When I was watching Twilight Zone as a kid, I always thought that Serling was supposed to be some kind of god/ruler of The Twilight Zone, And that he's in control of it. And that he puts all these people into these situations to amuse himself and to study human nature. And as an adult, it's still pretty fun to think that way, even though I do realise that he's just a narrator (+ creator and a writer) of this show.
Njah. West thought he got rid of Serling but he was just trolling West. :3 Right after the episode ended, West propably ended up in the Willoughby, Cornfield, Room 22, Kanamit's dinnerplate, or maybe he's just forced to re-live the same dream of him dying again and again. Who knows what Rod did to him as a punishment :3 ps. I'm just goofing around :3
RageJoona Gregory West created Rod Serling and Victoria West for entertainment. He got rid of Victoria before she became too independent. He didn't get rid of Rod Serling in time. By season 2, he was already appearing and narrating by himself.
fivebearrugs Yep, he was something else: a Master to come up with a show like this and then later with Night Gallery. One of my Heroes that I grew up watching... Oh and He also appears from underneath a tree in the season 1 episode: "The Prime Mover"...
fivebearrugs I forgot which one it was but I liked in one of the Western ones he comes from behind a fence, The Grave I think. I could never resist adding in the Serlingesque voice "Sorry I'm late. I had to use the Little Narrator's Room."
Another one of my favorites is in The Mirror when after the Castro figure introduces his lieutenants as "The Loyal One," " The Quiet One" etc. Then Rod appears. I always add in Peter Falk's Castro voice "And Rodman, The Narrative One!"
Me: watches TH-cam Rod after appearing out of thin air: A man sits in front of a glowing screen, as he looks into it for entertainment, unknowing the horrors that will soon unfold, in, the twighlight zone Me: Well, that's enough TH-cam for the day
As an 8 year old child, Rod Serling scared the hell outta me because I always wondered why he would appear in the middle of a show and stare at me. Yesterday later, at 43, I find him to be the coolest side on the planet and an awesome writer. Listening to him made me speak better in more of a sophisticated way.
As an 8-year-old in 1963 and a devoted fan of The twilight zone I started to read rod serling stories and continued until I was in high school 10 years later. He and Ray Bradbury cemented my love of books.
I had a creative writing class where we would watch the twilight zone. We had to take different concepts each week and write about them. Usually one would be inspired by a twilight zone episode that we watched. For our final, one concept (although it didn’t directly say it) was to create a twilight zone episode (a mysterious man appearing to narrate a story and strange things happening, etc). So the episode I wrote was literally opens with the characters asking why Rod sterling is narrating their lives and telling him to get out of their property. He finds out HE is in the Twilight zone
This was one of the few episodes that terrified me to the core when I first saw it in syndication as a budding lifelong SF fan at age 6 in 1975. It was brilliantly acted and portrayed by the two pathetically desperate main actors, as well as incredibly thought-provoking. The absolute hopelessness of the situation, one without ANY chance of reversing the unexplained orbital shift of the Earth, or of avoiding total extinction, is one of the bleakest threats to Human existence ever conceived. A true example of the highest quality of Science Fiction. It is of the Classic type that actually stimulates lasting thought and emotion, instead of just simply more and more brainless action and computer-generated Eye-Candy.
if i heard rod serling narrating my life as i was going to a grocery store, i probably wouldnt go me: im hungry so im off to the grocery store rod: Currently unaware of the events about to unfold, as this unaware being is about to be in a struggle for life and death as he heads to the store known as...the twilight zone me:.......yea ill probably leave it then
Time to start a monthlong fast. Just say "you know, I was planning on losing weight anyway, no time like the present." Another good sign is if you're about to open a spooky door with light coming from under it in a darkened corridor, and suddenly you're surrounded by scary, tense music. You should be like "yeah I'm not going to open that door."
Her silence. Golden. Allowing the gravity of what has just been said take effect. Her eyes...unmoving still fixed by her thoughts of consequence. Great acting.
This is not possible!! I just watched this episode on Netflix a few hours ago, and here it is in this video! What the heck kind of a coincidence is this? I guess I too have entered the Twilight Zone.
OH MY GOD! The people in his universe can actually SEE and HEAR him! I always thought he was God... God Serling. If Rod was doing a narrative intro about me and my life, I'd be scared beyond belief... it's not a good sign. Like, EVER.
