consider if you will this ordinary list
of extraordinary twists welcome to
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
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this list we’re looking at the most
shocking and iconic surprise endings to
come out of the original run of Rod
Serling’s influential sci-fi and horror
anthology as we’re talking endings a
spoiler alert is now in effect what
number 10 the real monsters the monsters
when a strange object flies over a
suburb knocking out all the power the
residents of Maple Street at first
assumed it’s something harmless but as
talk turns to aliens it’s not long
before the neighbors violently turn on
one another they look just like humans
honey don’t talk like that
the morality lesson about the danger of
witch-hunt seems all set up until the
twist is revealed aliens are watching
and now know that they can exploit human
paranoia to take over earth the twist
hammers home the message that not only
will fear in division destroy us they
leave us open to manipulation and
coercion a message that remains all too
relevant today they pick the most
dangerous enemy they can find and it’s
themselves number 9 playthings stopover
in a quiet town it may just be the
biggest twist in the series after a
night of partying a husband and wife
wake up in an unknown house hearing a
little girl laugh they leave the house
to find the town eerily empty to their
horror they soon discovered there now
playthings for a giant alien girl at
least they might have it better than the
guy who wound up in a zoo there are a
lot of signs in this episode that
something’s wrong but who would have
seen a super-sized extraterrestrial
coming this is a twist right at a left
field number 8 dead broke and silenced
the silence this is this absolute
nonsense silence is golden but can also
come at a cost
sick of Jamie Tennyson’s chatter colonel
archie taylor bets him half a million
bucks that he can’t keep silent for a
year Tennyson takes the bet and pulls
off the feat returning to Taylor for his
money turns out that Taylor lost his
fortune years ago however and it was all
for naught distraught but still silent
Tennyson reveals to the others that he
had the nerves to his vocal cords cut
the body mutilation horror of this one
makes the twist particularly effective
especially as Tennyson became a
sympathetic figure over the episode
don’t cheat to win kids you may still
lose big
number seven going my way
the hitch-hiker man adams is driving
across america when she has a car
accident while following a mechanic into
the closest town for repairs she notices
a scruffy looking man hitching on the
side of the road she continues on her
trip but in the next town sees the same
man convinced that he’s following her
and frightened because no one else can
see him she stops and calls her mother
but she’s instead told that her mother’s
had a nervous breakdown following the
death of her daughter what do you what
do you mean session four daughter men
didn’t survive the accident and the
hitchhiker is deaf waiting for her to
realize it’s a classic bait-and-switch
in which were first led to believe that
death is the ghost of the tale when in
fact it’s nan I believe you’re going my
way number six by fire or ice midnight
son
the end is nigh but not the way you
think when the earth is knocked out of
orbit it drifts closer and closer to the
Sun in New York Norma tries to survive
the heat along with her landlady as the
mercury climbs and the landlady dies
from heatstroke Norma panics yet
suddenly we cut to a snowy day and Norma
is in bed with a fever at first it seems
like a cheap it was all a dream trick
until it’s revealed the earth is moving
now past and away from the Sun and
everyone is gonna freeze to death the
twist pulls the rug out from under our
feet at the last second as a relief
gives way to chilling horror wonderful
that darkness
[Music]
number five no happy ending
now habeeboo also known as an occurrence
at Owl Creek Bridge so close but so far
during the civil war a civilian prisoner
is about to be hung from a bridge at the
last second however the rope snaps and
he falls uninjured into the water he
outruns his captors and escapes making
the long journey home to his darling
wife but just as they’re about to
embrace his head snaps back the scene
changes to reveal him hanging from the
bridge
unlike other Twilight Zone twists this
twist isn’t horror it’s straight-up
heartbreaking his escape and reunion
were just a fantasy before dying as he
was dropping at the end of the rope
number four it’s not fair
time enough at last the same place can
be both paradise and hell henpecked
bookworm Henry Bemis just wants time to
read but is always interrupted while
taking his lunch break in the bank vault
the only place he gets to read a huge
blast knocks him unconscious when he
wakes he discovers that nuclear war has
left him in a post-apocalyptic wasteland
the only consolation is that at least he
finally has time to read looking forward
to the solitary years ahead he picks up
his first book and his glasses fall off
and shatter the disappointment is so
