Futurama - Scary Door, Twilight Zone

[@natewatson6962]

"you're entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location" best part for sure

[@typingcat]

A modern version would be a man left alone in an island. He remembers that he has a Kindle in his pocket. He has all the time he needed to read the vast collection of his e-books. He turns Kindle on, and then the battery dies. It's not fair!

[@walmartpimp2]

You should watch the robot chicken version.

[@MegaZeta]

No, that would just be a story about a guy who's incredibly stupid

[@sweetybeedy4365]

The original made me cry all day ;-; I felt so bad for the man, probably because I'm a huge bookworm, too. ;-;

[@chickencurry420]

He was a good dude. He definitely didn't deserve to get Twilight Zone'd like that

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

I think the moral (if there is one) is that this man didn't care about people; he only cared about reading. He didn't care one bit if everyone in the world around him died. He only cared about reading stories. Of course, there's a logical fallacy in that, because it took people to write the stories he loved. So how could he love reading stories about people, and not care about people at all?? You have just entered....The Plothole Zone.....

[@YTRulesFromNM]

@@chickencurry420 No, he was the Penguin from Batman!

[@Kellnaved]

If books survived the nuclear war, so did shops that sold glasses.

[@JM-ek1xy]

Better ending he found books that he could read that taught him how to see without glasses

[@autumnbabii16]

this episode of the twilight zone hurt my heart '

[@vrisker]

Well eventually he would find out he could read large print books so, it's not that bad really.

[@typingcat]

+I can't think of clever names so I'll use this And then he dies of hunger.

[@vrisker]

Jeong-hun Sin He found a shit ton of food earlier in the episode.

[@RisqueBisquet]

You know, you can probably find an abandoned opticians somewhere. You've got time.

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

That occurred to me too. Just find a damned magnifying glass, dude. I'm sure the library had some....

[@Derah_OG]

They missed an oportunity to make the gag even funnier. Man: Well, there's still audiobooks. **Cue his ears falling off**

[@TheChoujinVirus]

+Shakduhn Man: NOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[@TheHulkster1234]

I guess audiobooks weren't popular enough yet for that

[@destroyerblackdragon]

in the future?

[@Camop82]

Not sure if you're serious or if like me, you remember about things running on electricity only when there's a black out.

[@SaturnineCheetah]

"Oh well, my ears fell off but this ancient ipod classic still has some battery." *ipod breaks apart*

[@Jay_King.]

"hey look at that wierd mirror" omg i just died

[@nikifora.738]

I didn't get that mirror reference.. :(

[@GoblinDave152]

@@nikifora.738 Sadly me neither 😔

[@slice0fpi934]

@@GoblinDave152​ @Nikifor A. it's a reference to the beginning narration, "You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror."

[@boiledelephant]

Cursed by his own hubris!

[@SlayerTank99]

(After hands fall off) Man: Thank goodness there's still audio books. (Ears fall off) Man: AHHHHHH!!!

[@TheAdam159]

Poor Burgess Meredith in 'Time Enough at Last'. Such a tragic ending. Great episode, though

[@slyguythreeonetwonine3172]

Oh my God that’s who that was!?🙀😭 I’ve missed that dude so much.

[@VandelayH]

Bro: go steal some new glasses.

[@NoahsChampionArk]

+Emigdiosback Dolla store reading glasses

[@NoahsChampionArk]

Those are cinema glasses

[@towelgirl21]

+VandelayHughes But he won't be able to find new glasses without his old glasses.

[@lowhp_comic]

@@towelgirl21just take a book with him and go to a glasses shop and keep testing them to find the ones that fit him - problem solved

[@EhCanadianGamer]

I always found this Twilight Zone episode very amusing. Funny how his wife sees book reading as a waste of time, today people see you reading a book all the time, chances are they'll see you as a genius. Both exaggerations are obviously untrue but it's very funny how opinion changes, how as the years roll on there's always gonna be that one thing that's seen as nonsense. Take today for example, video games are seen as nonsense, but video games can be just as beneficial and recreational book reading. But if there's one thing you learn from this episode in particular, too much of anything, can be very detrimental.

[@linkfreeman1998]

I believe one day watching YT videos would be genius compared to whatever we would have 30-40 years later from now....if the world haven't even entered Twilight Zone yet by that time.

[@JJNickel1]

You’re entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location.