This is a fan-edited video so they weren't actually looking at him in that scene. There was, however, one episode called "A World of His Own" in which a character does break the fourth wall and interact with Rod. It was very short and tagged on at the very end but it blew my mind.
It's a great bit because Gregory West, the playwright played by Keenan Wynn destroys a reel with Rod's name on it and he has this look like "Oh Jesus" and disappears. Supposedly, the original plan was Serling was supposed to be a voice only but that ending proved such a hit with audiences that he decided to appear on screen instead.
SPOILER!!! I remember this great episode. Rod said that the Earth was moving CLOSER to the sun. The actress (the always wonderful Lois Nettleton) felt that everything around her was melting, the sun was burning hot, and she had a very high fever. In turned out that her fever, high temps, terrible chills were really delusions, caused by her body succumbing to the extreme cold, as the Earth was actually in an orbit going FURTHER from the Sun.
Imagine a place As it waits to be found A different dimension Of mind sight and sound Where you unlock a door Through all space and all time Where you hear through deaf ears And light shines to the blind A middle ground Between day and night Where nothing seems wrong And yet nothing seems right For reality itself Is merely a dream In this land of shadows And substance and things And you push past the boundaries And borders you find Through the depths of your fears And the lights of your mind There's a sign up ahead You feel lost and alone But like so many You have just entered The Twilight Zone
My head Canon is that time, light, and gravity get a little funky the closer you get to a star. So while normally Rod is invisible to everyone around him. The closer they get to the sun the more they can see him, see into his world
I mean, I don't even know what to say anymore. It's not even funny. I hope you see these comments you made 2 years from now and start fucking crying over how much of a pathetic bitch you are.
Most of my favorite shows from the 60's don't hold up very well, but the Twilight Zone was so far ahead of it's time that it's the exception. One Step Beyond and Way Out with Raould Dahl were also very good ! Many episodes tried to not just entertain, but include a moral, or philosophical message. I think this was the strength of the Twilight Zone. Serling was saying, "Hey, look what can happen when people find themselves in these situations."
To be honest, I've never watched a Twighlight Zone episode in my life but watching him give these dark monologues over a course of a view clips has me captivated and wanting me to give the show a watch.
The Midnight Sun from Season 3. Man was it one of his best. It was just genius how he wrote it with the world moving closer to the Sun and it causes mass hysteria as people wait for extinction. The ending was a great twist. There won't ever be another Rod Serling. He was a one in a million writer with his unique ideas
This episode disturbed me when I first saw it and does so even more these days. Reminded me of the novel/film On the Beach. The end is coming and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Raises the question of "how does one cope with this?"
I was just a kid when the Twilight Zone started airing and so I hadn't yet developed any kind of critical sense of what good acting ought to be. I just knew that the TZ episodes were skillfully paced and very effective. Now in my seventies I see these episodes once more and I am knocked out by the very high level of acting skill displayed by the professionals Serling hired for the show. A few of the performances I place among the most impressive acting "turns" I've ever seen. These old-school pros make the pretty boys and girls of today's cinema seem what, in truth, they are: vapid, smug, nearly incapable of projecting genuine emotion, the kind that only comes from having live life hard and to the fullest. Contemporary actors are, for the most part, lightweights compared to the stable of superb professionals Serling could get just by making a phone call. Some who went on to become mega-famous (Robert Redford for one) had their first exposure to large viewing audiences on the Twilight Zone. Gig Young in "Walking Distance" is magnificent and the episode never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Somehow I don't think Johnny Depp or Leonardo DiCaprio are going to do that anytime soon., but perhaps I haven't seen their best work.
Whoooo man I get goosebumps every time I watch this rod serling knows how to put the fear and truth in you even when it hurts to hear but thankful he said it.
This is such a great little twist on the usual intro! The characters in this story are dying of thirst and are growing mentally unstable from too much sunlight, as the episode progresses their mental conditions continue to worsen. From the beginning, these two ladies see Rod and brush it off as a hallucination, introducing us straight into the story, and foreshadowing everything to come👌🏻.
I like to imagine Rod Serling created a way to travel between universes and now he’s teaching his pupil- the viewer- the secret of how to travel between universes and at the same time showing us what strange events occur in alternate universes
TFW you wake up and Rod Sterling is in your bedroom saying “this man thought today would be like any other day, but he would soon meet a terrible fate...”
