He then goes back in time and says it’s just a good luck charm again showing a character who is refreshingly savvy about the ridiculous circumstances he finds himself in. Once again he returns to his girlfriend who he tries to show the tape recorder to but soon learns that only one person can use it at a time. Jonah finds that the tape recorder can take him back in time up to five minutes which is certainly longer than your typical round of poker (unless you’ve got a particularly nervous nelly sweating over calling on the ante) so now that he has his ace in the whole he just needs to find a way to get some money to gamble with. If you or I were to find a magic wand, it would certainly raise a few QUESTIONS, but the first one would obviously be how to use it in awesome ways. Now what I like about this is that Jonah finds this something that can’t be explained by rational means and then just accepts it and tries to find a way to exploit it. He starts fiddling with the thing at the bus stop, and wouldn’t you know it the darn thing is MAGIC! “Oh crap, this thing is covered in LSD isn’t it?” See? He’s not such a bad guy even if he WAS in a Tom Green movie! The homeless man is so moved by Jonah’s generosity that he pulls a tape recorder out from his cart and gives him to him as a gift which Jonah ruefully accepts as the alternative could possibly upset the guy. A homeless with a mysterious shopping cart challenges him to a coin toss for the three bucks in his pocket, and after Jonah wins the toss he’s gracious enough to give the man the three bucks anyway. They have a nest egg set up for a restaurant in Florida which Jonah wants to raid for one last chance at the card table and thankfully April tells him no which is certainly the RIGHT decision but puts poor Jonah in a funk as he leaves the casino with nothing more than three bucks to his name. Jonah’s girlfriend April (Marisa Coughlan who was… also in Freddy Got Fingered oddly enough) works as a waitress at the casino where he spends most of his time and is either overwhelmingly empathetic to his plight or completely in denial of his gambling problem. The episode follows Jonah Beach (Eddie Kaye Thomas who played Finch in the American Pie films and the titular Freddy in Freddy Got Fingered) an obsessive gambler who may have a decent amount of skill but squanders it on his single minded pursuit of “beating the house” which in this case means beating this dude named Trevor (Ben Bass) who owns the place. The Twilight Zone and all the images you see in this recap are owned by Warner Bros Television and based on the series created by Rod Serling

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