"The Misfortune Cookie" is the third segment of the fourteenth episode of the first season of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Restaurants live or die by his reviews, which often use gratuitously nasty prose in order to draw more readers.

Spiting journalistic integrity, Harry usually only visits the restaurants he pans so that he can collect their matchbooks and display them as tombstones in a graveyard scene at his office.

When Mr. Lee complains that customers canceled their reservations because of his review, Harry promises to write a more favorable re-review if he is allowed to have a table.

After again not touching his food, he receives a fortune that says "April arrives today, bringing romance."

Harry eventually is found out and finds Cynthia's husband and his own wife both pointing guns at him, but makes a narrow escape into the Chinese restaurant, where, as in the episode, the food never fills him up and the fortune cookies all tell him that he is dead.