I'm an 80s kid but I skipped the old Twilight episodes ... so I'm trying to darnest to catch up on them and I'm learning how awesome the ideas were even if the presentation is dated.

Just a random segue ...

I sound naive but I didn't realize that Rod Sterling wanted to tell stories about social issues -- racism and stuff but the networks wouldn't let him. If he wanted to tell a story about an alien or an invader then the networks would let it pass through. So it was a way for him to tell harder stories to the general public.

I think that's a lot of sci-fi like Invasion of the Body Snatcher and such but I just never thought about it deeply enough.

There's the treehouse of horror episode by the Simpsons where Bart is omnipotent and I knew it was based on something but I only recently learned it from: "It's a Good Life" which is a book and a Twilight Zone episode. I only watched the parody up until this year and I just thought it was a fun concept. Then I watched the original and a breakdown and it was a take on totalitarian regimes.