This is yet another story of a man given an amazing gift. Because he is such a knucklehead, he can't figure out a way to use it to some advantage. He is an insufferable bore who goes from place to place, driving people to distraction with his stupid comments. He has no off switch. For whatever reason, a barfly gives him a stopwatch. When you push the stem down, it literally stops everything. There is no thought process with this guy. He uses it to play a few tricks. He tries to get his former boss to reproduce it. He has no credibility. Eventually he does what every Twilight Zone bozo does. He figures a way to get rich. He never protects the watch. He goes right into a bank and takes a load of money from the safe. This lack of imagination and stupidity is typical, and, of course, is what the episode is really about.
Review of A Kind of a Stopwatch
