WAS THAT CIGARETTE GLUED TO HIS HAND?????
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trombonist42 — 18 years ago(January 01, 2008 09:11 PM)
I was recently in a car accident and the seat belt absolutely saved my life. Many other drivers have similar stories. You can't blame "politicians" for your ailment, everyone should wear a seatbelt whenever they ride in a car.
To be kind of on topic, I've been watching the Twilight Zone marathon on Sci-Fi and I have yet to see an introduction where Rod isn't smoking. -
JamesBWBevis — 18 years ago(December 06, 2007 03:01 AM)
A couple of years ago, I went through all of the TZ narrations to transcribe them as accurately as possible. (Marc Scott Zicree's book has tons of errors in the narrations, and even the late, lamented Fifth Dimension website had quite a few.) While I was doing that, I kept track of all the TZs that showed Serling holding a lit cigarette. There were a lot less than I expectedonly 28, less than one-quarter of the 121 episodes that show Serling on camera. I guess holding the cigarette makes a bigger visual impression than not holding the cigarette, so that's what we tend to remember.
On the theory that at least one person here wants to see the complete list, here it is:
Episodes where we see Rod holding a lit cigarette (all intros except for "A World of His Own"): 28
36. "A World of His Own"
43. "Nick of Time"
46. "A Most Unusual Camera"
51. "The Invaders"
55. "Mr. Dingle, the Strong"
64. "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"
65. "The Obsolete Man"
66. "Two"
67. "The Arrival"
70. "A Game of Pool"
82. "One More Pallbearer"
85. "Showdown with Rance McGrew"
88. "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank"
93. "The Little People"
94. "Four O'Clock"
95. "Hocus Pocus and Frisby"
98. "The Dummy"
99. "Young Man's Fancy"
100. "I Sing the Body Electric"
116. "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville"
121. "In Praise of Pip"
124. "A Kind of a Stopwatch"
127. "The Old Man in the Cave"
128. "Uncle Simon"
130. "The 7th Is Made up of Phantoms"
131. "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain"
143. "Queen of the Nile"
150. "Stopover in a Quiet Town"
Honorable mention:
84. "The Hunt"it looks like Rod is rolling a cigarette, or at least pretending to be. (Compare his hand motions with those in the cigarette-rolling scene in "Showdown with Rance McGrew.") A little backwoods humor, I suppose.
I don't think I missed any, but if I did, let me know. -
NzA21 — 18 years ago(February 02, 2008 03:40 AM)
plain and simple are you all that dumb to even think that when rod serling made the twilight zone and smoked cigarettes that this would have a nagative impact on society today? wow crawl back inside your uneducated caves, and try taking the little course called history all over again. you make me sick.
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redskiesmaxx — 15 years ago(October 27, 2010 04:27 PM)
I remember the Fourth Season episode, "He's Alive", with Dennis Hopper. The dissolve to Serling sitting in his chair chain-smoking as he delivered his monologue was just plain creepy. He looked like Mephistopheles just risen up from Hell with all those curlicues of infernal smoke swirling around his head!
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ridgerunner72160 — 17 years ago(April 29, 2008 12:14 AM)
Smoking is a bad habit. But like another poster said. Kids see much worse on television today. Hollywood acts as if smoking is the worst thing in the world, but then they try to convince us that abominations like homosexuality, cheating on your spouse, abortion, taking illegal drugs and alcoholism aren't so bad and are a person's right to do so if they wish. It's completely insane. Well, I'm no longer a smoker, but I believe it's a person's right to smoke a cigarette if they wish without having to go hide in a cave somewhere.
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Redhawkof2008 — 17 years ago(July 07, 2008 12:30 PM)
"Hollywood acts as if smoking is the worst thing in the world, but then they try to convince us that abominations like homosexuality"
I pity you if you believe homosexuality is an abomination.
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MrsC2007 — 16 years ago(January 01, 2010 05:34 PM)
" Hollywood acts1354 as if smoking is the worst thing in the world, but then they try to convince us that abominations like homosexuality, cheating on your spouse, abortion, taking illegal drugs and alcoholism aren't so bad and are a person's right to do so if they wish. It's completely insane. Well, I'm no longer a smoker, but I believe it's a person's right to smoke a cigarette if they wish without having to go hide in a cave somewhere. "
and it IS also a person's right to do all those other things you seem to think are abominations. Whether or not you agree with them is not the point. IT IS THEIR RIGHT.
As to Serling smoking on camera, those were the times. Sadly, it is probably that habit that caused his untimely death. -
ck1-5 — 16 years ago(February 10, 2010 02:01 PM)
Plus, sitting one table over in a restaurant from someone that's drinking won't make me drunk, and sitting next to a homosexual won't make me catch "gayness", but sitting next to a smoker is a different story. It's not a matter of your rights; it's a matter of everyone else's. If drinkers were constantly walking up to nondrinkers and pouring some of their drink on them, you'd see some changes in the law concerning that, too.
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Mad_Monkey — 15 years ago(June 05, 2010 10:57 PM)
I have seen several random threads where people are amazed by people smoking on screen. Where do you people live? Do you never see someone smoking? I don't smoke, never have but grew up with both parents smoking. It never bothered me then but now I am very sensitive to cigarette smoke.
If people want to smoke, that's their problem, I don't object. Just please be considerate of people who don't.
The thing I can't believe is how smoking seems to be so popular and why do kids start in the first place? I have seen so many lives hurt by smoking. I personally would love to see tobacco companies go bankrupt due to lack of sales. -
deathtoallbutmetal — 15 years ago(October 28, 2010 09:05 PM)
"If drinkers were constantly walking up to nondrinkers and pouring some of their drink on them, you'd see some changes in the law concerning that, too."
You must not party in the same cirles as me. These drunks around here spill their drinks like crazy. -
Roy_Batty_Nexus6 — 11 years ago(March 15, 2015 03:57 AM)
He was only aged 35 when The Twilight Zone first started, yet to me he looks more like 55! I guess that's what chainsmoking does to your skin, and the arteries throughout your body I suppose fair no better.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain . Time to die