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8/10
Bar-ba-ra, Bar=ba-ra!
Hitchcoc11 December 2008
It's awfully hard not to feel sorry for Barbara. She's in a no-win situation. She truly has been pushed as far as a person can be pushed. She is an indentured servant of the worst kind. She can't even escape when death rears its head. The strength of the episode is the build up. This guy is about as bad as they get: selfish, self-centered, and mean. She tries to appease him and all she gets is more attitude. Unfortunately, in the Twilight Zone, people often don't get their just deserts. The acting here is quite good. A classic performance by Uncle Simon played by Cedrick Hardwick. I wanted to rescue the young lady but, like a cancer, this guy has invaded her heart and soul.
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6/10
Plus ça change --
rmax30482329 April 2013
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A later episode and not one of the most memorable, but not a total failure either.

The middle-aged Constance Ford has been living with her Uncle Simon, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, for the past twenty-five years, serving him, enduring his insults and abuse, in hopes of inheriting the mansion and the fortune associated with it.

It was written by Rod Serling who must have exhausted his store of pseudo-elegant pejoratives. Ford doesn't get much of a chance to use them because, after all, she must be careful about what she says. But Hardwicke gets a full twenty-five years' supply. Among the least of them: "You bovine crab." Among the best: "You're the only woman I know who looks as if, under her clothes, she's wearing clothes." The arguments finally become violent and Ford pushes Hardwicke down the stairs to his death. His will leaves everything to her, with the proviso that she care for Robby the Robot, one of his inventions. A lawyer will be around once a week to check on Robby's health. Gradually, Robby takes on all the characteristics of Uncle Simon -- the limp, the demands, the ancient gargling voice.

It's cleverly ironic but it's a downer too. Hardwicke was pretty old by this time. His features had turned to flab and that crisp and determined voice had begun to weaken. Constance Ford is quite good as the put-upon niece.
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7/10
"And how is young Master Polk?"
classicsoncall23 July 2010
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Rod Serling used the robot theme a number of times in his Twilight Zone stories. Probably the best was Season Two's 'The Lateness of the Hour' where the science involved was definitely high-tech. There was also Season Five's 'Steel' set in a not too distant future that concluded rather undramatically and without the series' classic twist ending.

The plot here seems rather forced. Barbara Polk (Constance Ford) has sacrificed the last twenty five years of her life to look after Uncle Simon (Cedric Hardwicke), a domineering and dispiriting shell of a man who takes out his unpleasantries on a compliant niece. The only rationale for her acceptance of his behavior is the inevitable payday that comes with the reading of the uncle's will. But in The Twilight Zone, one must not only outlive the antagonist, but his creation as well. As Barbara comes to learn, her inheritance depends on following the provisions of her uncle's will, which includes putting up with Uncle Simon's alter-ego, now kept firmly alive in the body of a mechanical man.

I think this episode would have gotten a bit more mileage out of the concept if Simon Junior wasn't so goofy looking, a typical cheap looking tin can thrown together in the best tradition of those Forties and Fifties sci-fi flicks. I know, the technology wasn't there yet to produce anything much more futuristic looking, but it sure looks awfully hokey today.

What you have here, and you'll have to forgive the pun, but I can't help it. After more than a couple times, 'Get me my hot chocolate' began to look like the ultimate Simon says routine. But Miss Barbara never required 'please', much to her eventual undoing. I don't know, I think I would have junked the robot Simon a lot sooner than she did. After all, how much longer do you think old Schwimmer was going to hang around himself?

Interesting side note - In the preview for the next episode in the series, Rod Serling for the first time calls his creation 'TZ'. A nice touch.
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MEAN-SPIRITED
rms125a23 February 2019
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The episode bristles with Edward Albee-esque dialogue, vivid characterizations, and two brilliant performances by the leads but the full circle of misery to even more humiliating misery for one character is a bit too bleak, even by Twilight Zone standards.

Cedric Hardwicke plays the sadistic inventor and title character who relentlessly abuses his greedy but obedient niece, who has cared for him for a quarter century, and on whom he is partially dependent but wholly contemptuous. When he asks why she stays he knows it must be because she no longer has anywhere to go but that point is not explicitly made but instinctively understood.

