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Movie Summary  Movie: The Amazing Colossal Man:  Bert I. Gordon takes a stab at movie making with this story of a war hero who gets too close to a nuclear blast and goes bald. Colonel Glen Manning grows in size and begins to wonder what he could have done to deserve such a terrible fate. He doesn't consider the possibility that God hates him and thinks he's a bad person. Eventually, the fifty-foot bediapered Manning escapes into the desert on foot, where he is felled by the overworked military. If a high school sophomore were given an assignment to come up with an allegory for the inherent danger in man's tampering with the laws of nature, he might have come up with this plot. — Mike Nelson Host Segments  Prologue:  Crow and Tom build a cardboard fort and forbid any humans to enter. Meaning Joel.  Invention:  The mad scientists mutate a plant and a human into a plant that reviews music. Joel, Crow, and Servo show off a nonpermanent tattoo that can be written on again and again.  Segment 2:  Crow and Servo come up with sensitive things to say to the fiancé of a nuclear accident victim. Mostly they have to do with well-cooked food.  Segment 3:  Joel plays the fifty-foot man while the Robots ask him questions like, how many kinds of fish can you name?  Segment 4:  Joel, Tom, and Crow sit around trying to think up good questions to ask Colonel Glen Manning. Just then he shows up and they don't know what to ask him. Servo lamely offers, "How many kinds of fish can you name?"  Segment 5:  They all think of things they'd do if they were fifty feet tall. They read a nice letter.  Stinger:  Glen laughs himself into an experiment. Reflections The plant-guy invention was basically a way to recycle the cheap mirror-box illusion that we used in another show. Still, I think we got away without anyone noticing. In the satellite part of the invention exchange, Servo's unnatural stress on the words "girlfriend's birthday" was because Joel was having a hard time remembering his cue so Kevin added that extra little punch. What a sweet guy. After viewing The Amazing Colossal Man for the sixth or seventh time, we all became very fond of wandering the halls of Best Brains, repeating in a deep, sonorous voice, "What sin could a man commit in a single lifetime. . . " — Mike Nelson