History Fridge / TheTwilightZone1959

* The DownerEnding of "The Long Morrow" has a rather obvious solution: now that they know the hibernation system works, put ''Douglas'' into hibernation for a few decades while Sandra ages. When she's old enough that he's no longer too old for her, they can revive him and the pair can live out their twilight years together.
!!FridgeHorror
* "The Howling Man": Just after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, a traveler stranded in a rainstorm in a small German village stumbles into a monastery run by an order of monks keeping a bearded man in a cell who occasionally lets out a pitiful howl. They reveal that this man [[spoiler:is actually Satan himself, that he inspired the recently concluded Great War as well as other wars and misfortunes]], and only their holy staffs barring the cell door can keep him imprisoned. The traveling man doesn't believe them, and lets [[spoiler:the Devil]] go free. Realizing what he has just done, the protagonist traveler joins the monks' order and dedicates his life to tracking down and imprisoning [[spoiler:the Devil]] once again, but, as stated in his backstory narration, not before [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo and the UsefulNotes/KoreanWar occur]]. Flash forward to the protagonist ending his story in 1960 (the year the episode was initially broadcast) with [[spoiler:the Devil]] now imprisoned in his closet with a holy staff on the door. Of course his maid is now tempted, and the episode fades out on her removing the staff... [[spoiler:While the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar had actually started before 1960 (perhaps before the protagonist recaptured Satan), it would of course spiral out of control during that decade, leaving sociopolitical scars in the US that arguably never entirely healed, as well as wholesale devastation in Southeast Asia. And then of course TheSixties would be marked by high-profile assassinations and violence.]]
* In this regard, this episode also presages the lyrics of [[spoiler:TheRollingStones' "Sympathy for the Devil"]].

** Not to mention…what about everyone and everything else? Depending on how you interpret the “stop time” mechanism (it could be that it somehow removes McNulty from the flow of time so everything appears frozen from his perspective, but it could also be that it really does stop time), the universe has just come to an end.

* "The Howling Man": Just after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, a traveler stranded in a rainstorm in a small German village stumbles into a monastery run by an order of monks keeping a bearded man in a cell who occasionally lets out a pitiful howl. They reveal that this man [[spoiler:is actually Satan himself, that he inspired the recently concluded Great War as well as other wars and misfortunes]], and only their holy staffs barring the cell door can keep him imprisoned. The traveling man doesn't believe them, and lets [[spoiler:the Devil]] go free. Realizing what he has just done, the protagonist traveler joins the monks' order and dedicates his life to tracking down and imprisoning [[spoiler:the Devil]] once again, but, as stated in his backstory narration, not before [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo and the UsefulNotes/KoreanWar occur]]. Flash forward to the protagonist ending his story in 1960 (the year the episode was initially broadcast) with [[spoiler:the Devil]] now imprisoned in his closet with a holy staff on the door. Of course his maid is now tempted, and the episode fades out on her removing the staff... [[spoiler:While the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar had actually started before 1960 (perhaps before the protagonist recaptured Satan), it would of course spiral out of control during that decade, leaving sociopolitical scars in the US that arguably never entirely healed, as well as wholesale devastation in Southeast Asia. And then of course TheSixties would be marked by high-profile assassinations and violence.]]

* "The Howling Man": Just after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, a traveler stranded in a rainstorm in a small German village stumbles into a monastery run by an order of monks keeping a bearded man in a cell who occasionally lets out a pitiful howl. They reveal that this man [[spoiler:is actually Satan himself, that he inspired the recently concluded Great War as well as other wars and misfortunes]], and only their holy staffs barring the cell door can keep him imprisoned. The traveling man doesn't believe them, and lets [[spoiler:the Devil]] go free. Realizing what he has just done, the protagonist traveler joins the monks' order and dedicates his life to tracking down and imprisoning [[spoiler:the Devil]] once again, but, as stated in his backstory narration, not before [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo and the UsefulNotes/KoreanWar occur]]. Flash forward to the protagonist ending his story in 1960 (the year the episode was initially broadcast) with [[spoiler:the Devil]] now imprisoned in his closet with a holy staff on the door. Of course his maid is now tempted, and the episode fades out on her removing the staff... [[spoiler:While the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar had actually started before 1960, it would of course spiral out of control during that decade, leaving sociopolitical scars in the US that arguably never entirely healed, as well as wholesale devastation in Southeast Asia. And then of course TheSixties would be marked by high-profile assassinations and violence.]]

