History Recap / TheTwilightZone1985S1E14

* HollywoodNatives: The Kurucai are potrayed this way, adorned in typical tribal attire and fashioning booby traps out of random objects throughout the Arnolds' house.

* SpookyPhotographs: The pictures of the Kurucai Daniel has developed gradually has the warriors in question disappearing when they are released.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: While everyone else dismissed his story as one of his usual excuses, Mike manages to see the "little people" and their "giant toadstool" for himself when he chases after Liam. Liam himself even points and laughs at Mike when he finally discovers that he was right all along, even doing a celebratory jig.

* InnocentAliens: The titular little people are actually three-foot aliens whose spaceship broke down near Liam's village. They gave him the gold pieces to buy supplies to fix the ship, and as a reward for his assistance, they take Liam with them back to their home planet.

* {{Oireland}}: The episode is set in a small Irish village, so everyone has the requsite accent and there's talk of what seem to be leprechauns in the nearby forest, who give Liam gold for a certain purpose.

* HateSink: The 80's remake of the ''Twilight Zone'' is relatively light on completely despicable main characters, but Harry Folger is a ''notable'' exception. The man is an abusive, petty, short-tempered snob who '''relishes''' in putting restaurants out of business and ruining the owners' lives. Even when he brings April on a date to Mr. Lee's and tries to act polite and civil, his shouting and physical threats make her break up with him. He doesn't even have any particular issues that he's going through to influence his attitude and decision-making; he's just an asshole.
* ImmoralJournalist: Harry is an extremely unethical journalist loves writing restaurant reviews to shut them down, just to be mean, to the point where he begins writing a negative review of Mr. Lee's Chinese Cuisine before he visits it. When he ''does'' visit, he orders a great deal of food, but demands to be brought his check without touching any of it. His review of the restaurant is published in the next day's paper, causing Mr. Lee to lose many customers.

** At the same time, April gets a fortune cookie that reads "A grievous error in judgement will soon be made apparent to you. Take heed." When Harry gets his fortune about dying, he manhandles a waiter and threatens him to get Mr. Lee, prompting April to realize she fell in love with a complete jackass and dump Harry.
* NotHyperbole: Harry's first special fortune cookie says "A grand reward awaits you just around the corner". He thinks the fortune is baloney, as such a melodramatic prophecy couldn't really happen. But the instant he steps out of Mr. Lee's restaurant, a burglar comes running from around the corner, abandons his prize of stolen diamonds, and the pursuing banker and police office follow not long after. At seeing Harry's alleged heroism, the banker gives him a reward for salvaging the diamonds. So indeed, a grand reward did come to Harry from around the corner.

* ExactWords: Harry's second fortune states "April arrives today, bringing romance." He tries to call this one's bluff by saying that it's September, but not long after, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman... named ''April'' Hamilton.

* RealLifeRelative: Daniel spends one scene talking to Prof. Alex Stottel, last survivor of the 1913 expedition. Daniel is played by Creator/RobertCarradine, while Alex is played by his father Creator/JohnCarradine, in his final television role.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To "A Most Unusual Camera" from the original series.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To the original series episode "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby".

* WeaponizedCamera: Daniel manages to defeat the Kurucai by taking their pictures, sealing them back inside it. When a remaining warrior pins Daniel, his wife Becky manages to trap the tribesman inside her cheap pocket camera.

* CausticCritic: Harry only gives his seal of approval to the finest restaurants, who cater to his incredibly hard-to-please taste. Those that don't hold to his standards get a review scathing enough to guarantee that they're out of business. He also takes matchboxes from every restaurant he shuts down and uses them as tombstones for a miniature "restaurant graveyard" on his desk.

* HauntedTechnology: Daniel discovers a Kodak 100 camera in an antique trunk that he won in an auction. When he develops the photos inside, he finds that they are of a ''National Geographic'' expedition to the Amazon in January 1913. Daniel soon meets with Professor Alex Stottel, the last surviving member of the expedition, who tells him that the explorers barely escaped with their lives when they were attacked by the Kurucai, a hostile tribe that believed creating an image of them stole their souls. It turns out that the Kurucai were correct in their beliefs, as Daniel releases them when he had the photos developed. The Kurucai attack Daniel and his wife Becky, but he manages to trap their souls once again by taking photos of them.

