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* CrossesTheLineTwice: "Take My Life... Please": Billy Diamond's fate is surprisingly tragic, and yet some dark comedy is wrung from it when he asks his demonic "agent" Max if his IronicHell is going to last for eternity. Max shrugs and says "Forever's a long time, but I've got you booked for the next two eons!"
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* JerkassWoobie: Several episodes of the show featured an unlikable protagonist and humanized them enough to make the viewer feel sorry for them anyway.
** Peter Jay Novins from "Shatterday" is a misanthropic, selfish jerk, but his predicament (having his life taken over by a doppelgänger while he fades away) is still quite pitiable. His doppelgänger is a much better man than him, and neither of them control what happens, but Peter still winds up being quite sympathetic both for what he goes through and ultimately [[FaceDeathWithDignity facing the end with grace]].
** Billy Diamond in "Take My Life... Please!" He's a vile man who frequently plagiarized other comedians, often physically abused women to the point of once breaking a prostitute's jaw and refusing to call the hospital, and threw his elderly, helpless mother out of the house, indirectly causing her death. Despite all this, his IronicHell causing him to have a HeelRealization makes him surprisingly sympathetic. He realizes he's a monster and that he hates himself, but because he's already dead, he can't change and he's stuck continually having to recount his worst actions for all eternity.
** Peter Jay Novins from "Shatterday" is a misanthropic, selfish jerk, but his predicament (having his life taken over by a doppelgänger while he fades away) is still quite pitiable. His doppelgänger is a much better man than him, and neither of them control what happens, but Peter still winds up being quite sympathetic both for what he goes through and ultimately [[FaceDeathWithDignity facing the end with grace]].
** Billy Diamond in "Take My Life... Please!" He's a vile man who frequently plagiarized other comedians, often physically abused women to the point of once breaking a prostitute's jaw and refusing to call the hospital, and threw his elderly, helpless mother out of the house, indirectly causing her death. Despite all this, his IronicHell causing him to have a HeelRealization makes him surprisingly sympathetic. He realizes he's a monster and that he hates himself, but because he's already dead, he can't change and he's stuck continually having to recount his worst actions for all eternity.
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** Creator/JeffKober played a cop in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E11TheNightOfTheMeekNight of the Meek]]".
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** Creator/JeffKober played a cop in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E11TheNightOfTheMeekNight "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E11TheNightOfTheMeek Night of the Meek]]".
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** "Room 2426" ends with [[Creator/DeanStockwell Martin Decker]] vanishing in a flash of light, and winding up in a completely different location as a result of, as the Narrator puts it, "[stepping] out of the confines of logic and [taking] [[Series/QuantumLeap a leap of faith]]".[[note]]Thus making this ''[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E80AQualityOfMercy the second time]]'' an episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' predicted Dean Stockwell's involvement in ''Series/QuantumLeap''.[[/note]]
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** "Room 2426" ends with [[Creator/DeanStockwell Martin Decker]] vanishing in a flash of light, and winding up in a completely different location as a result of, as the Narrator puts it, "[stepping] out of the confines of logic and [taking] [[Series/QuantumLeap a leap of faith]]".[[note]]Thus making this ''[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E80AQualityOfMercy ''[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E15AQualityOfMercy the second time]]'' an episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' predicted Dean Stockwell's involvement in ''Series/QuantumLeap''.[[/note]]
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** Benji Gregory played a homeless boy in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E47TheNightOfTheMeek Night of the Meek]]".
** Creator/JeffKober played a cop in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E47TheNightOfTheMeek Night of the Meek]]".
** Creator/JeffKober played a cop in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E47TheNightOfTheMeek Night of the Meek]]".
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** Benji Gregory played a homeless boy in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E47TheNightOfTheMeek "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E11TheNightOfTheMeek Night of the Meek]]".
** Creator/JeffKober played a cop in"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E47TheNightOfTheMeek Night "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E11TheNightOfTheMeekNight of the Meek]]".
** Creator/JeffKober played a cop in
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* JerkassWoobie: Mr. Williams from "Private Channel". You'll be hard-pressed to find someone trying to bomb a plane to be sympathetic, but learning his backstory, his wife and daughter were killed in a plane crash due to negligence and wants revenge because he feels they got away with it, manages to achieve that.
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** Creator/BruceWillis played Peter Jay Novins in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet Shatterday]]".
** Creator/JudithBarsi played Bertie in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet A Little Peace and Quiet]]".
** Creator/JudithBarsi played Bertie in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet A Little Peace and Quiet]]".
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** Creator/BruceWillis played Peter Jay Novins in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1 Shatterday]]".
** Creator/JudithBarsi played Bertie in"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1 A Little Peace and Quiet]]".
** Creator/JudithBarsi played Bertie in
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** As it was made in 1985, the ending of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet A Little Peace and Quiet]]" is dated to the time of the pre-glasnost, pre-fall of the Berlin Wall cultural fear of a nuclear WorldWarIII between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The same is true of the [[spoiler:apparent]] outbreak of World War III in "Shelter Skelter".
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** As it was made in 1985, the ending of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1 A Little Peace and Quiet]]" is dated to the time of the pre-glasnost, pre-fall of the Berlin Wall cultural fear of a nuclear WorldWarIII between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The same is true of the [[spoiler:apparent]] outbreak of World War III in "Shelter Skelter".
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** Creator/LilianaMumy plays Anthony's daughter in "It's Still a Good Life." Younger audiences might recognize her as the voice of [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Leni Loud]].
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** Creator/LilianaMumy plays Anthony's daughter in "It's Still a Good Life." Younger audiences might recognize her as the voice of [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Leni Loud]].
