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This is probably the most celebrated, talked about, written about, 19 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.400 remembered episode of Night Gallery to its initial audience, syndicated as well. 20 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:52.439 Probably it is season two, episode twenty two. It aired on March the 21 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:56.519 first, nineteen seventy two, and was split into two segments. Those are 22 00:01:56.760 --> 00:02:02.400 The Caterpillar and the Little Girl Lost. There are horror stories and horror stories 23 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:07.280 elements of terror that take myriad forms, but this item has a built in 24 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:12.639 terror which can refrigerate even the most dispassionate amongst us. It has to do 25 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:19.759 with a little beastie known as an earwig, a small bug that crawls into 26 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:24.719 the human ear, and while inside it doesn't whisper sweet nothings, it performs 27 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:30.560 quite another function. Over do you now on Night Gallery a brand new nightmare, 28 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:38.560 which we call the Caterpillar. The Caterpillar was written by Rod Serling from 29 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:43.439 a short story called Boomerang by Oscar Cook, which is a better title, 30 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:46.639 and it was directed by Jean Zoarc who I think this might be his best 31 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:52.360 direction of the entire series, maybe his career. This one stars Lawrence Harvey, 32 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.159 Joanna Pettitt. This is her third of four appearances on Night Gallery, 33 00:02:55.560 --> 00:03:00.560 Tom Hellmore, John Williams this is his second appearance, and Don Knight as 34 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:06.800 a He's a professional English scumbag. This guy was on every television show including 35 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:10.319 Banichick, including Colombo. In Swamp Thing, the Trader is pricked that Australian 36 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:15.639 traders prick. That's him, But I mainly know him from abandoning three adorable 37 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:19.919 children and then just when Bill Bixby and Susan Clark have them settled into a 38 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:22.960 comfortable life, he thinks he can swoop in and rip them away for what 39 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:27.759 money? How dare you separate the Apple Dumpling Gang? Anyway, this is 40 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:31.240 a tale of jealousy and borneo and a most elaborate and simple plan with which 41 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:35.319 to woo a prospective mate, Mike, what do you think of this one? 42 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:39.000 Shouldn't it really be called the Earwig? Can we? That was really 43 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:44.039 bothering me now all the problems in the episode. That's the dumbest one. 44 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:51.719 Like Like Boomerang is a perfect title for it. Mean it means just as 45 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:55.400 much as a caterpillar, because neither feature in the episode at all. Yeah, 46 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:59.840 yeah, it would have been nice if something. But yeah, I 47 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:06.120 must have either seen this or seen one of the countless adaptations of this story 48 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:11.400 or this feels like a It's like a campfire tale, right, this whole 49 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:15.800 thing. We took out the thing, but the thing laid babies. And 50 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:19.959 I think I heard Spider when I first heard this story. Okay, cool, 51 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:26.800 but that was well done. I really like the Lawrence Harvey. I 52 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.720 find it very funny because Chris, we're going to be talking abou Lawrence Harvey 53 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:32.399 again this week, So like Lawrence harveying all over the place right now, 54 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:36.319 which is great. Yeah, but it was just like a blackout skit that 55 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:41.839 was stretched very long. Again, but better than most of these ones that 56 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:44.879 we've talked about lately. They're going out on a high note. How about 57 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:46.800 you, Chris? You know Father Malone. You and I used to do 58 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:53.800 a show about Tales from the Crypt, and I think that this is in 59 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:58.279 that wheelhouse. There are a couple episodes of that show that I can remember 60 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:01.439 back. I want to say one there's a woman with her head and she's 61 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.720 a zombie, and then there's a guy's head on a plate and they're in 62 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:09.959 like Jamaica or something, and it's to be careful what you wish for type 63 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:14.600 thing where he's a jilted lover or something. So I'm I love it. 64 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:18.600 I love the bunch of these studgy British dickens in Bonio, like I love 65 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:23.680 that. It's fantastic. The setting is great. I don't think they take 66 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:28.279 too much advantage of it because it feels rather set bound, unfortunately, because 67 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:32.800 it takes place inside of this plantation house with Lawrence Harvey just being horned up 68 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:39.439 big time, like an erection popping through his fucking pants, Like the moment 69 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:44.360 