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Short: Commando Cody: Radar Men From The Moon: Chapter
3
People in queer costumes using pretend
spaceships. There you have it.
Movie: The Corpse Vanishes:
The Corpse Varnishes features Bela
Lugosi, and guess what? He's a mad scientist. And more guess
what: He has a spooky lab, where he performs bizarre experiments
on human victims. Lugosi, as Dr. Lorenz, has masterminded a plot
in which he sends poisonous orchids to brides just about to be
married, and each bride faints dead away at the altar. Dr.
Lorenz then kipes the bodies and extracts their youthful
hormones to inject into his aging wife to keep her young
looking. Busy as he is, Dr. Lorenz manages to find time to
berate his housekeeper and whip his deformed, stupid assistants.
A lovely young newspaper writer, Pat, suspects Dr. Lorenz and
tracks him at his remote mansion, where she discovers that Dr.
and Mrs. like to sleep in coffins. She arranges a phony wedding
with an actress friend as the bride to entrap Dr. Lorenz, but
she is foiled by Dr. Lorenz, hypnotized, and abducted. Just as
Dr. Lorenz is about to experiment on her, the housekeeper, who
has reached the end of her rope, stabs Dr. Lorenz. It's nonstop
boredom and yawns aplenty in this low-key, quasi-thriller.
— Mary Jo Pehl
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Prologue:
None.
Invention:
Joel demonstrates the "Chiro-gyro" for those who
suffer from
back, neck, or pelvic pain. Forrester has souped up the
squirting flower gag, the flaming flower.
Segment 2:
Servo reads Tiger Bot magazine, featuring a big, full-color
spread of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Crow and
Servo dis Tweaky.
Segment 3:
Tom, Crow, and Gypsy play tag, and Joel tricks the 'Bots. Face!
Segment 4:
Crow, gives Joel a haircut, Servo's still reading Tiger Bot, and
the three of them discuss Jimmy Mason, who got caught in the
family thrashing machine.
Segment 5:
Joel, Crow, and Tom critique the movie. Don't seem like they
like it too good.
Stinger:
None.
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Crow's cutting-of-the-hair bit in this
show made me laugh and laugh. I think I thought it was funnier
than anyone else did, and they'd look at me all strange when I'd
laugh and laugh at this, especially the bit about the clown car
crashin' and there bein' clown white smeared all over the
highway and all. I dunno, maybe Crow reminds me of Floyd the
Barber, whom I never actually saw cutting hair, come to think of
it....
The truth is that none of us liked Commando Cody in the
least. The episodes were turgid and boring and full of fighting
and car chases, and everyone yelled at each other and sounded
like they were from Long Island. Give me Buster Crabbe as
"Flash Gordon" any day, with the sputtering rockets, beautiful
sets, great costumes, the consummately evil and refreshingly
well-dressed Ming, the whole planet Mongol, the Eagle Men, the
Clay People, Thun and his Lion Men, the numptious Dale, the
exotic Aurora, Vargas style women everywhere, men unashamedly in
miniskirts; now, this fires a kid's imagination!
— Kevin Murphy
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