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* BigEater: The Kanamit's favorite kind of human.
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* DownerEnding: Obligatory. And a pretty depressing at that, since humanity goes from the ruler of a planet to someone's dessert.
* FatteningTheVictim: The Kanamit's intentions from the start, what with their providing means of ending world hunger. Before boarding the Kanamit ships, humans are weighed: when a heavier person steps off of the scale, the Kanamit smiles gleefully after checking the person's weight.
-->'''Kanamit''': "''Please'', Mr. Chambers. Enjoy, eat hearty! ... We wouldn't want you to lose weight."
* FatteningTheVictim: The Kanamit's intentions from the start, what with their providing means of ending world hunger. Before boarding the Kanamit ships, humans are weighed: when a heavier person steps off of the scale, the Kanamit smiles gleefully after checking the person's weight.
-->'''Kanamit''': "''Please'', Mr. Chambers. Enjoy, eat hearty! ... We wouldn't want you to lose weight."
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* TechnologyUplift: Alien benefactors arrive on Earth and provide technology that ends war by nullifying all weaponry, cures to all known diseases, and other remarkable benefits of their advanced technology.
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Between the trope image and the general rule about recaps, I\'m removing the spoiler tags.
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* [[spoiler:AliensAreBastards:]] AliensAreBastards: That's what we learn at the end.
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* LieDetector: It worked. The Kanamit didn't lie about their intentions. However, he didn't give the whole picture.
* SuperiorSpecies: The Kanamit are far more advanced than humans.
* ToServeMan: The TropeNamer.
* ToServeMan: The TropeNamer.
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* WhamLine: "It's a cookbook!".
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* WhamLine: "It's a cookbook!".cookbook!".
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* MeaningfulName: "Kanamit" evokes "cannibal" (which, technically, they're not...)
* PragmaticAdaptation: Apart from adding more action to a story that had originally been mostly a talk-piece, the Kanamit's appearance is changed as well. Knight wrote them as looking like humanoid pigs, which was found to be too fairy tale in production.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Apart from adding more action to a story that had originally been mostly a talk-piece, the Kanamit's appearance is changed as well. Knight wrote them as looking like humanoid pigs, which was found to be too fairy tale in production.
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For the original short story, see Creator/DamonKnight.
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* ItWasHisSled: the WhamLine is known to practically everyone by now.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The episode is better known than the short story it was based off of.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: The Kanamit. Dilly dilly, come and be killed!
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* VichyEarth
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-->'''Creator/RodSerling''': Respectfully submitted for your perusal: a Kanamit. Height: a little over nine feet. Weight: in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty pounds. Origin : unknown. Motives? Therein hangs the tale, for in just a moment we're going to ask you to shake hands, figuratively, with a Christopher Columbus from another galaxy and another time. This is the Twilight Zone.
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-->'''Creator/RodSerling''': The recollections of one Michael Chambers, with appropriate flashbacks and soliloquy. Or more simply stated, the evolution of man, the cycle of going from dust to dessert, the metamorphosis from being the ruler of a planet to an ingredient in someone's soup. It's tonight's bill of fare on the Twilight Zone.
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With the Cold War ended, Chambers has no real work to do, but Patty is still trying to work out the meaning of the text of To Serve Man.
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With the Cold War ended, Chambers has no real work to do, but Patty is still trying to work out the meaning of the text of To ''To Serve Man.
Man''.
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* StockFootage: The opening scene of the Kanamit ship is taken from ''TheDayTheEarthStoodStill''.
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* StockFootage: The opening scene of the Kanamit ship is taken from ''TheDayTheEarthStoodStill''.''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951''.
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A race of benevolent aliens called the 'Kanamit' arrive on earth, offering to help humanity. After initial resistance, humanity accepts. The Kanamit set about putting an end to many of Earth's greatest woes, including hunger. Energy becomes very cheap; nuclear weapons are rendered harmless. The aliens even morph deserts into big, blooming fields.
Michael Chambers, revealed to be a United Nations codebreaker, attempts to decipher the Kanamit's language. A woman named Patty, one of his employees, manages to decipher the title, which reads 'To Serve Man'. Chambers' team seems to be satisfied with this.
Michael Chambers, revealed to be a United Nations codebreaker, attempts to decipher the Kanamit's language. A woman named Patty, one of his employees, manages to decipher the title, which reads 'To Serve Man'. Chambers' team seems to be satisfied with this.
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A race of benevolent aliens called the 'Kanamit' arrive on earth, Earth, offering to help humanity. After initial resistance, humanity accepts. The Kanamit set about putting an end to many of Earth's greatest woes, including hunger. Energy becomes very cheap; nuclear weapons are rendered harmless. The aliens even morph deserts into big, blooming fields.
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Michael Chambers, revealed to be a United Nations codebreaker, attempts to decipher the Kanamit'slanguage.language from a book the Kanamit left behind. A woman named Patty, one of his employees, manages to decipher the title, which reads 'To Serve Man'. Chambers' team seems to be satisfied with this.this.