he sees her, and it's just like she to her credit, she is 70 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:48.040 like hell no, Johanna Pettit is like hell no from moment one, which 71 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:53.759 is interesting because normally in these kinds of stories, there's like this in the 72 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:59.600 air up in the airness about the female character's feelings towards the unrequited male love. 73 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.879 She's like, go take a cold shower, an ice your dick, 74 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:08.560 bro I wrote in my notes finally a love triangle story where there aren't two 75 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:13.920 people who are wrong right, And I absolutely loved that aspect of this because 76 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:17.560 this, honestly, Father Blah, feels like the crescendo moment of having spent 77 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:23.839 all those years watching Tales from the Crypt and they just kept doing that shit 78 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:27.079 over and over again. You have to have one of the people on the 79 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.720 love triangle say no at some point, and it totally works here. It 80 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:34.959 was very fresh. It was fresh, and the title is terrible. Yes, 81 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:39.240 both things we can agree on. Oscar Cook, the author of the 82 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:43.079 short story, apparently was in the military in Borneo wrote a lot of stories 83 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.759 that took place there, which is why it's set here. And and himself 84 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.879 said that this is a parable for rich White entitlement, that Lawrence Harvey's character 85 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:55.079 is just this wealthy guy who just wants what he wants and he's gonna take 86 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:59.680 it no matter what I do. Like that. Lawrence Harvey is one year 87 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:02.160 away from death here. He has stomach cancer. He's in the throes of 88 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:09.319 it here, and evidently during the scenes when the earwig is eating his brain 89 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:13.720 did not take his pain medication for that day of filming. So what you're 90 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:19.160 seeing is actual genuine torment of Lawrence Harvey that, coupled with the makeup is 91 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:24.319 fantastic. Here. If you look at his ear, you can see that 92 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:28.519 the hair all around the area has been scratched off. You can see where 93 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:33.199 his nails have gouged at his own ears, thus necessitating him being tied to 94 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:38.480 that bed. I thought that was really hard to watch and therefore really good. 95 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:42.199 Also, he's wearing some fantastic button up boots when we first meet him. 96 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:46.439 They were beautiful. The music in this episode was handled by a new 97 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:49.800 composer to Night Gallery. His name's Eddie Sauter. If you listen close in 98 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:55.800 the background, there's an electric sitar and a marimba and these electronic squeaks. 99 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:00.480 It's fantastic. Eddie Saunter used to be an arranger for Artie Shaw, Tommy 100 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:05.360 Dorsey and the Benny Goodman Orchestra, and he will be providing the new theme 101 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:09.160 for Night Gallery that we have with season three. In fact, Eddie Saunter 102 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:13.399 will compose all of the music from here on out for Night Gallery. Yeah 103 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:18.040 right. I mentioned that I think this is Juark's best segment, is best 104 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:22.839 directed segment. I agree, Chris. This is a bottle episode. It 105 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:24.839 is definitely a one location episode, but I don't think it's set bound at 106 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:31.200 all. I think it's beautifully shot, very carefully lit and photographed. There's 107 00:08:31.200 --> 00:08:35.879 a shot where there's a wooden scrim on the left side of the screen and 108 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:41.399 Lawrence Harvey and the husband's heads are both floating above it, and Joanna Pettitt 109 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:43.799 steps into the frame on the right full frame, So these two floating heads 110 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:50.279 of these two characters who want her, and then Harvey has that super creepy 111 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.559 line that his appetite is increasing while he's staring at her. The camera slides 112 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:56.679 to the left. The husband is now gone, it's now Joanna Pennitt and 113 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:03.159 Harvey in the frame together and in the background behind them are rifles and pistols. 