{"id":7810,"date":"2019-07-26T22:26:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T02:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2019-07-27T14:28:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T18:28:39","slug":"the-twilight-zone-complete-series-review-season-5-episode-4-a-kind-of-a-stopwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/26\/the-twilight-zone-complete-series-review-season-5-episode-4-a-kind-of-a-stopwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twilight Zone \u2013 Complete Series Review \u2013 Season 5 Episode 4 \u2013 A Kind of a Stopwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Thomas McNulty is an annoying opinionated boob who talks incessantly about subjects about which he knows very little.\u00a0 At work he fills up the company suggestion box with ideas like making hot dogs square so they\u2019ll fit in hamburger buns and making cans square so they\u2019ll stack better in the garbage can.\u00a0 Since he works for a company that sells women\u2019s girdles his boss is not amused by these nonsensical suggestions and fires McNulty.<\/p>\n<p>McNulty therefore adjourns to the neighborhood bar and proceeds to bore and alienate the patrons with his opinions on the baseball game on the television.\u00a0 He succeeds in driving out all but one patron, Mr Potts.\u00a0 McNulty buys Potts a beer and in exchange for this kindness gives McNulty and old stopwatch that Potts got from his family.<\/p>\n<p>The bar owner, Joe Polucci berates McNulty for prattling on and driving away his customers.\u00a0 Being distracted by this harangue, Joe drops a pitcher of beer.\u00a0 While he\u2019s going to clean it up McNulty clicks the stopwatch and suddenly Joe is immobile in the position he was in while stooping over to clean up the mess.\u00a0 McNulty realizes what has happened and investigates Joe\u2019s predicament.\u00a0 Clicking the watch again, Joe returns to motion.\u00a0 McNulty tries to convince Joe of what happened but since no time elapsed for Joe there is no evidence of the stasis.<\/p>\n<p>McNulty goes home and starts testing out the scope of what can do.\u00a0 First, he freezes his gold fish a couple of times.\u00a0 Finally, he goes to the apartment window and proves that all of Manhattan is frozen by the stopwatch.\u00a0 In a couple of demonstrations, we are led to the conclusion that the whole world is frozen when McNulty clicks the watch.<\/p>\n<p>The next day McNulty uses the watch to play pranks on his old boss and the other employees.\u00a0 For while the rest of the world is frozen still, McNulty is not only capable of movement but can also move the frozen items around him.\u00a0 After boring of this and realizing what else he can do with this power he decides that the next day he will make himself very rich.<\/p>\n<p>Next morning McNulty goes to his bank and stops time.\u00a0 Then he goes in the vault and loads up a cart with bags of cash.\u00a0 But as he\u2019s pulling the cart along the stopwatch 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