The Twilight Zone · Season 2 · Episode 22 · Originally Aired March 31, 1961
A young Billy Mumy (also seen in the Season 3 episode It's a Good Life and the Season 5 episode In Praise of Pip) makes an appearance here as a young boy who is very close to his grandmother. Unfortunately his grandmother dies early on, but he can still communicate with her by way of a toy phone. Even more unfortunately, she isn't quite ready to let go of him, so she takes him, well, somewhere, and it's only after some serious begging on the part of her son that she releases him back to the land of the living. Really rather bizarre.
The Twilight Zone · Season 2 · Episode 25 · Originally Aired April 28, 1961
This may just be one of the best episodes of the series. When an older member of an exclusive club has decided that he can't take any more of a younger member's bragging, he wagers that the younger member cannot keep his mouth shut for one year. In return, the younger member, should he win, will get the sum of 500 thousand dollars. To make sure that things are on the up-and-up, the younger member agrees to live in a glass-enclosed cage in an unused room in the club basement.
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Mythbusters · Season 3 · Episode 3 · Originally Aired March 2, 2005
Drive Shaft Pole Vault. Somewhat similar to the Rear Axle myth from the Expolosive Decompression, Frog Giggin', Rear Axle episode, but with a twist - can a failing drive shaft cause your car to pole vault? The first challenge is, of course, to make the drive shaft fail on cue. So after a bit of investigation, the boys think they have that one down (they don't, but we'll get back to that). While Adam and Jamie rig a car up for remote control, the build team digs a rather large hole in the concrete where the failed drive shaft will end up.
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