Post by vanhagar3000 on Dec 7, 2007 1:51:26 GMT -5
Okay, unlike my other season reviews, I'm not gonna post this all at once. I don't have every episode as of right now, but I will try to get acess to all of them to finish these reviews. I plan on doing this at the same time I finish my Rhino DVD reviews.
503- Swamp Diamonds
With Short: What to do on a date?
A good episode harkening back to season three with a little educational short and a dull Roger Corman feature. The short is about some dork trying to figure out where to take out a girl, and he ends up picking the most dorky stuff because it’s the 50s! Joel and the bots ridicule the short excellently. Poor Tom Servo though takes to heart the lessons of the short too serious. In an amusing series of host segments, he asks out Gypsy and then gets rejected. The movie features a cop going undercover with a group of girls who know where some diamonds are (including Beverly Garland) so she can find the location of said diamonds. Along the way, the kidnap Mannix himself, Mike Conners. (Known here as “Touch Conners”) Roger Corman’s fourth film is filled with scenes and scenes of padding from long shots of the swamp to superfluous scenes of walking through the swamp. This gives Joel and the bots plenty of time to talk, but it was such a dull movie it kind of brought the episode down a bit. The SOL crew though had plenty of good material with quips about Mr. Conner’s first name, and the cheesy scenes with the women fighting, wet, etc. A hilarious scene includes shots of an alligator, a woman in a pool, and Touch Conners swimming poorly passed off as being in the same swamp. “They couldn’t have saved her, she was in a pool across town anyway.” This is another good entry in Joel’s season five category, though it doesn’t quite match the quality of other Corman movies or other movies in season five. ****½ [S: *****; F: ****]
506- Eegah
This is classic MST3K. A cheesy movie that is burned to the hilt. The film is a 1960s caveman movie also featuring a scrunchy faced teen whose father produced the film with the intentions of making him an ugly Elvis like star. The film itself provides comedy of it's own, I saw uncut before I saw the MST3K version but MST3K takes it a step further as always. There are some classic lines in this one ("Watch out for Snakes!"). The host segments all tie in pretty well, especially one about all the single fathers on TV in the 1960s. Joel's invention is one of the best of the entire series in Porkorina. This episode is one that just typifies MST3K at it's best and hitting on all cylinders. *****
507- I Accuse My Parents
Joel had few, if any, weak episodes during his run in season five, this is no exception. This is a hilarious episode with a cheesy outdated movies from the 1940s that involves a poor young sap getting involved with the wrong side of the law while trying to get the girl. This movie was sent oversees during the war, and after the soldiers saw it they took it out on Germany, and the rest is history. The MST3K gang riffs the film to near perfection, but I felt something was lacking watching it, it was a little less funny that some others from around this time. The short is also a gas as they usually are, this time it’s an informational short about truck farming, and seems to explain little behind the concept. Good invention exchange, as Forrester and Frank do a funny little bit in theirs. Some good host segments really complete this episode. Rhino made a good choice in releasing this episode and it’s hard to go wrong with anything Joel did in season five. ****½ [S: *****| F:****1/2]
508- Operation Double 007
The excellent streak of episodes continues in this one of a kind episode. The movie is a hoot as it’s a cliched 1960s James Bond knockoff a typical Italian genre at the time. It also steals from a good Italian movement, Italian Neo-Realism, as it casts non-actor, but brother of Sean Connery, Neil Connery. Neil Connery plays Neil Connery a hypnotist, plastic surgeon, mind reader, brother to Britain’s top agent, and cartoon character. (Ok not the last one) Bernard Lee (M from Dr. No until Moonraker!) and Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny from Dr. No until A View to a Kill!) enlist Neil to fight the Thantos (or SPECTRE knockoff) organization headed by Anthony Dawson (Dr. No) and plans being carried out by Adolfo Celi (Thunderball). Celi is assisted by the typical Bond (errr...Connery) bad girl goes good in Daniela Bianchi (From Russia with Love). This movie is cheesy, but admittedly a little fun with a bunch of Bond regulars, plus it doesn’t take itself too serious. You get to see Maxwell in a more expansive role, and this is the only other Bianchi movie I’ve seen besides From Russia with Love. Not great, pretty cheesy but at least it wasn’t Moonraker! This movie is excellent fodder for the show. A mix of easy Bond references and other references. Like when Maxwell is dressed in a big Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond era) hat with a machine gun, Servo says “Cover me Norman” in a great line. Good call backs to previous episodes (the Gamera song is mentioned, plus a guest star). Plus this movie has some big faults from the production to the story, and Crow says during a phantom punch “Someone hit the Foley guy!” Some of the best host segments of the series with Crow’s invention “Bobbin Buzzard CAW CAW”, Joel’s Bond villain who says only “I Know,” and of course the return of Torgo. The look on Forrester and Frank’s faces when he asks to use the bathroom is priceless! A well rounded episode that’s hard to find a fault. A riff for everyone is in this episode, even if you’re not a Bond fan (but it does help). Added with hilarious host segments, this is a pretty perfect episode. *****