* IronicEcho: Harry has a habit of collecting matchbooks of the restaurants his reviews put out of business and using them as tiny tombstones for a tiny cemetery on his desk. At the end of the episode, there's a new matchbox in the tiny "cemetery" that reads his name.

Daniel Arnold (Creator/RobertCarradine) is an avid lover of photography who, while attempting to buy a new bed for his wife Becky, ends up winning an old trunk in an auction, which turns out to hold an old Kodak 100 camera. When he finds the camera has photos contained in a false bottom and has them developed, Daniel learns that the pictures originate from a lost 1913 expedition to the Amazon. Talking to the last survivor of the expedition, Daniel learns that the explorers met the Kurucai, a hostile tribe of natives who attacked them for taking their pictures and possibly stealing their souls. Daniel finds that the Kurucai might have been onto something, as the tribal warriors escape from the photos and hide throughout his home, hoping to turn Daniel and Becky into their newest targets.

Liam O'Shaughnessy (Creator/HamiltonCamp) is an Irishman who is seen by the people of his village as a laughingstock and nuisance for being a moocher and excusing it by making up stories. As he wanders into the local pub, Liam begins spouting out claims that he saw "the little people" sitting under a giant toadstool in the nearby Killany Woods. Thinking this to be another one of his cockamamie stories, one of the pub's customers to whom Liam owes money, Mike Mulvaney, throws him out. Not long after this, Mike spies Liam carrying around pieces of gold that the "little people" gave him for buying supplies. Before long, Mike tries to hassle Liam for some of the gold and chases him into Killany Woods, where he sees the "little people" for himself.

Harry Folger (Creator/ElliottGould) is a highly respected food critic for a major newspaper, so influential that restaurants live and die by his reviews. Despite his fame, he's also quite the unsatisfiable customer, ensuring that any restaurant that doesn't live up to his astoundingly high standards is shut down. His latest restaurant on the chopping block is a Chinese eatery known as "Mr. Lee's Chinese Cuisine", and when Harry arrives, he orders several dozen meals, but asks for the check without having a single bite. Nonetheless, he is given a fortune cookie that tells him of a great reward around the corner, before he accidentally discovers stolen jewelry and is given $1,000. Harry continues to hassle Mr. Lee for these special fortune cookies, hoping to bring more good fortune upon himself.

* HateSink: The 80's remake of the ''Zone'' is relatively light on completely despicable main characters, but Harry Folger is a notable exception. The man is an abusive, petty, short-tempered snob who '''relishes''' in putting restaurants out of business and ruining the owners' lives. Even when he brings April on a date to Mr. Lee's and tries to act polite and civil, his shouting and insults make her break up with him. He doesn't even have any particular issues that he's going through to influence his attitude and decision-making; he's just an asshole.

* FamilyBusiness: While engaging in conversation with Harry, Mr. Lee tells him that his family has been in the restaraunt business for many, many years.

* HateSink: The 80's remake of the ''Zone'' is relatively light on completely despicable main characters, but Harry Folger is a notable exception. The man is an abusive, petty, short-tempered snob who '''relishes''' in putting restaraunts out of business and ruining the owners' lives. Even when he brings April on a date to Mr. Lee's and tries to act polite and civil, his shouting and insults make her break up with him. He doesn't even have any particular issues that he's going through to influence his attitude and decision-making; he's just an asshole.

* HateSink: The 80's remake of ''Zone'' is relatively light on completely despicable characters, but Harry Folger is a notable exception. The man is an abusive, petty, short-tempered snob who '''relishes''' in putting restaraunts out of business and ruining the owners' lives. Even when he brings April on a date to Mr. Lee's and tries to act polite and civil, his shouting and insults make her break up with him. He doesn't even have any particular issues that he's going through to influence his attitude and decision-making; he's just an asshole.

->"Ancient maps included unknown lands labeled "terra incognita," and warnings like, "Here, There Be Tigers." Modern maps of an enlightened world show no such disclaimers. Perhaps they should. Perhaps even today, there are realms which cannot be charted anywhere -- outside the Twilight Zone."

->"In the days to come, when human beings navigate the great depths of space, they'll eventually come to a small planet in a distant galaxy. It's a pleasant place, but quite unlike the Earth. There's one unusual similarity, however: shamrocks grow there in great profusion. Brought they say by one Liam O'Shaughnessy, lately of Earth, and now residing in one of the greener corners -- of the Twilight Zone."

