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Movie Summary  Movie: Mitchell:  Joe Don Baker is Mitchell, a not-too-bright, not-overly-hygienic, hard-drinking, hard-breathin', crude-lovin' cop who doesn't play by the rules. Since he's such a rebel, he's put on a routine, low-level stakeout as a disciplinary action. In the midst of the stakeout he stumbles onto a drug ring and, against his superior's orders, he conducts his own investigation. The drug lords send him hooker Linda Evans as a payoff, but she falls for him. Mitchell cracks the case and busts drug honchos Martin Balsam and Merlin Olsen. This movie fairly reeks of spilled Schlitz, Marlboros, and pizza left on the couch. — Mary Jo Pehl Host Segments  Prologue:  Joel shows Tom and Crow his toothpick sculpture of Monticello.  Invention:  Deep 13 is being audited with the help of a temp (Mike Nelson), who files Frank's old heads. On the SOL, Joel displays his Daktari Stool. Must see to appreciate.  Segment 2:  Joel, Crow, and Tom go on an Outward Bound expedition. All alone, Gypsy overhears a conversation; she believes it to be a plot by the Mads to do away with Joel, and flies into action.  Segment 3:  Gypsy tries to figure out a way to get Joel off the Satellite of Love: maybe a charter flight or throwing him off the ship.  Segment 4:  Gypsy explains the situation to Mike, the temp. He tricks Frank (which is not difficult) into turning over the keys to the control panel.  Segment 5:  Gypsy sends Joel back to Earth via the escape pod found in the box of Hamdingers. Joel says good-bye from the Hexfield, and no, that's not snow, it s "snow," y'know, transmission interference. The Mads plot to send Mike Nelson up to the SOL in Joel's stead.  Stinger:  Mitchell harasses a child. Reflections (Joel Hodgson's last appearance as Joel Robinson; Michael J. Nelson's debut as Mike) We did a real number on Joe Don Baker in this show, and personally I don't regret a minute of it. Not a single drunk joke, nor glutton joke, nor grotesque slobbering pig of a backwards-ass redneck joke would I alter to cushion the blow. As a result, the rumor mill tells us, Joe Don Baker himself hates us, and wishes us all dead, and if he met anyone of us and knew who we were, he would probably take a swing, miss by a mile, spill his drink all over his rented arm-candy escort, and fall backward into the hors d'oeuvre table. Well, bring him on, I say, we're ready for him. This was Joel's final show on MST, his swan song, and a bittersweet moment for us all. Joel picked the quote on the plaque at the end of the show; it was a quote from the Tony Randall movie Seven Faces of Doctor Lao. Little did he know that we had that quote inscribed on a real memorial plaque. At the end of the taping we gave him that plaque as a fond memento of his years with us. And to this day I haven't had the heart to tell him that it's pronounced "low" and not "loo." Adios, Joel. Bonjour, Mike. — Kevin Murphy