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* TheLostLenore: Gaspar's late wife Minna, who he visits in the cemetery before he is mugged.
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* TheLostLenore: Gaspar's late wife Minna, who whose grave he visits in the cemetery before he is mugged.
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Miss Peters (Creator/AdrienneBarbeau) is an English teacher at an inner-city school full of gang members and delinquents. While all the other teachers consider the student body to be degenerates and lost causes, Peters is the only one of them who feels that her students are in despserate need of guidance. That changes one day when she stares at an ominous statue of a gargoyle on the roof of the school, and suddenly gains an increase in both strength and aggression. She tries to understand what has happened to her while Wizard (Adam Postil), a gang member she attacked, plans to ambush her as revenge for making a fool of him.
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Miss Peters (Creator/AdrienneBarbeau) is an English teacher at an inner-city school full of gang members and delinquents. While all the other teachers consider the student body to be degenerates and lost causes, Peters is the only one of them who feels that her students are in despserate desperate need of guidance. That changes one day when she stares at an ominous statue of a gargoyle on the roof of the school, and suddenly gains an increase in both strength and aggression. She tries to understand what has happened to her while Wizard (Adam Postil), a gang member she attacked, plans to ambush her as revenge for making a fool of him.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Wizard becomes far more polite and kind in the end, after Miss Peters inadvertantly scares him straight.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Wizard becomes far more polite and kind in the end, after Miss Peters inadvertantly inadvertently scares him straight.
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Vietnam veteran Billy Kinetta (Glynn Turman) rescues a strange old man named Gaspar (Creator/DannyKaye) from being mugged in a cemetery. Upon hearing that Gaspar doesn't have a home, Billy allows the old man to stay with him for a while. Billy and Gaspar soon strike up a friendship, though Billy is skeptical of Gaspar's rants about how he's responsible for everything and everyone in the universe. Gaspar soon reveals that he is the latest in a long line of heroes dedicated to protecting a magic pocketwatch that holds the last hour of creation, which must never be allowed to strike under the threat of darkness consuming the universe.
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Vietnam veteran Billy Kinetta (Glynn Turman) rescues a strange old man named Gaspar (Creator/DannyKaye) from being mugged in a cemetery. Upon hearing that Gaspar doesn't have a home, Billy allows the old man to stay with him for a while. Billy and Gaspar soon strike up a friendship, though Billy is skeptical of Gaspar's rants about how he's responsible for everything and everyone in the universe. Gaspar soon reveals that he is the latest in a long line of heroes dedicated to protecting a magic pocketwatch pocket watch that holds the last hour of creation, which must never be allowed to strike under the threat of darkness consuming the universe.
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* AffectionateNickname: Billy refers to Gaspar as "Dad" before he learns his name. He continues to call him such as a sign of affection, after they get to know each other.
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* AffectionateNickname: Billy refers to Gaspar as "Dad" before he learns his name. He continues to call him such the nickname as a sign of affection, after they get to know each other.
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* BerserkButton: While Gaspar is fond of Billy calling him "Dad", he despises being called "Pop", claiming that it makes him sound old.
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* BerserkButton: While Gaspar is fond of Billy calling him "Dad", he despises being called "Pop", claiming that it makes him sound old.sounds like someone's going to snap his head off with a bottle opener. It's also shown that he absolutely despises lima beans.
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* LegacyCharacter: Gaspar tells Billy that the origins of the Lost Hour go back to Pope Gregory XIII adopting the Gregorian calendar and advancing time by eleven days in 1582. He reveals that Gregory actually miscalculated time by one hour, an hour that slipped free from time's boundaries and has been bouncing through eternity ever since. Gaspar is the latest paladin in a line going back 400 years, sworn with containing the Lost Hour in a magic pocketwatch. If he dies without passing on the watch, the Lost Hour will finally strike and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the entire universe will be engulfed by darkness]]. In order to prevent this from happening, Gaspar passes the watch to Billy, whom he has come to trust as the next paladin in the time they've known each other.
