The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor Recap & Review - The Midnight Society

[@Headbanger142]

These aliens were the original Slendermen. That ending was one of the scariest twists to ever come out of this show.

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

It's so good!

[@Kami9799]

This is the only episode of this show that I remember. Scared me as a kid 😅

[@robroush2142]

My favorite twist ending, in the entire series! Another great video! Thanks for posting! I didn't realize that was the young Ashmore brother. #learningisfun

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

Thanks! It is a great ending. I love that they did that reveal in one shot.

[@robroush2142]

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow Agreed. Skillful and clever camera work!

[@jtotheroc]

The ending of this episode scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

It's such a great reveal!

[@batmous]

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow Especially with how it looked like it was done with one long tracking shot with seemingly no edits

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Well as Krankor taught us in “Prince of Space” - Just as with chickens, aliens “are too stupid to mutiny” - despite the flaws you pointed out, it was a decent episode. Though even Krankor and these aliens in this episode are still more intelligent than those in “Invasion of the Neptune Men” - though their blowing up a random Hitler building is still epic.

[@mizstories9646]

What I never understood, even while watching as a kid, was they waited until it was too late to tell her that they are hee family. Why was the plan kidnap first, explain later? Also, if they can talk to her through her TV why not try to explain things before they meet her. I know, I know, it's a TV show and the plot and twist ending couldn't have happened otherwise. I just felt that it was so glaringly obvious, even as a child. This was the first episode I ever watched of AYAOTD though so I didn't mind too much. I was just excited to find something so odd and creepy made for kids. I was born in 1990, so by the time I was watching, I was seeing the reruns they played around 7:00 PM every night. My brother and I would be upstairs and my mom would turn off the lights and yell up the stairs "hey kids, are you afraid of the dark?". We'd yell no and come racing downstairs to watch the show. Aaah, memories lol.

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

Yeah, it would've solved all the problems if he just would've explained the first time he appeared on her tv instead of weakening her brother and strapping her into a murder chair. The whole alien backstory has issues.

[@DrVVVinK]

He said the tenants vanished. They are probably still leasing it.

[@spirktrekker362]

I wasn’t scared as a kid when I saw this, I wanted to go with them! 😂

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

Haha! Who would you want to hang out with? Olga, Leonid or robo-Raymond?

[@spirktrekker362]

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow All of them. I really don’t feel like I fit in here on Earth lol.

[@dragonspirit1639]

@@spirktrekker362Me too, this episode really spoke to me inside.

[@runeplate123]

I remember as a kid this episode really sticking out in my mind because of the willy wonka look a like room in the thirteenth floor. One of my favorites along with the pinball wizard.

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

I never thought of the Willy Wonka aesthetic, but you are 100% right about that.

[@troylandzerep8045]

i remember when I was a kid this was on reruns at night gav eme nightmares and a bit of nostalgia..

[@dingodyno9016]

The twist ending was great. One of the better stories fer sure.

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

Yeah and I just love that reveal shot at the end!

[@dingodyno9016]

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow Yeah. I wish she would have liked turned to look at him also for added effect, but still good for it being the 90s

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

@@dingodyno9016 Yes! A look would've definitely made it creepier.

[@dingodyno9016]

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow Glad you agree. Its awesome you interact with your KZbinrs bro. I hope your channel grows in views and subscribers and that you keep putting out more AYAOTD content

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

@@dingodyno9016 Of course! I love viewer comments. And the AYAOTD videos will continue. I produce one a month, though for the next 5 weeks I'll be on overtime because I'm also doing the spoiler-free review videos for the new reboot season that just started.

[@emilyd.6371]

I feel like the set designers from the Hunger Games were inspired by this episode.

