History Film / TwilightZoneTheMovie

* CallBack: The [=GIs=] who are lost in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar part argue if thy should have fragged Niedermeyer, calling back to Landis's ''Film/AnimalHouse''.

* ShoutOut: The US troops in Vietnam wonder aloud whether [[AnimalHouse fragging Neidermeyer]] was a good idea after all.

* AbortedArc: [[FatalMethodActing Vic Morrow's death]] changed the segment's ending from "protagonist goes back to his time learning his lesson" into [[DownerEnding "protagonist goes back to the 1940s and is sent to a concentration camps"]].

* TrappedInTVLand: Anthony sends his sister into a cartoon world to be eaten

# "It's a Good Life" (Directed by Creator/JoeDante): A woman meets a young boy who has a very special power, which he uses to hold his family in a grip of terror.

* GracefulLoser: Realizing that its window of opportunity to drop the plane is closed, the gremlin smiles and [[FingerWag wags its finger]] at Valentine.

* ObliviouslyEvil: Anthony wants to be a good little boy, but his "family" is so terrified of him that they don't set any limits on his actions

* CallBack: The [=GIs=] who are lost in TheVietnamWar part argue if thy should have fragged Niedermeyer, calling back to Landis's ''Film/AnimalHouse''.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Bill.
* TheVietnamWar: Bill is placed in the middle of the Vietnamese jungle, and becomes targeted by American troops.

# "Time Out" (Directed by Creator/JohnLandis): A racist is taught a fantastic lesson as he finds himself traveling through time and hunted down for being a minority (a Jew in Nazi-occupied Germany, a black man living in the DeepSouth during the 1950's, and a Vietnamese man during the Vietnam War)

# "Time Out" (Directed by Creator/JohnLandis): A racist is taught a fantastic lesson as he finds himself in roles of various minorities.

This film became infamous for a ghastly accident that took the life of Vic Morrow and two child actors. The script for "Time Out" called for a scene in which Morrow's character is supposed to be carrying two Vietnamese children across a river to safety during an American bombing raid. Director John Landis was shooting late at night, violating child labor laws and ignoring the helicopter pilot's concerns about flying so close to the ground and so close to explosive detonations. The cameras rolled anyway, and the explosive charges meant to simulate bombs caused the helicopter to crash, crushing one child under its landing skid and decapitating Morrow and the other child. Landis was later tried and acquitted on charges of involuntary manslaughter.

This film became infamous for a ghastly accident that took the life of Vic Morrow and two child actors. The script for "Time Out" called for a scene in which Morrow's character is supposed to be carrying two Vietnamese children across a river to safety during an American bombing raid. Director John Landis was shooting late at night, violating child labor laws and ignoring the helicopter pilot's concerns about flying so close to the ground and so close to explosive detonations. The cameras rolled anyway, the explosive charges meant to simulate bombs caused the helicopter to crash, crushing one child under its landing skid and decapitating Morrow and the other child. Landis was later tried and acquitted on charges of involuntary manslaughter.

This film became infamous for a ghastly accident that took the life of Vic Morrow and two child actors. The script for "Time Out" called for a scene in which Morrow's character is supposed to be carrying two Vietnamese children across a river to safety during an American bombing raid. Director John Landis was shooting late at night, violating rules about child labor laws and ignoring the helicopter pilot's concerns about flying so close to the ground and so close to explosive detonations. The cameras rolled anyway, the explosive charges meant to simulate bombs caused the helicopter to crash, crushing one child under its landing skid and decapitating Morrow and the other child. Landis was later tried and acquitted on charges of involuntary manslaughter.

* CallBack: The [=GIs=] who are lost in the Vietnam part argue if thy should have fragged Niedermeyer, calling back to Landis's ''Film/AnimalHouse''.

* LanguageBarrier: Bill, when he is sent back in time to Nazi Germany and questioned in German.

* ColorMeBlack: Bill finds himself placed in the fates of various opressed minorities.

* EyePop: When Valentin removes the cover from his window, the gremlin is behind it, which makes him do this briefly.

* EldritchLocation: Anthony's house looks normal (even though it's based on a subtle cartoon design), its upper floor is gray and very Burton-esque with a portrait of a family of blank faces.

** Rod Serling's wife Carol has a cameo as an airline passenger in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet."

# "Prologue" (Directed by Creator/JohnLandis): Two men discuss about old television shows.

# "Kick the Can" (Directed by Creator/StevenSpielberg): Mysterious man arrives at a retirement home and shows its inhabitants how to be young again.
# "It's a Good Life" (Directed by Creator/JoeDante): Woman meets a young boy who has a very special power, which he uses to hold his family in a grip of terror.
# "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" / "Epilogue" (Directed by George Miller): Man who is scared of flying finds out that the plane he is in is being sabotaged by a gremlin.

->''You're travelling through another dimension. A dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone.''

** Rod Serling's wife Carol had a cameo as an airline passenger in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet."

# "It's a Good Life" (Directed by Creator/JoeDante): Woman who meets a young boy who has special powers, which he use to hold his family in grip of terror.