Day 24 of the Twilight Zone podcast Advent Calendar.

It's Christmas Eve, everyone.

Zach, Merry Christmas.

Well, happy Christmas, Tom.

Every time, every time.

Our friend Ben Kirkham says,

if there's a sequel to any Twilight Zone episode in the original series,

which one would it be and how would it play out?

So I'll hand over to you first for this one, Zach.

Well, here's what I'm thinking.

Bill Moomy has a daughter, right?

So now, you know, obviously, had they not made a sequel to It's a Good Life in the 2002 show,

that would have been such an obvious answer.

That's why that's such a slam dunk episode because it's such a brilliant one to make a sequel out of.

So hats off to them there.

Say what you will about that 2002 series.

They nailed that. This was a hard one. I was scrolling through episodes. And I was like, hmm, hmm, hmm, because you want to think, what can you even, so many of these are so, I don't know, definitive or personal or like, how can you even continue these? Even some of the greatest episodes, like, it's over. Like, you can't continue Willoughby, right?

For example, oh, let's go follow him in Willoughby. Like, well, that doesn't, that's not a story, right? So what I came up with, and I think this actually really works in like real world production, too, if they had wanted to do it just even a few years ago. a kind of stopwatch.

Okay.

Okay, so at the end of the episode kind of stopwatch. Okay.

Okay.

So at the end of the episode, the stopwatch breaks, and the world is frozen, right?

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