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* LegacyCharacter: Gaspar tells Billy that the origins of the Lost Hour go back to Pope Gregory XIII adopting the Gregorian calendar and advancing time by eleven days in 1582. He reveals that Gregory actually miscalculated time by one hour, an hour that slipped free from time's boundaries and has been bouncing through eternity ever since. Gaspar is the latest paladin in a line going back 400 years, sworn with containing the Lost Hour in a magic pocketwatch.pocket watch. If he dies without passing on the watch, the Lost Hour will finally strike and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the entire universe will be engulfed by darkness]]. In order to prevent this from happening, Gaspar passes the watch to Billy, whom he has come to trust as the next paladin in the time they've known each other.
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* SadClown: Gaspar spends a great deal of his screentime behaving like a joker, but his outlandish mannerisms also serve to mask that he's depressed, lonely, and nearly broken from his wife's death and his huge responsibilities.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Gaspar offers Billy the opportunity to become the next paladin after him. When he does so, he asks Billy to give him one minute of the Lost Hour contained in the watch so he can with meet with his late wife Minna before he dies. Billy refuses, as he believes that it would be wrong. Gaspar then reveals that this was a final test, and is now completely assured that Billy is the right person to guard the watch. As a reward, Gaspar gives Billy his own minute of the Lost Hour, which he uses to finally thank the Marine who died saving his life during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar for doing so.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Gaspar offers Billy the opportunity to become the next paladin after him. When he does so, he asks Billy to give him one minute of the Lost Hour contained in the watch so he can with meet with his late wife Minna before he dies. Billy refuses, as he believes that it would be wrong. Gaspar then reveals that this was a final test, and is now completely assured that Billy is the right person to guard the watch. As a reward, Gaspar gives Billy his own minute of the Lost Hour, which he uses to finally thank the Marine who died saving his life during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar for doing so.
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* SadClown: Gaspar spends a great deal of his screentime screen time behaving like a joker, but his outlandish mannerisms also serve to mask that he's depressed, lonely, and nearly broken from his wife's death and his huge responsibilities.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Gaspar offers Billy the opportunity to become the next paladin after him. When he does so, he asks Billy to give him one minute of the Lost Hour contained in the watch so he canwith meet with his late wife Minna before he dies. Billy refuses, as he believes that it would be wrong. Gaspar then reveals that this was a final test, and is now completely assured that Billy is the right person to guard the watch. As a reward, Gaspar gives Billy his own minute of the Lost Hour, which he uses to finally thank the Marine who died saving his life during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar for doing so.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Gaspar offers Billy the opportunity to become the next paladin after him. When he does so, he asks Billy to give him one minute of the Lost Hour contained in the watch so he can
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* TakeThat: When Gaspar and Billy go to see a movie, the old man tells Billy that he doesn't want to see anything with Creator/KarenBlack, Sandy Dennis, or Creator/MerylStreep, since they're always crying and their noses are always red. He later changes his mind and is willing to make an exception for Streep, however, provided that Billy buys the popcorn.
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* TakeThat: When Gaspar and Billy go to see a movie, the old man tells Billy that he doesn't want to see anything with with Sandy Dennis, Creator/KarenBlack, Sandy Dennis, or Creator/MerylStreep, since they're always crying and their noses are always red. He later changes his mind and is willing to make an exception for Meryl Streep, however, provided that Billy buys the popcorn.
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Miss Peters (Creator/AdrienneBarbeau) is an English teacher at an inner-city school full of gang members and delinquents. While all the other teachers consider the student body to be degenerates and lost causes, Peters is the only one of them who feels that her students are in despserate need of guidance. That changes one day when she stares at an ominous statue of a gargoyle on the roof of the school, and suddenly gains an increase in both strength and aggression. She tries to understand what has happened to her while Wizard, a gang member she attacked, plans to ambush her as revenge for making a fool of him.
