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: murphcastle
Date: Oct 16, 2006 21:04

getrich@1upandup.com wrote:
> 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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