A Look at Five Characters in Search of an Exit

We ring in a Thanksgiving Twilight Zone special, but this is no turkey. An engaging look at five trapped people wanting answers and escape. We've all been there.
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[@simplegarak]

Wow. The original Toy Story was a lot darker.

[@GF_Baltar]

The 'uncanny valley' effect of the mannequin faces really added a nice kicker to the end of this episode.

[@robertbingham8053]

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[@st.anselmsfire3547]

"YOU! ARE! A! TOY!" "Space Major!" This episode really weirded me out when I was a kid. I loved it. Of course, it had a huge impact on my interpretation of Toy Story when I saw it years later.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

This is my favourite episode from Twilight Zone. It still makes the wheels in my mind turn. One of the best mindf**ks ever.

[@bradwolf07]

A bottle show done right can be amazing. They ALL were in top form for this outing.

[@inf0phreak]

3:39 the first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club!

[@jolo6051]

(The Major starts pounding on the walls) Clown (Singing): "We're here because we're here, because we're here, because we're-" (The Major stops) Clown: "..." (Major starts again) Clown: "... because we're-" (Major stops again) Clown: "... here?" (Silence) Clown: "You're wasting your time, you know that, don't you? You're an idiot. An energetic idiot... but an idiot." This one interaction alone made the Clown my favourite character XD

[@CybershamanX]

"They say there's no devil, Jim. But there is. I...I... Right out of hell! I saw it!" 😉

[@BronzeBoy520]

While the twist is obvious, it’s a great character piece and the twist is still good, showing one of the best strengths of the Twilight Zone was not the horror of aliens (the MANY good episodes about them) or the supernatural (not as many but still good few) but the character work they would bring to these characters and breath life into them that was near unmatched in their era and very hard to top today. It’s why One for the Angels is my absolute FAVORITE Twilight Zone ever.

[@katherineperrin4817]

God I love One for the Angles SO MUCH It’s such an underrated episode.

[@CybershamanX]

Today the major would act violent, implying he was some sort of war criminal, and the clown would try to rape the ballerina, only for her to be rescued by the tramp. The ballerina and tramp would then fall in love, because the tramp somehow knew that he must have been a victim in his forgotten past and could relate to what she was feeling. (You know. Because "feels".) The bagpipe player would then attack the clown, who would almost kill him, until the major saves him. They, too, would suddenly and without reason somehow realize on a deeper level that they were "more than friends". It would ultimately be revealed that they were all the toys of a child suffering from abuse by his parents who was acting out his frustration on his toys. He would be about to set them all on fire until a friendly social worker comes in and explains that everything will be OK because he is going to a new family that will love him unconditionally. It's "dark"! It's "edgy"! It's...modern "drama". 😕

[@Feasco]

@@CybershamanX are you a cinema because that's a lot of projection

[@CybershamanX]

@@Feasco 😜 It's an amalgamation of shows/movies I've seen/read about.

[@atomiccritter6492]

I think the twist is not obvious

[@Ozzy_2014]

Twilight zone still stands up.

[@eschnabel.4665]

Nicely done. I think I would have surely hated this episode if it had just ended. But Serling in his epilogue created an ending both tragic and hopeful.

[@KairuHakubi]

What's really great about this one is it plays on the infamous cheapness of 60s scifi movie sets.. you should have been able to pick up on something being profoundly wrong with their situation long ago, because what the hell is a circular room with no top?? but it doesn't occur to you because we're just used to this idea that twilight zone might put people in a weird set someone designed.

[@alyssajones4368]

🎶 We're here because we're here because we're here 🎶

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

Some very clever production techniques

[@DeconvertedMan]

ah yes, toy story but if it was a horror story.

[@jaycenteno8385]

That mime joke really got me good! XD

[@bobbyshaddoe3004]

This is a classic. Its definitely the original Toy Story.

[@nickimontie]

This one is memorable; I agree with your recommendation

[@Rocketboy1313]

Another entry in the Twilight Zone sub-genre of "Am I Real" which is a surprisingly robust group which includes robots, living dolls, and fictional characters come to life.