[@DSDMovies]

That intro is amazing.

[@DakariKingMykan]

"Hey, look at that weird mirror" But his eyes fell out, how could he see it?

[@Mugsi]

+DakariKingMykan The same way he could still talk even though his head fell off

[@Fuckoffgoogle25]

+DakariKingMykan I just figured this out: he fell back onto one of his eyes, and it got jammed back into his skull. Pretty simple if you think about it...

[@DakariKingMykan]

But he should still be dead anyway...

[@Groxseum]

+DakariKingMykan (That's the joke)

[@destroyerblackdragon]

who knows how the headless physics in futuram work hermes lost his head

[@V4Now]

I always laugh at this, not because I'm laughing at it but rather because it's too sad for me to take.😄

[@fatpowerful]

Crazy how many people pick apart one of the most iconic scenes in TV history.

[@Dracopol]

Do you recognize the Last Man in the Twilight Zone? Burgess Meredith played the Penguin in the 1960's BATMAN TV series. He also played a senior scientist in an advanced facility giving secret agents an earphone and lots of useful gadgets in the TV series SEARCH.

[@fabiovieira8442]

He also played Mickey in the Rocky franchise.

[@LetustheDragon]

Thus, Burgess Meredith goes crazy...and becomes...The Penguin.

[@swamplife3148]

>Theres an apocolypse >Everyone dies except 1 guy >Guy cries about losing his glasses

[@marksharp3185]

I don't know what's more impressive: the writing or the spot-on Burgess Meredith impression!

[@PjRads]

This is HDTV! It has better resolution than the real world!

[@Komicklepto]

Wait, how can he see the mirror with no eyes? And how can he even speak clearly without a tongue?!!

[@ibrokeyourlamp6995]

I have a better question. How can you take this seriously?

[@petarded3]

The weird-mirror image of him has eyes and a tongue still due to the mirror being weird. Impossible? Maybe. But it happened... in the Scary Door.

[@ibrokeyourlamp6995]

petarded3 You're over thinking it.

[@garytaylor8616]

@@ibrokeyourlamp6995 its just simple questions lol

[@Gamekilla117]

why isnt there a million views of this ???!?!?!?!

[@petersage5157]

I actually read the story by Lynn Venable before I had seen either the Twilight Zone episode of the Futurama spoof. You can't help but feel sorry for such a henpecked nebbish.

[@trotzkii]

Awesome mashup!

[@alexanderpytko5394]

After his hands came off, he then should've said, "Hey, who needs to READ? I can just listen to audio books!" THEN his head should've fallen off.

[@jakerittlinger380]

Alexander Edward Pytko Maybe that was originally intended but edited for time?

[@alexanderpytko5394]

@@jakerittlinger380 But there WAS time now.

[@noel476]

Saw it coming

[@G4liats]

Nice editing!

[@Noname-iz9uo]

I need an audiobook by this voice actor like right now

[@jeremybaker5205]

I could watch full episodes of The Scary Door

[@penguinpingu1994]

This is the feeling I get when it's summer vacation and the Internet is out. It's not fair! It's not fair! *weeping at the fact I can't play TF2*

[@xlokoh8219]

Before the video: Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page, but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment, Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself...without anyone. ” After the video: The best-laid plans of mice and men - and Henry Bemis, the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time. Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Henry Bemis - in the Twilight Zone.

[@hectorguy5687]

I forgot another parody (I think it was Robot Chicken) of it where he found a Playboy magazine store, and his duigh got cut off and pulls the “That’s not fair, there was time now!”

[@1p4142136]

Good video! Was wondering why you left the "Bam" out then I saw it at the end. lol!

[@thevics123]

ahhhhhh time enough at last.....

[@FischerFilmStudio]

I'm your 50th subscriber!

[@FierensM]

Near the end i thought of commenting 'BAM!', but then the video already said it. It's not fair..BAM!

[@davidborgen4090]

Missed oppertunity to have it say “of course Futurama bammed it up a notch”

[@rochey1010]

Love all these parodies but i still think the funniest one is Family Guy when Brian hits the presenter with a shovel.

[@FuturamaFre4k]

Yeah, don't i know it! They already banned 2 channels i had for uploading short Futurama and Simpsons clips. They're using software to detect copyrighted audiovisual material. This particular video contains clips from two different shows edited together. I guess it's harder for them to detect.

