The Twilight Zone ·
Season 5 ·
Episode 27 ·
Aired April 3, 1964
Roswell G. Flemington was raised in a home where he couldn’t even have cookies because they made too much noise. At least his mother bought brownies. So when he came of age, he went to sea, and his desire to make up for not making enough noise is driving everyone else mad. He has collected all sorts of sea-themed noisemakers, from bells and whistles to actual recordings of sea battles.
Now his wife is leaving and she has afflicted him with increasingly acute hearing, so that every little noise is like an explosion, and he sees a doctor who helps him understand it is all in his head, all he needs to do is overcome the mental block, and he does. The only problem is that he goes too far in the other direction, so that now he can’t hear anything at all. He has lost his precious noise!
American Idol ·
Season 5 ·
Episode 11 ·
Aired May 23, 2006
The finals. At last. Four hours of voting, one more night and this season is done.
Again this week each contestant will sing three songs. While they didn’t say outright, my gut feel is that the contestants pick their first two songs and the producers of the show pick the final song, which becomes the winner’s single if they should win. After all, the producers want a song that can make money. That makes sense.
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Dirty Jobs ·
Season 1 ·
Episode 5 ·
Aired August 23, 2005
Crab Fisherman. While our host provides the voiceover for Deadliest Catch, when he wants to go crab fishing he isn’t quite crazy enough to actually go to Alaska. Instead, he visits Maryland for a hard-working, albeit not very productive day of long-line fishing instead. Then he heads inside where he learns how to clean them and pack them and he even finds out how they make bader meat (and what it tastes like).
Blacksmith (Farrier). In days gone by, the blacksmith and the farrier may have been different people. These days, they are just as likely to be the same person because they require essentially the same skills. So we join Mike as he learns how to make horse shoes, how not to light a forge and finally how to shoe a horse.
Exterminator. Finally we join up with the odd crew from Vexcon Exterminators and join them on their religious approach to ridding the world of all kind of vermin, from extra large rodents and snakes in the attic to a trailer filled with thousands of roaches. I don’t know where these guys came from, but they definitely found their niche in life.
Mythbusters ·
Season 3 ·
Episode 6 ·
Aired March 30, 2005
On the Phone in a Thunderstorm. Do you run for cover when the storm clouds come, making sure to get off the phone, stay out of the tub and don’t even turn on the television? Then this episode is for you. It answers once and for all whether you’re crazy like a fox or just plain crazy. It turns out that even the small amount of electricity that man can generate, a fraction of an amount compared to real lightning, can fry you if you’re on the phone in and it gets hit by lightning.
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Mythbusters ·
Season 4 ·
Episode 3 ·
Aired January 25, 2006
Archimedes Burn-Off. The original ancient death ray episode generated so much rebuttal from fans that the team dedicated an entire episode to revisiting this one myth. So after reviewing a whole stack of DVDs submitted by fans, two teams are selected to come to San Francisco for the small-scale burn off to see if they can set something afire at five feet.
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Mythbusters ·
Season 1 ·
Episode 10 ·
Aired January 11, 2004
Explosive Decompression. Ever worry that some nutjob will fire a gun on a plane and cause everything to rapidly decompress, sucking you, the guy next to you and even the seats and beverage carts out through that little hole in the window? Have no fear - apparently it won’t happen. Busted.
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The Twilight Zone ·
Season 5 ·
Episode 25 ·
Aired March 20, 1964
As an old man lies dying, Mardi Gras rages around him. His family has gathered to share his last moments, but in reality they just want to see him go so they can finally collect their share of the inheritance. He knows this, of course, so his dying wish is that they wear special cajun masks to mark the celebration. If they do not wear their own grotesque mask, indicating the opposite of their character, until the stroke of midnight, then none of them get anything. This quickly shuts them up and all agree.
Little do they seem to realize that in reality they are wearing the mask that represents what they actually are on the inside - people are often so anxious to be what they want to be that they don’t realize how transparent they are, and as their relative dies and they remove the mask they find that they have their inheritance but their faces have become the masks. Excellent!
The Twilight Zone ·
Season 5 ·
Episode 24 ·
Aired March 13, 1964
Cabbie Joe Britt just wants his television to work again. So when the repairman leaves he settles in to watch tag-team wrestling, but finds a nice surprise - he can get channel 10 (wrestling is on channel 9). Strangely, however, channel 10 shows Joe and his wife of 27 years Phyllis as they were just a few moments ago in the kitchen, and then it shows him knocking her to her death out the window!
Almost as if they combined two episodes from Season 2, Static and A Most Unusual Camera. In the first, an older gentleman remembered bits from the radio as if they were playing live, but everyone else heard only static. In the second, a camera showed pictures of what was about to happen. Here, only Joe could see the video, and though it showed what had happened in the past, the most interesting part was that his wife became so upset that he did indeed end up killing her.
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