Talk:It's a Good Life (The Twilight Zone)

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second life reference[edit]

"The virtual world Second Life has a "prison" area referred to as "the Cornfield". Players violating the terms of service of the game are "sent to the Cornfield" in lieu of temporarily being banned from accessing the game." - is this true anymore? TheBilly 00:01, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe so, but I wouldn't know if Linden Labs is continuing it. I do know that the Cornfield existed at one time, as it was documented on a few sites by someone who managed to be temporarily banned for a minor infraction. I know the player reaction was mixed, as some loved the idea while others thought it might encourage griefers and with the diverting of resources to an undesirable outlet. --YoungFreud 02:27, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article should reference the ORIGINAL STORY before its adaptations. Lee M 01:04, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:It's a Good Life.jpg[edit]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:52, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted non-fair use image tag. Bot can't read. Travisl (talk) 23:22, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Parodie[edit]

A simpsons episode had a plot like these one i know but i cant remenber the name —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.217.135.129 (talk) 04:32, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Haruhi?[edit]

It seems like The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was based slightly off of this Twilight Zone episode. --75.163.184.242 (talk) 18:13, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Johnny Bravo[edit]

There is a parody of this episode where Johnny had to babysit a kid with mind powers just like the kid in this show. He constantly sent him to an ACTUAL cornfield as a gag in the show. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.81.193.12 (talk) 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Extensive quotations[edit]

Per Wikipedia's policy on non-free content, extensive quotations are forbidden. Even briefer quotations must be used transformatively and not merely decoratively. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:32, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fallout 3 Reference[edit]

According to http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Braun, the character of Stanislaus Braun, who diguises himself as Betty, is inspired by this episode of the Twilight Zone. If you feel it is relevant enough you can add it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.76.47.253 (talk) 10:43, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Remake[edit]

There was a Twilight Zone movie in the 80's that had four remakes of old episodes. This was one of them. It also had a remake of the episode where William Shatner saw a gremlin on the wing of the commercial plane. I think that one had John Lithgow. Primium mobile (talk) 00:47, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Link to Time Magazine[edit]

Incorrectly states that this episode was ranked 2, when it was ranked 7. 173.68.157.5 (talk) 20:37, 5 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Justice League reference?[edit]

Any connection between the episode and the episode "Legends" of the Justice League series? Omeganian (talk) 17:29, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Popular culture[edit]

@Michowski: If you're not able to provide reliable and secondary sourcing for those claims, they'll need to be left out - popular-culture content requires sourcing indicating its impact, not just that it exists. Nikkimaria (talk) 23:24, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Nikkimaria As you can see on this page there was even a guy talking about the Fallout 3 reference in 2011 mentioning the same character I'm talking about. The Tranquility Lane quest is one of the main quests and one of the more memorable quests in the franchise overall. Here is an interview with one of the lead designers of Fallout 3, I won't find a better and more reliable source that notes the connection, the original site with that article is from 2008, so it was deleted, but it was preserved on another site, you'll probably say that it's still on fandom, so it's not reliable or something, but it's for sure a real interview. "With Tranquility Lane, the idea was to give players a look into what the Fallout world was like before the bombs fell. It sort of reinforces to the player that the world that got nuked wasn't our world -- it was this sort of 1950s view of the future. As for the gameplay there, Betty was inspired partially by the Billy Mumy character in the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life," in which this little kid with godlike powers terrorizes the inhabitants of a town, and "wishes" them into the cornfield when they're bad. And the Pint-Sized Slasher? God only knows what dark corner of my psyche that came from. I wanted to be a kid, dressed up as a clown, murdering people. I thought it would be sick fun. Was I wrong?" ~~ Emil Pagliarulo
https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Emil_Pagliarulo/1up_Interview_(2008) Michowski (talk) 10:25, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately that doesn't suffice for this purpose, as noted. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:39, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Nikkimaria I don't get what kind of source you want if an interview with one of the main game developers is not enough, but I can agree that this episode only inspired one of the many quests in the franchise, and it's not like Fallout 3 revolves around a little kid with godlike powers terrorizing a town. Though there are a ton of other pop-culture references or trivia in many Wikipedia articles that are not important but still exist, you still have a lot of work to do. Look at the Enchilada article, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Enchilada&diff=1165307321&oldid=1157879908 Michowski (talk) 11:56, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'd suggest having a read through MOS:POPCULT which outlines the applicable reference requirements. I agree that there are other articles that do not meet this standard, which should be fixed. Nikkimaria (talk) 23:55, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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