Roswell reminded me of a mutual friend who always spoke in a loud voice and played his boom box as loud as he could. Unlike Roswell, my friend was mentally challenged.
I turn on MeTV on the lobby TV at the hotel where I work, when I pull an overnight shift. MeTV was running a Saturday Twilight Zone marathon on Saturday & I got to just sit at watch all of these classic in the quiet of the night.
If the protagonist wasn't a self righteous, utterly loathsome person, then the twist ending of him losing his hearing would be tragic. But since he is, it's a karmic comeuppance for him.
It reminds me of that old cartoon I saw a few times about a guy with anger issues whose doctor tells him he needs to do without noise, and he goes to a hotel that is a silent retreat, where even if you turn off a lamp, instead of making a noise it spits out a sign that read "click."
I remember that he had to endure some obnoxious couple in the room next to him playing a trombone and laughing hysterically! It turned out to be his doctor and nurse making all that racket! The man ended up literally exploding in anger.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention that Penny Singleton who played Mrs. Flemington was also the voice of Jane Jetson from 1962 - 1990 (The Jetsons; Rockin' with Judy Jetson; The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones; The Jetsons Movie; The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera; and more during that time).
YOU seem to have forgotten that she played the live action BLONDIE for the serials. Blondie of Dagwood and Blondie, from the comic strips. She was much more than just Jane Jetson. Checkout the Blondie serials sometime. They were on YT for free. IDK if they still are. But, she was great.
The main character deserves his comeuppance. He was extremely arrogant, self-righteous, irrational, and unreasonable. Though, it’s a little tragic that he didn’t think to get psychological help sooner for his trauma regarding his mother. However, he clearly lacked common sense, comprehension, and compassion. And yes, this is another one of my favorite “Twilight Zone” episodes.
I recently went through a spell where I temporarily lost my hearing for a few months (I'm fine now, btw), so the final scene with everything sounding muffled and muted really hit home for me.
Roswell was quite right when he said his mother was a sick woman. She had a mental disorder that is now called misophonia. However, the term wasn't coined that until 2001. When Roswell was hearing trivial sounds that was magnified many times over, he was experiencing a taste of what his mother went through! You know, some autistic people can have misophonia too.
That’s what I was thinking too! My brother is autistic and has a form of misophonia too, I have to be very mindful of him whenever I do things like turn on a vacuum or do any repetitive, noisy task for his sake. I doubt that’s what they were going for in this episode, but it’s nice that they at least acknowledged that it’s a real discomfort that some people suffer from. It’s not an excuse for his mother mistreating him for it, of course, just that it exists.
@@gothicMCRgirl Mild autistic here, I'm sure I have that, too. Noise from machinery and electronics is louder to me than it is to normal people, and in-person speaking is quieter to me than normal. I wish my step-mom-to-be (who talks to me with a mouthful of food while the TV's on) would remember that and accommodate.
@@louisduarte8763 So sorry to hear that your needs are being ignored like that. I do my best for my brother and try to do noisy stuff when he’s not home so I don’t bother him. I’ve also gotten him noise cancelling headphones and he wears soft ear plugs to sleep. We cycled through a few ear plugs until we found a pair that don’t cause him any discomfort, but it’s worth it to avoid him getting unnecessarily agitated.
@gothicMCRgirl I think it's wonderful that you are thinking of your brother's needs. I'm autistic myself. I'm on the very mild spectrum and there are certain noises that bother me. I hate the hand dryers in the restrooms, and yet I have to tolerate the noise daily since my job is to clean them everyday. The other noises that hurt my ears is when my 84 pound dog is barking at me! And I hate thunderstorms! If I know that there will be a thunderstorm overnight I will wear my earplugs to bed. It does help me sleep.
I think that I am on the spectrum though not diagnosed (there aren't many places around me that does diagnosis for adults). Certain sounds, smells, and particularly weather and seasonal patterns make me susceptible to migraines.
