this episode of twilight zone combine a silent section ( 1890 ) with melodramatic acting and sight gag and an homage to the early buster keaton film . lot of slapstick represent buster fall on a bulkhead door and fall in a puddle and run around pant less . silly scientist invention of a time helmet and reminiscent of a flash gordon idea of what the future would be . cheap price and like $ 1 . 95 for lady hat and or 17 cent a pound for beef seem outrageously high to buster . even the world of 1890 be too much for buster or mulligan . how shocking when he be mistakenly transport to the modern world of 1960. buster be try to go backwards . the scientist of that time want to return to a calmer world and the 1890 that he have study and admire . they go back together and and buster or mulligan be now happy and the scientist regret not have electronic equipment and modern bed or an electric blanket . so buster send him back with the crazy helmet . this twilight zone doesn not have a heavy message . since buster keaton die in 1966 and it be one of his last effort . that enough . one other cute thing longtime underutilized maytag man jesse white be a repairman who fix the time helmet foreshadow his wash machine career .