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Movie Summary  Short: The Home Economics Story:  The lives of four college women as they pursue careers in various kinds of housework. Many references to Sylvia Plath immediately spring to mind.  Movie : Viking Women And The Sea Serpent:  Brought to you by Roger Corman, a name you can trust. A group of Vikingesses go searching for their men-folk, who have yet to return home after leaving on an extended voyage. After a violent encounter with the sea serpent, in a really rather reasonable special effect, they wash ashore on an island, where they are captured by some hostile islanders. The women devise a plan to find and rescue their hubbies, and Inga the Dark, once thought to be a traitor, dies helping them all escape the island. They vigorously canoe off the island, with their peeved captors in pursuit. Luckily, the sea serpent devours the captors. The actual real full title of this movie is The Saga Of The Viking Women And Their Voyage To The Waters Of The Great Sea Serpent. — Mary Jo Pehl Host Segments  Prologue:  Joel, Servo, and Crow consider the lowly waffle. Anytime's the right time for waffles!  Invention:  Dr, Forrester and Frank invent the meat reanimator and bring a chicken back to life. The chicken then turns on Frank. On the SOL, Joel uses an iron to turn an ordinary waffle into a flat waffle and what is a flat waffle but a pancake?  Segment 2:  Joel reprograms the Robots to love waffles as much as he does, and they all suggest new uses for waffles. A waffle makes a nice chamois for waxing the car.  Segment 3:  Waffles.  Segment 4:  Servo can't help but think that the world might be a better place without waffles, and Crow, as Willy the Wonderful Whimsical Wisecracking Waffle, shows him the error of his thinking.  Segment 5:  Joel and the Robots sing "The Waffle Song," the waffle anthem. Dr, Forrester declares that waffles are nothing more than a vehicle for butter and syrup, and administers a shock to Frank for saying the word "waffle."  Stinger:  Jonathan Haze exclaims, "But you don't understand—I'm a prince!" Reflections No one at Best Brains remembers exactly how we got on the waffle kick, but I do remember rejecting a number of very strong ideas in favor of doing the whole "waffle" theme. I wonder now if among those ideas was one that was both funny and touching, something pointedly humorous, yet eminently human—did we reject an idea that might have won us a Pulitzer Prize? These are the thoughts I wrestle with, alone in the caliginous gloom, with only a faint crepitation in the treetops and the sound of my old soughing hound. And yet, is there not something noble and wonderful about the lowly griddle-fried quick bread? And who among us doesn't see something of themselves in the buttery, biscuity dryad as portrayed by Crow T. Robot. Yes, and in the waffle song, I hear America singing. I sound my mighty, waffley yawp over the rooftops!! I sing the griddle electric!! I'm glad we did the waffle show, glad, I tell 'ya. GLAD! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!! GLAD!! — Mike Nelson (Note: Mike Nelson often confuses Walt Whitman, the poet, with Charles Whitman, the mass murderer. Be careful.)