History Funny / TheTwilightZone1985

* Admittedly, the premise of [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E2WordplayDreamsForSaleChameleon "Wordplay"]] is funny out of context: people start speaking in a mangled jargon.
* [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E3HealerChildrensZooKentuckyRye "Children's Zoo"]]:

* [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E4LittleBoyLostWishBankNightcrawlers "Wish Bank"]] appears to be setting up another BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor 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.
* [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E8ActBreakTheBurningManDealersChoice "The Burning Man"]] may be about a hitchhiker with uncomfortable conversation topics, but the Aunt's [[BerserkButton breaking point]] consists of her angrily lying to said hitchhiker that she has countless holy items hidden in her car.
* In [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E8ActBreakTheBurningManDealersChoice "Dealer's Choice"]], a group of friends playing cards believe that Nick, the stranger filling for the regular fifth player in their group, is TheDevil (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!"

* The ''entirety'' of [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E10TheShadowManTheUncleDevilShowOpeningDay "The Uncle Devil Show"]], which is basically what ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' would be if it were written by Creator/HPLovecraft.
* [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E12HerPilgrimSoulIOfNewton "I of Newton"]], in which Sherman Hemsley finds himself confronted with a wisecracking demon played by Creator/RonGlass.

-->'''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 [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante]] to most people these days, and they ask you how you liked ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''.

** To make things (somewhat) better, the Devil intends to hide him out in a corner in Hell that feels ''[[TakeThat exactly]]'' like Queens.