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Movie Summary  Movie: The Being From Another Planet:  Doug, a professor at the California Institute of the Sciences, acquires (steals) a mummy from King Tut's tomb and spirits it home for study by his slack-jawed young disciples. Pete, a particularly stupid and unattractive student, zaps the mummy with a whole lot of radiation and then swipes some crystals from a secret drawer in the sarcophagus. Yikes! The mummy wakes. He wants his crystals back! They're actually part of his radio, and he's actually an alien. We see the world through his green vision as he stalks and kills the students dumb enough to buy the crystals from Pete. Usually he kills them while they pet heavily. Plus, there's some green slime that burns anyone who touches it, a meddlesome, corrupt college administration, and a real bad party—terrible music, hollow fun. Finally the alien reassembles his radio and disappears, joining hands with Doug, who disappears as well. The end. Oh, and Shari Belafonte-Harper is in the movie. — Paul Chaplin Host Segments  Prologue:  The 'Bots and Joel play Twenty Questions about a movie: "Is it a shocking exposé of souls in bondage?" They never guess the movie.  Invention:  The Mads try to cash in with Tragic Moments figurines, like Dad's Liquid Breakfast and Who's That with Mom? The SOL responds with a Jack Palance impersonator kit, which gives anybody a sinister Palance voice.  Segment 2:  Joel does a quick review and defense of the career of Billy Mumy (young Will Robinson, from Lost in Space). Don't forget he played the part of Weaver in Sunshine Christmas."  Segment 3:  Servo and Crow blindfold Joel and lead him through their haunted house, consisting of bowls full of gunk. "Feel the eyeballs of all of the weird kids from Mrs. Reedy's Spanish Club..."  Segment 4:  Gypsy and Joel conspire on Joel's Rainy Day Fun Sketch and the Hexfield Viewscreen Fun Time Holo-Clowns! There's rubber snakes, giant mallets, balloons! Leaves everyone "feeling kinda empty."  Segment 5:  Joel and the 'Bots set up TV's Frank Shopping Network—they have stuff only Frank would love. Frank calls, and they almost get him to push the button to bring the SOL down. Forrester thrusts a Thighmaster through Frank's skull.  Stinger:  Corrupt and hammy administrator screaming, holding gooey burned hand. Reflections The people in this movie are almost kind of attractive, but then, not at all. They're more repulsive the longer you watch. Suzy, Doug's T.A. (and more), should be pretty, but her expression never changes. Her face, her clothes, her body—everything just kind of hangs there. The wardrobe department was good at making breasts seem really unappealing. During one silent shot of the sarcophagus, Servo says, "Ladies and gentlemen, Jam Productions is proud to present the Black Moses of Soul!" It's the first appearance of that now-favorite phrase on our show. According to this movie, the alien conked out in ancient Egypt and woke up thirty centuries later in modern California. That'd be jarring for anybody, but especially for this poor sot. I assume he had some reason for coming here, some assignment or task, and sleeping for three thousand years was probably not it. Can you imagine when he got back? "Oh, good one, Gorblat." After we'd finished production on the movie portion of this show, our trusty editor, Brad, erased part of the tape. A month later we revisited the script and did some rewriting, and then retaped the whole thing. Brad got in so much trouble... The college administrator's shriek into the camera at the end is one of our all-time favorite moments. — Paul Chaplin