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Season 3. Episode 8. "It's a Good Life"
posted by wonder2wonderSTAFFMOD on February 22, 2017 at 10:58 AM
He is only a kid, but a kid with godlike powers and no responsibility. This is scary 
😱
Reply by MadeUpMelly
on February 23, 2017 at 4:04 PM
This is one of my favorites. It actually makes me laugh at times. 😄
Reply by PeterBlues
on March 29, 2017 at 7:28 AM
that episode is available in so many versions, it was one of the tales remade in the twilight zone 1983 movie, and mike starr is hilarious in it at twilight zone radio drama, and wasn't it also remade in one of the resurrected twilight zone series. anyway, the people i listened to the radio version with thought that episode ended very abruptly without the usual conclusion, and i really agree, i can't remember how the tv episode ended, but the version in the 1983 movie kind of like summed it up i thought. anyway, i have to say, that i just love anthony, isn't that right? don't we all just love anthony? he killed off half the crops... but.. its good that he did that. he's a good boy.
set to let you loose, as you built me up, worked with effect into the heart, until it danced to your tune, like the wind spun me around, till i got weak and you controlled my mind.
Reply by tmdb13060682
on March 31, 2017 at 9:11 PM
You're a bad man! You're a very bad man!
Reply by strntz
on April 13, 2017 at 12:35 PM
Why? Can't a man freaking listen to Perry Como anymore !!!!
Reply by tmdb13060682
on April 14, 2017 at 8:21 PM
You keep thinking bad thoughts about me!
Reply by strntz
on April 14, 2017 at 10:30 PM
It's good... it's good that we're thinking about you.. Isn't it good?
Reply by tmdb43737777
on June 23, 2017 at 6:48 PM
That was good television wasn't it. Yeah, the very best I've ever seen.
Send it to the cornfield, Anthony. Please.
Its snowing. We'll starve if half the crops die. But it's good that you did that.
Reply by Moonglum9
on October 18, 2017 at 1:44 PM
Kids sleep a lot. They should have murdered him in his sleep.
Reply by strntz
on October 18, 2017 at 3:15 PM
LOL!
...or laced his Ovaltine with cough syrup.
Reply by Jayhn1111
on January 25, 2018 at 3:28 AM
Oh my god that episode is probably in my top 5 favorites. Just imagine a kid murdering people right in front of his parents and they stand by and say "it was real good that ya did that". Scary stuff.
Reply by Tresix
on June 18, 2018 at 10:10 PM
They did a follow-up to it in the ‘02 “TZ” called “It’s Still a Good Life “. In that one, Anthony now has a daughter (played by Billy Mumy and his real daughter). Cloris Leachman also returns as Anthony’s mother.
Reply by Jayhn1111
on June 18, 2018 at 10:41 PM
WOw I had no idea! I've never seen any of the '02 series but I'd like to watch that episode
Reply by LansingFan
on March 9, 2020 at 9:07 AM
I wonder if Anthony had wished the rest of the world away.
Reply by Jayhn1111
on March 9, 2020 at 11:59 AM
I did see the ‘02 sequel episode. It was good
Reply by LansingFan
on March 18, 2020 at 11:34 PM
I wonder if Anthony and the people around him are having a shared delusion.