Saturday Night Live Transcripts
Season 2: Episode 8
76h: Paul Simon / George Harrison
The Twilite Zone
Rod Serling…..Dan Aykroyd
Starlet #1……Jane Curtin
Starlet #2……Laraine Newman
Starlet #3……Gilda Radner
Room Service…..Garrett Morris
Rod Serling: You’re traveling to another dimension. A dimension of time and space. A dimension of sight and mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance. You’ve just crossed over into.. “The Twilite Zone”.
[ fade into motel room, Starlet #1 unpacking ]
Meet Peggy Martin. Age 27. A struggling actress working as a model. Told to meet a certain producer by her agent. Peggy has just checked into Room 16 of the Blaine Motel. A motel where there are no check-out times, no room service, and, for some reason, no sinks. She’s just gotten a room reserved for guests of “The Twilite Zone”.
[ pan to Rod narrating, smiles wickedly as the image slow-fades to the doorknob turning ]
Starlet #2: [ enters room, startling Starlet #1 ] I’m terribly sorry!
Starlet #1: My goodness! You frightened me!
Starlet #2: I’m.. I’m supposed to meet someone here. This is Room 16, isn’t it?
Starlet #1: Yes.
Rod Serling: Meet Sylvia Townsend. Age 26. A struggling actress working nights as a cocktail waitress at the Alpatrino, a seedy establishment patronized by down-and-out theatrical agents. Sylvia, too, has just checked into “The Twilite Zone”.
Starlet #1: [ sighing ] You frightened me at first. They must have made a mistake at the desk. Here.. you sit, and I’ll go call.
Starlet #2: This really is unusual. A customer of mine said he was a producer, and he had me meet him up here in this room for an audition.
Starlet #1: [ checking phone ] The line is dead.
[ doorknob turns again, as Starlet #3 enters ]
Starlet #3: Oh! Is this Room 16?
Starlet #1 & #2: [ frightened ] Yes!!
Starlet #3: No wonder it was only $7 a night – you have to share.
Rod Serling: Meet Rhonda Friedman. Age 26. A struggling actress currently working in a factory testing rubber gloves for imperfections. What Rhonda doesn’t know, is that she, too, has just entered “The Twilite Zone”.
Starlet #1: I guess there must be something wrong with the manager of this place, sending all three of us young actresses to the same room.
[ a knock at the door ]
All: [ trembling ] What is it?!
Room Service: Rooooom Service!
Starlet #3: Room Service? [ opens door ]
Room Service: Uh-huh. Champagne.
Starlet #3: Champagne?
Room Service: Yes.
Starlet #3: [ reads the note ] It’s from a.. Mr. Serling..?
[ show Rod Serling doffing his hat to the camera ]
Starlet #1: That’s funny.. I didn’t know this motel had Room Service..
[ Room Service exits ]
Starlet #2: Wait.. there’s more.. [ reading ] “Compliments of.. ‘The Twilite Zone'”..
[ the Starlets scream as the hear the door being locked behind them ]
Rod Serling: Submitted for your approval: three pretty girls, all of them actresses, locked in a motel room, each possessing similar charms and talents. Victims of a bizarre joke, perhaps. Or perhaps this: a man creates a television show. He goes to a lot of parties. He meets a lot of pretty actresses. He wakes up in the morning, perhaps he’s had a little too much to drink. He doesn’t remember the promises he made the night before. Although he’s a brilliant writer and creator, he’s also human, and he has his needs. That’s why he arranged this meeting, and, in a few moments, will cross forever into “The Twilite Zone”.
[ Serling enters motel room set, pours champagne for the Starlets ]
[ dissolve to wide shot of audience, zoom into man with SUPER: “Thought This Was A Peer Group” ]
[ fade ]
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