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Movie Summary  Movie: The Black Scorpion:  A volcano in Mexico spews forth a passel of thirty- to one-hundred-foot scorpions, and local authorities use every trick in the bag to wrangle the minatory arachnids. Meantime, a white blonde American man becomes the ad hoc boss of the Mexican Army, the local government, and the whole movie; plus he gets the prettiest woman and everything. We learn that nobody in Mexico City eats dinner before midnight. — Kevin Murphy Host Segments  Prologue:  'Bots throw a party for Joel for the sole purpose of getting him to do a spit take. Naturally, it works.  Invention:  Joel has a giant party favor, for now he is a man; Forrester and Erhardt have accidentally mutated themselves. Dr. Erhardt has a big ol' cranium like one of the Saucer Men, Dr. Forrester is reduced to a skeleton with glasses and his familiar hairdo.  Segment 2:  Joel and the 'Bots speak in mock Spanish, using mostly words for different types of food, while nutty subtitles run by, having little or nothing to do with what is said. Fun with ethnocentrism!  Segment 3:  While Tom and Crow discuss the idiosyncrasies of Joel's human characteristics, Gypsy dons a scorpion costume and eats Tom. Features real explosion!  Segment 4:  Joel gives the 'Bots a biography of special effects whiz Willis O'Brien, SFX chief on today's film and mentor of Ray Harryhausen. Features lifelike miniature Joel puppet!  Segment 5:  Our gang reads a passel of fan mail. The Mads are still mutated, though they look pretty darn good.  Stinger:  None. Reflections Although this episode is labeled experiment "0113 - The Black Scorpion," it is in fact not the last show of the first season. Experiment 0104 - Women Of The Prehistoric Planet, actually was the last show produced in the first season. See, near the beginning of the season, the Channel was unable to come up with a movie in time for us to shoot experiment 0104 - Women Of The Prehistoric Planet. So we skipped that show and went directly to experiment 0106 - The Crawling Hand instead. So after we finished shooting experiment 0113 - The Black Scorpion, we returned to experiment 0104 - Women Of The Prehistoric Planet and shot that show. Why didn't we just call experiment 0105 - 0104 instead, and move everything up so that experiment 0104 actually would be experiment 0113? That's a very good question, and gets right to the heart of the matter... ...Anyhoo, think of this show not as the last show of Season One, but rather as the second-to-last show of Season One. — Kevin Murphy