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Movie Summary  Movie: Pod People:  As nasty egg poachers curse each other in the fog, a meteor hits, implying mystery. A red-haired kid sees strange lights. A gooey red substance implies a whole lot of mystery. A poacher finds huge eggs in which oozy things are gestating, but then something implied mysteriously kills him. The maiden-voiced kid has an emotionally abusive family (they don't care about his centipedes). Gear shift! A crabby band records. Then back to the mountains and the muttering poachers; then the band again. The band heads to the same mountains on a sexual holiday. Wow, got a lot left. The kid finds an egg and brings it home, and an alien with a long snout hatches. It's Trumpy, a sort of biped anteater. He makes things float and he's cute in an offbeat way, but his brethren keep lashing out and killing people. Poachers are killed, rock groupies are killed, Trumpy's relatives are killed. At the end, Trumpy stands forlornly in the woods, the last of his odd kind. It's all pretty depressing. A fan favorite. — Paul Chaplin Host Segments  Prologue:  The SOL has an "arts chautauqua." Crow delivers part of his one-man show, "Robot on the Run." Servo reminisces: "I was born the son of a poor Filipino merchant..." Then he sobs.  Invention:  Joel's new guitar chord is so dramatic and powerful, he needs both hands to finger it, and when Crow strums-kablooey! (There's an explosion.) The Mads' karaoke machine has only public domain songs, like "The languid and bittersweet 'Gregorian Chant No. 5'" and "Ave Maria," which they sing over a drum machine beat.  Segment 2:  Joel and the Bots sing a nonsense song, along the lines of the one in the Movie: "With a pickle mind/ we kick the nipple beer/ steady as a goat/ flyin' over trout... hideous control now...." The Mads man a sound board, with a mysterious woman (writer Bridget Jones). Frank's T-shirt, lifted from the film: "I'm a virgin."  Segment 3:  Joel sets up a wall of keyboards to create New Age music. Crow plays one loooong note. Servo announces: "Music From Some Guys In Space."  Segment 4:  A wild re-creation of the magic Trumpy can do. Everything floats, there's carnival music and whistles, it's pandemonium!  Segment 5:  The SOL sings "A Clown In The Sky": "When the harlequin is on the bed/ And the whiskey haze surrounds his head/ William Holden's coming over...Will there still be a clown in the sky...?" The Mads: "It stinks!"  Stinger:  "It stinks!" Reflections Where was this thing filmed? It's always foggy! You have to wonder why this race of aliens ever came to Earth. They appear, they stand around looking at us, whimpering; then all of a sudden, at the least sign of any questioning or concern, they start killing us! I mean, excuse me—what do you want? Have you been helped? — Paul Chaplin One additional note, after our "Music from Some Guys in Space" segment, we were contacted by the actual Music from the Hearts of Space guys and they thought what we did was keen and they sent us a bunch of music that we could all drowse off to. Good sports, those guys. — Kevin Murphy