| Re: [Spoiler?] Thought it was a Twilight Zone episode. It may of been Quitters Inc from Cat's Eye. |
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Group: alt.books.stephen-king · Group Profile
Author: Tamara RosewarneTamara Rosewarne Date: Oct 23, 2006 00:56
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> Vegetable Lasagne wrote:
>>> 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
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> 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
>
It makes me think it WAS Quitters Inc... but then I haven't seen that
episode so don't quote me!
Tamara
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