114 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:05.679 It's it's a beautiful shots. He should have been nominated for an Emmy 115 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:09.799 for this thing. The day after the earwig has been inserted into the wrong 116 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.279 ear or was it the right ear, everyone at breakfast is dressed like George 117 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:18.159 Ramira. They're all wearing the Safari jackets. It was so distracting for me 118 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:20.679 because I know George Romia is just kind of wear that as a uniform, 119 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:24.080 and I know that's exactly what everyone would be wearing in Borneo at this time 120 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:30.559 period. But it was still a bit unsettling. Okay, the Don Williams 121 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:31.840 character, I said, was it the wrong ear of the right ear? 122 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:37.440 Because do you think it's possible with that character intentionally had the earput heard the 123 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:41.399 earwig put into Lawrence Harvey's ear, like hearing his plan and what he was 124 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:46.440 doing. I thought that for a little bit, but I wondered that too. 125 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:50.480 But that scene where he's like, oh, sorry, they put it 126 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:56.399 in the wrong I paid some times, like fucking the most British guy around 127 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:01.080 everybody, he had a fucking eel pie hanging out of his mouth, for 128 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.039 f's sake. I love that scene. You figured that out, Yeah, 129 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:09.879 you figured it out a Britain. I am him, like, but I 130 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:15.519 but there's like in that scene shirks conventions too, because I'm expecting him to 131 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:18.159 show up at the window and be like, you know, tough shit, 132 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:20.519 asshole, but he's like, I'm sorry, So I don't know. I 133 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:26.000 don't think. I think he was genuinely an accident and he feels bad because 134 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:30.120 that scene's like now you say it's moving, but a couple that with Lawrence 135 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:33.919 Harvey just going and like making the noises like you feel for both of the 136 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.480 characters in the scene, which is not something I can say for a lot 137 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:41.639 of the segments in Night Gallery. So I kind of feel like it was 138 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:46.440 an accident just based on that one scene alone. What's funny is I hadn't 139 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:52.159 considered that it was intentionally put into Laurence Harvey's here until he comes up to 140 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:56.080 apologize, and then I thought, he's really contrite about this. Did he 141 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:00.960 do this? And now he feels bad because he's seeing the results of it. 142 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.679 I don't know. Maybe I was working overtime on this one, but 143 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:09.200 at least this particular segment begs these kind of questions and are conversation's worth having. 144 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:13.720 Also, you mentioned the lighting in some of the scenes. The scene 145 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:20.399 where they're in the bar and it's the first time that Lawrence Harvey and mister 146 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:26.240 Britton meet with his hat and it's lit really darkly except for Lawrence Harvey's eyes. 147 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:33.080 Yeah, that's called a halo eyelight, which Jean Jean Zik here like 148 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:37.840 he uses on Lawrence Harvey at every opportunity. And why wouldn't you Lawrence Harvey's 149 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:39.720 faces. Look, I know he's sick here, but what a face, 150 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:45.519 man. He always had those cheek bones and that gaunt, stony kind of 151 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:48.919 stare. This is a guy who too often, in my opinion, got 152 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:52.360 cast as a hero in movies, and that's what kept him from getting further, 153 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:54.919 I think, because if you cast him as a villain, he's fucking 154 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.120 aces man, just like you see him here. That's why he was perfect 155 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:03.279 in mentoring because he didn't know is he this or is he bad? Like 156 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:07.480 everybody's fawning over him. But you know something's that right? I love his 157 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.399 eyebrow raises. It's the eyebrow raises. I mean it's his eyeline really, 158 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:16.639 it's that tease zone area. But those eyebrows, man, he's like he 159 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:22.480 can do like a John Philip Law eyebrow raise like he he would be the 160 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:26.679 American diabolic. That's exactly. I could not put my finger on who he 161 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:28.720 was reminding me of, but yes, John Philip Law. Holy lord. 162 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:33.600 Here's here's a fun fact that ruins the entire episode. There are no pain 163 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:37.200 receptors in the brain. But other than that, I really really liked it, 164 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:41.759 which is a fact. This is an episode I knew about long before 165 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:46.679 I had ever seen it, because Stephen King chronicles it in his book Dance 166 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:50.279 Macabre his his fiction Book of Horror from nineteen seventy nine or so, where 167 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:56.879 he kind of he kind of lays into the series as not being anything very 168 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:01.679 good, but he singles this particular episode out as even the highest level of 169 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:05.440 horror that he thought the series would ever get to. Yes, yeah, 170 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:09.519 I can see, I would agree. Well, we haven't seen the rest 171 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:13.960 of the season