Mr. Marbles, that freaky ol' dummy

At the very end of the Nov. 14 episode, Jerry went to bed, and then he hears creaking noises and then we see a shadow of a dummy quickly running by. Did Mr. Marbles really come to life??!....or was Jerry just tired?

In article , [email] says:

And didn't Mr. Marbles remind you of that "clown" in Poltergeist???

On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 07:22:56 GMT, [email] (david joseph kathman) wrote:

And an old Twilight Zone in which the dummy comes to life.

Iceberg

Quoth [email] (Iceberg):

Sorry to stray from the initial subject, but I recall an episode of an early TV show in which the "dummy" was actually a dwarf, and the "ventriloquist" was a large dummy. (Which explained why the ventriloquist appeared to be so skillful.) A young woman fell in love with the suave ventriloquist from afar, and went back to the dressing room to meet him, at which point it was revealed to her (and the audience) just who was who. That was maybe back in the 50's, but I still recall the shock at seeing the "dummy" begin to move. 'Course I was only a kid then, and more impressionable. Does anybody else remember that show?

[email] wrote:

i remember it too. i'm pretty sure it was either /twilight zone/ or /outer limits/. it was in b&w and rod serling was involved in some way.

cheers.

In article ,

I think there was an episode of Wild Wild West with this theme. THe dwarf, Miguelito Loveless was played by the late actor Michael Dunne.

Whew! To answer all of the above: 1. The original reference is probably to an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents from 1957 called "The Glass Eye," which is exactly as described. Woman falls in love with man, who turns out to be the dummy, Billy Barty turns out to be the ventriloquist.

2. There also was an episode of The Twilight Zone from 1962 called "The Dummy," in which the evil dummy becomes human at the end, and Cliff Robertson is transformed into a dummy.

3. Yes, there was a *scene* in one of the Loveless episodes in 1968 called "The Night of Miguelito's Revenge" in which Loveless is on stage playing the dummy to a steam-powered robot.

And to keep this on-topic, I thought last week's Seinfeld was hilarious! Great seeing Jerry slide through the door a la Kramer.

njvideo wrote:

I was 9 years old when this show first aired and ventriloquist's dummies STILL scare the whatsit out of me!

I only kind-of laughed at Jerry.

I liked Kramer's explanation: "Oh, Mr. Marbles? He's harmless." Like having a mouse in the house.

When I was a young child I had a ventriliquist doll and once and awhile I'd be afraid to go to sleep for fear that he would come alive in the middle of the night and kill me..... Actually since seeing the Seinfeld episode with, "Mr.Marbles" I've had the urge to watch a movie called, "MAGIC" with Anthony Hopkins, Burgess Meredith, Ann Margaret.... also the most frightening Twilight Zone episode is, "The Dummy" - check these out...........

In article , [email] says...

Hitchcock Presents

Woman falls in love

the ventriloquist.

dummies

Quoth [email] (Jon Nadelberg):

Maybe, but the episode I referred to predates Wild Wild West by many years.

In [email] (david

I go with chucky, as well. He probably is the most popular doll who turned into a killing maniac.

The Simpsons did a spoof of a manical doll as well, both were hilarious.

Note: to anyone who is complaining about the quality of Seinfeld, especially 11/14 ep, stop now! Did anyone watch the single guy, friends, or suddenly susan? There is completely no comparison whatsoever between Seinfeld and anything!

Plus, I really got a kick out of Mr. Marbles.

bye,

John

That clown in Poltergeist was scarier. That was one of the scariest things I've ever seen in a movie. Why is it that clowns frighten us so? Is it that they're disguised, making them mysterious, and that their perpetual smiles seem somehow demonic?

Brian wrote:

Did you see the Stephen King movie, "It"? That freaked me out.

[email] wrote:

or maybe it was just a television show and not the evening news.

wayne

[email] wrote:

In the Seinfeld Universe, anything is possible. Therefore, the dummy did, in fact, come to life. I hear that Jerry sleeps with the lights on now, as would I.