A vicious tyrant devoid of any redeeming qualities, Hardwicke makes the character fascinatingly irredeemable and no one could fail to cheer when he meets his own long-delayed end through his own actions. Constance Ford makes the character of Barbara, even at her worst, appealing. No one, even a greedy relative, deserves what she is forced to endure. And her taste of freedom when she can tear loose, open the windows and pull back the curtains and see the world outside her drab prison, is tragically short-lived.

The ending is particularly cruel, even by Twilight Zone standards, where often characters, such as Lloyd Bochner in "To Serve Man", facing, in the immediate sense, grislier fates than Barbara's are destined for less misery and a quick end to their suffering. Serling, in both the prologue and epilogue, is rather unsympathetic to Barbara's plight, viewing her "avarice" as he calls it as somehow a flaw equal to her uncle's twisted sadism.
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7/10
Maybe not the greatest TZ episode, but hardly a waste of time
Renegardea20 February 2015
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The episode has been traditionally been dismissed primarily because all characters are rather unpleasant. Well, yes and no, and if I may add that is precisely what makes "Uncle Simon" worth your time. The old uncle is just a caricature of the grumpy old man. Sir Cedric Harwicke in one of his last roles just played it right. Unpleasant, but not someone you would want to kill (unless you lived with him for decades, maybe). Ian Wolfe is the perfect lawyer, he gets a job to do and never for a second does he have second thoughts (or even first ones for that matter) But the real star is Constance Ford who would sadly spend her career in soap operas. In 99% of movies or TV shows, she will have a redeeming element, she would ultimately be nice, or at least nicer. Not here, she is actually just Uncle Simon's niece. And she plays it brilliantly!
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7/10
Rather antiquated but equally well played.
darrenpearce11126 November 2013
English knighted Shakespearean actor Cedric Hardwicke finished his long, distinguished and varied career appearing in TZ and The Outer Limits. Here he plays the obnoxious inventor Uncle Simon. His long-suffering carer niece, the stoical Barbara (Constance Ford), is the victim of this twisted old rattlesnake's venom.

The story has to be taken as a playful and now rather antiquated scenario from Serling's typewriter. Yet the script and solid playing by Constance Ford should get you on Barbara's side even though she has become consumed by hate. Simon is too hateful to evoke any sympathy. When Serling appears he outlines Barbara as having lived her life 'as though in each ensuing hour she had a dentist appointment'. I never liked the obsessive-cantankerous-mad-old-goat episodes like A Thing About Machines or Sounds And Silences, but this is infinitely better than those monstrosities due to Barbara counter punching.
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9/10
Uncle Simon Torments his Caregiver Niece beyond his Grave
nethcorp11 August 2008
This was an excellent Twilight Zone. Cedric Hardwicke was brilliantly rude and mean as Uncle Simon. The direction by Don Siegel - of Dirty Harry fame - was first-rate and creative. The story and dialogue were also extremely sharp. As was often the case with the Twilight Zone, the script was of more movie quality than TV quality.

I'm not sure what the 7.1 rating is all about: it's way too low. The overall score for The Twilight Zone is 9.6, but the individual episodes rarely even get an 8.0. This makes no sense and shows that the raters aren't very good at this kind of thing. Come on people, if you're going to rate these shows make sure you know what you're doing!
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7/10
The Twilight Zone - Uncle Simon
Scarecrow-881 September 2013
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Barbara has endured 25 years of ridicule and cruelty from Uncle Simon (how she dresses, her looks, her personality, her willingness to tolerate his berating, etc), but she anticipates (since he is at such an advanced age, his death could be imminent) his eventual demise. Going through all this misery was to achieve a degree of wealth and luxury once Simon perishes. However, when he raises his walking cane to strike her, Barbara grabs it and Simon loses his footing, falling off the stairs of his basement/laboratory, breaking his back. As he pleads for her help, unable to move, Barbara creeps in to give him a taste of his own distasteful medicine. He later dies, but when the will reveals that Barbara must remain always in the mansion and be caregiver for a robotic creation he had built in secret within his lab, her life doesn't get betterÂ…it worsens. The robot has been built specifically by Simon (his insidious nature couldn't resist) to evolve into a mechanized version of him! Complete (once it has "matured") with his voice, tormenting with the same harsh tone and vernacular, the robot makes "hot chocolate" demands and expects her to take care of his ever need. She pushes the robot down the same stairs Simon took his fateful plunge, but this time around she isn't rescued from the merciless barbs that were so torturous for all those 25 years.

