Talk:A World of Difference

Cleanup
Just a few cleanup changes... Some user had put the Wiki brackets before the double quotes to italicize words. Mitch 05:29, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Ending
I just saw this episode, and I don't understand the ending. Would somebody please explain it for me? Naj 20:41, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I was REALLY hoping this episode would be like the Turman Show. Anyway, I think it might mean that he went completely insane. He's "left reality". -G —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.71.80.140 (talk) 21:51, 15 September 2008 (UTC)


 * He did not go insane. He simply went from one reality to another.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.79.88.120 (talk) 17:26, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 1 one external link on A World of Difference. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080602231822/http://www.cbs.com:80/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/video.php?cid=621774886&pid=WBc_C4dzoLVdQFfsCfpUrRkJU6EAl__o&play=true&cc=0 to http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/video.php?cid=621774886&pid=WBc_C4dzoLVdQFfsCfpUrRkJU6EAl__o&play=true&cc=0

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 23:32, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

About the name and the ending
I'm glad they spelled the last name here correctly, as it's usually spelled as Raegan. In the episode, they even went so far as to have the screeching ex-wife spell it out as R-a-i-g-a-n. That may seem odd, but at the time Ronald Reagan was the president of the actor's union, and they probably wanted to make it clear they weren't referring to him. (BTW, the ex-wife is the real life mother of Sean Penn.)

But the ending is not what it appears to be. I think. Someone needs to find a RS on this point, assuming there is one. Here's the thing. Everyone assumes that it's just as it appears, that the actor (Raigan) is having a nervous breakdown and therefore latches onto his fictional alter ego Arthur Curtis, and in desperation to "save" himself, becomes the fictional character and imagines he is living that life. But there is a huge problem with that. At the end, Serling writes that it is Curtis, not Raigan, who is escaping. That would have to mean that what really happened is that the fictional character crossed over into our real world, and just barely managed to escape back to his reality. Right? Because if it is in fact Raigan who is escaping, then the ending monologue should have Raigan's name instead of Curis' name. Right? (Or could it be that Serling goofed and wrote the wrong character's name in the ending monologue?) So which is it? __64.82.141.78 (talk) 02:24, 17 October 2022 (UTC)