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Movie Summary  Short: Body Care And Grooming:  A 1950s treatise in explicit detail about cleansing one's personal self. It stresses the need for good grooming in finding a suitable mate, and "You too will have that quality of appearance, that feeling of well-being so important to make your dreams of happiness come true."  Movie: The Painted Hills:  Lassie stars as Shep. "The story of a great love—the love of a dog for one man." Wow. A grizzled old miner with runaway hair strikes gold on a piece of land he shares with the widow Martha. A friend of Martha's husband, Taylor, gets wind of this and offers to help Jonathan stake the claim. Taylor becomes wracked with gold fever and kills Jonathan. Together with Tommy, the widow's young son, Shep searches out Taylor to wreak sweet, sweet revenge. — Mary Jo Pehl Host Segments  Prologue:  The Robots put on their own version of The Tonight Show; Crow is lantern-jawed Jay Leno and lambastes Congress.  Invention:  Dr. Forrester harnesses Frank's heart and uses it to run a generator with his Cholester-do-all. Joel, Crow, and Tom present their Back Talk, a backyard masking personal memo machine that helps you remember things subliminally.  Segment 2:  Gypsy moderates a debate between Crow and Servo about whether the young woman in the short was more attractive clean or sloppy. Crow insists that she was très hip, freely quoting Henry Miller while her classmates struggled through Reader's Digest.  Segment 3:  The Robots complete their term paper assignment: "Famous Figures in History That Look Like the Cantankerous Forty-niner in Today's Film."  Segment 4:  Servo has a bad case of gold fever and melts Crow into a gold ingot. Turns out Crow is high density kevlar.  Segment 5:  Crow, Servo, and Joel discuss Shep's taking the law into her own paws. In Deep l3, Forrester can't revive Frank, so he has to go and buy a new heart for him.  Stinger:  Lady in shower practicing body care, apparently. Reflections The Painted Hills had one of our favorite characters, Pile on Pete. We didn't hear the name right—Pilot Pete—and all of us thought we heard "Pile on Pete." — Mary Jo Pehl