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Movie Summary  Movie: The Crawling Eye:  In this exceedingly black-and-white movie, two sisters, Sarah and Anne Pilgrim, are traveling by train through Switzerland. They arrive in Trollenberg, where there have been strange goings-on and whatnot: People are being decapitated all over the place. Anne, a psychic, senses the escalating danger and notices that a cloud envelops the mountain just before another head is lopped off. Turns out it's a giant eyeball, roaming the mountainside, looking for victims to behead with its incredibly strong and dexterous optic nerve. Then one afternoon, the giant eyeball appears at the door of the château where everybody is staying, including scientist Forrest Tucker. At his behest, everyone escapes to a hideout made of reinforced concrete, and a helpful bomber flying by drops a bunch of bombs on the eyeball. — Kevin Murphy Host Segments  Prologue:  None.  Invention:  Joel demonstrates his electric bagpipes and sings a cover of a Led Zeppelin song with the 'Bots. Dr. Forrester injects Dr. Erhardt with canine antiperspirant and rewards him with a treat.  Segment 2:  Joel explains to Tom and Crow why it's bad when a human loses his head, but can't explain head cheese.  Segment 3:  Gypsy uncoils herself and has a bad case of diode rash.  Segment 4:  Crow and Tom cower in terror at the hideousness of Forrest Tucker. Joel explains the horror of an enormous rogue human appendage, like the eye in the movie.  Segment 5:  Joel serves ram chips and dip as the 'Bots tell one good thing and one bad thing about the movie. Servo says the bad thing was the movie lacked vision! See, it was The Crawling Eye! Vision! Badabing!  Stinger:  None. Reflections This was our premiere episode for the Comedy Channel, and we were proud. In six weeks, eight of us converted a warehouse into a studio, designed and built our geodesic bridge set and Deep 13, created costumes, completely redesigned and rebuilt the robots, shot the now-famous doorway sequence, conceived, scripted and taped the entire first episode. When the show premiered, we went to Zack's bar in Bloomington (at the time the only town to carry the Comedy Channel) and watched the premiere episode over pitchers of Heineken and salsa chips. I think it was then that someone came up and asked what the show was all about, and we told him proudly, "It's called Mystery Science Theater 3000, and we produced it, right in Eden Prairie!" Then the fellow, much impressed and full of beer, returned, "So where do I find it?" and we proudly said, "On the Comedy Channel!" and he said, "Oh, you mean HA!" HA! was the competing twenty-four-hour comedy network, and the only one with a real name. And thus began a festering carbuncle that would grow and grow and hurt us every time someone said "Oh, you mean HA!" which was every time we said we were on the Comedy Channel. They just didn't understand. It wasn't their fault. We forgive them. — Kevin Murphy