Hardwicke's "ancient albatross with a dirty mouth" is a force of nature; what an absolute monster. Seeing him just insultingly rip her apart is damn near hard to watch. I can't imagine many(unless you are an "intellectual bully" like this guy) won't sympathize and even ache for Barbara. We get just a taste of how this rotten old codger mistreats Barbara regularly, so can you imagine 25 years of taking it? It's sheer masochism, really.

"Hey world, I'm back! I'm really back!"

This was indeed an "uncomfortable exercise in avarice and automatons" with poor Barbara never allowed to celebrate her freedom from the lecherous beast that served as a constant reminder of how awaiting the treasure just out of sight has the kind of strings attached no one in their right mind should be forced in adhering to. Hardwicke, clearly ailing with slurred speech and a body giving up on him, still doesn't hold anything back during his emotionally damaging tirades, with Constance Ford effectively portraying Barbara as browbeaten and weary. Drab and seemingly inert of personality, Ford wears that life of verbal abuse quite impressively. I imagined Rod Serling stood up one night, thinking of someone or some people he really didn't like, and spit out in script whatever that brilliant mind could muster to belittle and diminish in this episode for the Uncle Simon character. There are episodes of the Twilight Zone that feature endings for characters that have been through hardships who aren't given a happy conclusionÂ…I think Serling just felt that some people in life aren't allowed to "reap after sewing".

Admittedly, I watched this for Robby the Robot. I was major disappointed in their wacky presentation of him (it, whatever). The "human features" in his dome just left me rather disgusted, to tell you the truth. I want Robby of Lost in Space, "War of the Robots", not this clownish abomination. Too bad.
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8/10
How do people miss this?
dtesoriero-5466519 July 2022
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I have read the reviews here, and many of them state the obvious, that both Simon and Barbara were horrible, unlikeable people.

But no one mentions the one driving factor of the episode. Greed/love of money.

Why does Barbara put up with all that abuse?

Among the two characters' "stellar" qualities of being hateful, abusive, miserable, selfish people, there is greed.

Simon has money and enjoys the power over others it brings.

Barbara only wants his money and is willing to be abused so she doesn't have to be without it.

First she is willing to put up with the abuse in hopes that money will be hers. Later she accepts the abuse because she doesn't want to walk away from the money.

On an even deeper level, you have to think, how many women got into relationships because of love of money over actual love? How many others stay in abusive relationships because they don't want to give up the lifestyle/prestige?
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7/10
A Damsel In Extreme Distress
telegonus22 January 2019
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This is one downer of a Twilight Tone, and like many of the show's half-hour entries, it begins in an closed environment suggestive of literal or. or likely, psychic entrapment from which there appears to be no escape, as is often suggested, early in such dramas, even as it becomes clear as the stories progressed that these "stuck people" have, deep inside, their key to freedom, to exit, from their dreadful plight.

In this one, borderline middle aged Barbara, well payed by Constance Ford, is at the mercy of her uncle Simon, ailing and rapidly in physical and mental decline; and he's a nasty, sadistic man who must prove himself superior to others,--hence his extreme physical and emotional isolation--and the woman who looks after him, tends to his daily needs.

There's a light at the tunnel for Barbara, who shall inherit her uncle's fortune when he passes on; and yet theere's the nagging issue of how long Barbara can bear her uncle's abuse. Simon is in poor health, thus he may not last long; and yet even the sickest among us have been known to surprise their families and caregivers. The dialogue in Uncle Simon is often witty in the Victorian fashion; and the old central house in which the story is set looks to be of the same vintage.

Part drama, part comedy, this episode is also a character study, and an insightful one at that, of how two "split off" (from the normal world", that is) people can live in a world of their own with scarcely any other people entering it except to serve their needs.

