"Four O'Clock" is among the lowest ranked TZ-episodes (currently #144 out of 156 episodes), and there are remarkably more negative and downright harsh user-comments to be found about it. I'm probably the ignorant one again, but ... I loved it! What annoys me (personally, that is) about several episodes is that the tone of the stories, and the personalities of the lead characters, are too soft and sentimental. I liked my "Twilight Zone" tales dark & twisted, and my protagonists as evil and despicable as possible. Oliver Crangle, the anti-hero in "Four O'Clock", is pure evil and - moreover - utterly insane! Crangle, with glasses as thick as marmalade jars, fills his days with speaking bad of others and digging up random dirt of random people. Together with his parrot (!), Crangle conspires for something terrible to happen to all the "nasty" people. I honestly don't understand why anyone would dislike this happily deranged episode! Rod Serling's moral lesson is obvious (be nice to each other) but not shoved down our throats, Crangle's monologues are truly genius, Theodore Bickel's performance couldn't be better and the (admittedly foreseeable) climax is the cherry on the cake. Fun tale! Should be top 15 instead of bottom 15...