Well Aaron you been thinkin' good thoughts about this so you're ok...but the rest of you are thinkin' bad thoughts about me and yer to afraid to say......
This episode is so amazingly prophetic to today, and how our society is terrified to stand up and speak out against the insanity and intolerance of many who are now rising to power.
Bill Mumy recalls that on the set filming this, when someone blew a line or made some other mistake or blooper, another case member would quip "it's good that you flubbed that. Real good...!"
Katherine Flynn I think it shows how kids are really selfish and don’t understand the consequences of their selfishness. I can’t think of a kid who wouldn’t be like this if he had that power
I want my border wall! You're a bad man! A very bad man! Suddenly Chuck Schumer turns into a jack in the box! Donnie, please! Put Chuck in the cornfield!
This was another great episode ot the Twilight Zone...the story was about the power of the mind and just what it could possibly be capable of...so be careful to use it for positive thoughts instead of negative ones...or course it was also a very well written story..brilliantly acted...especially by Billy Mumy! age 6!
Anthony Freemont is one of the best acted performance's I can recall 45 years later he is back on the scene with a daughter as dubious as him. ( "it's Still a Good Life") now and always will be. Four stars for this one & five for the next.
There was that brief moment when the older lady (whom Anthony had turned into a semi-catatonic state) was considering acting upon the desperate man's plea for someone to do something against Anthony. When I first saw this episode, I thought that she would become the unlikely heroine by attacking Anthony from behind, but alas, it was not to be.
Scripturegirl1990 Yes. Look closely at the scene when the man who is about to be turned into a jack in the box is screaming for someone to "take a lamp or something" and end it all by hitting Anthony on the head from behind. The camera then shifts to the older lady who seems to be looking for something to hit Anthony with. She rolls her eyes with interest, and contemplates it for just a few seconds, but then loses heart.
It was a former roommate that was a little psycho and used to build these strange monuments in the front yard with everyone's stuff, so when someone would be looking for something we would say Linda wished it to the corn field (front yard) because you were a bad person a very bad person...... LMAO..... I used to play this every time something disappeared. :)
"It's a Good Life" is episode 73 of the American television series The Twilight Zone. It is based on the 1953 short story "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby and is considered by some, such as Time and TV Guide, to be one of the best episodes of the series. It originally aired on November 3, 1961. "Tonight's story on The Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction. This, as you may recognize, is a map of the United States, and there's a little town there called Peaksville. On a given morning not too long ago, the rest of the world disappeared and Peaksville was left all alone. Its inhabitants were never sure whether the world was destroyed and only Peaksville left untouched or whether the village had somehow been taken away. They were, on the other hand, sure of one thing: the cause. A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines-because they displeased him-and he moved an entire community back into the dark ages-just by using his mind. Now I'd like to introduce you to some of the people in Peaksville, Ohio. This is Mr. Fremont. It's in his farmhouse that the monster resides. This is Mrs. Fremont. And this is Aunt Amy, who probably had more control over the monster in the beginning than almost anyone. But one day she forgot. She began to sing aloud. Now, the monster doesn't like singing, so his mind snapped at her, turned her into the smiling, vacant thing you're looking at now. She sings no more. And you'll note that the people in Peaksville, Ohio have to smile. They have to think happy thoughts and say happy things because, once displeased, the monster can wish them into a cornfield or change them into a grotesque, walking horror. This particular monster can read minds, you see. He knows every thought, he can feel every emotion. Oh yes, I did forget something, didn't I? I forgot to introduce you to the monster. This is the monster. His name is Anthony Fremont. He's six years old, with a cute little-boy face and blue, guileless eyes. But when those eyes look at you, you'd better start thinking happy thoughts, because the mind behind them is absolutely in charge. This is the Twilight Zone." Six-year-old Anthony Fremont has godlike mental powers, including mind-reading. He has isolated his town of Peaksville, Ohio from the rest of the universe. The people live in fear of him, constantly telling him how everything he does is "good," since he banishes anyone thinking unhappy thoughts into the otherworldly cornfield from which there is no return. Never having experienced any form of discipline, Anthony does not even understand that his actions are wrong, but make no mistake, if your not thinking happy thoughts in Peaksville, you may end up dead. "No comment here, no comment at all. We only wanted to introduce you to one of our very special citizens, little Anthony Fremont, age 6, who lives in a village called Peaksville, in a place that used to be Ohio. And, if by some strange chance, you should run across him, you had best think only good thoughts. Anything less than that is handled at your own risk, because if you do meet Anthony, you can be sure of one thing: you have entered The Twilight Zone."
