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Movie Summary  Movie: Teenagers From Outer Space:  Suspiciously middle-aged teenager aliens come to earth to scout out grazing land for their gargons, which are really giant lobsters. The teens are equipped with focusing disintegrators, a weapon that reduces its victims to skeletons. Derek, the sensitive Harry Connick Junior-esque alien, rents a room from aggressive napper and New Zoo Revue fugitive Grandpa, and falls for his foxy granddaughter Betty. Unfortunately, one of Derek's impolite and impolitic coworkers has skeletonized Betty's dog Sparky, which puts Derek in an awkward position with Betty. However, Betty's small and awfully white town—which looks curiously like the Hollywood Hills from certain angles—is saved from a giant lobster by Derek, who sacrifices himself in the process. — Mary Jo Pehl Host Segments  Prologue:  Every time Tom and Crow say NBC Mystery Movie, they receive a mild but memorable shock from Joel.  Invention:  Servo and Crow are in charge of the invention exchange and come up with a scratch-and-sniff report card. You can smell biology class or any extracurricular activity. The Mads anticipate a ventriloquism boom for the Nineties and Dr. Forrester has an act with his Resusci-Annie.  Segment 2:  Joel, Tom, and Crow compare real-life landlords with the kindly grandfather in the movie. In real life, your landlord is a butane addict who sneaks into your apartment and looks through your underwear drawer.  Segment 3:  Snacks are jettisoned into space with a waste receptacle, accompanied by the "General Cinema Snack Theme" sung by Joel, Tom, and Crow. You can see the string.  Segment 4:  Crow contemplates the nature of the universe, and a boss skull spaceship bearing a skeletal friend visits the SOL.  Segment 5:  Tom and Crow show off their fall line of fashions! $30 off-the-rack Fleet Farm jump suits trimmed with figure-flattering duct tape. In Deep 13, Forrester is entertaining Resusci-Annie on a date.  Stinger:  Derek's boss: "When we return to our home planet, the high court may well sentence you to TOHTCHA!!" Reflections Teenagers From Outer Space features the nine-fingered, full-figured Harvey B. Dunn, who was to appear in several subsequent MST3K movies. We writers became fixated on the moment in which one of Derek's superiors, in a grand display of ACTING!, threatens Derek with "TOHTCHA!" (torture). There's also a nifty epilogue in which Derek's visage appears in the sky above the small town he died saving. — Mary Jo Pehl