That was a line spoken by William Demarest at the beginning of the episode to wife Phyllis (Joan Blondell, looking quite aged. I remember Joan as the beautiful young blonde from those great 1930s Busby Berkeley films such as "Gold diggers 33", "Dames", and "Gold diggers 37"). William was eating Phylis's reheated dinner of " couragated plastic" and arguing, something it looked they often did. The TV repairman, the guy who voiced Winnie the Pooh, was fixing the TV, and I could really hear Winnie the Pooh's voice when he spoke. When Winnie fixes the TV, he tells William there's no charge, but William was a little curious of that since he just gave Winnie a lecture on his crooked money making scenes. He left saying "Can't win em all".
William was a grumpy man but Phyllis was no better. She was a b***h. Especially near the end of the episode when William actually attempted to make peace with her and she arrogantly refused his offer. That's when we get the " Yonkers! Yonkers! Yonkers!" line somewhere in the middle of her tirade.
The real strangeness of the episode begins when William starts seeing himself on a channel that they don't have. He first sees the recent past of his canoodling with another woman. Then he sees the bickering at the dinner table from the first scene of the episode. Then he starts seeing the future, which is quite disturbing to say the least. Phyllis at this point is definitely saying that he's cracked. What William sees on the TV is so traumatizing that he breaks down, to where the doctor comes over and he's put in bed. This is the part I don't get, after seeing all this, wouldn't you think that William would try harder than you can possibly imagine to not let what he saw on TV actually happen? But it happens. Exactly like he saw it. I guess this is where some people believe that certain plots are already set in motion by God, and there's nothing that we can do to change that. William, as terrified as he was for what he saw, he tried to make peace, then Phyllis refused and went on her rampage and William just lost control of himself. The last scene of the episode happens before two more horrible future scenes William saw happen to him on the TV. But we know that they will still happen too after that last scene since every other future event William saw on TV happened exactly like he saw it. Creepy yet very interesting episode.
William was a grumpy man but Phyllis was no better. She was a b***h. Especially near the end of the episode when William actually attempted to make peace with her and she arrogantly refused his offer. That's when we get the " Yonkers! Yonkers! Yonkers!" line somewhere in the middle of her tirade.
The real strangeness of the episode begins when William starts seeing himself on a channel that they don't have. He first sees the recent past of his canoodling with another woman. Then he sees the bickering at the dinner table from the first scene of the episode. Then he starts seeing the future, which is quite disturbing to say the least. Phyllis at this point is definitely saying that he's cracked. What William sees on the TV is so traumatizing that he breaks down, to where the doctor comes over and he's put in bed. This is the part I don't get, after seeing all this, wouldn't you think that William would try harder than you can possibly imagine to not let what he saw on TV actually happen? But it happens. Exactly like he saw it. I guess this is where some people believe that certain plots are already set in motion by God, and there's nothing that we can do to change that. William, as terrified as he was for what he saw, he tried to make peace, then Phyllis refused and went on her rampage and William just lost control of himself. The last scene of the episode happens before two more horrible future scenes William saw happen to him on the TV. But we know that they will still happen too after that last scene since every other future event William saw on TV happened exactly like he saw it. Creepy yet very interesting episode.