Love the ending lol No comment here, no comment at all. We only wanted to introduce you to one of our very special citizens, little Anthony Fremont, age 6, who lives in a village called Peaksville in a place that used to be Ohio. And if by some strange chance you should run across him, you had best think only good thoughts. Anything less than that is handled at your own risk, because if you do meet Anthony, you can be sure of one thing: you have entered The Twilight zone
This episode actually makes me think of Flight 93 on 9-11. Finally, the people realized that they had the numbers to take out those creeps, particularly as they knew they were going to die. But they were determined not to let them have their way or to achieve their sinister objective. But notice how the pack mentality envelops most people. Entire crowds will permit themselves to be manipulated by a single person who manages to exude an appearance of power that utterly mesmerizes them.
Very astute. Essentially this very phenomenon is at work this very moment, as the psychopathic oligarchs of the collective chemical/petrochem/pharmaceutical and multinational banking/insurance/(include federal reserve and wall street manipulators here) cartels (with their sinister objectives) continue to poison us and steal from us while we multitudes who still have control over the means to arrest and imprison these criminals stand mesmerized. And actually, that entire den of vipers could be effectively neutered within mere minutes with a few dozen well timed and coordinated efforts involving several fighter jets (which is why they are hastily replacing manned jets with drones) from the various world governments' military entities.
well written...the idea of hooking these government trolls to weather balloons seems better than hanging or guillotining them....a mass ascension into the heavens....everyone can cheer....0600 on a Sunday morning!....finally the people can live in Peace and Prosperity.
You notice how they still won't let us bet on sports.The Supreme Court knows that if they end Nevada's monopoly,Adelson will do a 58 on them as well as he did the c&w fans in October.
Very important lessons here. 1- As long as you tolerate your circumstances, they'll never change. Until you're angry enough to do something about your life, you'll always suffer in mediocrity & defeat. 2- never add cowards & people comfortable with being losers to your team. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. The real tragedy here is ending of that guy who had the guts to be brave but was surrounded by & relied on cowards & losers.
.....so is it the Anthony from within or the fact that your team has no leader because your adversary is your leader......spend a lifetime with that and you'll be a comfortable loser and a coward who takes their own life......
@@Delta9SFBay11 .. 'your team has no leader because your adversary is your leader..' - what do you mean exactly? & There isn't any anthony on my team. We're grown, comfortable in our strengths, confident in our contributions to our projects & excellent in our individual crafts. Anthony-type self pitying & attention seeking bratty personalities won't hang around us. & my perspective of leadership is different. It's not people following but rather you helping them become their best within their assignments & crafts & as long as they are committed to personal excellence, they stay. Any team is as strong as it's individuals, not it's leader. On my team, we are all leaders, not controllers. When one shines, we all rise together.
@@keithmugisha5205 wasn't referring to your as you.....God why is everyone so sensitive? Get out of your head and ego....geez and if I have to explain it to ya my explanation will not be so coherent for ya.... Get the point.....
Anthony is a metaphor for....Prince John, Henry the 8th, Hitler, Gengis Khan, Musical Conductors, Ex wives, Hollywood A listers, Feminists, Religious Zelots, Studio Executives, your boss, leave anyone out???
The woman who is about to grab that metal object, I don't think she stopped just because she was scared, but also because she realised she couldn't attack a child, even a child like Anthony. She probably wouldn't be able to live with herself.
This was probably the most scary and grim ending to any TZ episode for me, not for the things you see, but more for the implications of what might become of these people in the future. There's nothing for them except for terror and now they face starvation because of Anthony's whim. Dan's wife is the one I feel most sorry for though, her husband has been turned into something awful and banished to another dimension, and she doesn't even have the relative luxury of being able to work through her shock and grief because Anthony will do something to her if she has even one bad thought. R.I.P. Dan, what a fucking hero.