or the series, so that doesn't boat Will. But the 172 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.840 Master of Horror. There's so many books at half price, books with Ks 173 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.480 on them that are just even King and no other horror writer, so he 174 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:24.159 must be right. I hope not. But at the same time, I 175 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:26.799 mean, this is I guess this is scary. I don't know. I 176 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:31.759 don't to sit and think about. The ending. Is the ending of this 177 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:35.519 scary ending? He's just gonna die, that's it. Like he's just gonna 178 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:39.480 his head's gonna explode and he's gonna die. Oh is that all? We 179 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:45.919 watched him with one in his ear, writhing and not being able to vocalize 180 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.919 at all from the horrendous amount of pain he was enduring. And now he's 181 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:52.440 going to have at least a dozen or so more of them in there. 182 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:54.759 Yeah, and they'll kill him right. The only ending for him is a 183 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:58.080 pistol, right, just take it off of the wall. That be too 184 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:01.000 good for ye, may you'll have to sit in and do all the pain. 185 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.399 Here's what I really liked. He goes through this entire ordeal. It's 186 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:09.519 a miracle. John Williams shows up to tell us that the ear would came 187 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:13.120 out to the other ear, and then Laurence Tarvey immediately reverts to being a 188 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:20.480 cocksucker in the face. Miracle. Yes, oh so in this case this 189 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:24.480 come up and still absolutely genuinely earned. You're going to have me arrested at 190 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:33.679 the dock, aren't you? No, we're not oh so good? Yeah. 191 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.000 Yeah, there were some good bits to this definitely, but like I 192 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:39.120 said, it just felt a little long. I guess it was those writhing 193 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:43.159 and pain scenes, Like it felt like it just went on for a long 194 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:46.240 time. If you've watched the recent one, this is probably the one off 195 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:52.120 of the DVD that the episode is thirty three minutes, But that's technically like 196 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:56.080 a director's cut, because when it was originally aired, I think like six 197 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.399 minutes were cut out of it. So we definitely got to see the full 198 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:03.600 length of maybe had we seen the original and what ended up on syndication version. 199 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:05.600 Like a lot of our problems might have gone away with the episode. 200 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:09.080 Our next painting, A Knight Gallery, tells the story of an illusion, 201 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:16.200 an invisible specter which guides and motivates and drives. And though you will never 202 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:20.039 see her as Childish Wraith, you'll know she's there, and we venture to 203 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:26.279 suggest that you'll be chilled by the knowledge. Our painting is called Little Girl 204 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:35.039 Lost. Little Girl Lost. This was written by Stanford Whitmore, based on 205 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:37.960 a short story by Richard Matheson. Oh No, that was the Twilight Zone. 206 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:41.639 Little Girl Lost, That's what I was written by a short story written 207 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:43.879 by author E. C. Tubb. It was directed by Timothy Galfuss, 208 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:48.519 stars Tim Riley himself, mister William Wyndham, ed Nelson I, Franti Ivor 209 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:52.480 Francis and the painting, which is a beautiful painting. At the beginning of 210 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:58.879 this ethereal ghostly small girl floating in a negative space. That's Chanelle, right, 211 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.080 Tom Wright's daughter. She's the model for that when she was also the 212 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:07.600 model for the boy who predicted earthquakes. She had I don't even really have 213 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:11.519 a description of this story. This is a you guys want to describe this 214 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:18.440 one, Well, it's very appropriate that we started with the boy who predicted 215 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:22.000 earthquakes this season then ending with this one. It really feels if I didn't 216 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:26.840 know better, it feels like they had a plan and that these were the 217 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:32.000 perfect book ends for this whole season. But can I described the plot? 218 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:37.480 No? I really cannot tell you what the central stuff was hinging on. 219 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:40.600 Chris. I know you said he watched these three times each. What the 220 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:45.559 hell is going on with this? Okay? So we have a scientific genius 221 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:52.919 who is being tasked with developing fission or fusion I guess fission, right, 222 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:59.360 and his daughter dies, and so the guy starts losing it because he is 223 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:04.200 