The Twilight Zone/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

** The ''[[Futurama]]'' parody is [[It Got Worse]]. He says he can still read the large print books. His eyes fall out. He can still read Braille. His hands fall off. Then, IIRC, [[And I Must Scream|his tongue falls out]]. Then his head falls off, which, at that point, is a mercy.

* The TOS episode "It's a Good Life" features a 6 year old boy with [[Physical God|god-like abilities]]. When he was born he isolated his hometown away from the rest of the world, cutting off electricity, automobiles and the like. He can create and destroy, as well as read minds. Everyone must be happy and have happy thoughts, or they are [[Fate Worse Than Death|sent to the cornfield]].

** Bill Mumy's performance deserves a lot of credit. He's neither too sympathetic or too [[Complete Monster]], he's just a kid with way too much power. It's still horrifying [[Weird Al Effect|even when you watch]] the Simpsons parody first.

*** [[The Movie]] made it much worse. Anthony brings {{spoiler|a demented-looking [[Western Animatin/Looney Tunes|Tazmanian Devil]]-like character out out of the TV into real life and [[Uncanny Valley|it looks almost real]]}}. Then he brings his (false) sister into the cartoon world and robs another of her mouth. The world is demented in of itself. He also summons a demonic rabbit out of hat. What's worse, he has no idea why people would find his ideas of [[Toon Toons]] frightening.

* It would be remiss not to mention the Twilight Zone '80s revival. "Something In the Walls" is enough to fuel a thousand nightmares (and make you swear off patterned wallpapers) but "The After Hours," "A Little Peace and Quiet," and "Examination Day" are utterly terrifying.

** And there's the original "After Hours," particularly when the living mannequins begin repeating the woman's name over and over and she breaks down in tears. Don't see this episode if you have a fear of mannequins or of {{spoiler|losing your memory}}.

* [[Creepy Child|Markie]] in "Nightmare as a Child".

* "The Eye of the Beholder" - where the most of the horror is in the woman's bandaged face, and the [[Nothing Is Scarier|fact that we don't see her face until the last act]], but the nurse and doctor talk about how this woman hasn't been able to live an even vaguely normal life, because her face is so hideously deformed... ''brrr.''

** [[It Got Worse|And then we see the standard she's held up to...]]

** The title itself is one of the eeriest in the show; not being linked to the story, it leaves the viewer to guess as to what it means. It seems to imply that the sky is swallowing the men up when they disappear.

* The ending of "Number 12 Looks Just Like You."

** What's even worse is that she's told that she doesn't ''have'' to take the transformation, she's just highly encouraged to. But no matter where the girl turns to, no matter how much she insists that she likes herself the way she is, everyone from her best friend to her own mother just laugh and puzzle over how silly she's being. Finally, they {{spoiler|kidnap her while she's trying to escape from her room, lead her into the place where the makeovers are done, and give it to her against her will. And afterwards, ''she no longer cares''!}} And the peak of how horrible it all is? Rod Serling ends the tale by pointing out how, in the age of cosmetics we live in, it's entirely possible that ''this'' could be the future we have to look forward to!

** The episode supposedly takes place [[Twenty Minutes in The Future|in the year 2000]]. But before you laugh, how ''much'' of this episode could be called [[Zeerust]], really?