work out the meaning of the text of To Serve Man. The day arrives for Chambers's excursion to the Kanamits' planet. Just as he mounts the spaceship's boarding stairs, Patty runs toward him in great agitation. While being held back by a Kanamit guard, Patty cries: "Mr. Chambers, don't get on that ship! The rest of the book, To Serve Man, it's... it's a cookbook!" Chambers tries to run back down the stairs, but a Kanamit blocks him, the stairs retract, and the ship lifts off. Chambers is in the shipboard room now, and is again offered a meal. He throws it to the floor, but a Kanamit retrieves it and encourages him to eat: "We wouldn't want you to lose weight". At last, Chambers, in one of the few instances of the series where a character breaks the fourth wall, says to the audience: "How about you? You still on Earth, or on the ship with me? Really doesn't make very much difference, because sooner or later, we'll all of us be on the menu... all of us." The episode closes as Chambers gives in and breaks his hunger strike. Closing narration Cast Lloyd Bochner as Michael Chambers Richard Kiel as the Kanamits (all of whom appear alike) Susan Cummings as Patty Joseph Ruskin as Kanamit voice (uncredited) Hardie Albright as Secretary General Theodore Marcuse as Citizen Gregori Bartlett Robinson as Colonel #1 Carleton Young as Colonel #2 (credited as Carlton Young) Nelson Olmsted as Scientist Robert Tafur as Senor Valdes Lomax Study as Leveque Jerry Fujikawa as Japanese Delegate (credited as J.H. Fujikawa) Production The arriving Kanamit ship is shown as scenes extracted from The Day the Earth Stood Still, but with different sound; the departing Kanamit ship is shown as a scene extracted from Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, also with different sound. Critical response TV Guide ranked the episode at number 11 on its list of the "100 Greatest Episodes of All Time" and ranked the ending as the "Greatest Twist of All Time". Time listed the episode among the "Top 10 Twilight Zone Episodes". Rolling Stone named the episode first on its list of the "25 Best Twilight Zone Episodes". Marc Scott Zicree, writing in The Twilight Zone Companion, was critical of the episode, stating that "without some sort of interplanetary Rosetta Stone, deciphering an unknown language would be impossible." He also said that the