History Recap / TheTwilightZone1985S2E11

* WisdomFromTheGutter: Hoakie may be a homeless man who lives near the boy's home and have nothing to his name, but he certainly has common sense. When Amy mourns over her situation and decides [[DrivenToSuicide it's better to be dead]], Hoakie talks her out of it, reminding her that she still has hope and that it would be shameful to throw her life away while she's still young and in love. Amy expresses genuine appreciation towards him for helping her see things in a different light.

* WisdomFromTheGuttes: Hoakie may be a homeless man who lives near the boy's home and have nothing to his name, but he certainly has sense. When Amy mourns over her situation and decides [[DrivenToSuicide it's better to be dead]], Hoakie talks her out of it. He reminds her that she still has hope and it would be shameful to throw her life away while she's still young and in love. In the least, Amy expresses appreciation towards him for helping her see things in a different light.

* HateSink: Mordecai, a maniacal religious fanatic who smacks her daughter around while using Scripture to mold her into his vision of a perfect woman, while also treating Tanner and the other boys as degenerate animals and attempts to kill him for falling in love with his daughter.

* HomelessHero: Hoakie, an old bum who lives around the boys' home, who works with Amy and Tanner on seperate occasions to ensure that they can escape together.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Tanner tells Amy that it he didn't ''want'' to be a pickpocket, but there are such little options for money and food when a young man is living on the streets.

* StarCrossedLovers: Mordecai forbids Amy from ever seeing Tanner again, as he is an inmate of the boys' home of which he's is the superintendent. Amy and Tanner manage to escape Mordecai's grasp by transferring their souls into the bodies of wolves in a younger world, where they're free to live happily ever after.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The Richmans' seperate escapades with the hippie versions of their repsective spouse tests their marriage, as does their overwhelming nostalgia, but once both versions sit down and observe how irritating the other is, Ira and Valerie decide that their lives aren't over, and decide to make the world a better place in their own way.
* {{Bookends}}: The episode can be seen as one for the second season of the 80s remake, as both this one and season premiere "The Once and Future King" focus on a protagonist who is enthusastic about the past, only to get more than what he expected when the past itself confronts him.

* HypocriticalHumor: Once he finds Valerie and his hippie self getting intimate on the couch, Ira argues about how she could do such a thing, even though ''he's'' been doing the exact same with the hippie version of Valerie.

** Valerie reads noted counterculture book ''Literature/{{Siddhartha}}'' when Ira comes home one night. He sits down to glimpse through it with her, reminiscing on when he though the truth of existence was in the book.

* TotallyRadical: The hippie versions of Ira and Valerie inevitably spout out tired 60s slang in their dialogue.

* ShoutOut: There are quite a few 60s references throughout the episode, given its nature. Notably, Hippie!Valerie takes Ira to a double feature of ''Film/{{Woodstock}}'' and ''Film/EasyRider'' at a 60s revival theater during the montage scene.

In 1916, Tanner Smith, a young pickpocket housed in the House of Refuge Reformatory for Wayward Boys, seeks the affections of a young lady named Amy Hawkline. During one of their forbidden late-night meetings, Amy and Tanner are caught by Amy's father Mordecai, the superintendent of the home and a religious zealot who intends to mold Amy into his picture of a proper woman. Meeting with the incarcerated Tanner, Amy shows him a book she found, which houses a special ritual that details how, with the help of Amy's special ''I Ching'' pendant, one can release their soul and let it inhabit a better world. Growing fond of the idea, Tanner and Amy plan to use this ritual to escape to another world, but they must do so before Mordecai has Tanner killed.

Corporate lawyer Ira Richman and his aerobics instructor wife Valerie find that they just can't stop reminiscing about the 1960s, where they were a pair of hippies who drove a van everywhere in the hopes of changing the world through peace and love. As he drives to a meeting one day, Ira spots Valerie's 1960s self frolicking in a park. While he initially thinks her to be dressed in a costume, a phone call to Valerie's work reveals that the woman is another Valerie who manifested from a picture Ira has been carrying around. While he tries to carry on living in the spirit of peace with the younger Valerie, Ira later discovers that Valerie has been doing the same thing with the 1960s version of him, leading to a squabble between the young and the old.

