Can't handle "It's a good life!"
It makes me jump out of my skin. I am more angry at the adults for not ripping that kid's throat out than the kid himself. Especially his parents!
shareRight! That one guy had enough guts to stand up to that little brat. His parents really should have been murdered, I can't stand them either. Lol.
shareYes, he was my hero. I always wonder what happens after. Did they eventually kill him as a teen or what, ha!!
shareIn the sequel episode which was on the 2002 TZ series titled It's Still a Good Life, he's an adult still living in Peajesville with his mom and daughter. She also develops the same abilities. Was a far inferior episode of course but it was nice seeing Mumy and Leachman 40 year later as well as Mumy's real life daughter.
shareI couldn't agree more! The plan should have been to have Dan Hollis shove a nuclear missile up Anthony's backside. "You may send me to the cornfield, but not before I send your little ass straight to hell. Happy Birthday to me!" Cut to nuclear blast and fadeout.
LOL!!! Yes. And like Foxy wrote, this ep irks me, too. It's not enjoyable, it's spine tingling and so frustrating I could explode. And there's no pay off. At least in the Bad Seed, little Rhoda got punished at the end (at least in the movie version.) But, Anthony goes on and on. Why couldn't the dad AT LEAST gently disciplined him, "You know Anthony, if you wish Dan into the cornfield, his wife will be soo sad and she's a nice lady." But, he didn't even attempt to. AHHHHHHH!! Like I said, I hate the parents!
The biggest problem I have with the episode is that it's nothing but a monument to cowardice.
I agree also. There are ways the parents could've snuck up on the kid and thrown his llittle annoying, arrogant a** into the cornfield where he belonged. The parents had no backbone, they could've gotten rid of him. That mouthy little brat reminds me of the horrible kid in "Problem child'. Watching a show/movie with a kid with that kind of a mouth is not amusing or entertaining, it's irritating and painful to watch and hear. You're so right, him not getting a taste of his own medicine in the end just took the episode from awful to unbelievably awful.
Very overrated episode. I liked the Simpson's version of it much much better.
The original short-story makes the problem clearer though. Remember that Peaksville was alone, the rest of the world having been destroyed or Peaksville having been transported to another dimension. Beyond the limits of the town there was nothing but empty void. The void might have claimed the town without Anthony. At the very least there would be no sun or weather without Anthony, meaning they would die a slow death rather than a fast one.
The hope was that they could wait until Anthony matured to a point where he could be reasoned with. To do that, they would have to stay alive, no matter what. It was a long shot, but it was the only hope they had.