June 16, 2023-number 55

Spoilers

“Mr. Dingle, the Strong”

Burgess Meredith returned to the Twilight Zone, bringing with him Don Rickles for this mostly comedic episode of The Twilight Zone.

I have to say that most of the time when The Twilight Zone dips into its comedic well for an episode, it does not work nearly as well. This was a ‘funny’ episode that was not very funny. Even with the iconic Don Rickles in tow.

Burgess Meredith is a fantastic actor and he carries himself well, but he just did not feel in place in this episode. He couldn’t even save what was a very disappointing episode.

There was so much slapstick involved in the show and it just was not very funny. The aliens who give Mr. Dingle the super strength are a boring design and make little sense. The aliens at the end that are the little kids were worse yet.

Definitely one of the lower episodes of the show which has failed as of yet to show me a really effective comedy episode.