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This makes me think of that X-files episode about the couple that were compelled to travel west to avoid physical discomfort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driv

by rodw 6y ago

This makes me think of that X-files episode about the couple that were compelled to travel west to avoid physical discomfort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_%28The_X-Files%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_%28The_X-Files%29

dijit 6y ago
Sometimes I feel this way due to timezones. I think there are definitely people who have a circadian rhythm that would compel them to move west due to feeling more “in-tune” with the west and continually chasing that feeling.
dom96 6y ago
Ahh, the episode with Bryan Cranston. I really need to try watching X-Files again.
- agency 6y ago
  And written by Vince Gilligan! He also wrote my single favorite X-Files episode "Bad Blood"
  - rrauenza 6y ago
    Is that also the one where swear words are sort of censored in English by the narrator? Another favorite was the Cops spoof. OH -- Also a Vince Gilligan!
- 51Cards 6y ago
  Factoid for the day: Cranston's work on that episode won him the Breaking Bad role later. AMC wasn't convinced he could pull it off (seeing him as a sitcom comedy actor) until Gillian showed them his work in that episode and he was cast.
ashleyn 6y ago
"Upside down" - my first thought was 2015 George McFly in Back to the Future 2.
- kolanos 6y ago
  Who was played by a Crispin Glover doppleganger. In fact, they made him hang upside down to hide the fact that Crispin Glover wasn't in the movie. This was a subject of a lawsuit in which Crispin Glover won.
totetsu 6y ago
I sometimes remember then end of that episode when they drive to the coast, out of the blue for no reason. I mustn't have been very old when I saw it. That one and the volcano one, and the hilbilly mother under the bed one.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
  > and the hilbilly mother under the bed one I saw it exactly once, when it first aired on October 11 1996. I was 13 years old and it left enough of an impression that I still remember that moment vividly to this day. If one appreciates, as I do, when media can make them experience feelings strongly, regardless of the pleasantness of those feelings, then one must admit it is was a great achievement.
  - JoelMcCracken 6y ago
    It’s funny, the episode is set about an hour out of Pittsburgh, and having grown up also about an hour out of Pittsburgh (although south instead of East) I really recognized it. Of course the episode was over the top but still you saw crazy things out there. Not too long ago I saw this news article https://www.wtae.com/article/pennsylvania-attorney-general-says-woman-kept-sister-in-cage-vestaburg-washington-county/30537374 https://www.wtae.com/article/pennsylvania-attorney-general-s... for example and this town is quite close to where I grew up.
    - totetsu 6y ago
      That reminds me of this story on Bali's mentally ill being kept in cages and chains by their families. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdUrrlRgMFw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdUrrlRgMFw

by rodw 6y ago

dijit 6y ago

Sometimes I feel this way due to timezones. I think there are definitely people who have a circadian rhythm that would compel them to move west due to feeling more “in-tune” with the west and continually chasing that feeling.

dom96 6y ago

Ahh, the episode with Bryan Cranston. I really need to try watching X-Files again.

agency 6y ago
And written by Vince Gilligan! He also wrote my single favorite X-Files episode "Bad Blood"
- rrauenza 6y ago
  Is that also the one where swear words are sort of censored in English by the narrator? Another favorite was the Cops spoof. OH -- Also a Vince Gilligan!
51Cards 6y ago
Factoid for the day: Cranston's work on that episode won him the Breaking Bad role later. AMC wasn't convinced he could pull it off (seeing him as a sitcom comedy actor) until Gillian showed them his work in that episode and he was cast.

ashleyn 6y ago

"Upside down" - my first thought was 2015 George McFly in Back to the Future 2.

kolanos 6y ago
Who was played by a Crispin Glover doppleganger. In fact, they made him hang upside down to hide the fact that Crispin Glover wasn't in the movie. This was a subject of a lawsuit in which Crispin Glover won.

totetsu 6y ago

I sometimes remember then end of that episode when they drive to the coast, out of the blue for no reason. I mustn't have been very old when I saw it. That one and the volcano one, and the hilbilly mother under the bed one.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
> and the hilbilly mother under the bed one I saw it exactly once, when it first aired on October 11 1996. I was 13 years old and it left enough of an impression that I still remember that moment vividly to this day. If one appreciates, as I do, when media can make them experience feelings strongly, regardless of the pleasantness of those feelings, then one must admit it is was a great achievement.
- JoelMcCracken 6y ago
  It’s funny, the episode is set about an hour out of Pittsburgh, and having grown up also about an hour out of Pittsburgh (although south instead of East) I really recognized it. Of course the episode was over the top but still you saw crazy things out there. Not too long ago I saw this news article https://www.wtae.com/article/pennsylvania-attorney-general-says-woman-kept-sister-in-cage-vestaburg-washington-county/30537374 https://www.wtae.com/article/pennsylvania-attorney-general-s... for example and this town is quite close to where I grew up.
  - totetsu 6y ago
    That reminds me of this story on Bali's mentally ill being kept in cages and chains by their families. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdUrrlRgMFw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdUrrlRgMFw