Difference between revisions of "The Twilight Zone"

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{{TB|The book "To Serve Forty Humans" is a reference to a ''Twilight Zone'' episode where aliens greet people with a book which means "To Serve Man" when translated. The curious people accept the aliens' invitations to see their homeworld, and they travel with the aliens on their spaceships. One woman accepts such an invitiation, but is stopped by her brother, who has properly translated the book and is shouting "It is a cookbook! It is a cookbook!".}}

{{TB|The introduction in [[Bart]]'s nightmare is based on [[Rod Serling]] making the introduction to the Twilight Zone episodes. Also, Bart's nightmare is largely based from the "It's a Good Life" segment of ''The Twlight Zone Movie''.}}

{{TB|The first segment, "Clown Without Pity" is an overall spoof of the Twilight Zone episode, Living Doll.}}

{{TB|Everyone getting angry and wanting to come into Flander's shelter is a reference to ''The Twilight Zone'' episode, "The Shelter".}}

{{TB|The portal is similar to The Twilight Zone episode "{{W|Little Girl Lost}}". When Homer first encounters the portal he says "It's like something from that Twilighty show about that Zone".}}

{{TB|"The Genesis Tub" is inspired by the 1962 ''Twilight Zone'' episode called "The Little People," where astronauts stumble upon a tiny civilization on an asteroid.}}

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{{TB|"The Ned Zone" segment is reminiscent of a ''Twilight Zone'' episode called "The Purple Testament." The title card is also animated in TZ style.}}

{{TB|The segment "I've Grown a Costume on Your Face" references Twilight Zone episode "The Masks," in which four greedy heirs are turned into monsters by the hideous masks each wears at their benefactor's behest.}}

{{TB|In the opening sequence, Rod Serling, author and host of the TV series ''The Twilight Zone'', is seen smoking a cigarette.}}