Oct 30, 2024
This Halloween, let's take a spookily ironic look at every president ever portrayed in any episode of any version of THE TWILIGHT ZONE! (It's not that many)
Believe it or not, it wasn't until Jordan Peele's 2019 reboot of The Twilight Zone that we got the series' first truly fake president. In "The Wunderkind," John Cho stars as a hotshot campaign manager, Jacob Tremblay as the 11-year-old candidate for American president Cho takes under his wing, John Larroquette as "a" fake POTUS (but not "the" fake POTUS of the episode), Allison Tolman as the episode's sole voice of reason, and Jordan Peele as the narrator.
We'll also be taking a look at some real American presidents portrayed fictiously in "classic" episodes of The Twilight Zone from the 60s and 80s, like an undead JFK and a very dead Lincoln.
Find us on Threads and Instagram at Fake_President. Or email us at fakepresidents [at] gmail.com to join the conversation!
00:00 - Intro
02:22 - "The Passersby" (1961)
06:12 - "Profile In Silver" (1986)
10:41 - "The Wunderkind" (2019)
48:55 - Closing
49:58 - Post-Credits Bit