![]() ![]() Most fans, of course, are focused on the story, so this brief reference to the term’s origins is more or less in one ear and out the other. Gremlins! You remember the stories in the … Julia, don’t look at me like that.” I mean … maybe a … what did they call them during the war? You know, the pilots. There was poor Bob Wilson, returning home from a stay in a sanitarium, and what does he glimpse outside his plane window? Let’s allow him to describe it - or at least try to. Or, if you’re a big enough Twilight Zone fan, you might think of William Shatner and a furry creature on an airplane wing in Richard Matheson’s legendary “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.” Maybe it’s the alternately cute or aggressive critters that populated the 1984 movie “ Gremlins.” Perhaps it’s the subcompact vehicles that became famous during the 1970s, dubbed “ one of history’s dorkiest cars” by Motor Trend magazine. ![]() What’s the first thing that pops into your head when you hear the word “gremlins”? ![]()
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