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Movie Summary  Short: Keeping Clean And Neat:  Keeping Clean And Neat follows the daily procedures of a young boy and girl as they scrub, clip, brush, polish, and soak. They do end up very clean.  Movie: The Sinister Urge:  Also known as The Young and the Immoral. In the movie, directed by Ed Wood, young Mary is ensnared in a smut-film racket run by Gloria, a terrifying woman in spike heels. Gloria, whose dresses are savagely tight, is unaware that her employee, "Dirk," has been killing women after viewing her smut. That darn smut! The cops close in after Mary's murder, but not before Dirk and Gloria's main man, Johnny, are both dead, the victims of multi-double-crosses. Smut doesn't pay. — Paul Chaplin Host Segments  Prologue:  Mike and the boys throw a shower for Gypsy. Everybody gives her pinking shears, and they're so darling and lovely and darling.  Segment 1:  Forrester is worried because Frank is missing, and he finds ticket stubs to violent movies in Frank's pants. The SOL gets a letter from Frank threatening to blow up Deep 13. Dr. F is worried: "Frank is so easily influenced by moving pictures!"  Segment 2:  Before leaving the theater, Mike and the 'Bots hear an explosion; Frank has sent up a preview of what he plans for Deep 13. They receive a phone call on a pay phone Crow installed—it's Frank, talking sinister: "You know Mike, you and I are quite alike..." He's got Dr. F tied up. Dr. F asks for help, and Mike and company realize their own fates hang in the balance.  Segment 3:  Crow enlists the aid of Huggy Bear and Rooster in stopping Frank; at least he claims that's who they are. "I didn't say the Huggy Bear. I said a Huggy Bear." They don't help much.  Segment 4:  Mike realizes that potato cakes will lure Frank from the dynamite. He tells Dr. F, who walks out to buy potato cakes. (He's not tied up very well.)  Segment 5:  The plan works, and Dr. F pulls the wires from the dynamite in the nick of time. Then he deep-fries Frank.  Stinger:  Husky-voiced Gloria's best line! "Dirk? Huh. That can't be Dirk. Uh-uh. Nah, that's not Dirk. Nuh." Reflections I especially appreciated the short's recommendation that one should clip one's toenails after taking a shower, because the nails are softer then. I've spent many hours tugging at bone-dry toenails, leaving me with bloody pulps at the end of my feet. In the movie, the production end of Gloria's empire seems rather charming; the smut involves women in baggy swimsuits being photographed by a kindly elfin immigrant. Arousing? Not particularly. But is that really the main point of smut? For reasons too complicated to get into, Gloria kills Dirk when she means to kill Johnny (or is it the other way around?), The cops reveal the mistake to her, and she emits a harshly nasal "Nuh! Uh-uh! No way!" It's become one of our favorite moments. Gloria—hard, raspy, and shrill—serves as a reminder of the world Ed Wood inhabited. You get the idea this is a real woman playing herself. — Paul Chaplin