->"Check please, for Mr. Harry Folger, for whom the phrase "dim sum" is not merely a description, but a damnation. A man who finds himself sitting down to a single, never-ending course of just desserts; prepared for him in the kitchens -- of the Twilight Zone."

Harry Folger (Creator/ElliottGould) is a highly respected food critic for a major newspaper, so influential that restaurants live and die by his reviews. Despite his fame, he's also quite the unsatifiable customer, ensuring that any restaurant that doesn't live up to his astoundingly high standards is shut down. His latest restaurant on the chopping block is a Chinese eatery known as "Mr. Lee's Chinese Cuisine", and when Harry arrives, he orders several dozen meals, but asks for the check without having a single bite. Nonetheless, he is given a fortune cookie that tells him of a great reward around the corner, before he accidentally discovers stolen jewlery and is given $1,000. Harry continues to hassle Mr. Lee for these special fortune cookies, hoping to bring more good fortune upon himself.

* BittersweetEnding: Harry suffers an IronicHell for his appalling behavior and choices, but Mr. Lee's restaraunt is still carrying his bad review, so it's unknown whether it will stay in business for long.
* CausticCritic: Harry only gives his seal of approval to the finest restaurants, who cater to his incredibly hard-to-please taste. Those that don't hold to his standards get a review scathing enough to guarantee that they're out of business. He also takes matchboxes from every restaraunt he shuts down and uses them as tombstones for a miniature "restauraunt graveyard" on his desk.

* ForTheEvulz: The reason why Harry loves having restaraunts shut down.
* FourIsDeath: Harry recieves four fortune cookies over the course of the episode. While the first two give him good fortunes, the third hints that he's going to die, and the fourth confirms it when he's stuck in his IronicHell.

* ImmoralJournalist: Harry is an extremely unethical journalist loves writing restaraunt reviews to shut them down, just to be mean, to the point where he begins writing a negative review of Mr. Lee's Chinese Cuisine before he visits it. When he ''does'' visit, he orders a great deal of food, but demands to be brought his check without touching any of it. His review of the restaurant is published in the next day's paper, causing Mr. Lee to lose many customers.
* InsistentTerminology: Harry quotes to a co-worker that his reviews don't "trash" restaraunts; they "expose" them.

* IronicHell: After his death, Harry is condemned to be trapped in a neverending street of Chinese restaraunts, eternally hungry no matter how much he eats.

** On his third visit to the restaurant, Harry's fortune cookie says "You're going to die." He furiously storms out, but immediately experiences severe hunger pangs. He finds himself stuck in an endless street of Chinese restaraunts, eating at one after the other continously, but his hunger is insatiable. He then receives his fourth and final cookie, which simply says "You're dead.", revealing that he's now in an IronicHell.

->''"Ancient maps included unknown lands labeled "terra incognita," and warnings like, "Here, There Be Tigers." Modern maps of an enlightened world show no such disclaimers. Perhaps they should. Perhaps even today, there are realms which cannot be charted anywhere -- outside the Twilight Zone."''

->''"In the days to come, when human beings navigate the great depths of space, they'll eventually come to a small planet in a distant galaxy. It's a pleasant place, but quite unlike the Earth. There's one unusual similarity, however: shamrocks grow there in great profusion. Brought they say by one Liam O'Shaughnessy, lately of Earth, and now residing in one of the greener corners -- of the Twilight Zone."''

->''"Check please, for Mr. Harry Folger, for whom the phrase 'dim sum' is not merely a description, but a damnation. A man who finds himself sitting down to a single, never-ending course of just desserts; prepared for him in the kitchens -- of the Twilight Zone."''

!!Still Life

A photographer (Creator/RobertCarradine) finds an old camera with images from a lost expedition.

!!The Little People of Killany Woods

The town drunk (Creator/HamiltonCamp) claims he met little people in the woods.

!!The Misfortune Cookie

A food critic (Creator/ElliottGould) receives fortune cookie messages that come true.

->''Cheque please for Mr. Harry Folger, for whom the phrase 'dim sum' is not merely a description, but a damnation. A man who finds himself sitting down to a single, never-ending course of just desserts; prepared for him in the kitchens...of the Twilight Zone.''