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Miss Peters (Creator/AdrienneBarbeau) is an English teacher at an inner-city school full of gang members and delinquents. While all the other teachers consider the student body to be degenerates and lost causes, Peters is the only one of them who feels that her students are in despserate need of guidance. That changes one day when she stares at an ominous statue of a gargoyle on the roof of the school, and suddenly gains an increase in both strength and aggression. She tries to understand what has happened to her while Wizard, Wizard (Adam Postil), a gang member she attacked, plans to ambush her as revenge for making a fool of him.
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!! Teacher's Aide
Miss Peters (Creator/AdrienneBarbeau) is an English teacher at an inner-city school full of gang members and delinquents. While all the other teachers consider the student body to be degenerates and lost causes, Peters is the only one of them who feels that her students are in despserate need of guidance. That changes one day when she stares at an ominous statue of a gargoyle on the roof of the school, and suddenly gains an increase in both strength and aggression. She tries to understand what has happened to her while Wizard, a gang member she attacked, plans to ambush her as revenge for making a fool of him.
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* ActorAllusion: Gang member Trojan is played by Creator/MiguelANunezJr, who played gang members Spider in ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' and Demon Winter in ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'' in the same year the episode aired.
* ApatheticTeacher: Miss Peters is the only teacher in her school who actually cares about the students and treats them with respect. All the other teachers consider them to be animals, degenerates, and lost causes.
* BadassTeacher: Once she's possessed by the spirit of the gargoyle, Miss Peters goes from being a dedicated teacher whom the students don't respect, to one who responds to any act of insubordination with unwarranted violence. She also begins to worry that there is something seriously wrong with her because she can't fully control this behavior. When Wizard plans to attack her, she manages to [[SpiderSense sense the approaching assault]] and is able to easily overcome him. As she prepares to kill him, Miss Peters glimpses her reflection to learn that she now resembles the gargoyle, growing disgusted by her appearance and use of violence as she is not that kind of person. At the same time, the gargoyle is struck by lightning, returning Miss Peters to normal. Grateful to Miss Peters for not finishing him off when she had the chance, Wizard thanks her from the bottom of his heart and helps her up, hinting that he's turning over a new leaf.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: When Miss Peters tells Wizard that she fought her possession because she didn't want to see one of her students get hurt, Wizard is genuinely appreciative of it. It's also strongly implied he becomes a better person from the experience.
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: The gargoyle is destroyed this way, freeing Miss Peters from its possession.
* BullyingTheDragon: After witnessing Miss Peters act uncharacteristically monstrous, Wizard plays loud music in class, invoking the possessed teacher to crush his boombox, throw him out of the classroom, and tell him not to come back. The rest of the class immediately falls into line.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Miss Peters keeps calling Trojan and Wizard by their birth names: Arthur and Theodore.
* DramaticIrony: One of Miss Peters' fellow teachers rants about how her students are severely misbehaved and wishes that she had the strength to force them into behaving, before wondering whether or not being tough is the right way to get through to them. She's unaware Miss Peters is going through that exact situation throughout the episode.
* EvilDetectingDog: Miss Peters' dog Muffin barks at her after she is possessed.
* GangBangers: The InnerCitySchool where Miss Peters teaches English has at least two gangs who frequently get into knife fights at the slightest provocation.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Though Miss Peters never intended to become a punisher of her students, she experiences first-hand the downside of becoming the kind of person delinquents are afraid of.
* InnerCitySchool: An extremely tough one is where Miss Peters teaches English. It's a place where none of the students make even the slightest bit of effort and knife fights between rival gangs are common, to the point where Peters is the only staff member who doesn't think of the student body as degenerate animals.
* MirrorMonster: Miss Peters encounters a monstrous reflection of herself that tries to reach out and grab her at one point.
