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Twilight zone has so many amazing stories, it's just annoying that so many end with "and then insert bad twist happened".
Also, fun fact for the other Trekkies on here: the main character in this episode was William Shatner.
One thing that has always troubled me about that episode, ever since I went on a watch through several years ago, was he said the phrase "the buffalo is off the nickel", and in context, I'm assuming that it meant something along the lines of believing something that isn't true, but since we don't use buffalo nickels anymore, that phrase has exited common parlance, and it threw me for a loop to hear old slang.
Trying to find the origin and meaning of that. This talks about a bull, not a buffalo, and oddly references a twilight zone episode, though I think this is a different episode than what we are talking about.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The+bull+is+off+the+nickel
This mentions a buffalo, but it’s a different expression.
https://barrypopik.com/blog/he_squeezes_a_nickel_so_tight_the_indian_cries
Yep. Good catch. Saw that too.
Except the devil machine in real life is terrible for the environment, enriches greedy billionaires, and is wrong a lot.
See also: The Whispering Earring
It was an alright short story. A little too much of Scott's pretentiousness and ego though.