[[folder: The Misfortune Cookie]]
* CausticCritic: Harry Folger. He only gives his seal of approval to the finest restaurants who cater to his taste. Otherwise, he'll give a scathing review. Often, he'll take a matchbox from whatever restaurant he gives bad reviews, and use them as a mini-tombstone for the doomed restaurant.
* EverybodyHasStandards: Harry's co-worker is appalled that the former is going to give Wong's Chinese Cuisine a bad review ''before'' he's even visited or tried the food there.
* ExactWords: Harry's second fortune claims "April arrives, bringing romance", despite the fact that it's September. But not long after he gets the fortune, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman. A woman named ''April'' Hamilton.
* IronicEcho: Harry has a habit of collecting matchbooks of the restaurants his bad reviews put out of business and using them as tiny tombstones. At the end of the story, there's a matchbox in the tiny "cemetery" that reads his name.
* IronicHell: After his death, Harry is condemned to be trapped in an infinite Chinatown, eternally hungry no matter how much he eats.
* IWarnedYou: Wong tried to tell Harry that asking for more than one "Special Fortune Cookie" was a bad idea because people aren’t always happy with what the fortunes say. When Harry is livid at Wong because his latest fortune said "You’re going to die", Wong's response is "You only get the fortune you deserve".
* MisfortuneCookie: You don't say!
* PickyEater: The very instant Wong brings him piping hot plates of Chinese food, Harry asks for the check without touching even one bite of food.

[[folder: The Little People of Killany Woods]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Liam O'Shaughnessy is the pariah of a small Irish town due to his incessant mooching and fabricating of tall tales. The "little people" seem to like him though.
* DisproportionateRetribution: While Mike did have a right to be mad at Liam for not paying back the money he owes him, he loses the moral high-ground when he demands the rest of the gold, claiming that he wants it for all the torment Liam put him through over the years...by mooching off him and making up stories.
* {{Jerkass}}: Mike Mulvaney.

[[/folder]]

* CausticCritic: Harry Folger. He only gives his seal of approval to the finest restaurants who cater to his taste. Otherwise he'll give a scathing review. Often, he'll take a matchbox from whatever restaurant he gives bad reviews, and use them as a mini-tombstone for the doomed restaurant.

* IWarnedYou: Wong tried to tell Harry that asking for more than one "Special Fortune Cookie" was a bad idea. When Harry is livid at Wong because his latest fortune said "You will die", Wong's response is "You only get the fortune you deserve".

* ExactWords: Harry's second fortune claims "April arrives, bringing romance", despite that it's September. But not long after he gets the fortune, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman. A woman named "''April'' Hamilton".

* IronicHell: After his death, Harry is condemned to be trapped in an infinite Chinatown, eternally hungry with only disgusting Chinese food to eat.

* JerkAss:Mike Mulvaney.

[[folder: The Misfortune Cookie]]
* CausticCritic: Harry Folger. He only gives his seal of approval to the finest restaurants who cater to his taste. Otherwise he'll give a scathing review. Often, he'll take a matchbox from whatever restaurant he gives bad reviews, and use them as a mini-tombstone for the doomed restaurant.
* EverybodyHasStandards: Harry's co-worker is appalled that the former is going to give Wong's Chinese Cuisine a bad review ''before'' he's even visited or tried the food there.
* ExactWords: Harry's second fortune claims "April arrives, bringing romance", despite that it's September. But not long after he gets the fortune, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman. A woman named "''April'' Hamilton".
* IronicEcho: Harry has a habit of collecting matchbooks of the restaurants his bad reviews put out of business and using them as tiny tombstones. At the end of the story, there's a matchbox in the tiny "cemetery" that reads his name.
* IWarnedYou: Wong tried to tell Harry that asking for more than one "Special Fortune Cookie" was a bad idea. When Harry is livid at Wong because his latest fortune said "You will die", Wong's response is "You only get the fortune you deserve".
* MisfortuneCookie: You don't say!
* PickyEater: The very instant Wong brings him piping hot plates of Chinese food, Harry asks for the check without touching even one bite of food.

* IronicEcho: Harry has a habit of collecting matchboxes of the restaurants his bad reviews put out of business and using them as tiny tombstones. At the end of the story, there's a matchbox in the tiny "cemetery" that reads his name.

IWarnedYou: Wong tried to tell Harry that asking for more than one "Special Fortune Cookie" was a bad idea. When Harry is livid at Wong because his latest fortune said "You will die", Wong's response is "You only get the fortune you deserve".

A food critic (Creator/ElliottGould) receives fortune cookie messages that come true.

A photographer finds an old camera with images from a lost expedition.

The town drunk claims he met little people in the woods.

A food critic receives fortune cookie messages that come true.