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Movie Summary  Movie: The Giant Gila Monster:  The title says it all. An enormous lizard terrorizes a small desert community, primarily populated by teenagers. Livestock are missing, a couple of teenagers are missing, and the inept sheriff is perplexed. Our hero, Chase Winstead, helps law enforcement officials track down the giant gila monster, all the while tooling around in a souped-up hot rod, operating a towing service, launching a singing career, buying leg braces for his little sister, and having a French girlfriend. In the title role, the giant gila monster (giant in that he's larger than the miniature sets and foliage he moves through) is destroyed when our teen hero sends his hot rod loaded with nitroglycerin crashing into the monster and blows him up. — Mary Jo Pehl Host Segments  Prologue:  Crow and Servo are the thing with two heads (is the thing?) and it stings.  Invention:  Frank and Forrester create punching bags with Renaissance Festival characters on them, like the Rat Catcher. On the SOL, Joel creates a radio that features only plot point and plot specific programming.  Segment 2:  Joel turns empty closet space into a malt shop to make some extra cash. Just clear away the hazardous cleansers!  Segment 3:  Otis, Dean Martin, and Crazy Guggenheim.  Segment 4:  This week on Servo on Cinema with Tom Servo, Servo discusses director Ray Kellogg. Joel and Crow take over.  Segment 5:  Joel, Tom, and Crow form a rock band, Hee-la, and go through their song list. First, the stuff they do know, then the stuff they don't know. In Deep 13, Forrester lashes Frank.  Stinger:  Old codger regurgitates his sodee-pop. Reflections This sparkling piece of dreck was produced by Ken Curtis, Festus of Gunsmoke fame. One of the songs the teen hero sings, which we informally dubbed "I Sing Whenever I Sing Whenever I Sing," became a leitmotif for us, popping up in sketches and movie segments thereafter. — Mary Jo Pehl