Episode 802- The
Leech Woman
Movie
Summary: This is a tender
story of a man who despises his wife because she is perhaps
slightly older than he'd like her to be; and the woman who
downs hooch like Dylan Thomas because her husband despises
her so much. It is also the story of an ancient woman from
an unnamed African country who has found the fountain of
youth coursing through the pineal gland of the male of the
species. Further it is the story of the weenie lawyer with
whom our heroine falls in love, and his weenie
fiancée whose only redeeming quality is that she
packs a Colt Panther. This sweeping epic takes us to a
modest ranch home in, perhaps, Elmhurst, Illinois all the
way to Griffith Park in LA, which completely and altogether
passes for the breathtaking Kalahari. Along the way we se
our white heroes immediately assume superiority over an
ancient tribe, we see our heroine stabbing at the bases of
skulls of countless men, we see that alas, the fountain of
youth is always out of order and prone to backfiring, and
that to be not beautiful and extremely young is to be
hateful and evil. A lesson for our time. Highlights include
several examples of the spiral cup bra.
Prologue: Intrepid Crow, worried about the Satellite's
prairie dog problem, purchases a "Varmint Vac," which helps
to keep the ship's beefalo herd from breaking their legs in
prairie dog holes. Mike seems surprised that the Satellite
has either prairie dogs or beefalo.
Segment One: At the urging of Mike and the 'Bots, Bobo,
Peanut and their entire staff revert to their monkey-nature,
wearing diapers, smoking huge cigars and roller skating,
which we all know are natural and instinctive simian urges.
Pearl, the Lawgiver, arrives in time to put a stop to it and
hands out plenty of baby-wipees.
Segment Two: In a stirring and poignant scene, the nanites
organize and strike against... well... other nanites, I
guess, who seem to be their hard-hearted job bosses. After
stirring speeches, the labor dispute is settled in the
tradition of American free enterprise, with tanks and guns.
Segment Three: With the apes beginning to suspect that she
may not be the lawgiver, Pearl enacts some importance laws,
such as " no parking on Sundays" and "no soup with buffet."
Servo reveals the seedy side of his missing five hundred
years roaming the universe, which may or may not include
several stops at peep shows. You be the judge.
Segment
Four: Crow and Servo,
enlightened by today's film, conspire to puncture Mike's
pineal gland and extract the precious juice so they can live
forever. They get really cheesed when Mike survives the
assault, and they turn to Gypsy, proving once again that
they haven't a clue.
Segment Five: Tom Servo, obsessed with screaming
"Jeeeeeeeddddddddd!" at the top of his lungs, dresses as
Irene Ryan in her epic role and forces Crow and Servo at
gun-point to play-act The
Beverly Hillbillies.
Naturally, it backfires; naturally, Servo cries.
Reflections: I put it to you that it is well known that
monkeys, apes and in fact most primates fling their poop,
sometimes with considerable verve and with the style and
accuracy of a Dennis Eckersley. But it's just not a proper
topic to bring up in a family show like ours. So we continue
to wrack our brains to demonstrate this tastefully.
A word about monkey makeup:
Imagine having latex house paint smeared all over your face,
on your teeth and in your eyes, then highly toxic industrial
adhesives applied, then an entire warm rotting beef liver
pressed into the inch-thick layer of glue, then a wig made
for a ten-year-old child squozen onto your skull, then being
adorned with several layers of thick wool clothing before
walking out into a stifling studio filled with ten-thousand
watt lights so it's the temperature of a Kenner Easy-Bake
Oven. Now, act! And be funny, dammit!
Oh, I'm not griping. I mean it's a great role and a lot of
fun to do. But my skin does have the texture of a
cantaloupe. Okay, I guess I am griping. -- Kevin Murphy
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