512- Mitchell
A pivotal episode of MST3K as creator Joel Hodgson has his final show as host. He leaves with a bang in this classic episode. The movie is Joe Don Baker as Dirty Harry or Popeye Doyle or any cop on the edge from the 1970s. It also features a loser bouquet of actors with Merlin Olsen, Linda Evans, John Saxon, and Martin Balsam. Baker doesn’t fit in at all as a action hero and the gang of the SOL really dig into his unappealing character. He’s a fat violent boorish slob, and that’s his good side. The host segments all deal with Gypsy trying to get Joel off of the SOL. They sneak in many sly Kubrick references giving it a bit of a theme. I personally enjoyed these segments and they may be the best host segment arc of the series. This episode is a classic, not only for Joel leaving, but also produced some great riffs in the theater segments. MITCHELL! *****
513- The Brain that Wouldn’t Die
Mike goes through his first movie, and not only survives, but thrives! According to the bots in the first host segment, Mike’s been training watching other bad movies (including Night of the Lepus) and is now ready for the big show, The Brain that Wouldn’t Die. TBTWD is a horrid 50s mad scientist movie, about a madman who is attempting to perfect a body regeneration or something so he can save his wife, who is now only a head. Then the director decides that movie isn’t working, so we switch to a sleaze picture with the scientist going to seedy bars and strip clubs to try and find the woman with the right body for his girl. Terrible in just about every way imaginable, and several times it gets incredibly boring before picking up again. That is kind of like this episode, as the movie gives them stuff to work with for several minutes, then nothing for a few more. The episode will hits peaks and valleys, but consistently is very funny. There are quite a few gutbusters, but sometimes too long of periods with few laughs. Mike has pretty much polished off his on screen presence, but it’s still rough around the edges. His delivery in the theater is pretty sharp, but some of the jokes didn’t seem to be for him. A couple times does one see Mike and wonder “I wonder if that was written for Joel.” In the host segments, they do a good job of establishing Mike and his interaction with the bots, including him revealing a dark personal secret, that the bots immediately ridicule. The host segments were good to get to know Mike, and the film itself was cheesy enough at parts with great riffing, even if bogged down at points. Mike makes a debut that no one else could have matched. ****½
514- Teenage Strangler
With Short: Is this Love?
Mike becomes more comfortable in the role as he enters his second episode. Some riffs are noticeably bluer and he shows his first signs of viciousness towards a character in Mickey. These again are not common traits of Joel, but Mike still doesn’t seem himself in the host segments or even points of the movie. The movie is about a mysterious murderer knocking off teen girls. A poor mixture between thriller and horror, with awful acting, as Mike says “from community theater to the big screen.” The character of Mickey is a hoot, mercilessly ripped apart by Mike and the bots as a little whiny, dorky, annoying runt. The episode start slow, but once Mickey shows up, it starts getting into the classic sort of riffing. One example of how losing Mike as a guest character is shown in segment 3, when Mike puts on the Mikey glasses. Had it been Joel, they just would have had Mike as Mickey on the hexfield rather than have the jokes of controlling Mike which slowed down the segment. The rest of the host segments are pretty good, but would improve more later. Mike has a few first in this episode, one of them being his first short Is This Love? While putting in some good zingers, it doesn’t reach the level it could have and Are You Ready for Marriage? is far funnier by comparison. Mike also does his first song in the “Janitor Song” showing off his musical talent. I never thought of Mike as the best singer, and this is his first run, but it’s a pretty fun preview of Mike’s unique singing voice, and a freshness from Joel’s usual fare. Mike continues to improve as host, and would need only one more episode to find himself. **** [S: ****1/2; F: ****]
515- Wild World of Batwoman
This is something of a pivotal episode. As I see it, this is the episode Mike went from Joel-lite to the real Mike. In the previous two episodes, he felt like a guy trying to do what Joel was doing before, not the Mike we would come to love. This movie was probably the cause. It's a cheapie 60s Batman knockoff that had Batwoman and a bunch of her hot minions run around with little plot. It's just a movie that failed on all levels. It failed as comedy, it failed at being sexual, it failed at being exciting, it failed at acting, it just failed. I think it even failed Geometry it was so bad. This movie just pushed the riffing from the typical Joel era "ha ha, this is bad" to the more Mike era like "I hate you, this is so bad." The episode has some good riffing, but since there is a lot of comedy sometimes Mike and the gang can only use sarcasm as their weapon, which falls flat. The host segments are all pretty decent. They also do a good number on the "educational" short, Cheating, as they always do. It is really something to see Mike come into his own. I can't quite give a perfect rating because of some dull parts during the movie's "comedy", but it's still has a good amount of gutbusting laughs. ****1/2 [S: *****|M: ****1/2]
516- Alien from L.A.
