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* KarmaHoudini: This trope is {{averted}} through most of the series, but shows up in some fifth season episodes (such as [[spoiler""What's in the Box?" and "Ceasar and Me"]]. In his book ''The Twilight Zone Companion'', Marc Scott Zicree identifies this as a symptom of SeasonalRot.
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* EmptyPilesOfClothing: The fate of two characters in "Long Live Walter Jameson" and "Queen of the Nile".
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''Twilight Zone: The Movie'', a big-screen adaptation that featured individual segments produced by StevenSpielberg, JoeDante, JohnLandis and George Miller was released in 1983. The movie however is [[NeverLiveItDown better remembered]] for a [[GoneHorriblyWrong horrible accident]] which one of the actors and several children were killed during shooting of an action scene.
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''Twilight Zone: The Movie'', a big-screen adaptation produced by StevenSpielberg, was released in 1983. An often worthy revival series ran on CBS from 1985-87, and in first-run syndication in 1988. Another recently ran on UPN, which reunited Bill Mumy and Cloris Leachman in a sequel to the classic TZ chiller "It's a ''Good'' Life." But it's the daring original series that shows every sign of lasting the ages as the literature that it is.
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''Twilight Zone: The Movie'', a big-screen adaptation that featured individual segments produced by StevenSpielberg, JoeDante, JohnLandis and George Miller was released in 1983. 1983. The movie however is [[NeverLiveItDown better remembered]] for a [[GoneHorriblyWrong horrible accident]] which one of the actors and several children were killed during shooting of an action scene.
An often worthy revival series ran on CBS from 1985-87, and in first-run syndication in 1988. Another recently ran on UPN, which reunited Bill Mumy and Cloris Leachman in a sequel to the classic TZ chiller "It's a ''Good'' Life." But it's the daring original series that shows every sign of lasting the ages as the literature that it is.
An often worthy revival series ran on CBS from 1985-87, and in first-run syndication in 1988. Another recently ran on UPN, which reunited Bill Mumy and Cloris Leachman in a sequel to the classic TZ chiller "It's a ''Good'' Life." But it's the daring original series that shows every sign of lasting the ages as the literature that it is.
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* LifeDrinker:
** One episode featured a man who found that he could obtain abstract or otherwise normally non-transferable attributes from other people by simply making the deal with them. Among other attributes, he restored his youth by "buying" it from younger men who thought him to be a kook giving them money for nothing. He only took a year from each man, but was able to become young again. Incidentally, he was only an old man because he had previously sold his own youth to an elderly millionaire (he came out financially ahead after the exchanges were complete).
** Another episode involves a movie queen who retains her youthful appearance by stealing the life force of others.
** "Queen of the Nile". A woman uses a scarab beetle to drain the life force of men so she can maintain her eternal youth. It's implied that she's the actual Cleopatra of Egypt.
** One episode featured a man who found that he could obtain abstract or otherwise normally non-transferable attributes from other people by simply making the deal with them. Among other attributes, he restored his youth by "buying" it from younger men who thought him to be a kook giving them money for nothing. He only took a year from each man, but was able to become young again. Incidentally, he was only an old man because he had previously sold his own youth to an elderly millionaire (he came out financially ahead after the exchanges were complete).
** Another episode involves a movie queen who retains her youthful appearance by stealing the life force of others.
** "Queen of the Nile". A woman uses a scarab beetle to drain the life force of men so she can maintain her eternal youth. It's implied that she's the actual Cleopatra of Egypt.
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* RealitySubtext: In "The Encounter", where a racist WWII veteran and a young Japanese man (played by GeorgeTakei) are trapped in an attic: Takei spent three years of his childhood in U.S. Japanese-American relocation centers, during the war. His impassioned performance is definitely informed by that experience.
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Many television shows have [[AffectionateParody borrowed liberally]] from the ''Twilight Zone'', especially ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Treehouse of Horror'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s "[[ShowWithinAShow The Scary Door]]" and "Anthology of Interest".
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Many television shows have [[AffectionateParody borrowed liberally]] from the ''Twilight Zone'', especially ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Treehouse of Horror'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s "[[ShowWithinAShow The Scary Scary]] [[AffectionateParody Door]]" and "Anthology of Interest".
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* AdolfHitler: In "He's Alive", the ghost of Adolf gives advice to a young neo-Nazi (played by DennisHopper).
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* WaterSourceTampering: In "Black Leather Jackets", a group of aliens is sent to Earth to KillAllHumans by contaminating city water reservoirs with deadly bacteria.
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* WaterSourceTampering: In "Black Leather Jackets", a group of aliens is sent to Earth to KillAllHumans by contaminating city water reservoirs with deadly bacteria. bacteria.
* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Type 1: "The Gift", Type 2: "To Serve Man"
* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Type 1: "The Gift", Type 2: "To Serve Man"
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* KarmicTwistEnding: Former TropeNamer.
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* SociopathicSoldier: Lieutentant Katell in "A Quality of Mercy" wants to be one, wanting to prove himself and completely destroy the enemy (in this case, the Japanese during WorldWarII). The KarmicEndingTwist forces him to the other side, where a gung-ho Japanese soldier does the same thing he was about to do to some wounded Americans hiding in the very same cave. He doesn't like it.
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* SociopathicSoldier: Lieutentant Katell in "A Quality of Mercy" wants to be one, wanting to prove himself and completely destroy the enemy (in this case, the Japanese during WorldWarII). The KarmicEndingTwist KarmicTwistEnding forces him to the other side, where a gung-ho Japanese soldier does the same thing he was about to do to some wounded Americans hiding in the very same cave. He doesn't like it.