Even as Simon and Barbara share barbed insults one can't help but wonder what their lives would have been like without them. Simon and Barbara complement one another perfectly. Whatever the character flaws of these two trapped individuals may be on an individual basis, considered as a twosome they are bound to one another as Siamese twins. Thst neither uncle nor niece comes across as sympathetic in the end seems only fitting.
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5/10
First half great...second half NOT.
planktonrules25 April 2010
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This episode debuted about a year before the leading man in the show, Cederic Hardwicke died. He was a nice character actor with a lovely voice, but here he plays a horrid but very rich old man. He seems to live just to make his harried niece (Constance Ford) miserable--with his constant haranguing and nastiness. Eventually, however, he has an accident and instead of helping him, she stands back and watches him die--and rubs his miserable face in it. She isn't in the right...but you can certainly understand her actions!

Of course, this IS the Twilight Zone and so his death is only the beginning of Ford's adventure. It seems that when the bill has been read, there are some bizarre conditions. She can only inherit the money IF she remains in the house...a house with a stupid looking robot implanted with Hardwicke's personality. Seeing "Robbie" recycled in this show (albeit he looks a tad different) is pretty silly--less like the Twilight Zone and more like a Disney film circa 1963! As for me, the first half of the show (before Hardwicke dies) is brilliant--well acted and compelling. The payoff, unfortunately, is dopey and...well, unworthy of the series.
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8/10
The Twilight Zone takes us to another world.
mark.waltz27 December 2021
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Far from the perfect episode or even a really good one, this is still a very entertaining one and among my favorites, simply because of the witty script and the performances of Constance Ford and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Known to classic film fans as the delightfully nasty mother of Sandra Dee in "A Summer Place" and to soap fans as the tough but loving matriarch on the long running "Another World", a role that she played from 1967 to just before her death in early 1993.

British stage and screen legend Hardwicke is very funny as the acidic Uncle Simon who keeps nece Barbara under his thumb in an abusive way that has practically destroyed her life. A nasty confrontation has Uncle Simon falling down the stairs to the door of his laboratory where he has a secret experiments in progress. His quick demise leaves her in charge of the household and the invention in charge of her.

Yes, these characters are both unpleasant, but Ford seems justified in her resentment. She gets to express many different emotions from a deadpan lack of interest in everything around her to glowing hopeful ga labout town as she prepares to leave, only interrupted by the invention and the arrival of attorney Ian Wolfe. The twists are ironic and absurd, but comical in spite of everything. I wouldn't have minded seeing this one expanded a bit, and found out exactly why Barbara spent 25 years of her life taking care of Simon and how she came about to be there.
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6/10
A Wicked Man
claudio_carvalho19 October 2023
Barbara Polk has been the caregiver of her uncle Simon for twenty-five years, despite his abuses, offenses and cruelties. Uncle Simon is a scientist that keeps his laboratory in the basement closed all the time. When he trips on the ladder to the basement, he dies. The lawyer Mr. Schwimmer reads his will to Barbara and tells that she has inherited uncle Simon's house and possession. However, she must live in the house and take care of his last invention; otherwise, he will donate everything to a local college. Mr. Schwimmer and Barbara open the laboratory and find a robot locked inside. Soon Barbara learns how the robot behaves.

"Uncle Simon" is an unpleasant episode of "The Twilight Zone". Uncle Simon is a wicked man and terrible character. Barbara seems to be an ambitious woman that renounced her personal life expecting to inherit his possessions when her uncle dies, and cost twenty-five years of her life. The robot is a replica of uncle Simon; therefore, Barbara will be tormented for the rest of her life. In the end, "Uncle Simon" is a forgettable episode. My vote is six.

"Title (Brazil): "Tio Simon" ("Uncle Simon")
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4/10
Unpleasant People
AaronCapenBanner5 November 2014
Constance Ford stars as Barbara Polk, who has grown bitter and resentful caring for her mean scientist-inventor uncle Simon(played by Cedric Hardwicke) who takes every opportunity to insult and belittle her, though as his only heir, will still inherit his fortune upon his death, which, when it finally comes, does not end the nightmare for Barbara, for she will then have to care for his creation, who didn't fall far from the proverbial tree... Unpleasant episode about two unpleasant people insulting each other mercilessly does have its moments and funny bits, but ultimately becomes a self-mocking farce that doesn't seem to have been worth the viewers' time.
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Uncle S
sprose117 January 2016
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Warning: This review may contain spoilers, so read with caution.

