From Agnes - with Love

This is the story of a true nerd. He has the skills to run a huge computer (of the Univac era). He loves a young woman who works in his building, but he is so darned boring and clumsy, he strikes out over and over. Unfortunately, when he asks his big computer for some help, it spouts out useless, destructive advice. It is manipulating him! There is a sort of charm. It features Wally Cox (Underdog) who made a career of playing bookish little milquetoasts. He does develop a relationship in this episode, but it's not with the girl of his dreams. His frantic shortsightedness is what the episode features. It works to a point. The rest is terribly dated and sort of lacking.

Wally Cox is perfectly cast as a scientific weenie in search of love. Despite being a nice guy, he's hopelessly inept with ladies and seeks the help of his super-brilliant computer. Yet surprisingly, the computer's advice only seems to make things worse--not better. The reason why is very ludicrous, but also makes for a funny episode that's a decent change of pace.

My summary above does NOT mean that I disliked the episode--it was fun and it was very slightly better than the average episode from the series. However, when seen in the 21st century, the plot and special effects seem like they are completely cheesy. Yet despite this being so silly and trivial, this Wally Cox episode is cute and a lot of fun. So it and keep your expectations relatively low and you should enjoy it.

This particular Twilight Zone episode was written for its star. I can't see anyone other than Wally Cox playing the computer geek/nerd in this story, defining such an individual before 'geek' and 'nerd' entered the language.

Before personal computers were a recognized thing such a concept in 1964 wa inconceivable to many. The giant brains were what they thought of back then as the latest in artificial intelligence. This computer has been named Agnes and as if someone programmed it into her she's a jealous woman.

While trying to get data for a proposed Venus space flight, Agnes jumps into Cox's love life as he tries to make some time with Sue Randall.

Oddly enough Randall was in the Tracy/Hepburn film about a giant computer brain Desk Set.

This one is funny enough, but unless you are a fan of Wally Cox I don't think you'll like this Twilight Zone story.

The 17th root of 9000355126606 is 5.0489470278494267977744214019957 This is different from the "goofs" answer.

The computer gives a glimpse of how primitive things were. People were really afraid they would take over the lives of all the people.

You can't ask certain kinds of questions and expect to get answers even today. They just are sequencers - one thing after another.

The old man in the cave and Mr. Whipple are great examples of the fear and expectations people had back then.

What is lacking is ... what exactly? The intelligence of a 4 year old? We can't define it.

The actress that plays Beaver's teacher Ms. Landers is the love interest in this episode. She looks like a hot naughty Rachel Maddow only better looking. She shakes her booty for 3 seconds toward the end and turns out to be a nerdy party girl. Wally Cox is his predicable self as the comedy protagonist and Mr. Drysdale plays the straight man sending programmers to be mentally destroyed by Agnes the jealous female who has more interesting things to study, model and predict than orbital velocities oddly enough poetically it is Venus that Agnes is assigned to study and it is venus that she is eternally preoccupied with studying.