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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
TOILET ZONE
TWILIGHT ZONE
1959-1964 CBS
TOILET ZONE
Cracked #236, July 1988
w: Steve Skeates
a: Bob Fingerman
Twilight Zone is an anthology show that's been rebooted several times, each episode with a self-contained story that starts out as a realistic event that gets incresingly disturbing with a twist ending, and is often fantasy or horror based.
The parody has host Rod Serling ending up in the 80s with President Ronald Reagan and the casts of Leave it to Beaver, I Dream of Jeannie, Sgt. Bilko, I Love Lucy, and The Partridge Family, half of which came after the fifties and were already in color.
Saturday Night Live did a similar bit with Ricky Nelson repeatedly repeateadly going to the wrong home, ending up in reruns of other shows, and then finding he's in The Twilight Zone. They also had a recurring bit during one of their "lost" seasons called Limits of the Imagination.
The Twilight Zone has been spoofed countless times; here's just a few I found in a quick search. First, a sketch from The New Show, starring John Candy, Buck Henry and Laraine Newman: https://youtu.be/iCX4Un0JlZM
Futurama did an occasional Twilight Zone parody called The Scary Door. Here's a compilation: https://youtu.be/B5oGJTUpbpA
And the video game Alan Wake contained a bunch of short episodes of a TZ-like show called Night Springs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHU0d3jxck0&list=PLWfAqLqGNQiHwp8wNxF4zVLSUtU45MChp
There were at least a couple instances of contemporaneous sitcoms kidding The Twilight Zone, too. Rod Serling guest-starred in one, on The Jack Benny Show. And there was an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show where Dick gets hooked on a TZ-like show, and everyone gaslights him into thinking it was real.
The Twilight Zone has been spoofed countless times; here's just a few I found in a quick search. First, a sketch from The New Show, starring John Candy, Buck Henry and Laraine Newman:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/iCX4Un0JlZM
Futurama did an occasional Twilight Zone parody called The Scary Door. Here's a compilation:
https://youtu.be/B5oGJTUpbpA
And the video game Alan Wake contained a bunch of short episodes of a TZ-like show called Night Springs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHU0d3jxck0&list=PLWfAqLqGNQiHwp8wNxF4zVLSUtU45MChp
There were at least a couple instances of contemporaneous sitcoms kidding The Twilight Zone, too. Rod Serling guest-starred in one, on The Jack Benny Show. And there was an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show where Dick gets hooked on a TZ-like show, and everyone gaslights him into thinking it was real.