Same here. Excellent b&w cinematography. The only 'flub' was when the TZ producers decided to save money by video-taping several episodes later in the series. Very distracting.
He literally had dished out the toilet-flush theory in such a distinct and suave manner, I don't think my heart could pine for any other man the same as it does for that young Rod Serling.
Imagine you‘re doing your normal daily business and suddenly a man appears in your apartment and tells you something like that while he‘s standing in front of a window
I like Rod threatening Keenan Wynn. The "metadata" that "defines Keenan" is on an piece of magnetic tape in Rod's hands.... he also has a pair of scissors
You know you're in trouble when Rod Serling shows up and starts talking about you....
You cant even run away, you're just trapped in the twilight zone.
David Garrett Lol! Brilliant!
David Garrett shows up the day of the test lol
Your best chance is to hide the ashtrays. He'll leave before the commercial to take a cigarette break.
"Submitted for your approval...""I don't want to approve it...""To late we already wrote the script..."
"Well, I'll just be going now...."
*awkwardly walks past the ladies and out the door*
Anthony Eldridge Mrs. Bronson: So anyway....
“The hell was that all about?”
I'd love that!
*opens the window and goes out, one leg after the other*
@@pungoblin9377 I can totally see that happening.
Any day now I'm expecting Rod Serling to appear and describe the world we're in now
If u watch his interviews on censorship he describes the beginning of the mess we are today.
Same 💗
A high quality deep fake of that would be awesome. And based on his commentary, ironic
Wow that comment is underrated
Jesucristo es Dios
When I was watching Twilight Zone as a kid, I always thought that Serling was supposed to be some kind of god/ruler of The Twilight Zone, And that he's in control of it. And that he puts all these people into these situations to amuse himself and to study human nature.
And as an adult, it's still pretty fun to think that way, even though I do realise that he's just a narrator (+ creator and a writer) of this show.
RageJoona It's pretty clear that Gregory West is the one controlling the Twilight Zone. He's responsible for all of this nonsense.
Njah. West thought he got rid of Serling but he was just trolling West. :3
Right after the episode ended, West propably ended up in the Willoughby, Cornfield, Room 22, Kanamit's dinnerplate, or maybe he's just forced to re-live the same dream of him dying again and again. Who knows what Rod did to him as a punishment :3
ps. I'm just goofing around :3
RageJoona Gregory West created Rod Serling and Victoria West for entertainment. He got rid of Victoria before she became too independent. He didn't get rid of Rod Serling in time. By season 2, he was already appearing and narrating by himself.
Same
@@ragejoona431 Actually, Gregory West got a package in the mail with no return address, containing a Talky Tina doll 😵!!😆
My favorite was when Rod randomly comes out of the bushes while the kids are playing in "A Game of Kick the Can"
fivebearrugs I love the episode with all the toys in the bucket. It was so funny when the camera pans up and he's just chilling at the top.
fivebearrugs I agree! It gives me a chuckle!
fivebearrugs Yep, he was something else: a Master to come up with a show like this and then later with Night Gallery. One of my Heroes that I grew up watching... Oh and He also appears from underneath a tree in the season 1 episode: "The Prime Mover"...
fivebearrugs I forgot which one it was but I liked in one of the Western ones he comes from behind a fence, The Grave I think. I could never resist adding in the Serlingesque voice "Sorry I'm late. I had to use the Little Narrator's Room."
Another one of my favorites is in The Mirror when after the Castro figure introduces his lieutenants as "The Loyal One," " The Quiet One" etc. Then Rod appears. I always add in Peter Falk's Castro voice "And Rodman, The Narrative One!"
even at midnight
ITS HIGH NOON
*Hears rod serling say 'ITS HIGH NOON'*
*Instinctively dodge-rolls out of my room*
Lol :)
Joe Repp overwatch?
Quadruple Kill!
Joe Repp There is more darkness.
even by Steven Kings standards, Rods dialogs were put together perfectly. He had a great gift of setting up the story.
@Dave Smith Totally agree.
Except Steven King can't hold a candle to Rod
Indubitably.
Stephen King has standards?
King and his team of ghost writers are pretty good though. :)
When Rod Sterling shows up it’s over.
When Rod Serling shows up, you're screwed!
☠
Dude. You're Mandela effected.
*Serling
@@roccodonato4120 - Dolly had braces!!