* NiceGirl: Miss Peters, who is the only teacher in her school to show her students any degree of affection instead of treating them like animals.
* NothingIsScarier: The gargoyle provides a plethora of frightening, unanswered questions. Was it always on the roof of the school? If not, where did it come from? Did it always have bloodlust and murder on its mind? All we know is that it's just ''there'' and wants to slaughter everything for the hell of it.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The gargoyle's eyes glow bright red when it takes possession of Miss Peters, whose eyes similarly glow when she demonstrates her newfound powers.
* SpiderSense: Miss Peters gains heightened senses after her possession, as she can tell that Wizard plans to attack her.
* SuperStrength: Miss Peters develops super strength after she is possessed by the gargoyle. When Trojan tells her that he comes to school solely to ogle her legs, she lifts him up by his shirt and throws him against the wall. Later, she catches another student hitting and kicking his locker and shoves him up against it, telling him that he should respect school property, since it's older than his grandmother. When Wizard turns on his boom box at full volume during class, she crushes it with her bare hands and physically throws him out of the room when he tries to attack her. The rest of the students are much more attentive after this.
* TookALevelInKindness: Wizard becomes far more polite and kind in the end, after Miss Peters inadvertantly scares him straight.
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-> "We're told that damned places exist. Buildings where madness permeates the very bricks and mortar. We're told that sometimes, dedication and kindness can purge the evil from those walls. This has merely been a story. Life isn't really like this, is it? A lesson to be learned in the study halls -- of the Twilight Zone."
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!! Paladin of the Lost Hour
Vietnam veteran Billy Kinetta (Glynn Turman) rescues a strange old man named Gaspar (Creator/DannyKaye) from being mugged in a cemetery. Upon hearing that Gaspar doesn't have a home, Billy allows the old man to stay with him for a while. Billy and Gaspar soon strike up a friendship, though Billy is skeptical of Gaspar's rants about how he's responsible for everything and everyone in the universe. Gaspar soon reveals that he is the latest in a long line of heroes dedicated to protecting a magic pocketwatch that holds the last hour of creation, which must never be allowed to strike under the threat of darkness consuming the universe.
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* AffectionateNickname: Billy refers to Gaspar as "Dad" before he learns his name. He continues to call him such as a sign of affection, after they get to know each other.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: The episode ends with Billy becoming the latest paladin of the Lost Hour, protecting the watch containing it with his life.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Billy taking Gaspar into his apartment and saving him from being mugged, treating him like a friend when no one else would, is what convinces Gaspar to pass the watch to him.
* BerserkButton: While Gaspar is fond of Billy calling him "Dad", he despises being called "Pop", claiming that it makes him sound old.
* ChromosomeCasting: The episode does not feature any speaking roles for women.
* ColorblindCasting: A variation. Gaspar is played by the white Creator/DannyKaye, while Billy is played by the black Glynn Turman. In the short story by Creator/HarlanEllison, it is mentioned that one of the two men is white and the other is black, but the text does not specify which is which.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: During one of his rants, Gaspar tells Billy that he absolutely despises lima beans, even though he's responsible for their continued existence, like everything else in the universe.
-->'''Gaspar:''' I'll tell ya something. You show me anyone who'll eat lima beans without being at gunpoint, and I'll show you a pervert! Hmph!
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The Lost Hour will be unleashed if Gaspar's watch strikes 12:00, after which the entire universe will be engulfed in darkness.
* GangBangers: Two members of a gang mug Gaspar while he's visiting Minna's grave, but Billy manages to fight them off before they rough up the old man too much.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Billy and Gaspar have an age gap of more than 30 years between them, but they quickly become close friends.
* LargeHam: Gaspar is shown to be quite bombastic at times, though he uses it to mask his sadness and the fact that he's dying.