This time around I had an unusually strong reaction to this episode, which normally I had found just rather hateful, siding with the niece. I guess my own age has contributed to my sympathy for old Unc. Simon, and I found this episode to be unusually raw and honest, stripped of the "nice" lies. The niece was taking care of the uncle for one reason: his money. She hoped he would die faster. He was well-aware of this and didn't make the expected social convention of pretending they loved each other somehow. No whitewashing here. He called it as it was; she cared for him to get his money, period. He deeply resented that and gave her a wallop in perpetuity.One might ask why she didn't love him at all, and if he was responsible in some measure for that. It may well be that she was a shallow, dim-witted type, who more or less deserved what she got. Think of poor Uncle Simon; he has money and has to give it to somebody, but there is no one worthy, so he returns hate with hate. No one has mentioned it, but one can see a connection to the episode called "The Masks," where it is quite similar, in that an old, wealthy man returns his children's hate with hate, of a perpetual nature, like the robot. I find both episodes compelling. I bet in the Masks people tend to identify with the old man, but in Uncle Simon, it is the opposite, which is interesting between the two episodes, I think. In sum, who knows if Uncle Simon's bitterness is any less deserved than the old man in the Masks (forgot his name). I would even say that the rawness of the hatred, the likes of which I can hardly recall in any episode, save the Masks (where it is somehow less so perhaps), makes for a disturbingly real episode, all-too-human, open honest hate. A great episode, even with the comedic effect of the robot.
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8/10
Sir Cedric! You evil but awesome old man!
Coventry28 September 2022
Call me vicious, call me sadist, but my personal favorite "Twilight Zone" episodes (favorite movies in general, in fact) are the ones where the protagonists are pure evil. Not just committing evil deeds, but evil to the bone, with rotten personalities and deliberately dedicating their lives to mentally torment others. Someone like Uncle Simon in this TZ-episode with the same name, for instance, and I couldn't think of an actor more fit to depict him than Sir Cedric Hardwicke ("The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Ghost of Frankenstein")

The idea behind "Uncle Simon" is preposterous, but delightfully entertaining. Old and sickly Simon Polk is a loathsome tyrant to his niece Barbara, who lives in with him and spends her days acting as a nurse and taking care of the household. Uncle Simon continuously insults and humiliates her, but the woman literally awaits his death and the inheritance. Still, only after his passing, it will become clear to Barbara why Uncle Simon spent so much time in his laboratory in the basement.

You could easily state that writer/creator Rod Serling intended this story to be a complaint towards typically human vices like greed and selfishness, but I prefer to see it simply as a pitch-black comedy and a showcasing of Sir Cedric Hardwicke's amazing talent for playing ultra-villainous roles.
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10/10
NOW WHAT DO YA' WANT?
tcchelsey8 November 2023
Don Siegel, the master director, got some superior performances here, which is basically a two character show.

Distinguished Sir Cedric Hardwick is spot on as complaining, difficult Uncle Simon, an eccentric inventor, who makes life miserable for his niece (actress Constance Ford), who apparently has been working for the old man for years. What a job!

She has had about enough of this work of art, and for the most part, he's had his fill of her. Do the math. It's a rather clever, daring game between the two, set in an old creeky house at that. Rod Serling worked his magic in this one.

Special appearance by famous Robbie the Robot, first introduced in the sci fi epic FORBIDDEN PLANET. Robbie actually became a star in his own right, even though he was a pile of metal and flashing lights (which occasionally did not always work), also the mold for many other robots to come.

Wait for the ending, which must have gave Rod Serling a hearty chuckle. Actually, I think Rod was thinking Alfred Hitchcock, when you come down to it. This could have doubled as an episode from his iconic tv show. You be the judge.

This episode marked one of the final appearances of Hardwicke, who had a long and prosperous career, from stage to screen to tv. He will always be remembered to all us kids as Dr. Frankenstein in the GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1942). Constance Ford, also a veteran, was a soap opera regular, holding a record of more than 2300 appearances in ANOTHER WORLD.

Recommended.

SEASON 6 EPISODE 8 remastered CBS dvd box set.
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5/10
Simon says 'Look after Robby'.
BA_Harrison15 April 2022
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Uncle Simon (Cedric Hardwicke) is a grouchy scientist who trades insults with his frumpy niece Barbara, who has cared for the acerbic geriatric knowing that one day he will drop dead and all of his wealth and belongings will be hers. However, while he is still alive, her life consists of answering the old man's every beck and call and suffering his constant verbal abuse.

