Episode 913-
Quest of the Delta Knights
Movie
Summary: Simply, the Delta
Knight movie by which all other Delta Knight movies must be
judged.
Anyway there's a secret organization called the Delta
Knights. They live in Europe: England, Italy, whatever.
Their quest is to find some kind of secret (of course)
storehouse of Archimedes, the implication being that
Archimedes was the greatest of all those bearded
philosophers. Maybe he was, who am I to question.
The particular Delta Knights with whom we are forced to be
concerned are young "T," and old "Baydool," and Leonardo
daVinci. There is a harlot who turns out to be a princess; T
and Leo both fall in love with her, a la Star Wars; not a
la Star Wars there've been no sequels to explore this
little trio.
The heroes battle a mean woman (Olivia Hussey) and her cruel
warriors who dress like feathered bats; in the end they
discover the storehouse of Archimedes and destroy it. This
is ostensibly wise. Leo's pissed, but swipes most of his
best ideas anyway.
Prologue: Gypsy takes the hail-damaged Crow in for
repairs, and Mike and Servo are left with a beater loaner
Crow.
Segment
One: Crow returns. Pearl
announces her dissatisfaction with Mike's relative lack of
misery, and trades places with him. Bobo and Brain Guy taunt
Mike.
Segment Two: Pearl, although adored by Tom and Crow for
having given them a mint, decides to leave. Mike is having a
great guy time with Bobo and Brain Guy, but has no choice.
The 'bots are real disappointed with Mike's return.
Segment Three: A quartet of Tom Servo's in madrigal robes
sing: "A sweet Delta Lady, I do what I please; I'm strong
and I'm savvy and I've got these!"
Segment Four: Leonardo daVinci shows up. He lives in Queens
now, though still dressed in robes; he's tough and doesn't
like Servo at all.
Segment Five: Mike helps Tom and Servo deal with their grief
over Pearl's absence. In the castle, the modern-day Delta
Knights hold a huge pancake breakfast.
Reflections: The pancake breakfast scene involved the most extras ever in any of our
sketches, and word of that fact had apparently leaked out
before the show's airing. We certainly hope no one expected
a chariot race or a reenactment of the Battle of Shiloh or
something along those lines. Hey, this was hard enough.
We're all pretty gun-shy about hail damage here at Best
Brains. Most of our cars were destroyed by hail back in May,
and I'm still dickering with the insurance company over
damages to my house. They're threatening to just total it
out and give me the Blue Book value, which means I'll be
living in an '89 Toyota before long. -- Paul Chaplin.
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