The Twilight Zone : Wow, The Bewitching Pool really sucks!

Wow, The Bewitching Pool really sucks!

I remember it as sucking when I was a kid, but it still sucks now.

WTF is with that dubbing? She sounds like Rocky Squirrel! (And yes, I know that it's June Foray.) What the hell was wrong with Mary Badham's voice? If it was good enough for To Kill A Mockingbird, it's good enough for TZ.

Why do the kids have the world's strongest southern accents, and the parents don't?

And did anyone notice that the kids' names are Jeb and Sport, which sounds suspiciously like Jem and Scout of TKAM, which Mary Badham was in?




I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

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Couldn't agree more. But surprisingly there are some of the TZ board who really like it. I think it all comes down to the story. If I wasn't annoyed at everything about the episode, I might have responded to the idea of a fairy tale place to escape to from horrible parents, but the presentation is lousy.

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Anyone else besides me like the old granny in Bewitchin Pool?

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I like the episode. Yes, hearing June "Rocket J. Squirrel" Foray's voice coming out of Mary Badham's mouth is odd. Back lot noise forced actors to dub their outdoor scenes. But Mary Badham had already left Hollywood and went back to Alabama. Hence, June Foray was hired to dub her voice. I still enjoy the story.

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I hear ya, but it's just far too distracting. That, and the fact that they repeat the opening three minutes at the end of the story also is annoying as well.




I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

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It is distracting. But not enough to ruin the episode for me. I'm old enough to remember June Foray in everything. In the often shown in the late '60s throughout the early '70s "The Perils of Pauline" (1967) we get a double helping of June Foray; as baby Pauline and the adolescent Prince Benji. Same Rocket J. Squirrel voice. She was somewhat of a one-hit wonder with that voice.

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I do, and I generally like the story, but I can't get past the godawful dubbing. A shame this had to be the last episode of the entire series.




I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

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There was a ton of background noise on the set where it was being filmed so they knew the voices would have to done again in a studio before airing. The girl wasn't available so they had June Foray do the voice. Why she did it in the Rocky voice is beyond me. It was completely ridiculous.

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It was her norm. She used the same voice to dub the adolescent Prince Benji in "The Perils of Pauline" (1967).

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Yeah, that's all I could concentrate on - Rocky's voice coming out of Scout's, oops. Sport's mouth.




I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

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For me, the best and most memorable thing about this episode was that enormous cake that Aunt T. made.

I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

Hewwo.

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That cake made me want to go through a portal of my swimming pool and get to Aunt T's place!

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For me, the best and most memorable thing about this episode was that enormous cake that Aunt T. made.




A big cake can be made to serve a lot of people, but it was those *hanks* of cake she served that was so great!

I'd like to visit Aunt T on baking day with a pot of hot coffee.



Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Is very bad.

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I'd go, but with a half-gallon of cold milk to go with my "hank".

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The voice dubbing is annoying but I still love the episode. The idea that kids can get away from A-hole parents thru a magical opening in the bottom of their swimming pool was very appealing to me as a kid. Not that my parents were A-holes....but just the whole escaping from a bad situation into a good one is a wonderful fantasy.

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I agree, Holloway.

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The ending should have been Aunt T sticking a fattened up kid in her oven and inviting some Kanamites over for dinner.
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