Futurama’s The Horrifying Door Parodies An Apocalyptic Black Zone Episode

After all, the writers of “Futurama” continuously simply caught with the spirit of “The Twilight Zone,” instead than spoofing it outright. There’s a “Scary Door” episode, for example — perceivable in “Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences” (August 26, 2010) — through which a vagrant is heckling a political candidate about the truth that extraterrestrial beings might already be amongst us. The flesh presser yanks off the vagrant’s face, revealing that he used to be, in truth, the alien all alongside. This doesn’t synch up with any “Twilight Zone” tale, however seems like one thing Rod Serling would possibly have written.

In “Spanish Fry” (July 13, 2003), the episode will have to had been operating lengthy, because the “Scary Door” layout used to be reserved for the episode’s credit layout. Beneath the various names of Tough Draft’s animation crew, audience may just see a insane scientist busily blending the DNA of essentially the most bad creatures on Earth; most commonly predators and animals with pointy enamel. He dumps his DNA slurry right into a cloning chamber, hoping to form essentially the most bad animal within the universe. The chamber opens up and a unadorned white man steps out. “It turns out it’s man,” he says flatly. 

Era the “Spanish Fry” “Scary Door” episode isn’t relating to anyone Serling script, it does display the daring potency of Serling’s storytelling. What “The Twilight Zone” had to do in half-hour, “The Scary Door” did in 30 seconds. 

Naturally “The Scary Door” is a loving satire, poking amusing on the approach “The Twilight Zone” used to be written, however including a gag to it; display creators David X. Cohen and Matt Groening aren’t looking to indicate the weaknesses in what may well be essentially the most influential sci-fi form of all presen. They’re simply giving it a weighty hug.