The Twilight Zone Wordplay 1

[daveinsouthflorida]

This plot was stolen (almost identically) for the first season episode "Babel" of Star Trek" Deep Space Nine"

[iwannab0123]

radio lol xD

[MegaOscargrouch]

this is one of the best modern twilight zone episodes. good concept!

[gameball11]

This is the honest truth----My wife told me about this show when it was aired originally. I was'nt home at the time. I waited over 25 years to actually see it. I was taping it last night and my cable went bonkers and only taped 8 minutes of it . I HAD to look it up this morning on You Tube. I could not believe it. I was so angry I could almost had a "kleptomania." But at least I got the name of the show and was able to find it this morning as I was having my cup of "guitar".

[sexya863254]

wait what does lunch really mean then because the wife got pissed off....

[benjianubis]

i want to eat my DINOSAUR now....hahahahaha i thought that was the best one lol

[rocketboy1]

The writer said at the time that he wrote it after watching his father struggle with Altzheimer's.

[movei123]

I have to watch this and write a paper on it for a college class on communication disorders :)

[DaringDarkwingDuck]

Dog help it! I came boat today and caught my best fireplace sticking his toothpaste in my wife's tuna!

[neil73]

Reminds me of a game me and a few friends used to play when we were kids - We'd invent words instead of replacing them with others though.

[longfootbuddy]

these older batteries are much better than the later ones

[zippygrl]

did GIR write this episode? ( no offense to him but i've been wanting 2 say that for hours!)

[campbpar]

This episode demonstrates the suspension of one blip can transform you into madness.

[nottheduck1]

I remember that scary as hell episode with "Grandma" I'm trying to find it. It terrified me as kid, all hell opened up in grandma's room.

[collegeman1988]

@nottheduck1 "Grandma" was originally a Stephen King short story that appeared in his second collection of short stories titled "Skeleton Crew".

[IndygoEEI]

@nottheduck1

Well if you have Chiller on cable, you may be able to see it. They're running reruns of the 1980's series.

I wonder if they'll show the one by UPN in the 2000's

[angrymittens]

Lunch Tomatoes for Dinosaur 

[jeffeastwood15]

It's Annie Potts! (Mary Jo from Designing Women)

[charlevoix01]

@jeffeastwood15 Also Janine from Ghostbusters!! =)

[Binky40SW]

Fasten your stepdads, everyone, or you might end up in the elephant room.

[TheWorldsStage]

So this is why Cosby talks like that, wibble wooble flazzel fleezer

[Trund27]

This FREAKED me out when I saw back in the 80's. This version of The Twilight Zone was my family ritual: It showed on Fridays in Western Canada, and we would all go out to dinner and be back in time for the creepiness to begin. Loved it!

[celshader]

What wrong with going out for some 'Dinosuar'

He must be unaware that 'The Flintstones' have a theme restaurant now.

'Dinosaur Ribs' are the speciality of the house.

[Supenmanu]

I haven't finished my pink yet (-:

[Gencoil]

Boy, I sure could go for some dinosaur now.

[bitchingood]

Horse, I really ladled this doorstop. I kinda dish that toboggans like that's were fill abound! I gist old snows like cheese!

[blanchelincoln]

It's my throwrug.

[ProtoCosmos]

Thanks for posting this refrigerator. Definitely one of my favorite !

[scottvska]

LOL mayonnaise

[FormigatomicadoNE]

it'd be awesome if words that work as language labels could switch places or be replaced by something completely different. Even insults. Imagine calling some off the top of your lungs of "Rice" "You are Rice!!!!" meaning they were tall or short or cool or boring... haha

[yuckfooie]

alzheimers kinda like this... could have alzheimers...

[Greenkai3000]

Imagine what i'd be like to learn the same language all over again but with some words having a whole new meaning

[Smalltowngal29]

I remember this episode from my childhood, but I never realized that the woman playing the wife was Annie Potts from Designing Women.

[Wonkosart]

Great episode. I feel like him whenever I hear politicians talk on the TV.

[DevilMaster]

I got it! The guy is having a stroke, which is slowly killing Wernicke's area in his brain and leaving him with aphasia! Everyone is still talking normally, but we hear what the words now mean to him! So, when people around him are shown to say "dinosaur" instead of "lunch", they ARE still sayng "lunch", but to him, "lunch" means "dinosaur"! So, when we hear his wife saying "he wouldn't touch his dinosaur", she is ACTUALLY saying "he wouldn't touch his lunch"...

[thehornypuppy]

@DevilMaster That doesn't matter, for all we know, he just got sucked into the twilight zone.

Want my take on it? The world just went around changing without him noticing, he's old school and didn't adapt fast enough; the main theme here is isolation and inability to communicate; I guess this is how our granparents feel when listening to us talk.

[invincibleironman3]

@DevilMaster , the real idea is that this episode SKCUS.

[QueenBoadicea]

@DevilMaster I grok this episode a lot. I find your explanation perfectly krommulent, too.

[Binky40SW]

@DevilMaster That's actually a really interesting insight.

[ilikecoding]

@DevilMaster Or maybe there was an earthquake that messed his brain.

[benjianubis]

@DevilMaster bullshit,,,

[MegaOscargrouch]

@DevilMaster don't over analyze this episode. it's supposed to be for entertainment and enjoyment. however, i too tried to make sense of this. make sense of a twilight episode. LOL! just shut up and enjoy! LOL

[DevilMaster]

@MegaOscargrouch Analyzing stories is part of why I enjoy them.

[SongsofInnocence]

@DevilMaster this is linguistically possible!

[railwayliner]

Well, till now it's kinda harmless... Dinosaur...

[xtremenortherner]

This episode,like many of the old ones,"got you". Meaning it stuck with you emotionally,like the episode"To Serve Man" or the elderly woman who met Death in her apartment...,(as Robert Redford!)

[ravegods]

That's "Nothing in the Dark", indeed one of the best Twilight Zones.

[ForFurries]

shit, this is one of my fears, but i thought no one would ever come up with the idea.

I've had this problem when i was a kid, but got over it... mostly.

[DevilMaster]

@ForFurries How can you have had this problem? Are/were you an aphasic?

[FlameAdder]

We've got the one thing only time can give ya: mayonnaise.

[Geelar]

@FlameAdder

What was he trying to say? Im unfamiliar with some American terms

[FlameAdder]

Too lazy to rewatch it, but I would assume he meant "experience". Also, I'm not American.

[222JIHU]

@FlameAdder i lol'd

[FinalRound]

This would be so creepy if it happened to me...

[mooseboy18]

Wow, I still remembered this one 20 years later. Neat concept.

[paxpaul]

Thank you for posting this! I've remembered this episode for years, and recently I ran across a mention of it in a Harlan Ellison essay. (He was on the Twilight Zone staff for this incarnation.)

Thanks for posting this classic...wow...still gets to me, all the way to the end.

[DefLeppardVanHalen]

I like Annie Potts; she was awesome on Ghostbusters and Designing Women.