[@MrColuber]

That's not Commodore Decker. That's Dr. Seth Hazlitt of Cabot Cove.

[@Sedgewise47]

🤔Doesn’t that ballerina have a rather haunting/hypnotic voice?

[@apex2000]

Remember seeing this as a kid decades ago.

[@jeffreyskywalker5782]

10-16-22 I thought ceased Romero played the clown in this episode A few years before playing the Joker in Batman.

[@Caernath]

I'm curious as to why this landmark episode has never been remade in the subsequent Twilight Zone series.

[@Grayvorn]

Perhaps they thought they could not do the original justice.

[@Feasco]

unless it was a period piece, the image of someone ringing a bell next to a toy collection bin on the side of a snowy street wouldn't fit into a more modern setting

[@atomiccritter6492]

i think its possibly the most out there TZ episode a little trippy and weird tbh - i think the re-boots which ere hit and miss were more straight forward

[@palmercolson7037]

I know what you mean about Windom being recognizable here mainly for one episode on Star Trek. He was in fact someone who was in movies and on one or more episodes of most TV shows from the 1960s to 2000 or so. He was on the Invaders, the Fugitive, Bonanza, Simon and Simon, the Love Boat, JAG, and Ally McBeal. So, most people probably remember him as one of those guys from movies and TV. As for this episode, it didn't really click with me. It seemed too contrived and I didn't connect to the characters.

[@themoviedealers]

I remember seeing his show My World And Welcome To It when I was very very young, maybe age 4.

[@DasKame]

First Rule of Mime Club is: .

[@arielfilmsinc1926]

The original Buzz Lightyear Delusion in a sense

[@ImperatorPenguin]

No, no the mime is worse. You can't really have a conversation with a mime, you basically have to play charades with them if you want to have a conversation with one.

[@crusty21]

The creepiest part is how the mystery revealed at the end totally denigrates their existence irrefutably. A see this as a metaphor towards us and how we spend all our lives wondering what awaits us on the other side of life. It may very well be something we'd rather not know. Anything that exists is in a hell of sorts, trapped in an absolute form and limited capacity. A prisoner of our boundaries. Blessed are those who have never existed.

[@kleeamd8274]

Blessed are those who never existed??? GMAFB. Life is precious. It's a miracle in itself to exist.

[@atomiccritter6492]

One of my favourite TZ episodes which was apparently a big influence on the makers of the film Cube....Im typing this while watching from the start so dont know if it will be mentioned ...LOL about the comment a clown being a mime you cannot shut up

[@jdzencelowcz]

I never saw this ep, & I already know they're toys in a box.

[@KairuHakubi]

see to me only one of those is an obvious toy, the rest seem like baffling things to have a toy of.. did kids really play with _bagpiper_ dolls in the 60s?

[@Feasco]

@@KairuHakubi there have been miniature toy soldiers for the armed forces of nearly all the countries in the world, including the British army which employs bagpipers in its ranks

[@KairuHakubi]

@@Feasco hahaha bagpipers in the army? oh that's adorable. okay then yeah I guess he's a variant of a toy soldier.

[@atomiccritter6492]

Its strangely watchable even knowing the twist

[@Edax_Royeaux]

Hey Chuck, have you actually watched any of your Star Trek reviews recently? There's like 15 ads you have to get through a single episode, some that takes as long as a minute to get through and others that refuse to progress until you personally watch view the ad on your screen, otherwise the video will refuse to play. And on top of all the damn ads interrupting every single train of thought, the videos contently shutters from buffering so you only get half a minute of a video uninterrupted at a time. It's an absolutely awful way to experience your content. Just watch your Move Along Home review to see what I mean.

[@sfdebris]

Yes, this is why I have been moving them onto YT, as there is no way to turn those ads off. Apologies for the inconvenience.

[@robertbingham8053]

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[@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm]

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[@AlucardNoir]

No, no, no. You should have saved this episode for Valentines day, not Thanksgiving day. I'm not american, but it has been brought to my attention that Thanksgiving day, when it's not celebrated in October by Canadians, is a time when people that dislike one another come toghe... ah, now I get why you saved this episode for Thanksgiving day. Sorry.