This one isn’t a big time favorite, which is something of a mystery. Along with the Universal movies and Marooned it’s one of the better produced movies to be on the series. That's not to say that the production was executed well, because the art direction sucked, but it looks like they threw enough money at it. Too bad the couldn't have thrown it on a script or actors. Kathy Ireland takes my personal award for both the hottest and worst leading actress to ever appear in a MST movie. The Aussie male lead was obnoxious, the plot was dumb and despite acting like the character developed, she did not other than taking off her glasses. The riffing starts out great for the first half, but slows down a bit by the second. The slams on Kathy are the best riffs, “Why did go out with me?” “Because I have a thing for squeeze toys” but get repetitive by act two. The movie itself cheesy enough to carry it. Mike and Crow fight who like chick flicks better ends the riffing on a good note. Decent host segments too, and I liked BOTH of the invention exchanges, probably the best of the short lived Mike era. Should be a bigger favorite, maybe it’s me since I think so much and little (at the same time) of Kathy Ireland. An underrated and overlooked episode. Give Alien from L.A. a chance. ****
517- Beginning of the End
Mike’s first run in with Mr. BIG. A classic b-movie is torn apart by the crew of the SOL in this episode. Beginning of the End is one film of many from Bert I. Gordon’s “Big Ol’ Thing” series, this time grasshoppers being the subject. It was a good episode with some good riffs throughout, and the episode is pretty even throughout as far as laughs. It wasn’t a perfect or even near-perfect episode, but it was still damn good and kept me entertained. The host segments were all pretty good, including a delve into the Mads personal life. All in all a very good episode. ****
518- The Atomic Brain
With Short: What About Juvenile Delinquency?
Mike continues to get stronger in this episode. The feature is a dreary mad scientist movie, (a favorite genres) this one about putting some old woman’s brain in a new young female body. The short is about some gang beating up one of their member’s dads by accident, and the aftermath. Hey, if the guy raised a kid to join a gang like that, doesn’t he deserve a beating anyway? This is a solid episode, but it’s too bad Joel didn’t get a crack at it before he left. Mike did a good job though, but inexperience probably hurt a little still. The host segments are forgettable for the most part. The best one is Magic Voice talking to the movie’s narrator. Unfortunately, Magic Voice is played by Mary Jo Pehl here, who I didn’t like as magic voice for some reason (probably because she’s too recognizable). By this point, they were just stretching to find things they could still call invention exchanges as the “inventions” are just the crews doing impressions of one another. Otherwise, a great outing for an inexperienced Mike. ****½ [S: ***** | F: ****]
524- 12 to the Moon
With Short: Design for Dreaming
After an excellent season, that went through some colossal peaks and saw a changing of the guard, ends on a lackluster disappointing note. The episode opens with Design for Dreaming, about...I’m not really sure what, but something to do with GM. For some reason the producers decided the best way to push GM was an opera about the woman to the future, Nueveena. Meanwhile, the Japanese were making better cars and had Sailor Moon, Godzilla and Ultraman pushing them! In a good series of host segments, Nueveena (Bridget Jones) comes to visit the Satellite of Love in a series of host segments, attempting to woo Mike to come to her home planet. During these escapades they watch 12 to the Moon. The movie is a dull, poorly produced space travel movie, in this case going to the moon. If you’re gonna do melodrama, at least have an interesting plot. It’s like the film stock of Rocketship X-M got dipped in molasses. This provides for a rather dull episode, as the short disappointed as well (especially when compared to another short musical, Once Upon a Honeymoon). The best part of this episode was the above average host segments. A good season ends on a bad note. *** [S: ***; F: **1/2]
MORE TO COME!