real that we feel his distress like it’s
our own this is one of the show’s most
famous and crushing twists it really
isn’t fair that’s not fair
it’s not fair at all number three how we
differ will the real Martian please
stand up we’re all on the bus 22 state
troopers track an alien from a crashed
UFO to a diner where bus passengers
delayed by the snow wait for the roads
to clear when the troopers declare that
one of them must be a Martian confusion
and tensions mount it seems to be
another morality play about witch hunts
but after everyone reboard ‘he’s the bus
and it departs one of the passengers
returns and we get our Martian after all
what are you some kind of magician me it
seems all too simple when there’s
another twist the cook isn’t frightened
of the Martian or his approaching fleet
because he’s actually from Venus it’s
not everyday that you see an alien
surprised by another alien number two
real beauty the eye of the beholder is
not God in an authoritarian state that
demands conformity Janet Tyler is
desperate to look normal with her face
wrapped in bandages we’re told only that
her faces quote a pitiful twisted lump
of flesh the episode does a beautiful
job of maintaining this ruse keeping the
hospital staffs own faces hidden using
shadows and clever camera angles so when
the bandages are removed the audience is
totally unprepared to see that she’s
actually beautiful at least by our
standards it’s everyone else who looks
otherwise just goes to show don’t
believe everything you hear
Nadel please
[Music]
before we unveil our number one pick
[Music]
look we have already begun we never left
the earth we just we just crashed
number one double meaning to serve man
ladies and gentlemen of the earth we
greet you in peace and friendship these
aliens find us delightful just not in
the way we’d hope when telepathic
extraterrestrials arrived promising
peace and prosperity it seems too good
to be true sure enough however their
technologies better the planet their
benevolence seems confirmed when the
title of an alien book is translated as
to serve man relations are so good
humans regularly leave earth to tour
their planet as cryptographer Michael
chambers boards the alien ship however
his colleague reveals the awful truth
it’s a cop book the horrifying double
meaning of the title the fact that
countless humans have already met this
fate and the screams of chambers as he’s
dragged onto the ship are the stuff of
nightmares
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and be sure to subscribe and ring the
bell to be notified about our latest videos
of extraordinary twists welcome to
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re looking at the most
shocking and iconic surprise endings to
come out of the original run of Rod
Serling’s influential sci-fi and horror
anthology as we’re talking endings a
spoiler alert is now in effect what
number 10 the real monsters the monsters
when a strange object flies over a
suburb knocking out all the power the
residents of Maple Street at first
assumed it’s something harmless but as
talk turns to aliens it’s not long
before the neighbors violently turn on
one another they look just like humans
honey don’t talk like that
the morality lesson about the danger of
witch-hunt seems all set up until the
twist is revealed aliens are watching
and now know that they can exploit human
paranoia to take over earth the twist
hammers home the message that not only
will fear in division destroy us they
leave us open to manipulation and
coercion a message that remains all too
relevant today they pick the most
dangerous enemy they can find and it’s
themselves number 9 playthings stopover
in a quiet town it may just be the
biggest twist in the series after a
night of partying a husband and wife
wake up in an unknown house hearing a
little girl laugh they leave the house
to find the town eerily empty to their
horror they soon discovered there now
playthings for a giant alien girl at
least they might have it better than the
guy who wound up in a zoo there are a
lot of signs in this episode that
something’s wrong but who would have
seen a super-sized extraterrestrial
coming this is a twist right at a left
field number 8 dead broke and silenced
the silence this is this absolute
nonsense silence is golden but can also
come at a cost
sick of Jamie Tennyson’s chatter colonel
archie taylor bets him half a million
bucks that he can’t keep silent for a
year Tennyson takes the bet and pulls
off the feat returning to Taylor for his
money turns out that Taylor lost his
fortune years ago however and it was all
for naught distraught but still silent
Tennyson reveals to the others that he
had the nerves to his vocal cords cut
the body mutilation horror of this one
makes the twist particularly effective
especially as Tennyson became a
sympathetic figure over the episode
don’t cheat to win kids you may still
lose big
number seven going my way
the hitch-hiker man adams is driving
across america when she has a car
accident while following a mechanic into
the closest town for repairs she notices
a scruffy looking man hitching on the