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Soon, humans are volunteering for trips to the Kanamits' home planet, which is portrayed as a paradise. Chambers, with nothing else to do, signs up for an excursion to the planet. As he is boarding the ship (amongst people who excitedly talk about their upcoming trip), Patty runs up to him, but is stopped by a Kanamit guard. She desperately calls out
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Soon, humans are volunteering for trips to the Kanamits' home planet, which is portrayed as a paradise. Chambers, with nothing else to do, signs up for an excursion to the planet. As he is boarding the ship (amongst people who excitedly talk about their upcoming trip), Patty runs up to him, but is stopped by a Kanamit guard. She desperately calls
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* HeyItsThatGuy: All of the Kanamit are played by Richard Kiel, [[TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws]] [[{{Moonraker}} from]] JamesBond
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* HeyItsThatGuy: All of the Kanamit are played by Richard Kiel, [[TheSpyWhoLovedMe [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws]] [[{{Moonraker}} [[Film/{{Moonraker}} from]] JamesBondFilm/JamesBond
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* WhamLine: "It's a cookbook!".
* WhamLine: "It's a cookbook!".
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Before Chambers can escape, he is forced onto the ship. The episode ends with him on the Kanamit ship, giving into the Kanamit's orders to eat.
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Before Chambers can escape, he is forced onto the ship. The episode ends with him on the Kanamit ship, breaking his hunger strike and giving into in to the Kanamit's orders to eat.
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* ImAHumanitarian
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end, Chambers faces the camera, and asks the audience if they're still on earth or on the ship with him.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end, Chambers faces the camera, and asks the audience if they're still on earth or on the ship with him.him, but says is doesn't matter because sooner or later we'll all be on the menu.
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* RubberForeheadAliensRubberForeheadAliens: Of the bald big-brained variety.
* StockFootage: The opening scene of the Kanamit ship is taken from TheDayTheEarthStoodStill.
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* HowWeGotHereHowWeGotHere
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The episode opens with a man named Michael Chambers lying uncomfortably on a cot in a futuristic room. A voice implores him to eat. He refuses. He asks what time it is on Earth, and begins to tell the story of how he came to be aboard a spaceship in flashback.
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A United Nations codebreaker named Michael Chambers attempts to decipher the Kanamit's language. A woman named Patty, one of his employees, manages to decipher the title, which reads 'To Serve Man'. Chambers' team seems to be satisfied with this.
Soon, humans are volunteering for trips to the Kanamits' home planet, which is portrayed as a paradise. With the Cold War ended, Chambers has no real work to do, but Patty is still trying to work out the meaning of the text of To Serve Man.
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With the Cold War ended, Chambers has no real work to do, but Patty is still trying to work out the meaning of the text of To Serve Man.
Soon, humans are volunteering for trips to the Kanamits' home planet, which is portrayed as a paradise.
---> "Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! The rest of the book To Serve Man, it's... it's a cookbook!"
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The TropeNamer for ToServeMan
First aired on March 2, 1962.
A race of benevolent aliens called the 'Kanamit' arrive on earth, offering to help humanity. After initial resistance, humanity accepts. The Kanamit set about putting an end to many of Earth's greatest woes, including hunger. Energy becomes very cheap; nuclear weapons are rendered harmless. The aliens even morph deserts into big, blooming fields.
A United Nations codebreaker named Michael Chambers attempts to decipher the Kanamit's language. A woman named Patty, one of his employees, manages to decipher the title, which reads 'To Serve Man'. Chambers' team seems to be satisfied with this.
Soon, humans are volunteering for trips to the Kanamits' home planet, which is portrayed as a paradise. With the Cold War ended, Chambers has no real work to do, but Patty is still trying to work out the meaning of the text of To Serve Man.
Chambers
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BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end,
HeyItsThatGuy: All of the Kanamit are played by Richard Kiel, [[TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws]] [[{{Moonraker}}from]] JamesBond
HowWeGotHere
First aired on March 2, 1962.
A race of benevolent aliens called the 'Kanamit' arrive on earth, offering to help humanity. After initial resistance, humanity accepts. The Kanamit set about putting an end to many of Earth's greatest woes, including hunger. Energy becomes very cheap; nuclear weapons are rendered harmless. The aliens even morph deserts into big, blooming fields.
A United Nations codebreaker named Michael Chambers attempts to decipher the Kanamit's language. A woman named Patty, one of his employees, manages to decipher the title, which reads 'To Serve Man'. Chambers' team seems to be satisfied with this.
Soon, humans are volunteering for trips to the Kanamits' home planet, which is portrayed as a paradise. With the Cold War ended, Chambers has no real work to do, but Patty is still trying to work out the meaning of the text of To Serve Man.
Chambers
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BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end,
HeyItsThatGuy: All of the Kanamit are played by Richard Kiel, [[TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws]] [[{{Moonraker}}from]] JamesBond
HowWeGotHere
