THE TWILIGHT ZONE / "Mr. Dingle, The Strong" - 1961

Here's a crazy little episode about a timid vacuum cleaner salesman who's given the strength of 300 men by two aliens using him in an experiment. it stars Burgess Meredith, James Westerfield, Eddie Ryder, Douglas Spencer, Michael Fox and Don Rickles.

The story mainly takes place at a local bar, where, Bettor (Don) is constantly arguing over sports with his more than willing sparring partner. I'm mean, it's just stupid crap like.. What if someone had hit a home run, instead of striking out!! And sometimes, another person that hangs out there, vacuum cleaner salesman Mr. Dingle, gets forced into choosing sides between the two.

Bettor is always over the top and Dingle usually takes sides with the other guy!

So, Bettor has punched Dingle in the stomach, when, weird aliens show up and take interest in the incident...

After O'Toole, the owner and bartender, chases off Bettor, he gives Dingle some sage advice... Just stop talking, nod your head or something!

As Dingle tries to gather himself, the aliens hit him with a strength ray, making him 300 times as strong as a normal human...

On his way out of the bar, he pulls the door off its hinges like it was nothing!

Dingle shows off at the park and it gets on the front page of the newspaper. It's Samson, not Hercules that Dingle seems to be! I don't get it.

Everybody's trying to come up with schemes to make money off of Dingle's uncanny strength. At the moment, he's listening to a pitch being made by a boxing promoter, saying that he'll make him the world boxing champ!!

Then a TV crew comes in and clears the area for an interview with Dingle about his strength...

He starts with easily punching a hole in the wall.

And pulling a bar stool out of the floor.

Then he sees Bettor and gives him the evil eye! Bettor tells him... Haven't you ever heard the saying, let bygones be bygones?

Dingle twirls him around like a feather! These are stuntmen doing this gag, and you can easily tell that they don't look like the actors

The aliens turn off Dingle's strength ray and his power is no more. He tries and tries, but just hurts his hand and gives up.

Now, he gets ready for a nose twister from Bettor.

Offended, the TV announcer apologizes to their audience, and the crew storms off in disgust!

The aliens are Martians, on Earth to experiment with physical strength. These other two guys are from Venus, on Earth looking for subjects to experiment on with mental powers. They ask the Martians if there are any good subjects around to use in their experiment. They point to Dingle!

So, Dingle it is... They give him 500 time the intellect of a normal human!

The gang's watching a baseball game on TV when they ask Dingle what he thought would happen on the next play. He says 'home run' and sure enough, home run! He starts spouting out mathematic formulas and theories to the bemusement of his pals...

REVENGE OF THE TOYS - "More Than Just Cheeseballs" (1984)

 

Some movies are SO obscure that almost nobody knows anything about them, and that's the case with this Saturday Night Special called "Revenge Of The Toys."

Made in 1984, "Revenge Of The Toys," is a small segment of a larger project by Phil Hartman called "Cheeseball Presents." As you can plainly see, it is full of suspense!

It also takes a lot of balls to make a film like this!

You can't go wrong if you can get Elvira to host the show for you!

This seemingly innocent toy box is filled with horrors!

The wife of the family is in a panic!

She heard something go bump in the night, and she doesn't know what it is.

Her husband goes upstairs to check it out and is mysteriously pelted with balls!

He finds his old "Soldier Bill" doll and reminisces about the good times they spent together!

Unfortunately "Soldier Bill" has different memories, and only remembers being mistreated and abused!

"Soldier Bill" suddenly gets a deathgrip on the guy's finger!

Then he starts beating him up, and throwing him all around the room!

The wife, in the meantime is being savagely attacked by Hula Hoops!

Nearly choking, she ends up falling down the stairs to certain death!

Now all the rest of the toys are getting in on the action!

I have these same windup toys, maybe I should have them locked up some place just to be on the safe side!

It doesn't take long at all before the man is completely incapacitated!

He had to learn the hard way that toys have feelings too, and some of them are not going to take it any longer, and just might sock it to you! You've been warned! You better start treating those toys with a little more R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

Clueless Elvira thinks the whole thing is a joke!

COLONEL BLEEP / The Firebomb - 1958

It's time for some Colonel Bleep and his pals today, because, the post I had ready, well, we already did it!! Like I got time to waste. So, Colonel Bleep has created a planet run entirely by Futurian robots, and him, Squeak and Scratch pay a visit to the automated planet...

The robots are cute as a bell, whatever that means. They happily dance around as they perform their daily tasks.

The gang is being carted around by one of the main robots, Scratch is constantly pointing at things as they journey through the city in the taxi.

They stop at a Robo Lube station to refill their tank.

But, Dr. Destructo is spying on the robots. and hatches an evil scheme...

He's got a little surprise for them!

But first, he pulls his pet gorilla Grizzo out of its cage and fills it in on all the details about his plan, and Grizzo loves it!

The doctor and Grizzo shoot off into space and head to the robot planet.

Once Dr. Destructo has landed his rocket on the planet, a robot sniffing nose warns everyone of impending danger!

But it's too late, all the robots' gas tanks have been drained and the mad doctor has used his fire bomb to start their Futurian gasoline producing factory ablaze!

And on the way to the fire, the fire truck and the robot fire fighters all run out of fuel...

There's only one thing to do!!.. Spray the fire with frozen... Plutonium??!

The Colonel and Squeak can't get close to the heat, so Scratch volunteers for the job.

The caveman runs towards the danger and meets it head on!! And after a battle with the flames our hero puts them all out.

Scratch is made chief of something, but it's a good thing that only robots live there, because, the contamination from all that frozen Plutonium spray will be lethal to anything with flesh!

I love the artwork for this cartoon, it's wild and weird, and wacky. The fifties was a different world, if I could get a ticket, I'd go back!