Aye, makes me think of the Khmer Rouge regime, where millions of Cambodians were forced to live and die in medieval conditions, and were forbidden to display any sort of intellect or love for anything except for love of the "Angka", anything other than that and they would be executed.
The other thing I didn't think about till now is the implication that a lot of the adults in this town have lost their children because they displeased Anthony. It could be that most if not all of the adults in that room are secretly mourning the loss of children, but they have to force it down for fear of the same thing happening to them.
this is the best twilight zone episode to me. & one of the best short stories ever. should be made into a movie. because kids are crazy. worst than thanos or Galactus.
One of my favorite twilight episodes ever. I accidentally discovered this series when I was 18 in 2008 by watching a channel for old people and I was a fan ever since. I tried watching the three other revivals and they mostly were horrible and boring unlike these black and white masterpieces.
I can’t believe that nobody snuck up on him and killed him quickly already. This is pissing me off that it’s such bullshit. There is not one iota of realism in this episode, at least the others had some shred of probability but this one , none.
@@thomasjonesjr6282 And Trump cansned anyone who says or thinks anything bad about him, and can take out any Republican who doesn't tow his line. He's got them all cowed.
One of the best episodes.If you like scary stories about evil children, try: "Alfred Hitchcock: "Where the Woodbine Twineth" and "The Magic Shop". You won't be dissapointed.
Look up the video "Saddam Hussein Purge". In the video, Saddam Hussein (in the 1970s) calls together a meeting of all of his cabinet and ministers. He then starts reading a list of "enemies of the state", and each time he reads a name, the guards move through the aisles and take them outside to be shot. A few started to shout and urge everyone to resist Saddam, to storm the podium to together to take him out, or to curse him as they're being dragged out. But most of them simply cowered and cried "God bless you Saddam Hussein! You saved our country!" and "Thank you for sparing us Saddam Hussein! We love you!"
Who would have known that the Twilight Zone was prophetic? People building altars to their children and tip toeing around their feelings. Children running the 'household'. Sound familiar?
I would actually hate to have Anthony's ability to hear or read people's thoughts, especially their thoughts about me. I would prefer not to know what people think of me.
Trump increasingly reminds me of Anthony Freemont, the monster child in a Twilight Zone episode called "It's a Good Life." Republicans kowtow to him, because he might throw a tantrum and send them away into the cornfield if they don't.-- Stephen King
You have that backwards, he chides the press who should take as good as it gets, and politicians who again are public figures. While google and the rest of your bay area moral majority simply unplatform normal people, or in the case of Alex Jones, make them disappear. The false accusers pointing fingers are the left, you need only look at the farce that was the supreme court nomination hearing, and the false accusers still aren't in jail, because they are rare prosecuted. Jussie Smollett faking a hate crime so he could accuse others simply illustrates just how deranged people are on the left, and its hardly the first case, thousands of bomb threats were called into jewish community centers, by your own people, leftists. Steven King hasn't been the same since his severe car accident which likely left him with brain trauma, which kind of says it all about his politics, and the mental state of the left. A left where people disappear for using the "learn to code" hashtag because it offended liberal journalists, or the npc meme because it cut to the bone of their hypocrisy, to the point where they had no answer.
Anthony does not represent spoiled children. He represents any childish, insecure boss we have to deal with who expects his underlings to agree and like everything (s)he does, and accepts no complaints on pain of banishment. I've met a number of them; how about you? And that included the man we had in the White House from 2017 to 2021. A childish and petty man. And he tried to send our democracy into the cornfield.
Yes, it's a tremendous power! Certainly one of your bigly powers, compared to most. And that Anthony is really a smart cookie and really admired by all his people. I think we ought to stop our collaborative efforts with nearby nations to deter Anthony because Anthony's a kid we can really work with, for the betterment of all people on Earth and especially our friends in the swing states. Yeah... great kid, that Anthony. STOP FAKE NEWS TARGETING ANTHONY!!!!
There is a lot of star power on that stage. The kid is brilliant, and Cloris Leachman is as good as she ever was. Lots of familiar looking supporting players too. Twilight Zone was so far ahead of it's day There is another TZ episode with a similar kid. He made the sister's mouth heal over so she couldn't tease him. Any leads?
