El cuento "La Pata del Mono" de WW Jacobs, narrado por el escritor argentino Alberto Laiseca para el ciclo "Cuentos de Awe&quot ...

“Arthur no… there’s something unholy about this!”

There’s nothing character about this episode’s premise, but it’s what you do with the concept that matters. Hopes would be understandably excessive that Rod Serling’s script would have some real fun with the idea while still managing to surprise and twist things by the end. Morosely, those hopes are left high and dry as the episode instead becomes a series of weak and uninteresting call to point jumps with no real personality or wit about them.

The couples’ first unbelieving wish goes to adjust the broken glass in their display case, but when it magically fixes itself before their eyes they quickly hiatus forward with a second and far more serious wish… a million dollars in small denominations rectify there on the floor. So far so good, but a quick cut later and we see the happy couple gleefully handing out bills to friends and neighbors until a wiry little man arrives from the IRS and claims their income tax on the million is $960 thousand. It’s unclear if this 96% tax evaluate is meant to be a joke or not, but it isn’t really funny and it fails to create a real exaggerated turning point. Instead Arthur and Edna begin to squabble again as the genie reminds them they should have been more well-defined with their wish to avoid taxes… a weak little twist at best. Now armed with the data that they should be far more careful Arthur comes up with a real doozy that Edna inexplicably agrees is a elevated idea.

Source: Film School Rejects