503- Swamp Diamonds
With Short: What to do on a date?
A good episode harkening back to season three with a little educational short and a dull Roger Corman feature. The short is about some dork trying to figure out where to take out a girl, and he ends up picking the most dorky stuff because it’s the 50s! Joel and the bots ridicule the short excellently. Poor Tom Servo though takes to heart the lessons of the short too serious. In an amusing series of host segments, he asks out Gypsy and then gets rejected. The movie features a cop going undercover with a group of girls who know where some diamonds are (including Beverly Garland) so she can find the location of said diamonds. Along the way, the kidnap Mannix himself, Mike Conners. (Known here as “Touch Conners”) Roger Corman’s fourth film is filled with scenes and scenes of padding from long shots of the swamp to superfluous scenes of walking through the swamp. This gives Joel and the bots plenty of time to talk, but it was such a dull movie it kind of brought the episode down a bit. The SOL crew though had plenty of good material with quips about Mr. Conner’s first name, and the cheesy scenes with the women fighting, wet, etc. A hilarious scene includes shots of an alligator, a woman in a pool, and Touch Conners swimming poorly passed off as being in the same swamp. “They couldn’t have saved her, she was in a pool across town anyway.” This is another good entry in Joel’s season five category, though it doesn’t quite match the quality of other Corman movies or other movies in season five. ****½ [S: *****; F: ****]
506- Eegah
This is classic MST3K. A cheesy movie that is burned to the hilt. The film is a 1960s caveman movie also featuring a scrunchy faced teen whose father produced the film with the intentions of making him an ugly Elvis like star. The film itself provides comedy of it's own, I saw uncut before I saw the MST3K version but MST3K takes it a step further as always. There are some classic lines in this one ("Watch out for Snakes!"). The host segments all tie in pretty well, especially one about all the single fathers on TV in the 1960s. Joel's invention is one of the best of the entire series in Porkorina. This episode is one that just typifies MST3K at it's best and hitting on all cylinders. *****
507- I Accuse My Parents
Joel had few, if any, weak episodes during his run in season five, this is no exception. This is a hilarious episode with a cheesy outdated movies from the 1940s that involves a poor young sap getting involved with the wrong side of the law while trying to get the girl. This movie was sent oversees during the war, and after the soldiers saw it they took it out on Germany, and the rest is history. The MST3K gang riffs the film to near perfection, but I felt something was lacking watching it, it was a little less funny that some others from around this time. The short is also a gas as they usually are, this time it’s an informational short about truck farming, and seems to explain little behind the concept. Good invention exchange, as Forrester and Frank do a funny little bit in theirs. Some good host segments really complete this episode. Rhino made a good choice in releasing this episode and it’s hard to go wrong with anything Joel did in season five. ****½ [S: *****| F:****1/2]
508- Operation Double 007
The excellent streak of episodes continues in this one of a kind episode. The movie is a hoot as it’s a cliched 1960s James Bond knockoff a typical Italian genre at the time. It also steals from a good Italian movement, Italian Neo-Realism, as it casts non-actor, but brother of Sean Connery, Neil Connery. Neil Connery plays Neil Connery a hypnotist, plastic surgeon, mind reader, brother to Britain’s top agent, and cartoon character. (Ok not the last one) Bernard Lee (M from Dr. No until Moonraker!) and Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny from Dr. No until A View to a Kill!) enlist Neil to fight the Thantos (or SPECTRE knockoff) organization headed by Anthony Dawson (Dr. No) and plans being carried out by Adolfo Celi (Thunderball). Celi is assisted by the typical Bond (errr...Connery) bad girl goes good in Daniela Bianchi (From Russia with Love). This movie is cheesy, but admittedly a little fun with a bunch of Bond regulars, plus it doesn’t take itself too serious. You get to see Maxwell in a more expansive role, and this is the only other Bianchi movie I’ve seen besides From Russia with Love. Not great, pretty cheesy but at least it wasn’t Moonraker! This movie is excellent fodder for the show. A mix of easy Bond references and other references. Like when Maxwell is dressed in a big Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond era) hat with a machine gun, Servo says “Cover me Norman” in a great line. Good call backs to previous episodes (the Gamera song is mentioned, plus a guest star). Plus this movie has some big faults from the production to the story, and Crow says during a phantom punch “Someone hit the Foley guy!” Some of the best host segments of the series with Crow’s invention “Bobbin Buzzard CAW CAW”, Joel’s Bond villain who says only “I Know,” and of course the return of Torgo. The look on Forrester and Frank’s faces when he asks to use the bathroom is priceless! A well rounded episode that’s hard to find a fault. A riff for everyone is in this episode, even if you’re not a Bond fan (but it does help). Added with hilarious host segments, this is a pretty perfect episode. *****
512- Mitchell