[@Chriserino]

Wow!!! Genius!! you sir are a genius for such a comment, i'm at a loss for words to compliment you on the epicness you have written :)

[@thesilencer1969]

I often wondered that as well . I came up with a few possibilities : They might have been destroyed with the rest of his house . Or , he couldn't lift the rubble by himself to get to where they might be. Or Helen was too cheap to allow him another pair .

[@Terrakinetic]

I mean it makes sense. What did he expect after basking in all that radiation.

[@auranknight]

Couldn't you go to a lense crafters? I'm sure they have a spare in your prescription or loot someone's house? You're looking at this like a quitter.

[@PantheraUncia13]

The point is that the entire city (and eventually the world) is in ruins. There are no lense crafters, there are no people in the world left, no houses unruined, nothing. He is permanently half blind.

[@kmichael9787]

PantheraUncia13 and yet a huge amount of books survived in full, as well as a car. I'm sure he can find some glasses, somewhere.

[@PantheraUncia13]

K Michael While you do have a point, the problem is finding them.

[@PerfectAlibi1]

PantheraUncia13 Finding it, that's not the hard part. It's letting go.

[@bobraymond4972]

***** Ugh, dead money suuuucked

[@USAwelsh]

Burgess Meredith is so fucking awesome

[@ArodWingfoot]

How could glasses shatter from a fall from 2 feet? Oh wait, I own glasses, so I can tell you THEY WOULDN'T!

[@kaizermengele6669]

Glasses from the 50s?

[@ganados0]

Weakened by atomic radiation.

[@ArodWingfoot]

kevin morin My grandpa's glasses from the 50s are far stronger than mine.

[@ArodWingfoot]

Ricky Spanish I think he would be dead then.

[@kaizermengele6669]

ArodWingfoot yeah sure you have your grandpas glasses and tested their durability. Noone would do that so get the fuck out

[@nocomment0317]

@auranknight Everything was destroyed when the bomb went off. He couldn't have gone to a LensCrafters because there was no LensCrafters. (He happened to be in a vault at the time.)

[@ireallylovepie]

BAM

[@trasegorsuch5140]

I really hope he could’ve found a new pair of glasses in all the rubble.

[@therespectedlex9794]

When you feel yourself going down Mickey.

[@jordaninman2998]

Its not stealing if he is the last man on earth

[@alexanderpytko5394]

These 2 guys just kept jinxing themselves.

[@YTRulesFromNM]

Brought to you by 'Spare Glasses Hut'.

[@JoeCrofturl5000]

Couldn't the man in The Twilight Zone have gone and looted an opticians so that he could read or would the opticians and all the pairs of glasses in there have been destroyed?

[@EpicMickey777]

Most likely they were broken.

[@Xenoforge78]

Do you seriously expect there to be pristine glasses after a H-bomb? And the guy couldn't even see a couple of feet in front of him.

[@CatoLongHair]

Saw it coming..

[@shinitaru]

gotta feel sorry for those 2 people who didn't like this vid

[@DarthTwilight]

....but what about the horrifying window? The uneasy shoelace? Nobody talks about those....must be a conspiracy.

[@vdantev]

How can anyone that blind not have 2 extra pairs of glasses on hand ?

[@reimei84]

They probably all got destroyed from the nuke

[@ThePreciseClimber]

Blackguy Walsh So all the books survived but not a single pair of thick enough glasses. M'kay. :P

[@miker8544]

I wish the twilight Zone was actually called the scary door

[@genuck]

I always wondered why he didn't have an extra pair of glasses at home.

[@FischerFilmStudio]

This is actually sad as hell...

[@hellmalm]

Is this because of that Twilight episode mem 10+9=21?

[@StandardGoose]

Good job glasses don't shatter like that when you drop them a mere couple of feet.

[@aliensguy3840]

Jonathon Cowley I know right?! I have dropped mine more times than I can remember and the lenses still held

[@donbaker3993]

@@aliensguy3840 Lens today are probably more durable than back then.

[@cecilevans9247]

The comparison ruined it...

[@KarstensCreationsKC]

+Macho Bravado Hardly...it was well done and interesting...unlike your petulant 'comment'.

[@UNWANTEDoppression]

+Karstens Creations Myees. Shallow and pedantic...

[@BrianTXtreme]

I would have added well I guess I can listen to the books on audio then have his ears fall off

[@gavincurtis3597]

You could have just bought a new pair of glasses

[@Captain1diot]

That's Micky from Rocky.

