Like its begetter, this version of Twilight Zone is not without its funny.
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- Admittedly, the premise of "Wordplay" is funny out of context: people start speaking in a mangled jargon.
- "Children's Zoo":
- Interpret it however you want, but there's something funny about Debbie walking past an exhibit of two parents lazily sleeping in bed, as though they were zoo animals that are too sleepy to come out today.
- Also in the ending, when Debbie leaves her parents in their very own zoo exhibit, the parents can do nothing but mime their desperation/bickering. At one point, the dad even tears up a pack of cigarettes in half, as though miming "I won't smoke anymore, I swear!"
- "Wish Bank" appears to be setting up another Be Careful What You Wish For story, where a woman who finds a magic lamp is taken to a Wish Bank where she gets to file papers for three wishes with a genie broker. Instead, the typical problems of a bureaucracy end up getting in the way and the Bank has to close for the day without her having actually completed the process. She angrily yells "I wish I never found that stupid lamp in the first place!", and that wish is instantly granted.
- "The Burning Man" may be about a hitchhiker with uncomfortable conversation topics, but the Aunt's breaking point consists of her angrily lying to said hitchhiker that she has countless holy items hidden in her car.
- In "Dealer's Choice", a group of friends playing cards believe that Nick, the stranger filling for the regular fifth player in their group, is the Devil (note that they live in Newark):Tony: What's the Devil doing in New Jersey?
Jake: What do you mean? I think he lives here!- Once he confirms that he is indeed the Devil, the friends are less upset about that and more that he's being a jerk.
- The entirety of "The Uncle Devil Show", which is basically what Calvin and Hobbes would be if it were written by H. P. Lovecraft.
- "I of Newton", in which Sherman Hemsley finds himself confronted with a wisecracking demon played by Ron Glass.
- The demon's ever-changing message Fun T-Shirt: "Hell is a Summer Festival", "Hell is a City Much Like Newark", "Over 2,000,000,000 Served", "Gehenna: More Than a Place, a Way of Life", and "Let's Do Damnation".
- Exchanges like this:Sam: Yeah, well you can just go back to whatever Stygian depths you came from, fella. Because I have no intention, thank you, of selling my soul for the solution of any equation!
Demon: "Stygian depths." I like that! You mention Dante to most people these days, and they ask you how you liked Gremlins. - Sam tries to protest that the demon trying to claim his soul when he didn't actually mean to sell it, as well as using any and all tricks against him, is to decry it as unfair. The demon's response? "Of course it's not fair. We're evil. Look it up!"
- The punchline, which just rubs it in: "That guy wasn't any help at all!"
- "The Misfortune Cookie": As soon as Harry complains of a sudden mysterious hunger, the street is flooded with neon lights. A street full of Chinese eateries, no less!
- This line in "To See the Invisible Man":Mitchel Chaplin: [drunkenly] ...Wait a minute, I hate gin!
- "Tooth and Consequences" is largely a Black Comedy work, featuring a suicidal dentist getting a wish granted by the Tooth Fairy to be respected by his patients and have the love of his life return his affection, which ends with him being swarmed by adoring fans. Eventually, he can't take it anymore and runs away, deciding to live as a hobo. He jumps into a train filled with other hobos, who were all dentists who had the misfortune of running into the Tooth Fairy.
- Gerrit Graham's hilariously over-the-top performance as Agent of Death Griffin St. George in "Welcome to Winfield".
- All of "Cold Reading", which depicts the humorous chaos unleashed when a prima-donna radio director's accidental wish on a voodoo artifact brings all the sound effects for his old-time jungle-adventure-themed radio show to life.
- All of the ways that Shawn's magic makes the kids' wishes go horribly wrong in "The Leprechaun-Artist".
- In "The Card", Linda's family owns a dog named "Scooby". Naturally, when it disappears mysteriously, she has a hard time convincing them they had a dog with a name like that.
- In the end of "20/20 Vision", the way Warren just so casually tells his livid boss, "Please Mr. Cutler, stop screaming."
- In "Cat and Mouse", Andie first encounters Guillaume wearing her robe and drinking coffee. Freaked out, she goes to call the police.Guillaume: Tell them you've seen a man turn into a cat. [immediately does so]
- Towards the end of "Time and Teresa Golowitz", upon learning that he managed to not only prevent Teresa's suicide, but also make it so that she becomes a famous singer, Bluestone learns from the Prince of Darkness that despite his good deed, he still needs to spend some time in Hell. The reason being? The higher-ups in Heaven are pissed that history has been altered, so he needs to stay low for a couple years until the heat dies down.Bluestone: (annoyed) Dead one day, and already I need a lawyer...
- To make things (somewhat) better, the Prince intends to hide him out in a corner of Hell that feels exactly like Queens.Bluestone: ...I mean, how bad can it be? I've been to Queens.Prince of Darkness: That's the spirit! (pats Bluestone's shoulder)
- To make things (somewhat) better, the Prince intends to hide him out in a corner of Hell that feels exactly like Queens.
