That Time a Slot Machine Killed a Guy on The Twilight Zone

Hey guys! Some of you may remember that a couple of months ago I made a video about an episode of The Twilight Zone. You all seemed to like the idea of more videos about the show and in that video this episode came up so I decided to cover this one tonight.
I hope you all enjoy! Thank you for hanging out in my little corner of the internet. Stay safe and have a great day/night/unit of time. I'll see you in the next video...bye! :)

[@rusted_ursa]

I never saw this episode, but this video was a blast. If you keep doing the lesser known Zones like this, I might have to actually watch the whole series!

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

I love the twilight zone and have way too much trivia about it rattling around in my brain. This episode actually was based on the celebratory trip rod Serling took to Vegas with his wife when the show got picked up where she kept winning everything and he lost everytime. 😂

[@sistersabotage1367]

I worked at a casino in Las Vegas, yes it’s depressing. No clocks, smoke everywhere, all the slot machines, and the unpublished number of suicide from Hoover dam.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Yikes, that does sound depressing. 😳

[@pokemaniac05]

Good video & commentary as always Avery. Questions, did you use a VPN for stuff that is region locked like with vids & other stuff? Maybe also getting a few or more AUS tv & movie suggestions lately since last time. My created playlists is still full of dif AUS tv shows & the few movies i bothered to find here for viewers to watch (that is when blocked, deleted or private keep showing up) & the countless amount of AUS related stuff we have. FYI I'm watching Round the Twist S1-2 atm after dealing 3 shows, have to wait longer to go back to volunteer, endless rain & also many games to play first time etc.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

I do use a VPN. I've noticed KZbin has been very strange with blocking a lot of Aussie media in the US. (part of the reason I've covered less of it lately but I'm still intent on covering more at some point.)

[@TheDeadDandy]

Another episode that feels like it was brainstormed in the same meeting as this one is “A Thing About Machines,” featuring a ye-olde morph suit. Beyond that, “Hocus Pocus and Mr Frisby.”

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Yes! I remember that one well!

[@billolsen4360]

You probably recognize the actor playing Franklin Gibbs as "Mr Bernstein" from Citizen Kane, who was a much happier guy.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Oh yeah! I often see familiar people but don't stop to look into it.

[@XxMelliBeeexX]

Love this! Another interesting one that I never hear anyone talk about is where a man does a hit and run and then his car follows him around and taunts him lol I don't remember the name of it. Could it be a fever dream? Not sure 😅

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

I'll have to look that one up!

[@GalootWrangler]

No fever dream. You Drive, S5 E14.

[@debbieanne7962]

It's You Drive, a season 5 episode

[@shelbymckinney8888]

Gotta love Twilight Zone!

[@A113-p9e]

When I first read the title, I didn’t think that it was gonna be so literal.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

I know, the title writes itself 😂

[@Bluebird590]

Stephen kings the Langoliers Avery have you seen this movie Excellent movie Thanks again

[@Badusername2000]

This episode was parodied in an episode of spongebob, but with squidward playing a claw machine

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

I need to see that. 😂

[@Badusername2000]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff season 4 episode 4a

[@yoogrldude]

A shirt/poster that’s set up to look like a music festival lineup but all the performers are the band names you came up with

[@RobAGabor]

Everett Sloan is one of my favorite actors, so I love this episode. He just goes for it here. Another nickname for Las Vegas is... Lost Wages.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

haha, a very fair nickname for it and yeah he really commit and I respect it (especially with the premise being him playing off a slot machine most of the time)

[@pokemaniac05]

FYI Avery, i'm watching the Round the Twist EP Know All aka the scarecrow one which before that, watched the previous EPs prior. Enjoying it and i can't wait for Season 2 and later backlog stuff.

[@buddyzilla4557]

They said "Franklin" more times than Arin Hansen trying to do improv!

[@acciotardisalohomora6302]

I love the Twilight Zone, I was late to the party given my parents weren't big on fiction and/or had different tastes. I finally have a way to watch it so been working through it. I think the episode that really sat with me the most is in season one. 1x08 Time Enough at Last.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

That's one of my favorites! Burgess Merideth was super underrated. I've loved the show since I was a kid and still watch it all the time. :)

[@KerReeeee]

I worked in a café inside of a retirement community and I used to get dollar coins quite a bit. Mostly from the employees because the vending machines gave them out. I also used a vending machine in a hospital once and put in a $10 or $20 bill for something very inexpensive and received _alot_ of golden dollar coins in return. I was so confused lol.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

That's actually cool though! Didn't know they were still a thing.

[@memethyst]

i love the twilight zone, some episodes are just so weird my high school history teacher used to play it when we had nothing else to do, i specifically remember a weird episode where a woman picked up a hitchhiker who ended up being either satan or the grim reaper [i dont remember] and i think he killed her? or killed her friend? i just remember it being really weird

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

I know what episode you're talking about! It's a classic and I need to cover it eventually.

