don't think they'd starve necessarily, but it's still terrifying that as pets they're going to be limited to the food and feeding times their alien overlords understand to be good for them. 😰
I guess the prop food is like a plastic bone you would give to your dog. Lots of enrichment activities in this little town and things to make them feel at home like you would for a lizard.
My grandparents live in a town actually called Centerville. I’ll have to show them this Twilight Zone episode
One Easter egg in the episode is the listed Reverend on the church sign - Kogh Gleason. He was a resident set director at MGM for over 40 years. I love this episode!
This has got to be my favuorite Twilight Zone Episode. First one I ever watched .Great recap! 😊
It's one of my favorites! The twist is so fun and a little terrifying, being trapped forever as toys for an alien child
Also known as "Two Characters in Search of Everybody."
🤔😆
@@HereForTheComments Yeah pretty much.
Was shocked he didn’t mention that episode.
The spooky aspect to this story of The Twilight zone series is that this couple was on another planet
This is one of my favorite episodes because this was the first one I saw where I figured out the twist early. Once they pulled out the fake food and ripped the phone off the wall, I yelled at the TV screen, "You're in a dollhouse!" Well, close enough.
I remember being confused by the message. That whole thing was a drinking and driving PSA? I think the "Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk" campaign was better.
This is the last of my favorite episodes, love the twist!
Feels like this should’ve been the last episode of the series since it already echoes the very first episode making ‘The Twilight Zone’ the Beginning of The End, The End of The Beginning, Always there, Always somewhere within that very corner of space just within our grasp.
In hindsight, this would have been a better Finale episode, due to its book end Nature.
It is kinda funny that the First episode is more subversive because the twist has no supernatural sci fi elements.
🎵 It's a Quiet Town! Every day like the one before! 🎵
🎵Little Town, full of little people waking up to say…
Bonjour!🎵
@@Lesley_RedRhody 🎶 There must be more to this provincial life!!🎶
@@Nasser851000 Not too many people saying Bonjour though.
The twist surprised me. I thought it would turn out that the couple were dolls all along, and moved to a new dollhouse set. I thought they either didn't know or forgot they weren't human, kind of like Five Characters in Search of an Exit, or The After Hours. Instead, it was more akin to People Are Alike All Over!
But with a giant alien child who keeps them as toys
If possible you should check out a British anthology series called Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (here in the US it was called FOX Mystery Theater). There was an episode called Child’s Play that starred Mary Crosby. (Bing Crosby’s daughter known mostly for playing Christen, Sue Ellen’s younger sister.)
@@SnowdropHill I wanted them to have wondered into a nuclear test sight.
Woot been refreshing RUclips for the last 20 minutes waiting for this.
The male lead sounds a bit like George Castanza.
“You wanna drive? You got us into this mess!!”
I feel like when one considers this lead to their fates, and it really wasn't her fault, he probably owes her an apology either later or right before their deaths. No way she could have stopped a giant humanoid alien stone cold sober. They failed to stop the little girl from picking them up, so they had no chance against her full grown astronaut father. A huge plus is that they all speak English, so maybe they can broker a deal. It's always awkward to have pets who can speak your language, that was always one of the awkward parts about slavery, when they reminded you they were conscious people.
[male lead’s name] IS GETTING UPSET
YOURE KILLING INDEPENDENT [male lead’s name]
YOU KNOW, WERE LIVING IN A SOCIETY HERE
“She picked me up jerry” “can’t have that” “nooo”
He played James Bond once.
@@expendableindigo9639 you’re thinking of George lazenby
0:13 This the episode that I’ve been looking for since the start of Twilight-tober Zone. Because this is one of the first episodes that I remember watching but I never got the title of.
“Ugh….I must’ve had too much drink. I dreamt I was abducted by giant aliens and forced to live as their pets….hey wait a minute….”
DUN DUN DUN!!
An interesting episode with an interesting twist!
Nancy Malone was so good in this. Also Barry Nelson played Ulman in The Shining.
