![]() Whatever it is, it’s increasingly apparent that it’s more trouble than it’s worth. He also believes that the Twonky is loyal, and thus, will only serve and protect one human, Professor West. Not wanting to frighten anyone (Though walking around and zapping people does that just fine on it’s own) it took the form of a television set. He speculates that the Twonky is a robot (I would have gone with alien, but robot works) from the future that has managed to travel to their century. The Twonky has a curious and disturbing sense of humor.Īnd it is the coach, not the professor, who comes up with a theory of what the Twonky really is. The coach even has the clever idea of trying to get photographic evidence of the Twonky in action, but the damn thing is sentient enough to zap his camera, giving him nothing to work with. It is the coach who gives it the name Twonky, saying that it is “something you do not know what it is.” So he calls his friend Coach Trout, a well-read eccentric bachelor who prefers to pickle his liver with his own homemade concoctions, rather than use store bought. Or it just wanted to have some special private alone-time with the vacuum cleaner. But by the time it’s run off the maid because it insists on cleaning the house itself…. The TV also opens drinks for him, shaves him, and shines his shoes. First it impatiently finishes his card game for him, then it won’t let him listen to the record he wants, tossing the vinyl aside and replacing it with a loud march (That it then proceeds to awkwardly dance to.) Back to the store it goes! Except the blasted thing doesn’t seem to want to leave, and it quickly materializes the necessary cash needed in order for it to stay.Īnd so it was, that the TV did need $170 dollars.įorced to spend the evening with it, West just gets more exasperated, realizing that it won’t let him do what he wants. Seems the TV deliveryman forgot to collect full payment on the television and the professor doesn’t have the necessary dough. Just when West wants nothing more than to have the thing out of his house, a convenient plot point emerges. and then proceeds to clean and put away the dishes. The television follows and when the professor goes for that second cup, the one his wife told him not to drink, the TV zaps the cup out of his hands…. Undoubtedly shaken, and believing he’s losing his mind, West rushes to the kitchen for a cup of coffee. It repeats the action when he goes to light his pipe. Until, that is, he sits down to light his cigarette and the TV sends out a little beam of light and does it for him. West is completely disinterested in the device. It’s an odd looking thing, having more of a resemblance to a moderately carved end table than an old box television. Well, all alone except for that new television set she bought so that he wouldn’t be too bored. Professor Cary West’s wife has just left to visit her sister, leaving him alone in the house. ![]() You never know what you’re going to tune in and see. There’s no consistency in programming here at all, I tell ya. In the span of a week it can go from 1970’s experimental Shakespeare to 1950’s Sci-Fi Comedy.
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