Amazing Stories: One for the Books (1986)
Season 1, Episode 23
6/10
Knowledge is power. Or is it?
5 April 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Fred, the janitor of a university, cleans the room that is used for French lectures. When he wakes up the next morning, he finds he is able to speak French - although he has never learned it. Then he cleans the Physical Sciences lab - the next morning, he knows all about physical sciences. What will happen when he cleans the main library? How (and why) does all this knowledge enter his brain? Will he be the first person ever fully to use the human brain's potential?

It's a quite simple story, but I think that that is o.k. for a running time of about 23 minutes, and there's a little twist in the end that I liked. There's also some suspense; I really wondered how Fred can learn so fast and what he might accomplish with his knowledge.

However, there are better episodes (with more surprises, and funnier) in my opinion, so I haven't given this one as many points as I have given the others.
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