Twilight Zone episodes that broke your heart
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Mermaid_Maiden — 17 years ago(January 01, 2009 07:08 PM)
Probably some spoilers coming up:::
"In Praise of Pip" is so sad! The guy finds out his son has died and realizes what a lousy father he was. Then Pip reappears as a little boy and they have a nice time together at the carnival, but then Pip has to leave and the father begs to have his soul traded for his son's! So sad!
"Night of the Meek" always gets me. It's very moving. I feel a tug on my heart when he says something like "some day I want to see the meek inherit the earth" (don't remember the exact line). He's a drunk but he just wants kids to be happy and have a nice Christmas. I always watch this one when its on TV.
"Time Enough at Last" I'm always yelling at the TV telling him not to bend down for that book at the end. I feel so bad when he breaks his glasses and he's sitting thereda0 alone with tears saying "It's not fair!"
These are just the ones I can think of at the moment. There are, obviously, other sad or moving episodes. -
sawyertom — 17 years ago(January 06, 2009 10:58 AM)
Changing of the Guard is the one for me. I hope a lot of people and not just teachers do not think that way come retirement, because somebody has touched someone in someway to change their lives. Life isn't a waste if you'r ehappy in what you do and have people who care about you.
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jcobainfan — 16 years ago(May 23, 2009 12:43 AM)
In Praise of Pip is easily one of the most touching episodes of TZ. It avoided the sacharine treatment you see of most melodramatic drivel on tv and movies nowdays. Just great writing, direction and acting all coming together to make a genuine weeper that any father or mature son could relate to. One that hasn't been mentioned yet though was The Trade-Ins. The monolouge John gives while playing poker was incredibly moving, made all the more heart wrenching knowing the real life loss the actor was going through during the filming of the episode.