(The opening consists of disturbing photos of James and his team wiped intermittently with moments of past October “The Last Of The Americans” reviews as a soundalike of season two’s “Rod Serling’s Night Gallery” opening theme combined with the 1994 “American Gladiators” plays in the foreground. At the seventeen-second mark, the words “The Last Of The Americans” is shown, then fade out. The word “Monstertober” is shown at the twenty-three-second mark, then fades out. At the twenty-seven mark, the words “Written and Directed by James Faraci” are shown, then fade out as the wipes end on James’ face before they pull back to a better distance.)
TLOTA:
I’m James Faraci The Last Of The Americans and the views that I’m about to express are that of my own and some of yours. In 1969, after “The Twilight Zone” had made a mark in the syndication market, its creator, after years of struggle to get another series to have the same impact, came upon a series, and it became as revered as its predecessor. (Cut to clips from “Rod Serling’s Night Gallery,” Steven Spielberg’s work as a director, and “Tiny Toon Adventures” as James does a voiceover)
TLOTA(V.O.):
“Night Gallery,” while like “The Twilight Zone” is an anthology series, differs by the fact that it’s more of the horrors of the Supernatural than the sci-fi tones of “Twilight Zone” it lasted three seasons and had some great writers including H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Twilight Zone writer Richard Matheson and Serling himself. The pilot movie was written by Serling, and one of the segments was directed by a little-known Steven Spielberg. It starred Joan Crawford in one of her final roles. Here, his career started with directing jobs that included movies like “The Sugarland Express,” the TV Movie “Duel,” and then a film about a Shark that I think did well because his career rocketed off afterward. By the end of the 1980s, he had become successful. He was sitting down with his kids and didn’t like how the shows were either too commercial or too saccharine. So, when he decided to work on making Children’s entertainment as fun without it being commercial and educational without being overly cloying. Thus, in 1990, Steven Spielberg signed on to executive produce a cartoon show called “Tiny Toon Adventures,” it was fantastic, entertaining, fun, and so memorable that people still talk about it as a treasured show. But after 97 episodes, the series was concluded with a movie and a couple of specials. The movie “How I spent my summer vacation” was already reviewed by my friend Rowdy and a mutual friend known as “Rosen,” I agree with what they said about the movie. (Cut to James physically)
TLOTA:
However, to celebrate this series, his career in both Movies and TV and the movies that inspired Spielberg. The gang from “Acme Acres” decided to go to Spielberg’s past as a thank-you for everything he did for them. (Cut to the parody of the “Night Gallery” intro from Tiny Toon Adventures entitled “Night Ghoulery,” then cut to clips of the special as James does a voiceover.)
TLOTA (V.O.):
“Tiny Toon Adventures: Night Ghoulery” does satire the idea of the series that gave Spielberg his first big break, and it also does some good satire of the movies and TV shows that inspired Spielberg when he was a kid. So, does he do it justice? Or will it be as cheap as the black velvet dogs playing poker art piece?
Monster-tober continues as The Last Of The Americans enters The “Night Ghoulery”
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