* LegacyCharacter: Gaspar tells Billy that the origins of the Lost Hour go back to Pope Gregory XIII adopting the Gregorian calendar and advancing time by eleven days in 1582. He reveals that Gregory actually miscalculated time by one hour, an hour that slipped free from time's boundaries and has been bouncing through eternity ever since. Gaspar is the latest paladin in a line going back 400 years, sworn with containing the Lost Hour in a magic pocketwatch. If he dies without passing on the watch, the Lost Hour will finally strike and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the entire universe will be engulfed by darkness]]. In order to prevent this from happening, Gaspar passes the watch to Billy, whom he has come to trust as the next paladin in the time they've known each other.
* TheLostLenore: Gaspar's late wife Minna, who he visits in the cemetery before he is mugged.
* {{MacGuffin}}: Gaspar's watch.
* MeaningfulName: {{Lampshaded|Trope}}. Gaspar tells Billy that he shares his name with one of TheThreeWiseMen, adding that "Gaspar" means "master of the treasure, keeper of the secrets, paladin of the palace." Gaspar later explains that he is the latest in a long line of guardians of the Lost Hour, going back to the 16th century.
* MyGreatestFailure: Billy's greatest shame was the fact that a Marine he didn't know died saving his life, so he never got to thank him. Before he dies, Gaspar uses a minute of the Lost Hour to give Billy the chance to thank the guy and get closure on his survivor's guilt.
* NiceGuy: Billy. Despite his survivor's guilt, he's caring enough to save an old man from being mugged by some petty punks, invites him to stay in his apartment when he learns he's basically homeless, and strikes up a strong bond with the old man. It's for this reason that Gaspar makes him next in line to protect his watch, so he can keep the universe from being plunged into darkness.
* NoNameGiven: The Marine who died saving Billy from an ambush during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar is never named, which is a huge factor regarding Billy's survivor guilt.
* PassingTheTorch: The dying Gaspar passes the pocket watch containing the Lost Hour to Billy, who he trusts strongly enough to guard it with his life.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Once Billy learns that Gaspar wants to pass his watch onto him, Billy loudly refuses by claiming that he isn't responsible enough to handle the burden, nor is he from a long line of paladins like Gaspar. The old man convinces him that he is indeed worthy, by noting how responsible he's been for ''him.''
* SadClown: Gaspar spends a great deal of his screentime behaving like a joker, but his outlandish mannerisms also serve to mask that he's depressed, lonely, and nearly broken from his wife's death and his huge responsibilities.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Gaspar offers Billy the opportunity to become the next paladin after him. When he does so, he asks Billy to give him one minute of the Lost Hour contained in the watch so he can with meet with his late wife Minna before he dies. Billy refuses, as he believes that it would be wrong. Gaspar then reveals that this was a final test, and is now completely assured that Billy is the right person to guard the watch. As a reward, Gaspar gives Billy his own minute of the Lost Hour, which he uses to finally thank the Marine who died saving his life during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar for doing so.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: The gang members who mug Gaspar in the cemetery, allowing Billy to save him and the two men meeting for the first time.
* SurvivorGuilt: Billy suffers from severe survivor's guilt when he served in Da Nang, where his life was saved by a Marine whom he had never met before, who was killed in the process. When Gaspar allows him to use one minute of the Lost Hour to speak with the Marine, Billy learns that the guy didn't even know he was there. Billy thanks him for saving his life, but the Marine tells him that ''he'' is the grateful one, because he knows now that his death had meaning.
* TakeThat: When Gaspar and Billy go to see a movie, the old man tells Billy that he doesn't want to see anything with Creator/KarenBlack, Sandy Dennis, or Creator/MerylStreep, since they're always crying and their noses are always red. He later changes his mind and is willing to make an exception for Streep, however, provided that Billy buys the popcorn.
* TheVietnamVet: Billy is a Vietnam vet who is haunted by the fact that a Marine who he didn't even know died saving his life while he was hiding from the Viet Cong during an ambush.