imagining his daughter, and another scientist is sent in to be a confederate as 224 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:07.480 it were, and say, oh, I see her. She's here. 225 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:11.359 And that's why I did the whole intro the way. I was like, 226 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:14.759 Hey, Jenny's here, because that's the girl's name in the segment. And 227 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:18.400 then it turn guess I could just say what happens, And then it turns 228 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:22.960 out that he is telling them the wrong thing intentionally because he wants to literally 229 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:26.720 fucking destroy the world. So that he can die and maybe not the world 230 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:30.799 but himself at least in a sizable portion of people around him, so that 231 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:34.400 he can die and go be with his daughter and his wife, who he 232 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:41.000 knew weren't actually there. And he did this all on purpose because he felt 233 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:45.319 guilty and he was stalling to come up with a way to make it intentionally 234 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:52.720 bad. Wait. Okay, wow, that was the way I read it. 235 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:56.640 Okay, here's my synopsis of the story. A scientist is working on 236 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:00.000 what could potentially be a doomsday device and has gotten so to the formula that 237 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:03.480 the military champion at the bit to get it. His daughter dies, he 238 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:07.880 has a psychotic break. He still sees his daughter and will not deal with 239 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:11.319 the military at all. So they send in this psychiatrist guy to convince him 240 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.160 that he should go back to work and finish the formula and that he'll take 241 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.200 care of the daughter, and then that he does finish it, and he 242 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:22.559 figures out the formula is a doomsday thing that if they use it at all, 243 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.920 it's going to kill everything, and that snaps him back to reality and 244 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.240 then and then the world ends. That's what I thought happened. Aw, 245 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:36.000 Mike, what'd you think happened. Let's make us a rondelais a triptych synopsis. 246 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:41.039 Like I said, I really wasn't catching what they needed him for For 247 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:44.160 some reason. I just went in one ear and out the other like an 248 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:48.559 earwig or had a pillar. Ah. I still so mad about that. 249 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:51.640 I just knew that they had to humor this guy, and he was going 250 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:53.559 to give them something at the end. So then when the world blew up, 251 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:56.680 I was like, oh, is that what they wanted? That's probably 252 00:18:56.759 --> 00:19:03.440 not what they wanted, but just the whole pantomiming of taking care of a 253 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:07.599 little Jenny, Oh my god, that gets old very fast. And especially 254 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:12.240 I wanted the one scientist who can see Harvey. I wanted him to be 255 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:17.720 like, no, Harvey's not there, Harvey's sitting over there. That's what 256 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:21.519 I wanted to fuck with the other guy. But the other guy just picked 257 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:23.480 up and went with it. Oh what a lovely red dress you have. 258 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:26.880 And I wanted the other guy to be like red, that's green. It 259 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:30.480 really has that nice cabin in the woods ending to it where we start panning 260 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:34.119 up and something just destroys everything in there. Oh my god. No, 261 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:38.319 Yeah, I wanted a giant rabbit foot, just squish them. It's just 262 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:42.200 it's I don't know, like it's a gag that goes on and on and 263 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:47.720 on and on. At least it's not forty minutes. I guess this one 264 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:52.160 is seventeen minutes, right, Yeah, And it is filled with cinematic pit 265 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:56.599 peeves of mine, like the missing rear view mirror in the car when they're 266 00:19:56.640 --> 00:20:00.119 driving together. I fucking hate that. Just come on, do a little 267 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:06.279 extra work. Another was the constant brushing of the girls of the little girl's 268 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:10.079 hair, like I know, like god, it's to establish the physical presence 269 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:11.279 of the girl, like, we get it, But that big old, 270 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:17.079 chunky brush, and how fucking long is that girl's hair anyway? Stop brushing 271 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:18.960 her hair. That's another thing. That's another pet peeve, like the over 272 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:23.400 attentive dad in movies's constantly brushing the girl's hair as if that's making up for 273 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.960 the lack of their mom or something. I don't know. It always bothers 274 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:30.799 me. This is a like the segment had the opportunity to do something interesting 275 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:34.599 and it attempted it, I guess, but it just again, it reminds 276 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:41.920 me of the segment that we were just talking about the one with the robots. 