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* EsotericHappyEnding: "Leprechaun Artist" is hated enough because of the boys getting off with their horrible attitudes, but there is no indication the parents were broken out of their trance.
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* EsotericHappyEnding: "Children's Zoo" ends with Debbie choosing a new set of parents, and leaving her old ones in a holding cell similar to what the other parents have. It's implied that another abused child passed on the voucher that allowed Debbie to attend. Sounds great? Not-so-much if one considers that the parents may be there for a long time, and they don't see their original child again.
** Leperchaun Artist is hated enough because of the boys getting off with their horrible attitudes, but there is no indication the parents were broken out of their trance
** Leperchaun Artist is hated enough because of the boys getting off with their horrible attitudes, but there is no indication the parents were broken out of their trance
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* TheScrappy: The three teenage boys (Buddy, J.P. and Richie) from "The Leprechaun-Artist". Although they're supposedly the heroes of the story, their behavior is [[SpoiledBrat bratty]] and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] at best. Plus, many fans were angry that they got away with their crimes at the end of the episode.
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* TheScrappy: The three teenage boys (Buddy, J.P. and Richie) from "The Leprechaun-Artist".Leprechaun Artist". Although they're supposedly the heroes of the story, their behavior is [[SpoiledBrat bratty]] and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] at best. Plus, many fans were angry that they got away with their crimes at the end of the episode.
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** Lori Petty played Lori Pendleton in "The Library".
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** Wallace Langham played Nelson Baxley in "Time and Teresa Golowitz".
** Dennis Haskins played Bledsoe in "Voices in the Earth".
** Dennis Haskins played Bledsoe in "Voices in the Earth".
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** Wallace Langham Creator/WallaceLangham played Nelson Baxley in "Time and Teresa Golowitz".
**Dennis Haskins Creator/DennisHaskins played Bledsoe in "Voices in the Earth".
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** Gwynyth Walsh played Elaine in "Cat and Mouse".
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** Gwynyth Walsh Creator/GwynythWalsh played Elaine in "Cat and Mouse".
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** John Cameron Mitchell played Tom in "The Last Defender of Camelot".
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* AcceptableTargets:
** Newark, which is compared to {{Hell}} in "I of Newton".
** In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", the Prince of Darkness tells Bluestone that some people think that Hell's outer celestials are "rather like Queens."
** Newark, which is compared to {{Hell}} in "I of Newton".
** In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", the Prince of Darkness tells Bluestone that some people think that Hell's outer celestials are "rather like Queens."
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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: As mentioned below, "Dead Run" outright stated that gay people ''weren't'' inherently evil, and that the Bible's teaching that they are inherently doomed to {{Hell}} is wrong. This was in ''1986'', when the AIDS crisis was rampant and largely viewed as the "punishment of {{God}}" on homosexuals. The writers aren't subtle about it, but it works.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** As it was made in 1985, the ending of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet A Little Peace and Quiet]]" is dated to the time of the pre-glasnost, pre-fall of the Berlin Wall cultural fear of a nuclear WorldWarIII between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The same is true of the [[spoiler:apparent]] outbreak of World War III in "Shelter Skelter".
** In "Aqua Vita", which was made in 1986, the television anchor Christie Copperfield reports on anti-apartheid demonstrations in Cape Town, the US government considering imposing further economic sanctions on UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica and fighting between Sandinistas and Contras outside UsefulNotes/{{Nicaragua}}'s capital Managua.
** In "Private Channel", which was made in 1987, Mr. Williams is able to smuggle a bomb aboard the plane under his shirt. The airport clerk also asks Keith Barnes, who gains his telepathic powers from a Walkman, if he has a smoking or a non-smoking seat.
** As it was made in 1985, the ending of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet A Little Peace and Quiet]]" is dated to the time of the pre-glasnost, pre-fall of the Berlin Wall cultural fear of a nuclear WorldWarIII between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The same is true of the [[spoiler:apparent]] outbreak of World War III in "Shelter Skelter".
** In "Aqua Vita", which was made in 1986, the television anchor Christie Copperfield reports on anti-apartheid demonstrations in Cape Town, the US government considering imposing further economic sanctions on UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica and fighting between Sandinistas and Contras outside UsefulNotes/{{Nicaragua}}'s capital Managua.
** In "Private Channel", which was made in 1987, Mr. Williams is able to smuggle a bomb aboard the plane under his shirt. The airport clerk also asks Keith Barnes, who gains his telepathic powers from a Walkman, if he has a smoking or a non-smoking seat.
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* ValuesResonance: "Dead Run" sympathetically portrayed homosexuality when they condemned a man for sending someone to {{Hell}} for being gay. For an episode from 1986, that was a pretty big step.
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** "Dead Run" sympathetically portrayed homosexuality when they condemned a man for sending someone to {{Hell}} for being gay. For an episode from 1986, that was a pretty big step.
** "Dead Run" sympathetically portrayed homosexuality when they condemned a man for sending someone to {{Hell}} for being gay. For an episode from 1986, that was a pretty big step.
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** Leperchaun Artist is hated enough because of the boys getting off with their horrible attitudes, but there is no indication the parents were broken out of their trance
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* EsotericHappyEnding: "Children's Zoo" ends with Debbie choosing a new set of parents, and leaving her old ones in a holding cell similar to what the other parents have. It's implied that another abused child passed on the voucher that allowed Debbie to attend. Sounds great? Not-so-much if one considers that the parents may be there for a long time, and they don't see their original child again.
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** "Lost And Found" had a black woman as the main character who was established as being a powerful leader who establishes a bright future for the country and the world