[@kindacoolgreg]

Shout out Franklin the turtle 🐢

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

He never gets enough love 💚

[@JarrettBEdwards]

The only two places I know where dollar coins are commonly given as change are Post Office vending machines and Sconyer's BBQ in Augusta, Ga.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Ah, good to know 😅

[@debbieanne7962]

There were 156 episodes of the Twilight Zone over 5 years. The Fever is a great episode IMO. Sadly Everett Sloane who played Franklin committed suicide not long after this as he thought he was going blind. When this episode was filmed slot machines were banned in California so the show had to go through hoops to get one for the episode. Here in Australia we call them pokies and we have $1 and $2 coins, not notes

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

The twilight zone is a great show. I didn't know that about the actor ending his life but that's really sad.

[@davidwong3523]

Would love to hear your commentary on "And When the Sky Was Opened" episode of the Twilight Zone: Episode 11 Season 1.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

That's another great one!

[@atotalfiasco4213]

I'm still not over a clip I saw of a man throwing an envelope of Rod Serling's footage into the fire while Rod himself watched and then just... quickly faded out of existence

[@debbieanne7962]

Episode was World of his own

[@coricryptic]

As someone who used to work in a casino, it bounces. I was a table dealer, so I saw it all. I live in a boomer golf town, so I got so many aholes on vacation who acted out just because they weren't home. Also, we did have a couple of incidents where people tried to break the machines like Franklin there because they got so angry that they lost.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Yikes, that sounds like a fairly stressful job. 😬

[@noahhutchins5164]

The take away from this episode....Floral deserved a better husband

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Amen 👀

[@walsh9080]

Third Rock from the Sun is my favourite episode that's not one of the major episodes like Time Enough at Last or Eye of the Beholder.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

That's a great one too! There's so many great stories from that show!

[@bootsthecat6718]

I do have an odd love for this episode of The Twilight zone. It sticks with me just like the episode where William shatner goes crazy because of the devil advice machine at the diner table

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Yes! Love both those episodes. They're not the most action packed ones but they do stick with you. 🙂

[@wuvcookies247]

I'd be interested to see you cover an episode from season 4! I believe they changed the format and made the episodes like twice as long and all i know is when they do the marathons of the Twilight Zone on tv, they never include any episodes from season four haha

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Yeah, I think Netflix doesn't include season four either but we got some good episodes there.

[@russellfacemire]

So excited to see this one come up on my feed! Turns out the real murderer, though, was the money we didn't make along the way. EDIT: When I first saw this one, I was really confused, but after years of looking back on it, I appreciate the deep strangeness of it all.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

It's a great episode and I love that they don't need a whole lot of set pieces to tell the story. 😊

[@MsJayjkern]

I love the twilight zone you should totally check out one of my favorite episode “the mask”

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Oooh, such a great episode!

[@noahhutchins5164]

I went back and wrote down the fictional band names and currently the number is 18

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Oh my gosh thank you for this research! If you have the list and feel like posting it at the end I may use them for future merch haha 😂

[@thomaschristopher8593]

the dollar coin doesn't seem to catch on, no matter how hard the government pushes it. just like the metric system.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

I know 😂 Americans do not want it apparently.

[@THATGuy5654]

I like collecting strange coins and tokens, so that was basically what I was doing the one time I visited Las Vegas. I had absolutely no interest in actually gambling. I had the good timing to be there in the last couple of years before they all started switching over to electronic stuff. At this point, between the lights, the noise, the smell, and the general malaise of despair, I have no real reason to visit Las Vegas. So if you win a vacation to Vegas, and you invite me along, realized that I'm going to be like this guy was in the beginning.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Yeah I've never been but I feel like I would be miserable there. 😅

[@carloscordova4715]

How about Goofy Goggles as a band name. Hint: it's a puppet

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Perfect!

[@Buzz-McCool]

Franklin!

[@A113-p9e]

First. I am compelled by internet law to say this.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Internet law has been fulfilled :D

[@thomaschristopher8593]

"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is my favorite

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Such a great episode!

[@cha5]

"FRANKLYN!!!!"

[@lizan2678]

Ooh! More Twilight Zone! Fun! :D

[@RobAGabor]

There have been revivals of this show. The one in the mid-80s was pretty good.

