Episode 808- The
She Creature
Movie
Summary: Filmed in
Depress-o-vision, this talkie follows the exploits of the
wholly unappealing, ineffective psychic, Dr. Carlo Lombardi,
who has been dipped in oil. Lombardi uses his vanishingly
small talents to hypnotize a woman into conjuring a feminine
lobster creature from out of the sea to kill people who
annoy him. It doesn't make any more sense when you see the
film, trust me. Lance Fuller is the only one who can rescue
Lombardi's Trilby, a sock-eyed woman named Andrea, who,
inexplicably, falls for the sack-of-doorknobs that is Lance.
Eventually, the full-figured crawfish creature kills
Lombardi and returns to the sea to spawn, or something.
Prologue: Crow learns how painful it can be to confuse a
Thawmaster and a Thighmaster. The audience learns just how
far we'll go for stupid wordplay.
Segment One: Things with the Observers have deteriorated,
what with Pearl in prison and Bobo about to be dissected.
Pearl asks Mike for a distraction, which the Nanites
provide, and takes one of the Observers' brains hostage.
Mike blows up the Observers world, upping his planet
destruction count to 2.
Segment
Two: Crow makes a Tickle Me
Carlo Lombardi doll, based on a saggy, lubricious character
from this week's film, The She
Creature. It attacks Mike,
naturally.
Segment Three: Pearl has escaped the Observer's planet with
Bobo and one of the Brain Guys in tow. She tries to get them
to sing a round of "Row Row Row Your Boat," but finds out
that Bobo is too stupid. They get a flat and Bobo jumps out,
falling to the surface of a new planet below.
Segment Four: Mike tries out his Lance Fuller acting
technique, based on the non-acting of the lead character of
The She
Creature. This makes sense
when you see the film and realize that Lance Fuller is a
horrible, horrible actor.
Segment Five: Mike and the 'Bots try to guess what the
question mark at the end of the film stood for. Meanwhile,
Pearl taunts Mike because she's got the Observer on her
side, an all-powerful being who, for some reason, obeys her
every command.
Reflections:
Unfortunately, many of my memories of past movies are
swamped by ill feelings toward its actors. Did funny or
interesting things happen during the filming of
Episode 808- The She
Creature? I couldn't tell you
-- I was busy hating Lance Fuller. Any on-set shenanigans?
Don't know -- I was calling a contract hit on Dr. Carlo
Lombardi.
I do remember feeling unmitigated joy at finishing my final
shot as the Observer. No more clown white, an evil
invention. It takes roughly 1,300 scrubbings with Lava soap
to get the crap out of your skin. By the time you're done,
your skin isn't so much red as it is gone. You can see the
musculature that covers your face. You must go into hiding
for weeks until new flesh begins to grow and fill in. There
are many good reasons not to become a clown (i.e., they're
evil, wholly unfunny creatures in league with the Man-goat),
and clown white is at the top of the list. -- Michael J.
Nelson
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