Speaker 1: Day twenty three of the Twilight Zone podcast Advent Calendar,
Speaker 1: and our friend Emma comes back and she says, Twilight
Speaker 1: Zone episodes are set in various eras. Pick your favorite
Speaker 1: episode set in the past, nineteen sixties, present, and in
Speaker 1: the future, and explain why. So we're just going to
Speaker 1: stick to the past on this one for the moment.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Zach, you want to go first on this one.
Speaker 1: What's your what's your favorite historical Twilight Zone.
Speaker 2: So by said in the past, we mean it's a
Speaker 2: period piece. There's no time travel, right, It's just this
Speaker 2: is where we are before nineteen sixties time. Right. That
Speaker 2: was my understanding. That's how I interpreted it.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've already broken one of those rules.
Speaker 2: So good. Well, I'll stay true of the rules. I
Speaker 2: gotta be honest. The ones in the past are probably
Speaker 2: my least favorite episodes. It's like I'm on the list
Speaker 2: of my I'm like on the hierarchy of what are
Speaker 2: my least favorite twise one episodes, comedy episodes are number
Speaker 2: one episode said in the pastor number two, you know,
Speaker 2: because it was kind of hard to just the ones
Speaker 2: that are just entirely in the past, right, because there
Speaker 2: are some great time travel ones, but going through it,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with the grave, uh, with Lee Marvin
Speaker 2: and an Old West and uh, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: talk about, you know, a ghost. If you go to
Speaker 2: this grave, guy's gonna pull you into it. And it's
Speaker 2: one of those ambiguous endings which are so rare, but
Speaker 2: I like so much on the show right where he's
Speaker 2: like he dies of the grave, but it's like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: the wind blew and he stabbed it and he got
Speaker 2: stuck and that it's like, okay, Like if you're a skeptic,
Speaker 2: you could believe that, or you could believe, like, you know,
Speaker 2: a ghost pulled him into the into the grave. So
Speaker 2: you know, Lee Marvin, you know, just famous actor and
Speaker 2: a pretty solid kind of you know, spooky. But because
Speaker 2: so many times when they go to the Old West,
Speaker 2: it's like some goofy comedy thing and I have no
Speaker 2: interest in that. I mean that they're not all bad
Speaker 2: or anything, but to me, scrolling through like one set
Speaker 2: in the past, this is the one that stuck out
Speaker 2: to me is like, you know what, I would like
Speaker 2: to rewatch that one. So that's why that's my favorite episode.
Speaker 2: Said in the past.
Speaker 1: That's a good choice, man, and probably one of those
Speaker 1: Twilight Zones that slips through the cracks a little bit,
Speaker 1: don't you think. You know it's it's rarely the the
Speaker 1: top of Twilight Zone conversations. But it's a very serviceable episode.
Speaker 1: And you know, you've got Lee Marvin at the center
Speaker 1: of it, who's great. So that's a good choice. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Oh thanks, Yeah, and so check under g for ghosts
Speaker 2: in the Twilight Zone. As Rod says, this is the
Speaker 2: last line that's I always love it when he like
Speaker 2: pulls out this dictionary thing, like what it's just a
Speaker 2: silly It makes you so all every time because it's
Speaker 2: so just old school and and simple but effective.
Speaker 1: But yeah, thanks, Okay, so my cheating answer is back there,
Speaker 1: which is the one when Peter Corrigan goes back in
Speaker 1: time in the Potomac Club, and there's a couple of
Speaker 1: reasons for it. It's got one of the best ever
Speaker 1: sailing in the scenes. Absolutely, yeah, sat in the club.
Speaker 1: I think he's reading the newspaper maybe as well, from
Speaker 1: what I remember. It's been a few years since I
Speaker 1: watched it, but like all the main characters are kind
Speaker 1: of sitting at a table and then it just sort
Speaker 1: of drifts over to sailing. I think I might be
Speaker 1: remembering that wrong. But in a world of whippands, that
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, you know, that is like the best
Speaker 1: thing ever. Also, it's just, you know, I kind of
Speaker 1: love stories where it's like you mentioned one on one
Speaker 1: of the previous days. Let's see what happens if we
Speaker 1: go back and try and kill Hitler. You know this,
Speaker 1: It's like I'm going to try and save Abraham Lincoln,
Speaker 1: you know, And I think, is it is it Russell?
Speaker 1: I forget his last name now.
Speaker 2: It's the professor from Gilligan's Island.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he is so big in it. His performance
Speaker 1: is absolutely.
Speaker 2: Huge Shatner esque levels of acting.
Speaker 1: But I just love it. I just love it. It's like
Speaker 1: Hokey is all hell, But I just love those kind
Speaker 1: of stories. I feel like I might to cheat of
Speaker 1: the bear.
Speaker 2: I think you did, but I will. I will say.
Speaker 2: You know, that episode has a special place now, I
Speaker 2: think because I remember when you when you read that
Speaker 2: story on the Patreon and then and then you kind
Speaker 2: of transitioned it into the after Ovars Club, like in
Speaker 2: the lore of the Twilight Zone podcast. Everybody, this is
Speaker 2: important because it became the after hours club. So that
Speaker 2: was a fun, fun bit of creativity there that that
Speaker 2: you put in there that we all appreciate his listeners.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's that's a solid one. I mean, the
Speaker 2: mechanism for time travel is he just thinks really hard
Speaker 2: about it. I guess that's how he gets there. But
Speaker 2: that's fine. But no, you're you're right, that's that's a
Speaker 2: that's a solid choice, even though I think it is
Speaker 2: kind of cheating.