Let’s play a game. How would you END Anthony?
I like it.....lets see, how would I end Anthony....I'll wait till I see some more comments.
I'm too scared of getting sent to the cornfield to play !
Well Aaron you been thinkin' good thoughts about this so you're ok...but the rest of you are thinkin' bad thoughts about me and yer to afraid to say......
He should lose his powers and be sent to Venezuela to lead a protest against socialism and communism
While he sleeps, plants bombs in the house, keep thinking happy thoughts, then detonate.
Mumy was really a talented kid. Not many kids could pull this off and be convincing.
Yes, he was real good. Really, really good. It's a good thing that he was really, really good! 🤖
C UU 😂😂😂
This episode is so amazingly prophetic to today, and how our society is terrified to stand up and speak out against the insanity and intolerance of many who are now rising to power.
Bill Mumy recalls that on the set filming this, when someone blew a line or made some other mistake or blooper, another case member would quip "it's good that you flubbed that. Real good...!"
Imagine being the guy in charge of harvesting the corn.
"OH FUUUUUU... Nope nope, happy thoughts, happy thoughts, I'd rather be starving than dead."
I saw this in 1961 when i was 6 and it scared the sh** out of me. I saw it again when i was 56....and it still scared the sh** out of me. funny huh?
Yeah...pretty funny
The Entire Series Is Worth Buying Just For This Episode-Scary As Hell!!
Anthony represents the monster parents turn their children into
Katherine Flynn I wish I can do the same to my neighbors they're disgusting
Katherine Flynn I think it shows how kids are really selfish and don’t understand the consequences of their selfishness. I can’t think of a kid who wouldn’t be like this if he had that power
I want my border wall! You're a bad man! A very bad man! Suddenly Chuck Schumer turns into a jack in the box! Donnie, please! Put Chuck in the cornfield!
@@kirkmoore4515 Jackass in the box!
"Chucky, you're a bad man, you're a very bad man"! "I wish you in to the corn field"!!
This was another great episode ot the Twilight Zone...the story was about the power of the mind and just what it could possibly be capable of...so be careful to use it for positive thoughts instead of negative ones...or course it was also a very well written story..brilliantly acted...especially by Billy Mumy! age 6!
Anthony Freemont is one of the best acted performance's I can recall 45 years later he is back on the scene with a daughter as dubious as him. ( "it's Still a Good Life") now and always will be. Four stars for this one & five for the next.
Rod Serling, art of the artist.
understanding the magic of film.
Did you know that in that sequel that was his daughter in real life.
Gary Chamberlain I figured waited defeat Anthony that's not believe in him he can only make things happen when you're scared and you believe in him
I was hoping to find the full episode of this; but now that I think about it...it was good that I couldn't find it...it was real good...
Anthony returns as greta 'how DARE you!' thunberg.
No, he has returned as Trump and all climate science deniers like you.
It's good to make a comment it's real good
Yes it's good to make a comment. Real good! :-)
It's even better if you subscribe......if you don't subscribe then your a bad man a very bad man (or woman)...jk
xWalkItOffx It's swell...real swell! 😉
@@guitarttimman mighty fine you've done that
@@VintageRose75 its good
In case you're wondering what happened with Kim Jong-un and his uncle, here is the footage.
There was that brief moment when the older lady (whom Anthony had turned into a semi-catatonic state) was considering acting upon the desperate man's plea for someone to do something against Anthony. When I first saw this episode, I thought that she would become the unlikely heroine by attacking Anthony from behind, but alas, it was not to be.
U mean HIS AUNT.??.
Scripturegirl1990 Yes. Look closely at the scene when the man who is about to be turned into a jack in the box is screaming for someone to "take a lamp or something" and end it all by hitting Anthony on the head from behind. The camera then shifts to the older lady who seems to be looking for something to hit Anthony with. She rolls her eyes with interest, and contemplates it for just a few seconds, but then loses heart.
They should have all taken dear little Anthony on a nice vacation to visit the Grand Canyon.
Sweetcheeks Babycakes , AND PUSH HIM DOWN THERE.?.
He had destroyed the Grand Canyon and everything else beyond their town!
1:30 So thats where the Simpsons got the idea, lol
I recognized it immediately and had a sudden urge to watch this.
