- Rod Serling: Meet Joe McCursky - portrait of a man with a dilemma. His wife is 45 minutes late getting home, his television set isn't working properly, and he's all out of lunch meat.
- [pause]
- Rod Serling: Perhaps not the most terrifying predicament ever, but, still, you'll have to agree it's rather unpleasant. Besides, I'm sure things'll pick up in the next scene - perhaps some terrifyingly deformed creature'll show up and... kill him. After all, anything's possible... in The Twi-Lite Zone.