You are now entering the Twilight Zone.
You are now entering the Twilight Zone.
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Except the devil machine in real life is terrible for the environment, enriches greedy billionaires, and is wrong a lot.
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Needed ChatGPT's help to reply here.
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Huh. The AI is roasting itself unprompted. Well... okay then.
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Twilight zone has so many amazing stories, it's just annoying that so many end with "and then insert bad twist happened".
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So many
Are there any that don't end that way? The twist endings were what made them so memorable.
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See also: The Whispering Earring
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It was an alright short story. A little too much of Scott's pretentiousness and ego though.
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Yep. Good catch. Saw that too.
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Also, fun fact for the other Trekkies on here: the main character in this episode was William Shatner.
He starred in several Twilight Zone episodes, all of which were absolute "bangers," to use the modern parlance.
Including arguably the most famous episode!
Isn’t that a type of sausage?
One thing that has always troubled me about that episode, ever since I went on a watch through several years ago, was he said the phrase "the buffalo is off the nickel", and in context, I'm assuming that it meant something along the lines of believing something that isn't true, but since we don't use buffalo nickels anymore, that phrase has exited common parlance, and it threw me for a loop to hear old slang.
Could it mean "this changes everything!"?
As in, a fancy way of saying we've truly entered a new age? I'm trying to think of a modern equivalent but am drawing a blank.
Trying to find the origin and meaning of that. This talks about a bull, not a buffalo, and oddly references a twilight zone episode, though I think this is a different episode than what we are talking about.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The+bull+is+off+the+nickel
This mentions a buffalo, but it’s a different expression.
https://barrypopik.com/blog/he_squeezes_a_nickel_so_tight_the_indian_cries