[@bk50in09]

Favorite Episode

[@MsBrynnElizabeth]

Finally I’m not the only one who considers that this is their favorite episode

[@bk50in09]

@@MsBrynnElizabeth I think about it often

[@natashadostroph7556]

Damn this was an amazing episode i love the idea of aliens in this story i love that Karen was adopted by Billy's parents after they found her i felt like this deserved to be a 1 or 2 hour long episode with questions left unanswered to be answered. Also the comment about the phone prank in locker 22 Fritz and Donny got sent to the office daily for their troublemaking they probably nade friends with a student who worked in the office records. Julie's parents had to fill out her school records for her to be a new transfer student she had to turn them in the office on her first day. The guys did know im sure her last name cause teachers always introduced the new student to the class the first day they asked the student who worked in the office records to get them Julie's number so they can prank her if that makes any sense at all

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

That does make sense. I don't buy for a minute that those two would put that much effort into that prank, but it makes sense.

[@MrBjsalvatore]

The boy actor is Aaron Ashmore brother of Shawn iceman Ashmore and Aaron played 2 characters on smallville

[@MsBrynnElizabeth]

Favorite episode ever :)

[@duncanbradley9616]

AMAZING review!!!!! Really Awful Yet Maintained Out Of Necessity Droid!!!!! Also 11:39 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

Thanks!

[@courtneykleiner9666]

How do you just leave your baby on another planet by accident?

[@apesy800]

the term for Canada only playing hockey would be "stereotypical"

[@sumoni]

Maybe she could survive the atmosphere because she grew up in it.

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

That's true, but I'm still curious how she was taken in by the humans. Seriously, they just found a baby in their apartment building and decided to keep it? No law involved at all. It's just hard to watch with adult eyes because none of it makes sense. I definitely wasn't thinking about that when I was 12 and watching it though.

[@ericm215]

1st appearance of team galatic

[@curtisdavis2157]

#HowStoryBreaking!

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

I assumed Karen adapted to the environment, especially since she had been there so long.

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

It's possible. I just wish we could've explored it a bit more. That 22 minute runtime makes it difficult for those extras though.

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow Yeah, a lot of those stories had a lot of potential, but the run time limits them and the fact the network only allowed them so much on a channel for kids. Though, some of them still seem creepy for a kids show.

[@turtlethug225]

Just got through watching that episode. Strikes me a rip off of Mars Attacks. As a side note, I'm baffled by how in the end of every episode, the leader is able to extinguish the camp fire with one singe bucket. I say that because me and my girlfriend drink and build fires in our backyard and it takes at least five minutes with the water hose to put it out if we decide not to let it burn through for whatever reason. Also since she did tell her adoptive brother "I wish I had your Genes" and he thought she was talking about his Jeans, when Raymond showed up on her TV while she was trying to sleep, he could benefit from what that one predator from that one episode of To Catch A Predator said which was "Keep Your Genes In Your Jeans!"

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

Haha! Yeah, they tell stories of magic, ghosts, and monsters, yet Gary putting out the fire at the end of each episode is the most supernatural thing about the show.

[@WomanTakenBytheWind]

This came out long before Mars Attacks, so obvious can’t be a rip off of it.

[@garrettmosley]

I haven't really seen it brought up anywhere, but after the jeans joke, she goes "not your blue jeans, z***erhead", which is a reeeeeeaally offensive slur here in the US. They obviously didn't mean anything by it, it was just a throwaway insult in a kids show made in Canada in the early 90s, but rewatching in 2021 and hearing that, I had to do a double take 😳

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

Not sure how I missed it, but she sure does say that. I was just hung up on how dumb her brother was to think she meant pants that it went right over my head.

[@garrettmosley]

@@JackOfAllNerdsShow Yeah I had to rewind it to make sure I was hearing what I thought I heard! It doesn't really seem to have the same meaning in Canada, but DAMN!

[@emilyd.6371]

zipperhead is a slur?

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

@@emilyd.6371 Yes, it was used as a derogatory term against people of Asian descent. The supposed origin of it is also super messed up.

[@tomb6073]

Why does the operator look like Trevor Lawrence from the Jacksonville Jaguars.

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

Hahaha! He sure does! I guess Trevor's an alien.

[@curtisberard7831]

It's not racist. It's disrespectful. Correct certainly but disrespectful. Lol

[@shaunlindsey87]

Lurch!

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

I don't know why, but I could not stop calling him different names. I think I had at least three separate nicknames for him.