There's a great interview with Norm Macdonald where he talks about his love for TZ. Part of it talks about the opening narrations and goes along the lines of " 'Meet John Smith. A small man with small dreams who's never done anything and will never go anywhere'... gee Rod, give a guy a break". This is one of the episodes that makes me think of that since you have to wonder if the punishment fits the crime (sort of like if the bickering couple from 'What's in the box' both deserve death). The show establishes that the guy is a product of an overbearing mother and I don't recall the episode demonstrating that he has some particular hold over everybody else in his life, so his wife could have just left him earlier and his employees could quit. Running a model ship company seems like a niche enough business that you wouldn't expect it to be the only game in town, it's not like the guy is running Amazon or Walmart. And surely the wife must have known what she was getting into as I doubt the guy just woke up one day and all of a sudden decided to turn his home into a ship. Also funny to think of how all his records were sourced. Who were the guys running around specifically recording battleship audio right in the middle of a war? Anyway, you can find clips of the Macdonald interview easily on YT, most of them are cut together with one of his former SNL castmates discussing the TZ sketch they did that included Pamela Anderson.
Imagine living your whole life being able to hear and then one day everything becomes silent. You just want to hear something, anything. No matter how much will power you have, no matter how much you cry and plead, you can never get your hearing back. I think that would make anyone insane. Is this what it feels like to suddenly become deaf?
John McGiver's best comedy role might be in the movie MR. HOBBS TAKES A VACATION. It's very good in general, but even if it weren't, it'd be worth seeing just for his part.
Idk how to feel about this episode because it sounds like a great concept and can pulled off well but it’s either the script or the acting even tho the set design is amazing here
huh, his hammy "please notice me" action of the episodes main lead really reminds me of Doug Walker when he acts as characters by trying to outshout the empty room
I have an auditory processing disorder that makes it difficult to separate out sounds. There are times I can hear things 3 rooms over, and times I can barely hear anything right in front of me.. This episode of the twilight zone I underwood because sound can make you crazy easily
One of my favorite moments was when Mrs. Flemington destroys the explosive record at the beginning, and Roswell whines that there were only 50 copies of the LP. Lydia responds simply, "Now there are only 49." Bang! This episode really doesn't fit under the Twilight Zone format. If we treat what happened to Flemington as a mental condition, there really is no supernatural element in the episode. Like Serling said, Roswell is just "suffering from ... a case of poetic justice" - from one extreme to the other. It's just too predictable. That said, John McGiver is absolutely hilarious throughout, and he does work well against Penny Singleton as Lydia. His overreactions to the sound effects are fascinating. And it's always fun to see Billy Benedict (Mr Conklin, "New shoes!"), best known as Whitey in the Bowery Boys films (and also in the 1941 Captain Marvel serial). Yes, Michael Fox was the reason why the younger actor had to add a middle initial since the Actors Guild doesn't like actors with the exact same name (this Michael Fox died in 1996, still performing to the end).
Episode highlights some of the shortcomings of Serling's writing talent. He admitted that he was not good at writing dialogue that was unique to each person. Meaning, many of his characters spoke and sounded the same.
1:42 - Rod in court: “No, no, you can’t kill me AGAIN!” 😂 And I love John McGiver in anything, but I’ve never figured out what the flippin’ message/point of this episode was. Yes, Funny Episode, but when it aired on the 80’s special, they made a big buildup of the sound system used to create the loud/quiet FX, and I thought, “Um, yes, that’s it? He went deaf?”
"Man listens to records so loud the furniture moves, loses his hearing" is a PSA, not a Twilight Zone plot. To think that the episode they had to pay out for was this garbage...
Just like 4 o'clock this episode has exact same plot. "Angry man at the whole world get's punished when mysterious power gives him exactly what he wants."
6:10 -- Whoa, never occurred to me before. I wonder how Rod Serling (or by the mid-Eighties, Burgess Meredith) would introduce and later close the movie if B2TF had been presented as an extended TWILIGHT ZONE story a la the TALES FROM THE CRYPT movies.
I'd really love to see you review rhe first Planet of the Apes after this series. With Rod Serling involved, it really feels like the first Twilight Zone movie.
I wish you covered the similarities and differences between the episode and the story it supposedly plagiarized from further. Are there any information on this?