* "The Howling Man": Just after the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, a traveler stranded in a rainstorm in a small German village stumbles into a monastery run by an order of monks keeping a bearded man in a cell who occasionally lets out a pitiful howl. They reveal that this man is actually Satan himself, that he inspired the recently concluded Great War as well as other wars and misfortunes, and only their holy staffs barring the cell door can keep him imprisoned. The traveling man doesn't believe them, and lets the Devil go free. Realizing what he has just done, the protagonist traveler joins the monks' order and dedicates his life to tracking down and imprisoning the Devil once again, but, as stated in his backstory narration, not before UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo and the UsefulNotes/KoreanWar occur. Flash forward to the protagonist ending his story in 1960 (the year the episode was initially broadcast) with the Devil now imprisoned in his closet with a holy staff on the door. Of course his maid is now tempted, and the episode fades out on her removing the staff... While the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar had actually started before 1960, it would of course spiral out of control during that decade, leaving sociopolitical scars in the US that arguably never entirely healed, as well as wholesale devastation in Southeast Asia. And then of course TheSixties would be marked by high-profile assassinations and violence.

* The DownerEnding of "The Long Morrow" has a rather obvious solution: now that they know the hibernation system works, put ''Douglas'' into hibernation for a few decades while Sandra ages. When she's old enough that he's no longer too old for her, they can revive him and the pair can live out their twilight years together.

* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E89ToServeMan To Serve Man]]": the Kanamits say that they have brought their "gift" to many civilizations -- now think about all those episodes where people think they are the last people on Earth, or some other planet...

* What's going to happen to the couple in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E150StopoverInAQuietTown Stopover in a Quiet Town]]"? The same thing that happened to the squirrel?

* In "Long Distance Call", the grandmother's explicit FreudianExcuse is that her first two children [[OutlivingOnesOffspring died in infancy]], which made her very possessive of her one surviving son Chris, who ultimately broke her heart by leaving home to get married and then by treating her like she was "good for nothing" after she came to live with him in her old age. This is why she so adores her grandson Billy: he's a ReplacementGoldfish for her children and she feels as if only he still care about her. But there's another, unspoken factor too. The grandmother is clearly a European immigrant, with a strong foreign accent. (Her actress, Lili Darvas, was Hungarian.) This explains even more why she feels out-of-place and rejected in the house of her Americanized son and his American wife. (The Creator/{{Pixar}} short ''WesternAnimation/{{Bao}}'' shows similar tension between a foreign-born mother and her Westernized son and his fiancée, although unlike the ''Twilight Zone'' characters, they manage to reconcile.)

* In "Long Distance Call", the grandmother's explicit FreudianExcuse is that her first two children [[OutlivingOnesOffspring died in infancy]], which made her very possessive of her one surviving son Chris, who ultimately broke her heart by leaving home to get married and by treating her like she was "good for nothing" even after she came to live with him in her old age. This is why she so adores her grandson Billy: he's a ReplacementGoldfish for her children and she feels as if only he still care about her. But there's another, unspoken factor too. The grandmother is clearly a European immigrant, with a strong foreign accent. (Her actress, Lili Darvas, was Hungarian.) This explains even more why she feels out-of-place and rejected in the house of her Americanized son and his American wife. (The Creator/{{Pixar}} short ''WesternAnimation/{{Bao}}'' shows similar tension between a foreign-born mother and her Westernized son and his fiancée, although unlike the ''Twilight Zone'' characters, they manage to reconcile.)

* In "Long Distance Call", the grandmother's explicit FreudianExcuse is that her first two children [[OutlivingOnesOffspring died in infancy]], which made her very possessive of her one surviving son Chris, who ultimately broke her heart by leaving home to get married and by treating her like she was "good for nothing" even after she came to live with him in her old age. This is why she so adores her grandson Billy: he's a ReplacementGoldfish for her children and she feels as if only he still care about her. But there's another, unspoken factor too. The grandmother is clearly a European immigrant, with a strong foreign accent. (Her actress, Lili Darvas, was Hungarian.) This explains even more why she feels out-of-place and rejected in the house of her Americanized son and his American wife. (The Creator/{{Pixar}} short ''WesternAnimation/{{Bao}}'' shows similar tension between a foreign-born mother and her Americanized son and his fiancée, although unlike the ''Twilight Zone'' characters, they manage to reconcile.)