This clip confused the heck out of me! I was just watching the trial scene of The Obsolete Man seconds before and I thought this was part of the same episode, as a flashback perhaps.
My favorites were about the obsolete man, to serve man, the midnight sun, episode, any episodes regarding inter dimensional travel and time travel like the one when their daughter got trapped between dimensions inside the walls and any episodes regarding immortality. Waching any classic episodes of the twilight zone in this day and age still gives me the creeps .
DOUG: "Well, just for the sake of argument, why do you particularly want mine?" SMITH: ""Well, for the sake of argument, let's say I'm something of a connoisseur, and you have a very choice soul- and as the vintners say, it's a good year." DOUG: "Well, then again, uh, just for sake of argument..." SMITH: "Yes?" DOUG: "Why don't you just *take* it, huh? Now, if you're the devil, as you say you are, why, you can do everything." SMITH: "No, unhappily, not everything. I am bound by certain rules, and I do have my limitations." DOUG: "You're nuts." SMITH: "Yes. Let's drink to that, huh? (hands a glass to Doug) "Here you are.....I think I should warn you, however, that if you do NOT sign this, then the certain gloomy predictions you've made about the COURIER's future will certainly come to pass. Yes, I'll have to resign, and......Well, let's not even consider such a proposition. After all, you don't want to go visiting that bridge again, do you?" DOUG: "Hardly." SMITH: "No." DOUG: "Yeah." SMITH: "Now.....Why not *humor* an old man? It'll mean such a lot to me. And if you don't sign it, it'll be admitting fear and belief. You're not afraid, are you?" DOUG: "No....." SMITH: "Fancy that! A grown-up man who believes in the devil!" DOUG: (grabbing the contract, signing it in frustration) "Give me that stupid thing! THERE! Now, let's not hear any more about this, shall we?"
@@fromthesidelines That's such a great way to script Satan. He doesn't intimidate or even directly seduce. He just uses a sort of gently twisted but consumable logic to help you normalise doing something outrageous. "Look, if it's not YOU that benefits from this unethical act, well it will be someone else. So why shouldn't it be you? If it's anyone's fault, it's the negligent fool who has put this choice before you." And so the man plunders the pension accounts, takes advantage of the woman, abuses his authority. This depiction of Satan is the scariest version to me. I could boldly stand against his intimidation. I could sternly rebuke direct seduction. But... if he came across as reasonable and made me feel stupid and confused ... maybe it would be my ink on the page O_O
Meredith is such an accomplished actor, he makes a slight mistake and stays in character just to keep the scene going. Watch him when he asks to have another drink.
An episode that aired in 1963, almost sixty-and-a-half years ago based on a story published in 1951. As a 42 year old lifelong nerd, aside from simply loving the episode and the series, it’s fascinating and comforting to know that there were people like me so long ago, even though we often forget that is so.
I like how old shows from this time, when religiosity was still at an all time high in some circles, was clashing quite vehemently in the popular culture arising from the rationalist movement sent in motion several decades earlier.
@@jimmyohara2601 OK if the devil doesn't exist then give me your eternal soul for absolutely nothing, it's practically worthless, it's nothing after all nothing supernatural exists and everything is material, so give me your darnn nonexistent soul already I've got a quota to meet
@@CharlietheWarlock how can one give that doesn’t exist? If there is no heaven or hell, no gods or devils, what use would the universe have to imbue a being with a soul? If one does not believe in a universe beyond the veil then one cannot believe in souls. If one doesn’t believe in soul they must believe they don’t have a soul. Therefore it is not within my ability to give what I do not have. I have, my dear devil, only my words, which are equally worthless to you as they are to me but exist and thus you may have them.
I spent decades in the newspaper business, really enjoyed most of it. It's full of crooks and creeps for sure, but I don't remember any devils. Maybe I didn't have anything they wanted.