Another classic episode IMO and I'm now just realizing how many personal favorites are coming from season 5. I remember catching this episode on the SciFi network during their annual, "4th of July Twilight Zone Marathon", and absolutely loving it.
This is one of my favorite episodes!!!! I absolutely love this series thank you so much for your time and care that you put into it it is very much appreciated by many 🥰🥰
This episode has one of my favorite twists!
I was so pissed over the twist of this episode. I was sure it was gonna end with an alarm sounding followed by a countdown, revealing that they were in a nuclear bomb test site. Plus, I was head over heels in love with the woman in this episode.
This is my favorite Zone episode of them all, which says a lot since it's one of my favorite series ever and so manyof its episodes are favorites of any show ever (heck, I even use to get the comic series). It was creepy but still very 'real' and down to earth, where, since it was the TZ literally any explanation could have ended up being possible leaving the imagination to jumo about even faster than the characters. It also hit home in a standing hairs on the back if the neck way because coming from area in manyways like this and having seen as a kid how creepy a small town can feel on those ceratin days when businesses are closed and everyone is outside of town at a fair or funeral or big church doing, I could instantly feel the peaceful-turn-to-uncomfortable "all alone in the world" vibe when watching it. It's one of those shows that not only (probably) would've payed off no matter what the reveal had been, but that I in many ways wish I could watch again for the first time.
You know the continuation of The Twilight Zone from 2019. In season 2 there was an episode called A Small Town where a person with a model of a town would change stuff in the model which would affect the real town. It’s a good episode and I hope they cover this show in the future.
Good idea!
I love that episode.
@@julieporter7805 Me too. I like a lot of those episodes.
That was the best episode of the 2019 revival to me. Felt the closest to the original show.
@@qwerty77772 I agree! I enjoyed the show a lot but I do think there were some places they could’ve improved on. But that’s me
This was one of the first episodes I ever watched of the Twilight Zone, so that twist came as a bigger shock to me as a kid. It seemed like taking the basics of what you think is true and making you question literally everything. One of my favorite episodes for that reason
Same here. This is my second episode I've seen of the Twilight Zone, except I didn't see any episodes until I was in college.
@@glowworm2I got a DVD box set of episodes! Unfortunately this one isn't on it.
simple yet entertaining episode
BRO WTF MY HOME TOWN WAS CALLED CENTREVILLE HUH?
Am I in hell too?
🤣🤣🤣
Just don't run into any giant alien children!
4:38 Oh look, its the final arc of Gantz.
You forgot to mention that Barry Nelson, who played Bob, was the first James Bond! That's right--he played Bond in a 1954 live TV adaptation of Casino Royale that was featured on the anthology series Climax. (Peter Lorre played Le Chiffre.) This adaptation made Bond American, and nicknamed him "Card Sense" Jimmy Bond, no less!
I'd say the ending's pretty similar to Five Characters In Search Of An Exit as well.
Gotta say, that giant hand reaching down is deeply unsettling
This is definitely one of the episodes that creeped me out majorly as a kid
This was my second episode of The Twilight Zone (the first being The Jeopardy Room) I ever saw. The premise is actually quite similar to the first TZ episode "Where is Everybody?" as a couple wakes up in a deserted town without any memory of how they got there. The main difference of course being that the twist to this one is an alien abduction. I'll be honest, this one has a twist you really don't see coming the first time viewing it but it's definitely memorable.
In 1980, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater did an episode similar to this called "A Holiday Visit." From what I remember, I liked the ending to that one better.
Don't drink and drive ... That got me 😂
Happy Friday yall! 3:10 i love her reaction to his comment lol. That twist caught me off guard
One of my favorite episode
Walter makes a good point about the episode story having too many similarities with other Twilight Zone episodes! How this episode is “Where is Everybody?”, “The Little People”, “The Invaders” & “Human Zoo” all roll into one. But, that’s art. Hardly anything in fiction is original. Creation needs inspiration
This was a great episode. Highly recommend
God this episode always freaked me out as a kid
JERRY: You know, this is like that Twilight Zone where the guy wakes up, and he's the same - but everyone else is different!
KRAMER: Which one?