"If you think bad thoughts about me, I'm gonna do the same thing to you!"
It was a former roommate that was a little psycho and used to build these strange monuments in the front yard with everyone's stuff, so when someone would be looking for something we would say Linda wished it to the corn field (front yard) because you were a bad person a very bad person...... LMAO..... I used to play this every time something disappeared. :)
Little Anthony had the hole house scared
I'm pretty sure a hell of alot of people would be scared too if Anthony was in their house 😂
"It's a Good Life" is episode 73 of the American television series The Twilight Zone. It is based on the 1953 short story "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby and is considered by some, such as Time and TV Guide, to be one of the best episodes of the series. It originally aired on November 3, 1961.
"Tonight's story on The Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction. This, as you may recognize, is a map of the United States, and there's a little town there called Peaksville. On a given morning not too long ago, the rest of the world disappeared and Peaksville was left all alone. Its inhabitants were never sure whether the world was destroyed and only Peaksville left untouched or whether the village had somehow been taken away. They were, on the other hand, sure of one thing: the cause. A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines-because they displeased him-and he moved an entire community back into the dark ages-just by using his mind. Now I'd like to introduce you to some of the people in Peaksville, Ohio. This is Mr. Fremont. It's in his farmhouse that the monster resides. This is Mrs. Fremont. And this is Aunt Amy, who probably had more control over the monster in the beginning than almost anyone. But one day she forgot. She began to sing aloud. Now, the monster doesn't like singing, so his mind snapped at her, turned her into the smiling, vacant thing you're looking at now. She sings no more. And you'll note that the people in Peaksville, Ohio have to smile. They have to think happy thoughts and say happy things because, once displeased, the monster can wish them into a cornfield or change them into a grotesque, walking horror. This particular monster can read minds, you see. He knows every thought, he can feel every emotion. Oh yes, I did forget something, didn't I? I forgot to introduce you to the monster. This is the monster. His name is Anthony Fremont. He's six years old, with a cute little-boy face and blue, guileless eyes. But when those eyes look at you, you'd better start thinking happy thoughts, because the mind behind them is absolutely in charge. This is the Twilight Zone."
Six-year-old Anthony Fremont has godlike mental powers, including mind-reading. He has isolated his town of Peaksville, Ohio from the rest of the universe. The people live in fear of him, constantly telling him how everything he does is "good," since he banishes anyone thinking unhappy thoughts into the otherworldly cornfield from which there is no return. Never having experienced any form of discipline, Anthony does not even understand that his actions are wrong, but make no mistake, if your not thinking happy thoughts in Peaksville, you may end up dead.
"No comment here, no comment at all. We only wanted to introduce you to one of our very special citizens, little Anthony Fremont, age 6, who lives in a village called Peaksville, in a place that used to be Ohio. And, if by some strange chance, you should run across him, you had best think only good thoughts. Anything less than that is handled at your own risk, because if you do meet Anthony, you can be sure of one thing: you have entered The Twilight Zone."
My God brother you know your TZ.....damn....
Thank you Sir.
This, in my opinion, is the best episode of the twilight zone...damn it's still scary
It was good to have watched anthony on lost in space a half hour ago it was real good
Truly brilliant episode
Let's use this video clip to validate our political views.
ThIs iS 2019 SHeePLE!
Thanos wouldn't stand a chance against Anthony.
I was just thinking the same thing lol
That Anthony had more balls than all these grown folks on here I'm so full of laughter watching this!!!!!
It's good that were on you tube it's real good 👌😉
this episode was brilliance on so many levels
The guy playing the piano is the singing Priest from the Dudley Moore movie with no Derek "10"
Love the ending lol
No comment here, no comment at all. We only wanted to introduce you to one of our very special citizens, little Anthony Fremont, age 6, who lives in a village called Peaksville in a place that used to be Ohio. And if by some strange chance you should run across him, you had best think only good thoughts. Anything less than that is handled at your own risk, because if you do meet Anthony, you can be sure of one thing: you have entered The Twilight zone
Yes I blew Anthony’s head off. Yes I did a real good job!! A REAL GOOD JOB!! Don’t you think I did a real good job folks?!!😂
Biden sent Trump into the cornfield. Thank the Lord.
