Favorite Season Two Episode (Shot on Video)
These look weird to say the least. but which one do you think is the best?
I have two favorites that were video taped....
Long Distance Call, the one where the grandmother gives Billy a toy telephone for his birthday.
22, "Room for one more honey."
I seem to be alone in loving the haunted used car episode The Whole Truth, but there it is.
Also up there, Night Of The Meek.
Whoa! That one was actually a pretty good episode. In fact, I think it was perfect in video.
Jack Carson was the perfect used car salesman. Pre Laugh In Arte Johnson was a treat to see.
I had almost forgotten that one. Thanks for reminding me.
You are NOT alone! That was one good episode!
Thank you, Miss Margo, and great to see you here.
For a little guy Arte Johnson sure plays tough in The Whole Truth, eh? I mean he punches out the foot taller Jack Carson with style,--and the snarl on his face!
Also great fun, and very nostalgic, the politician, Honest Luther Something, right out of the Mad magazine of the same period, maybe drawn by Mort Drucker.
Rod Serling's somewhat smug and long-winded but still priceless closing narration is also a plus. Everyone gave his best. Yup. Perfect for video.
"Irv, for you to get more money out of me would be just about as easy as pouring hot butter into a wildcat's ear."
shareHappy to see you here as well, telegonus!
Not as much traffic here as in the "old days", but even a smaller group still talks about this fantastic show!
Truly, Miss Margo, and for all of us ex-IMDB message board regulars, we're like displaced people, in some cases very close friends, and we meet, each to the other, like refugees, displaced persons, in Rick's Place in Casablanca,--or maybe the Blue Parrot--hoping for letters of transit that shall never come, consoling ourselves with "we'll always have Paris", maybe not romantically, or in most cases all that emotionally, but as a remembrance of a bygone community.
I don't know about you, but I have a few other places like this. No gin, alas, but the company is excellent.
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We really need those emoticons!
I know. It's difficult enough to express emotions on the Web. Those emoticons provided the shorthand for what might otherwise be too obvious or corny.
shareyea that is a bummer -- ðŸ˜
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Actually, not trying to make fun of you or anything. But I just discovered that you can look up emoticons on the web, and when you see something, swipe it, Ctrl-C, and then paste in here (Ctrl-V). It seems to work. But notice these are not like the emoticons we had with the message boards at IMDB, which were specified with text like [[smile]] which the machinery for those message boards would interpret appropriately with a little graphically-produced emoticon. These emoticons (as displayed in this post) are actually glyphs that are stored in the character sets used on your computer, the same way regular characters are.
Hmmm, I originally worked on this post on my computer running Linux, and there the emoticons were just black & white glyphs. But now I am working on this using my regular MS Windows operating system, and here the emoticons are interpreted in these colorful little images. This is what I was thinking only happened in the IMDB message boards. So I guess that is not true. Although, if we're thinking about those emoticons they had that actually do animations, I'm pretty sure that THOSE are no longer available to us here.
Actually, the way it is now might be even better than before. Whatever emoticon you want to use, just go to https://emojipedia.org/ and type in the emotion you want to be represented by one of these emoticons. Then just swipe it, copy it and paste it into your post.
No, you're actually not at all alone in enjoying that episode, telegonus. It's not "War and Peace" in terms of plot or storyline, of course, but I've found it one of those (much like "Mr. Bevis") that's a hard one not to enjoy. The ending is especially good.
share...yes, and Jack Carson's final line is a time capsule for the ages.
I don't get the loathing of so many for this one. Some good dialogue, much of it cliche vs. cliche, but well done; nice atmosphere, even with the videotape, which lends it an unworldly quality.
Also, if memory serves, the Battle of the Marne is mentioned twice in the episode; and it it's only once I still love the throwaway style of Jack Carson's reference to it.
Well, I think to certain degree you have to be at least a little bit of a geek to appreciate the episode - and I'm referring there to Carson's attempt to telephone the White House. Many folks would miss that these days, although contemporary viewers undoubtedly caught it I'd think.
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