6:01 Is that teasing forshadowing of the 80s' Twilight Zone? or just a little prank about how Walter has been very clear about how "he will only cover the first twilight zone and that's it". that if we want somene to cover the others, we will have to do it ourselves
This episode we kind of has like a feel of reality that it could happen because you can see that this guy had to put up with this stuff and then over time his body finally gives out and he becomes deaf. Also yes you can put this down as being a karmic Justice that the Twilight zone would normally do anyway.
Could you please do these as part of FanScription • What if Disney’s Cinderella was engaged to marry a horrible, ugly and infamous Baron by her evil stepfamily (Disney’s Cinderella 1950movie) • What if Bambi lost the fight with Ronno (Disney’s Bambi) • What if Disney’s Alice returned to Wonderland (Disney’s Alice in Wonderland 2) • Wolverine vs The Predator • What if Nemo Got Older/Grew up (Finding Nemo 2) • What if Gaston survived Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast 2) • What if Elsa married Hans in Disney’s Frozen • Batman vs Sandman • Spider-man vs Catwoman • What if Madam Mim (from Disney’s The Sword in the Stone 1963movie) had won? • What if we fixed Daredevil (2003movie)
I like this episode. It's not amazing like Living Doll or The Masks, but I found it highly entertaining. Lead character actor was really good imho. No social commentary but satisfying karma I think.
This is an episode carried by the main actor. If he didn't turn in the performance he did, this episode would fall so low. He is a jerk but in a way that there's still some redemption. I can't remember the episode name but it reminds me of the guy who held the party and played a piano that revealed everyone's true colors. Not as sadistic as him but just as selfish and entitled. Reminds me of people blasting music out of their cars when the windows are lowered. Not illegal but some days I wish it was, good gravy.
Wow I’m shocked you recommended this 😂. Imo worst episode of the series. But appreciate your opinion! Loving these breakdowns super curious to hear your thoughts on “Come Wander With Me”
This one is just plain weird. Roswell feels like he should be more of a cartoon protagonist. Can you really picture someone acting like this in real life? Maybe if they suffer an illness, but I doubt they'd be allowed to work a position like Roswell's and treat their employees the way he does. It just doesn't feel like something the everyday person can relate to. I'm sure many people have loud-mouth bosses, but again, this feels exaggerated to a cartoonish extent. And despite the bombastic nature of the episode, it was BORING. The twist was predictable, and I felt nothing for Roswell (even though he clearly had some childhood trauma), or any of the characters. Maybe I'll try to give it a rewatch since you recommend it, but my instinct is to pass on it next time.
Those ableist bastards! Did they try to imply that going almost totally deaf is a fitting punishment for someone who hears things louder than most other people?!
This was a thoroughly unpleasant episode. Rod Serling's take is that this man deserves to be tortured and to go deaf, simply because of his fixation on war sounds, and because of his sensitivity to other sounds; all because of his abusive mother. Great moral lesson there, Serling. Also, the characters are thoroughly off-putting, and you feel like you're being screamed at the entire episode. Not a good time. (But by Rod's standards, I suppose I deserve to go permanently deaf for saying that).
I admire the sound and set design, but the main character is so irritable I feel like her got the karna he deserved. Fairly Oddparents handled the concept better.
What are you talking about? The acting is superb in this. I'd like to see you do better. I'm really really starting to dislike this channel or whatever it's called. The Twilight Zone is legendary and for the most part you have put down the majority of these final episodes ALSO I think it SUCKS that YOU have the audacity to tell people not to watch certain episodes!!!
Good God, this has to be by far the most unlikable protagonist in the entire 60s run, which is impressive considering one of them is an actual Nazi....God dam wat a horrible episode.....
What did you think of Sounds and SIlences?
In case anyone is curious, $3,500 in 1964 would be about $36,000 in 2024.
Interesting episode
Awesome episode!
Roswell reminded me of a mutual friend who always spoke in a loud voice and played his boom box as loud as he could. Unlike Roswell, my friend was mentally challenged.
I like it.