JERRY: They were all like that!
Any Rush fans enjoying this recap? Their song, 'The Twilight Zone' has lyrics referencing both this TZ episode, and 'Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?' from the second season.
I like some of Rush's songs! Especially Tom Sawyer with that kickass drum solo!
from my favorite Rush album 2112. I definitely know Neil Peart was a big Twilight Zone fan.
Barry Nelson! The first James Bond!
I thought it was Sean Connery!
@@kdusel1991 Nope, Barry played Bond (rewritten as an American) in a live TV adaptation of Casino Royale that aired on the anthology series Climax in 1984.
Man, Don't Look Under the Bed was the best Disney Halloween movie that was actually scary.
Can't believe that got a mention!
Why did I feel like the twist was they drove to a nuclear testing site before the bomb went off? 😂
Maybe they hide in a fridge too 😂😂
We need more TV anthologies!!
I imagined two possible twists : One, the characters ended up into a fake town, as a nuclear test site, and they witness in the horizon a nuclear mushroom. Two, the characters are actually puppets/dolls that became alive/aware, wandering in a town replica toy. I was kinda close to the truth with the last one.
TZ did the doll one earlier in the series. That one is really good as well.
I am glad to see many people don't mind the two tone viewing. Over the years I heard some people complain about black and white movies or television.
@GrantWaller.-hf6jn I think black and white enhances the mood of some stuff! Like the lighthouse! That movie looks gorgeous in black and white!
@@kdusel1991or the Wizzard of Oz. The Black and white on the farm. Makes Oz that more special.
The ghost town episodes are always so creepy. I really like them.
@@daniellevaughn4598 A big part of what makes Time Enough At Last so eerie! Among like a thousand others, lol.
This is one of the first episodes I saw on a vacation. To me this is a textbook by the numbers episode. Shoutout to The Twilight Pwn and stage bread. I remember the first time I listened to that podcast in the college gym and was dying laughing.
Probably the greatest episode tbh.
The twist: *They were in Silent Hill the whole time*
But there's no ghosts or spooky monsters!
@@kdusel1991 True, but whenever a story is set with people in an abandoned town that's the first thing I think of 😂
@@Jordan3DS Makes sense to me 😂😂😂
Easily a top ten episode of The Twilight Zone for me.
YES! Finally!!
Awesome 🤩
You wake up lost in an empty town, wondering why no one else is around. Look up to see a giant boy, you've just become his brand new toy! No escape, no place to hide here where time and space collide.
They are living in a Barbie World.
🎶Life in plastic, it's fantastic!🎶
He's just Bob
In a doll house with no job
Forced to live and die
As a toy for a giant girl's fragility...
@@julieporter7805 this is his hell. This is what he has to wake up to with his wife everyday. All because they both were drinking and driving.
Now that you've done Disneycember, Dreamworksuary, Bat May, and this, you should do Nickuly/Aprilodeon
First Twilight Zone I ever saw!
I wonder what the giants father plans to feed and water his pets as well as taking care of their bathroom evolutions.
Have a great day!
It also reminded me somewhat of 'Five Characters in Search of an Exit' with the lead characters attempting to figure out their circumstances and escape their confinement, only to find out in the end they are really only mere playthings to a child.
I love this The Twilight Zone episode!
We literally watch the twilight zone in school and this is the first one that we watched I was wondering if you guys had done this one!!!
Barry Nelson was the first actor to play James bond.....! 😮
I didn't know that!
@kdusel1991 a version of casino royale on American TV, the first bond villain was j carrol Nash, too, (correction: Peter lorre)
@@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat Actually, it was Peter Lorre who played Le Chiffre in that adaptation.
@jenniferschillig3768 yes, sorry, got him confused with the first batman serial (?) Viĺain
I wonder if this and similar episodes inspired Irwin Allen's, Land of the Giants sci-fi series.
Still love that show and its concept even when some episodes got a little silly plotwise.
Not gonna lie, i was expecting the twist being a nuketown, and a giant fireball would be at present...
I was wrong...
