Description: Season 2, Episode 27
Air Date: May 12, 1961
Plot Summary: A man, tired of humanity, gains omnipotence and wills all the people out of existence.
Review: Hmm...was this episode secretly based off of my desires? While this won't be the last we see of omnipotent characters, I believe this is the only one that was trying to be humorous with the material. Well, at least I'm hoping they were going for laughs as it's virtually impossible to take this scenario seriously. We simply meet a guy, named Beechcroft, who is part dork and part asshole. After we go through a typical day in Beechcroft's life, he suddenly snaps whereby we learn how annoyed he is with the crowded populous and monotony. After having lunch with another geek, who I get the feeling is subtly in love with Beachbaby, he is given a book that is titled the same as our episode. Reading the book quite hurriedly, Bitchboy suddenly gains the power to will the world in a way he sees fit.
The first order of business is to get rid of all the humans in the world. For some reason, the second order of business is going to work. Psh...are you shitting me, dude? You've instantly become a god and you waste your time with your job?! My, my, my! In typical TZ fashion, Beechy is tired of the situation almost immediately. It's been, like, what, a couple of hours? Give it a century or so--sheesh. Spicing things up, he manipulates the weather a bit, but this amusement is short lived. Beechcroft strangely has conversations with a physical representation of himself as they discuss ways to ease the boredom. Babybitch decides to recreate humanity but they will all look and act as he does. This part is especially dumb, as you might guess, and the worst part was the actor dressed up as a woman as well as the horrendous-looking masks. Realizing that he's an asshole, Beechcroft simply brings back humanity and is miraculously content with the way things are and life in general. Well, the message is pretty straightforward, and the episode does an adequate job of presenting it. It's not exactly a classic, but it's not terrible either.
This episode is a joke. I like the way you keep altering his name, Beachboy, Bitchboy, Babybitch. He does act like one. He's your typical irritable grouch, then we see the pattern, he tries being alone, then with people like him, etc., and then realizes the first way's not so bad and he has a new appreciation of it all. That formula's been used endless in shows, movies, etc. Not as weirdly as it was done here though. The section with all the Beechcroft lookalikes was unpleasant, and the women made to look like him looked creepy, I agree with you there.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you on why the hell did he go to work when he had the power and freedom to go anywhere he wanted now? That didn't make sense. And he complains about being bored when his empty office is the only place he went? Come on now is right. He could've travelled the world now, even the public transportations were still working such as the subway, I got no idea how when there were no other humans now. Like I said, this episode is a joke, this and "To Angus, with love" are the two biggest joke episodes of the Twilight zone.
I meant "To Agnus, with love". Lol
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