The Twilight Zone : PUSH! PUSH! PUSH!
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A sharp razor and a chart of the human anatomy showing where all the arteries are. Haha
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I'd get off at Willoughby if I had a boss and wife like that!
In Twilight Zone, his soul is probably still there. Nice option :)
GET HIM A BODYBAGYEAH!!!!
In Twilight Zone, his soul is probably still there. Nice option :)
GET HIM A BODYBAGYEAH!!!!
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Unlike Walking Distance, this episode's hero will be staying not going back.
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It was his soul walking off the train in Willoughby. Willoughby was heaven. You see how happy and at peace with himself he finally was then, compared with the intense stress, upset, and hurt he was the rest of the episode. And while his soul is walking in Willoughby, we cut directly to his dead body on the ground by the city train he just jumped off. The conductor said how he died right as he hit the ground from jumping off the train.
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WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!
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You can imagine a board meeting @ Trump Towers went like the opening scene.
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I think that episode alone scared me away from a life in business and marriage.
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My spirit animal, Gart Williams.
Willoughby, sir? Thats Willoughby right outside. Its July. Its summer. Its 1888.
Willoughby, sir? Thats Willoughby right outside. Its July. Its summer. Its 1888.
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Mine too. I think we all have our Willloughby. My favorite episode by far.
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I like when after Gart tells his unsympathetic wife about his yearning for Willoughby and to live in an older simpler time, and his wife says "You know what your problem is? You were born too late. So it is my misfortune to have a husband whos ultimate goal in life is to be Huckleberry Finn!"
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Why do you like that? I mean, I find that part particularly wrenching. Here is this man clearly on the verge of an emotional breakdown and he can't even rely on his wife for comfort. It's terribly sad.
I like when after Gart tells his unsympathetic wife about his yearning for Willoughby and to live in an older simpler time, and his wife says "You know what your problem is? You were born too late. So it is my misfortune to have a husband whos ultimate goal in life is to be Huckleberry Finn!"
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What I mean by "I like it" is that it's good acting, a good emotional scene. But I also do find it sad and I do feel sorry for Gart putting up with a wife like that. But it makes for a good movie/show scene. That's what I meant.
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Actually I can relate to Gart in several ways. I also yearn for a nicer time like the 1950s when people were a little nicer, trusting, and simpler. That's what moved me about Gart's experience in this episode and why I liked it.
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Not if you were a woman or black. Just saying
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It's not like that life was impossible to achieve even in the 1950s. He could have quit his job, sold his house and possessions, found work on a farm. If his wife didn't like it, they could divorce.
But no, Gart didn't want an alternative based in reality he wanted an escape. He wanted a world without problems. Whether he stayed at the ad firm or started his own farm, he would still have encountered problems. Instead of trying to see the good in his world (like the guy in Walking Distance), he just went for the out.
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But no, Gart didn't want an alternative based in reality he wanted an escape. He wanted a world without problems. Whether he stayed at the ad firm or started his own farm, he would still have encountered problems. Instead of trying to see the good in his world (like the guy in Walking Distance), he just went for the out.
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he just went for the out.
And that's why people can relate to this fantasy. Sometimes you just feel like looking for the "out".
Willoughby, sir? Thats Willoughby right outside. Its July. Its summer. Its 1888.
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I understand yearning to go back to a nicer, simpler time, but I would not want to go as far back as the 19th century. The 1800s were too backwards, dirty, and primitive for me. A world before cars and electricity, and a world without much medicine and healthcare, and with diseases like smallpox and polio. The time I'd find most ideal would be anywhere from post WW2 late 40s through to the 60s. That was a time when we had more modern conveniences but it was when people still acted halfway decent and before the world got all unstable, distrusting, and unsafe like today.
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I understand yearning to go back to a nicer, simpler time, but I would not want to go as far back as the 19th century. The 1800s were too backwards, dirty, and primitive for me.
As the scientist from 'Once Upon A Time' found out the hard way. (another classic episode!)
The time I'd find most ideal would be anywhere from post WW2 late 40s through to the 60s.
Not if you're a woman or a black person.
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I know that I've said that the 50s were a nicer, simpler time. But the episode "I am night, color me black" definitely paints a whole different picture of the 50s. And I have seen "Mississippi burning" too. But both " I am night.." and "MB" were taken in the deep south which was more racially prejudiced than other parts of America. The 50s were nicer as long as you stayed away from the bigots. In many parts of America, there was definitely more safety, trust, and hospitality around than today.
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By the 1880s, if you lived in a larger city (and could afford it), you had access to electricity, hot and cold running water, central heating and even cars and telephones. No vaccines, that's true, and health care was a bit primitive, but you can't have everything. ;-)
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The worst thing that ever happened to the movies was when some pretentious twit decided they should be art.
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In her defense, imagine you've been hearing versions of this lament for years. Wouldn't you get sick of it? At some point, if you hate your life, DO something to change it. Don't just complain. If your wife doesn't like it, she doesn't like it.
In the end, Gart wasn't stuck where he was because of his wife he was stuck where he was because of himself.
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In the end, Gart wasn't stuck where he was because of his wife he was stuck where he was because of himself.
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It's a recurring motif in films of that era. Woman are expected to be incredibly loving and supportive no matter what. If they are not perennially loving and caring, then they are targeted as the bad woman.
In the end, Gart wasn't stuck where he was because of his wife he was stuck where he was because of himself.
Yes, I get the impression that the wife was tiring of her husband coming home, whining incessantly over his boss. But the reason that Gart to me is sympathetic is that we are seeing this entirely from his point of view and he clearly is having a mental breakdown. His reactions are actually self-destructive and irrational (witness the breaking of the mirror,which I think is a foreshadowing of his death leap).
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I was just thinking of Willoughby today when we got one of those typical emails from one of our hierarchy of bosses expecting this and that. Do this and this and this. Willoughby is a happy fantasy many of us have, that getting off place we wish could come alive for us during the most stressful of times
"Get the cheese to sickbay."
"Get the cheese to sickbay."
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"This is a push push buisiness! Push push! Push and drive! Push push push! All the way! All the time! Straight on down the line!"
"Willoughby. This stop Willoughby. That's Willoughby right outside. Willoughby. July. Summer. 1888. You oughtta try it sometime. Peaceful. Restful. Where a man can slow down to a walk, live his life full measure."
"Willoughby. This stop Willoughby. That's Willoughby right outside. Willoughby. July. Summer. 1888. You oughtta try it sometime. Peaceful. Restful. Where a man can slow down to a walk, live his life full measure."
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It's like the Office Space of the early 60s. lol
Yaaahwe're going to need you to avoid that Willoughby stop there Gart. And by the way, prepare to work on Saturday.
Willoughby, sir? Thats Willoughby right outside. Its July. Its summer. Its 1888.
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"Yehhh, we're gonna need you to go ahead and do what he says about push push push, so if you can just go on ahead and do that from now on, that would be great".
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