Talk:The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

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Monsters are due on Maple Street

Mapleophobia

There's a Maple Street just a few blocks from my house in my neighborhood of Trucksville, Pennsylvania, a town in the vacinity of 25-30 miles southeast of Scranton and 10 miles east of Wilkes-Barre. That's scarry

Hello, McCarthyism, hello?

The theme section needs some work. The whole paranoia angle is clearly influenced by the McCarthy red-bating stuff. This episode aired in 1959 for god's sake.

I removed that Original Research WP:OR and instead added info that actually pertained to the episode rather than the Original Research that was inserted by an editor afflicted with some form of paranoia. Jtpaladin 21:32, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

I added the claim back in tentatively- I found numerous film and media review sites that mention the red scare being a theme of the series in general and this episode specifically- I don't think that it's an unfair claim to make. However, I did trim down some of the unnecessary specifics, such as the trials which I think didn't bear mentioning. --Kuzaar^-T-C- 12:57, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

A Wonderful Study of Man and Mind

This episode is certainly one of the most fascinating ones I've seen so far. There are very deep and fundamental messages in this episode and should definitely be viewed by all and discussed. There are many learning resources on the Internet, which anyone can find by typing the title in Google. Also, there is a very enlightening essay available at http://www.americanviewsabroad.org/monsters.html

More info

Agreed that the themes section needs work. Also, The teleplay appears standard in many jr. high english text books. Does anyone know more about that?

--76.91.247.43 (talk) 01:43, 18 October 2013 (UTC)--76.91.247.43 (talk) 01:43, 18 October 2013 (UTC)== New "Twilight Zone" episode homage == In the new series of "The Twilight Zone," there was episode that was a direct hompage to this, only instead of McCarthyism, it's subject was terrorism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.208.218.100 (talk • contribs)

Yup. That's what the "Remake" section is about. Travisl 03:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC the ones on Maple street were the aliens and the residents the residents were the monsters

with the twilight zone as a state of mind you can assume how scary this was —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.238.35.72 (talk) 21:47, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Remake

I would really love to know some more about the remake perhaps a link to a sight detailing it? thanks, it sounds very intruiging ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ(^Ταλκ) 06:23, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Take Out the Tag: Plot section does not "read ... like a story", it reports a story

In my humble opinion, the person who tagged the Plot section "This article reads more like a story than an encyclopedia entry", however many such sections s/he may have edited before, either has not read enough such Wikipedia sections, or is attempting to enforce narrowly "imdb Plot Summary"-like expectations which vast numbers of user-editors may not wish to have imposed on Wikipedia. There is nothing especially unencylopedic about it (that is to say, un-Wikipedia-like, as opposed to un-Britannica-like or un-imdb-like, etc.), nor for that matter do I see anything terribly POV about it. (Btw: How many stories begin, "When the story begins, ..."? — Or for that matter, as I see now that this section earlier began: "The episode begins in late summer. ..."?)

Note please that prior to this posting, I've had, so far as I know, absolutely no connection to this article before; nor, for that matter, do I recall ever having even edited a Plot section in any other Wikipedia article (exception I just found: one time I fixed the misuse of an accent mark — within a Plot section, as it happens). I simply came here to see whether this article would aptly and adequately describe the episode, such that I could refer a friend to it by way of illustrating the aspect of human nature to which it speaks — a common and reasonable enough use of Wikipedia in regard to literature, film, etc., I think — and hence am disturbed to find that someone apparently wants to pare down this type of plot description (eliminating "spoilers" and so forth?), to where people will no longer find Wikipedia useful for this purpose.

Note also, I most certainly assume good faith on the part of the editor who added the tag. I too have some very strong sensibilities as to what qualifies as encyclopedic (or good Wikipedia) content or style, and in similar fashion have made misc. edits in the past which represented my own good-faith attempts to bring in particular the style of some bits of writing on Wikipedia into conformity with encyclopedic style guidelines as I understand them. In this instance, however, I think the use of the tag — normally applied to entire articles; and most especially, not as I understand it intended for a section whose purpose is, in fact, to recap a story... — and, as I read it here, the intention its insertion appears to express, namely of whittling down this or any Plot section on Wikipedia to the kind of incomplete thumbnail sketch that one might find, for example, on imdb, inappropriate and worrisome. Please, let's take this tag down. IfYouDoIfYouDon't (talk) 05:41, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Casting Link Error - Mary Gregory

The Cast link for Mary Gregory is incorrect. The page currently links to an artist named Mary Gregory who died in 1908! The actress Mary Gregory (who is my wife's (singer Kama Ruby) Aunt by the way) has numerous film and television credits, including two other Twilight Zone episodes, The Lateness of the Hour and The Shelter. She was also in Harper, Sleeper, and numerous other films. Her IMDB bio is here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339889/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by MACCIFJ (talk • contribs) 07:16, 1 January 2021 (UTC)