Me: watches TH-cam
Rod after appearing out of thin air: A man sits in front of a glowing screen, as he looks into it for entertainment, unknowing the horrors that will soon unfold, in, the twighlight zone
Me: Well, that's enough TH-cam for the day
Wouldn’t it be funny if he did one on COVID 19? Funny as in like creepy...🤣😂🎆
“Rod, get out of my room man! boundaries! not cool dude!”
Maybe putting the screen down is what lunched you into… The Twilight Zone
@@inforism. When I read that, I can hear it in the voice of a pissed off older brother.
Rod continues: He told himself, "that's enough for today", but he was soon to find out, to his terror.....
As an 8 year old child, Rod Serling scared the hell outta me because I always wondered why he would appear in the middle of a show and stare at me. Yesterday later, at 43, I find him to be the coolest side on the planet and an awesome writer. Listening to him made me speak better in more of a sophisticated way.
As an 8-year-old in 1963 and a devoted fan of The twilight zone I started to read rod serling stories and continued until I was in high school 10 years later. He and Ray Bradbury cemented my love of books.
@@njpaddler same here... we'd gather round the TV and the family would freak together....all minor issues went away during the Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling was one of the greatest writers of his generation and we are richer for his work.
His voice was hypnotic, mesmerizing. He compelled you to listen, whether you wanted to or not.
"You know we can see you, right?"
"No you can't."
Despite the impending doom his voice often accompanies
Serling's voice is really relaxing
Everyone is gangster until Rob Serling starts narrating.
😆!!
It’s “Rod” not “Rob”.
The 2 women: "who tf are you? How did you get in our apartment?"
Rod sterling: "...the cat door"
Dude. You're Mandela effected.
The scary door
WE DONT HAVE CATS! 😮
why the hell did this make me laugh so hard
Rod *SERLING (no "T" in his last name)
0:50 I was half expecting a "who the !@#$ are you?!" to come from her
MrTHEMONEEMAKER Well to be fair, he's only slightly less intrusive a Narrator than Adam Connover. (The original "Rod Ruins Everything.")
Have you seen that Family Guy parody of Rod Serling? It was prety funny.
Julie Porter ROD RUINS EVERYTHING IM WHEEZING
I had a creative writing class where we would watch the twilight zone. We had to take different concepts each week and write about them. Usually one would be inspired by a twilight zone episode that we watched. For our final, one concept (although it didn’t directly say it) was to create a twilight zone episode (a mysterious man appearing to narrate a story and strange things happening, etc). So the episode I wrote was literally opens with the characters asking why Rod sterling is narrating their lives and telling him to get out of their property. He finds out HE is in the Twilight zone
Brilliant
Nice twist.
Characters: pulls an uno reverse card
@@marxvargas7697 exactly
I was reminded a little of the finale of 'Newhart' when Bob wakes up.
At the end, one of women should've said "how did you get in here?"
TheDudeMinds89 Their faces pretty much said it.
Lol :-)
"I stepped through a door, a door not of matter but of mind..."
"Call the police!"
I thought, he came through the window.
The silence made it more creepy
Perfect example of editing to change the true meaning!
This was one of the few episodes that terrified me to the core when I first saw it in syndication as a budding lifelong SF fan at age 6 in 1975. It was brilliantly acted and portrayed by the two pathetically desperate main actors, as well as incredibly thought-provoking. The absolute hopelessness of the situation, one without ANY chance of reversing the unexplained orbital shift of the Earth, or of avoiding total extinction, is one of the bleakest threats to Human existence ever conceived. A true example of the highest quality of Science Fiction. It is of the Classic type that actually stimulates lasting thought and emotion, instead of just simply more and more brainless action and computer-generated Eye-Candy.
And of course the plot twist at the end...
you seem like the kind of moron to think that no good television has come out in 60 years
@@Liliputian07
That’s because none has. It’s been co-opted by marxists and subtly turned into political agitprop.
@@combativeThinker
you're either fucking stupid or totally lost dude
@@Liliputian07 C'mon all, let's get along and shit.
Rod Serling was the real deal. One of a kind.
