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Movie Summary  Short: The Truck Farmer:  A lighthearted take on the sorts of lives documented more soberly in Edward R. Murrow's Harvest Of Shame.  Movie: I Accuse My Parents:  All about young Jimmy Wilson, the most maladjusted character we've ever had. His parents drink, gamble, and play around. Jimmy lies, elaborately, trying to convince his friends that his family life is great, but it all blows up in his face when Mom shows up plowed at school. His prize-winning essay "My Family and My Home" is revealed as a fraud. Jimmy flees to a shadowy world of shoe stores and mob ties. He stupidly runs "errands" for nightclub owner Charley Blake, and even more stupidly falls in love with Blake's moll, Kitty. It goes on from there. Blake tries to kill Jimmy, Jimmy is saved by an angelic short-order cook, Jimmy kills Blake "accidentally," Jimmy is released to the custody of his parents. (!) — Paul Chaplin Host Segments  Prologue:  Servo paints himself naked, and decides he's a real live boy.  Invention:  The Mads serve up Cake-n-Shake, a cake mix that includes a live exotic dancer. Frank accidentally bakes the dancer. Joel and the 'Bots plasti-form a junk drawer organizer, for your shoehorn, your handful of gravel, etc.  Segment 2:  Crow, Servo, and Gypsy all draw their idealized families, while Joel psychoanalyzes their secret desires. Crow's dad "dispenses homespun wisdom and teaches solid mid-western values while crushing all who block his path."  Segment 3:  The whole crew joins in as Gypsy lip-synchs to the sound track of the film, singing "Are You Happy in Your Work?" Ends chaotically, with waiters Crow and Servo spilling drinks on the sound board.  Segment 4:  Joel and the 'Bots analyze the roots of Jimmy's mental illness, using a mobile to illustrate that "true Jimmy-scale dementia is a complex phenomenon." (Although a major factor is simply that Jimmy's kinda stupid.)  Segment 5:  Servo and Crow stick up Joel, looking for burgers: Joel reads a postcard featuring the Barcorammer, a vaguely obscene piece of equipment. In Deep l3, Rodney the exotic dancer, looking for dollar bills, entices a shy Dr. Forrester.  Stinger:  Jimmy's dad laughing at Jimmy's mom. Reflections The highly sexed dancer thrusting his pelvis at Forrester at the end of the show is none other than MST editor Brad Keely. He's very good at that kind of dancing: He does it around the office now at the drop of a hat. Oh, there are times it's not appropriate, but this new hobby has brought him out of his shell. — Paul Chaplin Paul will deny it to his dying day, but during the writing of this show he admitted a strong attraction toward Jimmy's mom, the middle-aged lush. Paul also likes "Dilbert" a lot. It's two more reasons everybody down here is very polite to Paul, then we try to get away as quickly as we can. — Kevin Murphy