[@Bluebird590]

Recall the episode of William Shatner, (captain kirk) He was getting his car repaired so He and wife goes into a booth in a restaurant A fortune telling machine is on table and Like Franklin He continues to put coins into it to Have his future told So many good episodes to Recall Thanks for all that you do

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Thanks for watching! I love that episode with shatner and he was in another one too called terror at 30,000 feet

[@Bluebird590]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff yeah, i remember Shatner had the window seat , and when the plane landed Shatner placed on a gurney And the worker was on top of the airplane wing and Saw the damages to the engine Cool one too 😎 This story was used to make a newer movie Were the passenger sees a human like person out on the mid flight doing damage to the engine Eventually takes a gun from someone and fires at the Unknown thing Thanks for following up with me

[@PaulonotPaul8]

Boy if I had a nickle for every time a slot machine tried to kill me.... I would've played the Benny Hill music as the machine was chasing him. Hope your Portuguese lessons are going well :)

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Haha, thanks! They are 😊

[@tommyg8146]

How dares the wife have fun on the vacation she won? Hahaha! Oh dear!!! Thanks for the great content, so wholesome and nice, I always feel cozy and relaxed when I watch your videos :-))

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Aw, I'm glad! Thank you for watching 😊

[@daniellel230]

holy shit I'd love to see a Percy Jackson video. That movie was a trip

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Right??? I forgot how bizarre it was until I had to go looking for that clip. 😂

[@daniellel230]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff it's literally so weird and they're supposed to be like 14

[@paulaccuardi9071]

I literally was just thinking about this episode

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

this episode lives rent free in my head, as do many episodes of The Twilight Zone. Also, in regards to your pfp...memento mori :)

[@paulaccuardi9071]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff memento mori! ;))

[@jhawkinson5697]

Yes, this episode seems to teach a lesson

[@sophiathedandilioness]

I absolutely love the plan for you to have fake band merch 🌟😍

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Thank you! Me too 😂

[@AntonWongVideo]

Lol the amount of tangents you take in this video out of curiosity is giving Travis a run for his money!...money you should keep away from Dalek slot machines!

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

😂😂😂 sometimes my brain doesn't shut up 😅

[@tajtay]

My family always watches Season 5 Episode 6 the living doll. Essentially a shitty step dad thinks the daughter’s doll has come alive and trying to kill him.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Oooh, I'm so terrified of that episode!

[@tajtay]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff before chucky and Annabelle there was talky Tina lol

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

@@tajtay she was horrifying but also kind of iconic 😅

[@tajtay]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff “I’m talky Tina and I don’t like you” she was a mood lol

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

@@tajtay yes 😂

[@JRKonungrinn]

Dalek Slot Machine. I love it.

[@PhantomFandoms]

How dare you include footage from the Percy Jackson movie. I was trying to forget that existed.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Sorry. 😅 I had blocked out grover dancing with his satyr feet and had an existential crisis when I watched that clip back.

[@digapygmy70]

Ah, the slot machine must be the famous Gamblor from the Simpsons episode where Marge gets addicted to gambling lol

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Simpsons and the twilight zone would be a great crossover honestly 😂

[@StanSwan]

257 episodes.

[@pokemaniac05]

I'm not sure on NZ related media you would be interested for commentary in due to so few I found in full & some stuff from it except on movies for some odd reason. Things in like idk Germany, France or whatever not sure how strict they are on their with commentary compare to AUS.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Thanks! I'll check it out!

[@pokemaniac05]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff I'm watching Round the Twist Series 2 & wow the end credits of these EPs had a lot of deleted scenes compared to Series 1. A few characters that weren't in the 2 commentaries were, Fiona who is Linda's friend from the school that the Twist Kids go to and Pete's love interest, Mr. Snapper a teacher from the school & he's played by one of the directors & writers of the show, Esben Storm in the 1st 3 series, even the author Paul Jennings made a cameo in the S1 EP, Without My Pants & also wrote all of the S1-2 EPs and Ms James, Bronson's school teacher & Tony's love interest who you saw in the Know All EP and also another Author in Andrew Daddo plays as one of the ghosts in Series 2.

[@hippiechik95]

“Wasn’t that some fucked up shit? Anyway, I’m Rod Serling” The Twilight Zone is a favorite of mine both because of its cleverness and its goofiness! I think the episode that stuck with me the most is the one with the author and the dictaphone, which I’ll avoid saying more about to avoid spoiling the twist! As far as casinos go, I’ve been to two in my lifetime and neither trip was for gambling. My dad and I stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Florida on a trip, and the only things I really cared about were the music memorabilia displays and this chocolatier they had in the shopping complex that sold huge chocolate covered marshmallows on sticks. The second was Mohegan Sun, where They Might Be Giants were doing a free show on one of the floors with the slot machines. If I want to gamble I’ll stick with my silly gacha games!

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Such a great episode! And that actually sounds fun considering there was a chocolatier 😊

[@hippiechik95]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff I still think about those marshmallows sometimes!

[@conveniencestoreentertainm1968]

I oddly remember this episode. But then again I would watch the Twilight zone every chance I got. I would love to see you cover the episode about the woman who is stuck in I think it is either a store or a mall and she is being haunted by mannequin's. That is an excellent and creepy episode. But as always another great review Avery can't wait for the next one also Avery Merch in general sounds amazing. I'd buy some

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Same! I always watch the Twilight Zone. And that mannequin episode is truly great so I'll have to do that video. And I'll start working on that merch 😉