Eerie, Indiana rewatch 2015: episode ten, the Lost Hour

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British daylight savings time starts at the end of this month, so you'd be well advised to take advantage of that extra hour in bed, unless of course you'd rather spend a year on the run from murderous binmen in a near-empty parallel world. Make sure your watches are set correctly, because we'e about to enter... the Lost Hour!

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This is another one of the contenders for my constantly changing favorite Eerie episode of all time.

Can we talk for a second about how we never saw Janet again and why it bothers me to this very day? I mean, we've got somebody who is hyper-competent, works well with Marshall, and has been living with and fighting the weird for a year now. Plus, there's the whole first kiss thing, and the fact that the episode revolves around old!Marshall's plan to make sure young!Marshall is the one to save her, which definitely seemed like it was setting up something. And then the show moves on without her, and Mars never mentions her again.

I was talking to one of the showrunners at a con years later, and found out Dash was the result of network pressure to add a third kid, in part because there were limits to how long the actor who played Simon could work at that age. And while I'm not exactly upset that Dash happened, there's still a side of me that goes, "But Janet was right there, already in the plot...and still alive by the end of the episode and everything...and why was that not a possibility...and...@#$!%$@#^&?!"

Anyway.

Opening shots are a deliberate nod to The Twilight Zone or the best possible accident.

Marilyn and Simon absolutely break my heart in this episode, with the look on her face after he tells them his parents don't care when he goes to bed, and the look on his face when he says goodnight after she talks about "our kids" and is obviously including him in there, too.

And oblivious Marshall wants to run away from all this.

At no point in the entire episode, even during the supply run, does Our Hero stop to put on pants.

Marshall's still very trusting at this point in his life, thinking it's a good idea to talk to the garbage men.

I still always wonder what would have happened if they'd gone to Jersey in the Lost Hour and what they might have found outside of the borders of Eerie.

Why get out of the car?! You are faster in the car. Though possibly not more agile, given Marshall's lack of driving experience.

Simon's not quite getting the hang of digital watches always makes me want to riff on Douglas Adams here.

The milkman's identity is still one of my very favorite reveals.

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At no point in the entire episode, even during the supply run, does Our Hero stop to put on pants.

This made me laugh so hard. Like, he steals a car, plans a road trip and considers paying for junk he takes from the WoS, but is never like, oh hey, maybe I should get dressed?

Maybe once he had his trainers on, he was too lazy to take them off again to get his jeans on and because there was pretty much nobody else around, he was just like, fuck it, no-pants SAturday it is.