Reviewed by Melissa Antoinette Garza
Criminal and cop killer Rocky (Larry Blyden) dies in a shootout. He awakes and meets Mr. Pip (Sebastian Cabot) who is all dressed in white. Rocky robs him at gets $700 from him but it doesn’t faze Pip who says he has more to show.
He leads Rocky to his new place of residence. He soon realizes he died and believes himself to be in heaven as every wish he has is granted by Pip.
He wishes for a girl who appears in a beautiful dress with sequence. I miss sequence and sparkles on dresses that come with gloves to match. Back in the 50s and early 60s things were classier. Even the way in which we spoke had a certain level of respect and dignity to it. It is so much cleaner to say a woman is with child than pregnant. Rather than “females” (which seems to be the new term for ladies and I hate it!) we were called dolls. It was just a classier time. You’d never hear someone say that their “baby daddy” could be 5 different people or a woman had 4 kids from 4 different men. Douches like Maury Povich wouldn’t be tolerated.
People expected more from one another and single mothers were not made out to be the heroes they are today. There’s nothing wrong with a woman leaving an abusive husband and caring for her child on her own; but when a woman screws around, gets pregnant and has a child, the consequence is that she has to raise the child on her own. If she does a good job she can be proud of herself but the fact that she gave birth without a spouse around to assist is not anything to applaud or to idealize. Romanticizing a group labeled as “single mothers” is the wrong message to send to teenage girls. It’s bad enough there are shows like Teen Mom and movies like Juno which are aimed at the young girls where the mothers are not criticized for their lack of responsibility but instead given a platform to express themselves in a way that teenagers can relate.
When I was a kid there was one movie I remember about a teenager getting pregnant. It had Molly Ringwald in it and it was called For Keeps. It showed the Ringwald’s character Darcy unable to hold her child or look at her child. It showed her old friends from school making fun of her and showed her working at a fast food restaurant to get by. It showed the fights it caused between Darcy and her boyfriend. I remember watching it and thinking, “No Way. I will never go through that.” She wasn’t glamorized and they often made her look pretty bad.
Now on Teen Mom we basically tell teenagers that if they get pregnant they could possibly be on a reality show. They
don’t have to work. The protagonists are generally all scum. They break the laws and get arrested. It’s basically Jersey Shore for teenyboppers which do not need to be influenced to be little tramps. I can’t stand that show. It’s pretty bad when the reality stars of Sister Wives are the most normal people on television.
It’s pretty disgusting when we have all these scummy shows aimed at teenagers and then we have something like To Catch A Predator which was cancelled. It was partially given the axe because idiots cried for the rights of pedophiles and raised 
their arms up when one killed himself while being confronted.
We actually had a show that was protecting teenagers and rather than applaud its efforts, people say that the techniques used were improper. They accused the show of entrapment, and that paying the team that helped catch the perverts was against the ethics of journalists and that it lacked integrity. Frankly, it was all BS. They put forth basically anything they can think of to protest the show. I’m sure the ACLU was yelling with the rest of the fools.
Hey, how about we care more about getting the pedophiles off line and a little less about the nutsos who kill themselves because they were caught. I said it once before and I’ll say it again, GOD BLESS CHRIS HANSEN!
I digress.
Rocky goes to a casino and he can’t lose. He plays roulette and slots and wins every time. Once he leaves he harasses a police officer strolling the area. He soon gets bored with the same old same old. He calls Pip and tells him he can’t stand how everything goes in his favor. He asks to go to hell as he doesn’t belong in heaven.
SPOILER: As expected, Pip tells him that he is in fact in hell.
Nearly always The Twilight Zone delivers, and this is no exception. Rocky is easy to hate. When he talks about killing a dog the lack of remorse is enough to want to see him suffer. The acting is great and the characters well developed. It also leaves one knowing that what you wish for is not necessarily what you want and when you have it, it may be a curse.
As always Rod Serling delivered. He always provided a deep, intelligent program that made one think. His show entertained and though only 30-60 minutes long left one with a message that stayed much longer. Episodes like The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, Four O’Clock and The Shelter are just a few examples of his brilliance and ability to make one take in something with depth and a well learned lesson.
Scared Stiff Reviews: 8/10