One day, while the pair are bickering, Simon slips on the stairs and breaks his back; Barbara leaves him to die, finally free after twenty five years of caring for the cruel codger. As expected, she inherit's Simon's house and money, but the will stipulates that she must stay in the house and take care of her uncle's last experiment - a robot (Robby the Robot with a facelift) - or lose everything.

In the show's ironic twist, it turns out that the automaton has been programmed to learn and evolve, eventually taking on the personality (and voice) of its creator, leaving Barbara in the same situation that she was in before her Uncle's death.

The direction (by Don Siegel, of Dirty Harry fame) and central performances are fine, but it's not much fun spending time in the company of such unlikeable characters (Simon and Barbara are as bad as each other). Plus, it's a travesty what they have done to Robby the Robot!

4.5/10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb.
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9/10
Bar-ba-ra!
gregorycanfield26 June 2021
This episode contains one of the greatest spoken lines I've ever heard. Uncle Simon says to his niece: "You are the only woman I know who looks as if, underneath her clothes, she wore clothes." How right he was! Barbara's appearance was so bland, you might not even be interested in what was underneath her clothes. A message to all the genius reviewers that took exception to these "unpleasant characters": Political Correctness didn't always exist. There was a time when people were real, and spoke their minds. I had no sympathy for Barbara. She was a victim only of what she brought on herself. Simon was right when he suggested that whatever she had done for him was done for selfish reasons. The robot was OK. I liked him better when he made a guest appearance on Lost in Space. To sum up, Simon was reprehensible, but his niece wasn't much better. What goes around comes around.
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5/10
Girl, move out
Calicodreamin22 June 2021
Decent effects in this episode, but unlikeable characters and a predictable storyline.
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Another Serling script with the usual nonsense.
fedor86 April 2022
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Typical embittered serlingian script full of badly written sarcasm and dull speeches. Serling must have wanted to be a "serious" playwright. Just as well he wasn't, because he would have sucked at it. His style is predictable, samey, repetitious, but most importantly of all - his grasp of human behaviour was mediocre. He was one of those mankind-loathing "humanists". Yeah, I know, it's a blatant contradiction, but that kind of schizo attitude is typical of most idealists. (Pragmatism has been out of fashion for decades, idealism gets all the hype, so I don't expect many here to agree with me.)

The stipulations in the will are ludicrous. I'm surprised it didn't say that she has to walk on her arms as well as do 1000 headstands every hour. I don't know much about these laws, but surely there must be a limit in a will to the demands a person can make on the living.

And anyway, she could have easily sabotaged the robot. She had ample opportunity.
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10/10
What comes around goes around
rgfjzcjc29 September 2021
I agree with one of the critics Rod Sterling was a genius when it came to writing directing this was one episode where both can speak freely without being say what's on your mind tell people the truth Persona non grata I. I'm one of the few that live down the street wow twilight zone was being filmed along with a lot of other shows went through a lot of history La La Land I know a lot of things about a lot of shows that most people just read about I never met Rod Sterling while in La La Land seriously with experience I have with this shows twilight zone is going to be a 10 this episode is 10 so when it was being filmed while I was watching two other episodes that I watched while I was in our La La Land two actors look him up and you'll see what episodes they were on bridges Meredith Fritz Weaver😎🎬🎥
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1/10
What a life
rgxdzrybr18 December 2023
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After accepting years of verbal abuse Barbara hopes to inherit her uncle's fortune. She does but there is a couple of twists.

I think a few things have to be considered. Barbara has to remain in the house and wait on that stupid robot that has taken on her Uncle Simon's personality. She can't move out as her uncle's lawyer continues to check on her. But one has to ask can't she still do what she wants part of the time.? The visits are only weekly. The lawyer won't be around forever and does he really have to follow through on everything? No one is checking on him it seems. Yes there are ethical issues but it just seems silly and he's kind of an idiot not to question the orders .

The other thing is is the money even worth it?

An interesting concept but not really one I felt lived up to the expectations.
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2/10
RIDICULOUS!
skarylarry-9340018 April 2021
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How can a robot drink hot chocolate? The whole thing is stupid!
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