* WorldWarIII: Billy and Gaspar watch a news report regarding potential nuclear conflict. While Billy is greatly rattled, Gaspar tells him that he knows for certain a nuclear holocaust will never come, since his watch reads that it's only 11:00.
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-> "Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment. A blessing of the 18th Egyptian Dynasty: God be between you and harm in all the empty places you walk."
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Miss Peters (Creator/AdrienneBarbeau) is an English teacher at an inner-city school full of gang members and delinquents. While all the other teachers consider the student body to be degenerates and lost causes, Peters is the only one of them who feels that her students are in despserate need of guidance. That changes one day when she stares at an ominous statue of a gargoyle on the roof of the school, and suddenly gains an increase in both strength and aggression. She tries to understand what has happened to her while Wizard, a gang member she attacked, plans to ambush her as revenge for making a fool of him.
[[folder: Tropes]]
* ActorAllusion: Gang member Trojan is played by Creator/MiguelANunezJr, who played gang members Spider in ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'' and Demon Winter in ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'' in the same year the episode aired.
* ApatheticTeacher: Miss Peters is the only teacher in her school who actually cares about the students and treats them with respect. All the other teachers consider them to be animals, degenerates, and lost causes.
* BadassTeacher: Once she's possessed by the spirit of the gargoyle, Miss Peters goes from being a dedicated teacher whom the students don't respect, to one who responds to any act of insubordination with unwarranted violence. She also begins to worry that there is something seriously wrong with her because she can't fully control this behavior. When Wizard plans to attack her, she manages to [[SpiderSense sense the approaching assault]] and is able to easily overcome him. As she prepares to kill him, Miss Peters glimpses her reflection to learn that she now resembles the gargoyle, growing disgusted by her appearance and use of violence as she is not that kind of person. At the same time, the gargoyle is struck by lightning, returning Miss Peters to normal. Grateful to Miss Peters for not finishing him off when she had the chance, Wizard thanks her from the bottom of his heart and helps her up, hinting that he's turning over a new leaf.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: When Miss Peters tells Wizard that she fought her possession because she didn't want to see one of her students get hurt, Wizard is genuinely appreciative of it. It's also strongly implied he becomes a better person from the experience.
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: The gargoyle is destroyed this way, freeing Miss Peters from its possession.
* BullyingTheDragon: After witnessing Miss Peters act uncharacteristically monstrous, Wizard plays loud music in class, invoking the possessed teacher to crush his boombox, throw him out of the classroom, and tell him not to come back. The rest of the class immediately falls into line.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Miss Peters keeps calling Trojan and Wizard by their birth names: Arthur and Theodore.
* DramaticIrony: One of Miss Peters' fellow teachers rants about how her students are severely misbehaved and wishes that she had the strength to force them into behaving, before wondering whether or not being tough is the right way to get through to them. She's unaware Miss Peters is going through that exact situation throughout the episode.
* EvilDetectingDog: Miss Peters' dog Muffin barks at her after she is possessed.
* GangBangers: The InnerCitySchool where Miss Peters teaches English has at least two gangs who frequently get into knife fights at the slightest provocation.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Though Miss Peters never intended to become a punisher of her students, she experiences first-hand the downside of becoming the kind of person delinquents are afraid of.
* InnerCitySchool: An extremely tough one is where Miss Peters teaches English. It's a place where none of the students make even the slightest bit of effort and knife fights between rival gangs are common, to the point where Peters is the only staff member who doesn't think of the student body as degenerate animals.
* MirrorMonster: Miss Peters encounters a monstrous reflection of herself that tries to reach out and grab her at one point.
* NiceGirl: Miss Peters, who is the only teacher in her school to show her students any degree of affection instead of treating them like animals.
* NothingIsScarier: The gargoyle provides a plethora of frightening, unanswered questions. Was it always on the roof of the school? If not, where did it come from? Did it always have bloodlust and murder on its mind? All we know is that it's just ''there'' and wants to slaughter everything for the hell of it.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The gargoyle's eyes glow bright red when it takes possession of Miss Peters, whose eyes similarly glow when she demonstrates her newfound powers.
