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Movie Summary  Movie: Village Of The Giants: Another movie by Bert I. Gordon. maker of both 0309 - The Amazing Colossal Man and 0313 - Earth Vs. The Spider. This one is mid-1960s vintage, and in color. It tends more toward wacky than Gordon's earlier efforts, but it's still concerned with big things: big ducks, big cats, and mostly big delinquent teens with their big bouncy breasts. The teens eat some formula concocted by a young genius named Genius (played by Ronny Howard) and they get real big and dress in revealing clothes and dance in slow motion. Being delinquents, they declare martial law and demand fried chicken. Head delinquent Beau Bridges is particularly annoying, almost as annoying as head Good Teen Tommy Kirk. Genius mixes up an antidote and sprays it at the big teens from the back of his bike. He looks like a low-budget mosquito spraying program. — Paul Chaplin Host Segments  Prologue:  Mike and the 'Bots are in the middle of a strenuous workout. Over enthusiastic Mike creams Servo with a medicine ball, and manages to hurt Crow too.  Segment 1:  Mike makes odd juices in a juicer: "What, you never drank the juice of a hard-boiled egg?" On Deep 13, Forrester is "thinking outside the box" and decides to lay off Frank.  Segment 2:  Frank has nowhere to go and no job, so he lays around Deep 13 in his boxer shorts, eating pizza. Dr. F interviews an applicant for Frank's job, Torgo, who gets the job.  Segment 3:  Mike and the 'Bots interview Frank so he can tell unemployment he's been looking for a job. Crow: "You're not gonna have any babies, are ya?"  Segment 4:  Frank's leaving. In tribute, Mike, Crow, and Servo sing "The Greatest Frank Of All" over shots of Frank being killed. "Hoping to find sweet Frank on the line/ nothing but street loving Frank..."  Segment 5:  Frank tricks Torgo into doing some thing horrible to Dr. F off camera and gets his job back.  Stinger:  In its place, a memorial to Frank Zappa. Reflections The song "The Greatest Frank Of All" is one of my all-time favorite MST songs. It was penned by Bridget Jones and arranged by Mike Nelson. It never fails to make me laugh, especially the parts where Mike and Tom sing like Paul Williams, the elfin blonde songwriter. Mike and the 'Bots performed it at the live show during the 1994 ConventioCon, and it got a huge response. (Frank did a gorgeous interpretive dance in the background, wearing a black leotard and bathed in spotlight.) — Paul Chaplin Frank Zappa died in 1994. It saddened me. He is one of my great heroes of American culture. When all his tapes are played and his music is studied, I'm guessing he'll go down as one of the finest composers and performers of the century. And God, was he ever funny. Sometimes embarrassingly preachy, but always calmly polemical, like an advocate for reason in a world gone mad and stupid. I think he had no time for stupid people. No one believes me when I tell them how normal the guy was. But he was beautifully normal, and a brilliant rock-and-roll man, and I'll miss him. — Kevin Murphy