The Outer Limits (2001)
Titan TV one sentence description wrote:
The athletically-challenged members of a high-school wrestling team are taken aback by the startling and disturbing side effects when they begin taking some new performance-enhancing drugs given to them by their new coach.
This episode had a few actors I recognized from other roles.
Shawn Ashmore played the son of the couch. I know him primarily from from X-Men as Iceman.
His best friend is played by
Noel Fisher who I immediately recognized but could not place. I had to look him up. I've seen him an several things, but I remember him from
Final Destination 2. After Shawn's character takes the performance enhancing drug and beats one of the school's jocks to impress a young lady, Noel's character refers to him as "The Flash." That was funny because the couch is played by
John Wesley Shipp. AKA
The Flash for the 1990 TV show.
I'm watching another
Outer Limits episode at the moment and it has another actor that would be in Final Destination 2. He is a computer guy here, but in Final Destination 2 he play a guy with a bad drug problem. The actor is
Jonathan Cherry. Noel played the kid of a family whose life is saved by Jonathan's character.
Thus insuring that Noel's character would later die.
The episode opens with a nervous computer guy downloading data from a mainframe. He fills up the disk, and I think "Uh oh. His hard drive is full." Then I realized it was probably a 1.2 MB floppy That makes sense, easy to fill up. Although it was downloading and writing to disk pretty fast. But I was wrong. It was not a 1.2 MB diskette. He is downloading to his 1990s Compaq computer's CD ROM burner. Sigh. Seriously? At the speed it was downloading? I don't think so. But no, it's okay. It's just a television show. It's not documentary.
I just notice that
Kerr Smith is in this episode as well, and he was in the original
Final Destination.