Mookie and Pookie

Episode aired Nov 4, 1984
TV-14TV-14
23m

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

397

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Justine Bateman in Tales from the Darkside (1983)

Comedy Drama Fantasy

Mookie and Pookie are twins. Computer whiz Mookie is terminally ill. But not even death can sever the bond that exists between the two siblings when his knowledge of technology follows him i... Read allMookie and Pookie are twins. Computer whiz Mookie is terminally ill. But not even death can sever the bond that exists between the two siblings when his knowledge of technology follows him into the afterlife.Mookie and Pookie are twins. Computer whiz Mookie is terminally ill. But not even death can sever the bond that exists between the two siblings when his knowledge of technology follows him into the afterlife.

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

397

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Director
- Timna Ranon
Writers
- Marc Fields(story)
- Dan Kleinman(story)
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Goofs
In the final scene the family is playing Scrabble. Mookie plays the word VOYAGER, stating, "7 letters, triple word, 50 points bonus." In scrabble you get the 50 point bonus for playing 7 tiles (known as a Bingo) from your rack. Also, the bonus space VOYAGER is played across is a Double Word Score space, not a Triple Word Score space.

Soundtracks
Tales from the Darkside Theme
Composed by Donald Rubinstein
Written by Erica Lindsay
Co-written by Donald Rubinstein

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5/10

Technologically Dated in the Present Days, But Still Funny

The teenagers Mookie and Pookie are twins and very connected to each other. Mookie is a computer expert but is terminally ill. He lives instructions to Pookie to finish the program he is developing and soon his family learns that he has been transferred himself to the computer.

"Mookie and Pookie" is an episode of "Tales from the Darkside" technologically dated in the present days, but still funny. Mookies has been transferred himself to his personal computer, and not to the Internet since it was not available to consumers year. Only in 1995, commercial Internet access started to be sold to consumers. It is also a great opportunity to see Ms. Tippi Hedren again. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Mookie and Pookie"

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