902: The Phantom Planet Movie: A man crash lands on a planet and gets shrunk down to it's citzen's size. Then he goes on trial and falls in love with a mute girl. Then he helps them fight some dog like creatures called Solarites. Opening: Mike and the 'bots have an "Andy Rooney-off", pitting their respective Andy Rooney imitations against each other. In the end, no one wins... Host Segment 1: Down in Castle Forrester, Pearl, Observer, and Bobo unpack the Doomsday Machine they ordered from Spiegel. Turns out it requires some assembly. The radioactive core of the device accidentally gets sent to the SOL, where Servo and Crow want to keep it as a pet. Host Segment 2: Servo tries to take the advice of the doomed astronaut in the movie, and fix his attention on "the good and the beautiful". He does this by staring at various combinations of delicious food items and photographs of sexy starlets, thereby missing the point entirely, as Servo is common to do. Host Segment 3: On the SOL, Mike takes a space walk and Crow forgets to reel him back in. Down in Castle Forrester, Pearl and Observer continue struggling to put the Doomdsay Device together. They hear ghastly, ghostly noises echoing through the halls and get all scared. And -- what do you know! - it turns out to be Bobo yawning and accidentally dragging a chain around, heh heh...Pearl gives Brain Guy a wrench and tells him to murder Bobo. Host Segment 4: Inspired by the look of the planet's control panels in the movie, Crow and Servo set up an array of water glasses and practice playing. Mike innocently shows them up with his virtuoso playing, temporarily upsetting the 'bots, what with their fragile self-esteem. End: Crow dresses as a Solarite from the movie, sending him into a spiral of existential doubt about what he really is all about. On earth, Pearl has given up on ever finishing the device, and her confidence as an evil world conqueror is shaken. But she's cheered by a mob of villagers apparently storming the castle - that must mean she's a threat. Her heart sinks when she learns that the peasants are there merely to welcome them to the neighborhood. Stinger: The "Good and the Beautiful" are extolled. Special Notes: None |