0:17 idk why but that reading of “FUDGE BROWNIES” really made me laugh 😆
F U D G E
B R R R O W N I E S
I turn on MeTV on the lobby TV at the hotel where I work, when I pull an overnight shift. MeTV was running a Saturday Twilight Zone marathon on Saturday & I got to just sit at watch all of these classic in the quiet of the night.
Hello Twilight my old friend... I'm in the Zone with you again...
If the protagonist wasn't a self righteous, utterly loathsome person, then the twist ending of him losing his hearing would be tragic. But since he is, it's a karmic comeuppance for him.
It reminds me of that old cartoon I saw a few times about a guy with anger issues whose doctor tells him he needs to do without noise, and he goes to a hotel that is a silent retreat, where even if you turn off a lamp, instead of making a noise it spits out a sign that read "click."
I remember that he had to endure some obnoxious couple in the room next to him playing a trombone and laughing hysterically! It turned out to be his doctor and nurse making all that racket! The man ended up literally exploding in anger.
That is a Walter Lantz produced short directed by Tex Avery called Sh-h-h-h-h-h from 1955 and it is awesome!
I'm surprised that you didn't mention that Penny Singleton who played Mrs. Flemington was also the voice of Jane Jetson from 1962 - 1990 (The Jetsons; Rockin' with Judy Jetson; The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones; The Jetsons Movie; The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera; and more during that time).
YOU seem to have forgotten that she played the live action BLONDIE for the serials. Blondie of Dagwood and Blondie, from the comic strips. She was much more than just Jane Jetson. Checkout the Blondie serials sometime. They were on YT for free. IDK if they still are. But, she was great.
It's one of the few comedic Zone eps that are genuinely successfully funny.
The main character deserves his comeuppance. He was extremely arrogant, self-righteous, irrational, and unreasonable. Though, it’s a little tragic that he didn’t think to get psychological help sooner for his trauma regarding his mother. However, he clearly lacked common sense, comprehension, and compassion.
And yes, this is another one of my favorite “Twilight Zone” episodes.
A pioneer of ASMR
I recently went through a spell where I temporarily lost my hearing for a few months (I'm fine now, btw), so the final scene with everything sounding muffled and muted really hit home for me.
Roswell was quite right when he said his mother was a sick woman. She had a mental disorder that is now called misophonia. However, the term wasn't coined that until 2001. When Roswell was hearing trivial sounds that was magnified many times over, he was experiencing a taste of what his mother went through! You know, some autistic people can have misophonia too.
That’s what I was thinking too! My brother is autistic and has a form of misophonia too, I have to be very mindful of him whenever I do things like turn on a vacuum or do any repetitive, noisy task for his sake. I doubt that’s what they were going for in this episode, but it’s nice that they at least acknowledged that it’s a real discomfort that some people suffer from. It’s not an excuse for his mother mistreating him for it, of course, just that it exists.
@@gothicMCRgirl Mild autistic here, I'm sure I have that, too. Noise from machinery and electronics is louder to me than it is to normal people, and in-person speaking is quieter to me than normal. I wish my step-mom-to-be (who talks to me with a mouthful of food while the TV's on) would remember that and accommodate.
@@louisduarte8763 So sorry to hear that your needs are being ignored like that. I do my best for my brother and try to do noisy stuff when he’s not home so I don’t bother him. I’ve also gotten him noise cancelling headphones and he wears soft ear plugs to sleep. We cycled through a few ear plugs until we found a pair that don’t cause him any discomfort, but it’s worth it to avoid him getting unnecessarily agitated.
@gothicMCRgirl I think it's wonderful that you are thinking of your brother's needs. I'm autistic myself. I'm on the very mild spectrum and there are certain noises that bother me. I hate the hand dryers in the restrooms, and yet I have to tolerate the noise daily since my job is to clean them everyday. The other noises that hurt my ears is when my 84 pound dog is barking at me! And I hate thunderstorms! If I know that there will be a thunderstorm overnight I will wear my earplugs to bed. It does help me sleep.