277 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:45.240 Like the ending just oh, the ending is like absolutely insane. It 278 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:49.359 makes very little to no sense. And I'm not saying the segment is good 279 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:52.359 in spite of it. I'm not saying that the ending ruins the segment, 280 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:56.079 but it doesn't help it. Let's just put it that way. No, 281 00:20:56.440 --> 00:21:00.359 it's a mash up. It feels like it's either about this crazy man and 282 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:06.039 his potential ghost daughter or something or something to do with that, or it's 283 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:07.720 about this guy who figured out a formula for the end of the world and 284 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:14.279 has gone insane. Like they don't show us what the psychotic break. I 285 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:17.119 guess the daughter dying was the psychotic break to begin with, But is the 286 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:19.160 moment where he snaps back to reality when that guy is rude to him at 287 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:22.000 the restaurant he wants the chair because there's no one sitting at the table. 288 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:25.960 That's what it felt, right, Yeah, That's kind of what it felt 289 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:29.039 like to me too, And I was like, why that? Why was 290 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:32.039 that the thing? Like has this just never happened before and it had to 291 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:34.680 have. He's been out in public with his daughter for how long? Like 292 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:38.200 you know, right, why didn't they buy at one point, the attendant 293 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:41.559 says, oh, let's go buy her a doll. He's trying to stall 294 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:45.680 William Wyndham when he knows that he's getting suicidal and such. And that's a 295 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:48.839 scenario that I wanted to see play out, like going to the toy store, 296 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:51.559 picking out the doll, taking it out of the package, holding it 297 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:53.680 out to the air, and just dropping it to the ground. Like right, 298 00:21:55.640 --> 00:21:57.160 I guess one thing to have the brush in your hand, but like, 299 00:21:57.279 --> 00:22:00.559 how real is she if you like, let's go, I heard that 300 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:03.759 doll? Does she want a lollipop? Here you go? Crack? I 301 00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:07.440 Yeah. I feel like they should have done that right, Like I feel 302 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:10.960 like they should have gone all the way because like the gag with the brush 303 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:14.880 is just overdone. Like at some point you're just like, can you do 304 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:18.119 anything else other than brush her hair? Yeah, it didn't like read to 305 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:22.039 her or something, just do any other sort of activity that doesn't involve her 306 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:26.880 hair. It's sort of weird. Yeah, it was very disturbing, and 307 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:32.279 that's how they introduce it, and then they just keep doing it, which 308 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:36.559 yeah, like again if that's if that factors into the story somehow, but 309 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:40.160 it doesn't even factor into the story, it doesn't serve a purpose at all. 310 00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:44.039 And yeah, I again it goes back to this idea in my mind 311 00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:49.319 of the show just does the same thing a couple times too many. And 312 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:55.960 I do appreciate the circularity with a boy who predicted earthquakes being the first segment 313 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:57.960 of the cition of this one being the last. If that's the story they 314 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:00.279 were telling, It's just feels like they went, hey, you know, 315 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.880 it would be cool if we ended this one just like we ended the first 316 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:07.279 one of this season. Just put it on there. Like every episode ends 317 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:11.319 the same way, with the world blowing out, no matter what episode it 318 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:15.720 is. It's just that's what happened. Season three is all armageddon. This 319 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:22.039 season was all revenge. Don't forget. We're missing an opportunity here to mention 320 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:27.119 our one of our favorite segments ever from Night Gallery, the last time we 321 00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:33.079 saw William Windham. Oh yeah, they're tearing down Tim Riley's barbie. Yeah, 322 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:37.160 father, that's how fatheram alone introduced him. Yeah, and we somehow 323 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:41.880 have slipped under the for he's a jolly goodfellow radar once. Yeah, boy, 324 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:45.640 doesn't it feel good? We made it through the whole season. There's 325 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:48.160 no way we can have any in the next season, right unless William Windham 326 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:55.640 returns. William Windham returns, Oh God, we're gonna have to bring it 327 00:23:55.720 --> 00:23:59.240 up one more time. I'm pretty sure we're gonna get one more Honestly, 328 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:03.000 when you're talking about the new music for season three, I'm hoping