* AbusiveParents: Amy's father Mordecai is an emotionally abusive religious zealot who is determined to use Scripture to turn her into a proper young woman, no matter the cost. He even slaps her after finding her in a passionate embrace with Tanner, an inmate of the boys' home he runs.
* AlternateUniverse: Amy and Tanner are able to transfer their souls into the bodies of a pair of wolves in a parallel universe using the ritual they learn about.
* AntiHero: Tanner, a pickpocket in a boys' home who falls in love with the nice and gentle Amy and seeks to escape with her. It's later revealed that Tanner was only a pickpocket because he had no other way to procure money for food.

* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: The House of Refuge Reformatory for Wayward Boys. Its superintendent Mordecai beats Tanner severely when he finds him in an embrace with Amy, who he later tells that Tanner and other boys are beasts who must be caged away from decent society. After Tanner tries to kill him when he thinks Amy is dead, Mordecai has his men put him in a cell called "The Hole" and bind him in a full body straitjacket.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After being smacked around by the abusive Mordecai for their love, Tanner and Amy manage to possess a pair of wolves in another world so they can escape him and be happy together forever.

* TheFundamentalist: Mordecai is a fanatical Christian who attempts to force his daughter into becoming his idea of the perfect woman. He also uses Scripture as a justification to try and murder her lover.
* HateSink: Mordecai, a maniacal religious fanatic who smacks her daughter around while using Scripture to mold her into his vision of a perfect woman, while also treating Tanner and the other boys as animals and attempts to kill him for falling in love with his daughter.

Corporate lawyer Ira Richman and his aerobics instructor wife Valerie find that they just can't stop reminiscing about the 1960s, where they were a pair of hippies who rode a van everywhere in the hopes of changing the world through peace and love. As he drives to a meeting one day, Ira spots Valerie's 1960s self frolicking in a park. While he initially thinks her to be dressed in a costume, a phone call to Valerie's work reveals that the woman is another Valerie who manifested from a picture Ira has been carrying around. While he tries to carry on living in the spirit of peace with the younger Valerie, Ira later discovers that Valerie has been doing the same thing with the 1960s version of him, leading to a squabble between the young and the old.

* AnAesop: Reminiscing about the past is usually enjoyable, but you shouldn't try revolving your whole life around trying to stay in the past or bring it back, since you still have a life to live in the present.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The Richmans' seperate rendezvouses with the hippie versions of their repsective spouse tests their marriage, as does their overwhelming nostalgia, but once both versions sit down and observe how irritating the other is, Ira and Valerie decide that their lives aren't over, and decide to make the world a better place in their own way.

* GranolaGirl: Valerie was the archetypal hippie chick back in the '60s. When her hippie self appears to Ira in 1987, she suggests that they unwind with a little LSD. Although Ira turns down the idea, she takes him to a double bill of ''Easy Rider'' and ''Woodstock'', and later treats him to a meditation session.

* IHatePastMe: Ira is confronted with the hippie version of his wife from the 60s, and spends several days with her engaging in several hippie activities. When he returns home with her, he learns that the present Valerie has been doing the exact same thing with the hippie version of ''him''. As soon as all four are in the same room, the older Ira and Valerie realize that they find their former selves and their mellow attitudes extremely irritating. Ira in particular tells them that they have no idea what ''real'' love is, saying that it's a matter of commitment. After the hippies disappear, Valerie has a hard time believing that they were ever that arrogant, naive, and pompous.

* LargeHam: The hippie versions of Ira and Valerie, compared to the less expressive 80s versions.

** The montage itself is filmed with several different splitscreens, similar to the techniques used in ''[[Film/TheThomasCrownAffair1968 The Thomas Crown Affair.]]''

-> "It has been said that the '80s are just the '60s, twenty years later. The costumes may change, but the cast remains: the arrogant, the radical, the naive, and the cynical; the misplaced and the spaced. Each a stage in the growth of a generation, as it treads the tail-end of the twentieth century, on a long journey -- through the Twilight Zone."