The Scary Door
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The Scary Door is a fictional TV show in the Futurama Universe, along with shows such as All My Circuits, Everybody Loves Hypnotoad and Late Night with HumorBot 5.0. The Scary Door is a spoof of The Twilight Zone.
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[edit] General Overview
The Scary Door's runtime in the series has been shown as less than a minute, and it features humorous spoofs of odd or scary tales usually based on original episodes of The Twilight Zone. During the original four season run of the show three episodes were featured.
[edit] Episodes
[edit] The Last Man
This was the first episode of The Scary Door seen. This was shown in the episode "A Head in the Polls" and is a parody of the The Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last".
The plot features the last man on earth in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. He enters a library and states "Finally - solitude! I can read books for all eternity!" His glasses then fall off and break on the floor. "It's not fair! It's not...Wait, my eyes aren't that bad, I can still read the large print books." His eyes then fall out. "Ahhhhh! It not fai...well, lucky I know how to read braille." His hands, tongue and then head fall off. Bender comments, "Cursed by his own hubris."
[edit] The Gambler
This was the second Twilight Zone episode spoof to appear and was featured in the Futurama episode "I Dated a Robot". Major plot points reference Twilight Zone episodes, "A Nice Place to Visit", "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", and "The Man in the Bottle", and the horror film, The Fly.
The plot of the episode features Clyde Smith, a professional gambler. He leaves a casino and is knocked down by a hovercar. He wakes up, again in the casino, pulls the lever on the slot machine, and wins the jackpot. He initially believes he has gone to Heaven however after winning a second time he believes that it is actually Hell because winning every time he gambles is boring. A random pedestrian comes to Clyde and points out a curtain. "No, Mr. Smith," he says, "You're not in heaven or hell. You're on an airplane." The pedestrian pulls down the curtain to reveal an airplane. Clyde sees a monster on the wing of the plane and attempts to warn the other passengers of the danger however they don't believe him and claim that he is actually Hitler. Clyde is shown a mirror and the reflection shows that Clyde is indeed Hitler. Clyde sees that he's sitting next to Eva Braun and asks her for help however she takes off what appears to be a mask and has the head of a fly. Clyde screams and the episode is over. Apparently, Bender saw it coming.
[edit] Ultimate Evil
This is the third episode, shown during the credits of "Spanish Fry". It takes place in the laboratory of a mad scientist. The mad scientist is holding up a test tube filled with green liquid. "I have combined the DNA of the world's evilest animals to create the most evil creature of them all."
He pours the liquid into a strange device and a naked human man emerges from it. The man steps out, and announces "It turns out it's man."
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