*
**Serling**
@@blackphoenix77Yes My Bad! I didn't realize that it spell checked me and auto corrected it. Thanks
@@ColeCoibiBFDIObject watch more. tv and movies were actually often much better than they are now. the acting and writing had a lot of style
if i heard rod serling narrating my life as i was going to a grocery store, i probably wouldnt go
me: im hungry so im off to the grocery store
rod: Currently unaware of the events about to unfold, as this unaware being is about to be in a struggle for life and death as he heads to the store known as...the twilight zone
me:.......yea ill probably leave it then
It would be "A store located in...the twilight zone" soz
Haha😆
Time to start a monthlong fast. Just say "you know, I was planning on losing weight anyway, no time like the present." Another good sign is if you're about to open a spooky door with light coming from under it in a darkened corridor, and suddenly you're surrounded by scary, tense music. You should be like "yeah I'm not going to open that door."
"A store that sells products made...in The Twilight Zone!"
Rod: As he stays at home, little does he know, that he is a driving a U-Haul truck to... The Twilight Zone.
Nobody Could "Set The Stage " Like Rod Serling !!!!!.....
They acted like this wasn't in the script, like they weren't expecting it!
TheDeadmanRules because they were staring at a painting not him. This is an edit
TheDeadmanRules yup
@@cristinarosas5395 ?
This part wasn't scripted. Rod sterling hadn't received his new script yet so he came on set during a reshoot and pulled this off this cuff.
That is why they are called actors.
Her silence. Golden.
Allowing the gravity of what has just been said take effect. Her eyes...unmoving still fixed by her thoughts of consequence. Great acting.
Everybody's gangsta until all of sudden *Rod Serling* shows up and talks about the disturbingly unimaginable side of the human life.
This is not possible!! I just watched this episode on Netflix a few hours ago, and here it is in this video! What the heck kind of a coincidence is this? I guess I too have entered the Twilight Zone.
Either that or it's targeted advertising
Imagine if you will......
You been there all along..........................................
@@XZ-III yep no one cares
OH MY GOD! The people in his universe can actually SEE and HEAR him! I always thought he was God... God Serling. If Rod was doing a narrative intro about me and my life, I'd be scared beyond belief... it's not a good sign. Like, EVER.
This is a fan-edited video so they weren't actually looking at him in that scene. There was, however, one episode called "A World of His Own" in which a character does break the fourth wall and interact with Rod. It was very short and tagged on at the very end but it blew my mind.
It's a great bit because Gregory West, the playwright played by Keenan Wynn destroys a reel with Rod's name on it and he has this look like "Oh Jesus" and disappears.
Supposedly, the original plan was Serling was supposed to be a voice only but that ending proved such a hit with audiences that he decided to appear on screen instead.
No David Attenbrough is god.
Yeah I think that can wait another day.
"What you are looking at is a man who has just thrown away his life."
@@julieporter7805 No, he doesn't. Rod just shrugs and says, "Well, that's how it goes..." before disappearing.
This was a certified "bruh" moment for Mrs. Bronson.
SPOILER!!! I remember this great episode. Rod said that the Earth was moving CLOSER to the sun. The actress (the always wonderful Lois Nettleton) felt that everything around her was melting, the sun was burning hot, and she had a very high fever. In turned out that her fever, high temps, terrible chills were really delusions, caused by her body succumbing to the extreme cold, as the Earth was actually in an orbit going FURTHER from the Sun.
Yep that was a good one
Just one random frame from an episode, you just know the story even years after watching it. Thats how memorable his stories are.
Imagine a place
As it waits to be found
A different dimension
Of mind sight and sound
Where you unlock a door
Through all space and all time
Where you hear through deaf ears
And light shines to the blind
A middle ground
Between day and night
Where nothing seems wrong
And yet nothing seems right
For reality itself
Is merely a dream
In this land of shadows
And substance and things
And you push past the boundaries
And borders you find
Through the depths of your fears
And the lights of your mind
There's a sign up ahead
You feel lost and alone
But like so many
You have just entered
The Twilight Zone
Huh.......almost sounds like a rap that micheal jackson should have used when he did "threatened"
Almost like that should be some Pink Floyd lyrics.
@@DavidD-bg7uo I could hear it in my head! Thanks I might make it into a song now!
a poet.
...or the U.S. Senate.
My head Canon is that time, light, and gravity get a little funky the closer you get to a star. So while normally Rod is invisible to everyone around him. The closer they get to the sun the more they can see him, see into his world
I love this show. I like to watch it on netflix at night.
Do it then.
lelsleyur you first let's see how tough you are bitch.
Okay. I'm doing it! I'm gonna come over there!
I mean, I don't even know what to say anymore. It's not even funny. I hope you see these comments you made 2 years from now and start fucking crying over how much of a pathetic bitch you are.
