Twilight Zone-A Game of Pool on now
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Winters (fats) was the heavens resident Poll shark so to speak since he died as the best. i guess as his "purgatory" he would have to play anyone alive that said they could beat them. he would offer a game for the stakes of life or death to the challenger. Klugman won and now when he dies he'll have to bare the same curse.
Is there any good pool in it?
-Andrew
-Andrew
Its a pretty good episode. They play a game of straight pool for life or death. If Klugman wins, he lives and he is the best. But, when he dies he finds out that he has to keep proving he is the best and now realizes that Winters was glad to not have this burden anymore. They did a remake of this episode in 1985 i think and changed the ending a bit. In it, Cardiff (Klugmans character) loses....well I wont spoil it.
Southpaw
Southpaw
not really. in fact there we're very easy shots missed and a bad shark tactic that was over done imo. the premise was good but it's obvious that was their focus not the game play so much. but like i said it was nice to see an old rambow and martin in action though.Andrew Manning said:
He wins the game so he lives and he knows he is the best. Years later when he dies they show him in heaven getting a call to go to a poolroom and play someone wanting to give anything to be the best. He now realizes that to be the best, he had to give up everything else in life and even now that he has died, he must still keep proving it. Thats why when he beat Jonathan Winters character (fats), fats said "thanks..." to him and Klugman didnt realize what he was thanking him for until now.Cornerman said:
Southpaw
I watched it last night and noticed two little quirks:arsenius said:I've seen that one, it's pretty great
At the end of the game, they both need 1 point and there is only 1 ball on the table. (which is quirk 1 since there would never be just 1 ball on the table in straight pool)
2) Jonathan Winters sharks Jack Klugman [drops his cue] and Klugman miscues (fouling) but doesn't subtract his point. On his turn, and instead of shooting at the last ball, Winters bunts it into duck position for Jack - which Jack makes for the win - but actually he's simply back at one point needed to win...
Fred- this might refresh your memory:
The episode ends with Rod's narration-
"Mr. Jesse Cardiff, who became a legend by beating one, but who has found out after his funeral that being the best of anything carries with it a special obligation to keep on proving it. Mr. Fats Brown, on the other hand, having relinquished the champion's medal, has gone fishing. These are the ground rules in the Twilight Zone."
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Aha. That's why it made little sense to me. Mr. Fats Brown is a dolt. If he wanted to go fishing earlier, he may have saved the sharking techniques and brought out the dumping techniques maybe, say, a decade ago?td873 said:
Fred <~~~ and he was the best?