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Movie Summary  Short: Are You Ready For Marriage?:  The story of Larry (not ready for marriage) and Sue (even more not ready for marriage). Their unreadiness is made clear to them by the sinister Reverend Hall, a John Carradine-type who uses wacky props, tiny dolls, and shaky statistics to drive home his point.  Movie: Racket Girls:  The movie concerns women's wrestling, a fact illuminated by the opening scenes of women wrestling, swinging on rings, and wrestling. After an hour or so we're introduced to mobster Scally, his teeny Mexican aide, Joe, and their star wrestler, Peaches Page. There follows a lot of Peaches wrestling, exercising, jogging, bouncing, as Joe ogles her. Other wrestlers include most notably a "Clare Mortensen," who's the most frightening woman I've ever seen. Around the edges of the wrestling it becomes evident that Scally is in trouble with "Mr. Big," who has him killed. Other mob-type stuff: dead horses, prostitutes, an owl-eyed stoolie named "Monk" who's good for a few laughs. It's an odd film that seems to have very little respect for its audience. — Paul Chaplin Host Segments  Prologue:  Lisa Loeb appears in the Hex field and sings, monotonally and at great length about not much.  Segment 1:  A strange family shows up in Deep 13, just poking around. "Have you been helped," asks Dr. F. He decides to install a new security system, but when he calls from outside, Frank pretends they're at Bargain Clown. The family gets a kick out of that. Then Mike and the 'Bots pretend they can't hear poor Dr. F on a new intercom system.  Segment 2:  Crow asks Mike for Servo's hand in marriage. Although taken by surprise, Mike lets them take a "Cosmopolitan" marriage test, then says yes.  Segment 3:  Crow throws himself a bachelor party. Jan in the Pan is the sexy entertainment, lustily peeling the bandages from around her head.  Segment 4:  It's the beautiful wedding ceremony, with Dr. F presiding. Frank sings "There Is Love," and the weird family attends. The ceremony decays into wrestling in both settings.  Segment 5:  Mike, Crow and Servo dress as wrestlers and read letters. (That's really it.) Lisa Loeb shows up in Deep 13, and Frank is in love until Dr. F informs him she's dating Ethan Hawke. He explodes: "Harlot! Jezebel!"  Stinger:  Reverend Hall shoots a rubber band. The kids: "It's gone! ! Where'd it go?!" Reflections Peaches disappears from the film about halfway through, which is too bad, because she seems friendly. Kind of a moonfaced gal. In fact, she comes close to my image of the Great Pumpkin. The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film has no entry under this title, but it does describe a film called Blonde Pickup that seems to be the same one. If Blonde Pickup is the original title, I assume it refers to Peaches. That strikes me as a little unfair, but if Peaches was comfortable with her reputation, who am I to complain? — Paul Chaplin