Posted on 09/24/2019 5:05:20 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Which Twilight Zone is your personal nightmare?
- Imagine if you will a world where reporters make up the story and write the narrative rather than “report” the facts: Reporters coaching sources for the “right” answers.
- Imagine if you will a world where whistleblowers don’t need firsthand knowledge of an event they are whistleblowing on: Anonymous Trump-Ukraine Whistleblower Story Based on Hearsay.
Or possibly it’s the one where an unhinged 16 year old is held up as the earth’s last great white hope.
“I’ll get you, my pretty. And your little dog too.”
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
She went from cute little girl to “ex-wife” bat feces crazy in the blink of an eye. They didn’t win anyone over with that stunt.
I was five years old when The After Hours", episode thirty-four of The Twilight Zone aired on June 10, 1960, on CBS. At the developmental stage of 5, it scared the snot out of me, I have always found mannequins and public statuary to be unexplainedly frightening.
Serious convictions and penalties for slander is what is needed. Major cash penalties toward those slandered ( no not thousands but millions and tens or hundreds of millions and higher) needed to be awarded to those offended.
A free society does not mean a irresponsible society. You play you pay.
I find clowns to be the most frightening. The John Wayne Gacy syndrome if you will. I’m not crazy about snakes either but have no compunction against loping off their heads. Can’t go around loping off clown heads.....I think?
Red Nightmare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHv-83x58B8
Red Nightmare is the best known title of Armed Forces Information Film (AFIF) 120, Freedom and You.[1] It was meant to educate the U.S. armed forces about the nature of Communism. The film was later released to American television and as an educational film to American schools under the Red Nightmare title. The film is a Cold War-era drama short subject starring Jack Kelly and Jeanne Cooper. Red Nightmare was directed by George Waggner (The Wolf Man) and narrated by Jack Webb. Though made for the Department of Defense, it was shown on American television on Jack Webb’s GE True in 1962.
A man takes his American freedoms for granted, until he wakes up one morning to find out that the United States Government has been replaced with a Communist system.
...Webb introduces us to a typical American family of father Jerry (Jack Kelly), wife Helen (Jeanne Cooper), and daughter Linda (Patricia Woodell, the original Bobbie Jo on Petticoat Junction) Donovan. Her boyfriend Bill Martin (Peter Brown) has been invited to dinner but while Jerry lectures Bill on football plays, Bill only has eyes for Linda.
All is not well, as Jerry’s missing his PTA meeting to go bowling, and his intention to miss his Army Reserve training does not go over well with Helen. Linda and Bill inform Jerry and Helen they wish to get married but Jerry is angered and says they are too young, but he would have no objection if they waited five years after university.
Jack Webb explains how safe Jerry is in his world, but when Jerry goes to sleep, Webb looks grim and tells the audience Jerry is going to have a Red Nightmare.
Jerry awakes to find meetings in the public square about infiltrating America to bring down Capitalism. He returns home to find his daughter going to a farm collective escorted by Bill, who is now in Russian Army uniform.
Helen informs Jerry that he will have to address the PTA on the glories of communism, which Jerry refuses to do, but his wife says he has no choice. At work, Jerry’s foreman (Robert Conrad) tells him that he has not met his quota and must work through the lunch break to meet it.
On Sunday morning, Jerry wakes to find his two youngest children being sent to a State Communist school against his wishes. Jerry insists on the children going to Sunday School, and takes them to their church that has been turned into a museum glorifying the Soviet Union, including many inventions made by Americans which the Soviets claim to have invented. Jerry knocks the exhibits over, and is arrested by troops led by a Commissar (Peter Breck).
Jerry is brought to trial at a Soviet tribunal (Judge, Andrew Duggan; prosecutor, Mike Road), where there is no jury nor a defense attorney. Jerry demands to know what he is charged with, but the rights Americans take for granted are long gone. After condemning testimony from several witnesses, including his own wife, Jerry is convicted and sentenced to death. When he is strapped into the execution chair, Jerry gives a speech about the Soviet people waking up one day to overthrow communism, before he gets a bullet in the head from the Commissar.
Jerry wakes up to his freedoms and apologizes to Bill and Linda. Bill says that Jerry had a point about waiting to get married and he and Linda will do so after he finishes his enlistment in the US Army.
Oh! That episode is long remembered. At 13, just as frightened as you at 5. Those vintage TZ episodes were a ‘must see’ back then and still appreciated today.
Anne Francis (”Honey West”, “Forbidden Planet”) played the lead character.
Well, for modern times, three episodes come to mind.
1. Talky Tina, the indestructible doll that says “My name has is Talky Tina, and I’m going yo kill you,” before tripping Telly Savalas has n the stairs, breaking his neck.
2. The one where a good agent is in a bad position by trapped room, really rigged to blow up, and he tricks his back powerful, but shadowy captors into blowing themselves up instead.
3. The global warming seems real in this one, as the earth was s moving towards the sun. In reality, the woman was s having a delirious nightmare and the earth is really freezing, moving AWAY trom the sun:
3.
You are obsolete.
Where a simple man is declared obsolete by the state but gets to chose his manner of death to be broadcast on television. He chooses to be blown up by a bomb hidden in his room and the tv host who is present (and the person who declared the victim obsolete) cannot handle the pressure and runs from the room. The next day the tv host is declared obsolete...
Don't sleep on Excelsior™, Mr. President!
I have always hated clowns, too. Major creepers.
But, I met a professional clown via the ex. It’s truly bizarre how many women want to do this guy. In his clown suit.
It explains so much.
Trump totally ignored her,it’s called pest control.
That was just the magic of Trump. Little Greta took of her Saint mask, and revealed a vengeful viking princess. Her stare obviously included the past difficulties her long life had experienced. Such a stare has not been seen since the conquests of Normandy, no doubt. Lol. All Hail Greta the Viking Princess !
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