* SpiderSense: Miss Peters gains heightened senses after her possession, as she can tell that Wizard plans to attack her.
* SuperStrength: Miss Peters develops super strength after she is possessed by the gargoyle. When Trojan tells her that he comes to school solely to ogle her legs, she lifts him up by his shirt and throws him against the wall. Later, she catches another student hitting and kicking his locker and shoves him up against it, telling him that he should respect school property, since it's older than his grandmother. When Wizard turns on his boom box at full volume during class, she crushes it with her bare hands and physically throws him out of the room when he tries to attack her. The rest of the students are much more attentive after this.
* TookALevelInKindness: Wizard becomes far more polite and kind in the end, after Miss Peters inadvertantly scares him straight.
[[/folder]]
-> "We're told that damned places exist. Buildings where madness permeates the very bricks and mortar. We're told that sometimes, dedication and kindness can purge the evil from those walls. This has merely been a story. Life isn't really like this, is it? A lesson to be learned in the study halls -- of the Twilight Zone."
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!! Paladin of the Lost Hour
Vietnam veteran Billy Kinetta (Glynn Turman) rescues a strange old man named Gaspar (Creator/DannyKaye) from being mugged in a cemetery. Upon hearing that Gaspar doesn't have a home, Billy allows the old man to stay with him for a while. Billy and Gaspar soon strike up a friendship, though Billy is skeptical of Gaspar's rants about how he's responsible for everything and everyone in the universe. Gaspar soon reveals that he is the latest in a long line of heroes dedicated to protecting a magic pocketwatch that holds the last hour of creation, which must never be allowed to strike under the threat of darkness consuming the universe.
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* AffectionateNickname: Billy refers to Gaspar as "Dad" before he learns his name. He continues to call him such as a sign of affection, after they get to know each other.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: The episode ends with Billy becoming the latest paladin of the Lost Hour, protecting the watch containing it with his life.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Billy taking Gaspar into his apartment and saving him from being mugged, treating him like a friend when no one else would, is what convinces Gaspar to pass the watch to him.
* BerserkButton: While Gaspar is fond of Billy calling him "Dad", he despises being called "Pop", claiming that it makes him sound old.
* ChromosomeCasting: The episode does not feature any speaking roles for women.
* ColorblindCasting: A variation. Gaspar is played by the white Creator/DannyKaye, while Billy is played by the black Glynn Turman. In the short story by Creator/HarlanEllison, it is mentioned that one of the two men is white and the other is black, but the text does not specify which is which.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: During one of his rants, Gaspar tells Billy that he absolutely despises lima beans, even though he's responsible for their continued existence, like everything else in the universe.
-->'''Gaspar:''' I'll tell ya something. You show me anyone who'll eat lima beans without being at gunpoint, and I'll show you a pervert! Hmph!
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The Lost Hour will be unleashed if Gaspar's watch strikes 12:00, after which the entire universe will be engulfed in darkness.
* GangBangers: Two members of a gang mug Gaspar while he's visiting Minna's grave, but Billy manages to fight them off before they rough up the old man too much.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Billy and Gaspar have an age gap of more than 30 years between them, but they quickly become close friends.
* LargeHam: Gaspar is shown to be quite bombastic at times, though he uses it to mask his sadness and the fact that he's dying.
* LegacyCharacter: Gaspar tells Billy that the origins of the Lost Hour go back to Pope Gregory XIII adopting the Gregorian calendar and advancing time by eleven days in 1582. He reveals that Gregory actually miscalculated time by one hour, an hour that slipped free from time's boundaries and has been bouncing through eternity ever since. Gaspar is the latest paladin in a line going back 400 years, sworn with containing the Lost Hour in a magic pocketwatch. If he dies without passing on the watch, the Lost Hour will finally strike and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the entire universe will be engulfed by darkness]]. In order to prevent this from happening, Gaspar passes the watch to Billy, whom he has come to trust as the next paladin in the time they've known each other.