Sometimes when I'm at work and having a bad time from customers I kinda wish I was like Anthony so everyone wud have to be 'real' good to me......
Thanks for uploading this but where are parts 1 and 2???
This episode actually makes me think of Flight 93 on 9-11. Finally, the people realized that they had the numbers to take out those creeps, particularly as they knew they were going to die. But they were determined not to let them have their way or to achieve their sinister objective. But notice how the pack mentality envelops most people. Entire crowds will permit themselves to be manipulated by a single person who manages to exude an appearance of power that utterly mesmerizes them.
Very astute. Essentially this very phenomenon is at work this very moment, as the psychopathic oligarchs of the collective chemical/petrochem/pharmaceutical and multinational banking/insurance/(include federal reserve and wall street manipulators here) cartels (with their sinister objectives) continue to poison us and steal from us while we multitudes who still have control over the means to arrest and imprison these criminals stand mesmerized. And actually, that entire den of vipers could be effectively neutered within mere minutes with a few dozen well timed and coordinated efforts involving several fighter jets (which is why they are hastily replacing manned jets with drones) from the various world governments' military entities.
well written...the idea of hooking these government trolls to weather balloons seems better than hanging or guillotining them....a mass ascension into the heavens....everyone can cheer....0600 on a Sunday morning!....finally the people can live in Peace and Prosperity.
You notice how they still won't let us bet on sports.The Supreme Court knows that if they end Nevada's monopoly,Adelson will do a 58 on them as well as he did the c&w fans in October.
atlantic1119 Very observant and so true!! Your comment reminds me of Hitler and his Nazi.
It was a good show, a very good show Anthony.
He could’ve turned him into any object, like a doll or a painting. But nope! We got a jack-in-a-box!
Well maybe he could?
The hidden watcher Anthony is still a child so maybe his turning the guy into a jack in the box was all he could think of.
Anthony is David Hogg.
Very important lessons here.
1- As long as you tolerate your circumstances, they'll never change. Until you're angry enough to do something about your life, you'll always suffer in mediocrity & defeat.
2- never add cowards & people comfortable with being losers to your team. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.
The real tragedy here is ending of that guy who had the guts to be brave but was surrounded by & relied on cowards & losers.
.....so is it the Anthony from within or the fact that your team has no leader because your adversary is your leader......spend a lifetime with that and you'll be a comfortable loser and a coward who takes their own life......
@@Delta9SFBay11 .. 'your team has no leader because your adversary is your leader..' - what do you mean exactly?
& There isn't any anthony on my team. We're grown, comfortable in our strengths, confident in our contributions to our projects & excellent in our individual crafts. Anthony-type self pitying & attention seeking bratty personalities won't hang around us.
& my perspective of leadership is different. It's not people following but rather you helping them become their best within their assignments & crafts & as long as they are committed to personal excellence, they stay. Any team is as strong as it's individuals, not it's leader. On my team, we are all leaders, not controllers. When one shines, we all rise together.
@@keithmugisha5205 wasn't referring to your as you.....God why is everyone so sensitive? Get out of your head and ego....geez and if I have to explain it to ya my explanation will not be so coherent for ya....
Get the point.....
Can you imagine Anthony on the TH-cam comment section? It'd be a nightmare.
Got to be my favorite comment on this......I myself think I have channeled Anthony on somebody's TH-cam Channel's comment sections...doh
when I was a little boy I wish I could have been just like Anthony oh how I wish that
In the real world someone would have bashed his head in while he was focused on the other guy.
How do you feel about Lil Anthony now?
damn dude, lol you got me, thats literally me today.
Anthony is a metaphor for....Prince John, Henry the 8th, Hitler, Gengis Khan, Musical Conductors, Ex wives, Hollywood A listers,
Feminists, Religious Zelots, Studio Executives, your boss, leave anyone out???
chris jones Stalin and Mussolini.
Trump
It's good that you engineer the sky.
The woman who is about to grab that metal object, I don't think she stopped just because she was scared, but also because she realised she couldn't attack a child, even a child like Anthony. She probably wouldn't be able to live with herself.
@Lanford Ripley, Yes. Jerome Bixby wrote the original short story. Really good.
