History Series / TheTwilightZone2002

** "The Collection" featured a little girl who turned all her babysitters into Barbie dolls because she was lonely and didn't want them to ever leave.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The people who runs the Evergreen community. [[spoiler:They kill troubled teens that couldn't be helped.]]

* ArcWords: Appear many times on various episodes (as an example, "[[NotYourTimeYet Not Yet]]" on "The Executions Of Grady Finch", which is heard by Finch every time he is to be executed ([[spoiler:and which makes the hearing of "Now!" when Finch gets his LaserGuidedKarma a WhamLine]]).

* ArcWords: Appear many times on various episodes (as an example, "[[NotYourTimeYet Not Yet]]" on ''The Executions Of Grady Finch'', which is heard by Finch every time he is to be executed ([[spoiler:and which makes the hearing of "Now!" when Finch gets his LaserGuidedKarma a WhamLine]]).

* ArcWords: Appear many times on various episodes (as an example, "[[ItsNotYourTime Not Yet]]" on ''The Executions Of Grady Finch'', which is heard by Finch every time he is to be executed ([[spoiler:and which makes the hearing of "Now!" when Finch gets his LaserGuidedKarma a WhamLine]]).

* ArcWords: Appear many times on various episodes (as an example, "[[ItsNotYourTimeYet Not Yet]]" on ''The Executions Of Grady Finch'', which is heard by Finch every time he is to be executed ([[spoiler:and which makes the hearing of "Now!" when Finch gets his LaserGuidedKarma a WhamLine]]).

* ArcWords: Appear many times on various episodes (as an example, "[[ItsIsNotYourTimeYet Not Yet]]" on ''The Executions Of Grady Finch'', which is heard by Finch every time he is to be executed ([[spoiler:and which makes the hearing of "Now!" when Finch gets his LaserGuidedKarma a WhamLine]]).

* ArcWords: Appear many times on various episodes (as an example, "[[ThisIsNotYourTime Not Yet]]" on ''The Executions Of Grady Finch'', which is heard by Finch every time he is to be executed ([[spoiler:and which makes the hearing of "Now!" when Finch gets his LaserGuidedKarma a WhamLine]]).

* DivineIntervention: "The Executions of Grady Finch". Played with in that said DivineIntervention kept Finch from being killed via execution for a crime he committed (but he kept insisting that he didn't)... up until he was allowed to walk away ([[HollywoodLaw because if every time he was going to be executed the method backfired and left him unharmed, then there was no reason to keep him in death row]]) and it made him brave ([[SmugSnake and stupid]]) enough to finally admit to the family of his victim that he did it, which was when the DivineIntervention intervened to have a ''statue of Lady Justice fall on him and kill him''.

* ColorMeBlack: "Shades of Guilt"

* DivineIntervention: "The Executions of Grady Finch"

* HeroicSacrifice: The teacher in "Into the Light".

* LotusEaterMachine: The reveal of "The Pool Boy" is that [[spoiler:the endless nightmare the main character finds himself in, where he's repeatedly murdered by a mysterious man, is actually a virtual prison that he was put in after being convicted of murder. It's said to be a fitting punishment for him, but the episode's SympatheticPOV (he doesn't remember committing the crime, the circumstances of which are somewhat ambiguous) and [[AndIMustScream unending torture he goes through]] just makes it come off as DisproportionateRetribution.]]

* LotusEaterMachine: The reveal of "The Pool Boy" is that [[spoiler:the endless nightmare the main character finds himself in, where he's repeatedly murdered by a mysterious man, is actually a virtual prison that he was put in after being convicted of murder. It's said to be a fitting punishment for him, but the episode's SympatheticPOV and [[AndIMustScream unending torture he goes through]] just makes it come off as DisproportionateRetribution.]]

* ThatSoundsFamiliar: * In "Hunted" a virtually crime-free future society is suddenly menaced by a mysterious creature called a Kreetor, believed to have long been extinct. The leader of the team tasked with finding and killing the Kreetor finds out that [[spoiler: the Kreetor is actually a human, possibly the only one left on Earth, and all the other "humans" are actually cyborgs who wiped out the human race and took over their civilization. The word Kreetor came from "creator."]]

The second revival of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', this series aired on Creator/{{UPN}} during the 2002-03 season. It aired in hour-long installments, with two half-hour episodes run back-to-back, the only exception being the one-hour episode "The Lineman." ForestWhitaker was the on-camera host.

* AdultFear: The 2002 episode "How Much Do You Love Your Kid?" Your child may be kidnapped, and the police won't do a thing about it, because it's for a [[FridgeLogic perfectly legal]] TV show. And there's the implied threat that if you can't find your child in an hour, you'll never see them again. [[spoiler:And ''your own husband'' was the kidnapper, and thinks that doing it all was a ''favor''.]]

* RaceLift: This revival was targeted towards a more African-American audience; the host was black as were a lot of the main characters in its episodes, and it featured episodes such as a racist white man waking up black. TropesAreNotBad, of course, and being on {{UPN}} might have had something to do with it.

* [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Powered by a Rebellious Child]]: The Ever-Green community, where they turn some teens into [[spoiler: ''red'' plant fertilizer]] disguised as a 'reeducation camp' especially for them.

* SuperiorSuccessor: [[Literature/ItsAGoodLife Anthony Fremont's]] daughter in "It's Still a Good Life" manages to be a SuperiorSuccessor to a nigh-omnipotent RealityWarper. She can restore things that her father has willed out of existence (which he himself cannot do) and is immune to his telepathy.

* DarkIsNotEvil: "One Night At Mercy" Death is a kindly fellow who doesn't like his job at all and is happy to quit. [[spoiler:When the doctor eventually dies of an aneurysm, Death comforts him, admits that he's tempted to just let the doctor come back to life, and shows admiration for the doctor's ability to give life to the patients.]]
** "The Chosen" n unpleasant asshole is followed around by two intimidating people in dark leather trenchcoats telling him he's been "chosen." Eventually the asshole's friends get in on the act and say the same thing. It turns out in the end that the two pursuers [[spoiler: were angels rescuing mankind from an impending nuclear war, and the asshole is subsequently left to die in atomic fire.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: "Gabe's Story" The titular character has been having a severe run of bad luck lately. As his life is about to crumble apart for good, he learns that he and everyone else are having their "stories" written for them, as - supposedly - nothing would ever happen to them otherwise. Gabe convinces his Writer and her boss allowing him to take control of his own life - allowing him to reconcile with his wife and get a fresh start.

* LivingDollCollector: "The Collection" featured a little girl who turned all her babysitters into Barbie dolls because she was lonely and didn't want them to ever leave.

The second revival of ''TheTwilightZone'', this series aired on Creator/{{UPN}} during the 2002-03 season. It aired in hour-long installments, with two half-hour episodes run back-to-back, the only exception being the one-hour episode "The Lineman." ForestWhitaker was the on-camera host.