I think there was a similar plot in the 90s remake where the twist was a kid playing what was basically The Sims. 🤔
I remember watching this on Syfy!
Next time The Encounter!
Oakwood, albeit a figment of a man's disturbed R.E.M. sleep, is presented as a surrealistic village. The difference between that and SIAQT is that the village, and happily the story was paced appropriately enough to keep it from the quagmire of predictability, was merely a model diorama. As I said, the mystery experienced by the irresponsible couple fresh out of a DWI accident, remains just that until the end, with both the diorama and the eerie laughter of that little girl being elements for the disturbed couple to chase out. Stopover In a Quiet Town is as mysterious as it is spooky. Then, the revelation (monstrous shot of a giant hand) and it's a masterstroke, summing up the mystery, revealing the crazy village's diorama status, and the little girl behind the laughter. It IS questionable, however, as Bob and Millie descend to yet no escape, what will become their unspeakable fate, and can they survive the experience. They WILL remain marooned within the diorama village with no escape....in the diorama prison of the Twilight Zone!
Along with the best stock music on the show, you have an episode that freaked me out so much when it originally aired, my parents made me stop watching it. I literally panicked when the train didn't take them anywhere. LOVE this episode of my favorite TV show.
Just like The Invaders and The Little People, this episode feels heavily like an episode from the TV show "Land of the Giants" as it involves humans being in a planet inhabited by giant humanoid aliens. Thanks Doug for pointing out the episodes focused on giants.
I remember this episode 😂
The first television PSA.
I really miss dark toons
Same!
@@glowworm2 same! Wish Doug would get back to doing those soon!!
I remember first watching the Pokemon anime's shout out to this episode, when Sabrina first battles against Ash and this twist was the punishment. Then watching this episode and being blown away that they were referencing the Twilight Zone all along!
This episode definitely takes place in the same universe as The Invaders and The Little People.
Maybe all the aliens know each other? 🤔🤔
This one was aight 👌
If you've watched enough TZ episodes, you can guess this one's twist even before Rod's opening narration kicks in.
The only issue I had was the ending. I would have preferred the couple be living toys in a toy set on Earth, instead of being humans taken from Earth to somewhere in outer space
We kind of got that with "Five Characters in Search of An Exit" with the reveal that everyone was actually dolls.
@@glowworm2 Not like the show hasn't done similar twist before
A lot of things in art are hardly original. A lot of paintings, sculptures, stories in books, TV shows and movies have a lot of similarities with other art. Creation needed inspiration. Star Wars for example is movie serial, Flash Gordon, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Sword Fighting movies from the 1930s, Sci-fi movies from the 1950s, World War II movies and World War II itself all roll into one
First time I loaded it, it didn't have any audio. I was then confused if it was intentional giving the name of the episode - reminds me when a friend told me they rented lost in translation and it had no audio, and they thought that it was an artistic choice. Then 30 minutes in they decided to check and realized it was just a bad copy. 😅
So this is where Pokemon got the idea!
Yes it did, but I didn’t know at the time when I saw back in 99
I saw this twist coming from a mile away
Ah, I see we're bringing back the "Don't Drink & Drive" memes.
I love this episode. One of my Top 10 favorite TZ episodes. Don't get the hate for it that some give.
The only bad part is the special effects at the end.
Stuart Ullman before the Overlook.
It's like the TV show, Land of the Giants.
So the whole thing was one big don't drink and drive PSA?
5:40 "Nice fuckin' model"
I agree there's nothing too deep here, but it's still done well
I wonder if this is where Steven King got his inspiration for the twist in Under the Dome?
Happy nostalgiaween 🫡🎃🎃🎃🎃
Another one of my favorites. Season 5 was the worst, but had a few good gems.
Since your almost done with twilight tober zone how about doing Gilligan's July-land or May Love Lucy or The Brady March or I Dream of June-ie?
4:01
Twist
*ITS A DOLLHOUSE! A DOLHOUUUSEEE*
-Charles Heston, probably
SHE IS GOOD LOOKING!!! I ONCE HAD A GIRLFRIEND THAT SHE REMINDS ME OF!!!!