Re: [Spoiler?] Thought it was a Twilight Zone episode. It may of been Quitters Inc from Cat's Eye.
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Re: [Spoiler?] Thought it was a Twilight Zone episode. It may of been Quitters Inc from Cat's Eye.         

Group: alt.books.stephen-king · Group Profile
Author: getrich
Date: Oct 15, 2006 20:10

Beowulfie wrote:
> getrich@1upandup.com wrote:
>> Vegetable Lasagne wrote:
>>
>>>getrich@1upandup.com wrote in news:1160456127.069722.142180
>>>@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Can someone help me here. I swore I saw a Twilight Zone episode where
>>>>a person signs up to quit drinking or smoking or something, and then he
>>>>goes through shock and horror. Then the story ends with the person
>>>>quitting and a voice in the background goes something like, "Mr. Smith,
>>>>you just didn't sign up to quit ______________" (name of person and so
>>>>on missing). I thought it might of been Gramamite Method from New
>>>>Twilight Zone, but it wasn't.
>>>>
>>>>Was this the movie version of Quitters Inc or something else?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks...
>>>>- Richard Hutnik
>>>>
>>>
>>>Or "The Monkey Treatment" where a guy wants to lose weight so he goes to the
>>>docks to a little Chinese store, and is given a monkey that no one else can
>>>see that sits on his back and grabs any food he tries to eat so he slowly
>>>starves to death... ends up killing the monkey on a fifty fifty chance by
>>>jumping out the window and landing on him
>>
>>
>> The key line I recall is "You didn't just sign up to quit ________".
>> That is what I am looking for. It probably was Quitters, Inc. I want
>> to make sure, however, before I try to buy Cat's Eye though.
>>
>> - Richard Hutnik
>>
> Yes, I'm pretty sure it was the first story from Cat's Eye.

Cool, I hope it is. I have it on order with the Twilight Zone complete
box set, and the Prisoner complete box set.

- Richard Hutnik
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