822: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
Movie: A Made-for-TV movie, filmed on tape rather than actual film, that is about a man (Raul Julia) who gets "doppled." But his mind gets lost in the computer after some little punk switches the tags on the bodies to where they're supposed to go. Now he must find his way out before his Cube Life expires.
Opening: Crow decides he has a famous catch phrase: "You know you want me, baby!" He's already got LOTS of T-shirts printed up, then, before they go to commercial break, the clap-track Servo has going gets stuck.
Host Segment 1: Following instructions from Pearl, The 'bots try to come up with catch phrases for Mike. He keeps choosing the dullest ones. Meanwhile, Pearl has decided she has her own public television station, Public Pearl, and can make lots of cold hard cash holding a pledge drive. She also shows clips from the show called, "The Nature of Bobo."
Host Segment 2: Crow and Servo order a pet monkey for the SOL from Instant Monkeys Online. The monkey takes an instant dislike to Mike, and keeps throwing things at him. Funny, huh?!
Host Segment 3: Mike is still having his dominance challenged by the monkey. Down at the pledge drive, Pearl is calling attention to some of the other fine programming on her public TV station, notably a stunning special starring well, herself. She shows an excerpt: She and Brain Guy performing a lyrcially deficient love duet.
Host Segment 4: Inspired by the movie, Servo decides to dopple himself down to Nannite world and mess with them. But he winds up in a tough Nanite neighborhood a little shorter than he planned, and gets his dopple-butt kicked.
End: The 'Bots have enlisted Bobo to come up to the SOL and talk the monkey down. But Bobo goes over to the other side, and in a show of simian solidarity, begins chucking HUGE things on the bridge such as microwaves and refridgerators. Meanwhile, Pearl is winding up her pledge drive, counting her greenbacks. She makes sure to tip her phone bank - which consists of Ortega, and only Ortega.
Stinger: Raul Julia: "Mom my nuts." (That's what it sure sounds like.)
Special Notes: The cast was afraid of criticizing the career of the repected Raul Julia, mostly because he had been recently deceased. Therefore, most of the jokes go to other people or to the movie itself.