You fucking pathetic lactose intolerant squeezed orange of a man.
Most of my favorite shows from the 60's don't hold up very well, but the Twilight Zone was so far ahead of it's time that it's the exception. One Step Beyond and Way Out with Raould Dahl were also very good ! Many episodes tried to not just entertain, but include a moral, or philosophical message. I think this was the strength of the Twilight Zone. Serling was saying, "Hey, look what can happen when people find themselves in these situations."
This is my favorite episode too lmao "The Midnight Sun"
Me too!!!
I love the twist ending to this episode.
In "A World of His Own" Serling actually does interact with the character played by Keenan Wynn. Won't spoil the twist here.
Well, that's how it goes.
That's my favorite episode.
..After having starred in the TV version of Requiem for a Heavyweight. Anybody have the Emmy tribute with Wynn and Richard Kiley?
That was part of the joke.
I remember that, and if it is what I'm thinking it is it was actually funny.
To be honest, I've never watched a Twighlight Zone episode in my life but watching him give these dark monologues over a course of a view clips has me captivated and wanting me to give the show a watch.
The Midnight Sun from Season 3. Man was it one of his best. It was just genius how he wrote it with the world moving closer to the Sun and it causes mass hysteria as people wait for extinction. The ending was a great twist. There won't ever be another Rod Serling. He was a one in a million writer with his unique ideas
See the day earth caught fire excellent British flick 1962
Thank you for identifying Season 3 episode #10. One of the very best and so timely for today.
This episode disturbed me when I first saw it and does so even more these days. Reminded me of the novel/film On the Beach. The end is coming and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Raises the question of "how does one cope with this?"
Rod Sterling: *walks into the room and starts talking about me*
Me: Why do I hear boss music?
Dude. You're Mandela effected.
Absolutely! I use the Twilight zone to describe any surreal strange ironic situation....
Whenever he busts through the fourth wall you know the wheels are coming off of 'normality'. What a story teller!
I like at the end when they look at each other like “who the hell is this guy?” Lol!
I was just a kid when the Twilight Zone started airing and so I hadn't yet developed any kind of critical sense of what good acting ought to be. I just knew that the TZ episodes were skillfully paced and very effective. Now in my seventies I see these episodes once more and I am knocked out by the very high level of acting skill displayed by the professionals Serling hired for the show. A few of the performances I place among the most impressive acting "turns" I've ever seen. These old-school pros make the pretty boys and girls of today's cinema seem what, in truth, they are: vapid, smug, nearly incapable of projecting genuine emotion, the kind that only comes from having live life hard and to the fullest. Contemporary actors are, for the most part, lightweights compared to the stable of superb professionals Serling could get just by making a phone call. Some who went on to become mega-famous (Robert Redford for one) had their first exposure to large viewing audiences on the Twilight Zone. Gig Young in "Walking Distance" is magnificent and the episode never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Somehow I don't think Johnny Depp or Leonardo DiCaprio are going to do that anytime soon., but perhaps I haven't seen their best work.
There was one episode of the Twilight Zone where the main character of the story "deleted" Rod Sterling from existence.
“Even at midnight it’s high noon”
Me a McCree main: Well yes, but actually yes
"The hottest day in history. Relish it, though. It's the coolest day that'll ever be again."
This was quite a flaming hot episode, pun intended. Fairly unsettling indeed.
This feels like an SNL parody of the show. All they needed to do was actually interact with him.
The plot twist for this episode was brilliant
Whoooo man I get goosebumps every time I watch this rod serling knows how to put the fear and truth in you even when it hurts to hear but thankful he said it.
If Rod Serling pops up and starts delivering your biopic, run.
Especially seeing as he's been dead for years
I thinks it’s even more frightening for the awareness of the characters of seeing him and sometimes the hopelessness of the situation.
Imagine being in the dark and this guy starts talking I would have been like No nononono!
This is such a great little twist on the usual intro! The characters in this story are dying of thirst and are growing mentally unstable from too much sunlight, as the episode progresses their mental conditions continue to worsen. From the beginning, these two ladies see Rod and brush it off as a hallucination, introducing us straight into the story, and foreshadowing everything to come👌🏻.