I think that I am on the spectrum though not diagnosed (there aren't many places around me that does diagnosis for adults). Certain sounds, smells, and particularly weather and seasonal patterns make me susceptible to migraines.
There's a great interview with Norm Macdonald where he talks about his love for TZ. Part of it talks about the opening narrations and goes along the lines of " 'Meet John Smith. A small man with small dreams who's never done anything and will never go anywhere'... gee Rod, give a guy a break". This is one of the episodes that makes me think of that since you have to wonder if the punishment fits the crime (sort of like if the bickering couple from 'What's in the box' both deserve death). The show establishes that the guy is a product of an overbearing mother and I don't recall the episode demonstrating that he has some particular hold over everybody else in his life, so his wife could have just left him earlier and his employees could quit. Running a model ship company seems like a niche enough business that you wouldn't expect it to be the only game in town, it's not like the guy is running Amazon or Walmart. And surely the wife must have known what she was getting into as I doubt the guy just woke up one day and all of a sudden decided to turn his home into a ship.
Also funny to think of how all his records were sourced. Who were the guys running around specifically recording battleship audio right in the middle of a war?
Anyway, you can find clips of the Macdonald interview easily on YT, most of them are cut together with one of his former SNL castmates discussing the TZ sketch they did that included Pamela Anderson.
You know who wasn't in this episode?? You guessed it, Frank Stallone!! RIP Mr MacDonald.
I get why shelling pf oakinawa exists but a Japanese destroyer exploding?
Wow!! I never even HEARD of this episode!!
Ba-dum tsss.
I saw this episode for the first time when SyFy had a Twilight Zone marathon recently.
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Imagine living your whole life being able to hear and then one day everything becomes silent. You just want to hear something, anything. No matter how much will power you have, no matter how much you cry and plead, you can never get your hearing back. I think that would make anyone insane. Is this what it feels like to suddenly become deaf?
This guy would die in 10 seconds in the Quiet Place movies!
Precisely, he's so obnoxiously loud, he'd easily be detected.
You got that right!
Ngl, that's true, but 10 seconds is too long, it would be miracle if he can survive that long.
So?
I'd be rooting for the aliens.
Loved his strutting about like he's doing Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh.
I like how when the doctor tells him what the problem is a he thanks him by telling him “you are a doctor worthy of admiral Nelson himself”
John McGiver's best comedy role might be in the movie MR. HOBBS TAKES A VACATION.
It's very good in general, but even if it weren't, it'd be worth seeing just for his part.
In case anyone is curious, $3,500 in 1964 would be about $36,000 in 2024.
Awesome 🤩
WOW IDK till you said...I didn't recognize her... BLOOOONNNNNDDDIEEEEE!!!!! grew up on that and her cartoon characters too.
I love the lead actor in this- I just wanna clip and quote him all over the place now 😆
~_~
I know that voice! He was the mayor from T’was the Night Before Christmas.
Idk how to feel about this episode because it sounds like a great concept and can pulled off well but it’s either the script or the acting even tho the set design is amazing here
And that is the episode of The sounds and silences thank you Simon and Garfunkel
Now that you've done Disneycember, Dreamworksuary, Bat May, and this, you should do Nickuly/Aprilodeon.
This episode, and others from Season 5, prove how much Serling needed Buck Houghton and Charles Beaumont.
I love this The Twilight Zone episode!
To be fair, the sound of nail clipping sends me up a wall too
What about when people crack their knuckles?
The sound of open-mouthed chewing does that to me.
huh, his hammy "please notice me" action of the episodes main lead really reminds me of Doug Walker when he acts as characters by trying to outshout the empty room
I have an auditory processing disorder that makes it difficult to separate out sounds. There are times I can hear things 3 rooms over, and times I can barely hear anything right in front of me..
This episode of the twilight zone I underwood because sound can make you crazy easily
The only episodes I couldn’t get through 😭
One of my favorite moments was when Mrs. Flemington destroys the explosive record at the beginning, and Roswell whines that there were only 50 copies of the LP. Lydia responds simply, "Now there are only 49." Bang!
