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Movie Summary  Movie: Mighty Jack:  Mighty Jack is an entity put together to combat "the organization known as Q." Q is intent on world domination, as who isn't really. Q's first step in dominating the world is to kidnap a guy by snatching his car in a net slung from a helicopter. The kidnappee is Harold Atari, a top Mighty Jack agent. After stumbling on the fact that his suit is a mother lode of explosives and radio transmitters, he's rescued by his friends working from their super cool albeit toy-like jet submarine. The rest of the movie is all about Q's evil ray that can freeze anything. There's an evil head of Q stroking his presumably evil white cat; his evil gunman son; and several hundred characters introduced at four-minute intervals until the very end of the film. The evil guy shoots himself when his floating iceberg headquarters are blown up. — Paul Chaplin Host Segments  Prologue:  Smoke, lights, alarms, panic: Joel Robinson is dead!!!  Invention:  The Mads introduce the Formal Flipper, for scuba-diving secret agents who must change quickly to formal attire. Dr. F ends up in fishnet stockings, it's a little weird. On the SOL, since earmuffs are dorky, they offer earmuffs that look like real ears.  Segment 2:  Servo and Crow present Mighty Jack Dog Food, with the help of a little weird mighty Jack creature: "Hi, I'm Mighty Jack and I make my own gravy!" (What is that thing?)  Segment 3:  Taking a cue from the film, Servo and Crow stick Joel into a torture box with blinding lights. When Joel foils them by refusing to open his eyes, the 'Bots are amazed at how smart he is.  Segment 4:  Joel, places an aquarium in front of Cambot to simulate an underwater sequence, to entice Hollywood studios drawn by Earth Vs. Soup (see episode 0313 - Earth Vs. The Spider). Once again the 'Bots worry about Joel.  Segment 5:  The crew sings the sea shanty "Slow the Plot Down", "We'll scuttle the story and run her aground / We'll try so hard to slow the plot down!" Frank plays an accordion and has a parrot on his shoulder, while reciting Melville, sort of.  Stinger:  Guy folding himself over a suitcase. Reflections This was my first show working as a full-time writer at Best Brains. Early in the film we see Harold Atari sitting down, and Servo makes a fart noise. That was my primary contribution to the episode. I'm not saying I came up with the original fart noise. Certainly not. Rather, it was my suggestion that in this case the manner of Atari's sitting down—slow, easing his butt into the chair—was perfectly arranged to suggest a fart noise. My fellow writers acquiesced. (They were clearly impressed with my ability to properly identify a fart noise situation.) Does it get boring in Japan, what with everybody having black hair? I suppose that's the case in Africa too. Now that I think about it, my race (Caucasian) is the only one where everybody doesn't have the same color hair. I wonder—speaking as a Caucasian—do you other races see us as goofy, slapdash, hastily assembled from extra parts? Or do you envy us our variety? — Paul Chaplin