The Twilight Zone Quotes
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Source: The Twilight Zone
Speaker: Rod Serling
"You are about to enter another dimension."
You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!
Context
This line serves as the intro to some episodes of The Twilight Zone, introduced by Rod Serling.
The Twilight Zone is a place where weird, shocking things happen, a place created by minds that walk the line between genius and insanity, a place not unlike Kanye West's brain.
The show's opening titles filled with flying doors and disembodied eyeballs set against the show's iconic background music were narrated by host Rod Serling, who, with these words, welcomed viewers to The Twilight Zone.
Where you've heard it
These words, with or without the classic, eerie Twilight Zone theme music, are heard any time something beyond belief is about to happen, like a world where Katy Perry and Taylor Swift are nice to each other.
Additional Notable References
- The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror often takes its inspiration from classic Twlight Zone episodes, and some feature an animated version of Serling himself.
Pretentious Factor
If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.
Maybe this quote is pretentious in another dimension, but it's just fine in our own.