* TheLostLenore: Gaspar's late wife Minna, who he visits in the cemetery before he is mugged.
* {{MacGuffin}}: Gaspar's watch.
* MeaningfulName: {{Lampshaded|Trope}}. Gaspar tells Billy that he shares his name with one of TheThreeWiseMen, adding that "Gaspar" means "master of the treasure, keeper of the secrets, paladin of the palace." Gaspar later explains that he is the latest in a long line of guardians of the Lost Hour, going back to the 16th century.
* MyGreatestFailure: Billy's greatest shame was the fact that a Marine he didn't know died saving his life, so he never got to thank him. Before he dies, Gaspar uses a minute of the Lost Hour to give Billy the chance to thank the guy and get closure on his survivor's guilt.
* NiceGuy: Billy. Despite his survivor's guilt, he's caring enough to save an old man from being mugged by some petty punks, invites him to stay in his apartment when he learns he's basically homeless, and strikes up a strong bond with the old man. It's for this reason that Gaspar makes him next in line to protect his watch, so he can keep the universe from being plunged into darkness.
* NoNameGiven: The Marine who died saving Billy from an ambush during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar is never named, which is a huge factor regarding Billy's survivor guilt.
* PassingTheTorch: The dying Gaspar passes the pocket watch containing the Lost Hour to Billy, who he trusts strongly enough to guard it with his life.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Once Billy learns that Gaspar wants to pass his watch onto him, Billy loudly refuses by claiming that he isn't responsible enough to handle the burden, nor is he from a long line of paladins like Gaspar. The old man convinces him that he is indeed worthy, by noting how responsible he's been for ''him.''
* SadClown: Gaspar spends a great deal of his screentime behaving like a joker, but his outlandish mannerisms also serve to mask that he's depressed, lonely, and nearly broken from his wife's death and his huge responsibilities.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Gaspar offers Billy the opportunity to become the next paladin after him. When he does so, he asks Billy to give him one minute of the Lost Hour contained in the watch so he can with meet with his late wife Minna before he dies. Billy refuses, as he believes that it would be wrong. Gaspar then reveals that this was a final test, and is now completely assured that Billy is the right person to guard the watch. As a reward, Gaspar gives Billy his own minute of the Lost Hour, which he uses to finally thank the Marine who died saving his life during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar for doing so.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: The gang members who mug Gaspar in the cemetery, allowing Billy to save him and the two men meeting for the first time.
* SurvivorGuilt: Billy suffers from severe survivor's guilt when he served in Da Nang, where his life was saved by a Marine whom he had never met before, who was killed in the process. When Gaspar allows him to use one minute of the Lost Hour to speak with the Marine, Billy learns that the guy didn't even know he was there. Billy thanks him for saving his life, but the Marine tells him that ''he'' is the grateful one, because he knows now that his death had meaning.
* TakeThat: When Gaspar and Billy go to see a movie, the old man tells Billy that he doesn't want to see anything with Creator/KarenBlack, Sandy Dennis, or Creator/MerylStreep, since they're always crying and their noses are always red. He later changes his mind and is willing to make an exception for Streep, however, provided that Billy buys the popcorn.
* TheVietnamVet: Billy is a Vietnam vet who is haunted by the fact that a Marine who he didn't even know died saving his life while he was hiding from the Viet Cong during an ambush.
* WorldWarIII: Billy and Gaspar watch a news report regarding potential nuclear conflict. While Billy is greatly rattled, Gaspar tells him that he knows for certain a nuclear holocaust will never come, since his watch reads that it's only 11:00.
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-> "Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment. A blessing of the 18th Egyptian Dynasty: God be between you and harm in all the empty places you walk."
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