This episode really doesn't fit under the Twilight Zone format. If we treat what happened to Flemington as a mental condition, there really is no supernatural element in the episode. Like Serling said, Roswell is just "suffering from ... a case of poetic justice" - from one extreme to the other. It's just too predictable.
That said, John McGiver is absolutely hilarious throughout, and he does work well against Penny Singleton as Lydia. His overreactions to the sound effects are fascinating. And it's always fun to see Billy Benedict (Mr Conklin, "New shoes!"), best known as Whitey in the Bowery Boys films (and also in the 1941 Captain Marvel serial). Yes, Michael Fox was the reason why the younger actor had to add a middle initial since the Actors Guild doesn't like actors with the exact same name (this Michael Fox died in 1996, still performing to the end).
The title reminds me of the Simon And Garfunkel song, The Sound Of Silence.
8:06 NO!
I remember watching this as a part of the Twilight Zone Marathon I thought that the ending was really interesting
Episode highlights some of the shortcomings of Serling's writing talent. He admitted that he was not good at writing dialogue that was unique to each person. Meaning, many of his characters spoke and sounded the same.
In short, this is an insane episode whose focus is on an insane man. I defy anyone to come up with a real-life example of anyone like him.
I always liked this one just because it's hilarious.
1:42 - Rod in court: “No, no, you can’t kill me AGAIN!” 😂
And I love John McGiver in anything, but I’ve never figured out what the flippin’ message/point of this episode was.
Yes, Funny Episode, but when it aired on the 80’s special, they made a big buildup of the sound system used to create the loud/quiet FX, and I thought, “Um, yes, that’s it? He went deaf?”
Ultimate upstairs neighbor
That was my first very first twilight zone episode
"Man listens to records so loud the furniture moves, loses his hearing" is a PSA, not a Twilight Zone plot. To think that the episode they had to pay out for was this garbage...
John McGiver was seriously a great actor.
Just like 4 o'clock this episode has exact same plot.
"Angry man at the whole world get's punished when mysterious power gives him exactly what he wants."
Wow.... Love it when y'all drop some brand new info on me, cool 😎
6:10 -- Whoa, never occurred to me before. I wonder how Rod Serling (or by the mid-Eighties, Burgess Meredith) would introduce and later close the movie if B2TF had been presented as an extended TWILIGHT ZONE story a la the TALES FROM THE CRYPT movies.
Happy spooky season 🎃🎃🎃🎃
They must have put it in later syndication deals. I remember seeing it in a marathon aired against the Jerry Lewis telethon.
I'd really love to see you review rhe first Planet of the Apes after this series. With Rod Serling involved, it really feels like the first Twilight Zone movie.
I wish you covered the similarities and differences between the episode and the story it supposedly plagiarized from further. Are there any information on this?
Is that just me or does Roswell sound like David Lynch at times? XDD
This episode reminds me of that Donald Duck cartoon where every small sounds beats at his ear drums aa he tries to go to sleep.
Mcgiver usually sounds like he's having a bowel movement while talking.
agree that it was funny without prob trying to be, and a nice palette cleanser after some darker eps
6:01 Is that teasing forshadowing of the 80s' Twilight Zone? or just a little prank about how Walter has been very clear about how "he will only cover the first twilight zone and that's it".
that if we want somene to cover the others, we will have to do it ourselves
This episode we kind of has like a feel of reality that it could happen because you can see that this guy had to put up with this stuff and then over time his body finally gives out and he becomes deaf. Also yes you can put this down as being a karmic Justice that the Twilight zone would normally do anyway.
Ok, I'm voting for adding the Back to the Future's movies as extended episodes of Twilight Zone.
Hello darkness my old friend...
I have a trouble with noise as well!
Next time a copycat!
Could you please do these as part of FanScription
• What if Disney’s Cinderella was engaged to marry a horrible, ugly and infamous Baron by her evil stepfamily (Disney’s Cinderella 1950movie)
• What if Bambi lost the fight with Ronno (Disney’s Bambi)
• What if Disney’s Alice returned to Wonderland (Disney’s Alice in Wonderland 2)
• Wolverine vs The Predator
• What if Nemo Got Older/Grew up (Finding Nemo 2)
• What if Gaston survived Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast 2)
• What if Elsa married Hans in Disney’s Frozen
• Batman vs Sandman
• Spider-man vs Catwoman
• What if Madam Mim (from Disney’s The Sword in the Stone 1963movie) had won?