A pivotal episode of MST3K as creator Joel Hodgson has his final show as host. He leaves with a bang in this classic episode. The movie is Joe Don Baker as Dirty Harry or Popeye Doyle or any cop on the edge from the 1970s. It also features a loser bouquet of actors with Merlin Olsen, Linda Evans, John Saxon, and Martin Balsam. Baker doesn’t fit in at all as a action hero and the gang of the SOL really dig into his unappealing character. He’s a fat violent boorish slob, and that’s his good side. The host segments all deal with Gypsy trying to get Joel off of the SOL. They sneak in many sly Kubrick references giving it a bit of a theme. I personally enjoyed these segments and they may be the best host segment arc of the series. This episode is a classic, not only for Joel leaving, but also produced some great riffs in the theater segments. MITCHELL! *****
513- The Brain that Wouldn’t Die
Mike goes through his first movie, and not only survives, but thrives! According to the bots in the first host segment, Mike’s been training watching other bad movies (including Night of the Lepus) and is now ready for the big show, The Brain that Wouldn’t Die. TBTWD is a horrid 50s mad scientist movie, about a madman who is attempting to perfect a body regeneration or something so he can save his wife, who is now only a head. Then the director decides that movie isn’t working, so we switch to a sleaze picture with the scientist going to seedy bars and strip clubs to try and find the woman with the right body for his girl. Terrible in just about every way imaginable, and several times it gets incredibly boring before picking up again. That is kind of like this episode, as the movie gives them stuff to work with for several minutes, then nothing for a few more. The episode will hits peaks and valleys, but consistently is very funny. There are quite a few gutbusters, but sometimes too long of periods with few laughs. Mike has pretty much polished off his on screen presence, but it’s still rough around the edges. His delivery in the theater is pretty sharp, but some of the jokes didn’t seem to be for him. A couple times does one see Mike and wonder “I wonder if that was written for Joel.” In the host segments, they do a good job of establishing Mike and his interaction with the bots, including him revealing a dark personal secret, that the bots immediately ridicule. The host segments were good to get to know Mike, and the film itself was cheesy enough at parts with great riffing, even if bogged down at points. Mike makes a debut that no one else could have matched. ****½
514- Teenage Strangler
With Short: Is this Love?
Mike becomes more comfortable in the role as he enters his second episode. Some riffs are noticeably bluer and he shows his first signs of viciousness towards a character in Mickey. These again are not common traits of Joel, but Mike still doesn’t seem himself in the host segments or even points of the movie. The movie is about a mysterious murderer knocking off teen girls. A poor mixture between thriller and horror, with awful acting, as Mike says “from community theater to the big screen.” The character of Mickey is a hoot, mercilessly ripped apart by Mike and the bots as a little whiny, dorky, annoying runt. The episode start slow, but once Mickey shows up, it starts getting into the classic sort of riffing. One example of how losing Mike as a guest character is shown in segment 3, when Mike puts on the Mikey glasses. Had it been Joel, they just would have had Mike as Mickey on the hexfield rather than have the jokes of controlling Mike which slowed down the segment. The rest of the host segments are pretty good, but would improve more later. Mike has a few first in this episode, one of them being his first short Is This Love? While putting in some good zingers, it doesn’t reach the level it could have and Are You Ready for Marriage? is far funnier by comparison. Mike also does his first song in the “Janitor Song” showing off his musical talent. I never thought of Mike as the best singer, and this is his first run, but it’s a pretty fun preview of Mike’s unique singing voice, and a freshness from Joel’s usual fare. Mike continues to improve as host, and would need only one more episode to find himself. **** [S: ****1/2; F: ****]
515- Wild World of Batwoman
This is something of a pivotal episode. As I see it, this is the episode Mike went from Joel-lite to the real Mike. In the previous two episodes, he felt like a guy trying to do what Joel was doing before, not the Mike we would come to love. This movie was probably the cause. It's a cheapie 60s Batman knockoff that had Batwoman and a bunch of her hot minions run around with little plot. It's just a movie that failed on all levels. It failed as comedy, it failed at being sexual, it failed at being exciting, it failed at acting, it just failed. I think it even failed Geometry it was so bad. This movie just pushed the riffing from the typical Joel era "ha ha, this is bad" to the more Mike era like "I hate you, this is so bad." The episode has some good riffing, but since there is a lot of comedy sometimes Mike and the gang can only use sarcasm as their weapon, which falls flat. The host segments are all pretty decent. They also do a good number on the "educational" short, Cheating, as they always do. It is really something to see Mike come into his own. I can't quite give a perfect rating because of some dull parts during the movie's "comedy", but it's still has a good amount of gutbusting laughs. ****1/2 [S: *****|M: ****1/2]
516- Alien from L.A.