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* RecursiveCanon: Played with in TheMovie's opening sequence, in which characters discuss the old TV series before a KarmicTwistEnding reveals they're ''in'' the Zone. Granted, if any franchise was tailor-made to mess around with this stuff, this one's it!
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* RecursiveCanon: Played with in TheMovie's opening sequence, in which characters discuss the old TV series before a KarmicTwistEnding TwistEnding reveals they're ''in'' the Zone. Granted, if any franchise was tailor-made to mess around with this stuff, this one's it!
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* UnPaused: "A Kind of a Stopwatch", until [[spoiler:[[TwilightZoneTwist the stopwatch breaks.]]]]
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* RecursiveCanon: Played with in TheMovie's opening sequence, in which characters discuss the old TV series before a TwilightZoneTwist KarmicTwistEnding reveals they're ''in'' the Zone. Granted, if any franchise was tailor-made to mess around with this stuff, this one's it!
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* SociopathicSoldier: Lieutentant Katell in "A Quality of Mercy" wants to be one, wanting to prove himself and completely destroy the enemy (in this case, the Japanese during WorldWarII). The TwilightZoneTwist KarmicEndingTwist forces him to the other side, where a gung-ho Japanese soldier does the same thing he was about to do to some wounded Americans hiding in the very same cave. He doesn't like it.
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* TwilightZoneTwist: TropeNamer.
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* TheAgeless: Walter Jameson, from The Twilight Zone episode "Long Live Walter Jameson", was granted this form of immortality in Ancient Greece by an alchemist. He says that he came close to death many times over the centuries due to injuries and disease, "but never close enough". [[spoiler: At the end of the episode when he is shot, he begins to age rapidly as he dies until he is nothing but a pile of dust.]]
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Many television shows have [[AffectionateParody borrowed liberally]] from the ''Twilight Zone'', especially ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Treehouse of Horror'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s "[[ShowWithinAShow The Scary Door]]" and "Anthology of Interest".
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* CruelTwistEnding: "Time Enough at Last"
** Lesser known examples include "Young Man's Fancy", "Caesar and Me" and "What's in the Box?".
** Lesser known examples include "Young Man's Fancy", "Caesar and Me" and "What's in the Box?".
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** A lesser known example would be "Young Man's Fancy".
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* CreditCardPlot: The 1980's episode "The Card." Also an example of an OuterLimitsTwist.
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* BeYourself: The protagonist of "Mr. Bevis" learns this {{Aesop}} after his GuardianAngel makes him a SlaveToPR.
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* GuardianAngel: J. Hardy Hempstead in "Mr. Bevis."
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* EpisodeOnAPlane: Most famously in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet." Also in "The Odyssey Of Flight 33."
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* InstrumentalThemeTune: There were actually two of them. The first season featured a haunting, string-laden theme composed by BernardHerrmann; this was replaced in Season 2 with a different and much more familiar theme (featuring the iconic high-pitched four-note guitar riff) composed by Marius Constant.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Pretty consistently played straight. Averted in [[spoiler:"The Invaders"]].
* NoDialogueEpisode: "The Invaders." Throughout the episode, the main character makes plenty of noises as she fends off tiny aliens, but none of it is dialogue. Aside from Serling's narrations, the only spoken dialogue comes when the last and soon-to-be-killed invader sends a distress call back home. [[spoiler:The tiny invaders are then revealed to be humans from Earth. This revelation subsequently justifies the trope, as the woman is a (giant) alien and wouldn't know English or any other language from Earth]].
* NoTimeToExplain: "Passage on the ''Lady Anne''". [[spoiler:As it turns out, it's a ship only meant for dying/wanting to die people.]]
* NoTimeToExplain: "Passage on the ''Lady Anne''". [[spoiler:As it turns out, it's a ship only meant for dying/wanting to die people.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: "Gabe's Story" (2003 revival). The titular character has been having a severe run of bad luck lately. As his life is about to crumble apart for good, he learns that he and everyone else are having their "stories" written for them, as - supposedly - nothing would ever happen to them otherwise. Gabe convinces his Writer and her boss allowing him to take control of his own life - allowing him to reconcile with his wife and get a fresh start.
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** Bill Mumy plays a diner patron in "It's a Good Life."
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Guess what? [[spoiler: Your whole life has been a dream. One of your family members is a robot. Welcome to the Twilight Zone.]]
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Guess what? [[spoiler: Your whole life has been a dream. One dream, one of your family members is a robot.robot, and that nice man that just moved into town is a Martian. Welcome to the Twilight Zone.]]
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* ReplacementScrappy: In-Universe example with "I Sing The Body Electric." A widowed husband gets a robot granny to help raise his children, but the oldest child rejects her for not being her deceased mother.
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* AndIMustScream: Probably more episodes than this troper has seen but "A Kind of a Stopwatch" has a notable one.
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* WouldHitAGirl: The Man in ''Two'' gets into a fistfight with an enemy soldier, who is a woman. He knocks her out.
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* MurderousMannequin: Subverted in "The After Hours".Hours"; Marsha is, at first, understandably terrified when the mannequins come to life, but it soon becomes apparent that they are friendly, and only want [[spoiler: [[TomatoInTheMirror her to remember that she is also a mannequin]]]].
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* ZeeRust: A lot of outer space-themed episodes take place in the year 2000 or the late 90's.
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* ABirthdayNotABreak: In "The Shelter", a suburban doctor's birthday party turns into a mad scramble for survival when a nuclear alert is announced--and the doctor's fallout shelter has only enough room for himself and his family.
