The Brain Center at Whipple's

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“The Brain Center at Whipple's”

The Twilight Zone episode

Scene from The Brain Center at Whipple's

Episode no.

Season 5
Episode 153

Written by

Rod Serling

Directed by

Richard Donner

Guest stars

Richard Deacon : Wallace V. Whipple
Paul Newlan : Hanley
Ted de Corsia : Dickerson
Thalmus Rasulala : Technician

Featured music

uncredited

Production no.

2632

Original airdate

May 15, 1964

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List of Twilight Zone episodes

"The Brain Center at Whipple's" is an episode of the American television series The Twilight Zone.

1 Opening Narration
2 Synopsis
3 Closing Narration
4 Trivia
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Opening Narration

“

These are the players, with or without a scorecard. In one corner, a machine; in the other, one Wallace V. Whipple: man. And the game, it happens to be the historical battle between flesh and steel. Between the brain of man and the product of man's brain. We don't make book on this one and predict no winner, but we can tell you that, for this particular contest, there is standing room only in the Twilight Zone.

”

[edit] Synopsis

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Wallace V. Whipple, owner of a vast manufacturing corporation, decides to upgrade his plant to increase output by installing a machine named the "X109B14 modified transitorized totally automated machine," which leads to layoffs. Some former employees try to convince him that the value of a man outweighs the value of a machine, but their protests fall on deaf ears. The board of directors find him neurotically obsessed with machines and retire him. Whipple joins his former plant manager at the bar and expresses deep sorrow at his misfortune. A robot now runs his office.

[edit] Closing Narration

“

There are many bromides applicable here: "too much of a good thing", "tiger by the tail", "as you sow, so shall you reap". The point is that too often man becomes clever instead of becoming wise. He becomes inventive, but not thoughtful. And sometimes, as in the case of Mr. Whipple, he can create himself right out of existence. Tonight's tale of oddness and obsolescence from the Twilight Zone.

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[edit] Trivia

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The robot that ultimately replaces Mr. Whipple is the same robot that appeared in two other episodes of The Twilight Zone; Episode #2 “One for the Angels” and episode #128 “Uncle Simon”, and who is best known as "Robby the Robot" in the 1956 Sci-Fi film Forbidden Planet.

The Melvins album Hostile Ambient Takeover contains a song named after this episode.