"It's a good thing" you're a sexual predator Mr. Trump!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

Donald Trump surrogates/sycophants perform quite nicely in this episode of the "Twilight Zone." Just substitute Mr. Trump for Anthony and you will get the picture.

Six-year-old Anthony Fremont looks like any other little boy, but looks can be deceiving: he is a monster, a mutant with godlike mental powers, including mind-reading. Years before, he isolated his town of Peaksville, Ohio from the rest of the universe. Everybody is under his rule, even his parents. Since he's begun isolating the town, the people must survive by growing their own food, and supplies of common household items, such as bar soap, have been dwindling. He has blocked television signals and caused cars not to work.

The children and adults, including his own parents, tiptoe nervously around him, constantly telling him how everything he does is "good," since displeasing him can get them wished away into the cornfield from which there is no return. At one point, a dog is heard barking angrily. Anthony thinks the dog is "bad" and doesn't "like [him] at all," and wishes it into the cornfield. His father and mother are horrified, but they dare not show it.

Favorite Scenes from "It's a Good Life", in "The Twilight Zone" series.

[longship]

1. You're a bad man. You're a very bad man!!!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

3. +1 nt

[radicalliberal]

5. Little Anthony was speaking to Donald Trump.

Why, yes, Anthony, you're absolutely right. Trump is a bad man. A very bad man!

And that was a good thing you said. A very good thing!

[longship]

6. It's really good that you sent him to the cornfield.

Really, really good. Yes, indeed!

[radicalliberal]

9. I turned him into a jack-in-the-box with his ugly face.

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[ProudProgressiveNow]

10. +1 nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I've been wishing Trump into the cornfield for awhile now.

Maybe after Nov. 8....

[longship]

4. Isn't that Cloris Leachman as Anthony's mother?

I believe it is.

How about that?

Her first film appearance, Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Here's the intro, the only part she appears in. (She doesn't live long enough for another scene.)

[RoccoRyg]

7. There's a sequel

The short-lived Twilight Zone reboot from last decade made a sequel to this episode. Bill Mumy and Cloris Leachman reprise their role forty years later, and Mumy's real daughter plays his character's daughter who has the same powers.

That being said, the original episode is a great allegory for what it's like to live in a place controlled by a childish dictator who can do anything he wants with no repercussions. Think North Korea under the Kims. Trump is very similar. He keeps losing in the debates because he's actually being questioned and challenged by people who don't answer to him, something he has rarely experienced.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

8. "allegory"

Thanks, that's the word I was searching my mind for to describe this.