This was probably the most scary and grim ending to any TZ episode for me, not for the things you see, but more for the implications of what might become of these people in the future. There's nothing for them except for terror and now they face starvation because of Anthony's whim. Dan's wife is the one I feel most sorry for though, her husband has been turned into something awful and banished to another dimension, and she doesn't even have the relative luxury of being able to work through her shock and grief because Anthony will do something to her if she has even one bad thought. R.I.P. Dan, what a fucking hero.
Well said....there are many parallels in today's world...
Aye, makes me think of the Khmer Rouge regime, where millions of Cambodians were forced to live and die in medieval conditions, and were forbidden to display any sort of intellect or love for anything except for love of the "Angka", anything other than that and they would be executed.
The other thing I didn't think about till now is the implication that a lot of the adults in this town have lost their children because they displeased Anthony. It could be that most if not all of the adults in that room are secretly mourning the loss of children, but they have to force it down for fear of the same thing happening to them.
I cant even play my perry como!
Not a good idea Dan
This kid is the Zeno of Twilight Zone.
Anthony was the original Twitter.
Thanks, Delta9SFBay. Hello, Sethites!
Sorry it's taken so long but Thank You....Gotta go... I have to go check the corn fields w/ Cole the Cornstar
And this is why you keep a gun in the house, ya know, just in case your own little Anthony starts wishing people into the corn field.
Anthony is the one with the gun.
This is almost a perfect embodiment of modern PC Sweden.
"AND THAT'S A GOOD THING"
Where do I keep hearing this?
this is the best twilight zone episode to me. & one of the best short stories ever. should be made into a movie. because kids are crazy. worst than thanos or Galactus.
But if they could kill him, he could be the only thing keeping his world there. If he dies so does it. The end.
the twilight zone is very creepy
One of my favorite twilight episodes ever. I accidentally discovered this series when I was 18 in 2008 by watching a channel for old people and I was a fan ever since. I tried watching the three other revivals and they mostly were horrible and boring unlike these black and white masterpieces.
2008? Wow... its better late than never
Im of those old people and black and white is the best! At least the shows have some content to them and great story lines.
My first TZ was about 1968 I think...maybe sooner
Only the twilight zone could make a cute 6 year old kid terrifying
I'm sure a lot of fans think this is one of the creepiest eps of the show.
It is!
I love the twilight.zone
Why did this scare me as a kid 😂
I wish I can do that to all my neighbors and thier failure kids
Did you send parts 1 and 2 to the cornfield?
A jack in the box who still had his bad face...
a lot of people dont know this but...the kid was played by chuck norris.it was his first acting role ever
I can’t believe that nobody snuck up on him and killed him quickly already. This is pissing me off that it’s such bullshit. There is not one iota of realism in this episode, at least the others had some shred of probability but this one , none.
Anyone else think this is how Trump is running his presidency?
Michelle Nobile Yes, eerily similar.
Not really
Mr. President, it is an honor and a Privilege to serve you! Its a good thing what you did to Mr. Comey!
Dept. Heads serve at the pleasure of the President!
@@thomasjonesjr6282 And Trump cansned anyone who says or thinks anything bad about him, and can take out any Republican who doesn't tow his line. He's got them all cowed.
It's a Good Life: first published by Jerome Bixby 1953
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Bixby
This was one the best......I was pretty young when TZ was airing...... your a bad man korn2012nwo a very bad man ...... bahhahahahahaha
One of the best episodes.If you like scary stories about evil children, try: "Alfred Hitchcock: "Where the Woodbine Twineth" and "The Magic Shop". You won't be dissapointed.
Look up the video "Saddam Hussein Purge". In the video, Saddam Hussein (in the 1970s) calls together a meeting of all of his cabinet and ministers.
He then starts reading a list of "enemies of the state", and each time he reads a name, the guards move through the aisles and take them outside to be shot.
A few started to shout and urge everyone to resist Saddam, to storm the podium to together to take him out, or to curse him as they're being dragged out.
But most of them simply cowered and cried "God bless you Saddam Hussein! You saved our country!" and "Thank you for sparing us Saddam Hussein! We love you!"
Richard Herzog Pretty common with dictators, Idi Amin loved slaughtering people in the most nightmarish ways possible.
