I'm not the last to know actually. I found that there's a guy in Sardinia who also didn't know that Erich was sterile, although there of course exists the possibility that the guy in Sardinia doesn't even know what American TV is...
I think Onan was kidding. If Christy placed the doll at the top of the stairs, how did she manage to get the doll to make noises long enough to wake up Erich and then get him to investigate? Tina would ordinarily only become animated for 20 seconds when wound up, yet she was making noises for enough time for Christy to place Tina on the stairs, get back to bed, wake up Erich, have Erich first peek into Christy's room to see that she was sleeping, then make his way to the top of the stairs. Besides, what are the odds he'd even step on the doll? Most importantly, should we believe that little girl would try to kill her stepfather? Seems more likely that Tina positioned herself underfoot. Lastly, after Anabelle discovered Erich dead at the bottom of the stairs, how did Christy get Tina to verbally warn her mother to be good to her and why would Christy even warn her mother to start with? Anabelle was nothing if not a solicitous and loving mom to her.
With regards to not having any more children, I guess it's possible (although a stretch if you ask me) that Erich was married before and blamed his ex for not having kids not realizing it was him, but from what we saw, Erich and Anabelle seemed recently married. Anabelle even said something to the effect that if Erich would give them a chance, she knew that they could both make him happy.
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a year ago
So who is this guy in Sardinia without TV? lol
As far as Tina's movements, well that doll sure got around! This WAS the Twilight Zone after all. It's a creepy story but basically I think it boils down to symbolism. Christy may have been a little child but she was aware on some level that her stepdad's treatment of her was wrong. And her own mother did little to prevent it. When the doll "talked" I think it was the guilty conscience of the adults talking to them.
I still like my theory that Erich had been married before. How ELSE would he assume that he was sterile? Of course he could have been a real player with lots of girlfriends. But he never got the panicked phone call, "Hey buster, I'm LATE!!!" So he might have assumed he was "shooting blanks", as they say.
You'll have to forgive me, I can't recall the exact dialogue as I haven't seen this episode in a long time. They didn't strike me as newlyweds. Perhaps they were married for six months and hoping to get pregnant right away. When they didn't, Erich finally relented and went to the doctor. At that point Annabelle said that "the two of them", meaning she and Christy would make him happy even though they couldn't have more children.
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