it's a 329 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:04.799 play end for He's a jelly. Oh wouldn't it be great if that was 330 00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:18.160 the opening titles? Now, God, and they did it enough and they're 331 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:22.599 tearing down Tim Riley's bar. They did enough times there, God, And 332 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:26.000 that wasn't there tearing down to Mariley's bar. Wasn't that a forty minute long 333 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:32.640 segment or something like it was? Oh dear God, I have re recularity 334 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:36.480 here now in that that was the last season ender and this is this season 335 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:38.440 and they both have William Linda, but this one's seventeen minutes as opposed to 336 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:47.000 that forty minute slog. Yeah, a breezy comparatively, and he's a jelly, 337 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:51.440 good fellow, Honest to god, thought that was Twilight's on nineteen eighty 338 00:24:51.480 --> 00:24:55.240 five. That's how long ago that feels like when we did there tearing down 339 00:24:55.319 --> 00:24:59.400 Tim Riley's bar, that's like because that was the I mean that would like 340 00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:00.920 you mentioned that was end of the last season, so it's been an entire 341 00:25:02.039 --> 00:25:07.400 season since. It's good that we've put the trauma that far behind us prepare 342 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:11.319 for season three. Exactly, we're going to play a preview for our next 343 00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:15.440 episode and we'll be right back to wrap things up. On display, here 344 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:19.640 is a painting showing the natural habitat of this species of black eyed practitioner, 345 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:26.960 dark alley, murky light, a few sundry skulls, and the gentleman himself 346 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:30.720 on the right of the picture with the upraised hand and the funny little goat 347 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:34.200 horns. Yes, indeed, this is a sorcerer, and for those of 348 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:38.240 you who disbelieve his existence, we invite you to check this out for a 349 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:42.720 little while. Our painting is called the Return of the Sorcerer, and we're 350 00:25:42.759 --> 00:25:48.119 a better place for him to return than right here in the Night Gallery. 351 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:57.599 Our number one painting in the Night's exhibit is intriguing portraits of a young lady, 352 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:04.319 curiously photogenic and pointingly formid. Year recall seeing this face. You've seen 353 00:26:04.359 --> 00:26:10.519 it on billboards and magazine ads, on television commercials. Oh yes, you've 354 00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:15.240 seen it. But there are people who having seen it which they hadn't. 355 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:18.920 Our painting is called The Girl with the Hungry Eyes? And should I have 356 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:22.799 failed to mention it? This is the night Gallery. That's right on the 357 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:27.599 next Midnight Viewing we're taking a look at season three, episode one and episode 358 00:26:27.640 --> 00:26:32.799 two. Those are the return of the Sorcerer and one of my favorite titles 359 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:36.680 of all time, The Girl with the Hungry Eyes. Who can it be? 360 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:41.599 It's Joanna Pettit again. Midnight Viewing is a proud member of the weirding 361 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:47.640 Way Media group. Our theme song was composed by HP. Until next time? 362 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:52.400 What are you working on? Chris Dashue podcast, Weirdingwaymedia dot Com. 363 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:56.079 But don't just listen to my show. Listen to Noise Junkies, which Bottom 364 00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:00.200 Malone hosts with the aforementioned HP and Mondo. Heather's Teather Drain or Eighties TV 365 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:06.000 Ladies hosted by one of the hosts of Rankin On Bess Richard HadAM, his 366 00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:10.839 wife and her co host talk all about you guessed at eighties TV shows featuring 367 00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:15.680 who Ladies check their show out? Check all those shows out Weirdingwaymedia dot Com. 368 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:18.880 Folks, Yeah, sorry, you know what they say, you got 369 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:22.960 to lay the red carpet on thicks so people have something nice to walk on. 370 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:26.000 What about you, Mike Me, Oh, not a whole lot, 371 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:30.359 you know, just been kind of hanging around and stuff and working on the 372 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:34.440 Projection Booth podcasts. New episodes every week, sometimes many. This is going 373 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:37.799 to be the thing for a little while. A lot of bonus episodes, 374 00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:42.039 so go on and check those out. Had a nice interview with mister Eddie 375 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:45.400 Deason today, so that was fun. It was a lot of fun to 376 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:48.359 talk with Eddie. Check it out. Listen to all the archives over there 377 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:52.400 at the Projection Booth podcast. As for me, you want to see some 378 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:53.799 of my nonsense, go to Fathermalone dot com. If you want to hear 379 00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:57.640 all of my nonsense, go to Weirdingwaymedia dot com. Thank you all for 380 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:02.119 joining us here at midnight view. The gallery is now closed.