| 词条 | A Kind of a Stopwatch |
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| title = A Kind of a Stopwatch | series = The Twilight Zone | image = | caption = | season = 5 | episode = 4 | airdate = October 18, 1963 | production =2609 | writer = Rod Serling (based on an unpublished story by Michael D. Rosenthal) | director = John Rich | guests = Richard Erdman: Patrick Thomas McNulty Roy Roberts: Mr. Cooper Leon Belasco: Potts Herbie Faye: Joe Polucci Doris Singleton: Secretary Dick Wessel: Charlie (as Richard Wessel) Ray Kellog: Fred Ken Drake: Daniel Sam Balter: TV Announcer Robert McCord: Man in Bar Doorway | music = Nathan Van Cleave | season_article = The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 5) | episode_list = List of The Twilight Zone episodes | prev = Nightmare at 20,000 Feet | next = The Last Night of a Jockey }} "A Kind of a Stopwatch"[1] is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. In this episode, a man acquires a stopwatch which can stop time. Opening narration{{cquote|Submitted for your approval or at least your analysis: one Patrick Thomas McNulty, who, at age forty-one, is the biggest bore on Earth. He holds a ten-year record for the most meaningless words spewed out during a coffee break. And it's very likely that, as of this moment, he would have gone through life in precisely this manner, a dull, argumentative bigmouth who sets back the art of conversation a thousand years. I say he very likely would have except for something that will soon happen to him, something that will considerably alter his existence - and ours. Now you think about that now, because this is The Twilight Zone.}}PlotPatrick McNulty is a self-important, annoying boor in his 40s. One day, he is summoned by his boss. He is delighted, believing that his frequent contributions to the suggestion box have earned him recognition. His boss, however, says that all of McNulty's suggestions deal with fields of enterprise in which the company is not involved. The boss fires McNulty for wasting his time. McNulty goes to a bar, where he drives away the other patrons with his opinions about a sporting event. The bar owner requests that McNulty patronize another establishment. McNulty ignores him and buys a drink for the sole remaining patron, a drunk, who spews various phrases from times long past ("54°40' or Fight", "E Pluribus Unum", et al.). The drunk gives McNulty his stopwatch. Thinking it an odd gift, McNulty quickly discovers that it pauses the passage of time for everyone and everything, except the watch holder. McNulty tries to show his former boss the power of the stopwatch. McNulty says it can be used to make their company the largest in the world, but forgets that he cannot be heard when time is stopped. His boss does not understand and dismisses him. Before leaving, McNulty uses the stopwatch mischievously to rearrange random things in the office. Returning to the bar, he tries to demonstrate the power of the watch to the customers, but again does it in such a way that they do not understand. Next McNulty uses the stopwatch to break into a bank vault, but while carting out a pile of cash he drops the watch. It breaks, leaving time permanently frozen. With no way to repair it, McNulty runs around in a panic, begging the frozen people to talk or move. Closing narration{{cquote|Mr. Patrick Thomas McNulty, who had a gift of time. He used it and he misused it, and now he's just been handed the bill. Tonight's tale of motion and McNulty - in the Twilight Zone.}}AdaptationThe television episode was later adapted as an episode of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas series—under the title "A Kind of Stopwatch"—featuring Lou Diamond Phillips in the lead role.[2] Related worksIdeas from this episode were used in "A Little Peace and Quiet", an episode in the 1985 revival of The Twilight Zone. The episode has been parodied by a number of animated series, including in the Johnny Bravo episode "The Day the Earth Didn't Move Around Very Much"; the Simpsons 2003 Halloween episode "Treehouse of Horror XIV"; and The Garfield Show episode "Time Master." See also
References and further reading1. ^"A Kind of Stopwatch" is the title on the script, two versions of which were published in As Timeless as Infinity: The Complete Twilight Zone Scripts of Rod Serling, Volume 3, edited by Tony Albarella (Gauntlet Press, 2007). The original scripts (both versions) are part of [https://library.ithaca.edu/archives/serling The Rod Serling Archives] at Ithaca College. 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.twilightzoneradio.com/template/store.cfm/ses_/details.cfm,list,x,0,0,5000-1,x,x,x/ |title=The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas: A Kind of Stopwatch |publisher=Twilightzoneradio.com |date= |accessdate=2013-07-02 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217204922/http://www.twilightzoneradio.com/template/store.cfm/ses_/details.cfm%2Clist%2Cx%2C0%2C0%2C5000-1%2Cx%2Cx%2Cx/ |archivedate=2012-02-17 }}
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