That gave Pete another good line.

"Goodness!  A Scotsman really does wear pride under his kilt."

As to the original short story "The Depository" I haven't read it.  It's probably collected in a TZ-themed anthology.

I remember when I was a kid I'd heard about a bunch of Twilight Zones from my parents, who had been around when they originally aired.  This was one that they hadn't seen or had forgotten, so it was kind of a thrill to be the one describing it to them.

And the scenes where the Dancer and the Major climb up the wall are a really inventive use of limited resources.  If you think about it you can figure out that they're really crawling on a curved floor, but they sell the illusion of height really well.

I liked Adams a lot in this.  At first it looks like Rollo is just a bit part who's supposed to be funny because he's fat and he gets knocked down, but Adams proves an adept partner for Keaton when he becomes part of the story.

Interesting casting point: that was actually Greg Grunberg's brother Brad.  Late of the unrealized potential that was Undercovers.

I hope it's not the second one.  They've already established that he's pretty mellow about her friends, so it would be one of those "only on a sitcom" turnarounds.

He played Ray's cousin a few times on Everybody Loves Raymond too.

The best thing about Brad's Shakespeare was when Jane said, "Okay, we've all been to high school."

Truth!

You have to admit though, even a bad Happy Endings is a good Happy Endings. 

It did seem like a mistake to have Max and Brad talk about Alex and Jane fighting before we'd seen them, you know, fighting.  It made it seem like one of the guys was making it up.

Here’s to hoping Cheech Marin comes aboard as the Caterpillar to spice things up a little more.
Seems more like a Tommy Chong role.

Pensacola's amazing.

Seriously.  He needs to go join a fight club to work out his issues and leave the old songs the fuck alone.

"The first one's free, kid."  Yeah, that sounds about right.

One amusing detail about "The Jungle": the curse first affects Alan Richards by making his car die.  After he's been getting shitfaced at a bar.  The witch doctor stops him from driving drunk.  It's like "We want to kill you for incurring on our land, but hey, let's be responsible about it."

Vaughn Taylor was awesome indeed.  He really caught the arcane knowledge/human squalor balance.

I haven't read the short story this was based on, but I know a little about Wellman.  He was raised in the South, but he was born in Angola and spent his early childhood in Africa.  Also he was mostly white but had some Native American ancestry.  So I think he could see the romance of the Southern cause, but also knew…