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Movie Summary  Movie: Girl In Lovers Lane:  One dark movie. Beginning drifter Danny Winslow, fleeing his parents' divorce, attaches himself remoralike to hobo love god Bix Dugan (a.k.a. Big Stupid). Big and Danny hop a freight to the little town of Sherman, where Big falls in love with waitress Carrie while Danny wanders around getting rolled by prostitutes. Big can't make a commitment to Carrie because her dad drinks, and Big's dad drank, and he's just way too worried about everything. Big dithers; Carrie sobs and runs into the woods. A happy ending is still entirely plausible, but instead the jackasses who made this movie have Carrie murdered by town jerk Jesse (Jack Elam). Even more bad stuff follows before a hollow uplifting ending. — Paul Chaplin Host Segments  Prologue:  Crow and Servo fit each other with belly buttons, because they don't want to feel weird around the guys in the locker room.  Invention:  The Mads offer up Evil Event Days for baseball games, like Slide Whistle Night combined with Brass Knuckles Night. Joel and the crew combine Doc Marten shoes with the stylized feet of Mad cartoonist Don Martin. To demonstrate, Joel stands on the desk, his toes curled over the edge.  Segment 2:  Joel, Crow, and Servo sing their own version of a train song called "What A Pleasant Journey." Servo: "Been ridin' on this old train, been ridin' it all night/ Think I'll go to the club car and get me a bite/ Mmm, this tuna melt sandwich really tastes quite nice/ Plus it comes with cole slaw and a pickle and I must say it's reasonably priced."  Segment 3:  Tom and Crow try to get Joel to ask for change for a fifty to play pinball so they can beat him up, like in the movie. He foils them when he doesn't want to play pinball.  Segment 4:  As Joel and Servo try to get an egg sucked into a vacuum, Crow dresses like Jack Elam, his eyes all askew. "Grr, I'm Jack Elam, grr…."  Segment 5:  Servo and Crow rewrite the end of the film (Carrie lives, and there are dinosaurs and magic pygmies) as Joel reads letters. Frank tries an ending too, envisioning Big Stupid as "pure energy"; Dr. F. responds with a railroad spike to Frank's skull.  Stinger:  Woman in bathtub: "Are you waiting for a bus?" Reflections We've done worse movies, but I can't think of one that pissed me off as much. The waitress Carrie is one or the sweetest characters we've ever had. And while Big's hesitation is maybe dumb, he's clearly heading toward a decision to stay with Carrie, when she's murdered. Carrie's death is infuriating, and not justified by the characters' actions and decisions. So what, you say since when do any or our movies make sense? Fine. Just don't give us a genuinely likable person like Carrie and then because you're an idiot filmmaker have her killed off. It really makes me mad. We writers needed the last segment, where Crow and Tom rewrite the ending. It actually feels liberating when Joel points out they don't need to accept the ending the filmmakers chose. And the Robots' playfulness hopefully helps the audience feel better too. Anyway, a last word concerning this town or "Sherman." There seem to be ten or twelve males, and at least half that many prostitutes. That's an insupportable prostitute-to-male ratio. Granted, the cost or living in Sherman is perhaps not that high, but just to meet fixed costs it seems like each prostitute would have to accommodate each male Shermanite—well, a lot. Plus, there being so few purchasers, the males could easily organize and demand the very lowest rates. I guess I'm saying that if I were a prostitute, I'd go somewhere else. — Paul Chaplin