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Animals?

posted 7 years ago by Tristan_Booth (405)
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How many animals do you remember from the original series? I can only think of a few. (The "Eye of the Beholder" pig people don't count.)

Dog - "The Hunt," "Little Girl Lost"

Cat - "Valley of the Shadow"

Horse - "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim," "The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms," "Spur of the Moment," etc.

Lion - "The Jungle"

Dinosaur - "Odyssey of Flight 33"

[–] doug65oh (205) 7 years ago

You've covered most of 'em but missed the raccoon in "The Hunt."

[–] AngularTurnip (3338) 7 years ago

dog - "Elegy," Originally a dog was going to be the alien in "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up," "Valley of the Shadow"

parrot - "Four O' Clock"

horse(s) - "Dust," "Execution," "The Grave," "Mr. Denton on Doomsday," "Showdown With Rance McGrew," "Mr. Garrity and the Graves," "The Old Man in the Cave"

leopard (a sleepy-looking one at that) - "Jesse-Belle"

Gremlin (or does that not count?) - "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"

[–] Tristan_Booth (405) 7 years ago

I can't believe that I remembered the cat in "Valley of the Shadow" but forgot about Rolly!

There was a "dog" in "Elegy," but it was either dead or a prop (like the squirrel in "Stopover in a Quiet Town"). So I was actually thinking of live animals, although I didn't say so.

[–] Tristan_Booth (405) 7 years ago

Gremlin (or does that not count?)

I wasn't sure what a gremlin is (aside from the film of the same name), so I looked it up.

My Webster's defines a gremlin as "a cause of error or equipment malfunction (as in aircraft) conceived of as a small mischievous gnome." (That's a pretty good match about the aircraft and equipment malfunction, but a gnome? Really? I associate gnomes with garden gnomes.)

So, Webster's defines a gnome as "an ageless and often deformed dwarf of folklore who lives in the earth and usually guards treasure."

So apparently a gremlin is an ageless, deformed dwarf who lives in the earth, but sometimes comes out to mischievously cause aircraft equipment to malfunction. But is it an animal? Beats me. It walks on two legs, but then, some animals do that. (Of course, humans are animals, strictly speaking.)

[–] Jennie_Portrait (804) 7 years ago

Are we counting the 3-headed gopher from "It's a good life?"

[–] Tristan_Booth (405) 7 years ago

I would count any animal that's alive (as opposed to stuffed, etc.). I would say that it's still an animal even if it has been materialized or acted upon by "magic." For example, if an animal had been turned into a human, or a human had been turned into an animal, I think it would still count because we saw it as a live animal at some point in the episode.

(It would appear that I have the power to determine the criteria since I asked the question so, what the heck, I'm going with that.)

[–] AngularTurnip (3338) 7 years ago

There's also the crow in "Come Wander With Me."