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

This is why you should always wear plastic lenses. Or get Lasik surgery. "This episode brought to you by Audible. Audible: When your glasses break after an nuclear apocalypse, you can always Listen to your favorite books! What're you, Deaf??" This is the only story I know that punishes literacy......

[@lowhp_comic]

I don't understand why he couldn't go to a glasses store and get some new ones, no one will stop him?

[@siegfriedrottensteiner2395]

It's not even necessary. No matter how short sighted, he just needs to move the book closer to his face an the text is sharp again.

[@mitchell8003]

Poor Mr Bemis.

[@vadimkishko9563]

What's the mirror thing about?

[@MichelleAnnM]

Possibly a reference to this episode of The Twilight Zone: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mirror_(The_Twilight_Zone)

[@MrExplodeable]

This Futurama episode did ruin the Twilight Zone story for me though

[@ohs0intricate]

LMFAO

[@artemis_smith]

"BAM!"

[@yomamma9483]

It's totes fair bro

[@husky45h]

wow

[@BokanProductions]

How could he look at that weird mirror if he couldn't see?

[@AndrewTaylorNintyuk]

Plus his tongue fell out so how did he speak, I think it was just a gag referencing the narrated into.

[@DysnomiaFilms]

But how did he see the mirror!?!?

[@hankreardenfan1019]

Is this version's wife named Ena instead of Helen?! Is this Harry Bemis, cruelly mocked day and night by Ena Bemis, his cruel wife.

[@FuturamaFre4k]

Ah, don't blame them. They probably got disapointed because they were looking for the other "Twilight", the one with the metrosexual teenage vampires.

[@milosh996]

This is the only thing I hate in Futurama, making a parody of The Twilight Zone is so sad.

[@chindleymuffin]

Parody is the sincerest form of flattery, it shows love for the original show and it also encourages you to watch the original again.

[@FuturamaFre4k]

...cursed by his own hubris!

[@gibusgamer93]

2:38 How is he talking and seeing the mirror without eyes and a tongue?!?

[@8076A]

Family Guy did a bit on this to, it was Peters last brain cell

[@FuturamaFre4k]

lmfao!

[@WaterPeanut]

I never understood this, just go to an optometrist and pick up a new pair.

[@Densiozo]

Cause he's the last man on earth?

[@austinlester6304]

So, basically the moral of the story is, make time while you can?

[@austinlester6304]

that sucks

[@ItsVikVaughn]

moral is even an anti-social lifestyle is dependent on others to maintain.

[@Xenoforge78]

There was no moral to the story. That's the point, that's just how life and reality is.

[@joebloe437]

I enjoy living in a time that sees the waste in religious persecution, let 'em think what they want. Also it is cool that mostly religion is a pacifier for those who don't know what to do with their fear of the end of their human life. I am not religious, I sometimes fear death, there is nothing to mitigate. The thrill is in the puzzling out of the things life presents and the contemplation of how I will end. How one dies is at least as important as how one lives.

[@grantkelly8696]

Life's not fair

[@MrLegoMaster1000]

that poor poor man. :(. then again its just a show. :)

[@FuturamaFre4k]

hehehe

[@deadlyEuphoria420]

Quantum relativity for puppets?

[@plainlazy121]

why not find an opticians get some other pairs of glasses?

[@ericbeaulieu4843]

Kind of monty pythonian-like joke.n

[@Thealmightyporkus]

lik if u cri evry tim

[@goodmorning8172]

Scari dewer

[@KRPeart]

Dude...If you need glasses to read books so badly why couldn't you just hold the book closer to your face so you can read?

[@MrCKiwi]

I hope you aren't serious.

[@KRPeart]

Gordon Freeman I'am... Why?Did I just came out stupid?

[@MrCKiwi]

Kelly Peart Well, presumably he has reading glasses on because he has short-sighted issues, which means that things actually get worse when they get closer. If that doesn't make sense, I'll use this; "If you can't smell, why don't you just breathe in through your nose harder?"

[@KRPeart]

Gordon Freeman Then why couldn't he push it away further?

[@MrCKiwi]

Have you tried reading a book from far away?

[@creditmetory]

I SHOULD ELABORATE: I JUST WANT TO WATCH THE FUTURAMA PARODY PART

[@swamplife3148]

Its not fair!!