I like how you just completely made up an analysis on a scene that was edited for youtube while pretending like you've actually seen the episode
The way the calmly says it. It's the scariest thing I have seen
I like to imagine Rod Serling created a way to travel between universes and now he’s teaching his pupil- the viewer- the secret of how to travel between universes and at the same time showing us what strange events occur in alternate universes
TFW you wake up and Rod Sterling is in your bedroom saying “this man thought today would be like any other day, but he would soon meet a terrible fate...”
I’ve got the complete Twilight Zone on Blu-Ray, the best Christmas present I ever got.☺️
*THAT'S AMAZING..!* 💜
Same here. Excellent b&w cinematography. The only 'flub' was when the TZ producers decided to save money by video-taping several episodes later in the series. Very distracting.
Nice. I own them on VHS and DVD. I will now own them on blue ray. I will treat myself to my own Christmas gift a portable blue ray player.
@@robertkellogg1199 You will be blown away by TZ's b&w cine on bluray. I'm talking quality at/near Haskell Wexler.
@M M Sounds right. Video-taping really did a disservice to TZ production.
He broke the fourth wall! AHHHHHHHHH!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Would’ve been so sick if the final episode was a real 4th wall break
He is the ultimate jump scare and the original jump scare OG.
Rod Serling had a very unique narrating voice. 🌙
Thank the smokes...
If Rod ever shows up narrating anything in my bedroom when I wake up I’m calling out that day, arming myself and staying alert all day lol
He was the best writer and producer ever in television. No one has ever come close.
I love how he just comes out of nowhere, I’ve always wondered where he disappeared off to afterwards.
Rod Serling was a genius!!
"Mom, who the hell was that man? This is why I hate living in the city."
One of my favorite episodes. Love the twist in the end
After watching as many episodes as I have, just hearing Rod Serling's voice starts that strange music in my head.
there actually are episodes where characters notice Sterling. The episode "A World Of His Own" actually has a character threaten Rod Sterling.
He was merely the host. That was the only episode in which there was any interaction.
"actually"
Don’t you just hate it when rod serling comes and tells you you’re in the twilight zone
greatest show ever created to date. Cinema masterpiece, the twilight zone
This is great because IIRC this is the only time the characters in an episode ever react to him
Sweating buckets in here, or am i really freezing to death?? Damn choices.
Its amazing how Rod Serling was such a Futurist, Realist, and Analysts To The Human Condition all rolled into one
I just watched The Eye Of The Beholder today for the umpteen time. Fascinating! Oh, the twist!
He literally had dished out the toilet-flush theory in such a distinct and suave manner, I don't think my heart could pine for any other man the same as it does for that young Rod Serling.
"Don't paint the sun anymore!!"
The Twilight Zone really was quite perplexing with its writing and delivery.
This is edited but quite in the realm of the writing in the show
If this dude shows up in 2021 we won’t be surprised at all
Imagine you‘re doing your normal daily business and suddenly a man appears in your apartment and tells you something like that while he‘s standing in front of a window
* After Rod speaks *
The ladies: “Who the fook was that guy?”
"Don't narrate our doom anymore!!!" (Mrs. Bronson)
Rod is not sweating. Rods suit is sharp. Demeanor is composed. Yet the world is ending.
He is god
sniffing glue won't keep families together
Oh ok. Logical.
You are always cool, composed and dressed sharply for the end of the world.
Tad Seeley
Acceptance of the inevitable realization. Being flustered is no solution. Good point.
Fun fact, we were watching this exact episode in my creative writing class
This episode was so sad and stressful.
You know you're close to the Sun when it completely SURROUNDS the Earth.
Love this episode. Fry in a dream and freeze when she wakes up
Spoiler Alert ?
His voice so iconic u can spot it anywhere and anytime of the day
This episode gave me one of the scariest nightmares I’ve ever had, and yet it is still my favorite episode
Me too.
When I was a kid, this episode scarred the shit out of me. Multiple times.
I got chills just from listening to that! Rod was a genius!
I like Rod threatening Keenan Wynn.
The "metadata" that "defines Keenan" is on an piece of magnetic tape in Rod's hands.... he also has a pair of scissors
I thought it was Keenan that pulls an envelope out with Rod’s name on it…containing the tape clip.
One of my favorite episodes!
A World Of His Own
Lois Nettleton was a fine actress and always made my heart beat faster. RIP lovely lady.
I love this show. Great actors and great storytelling!
That silence at the end is just... great.
"Where the f--k did HE come from?" LOL
Standing in the middle of an apocalyptic heatwave, and Rod still looks cool af.