Description: Season 3, Episode 30
Air Date: April 13, 1962
Plot Summary: A notorious liar ends up getting abducted by aliens with ensuing antics obviously.
Review: This is another episode I want to hate but just can't bring myself to it--it's too funny. I'll admit, the story's handling is so poorly done it's pathetic, but the core joke and its presentation are fun and enjoyable. You have a guy named Frisby who is the ultimate Jedi master of bullshit. When he's not too busy creating a life-altering invention, getting another doctorate, or saving the world he's apparently lounging around his shop like a fat ass. In a humorous twist of fate, aliens who cannot understand the concept of a lie take notice of Frisby's outlandish tales as if they are his real experiences. I like how they telepathically tell Frisby to walk down the street and he will have an adventure. Oh, yeah, sure, nothing entices me like a voice in my head saying to go on an adventure; actually, it probably depends on how sexy that voice is. Lingering a bit too long, the aliens use a kind of tractor beam to pull Frisby to their spaceship's location. Frisby tries to explain to the aliens the notion of a lie and that he's simply a Jedi master of the bullshit arts, but the aliens cannot comprehend this idea. However, once Frisby realizes the aliens want him to be in a kind of zoo, he tries to fight one (yeah, that's gonna work) and faints when he sees what their real faces look like. In another ridiculous turn of events, Frisby plays his harmonica to ease his fears, but this turns out to be a fatal weakness to the aliens. Free of the ship and aliens, Frisby returns home to tell the locals about his experience nearly getting probed and they laugh it off. Oh, Frisby! What can I say, the episode is corny as fuck, but I couldn't help but to be entertained. At the same time, it's simply the '60s version of the boy who cried wolf which Mr. Serling even mentions.
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