S4YA S3E5 – A Game of Pool – Twilight Zone

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A Game of Pool

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Jim Croce sang about big Jim Walker, that pool shootin’ sunuvagun and this week we’re singing about what makes a champion in, “A Game of Pool”!

My guest this week is Tiffany Hearsey, my friend and a freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Salon, and LA Review of Books. When Tiffany is not lurking around cemeteries, she likes watching Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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SHOW NOTES – A Game of Pool

  • Show Info
    • Originally aired: 1961-10-13
    • Starring:
      • Jack Klugman (Jesse Cardiff)
      • Jonathan Winters (Fats Brown)
    • Directed by: Buzz Kulick (Yes, 9 episodes (- On Thursday We Leave for Home (1963) – Jess-Belle (1963) – A Quality of Mercy (1961) – A Game of Pool (1961) … (directed by) – The Mind and the Matter (1961) – A Hundred Yards Over the Rim (1961) – Static (1961) – The Trouble with Templeton (1960) – King Nine Will Not Return (1960)))
    • Teleplay by: George Clayton Johnson (Yes, 7)

You, Me, and IMDB Synopses:

  • You: two hunks for the price of one
  • Me: A man finds out what it takes to be a champion
  • IMDB: A frustrated pool champ has beaten everyone. Everyone except one man; the legend, Fats Brown. Brown is dead, and the champ can only curse his name. But guess who just walked in.

Discussion:

  • Initial thoughts
    • Purgatory for Pride
      • Perfectionism
      • “You lose, you die”
    • Should challenge yourself
  • Stray Observations
  • What do you rate the episode?
    • 7.5/10 pool cues
    • 9/10

Choose your Own Endventure

    • Guest – enrolls in local college and gets an MSW in social work
    • Brandon – Jesse wins!

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