Incidentally, all those techniques we associate with Oboler — the stream-of-consciousness, the self-referential “meta” stuff, et cetera — were all used by Wyllis Cooper in the first two and a half years of the Lights Out series. Oboler was tasked with replicating Cooper’s style and content when he took over the show. Just as Cooper reused a lot of his Lights Out ideas on Quiet Please, Oboler reused ideas from Cooper’s scripts when he was working on his own. His classic “Chicken Heart” — about a menacing, ever-growing heart that goes THUMP-THUMP! — was partly inspired by an earlier Cooper script about a menacing, ever-growing amoeba that goes SLURP-SLURP! And Cooper reused the same basic idea for QP’s “One Hundred Thousand Diameters,” about a menacing, ever-growing virus.

So it wouldn’t be a surprise if there’s a lost Lights Out script of Cooper’s that features him as a character or that he reused the idea for QP’s “Where Do You Get Your Ideas?”