702: The Brute Man (w/ Chicken of Tomorrow)
Short: A very detailed look at chicken farming in the 40's. Though it often looks at less importnat things such as the "motor truck."
Movie: The best football player at Hampton College goes on a murdering spree. He kills and kills until people become aware of his tactics. He then befriends a blind women, but then he is caught in a trap and killed himself. I think we were supposed to feel sorry for him.
Opening: Servo's on the phone, buying a duplex in Philadelphia with the help of an agent named Sherrie. "Points? Are those good? Sure, I'll take a few." Mike reads the income projections and tells Servo he'll be losing $2,000 a month; Servo says he'll write it off his income, Mike points out he has no income. "So I'll income average!"
Host Segment 1: Mrs. Forrester has a date, and she leaves Crow in charge as babysitter. Crow flaunts his authority -- "Go to bed now and don't wake up or I'll put your hand in the garbage disposal!" The date, a sport-jacket gigolo named Sandy, leers at Pearl for the benefit of son Clayton, and leaves with a lurid "Poom!" and suggestive fist-thrust. Dr. F: "Oh well, he's not the first oily man who's taken Mom to the mat."
Host Segment 2: Servo puts himself into a large egg, surrounded by warm nutrients -- "I want to experience the miracle of chicken birth, Mike." Mike objects, picks up the egg to get Servo out and drops it -- sploosh. Crow: "Oh, ick -- I'll go get a whole lot of paper towels."
Host Segment 3: Mike calls an old girlfriend, Carla, to tell her of his being trapped in space, and to get some help. "Miiike! How are youuuuu!" She puts her little boy, Matthew, on the phone, and there follows a disjointed infant-style conversation. Servo, impatient to hear from Sherrie, breaks in and instructs Matthew to hang up, prompting the lad's only discernible words: "Oh, okay, bye!" Click. Mike is mad.
Host Segment 4: Crow is thrilled by the similarity between the names "Tom Dewey" (whom one of the characters resembles) and "Tom Dooley" of folk song "The Crimes of Tom Dooley" fame. He explains his point with posters and other visual aids: "What if instead of singing 'Hang down you head Tom Dooley,' you went ahead and sang 'Hang down your head Tom Dewey?' Not Dooley -- Dewey? Let's try it."
End: Amid letters, duplex-owner Servo gets a phone call from an irate tenant. "What do you mean I'm already on the Village Voice list of the top ten worst landlords in New York? It's in Pennsylvania!" In Deep 13, Pearl and leering, triumphant Sandy reappear. Clay gives Sandy a potion that turns him into The Chicken of Tomorrow.
Stinger: The murdered delivery boy's extremely crotchety boss: "Creeper, creeper, creeper -- you give me the creeps!!"
Special Notes: Only Mary Jo Pehl and Paul Chaplin wrote the host segments for this episode. The rest of the cast was in Los Angeles.
