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Movie Summary  Movie: Teen-Age Crime Wave: Delinquent beauty Terry seduces a doughy man out of a bar and into an alley, where he's robbed by delinquents Mike and Al. The cops nab Terry and sweet blameless Jane, Al's blind date. Jane's parents disown her (ain't parents grand?) and she's packed off to Rosedale Industrial School, along with Terry. Fifties-style psychotic Mike frees them, kills a cop, and coldcocks a huge prison matron. Terry, Mike, and holier-than-thou Jane hide out with an elderly farm couple and their son Ben, whose super-tight jeans leave his face in a permanent grimace. The movie grinds to a complete halt. We learn that Terry's had a sad life, several things happen, and there's a climactic chase at Griffith Observatory. Terry dies, it's sorta sad. — Paul Chaplin Host Segments  Prologue:  Everybody on the SOL is escaping! SHHH!  Segment 1:  Forrester sprays Frank with his designer line of Mace Mousses, for getting back at department store perfume ladies. On the SOL, the jetpack-based escape fails.  Segment 2:  Mike, Crow, and Servo salute and sing of the Golden Age of "The Doughy Guy."  Segment 3:  The SOL deli, with sandwiches based on movies, gets a delivery order from TV's Frank.  Segment 4:  Crow sings, and the crew stages a commercial for-Mystos! "Youth is better, old is stupid...."  Segment 5:  Servo delivers the mail, and some letters are read. Frank is Doughy Man: "Butter does my bidding!" Dr. F sprays him again, and again. And again. And so on.  Stinger:  Our heroine Jane shrieks: "Turn it off!!!!" Reflections The farm family in Teen-Age Crime Wave is a little weird. We learn that Ma and Pa were married in 1910, but Ben, their only child, wasn't born until 1927. They seem like a reserved couple, but come on! All I can figure is they were Yankee fans, and their favorite team's stupendous performance that year (the '27 Yankees are considered the best ever) sent them howling into their one and only frenzy of desire.... ...Hold on. Assuming their passion peaked during the World Series, Ben wouldn't have been born until mid-1928. So it must have been something else. The very end of this show features Dr. F spraying Frank with his Mace Mousse again and again and again and again. Why? Because the show running time was short, that's why. Some of these 1950s movies are not long at all, and if we fail to write host segments that are talky enough, we have to do something like this to make up the time. (It's the same reason we replayed Peter Graves's speech three times at the end of experiment 0311 - It Conquered the World.) — Paul Chaplin