May 22nd, 2006 Archives

Dirty Jobs Recap: Sludge Cleaner

Surfboard Shaper. This one is a really tough call. I mean Mike gets dirty from all those shavings, but they are so clean – is it really dirty? I guess the fumes from applying the polyester resin can count as dirt – did you see those shoes on the floor? But it was a close call.

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Dirty Jobs Recap: Worm Dung Farmer

Catfish Noodler. This is easily one of the best jobs on the show because of Mike’s comments (though, I admit, not that dirty because much of it takes place in the water). For those that don’t know, and I’m sure there are a lot of you, you noodle by sticking your hand – or a foot if you’re feeling adventurous – into an opening in hopes that a catfish will grab hold.

When they do you pull it out and you have (hopefully) caught yourself a catfish and you can clean, fry, and eat. If not, you find another hole, or find something stick-like to poke around a little deeper in the hopes that you can get it good and agitated so it will bite the next thing you stick in. Yes, people really do this. I told you it was good.

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As Jordan Herrick notices the date on the picture, he knows something is amiss. The portrait is 25 years old, but that would make her 14 or 15, and there is simply no way that she could have been that young when it was painted. And she made a movie years before that, she would have had to be 10 or younger. It’s not possible.

Still, she is so alluring that he becomes ensnared in her web, and soon he cannot escape. So they have dinner and he finds that she is simply beautiful. His colleague gathers information and it seems perhaps she is older even than he suspects – the woman who she calls mother appears to be her daughter, so she may be 70 or older!

As it turns out, she is older even than this, as she protects her sacred scarab, the secret of pharoahs, and as she drugs Jordy and places it on his body to extract his life essence he finally knows the secret, but now it’s too late – she takes the life from others and uses it as her own. Perhaps she really is Cleopatra and those Egyptian artifacts are real. But Jordy shall never know the truth, for he is now simply dust.

The Twilight Zone Recap: Spur of the Moment

As Anne goes out for a ride on horseback, she encounters a strange woman rider who shrieks at her, and she rides away in terror. When she returns, she is comforted by her mother and father and fiancee. But then they are interrupted by David, who she broke up with previously, who wants to get back together with her, and she frets that she is indeed choosing the wrong path.

Then we see a simlar tableau, only now Anne is older and dressed in black and we realize that we are seeing the other rider. As it turns out, this is Anne if she makes the wrong choice, if she chooses the wrong man to marry and has 25 years of heartache. Only now does she realize that it was herself that she saw that day so long ago. Then we see her husband as he rounds the corner. It is not her current fiancee, but David, who interrupted the events of that day, and we are returned to the present.

And at that point he calls to Anne as she stands on the porch and they run away together, presumably into a future where she becomes the lady in black and a number of years of anguish, where she will again return to her past self and try and warn the younger version of what she will become, only to fail again and again and again.

The Twilight Zone Recap: From Agnes with Love

James Elwood is anxious to meet Millie, and he’ll turn to anyone for advice, even Agnes, the greatest computer ever built. But it seems that the advice of Agnes isn’t quite working out. But who could blame her, when she wants Elwood for herself? So she sabotages him, so she’ll be able to have him all to herself, and when he goes crazy, she’ll just get someone else to come her way.

The Twilight Zone Recap: Night Call

A storm has hit town and the phone won’t stop ringing. Miss Keene doesn’t know what to do, as the voice on the other end isn’t recognizable. First she can’t make out anything, then only a faint hello, then only a few words here and there. But then the phone company traces the call and realizes that there’s no way that the call can be coming from there. The line is down, all right, but the line is in the cemetary!

So Miss Keene goes to the cemetary and finds the line on the grave of her former fiancee, who died in a car crash when she insisted she would drive. She frantically goes home to try and talk to him, only to find he won’t talk, because she told him to go away and leave her alone, and he always does what she tells him – that is why he is dead, after all.