side of the road she continues on her
trip but in the next town sees the same
man convinced that he’s following her
and frightened because no one else can
see him she stops and calls her mother
but she’s instead told that her mother’s
had a nervous breakdown following the
death of her daughter what do you what
do you mean session four daughter men
didn’t survive the accident and the
hitchhiker is deaf waiting for her to
realize it’s a classic bait-and-switch
in which were first led to believe that
death is the ghost of the tale when in
fact it’s nan I believe you’re going my
way number six by fire or ice midnight
son
the end is nigh but not the way you
think when the earth is knocked out of
orbit it drifts closer and closer to the
Sun in New York Norma tries to survive
the heat along with her landlady as the
mercury climbs and the landlady dies
from heatstroke Norma panics yet
suddenly we cut to a snowy day and Norma
is in bed with a fever at first it seems
like a cheap it was all a dream trick
until it’s revealed the earth is moving
now past and away from the Sun and
everyone is gonna freeze to death the
twist pulls the rug out from under our
feet at the last second as a relief
gives way to chilling horror wonderful
that darkness
[Music]
number five no happy ending
now habeeboo also known as an occurrence
at Owl Creek Bridge so close but so far
during the civil war a civilian prisoner
is about to be hung from a bridge at the
last second however the rope snaps and
he falls uninjured into the water he
outruns his captors and escapes making
the long journey home to his darling
wife but just as they’re about to
embrace his head snaps back the scene
changes to reveal him hanging from the
bridge
unlike other Twilight Zone twists this
twist isn’t horror it’s straight-up
heartbreaking his escape and reunion
were just a fantasy before dying as he
was dropping at the end of the rope
number four it’s not fair
time enough at last the same place can
be both paradise and hell henpecked
bookworm Henry Bemis just wants time to
read but is always interrupted while
taking his lunch break in the bank vault
the only place he gets to read a huge
blast knocks him unconscious when he
wakes he discovers that nuclear war has
left him in a post-apocalyptic wasteland
the only consolation is that at least he
finally has time to read looking forward
to the solitary years ahead he picks up
his first book and his glasses fall off
and shatter the disappointment is so
real that we feel his distress like it’s
our own this is one of the show’s most
famous and crushing twists it really
isn’t fair that’s not fair
it’s not fair at all number three how we
differ will the real Martian please
stand up we’re all on the bus 22 state
troopers track an alien from a crashed
UFO to a diner where bus passengers
delayed by the snow wait for the roads
to clear when the troopers declare that
one of them must be a Martian confusion
and tensions mount it seems to be
another morality play about witch hunts
but after everyone reboard ‘he’s the bus
and it departs one of the passengers
returns and we get our Martian after all
what are you some kind of magician me it
seems all too simple when there’s
another twist the cook isn’t frightened
of the Martian or his approaching fleet
because he’s actually from Venus it’s
not everyday that you see an alien
surprised by another alien number two
real beauty the eye of the beholder is
not God in an authoritarian state that
demands conformity Janet Tyler is
desperate to look normal with her face
wrapped in bandages we’re told only that
her faces quote a pitiful twisted lump
of flesh the episode does a beautiful
job of maintaining this ruse keeping the
hospital staffs own faces hidden using
shadows and clever camera angles so when
the bandages are removed the audience is
totally unprepared to see that she’s
actually beautiful at least by our
standards it’s everyone else who looks
otherwise just goes to show don’t
believe everything you hear
Nadel please
[Music]
before we unveil our number one pick
[Music]
look we have already begun we never left
the earth we just we just crashed
number one double meaning to serve man
ladies and gentlemen of the earth we
greet you in peace and friendship these
aliens find us delightful just not in
the way we’d hope when telepathic
extraterrestrials arrived promising
peace and prosperity it seems too good
to be true sure enough however their
technologies better the planet their
benevolence seems confirmed when the
title of an alien book is translated as
to serve man relations are so good
humans regularly leave earth to tour
their planet as cryptographer Michael
chambers boards the alien ship however
his colleague reveals the awful truth
it’s a cop book the horrifying double
meaning of the title the fact that
countless humans have already met this
fate and the screams of chambers as he’s
dragged onto the ship are the stuff of
nightmares
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and be sure to subscribe and ring the
bell to be notified about our latest videos
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