The civil rights activist Maya Angelou once said, “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Often times, people listen to that song without further knowledge on what it may truly mean and fail to take the time to investigate the credibility of that bird. Along with this, us humans sometimes act as parrots, simply imitating any idiotic utterance that is conceived. In the speculative fiction book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the episode “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from Rod Serling’s television anthology The Twilight Zone, and the episode “Once Bitten” from the Nickelodeon series SpongeBob SquarePants, it is clearly demonstrated that the circulation of unverified ideas can bring forth great
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At precisely six forty-three p.m. of a late summer’s day, the residence of Maple Street go about their various evening activities— women gossiping, men tending to their vehicles, and children buying from an ice cream vendor. Clear overhead zooms something that seems out of this world. It roars across the sky but a crash is yet to be heard. In all the ruckus, the neighbors muse at what it might have been. Suddenly, all the power is wiped off the street; the phone lines are dead, the car engines are kaput, all the lights are out, and even portable radios are down. With all this, a man named Pete Van Horn announces that he is going to check on the next street over and see if their power is out as well. Bewildered at the phenomenon, three men, Steve, Charlie, and Don, try to make sense of everything. In the middle of their chatter, a little boy named Tommy interjects, claiming that the thing that went by was actually aliens. Based off his comic books, he exclaims that the aliens don’t want anyone to leave, and that others have been sent ahead of them, disguised as humans. The idea seemed sceptical at first, but as odd happenings commence, it was the only explanation that the neighbors could deduce. Through the anxiety of the unknown, neighbors begin to point fingers at one another and mobs form. In the heat of the moment, Mr. Pete Van Horn returns, but masked by the dark of night, he is …show more content…
It all began with a slimey pet snail and an octopus’ front yard. Annoyed by the trailing goop of his neighbor Spongebob’s pet, Gary, Squidward Tentacles constructs a splintery barrier to keep him out, but a rickety pile of sticks doesn’t stop him. Completely though with the mollusk’s shenanigans, Mr. Tentacles prys him off his property, but that’s when he gets bitten. In all the commotion, the town’s local idiot, Patrick Star, walks up to the two and makes an effort to analyze the situation. He questions the sponge if Gary has been treated for Mad Snail Disease, which he claims turns all those who gets bitten into zombies. As Squarepants answers him with a “No,” the snail flees and starts biting all the town’s citizens. Patrick then dashes off into town spreading all this talk on the disease and Bikini-Bottom spirals into chaos. The news finally hits the new stations and suddenly the idea that the sickness also spreads by air arises. Now each Bikinibottomite believes that they have contracted the disease and the entire town is up in flames. Suddenly all the ridicule is put to a halt as an S.D.E.+S.E. (Sail Disease Expert as well as a Snail Expert) steps in. He points out a splinter stuck in Gary’s tail, explaining that Patrick made an absolutely false diagnosis and that it was all in their
At precisely six forty-three p.m. of a late summer’s day, the residence of Maple Street go about their various evening activities— women gossiping, men tending to their vehicles, and children buying from an ice cream vendor. Clear overhead zooms something that seems out of this world. It roars across the sky but a crash is yet to be heard. In all the ruckus, the neighbors muse at what it might have been. Suddenly, all the power is wiped off the street; the phone lines are dead, the car engines are kaput, all the lights are out, and even portable radios are down. With all this, a man named Pete Van Horn announces that he is going to check on the next street over and see if their power is out as well. Bewildered at the phenomenon, three men, Steve, Charlie, and Don, try to make sense of everything. In the middle of their chatter, a little boy named Tommy interjects, claiming that the thing that went by was actually aliens. Based off his comic books, he exclaims that the aliens don’t want anyone to leave, and that others have been sent ahead of them, disguised as humans. The idea seemed sceptical at first, but as odd happenings commence, it was the only explanation that the neighbors could deduce. Through the anxiety of the unknown, neighbors begin to point fingers at one another and mobs form. In the heat of the moment, Mr. Pete Van Horn returns, but masked by the dark of night, he is …show more content…
It all began with a slimey pet snail and an octopus’ front yard. Annoyed by the trailing goop of his neighbor Spongebob’s pet, Gary, Squidward Tentacles constructs a splintery barrier to keep him out, but a rickety pile of sticks doesn’t stop him. Completely though with the mollusk’s shenanigans, Mr. Tentacles prys him off his property, but that’s when he gets bitten. In all the commotion, the town’s local idiot, Patrick Star, walks up to the two and makes an effort to analyze the situation. He questions the sponge if Gary has been treated for Mad Snail Disease, which he claims turns all those who gets bitten into zombies. As Squarepants answers him with a “No,” the snail flees and starts biting all the town’s citizens. Patrick then dashes off into town spreading all this talk on the disease and Bikini-Bottom spirals into chaos. The news finally hits the new stations and suddenly the idea that the sickness also spreads by air arises. Now each Bikinibottomite believes that they have contracted the disease and the entire town is up in flames. Suddenly all the ridicule is put to a halt as an S.D.E.+S.E. (Sail Disease Expert as well as a Snail Expert) steps in. He points out a splinter stuck in Gary’s tail, explaining that Patrick made an absolutely false diagnosis and that it was all in their