This episode of The Twilight Zone has some very interesting connections to today........and next week.?ÿ Richard Deacon is the heartless Mr. Whipple who owns the manufacturing business.?ÿ As the show goes on there are more new inventions that eliminate the need for other categories of employees.?ÿ Looks way to much like today.?ÿ Rather prophetic story.
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I thought Mr. Whipple was the dude that always wanted women to squeeze his "Charmin"?
Agreed, but, this is a very different Mr. Whipple.?ÿ Richard Deacon is far better known for playing Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show, so this was quite a change in character.?ÿ He's one mean SOB in the Twilight Zone episode.
I never would've thought, in a million years, that this guy:
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Would fall into the [potty mouth]?ÿcategory...
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There has been plenty of technological advancement since that show was aired, and plenty of jobs replaced by robots. Yet there are more people with jobs today (notwithstanding this Covid-19 business) than ever before. Google "luddite". They wanted to stop progress in 1810.?ÿ ?ÿ You know, 1810 - when average life expectancy was under 50 years.
One invention in this episode was a device that he spoke into and a typewriter sort of machine typed out his message with correct spelling and punctuation.
One TV show I watch on StartTV is called In Plain Sight.?ÿ The focus is on the US Marshall Service and the witness protection system.?ÿ All sorts of words appear with an X replacing the expected letter.?ÿ Some take some effort to sort out.?ÿ One word they use frequently is suxxxxion.?ÿ That is a person who is a suspect is said to be under suxxxxion.
I agree that the TV show with Mel Cooley should have had two (potty mouth) insertions if any were used.
I just started binge watching "Criminal Minds".
I had never seen one episode until last night.
SO far I'm through Season 1, episodes 1, 2, 3, & 4. 5 is next! ?????ÿ
Walked past the TV a few minutes ago and saw Richard Deacon.?ÿ I had totally forgotten he also played Lumpy's dad on Leave it to (potty mouth).
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(censored myself)
My wife leaves the room when that show comes on. I enjoy all the mental gymnastics the group goes through on each case. All she sees is the gore and the insanity of senseless torture of innocent victims. Now that it has ended, I'm going to really miss it.
If it gets too bad, I probably won't keep watching it. I try to fill my mind and heart with positive, uplifting things.
I was kidnapped and tortured at age 9 by a child serial killer. I got lucky; he let me go after he was done with me. The three other little girls that were picked up in my area were tortured and strangled. ????
With that said, hopefully the show teaches people on what types of personalities, mannerisms, situations, etc...to avoid in real life. I am ALWAYS aware of my surroundings, and if anyone ever tried to harm me now, look out!! I'd be beating their ass!!! ????
WOW!
This is why it is so important to not judge others based on what little we know about them and their travels through life. Some have had lives far different from what we know or see.
@holy-cow HWMBO was watching it so I saw a season or so by osmosis. I found it unrelentingly grim and quit watching. I do like detective / police shows although I've migrated over to British ones, mostly. I will go through phases where I'll watch reality tv but only in certain genres like UK/Canada/NZ/Aussie/US border force/patrol or Cops or similar shows from overseas. I had great fun watching rural NZ cops chasing down drink drivers or just plain bad drivers. People actually call and report the bad drivers!
Grim describes it well. It showed often how people we like to assume are normal are not even close to being normal. It really makes one look a little harder at the strange duck who lives down the street. The part I liked about it was the mental challenges that the team faced as they attempted to solve the ongoing case as quickly as possible.
With the worldwide lockdowns happening, and thus the need for entertainment, the rural folk may enjoy NZ's Country Calendar series, which has been going since 1966 and I think were weekly - half an our on Sunday evenings. As a family we used to religiously sit down and watch. It looks like the latest series, since 2017, are sponsored by a car manufacturer and appear to be free to view on youtube. I've been trying to find one that would have been out around 1980, rounding up feral Hereford cattle in the Far North - some of them were manually caught and wrangled by their tails, and there were a few scenes of large bulls flaring up and destroying cattle trucks to get out and hurdling fences to get back into the hills.
Here's one of the new ones.