The pain the pain....will Robinson!
Who would have known that the Twilight Zone was prophetic? People building altars to their children and tip toeing around their feelings. Children running the 'household'. Sound familiar?
I would actually hate to have Anthony's ability to hear or read people's thoughts, especially their thoughts about me. I would prefer not to know what people think of me.
Trump increasingly reminds me of Anthony Freemont, the monster child in a Twilight Zone episode called "It's a Good Life." Republicans kowtow to him, because he might throw a tantrum and send them away into the cornfield if they don't.-- Stephen King
James Graham Stephen King said this on Twitter.
You have that backwards, he chides the press who should take as good as it gets, and politicians who again are public figures. While google and the rest of your bay area moral majority simply unplatform normal people, or in the case of Alex Jones, make them disappear. The false accusers pointing fingers are the left, you need only look at the farce that was the supreme court nomination hearing, and the false accusers still aren't in jail, because they are rare prosecuted. Jussie Smollett faking a hate crime so he could accuse others simply illustrates just how deranged people are on the left, and its hardly the first case, thousands of bomb threats were called into jewish community centers, by your own people, leftists.
Steven King hasn't been the same since his severe car accident which likely left him with brain trauma, which kind of says it all about his politics, and the mental state of the left. A left where people disappear for using the "learn to code" hashtag because it offended liberal journalists, or the npc meme because it cut to the bone of their hypocrisy, to the point where they had no answer.
Wow. Trump as a child.
James Peters NOPE, the whole Dogturdocrat party.
I think you mean your AUNT HILLARY!!
billys one point two
was the first punch really due
george sits eats his stew
I THINK I READ THIS in high school.
RIP Cloris Leachman.
OMG that's Cloris Leachman. She's great and so funny in her current role of Maw Maw.
This episode was also redone in twilight zone the movie.
He knew he was going to die. He just didn't want to live like that anymore.
Anthony does not represent spoiled children. He represents any childish, insecure boss we have to deal with who expects his underlings to agree and like everything (s)he does, and accepts no complaints on pain of banishment. I've met a number of them; how about you? And that included the man we had in the White House from 2017 to 2021. A childish and petty man. And he tried to send our democracy into the cornfield.
The best one.
the movie release also had a similar scene it was really well done, really quite disturbing :D
Anthony is gangster n got all dem white folks frontin like its all good n shit😄😃😄😃😎
Yes, it's a tremendous power! Certainly one of your bigly powers, compared to most. And that Anthony is really a smart cookie and really admired by all his people. I think we ought to stop our collaborative efforts with nearby nations to deter Anthony because Anthony's a kid we can really work with, for the betterment of all people on Earth and especially our friends in the swing states. Yeah... great kid, that Anthony. STOP FAKE NEWS TARGETING ANTHONY!!!!
How do you know this? Can you prove it?
With all the talented editors WHY hasn't someone already remade this using Trump??
Because not everyone is a fearmongering pantywaist like you. Kids more like antifa anyway.
Because they want to get the Obama version out first.
There is a lot of star power on that stage. The kid is brilliant, and Cloris Leachman is as good as she ever was. Lots of familiar looking supporting players too. Twilight Zone was so far ahead of it's day
There is another TZ episode with a similar kid. He made the sister's mouth heal over so she couldn't tease him. Any leads?
In case you never found out, that was the Twilight Zone Movie. :)
@@Daveyploo thx!
You can stream this whole episode for free from hulu
The Simpsons brought me there.
I WONDER why u cannot find full eppie of this one
How to interact with police in America.
I felt bad for Dan watching this :(
It's good that you felt bad. It's real good.
Yes...he was thinking bad thoughts
Little Anthony Friedmont, age 6.
The title its really ironic. This will be hell of a life
My God. How many attractive women in this scene!
This was the most frustrating episodes.
Donald trump when he was a kid
yeah, right....any moron can see it's obama to a tee
spunkysmum FUCK OFF
There's that intelligent, thoughtful discourse I've come to expect from you Obama lovers.
+spunkysmum LET ME REPEAT MYSELF.I SAID FUCK OFF YOU LOSER
Repart yourself? Does that mean you are going to replace some of your parts? I doubt it'll help much.