This one isn’t a big time favorite, which is something of a mystery. Along with the Universal movies and Marooned it’s one of the better produced movies to be on the series. That's not to say that the production was executed well, because the art direction sucked, but it looks like they threw enough money at it. Too bad the couldn't have thrown it on a script or actors. Kathy Ireland takes my personal award for both the hottest and worst leading actress to ever appear in a MST movie. The Aussie male lead was obnoxious, the plot was dumb and despite acting like the character developed, she did not other than taking off her glasses. The riffing starts out great for the first half, but slows down a bit by the second. The slams on Kathy are the best riffs, “Why did go out with me?” “Because I have a thing for squeeze toys” but get repetitive by act two. The movie itself cheesy enough to carry it. Mike and Crow fight who like chick flicks better ends the riffing on a good note. Decent host segments too, and I liked BOTH of the invention exchanges, probably the best of the short lived Mike era. Should be a bigger favorite, maybe it’s me since I think so much and little (at the same time) of Kathy Ireland. An underrated and overlooked episode. Give Alien from L.A. a chance. ****
517- Beginning of the End
Mike’s first run in with Mr. BIG. A classic b-movie is torn apart by the crew of the SOL in this episode. Beginning of the End is one film of many from Bert I. Gordon’s “Big Ol’ Thing” series, this time grasshoppers being the subject. It was a good episode with some good riffs throughout, and the episode is pretty even throughout as far as laughs. It wasn’t a perfect or even near-perfect episode, but it was still damn good and kept me entertained. The host segments were all pretty good, including a delve into the Mads personal life. All in all a very good episode. ****
518- The Atomic Brain
With Short: What About Juvenile Delinquency?
Mike continues to get stronger in this episode. The feature is a dreary mad scientist movie, (a favorite genres) this one about putting some old woman’s brain in a new young female body. The short is about some gang beating up one of their member’s dads by accident, and the aftermath. Hey, if the guy raised a kid to join a gang like that, doesn’t he deserve a beating anyway? This is a solid episode, but it’s too bad Joel didn’t get a crack at it before he left. Mike did a good job though, but inexperience probably hurt a little still. The host segments are forgettable for the most part. The best one is Magic Voice talking to the movie’s narrator. Unfortunately, Magic Voice is played by Mary Jo Pehl here, who I didn’t like as magic voice for some reason (probably because she’s too recognizable). By this point, they were just stretching to find things they could still call invention exchanges as the “inventions” are just the crews doing impressions of one another. Otherwise, a great outing for an inexperienced Mike. ****½ [S: ***** | F: ****]
524- 12 to the Moon
With Short: Design for Dreaming
After an excellent season, that went through some colossal peaks and saw a changing of the guard, ends on a lackluster disappointing note. The episode opens with Design for Dreaming, about...I’m not really sure what, but something to do with GM. For some reason the producers decided the best way to push GM was an opera about the woman to the future, Nueveena. Meanwhile, the Japanese were making better cars and had Sailor Moon, Godzilla and Ultraman pushing them! In a good series of host segments, Nueveena (Bridget Jones) comes to visit the Satellite of Love in a series of host segments, attempting to woo Mike to come to her home planet. During these escapades they watch 12 to the Moon. The movie is a dull, poorly produced space travel movie, in this case going to the moon. If you’re gonna do melodrama, at least have an interesting plot. It’s like the film stock of Rocketship X-M got dipped in molasses. This provides for a rather dull episode, as the short disappointed as well (especially when compared to another short musical, Once Upon a Honeymoon). The best part of this episode was the above average host segments. A good season ends on a bad note. *** [S: ***; F: **1/2]
MORE TO COME!