• What if we fixed Daredevil (2003movie)
All we had was f#@+ng brownies😂 I thought dats wat I herd
and touch the sound of silence
6:15
Twist
Twirl
I only remember the ending
I like this episode. It's not amazing like Living Doll or The Masks, but I found it highly entertaining. Lead character actor was really good imho. No social commentary but satisfying karma I think.
It's funny. But John MacGyver's voice almost reminds me of Neil Hamilton (Commissioner Gordon from the 1960's Batman series)
I really didn’t quite understand this episode
This is an episode carried by the main actor. If he didn't turn in the performance he did, this episode would fall so low. He is a jerk but in a way that there's still some redemption. I can't remember the episode name but it reminds me of the guy who held the party and played a piano that revealed everyone's true colors. Not as sadistic as him but just as selfish and entitled. Reminds me of people blasting music out of their cars when the windows are lowered. Not illegal but some days I wish it was, good gravy.
How exactly does a recording of a Japanese destroyer exploding in combat exist?
Wow I’m shocked you recommended this 😂. Imo worst episode of the series. But appreciate your opinion! Loving these breakdowns super curious to hear your thoughts on “Come Wander With Me”
This one is just plain weird. Roswell feels like he should be more of a cartoon protagonist. Can you really picture someone acting like this in real life? Maybe if they suffer an illness, but I doubt they'd be allowed to work a position like Roswell's and treat their employees the way he does. It just doesn't feel like something the everyday person can relate to. I'm sure many people have loud-mouth bosses, but again, this feels exaggerated to a cartoonish extent. And despite the bombastic nature of the episode, it was BORING. The twist was predictable, and I felt nothing for Roswell (even though he clearly had some childhood trauma), or any of the characters. Maybe I'll try to give it a rewatch since you recommend it, but my instinct is to pass on it next time.
I like this episode!! The main guy's hilarious!!
Did anyone order some hammy over top acting with a side of straingly works some how?
Boy, the comedy ones you hate or don't are odd...
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Those ableist bastards! Did they try to imply that going almost totally deaf is a fitting punishment for someone who hears things louder than most other people?!
there is a real dude name mcguyver?
This was a thoroughly unpleasant episode. Rod Serling's take is that this man deserves to be tortured and to go deaf, simply because of his fixation on war sounds, and because of his sensitivity to other sounds; all because of his abusive mother. Great moral lesson there, Serling.
Also, the characters are thoroughly off-putting, and you feel like you're being screamed at the entire episode. Not a good time.
(But by Rod's standards, I suppose I deserve to go permanently deaf for saying that).
I know you recommend this, but to be honest This episode synopsis sounds terrible 😂
I admire the sound and set design, but the main character is so irritable I feel like her got the karna he deserved. Fairly Oddparents handled the concept better.
They were running out of ideas at this point.
Tttt
What are you talking about? The acting is superb in this. I'd like to see you do better. I'm really really starting to dislike this channel or whatever it's called. The Twilight Zone is legendary and for the most part you have put down the majority of these final episodes ALSO I think it SUCKS that YOU have the audacity to tell people not to watch certain episodes!!!
Did anyone else think of Donald Trump in some of those scenes?
Tiny bit
Nope, tRump wouldn't be able to pronounce half the words this guy used.
By far one of the dumbest episodes ever…only way to modernize this would be the guy listening to loud annoying music
This episode is bad, sorry, just is
Good God, this has to be by far the most unlikable protagonist in the entire 60s run, which is impressive considering one of them is an actual Nazi....God dam wat a horrible episode.....
Eh, I'd argue the main character from "4 O'Clock" was much more annoying.
The protagonist that I despise the most is Captain Gunther Lutze from the episode "Deaths Head Revisited!"
If my math is correct. Saturday is gonna be an interesting review.