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The Beast of Yucca Flats

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621 - The Beast of Yucca Flats
Air Date January 21, 1995
AKA Girl Madness
The Atomic Monster: The Beast of Yucca Flats
Movie Director Coleman Francis
Year 1961
Cast Douglas Mellor, Barbara Francis, Tor Johnson, Bing Stafford
Short Money Talks!
Preceded by 620 - Danger!! Death Ray
Followed by 622 - Angels Revenge

Contents

The Shorts

Synopses

Money Talks! Having trouble saving money, a kid gets advice from Ben Franklin himself.

Progress Island, U.S.A. Modern Puerto Rico has a lot to offer.

Information

The Movie

Synopsis

A clock ticks. A beautiful girl. A hidden killer. The clock stops. There is no connection.

The vast desert. A plane lands. Joseph Javorski, noted scientist. Joseph Javorski, who looks like he could eat whole pigs, has the fate of the world in his briefcase. The Kremlin's best make him a target. The wheels of progress grind on.

A chase. Bullets. Murder. Flag on the moon...how did it get there? A bomb. More progress. Touch a button, something happens. A scientist becomes a beast.

Figures in a landscape. Who knows how long we really have? Joe and Jim, desert patrolmen. They guard freedom and democracy 24/7 in this landscape. A beast is on the loose. Joseph Javorski, once a noted scientist, now...nothing.

There is no progress in the desert. Yet its effects are everywhere. Man's progress. Quench the killer's thirst. A family stops for a rest. The beast appears. A terrible mistake. Policemen with quick guns and the minds of swine. An innocent man dies. Who cares? Two boys feed soda pop to thirsty pigs. It's progress, you know.

Confrontation. A fight that is not a fight. A gun with no bullets fires. Joseph Javorski, noted scientist, becomes rabbit food. The wheels of progress grind on. End. [1]

Information

  • Watching Jim and Joe operate, you begin to wonder if these two men are really even highway patrolmen. They drive around in an unmarked car and don’t seem to report to anyone about the murder investigation. And what about their “shoot first; ask questions never” policy? It’s as if even Coleman Francis wasn’t sure whether or not Jim and Joe were the heroes of the movie. Coleman is just as diffident in his attitude toward the beast. Is the audience supposed to fear him or pity him, or both, or neither?
  • The two boys, Randy and Art, are played by Coleman Francis’ sons Ronald and Alan.
  • Tor got paid $300 for starring in this movie. That’s a dollar a pound.

The Episode

Host Segments

Prologue: Mike and the Bots are wallpapering the SOL. The patterns aren't matched up, mostly because they're not the same pattern. Gypsy does not react as expected.

Segment One: "Proposition Deep 13" proposes to speak for the Mads in the form of the feature film's inept badness. Candidate Mike Nelson responds for the SOL with a stirring speech from Tom Servo and fanfare from Crow's horn. However, the fact that the film is from Coleman Francis causes some backpeddling from Mike and the gang.

Segment Two: The SOL's nice quiet afternoon is interrupted by a visit from some noisy white-trash teen partiers. Crow takes them up on their offer to join the festivities.

Segment Third: Crow wants to know if it's 11:30 yet. There are many times at which it is not 11:30, as Mike constantly tells him.

Segment Four: Crow offers a plea for film anti-preservation to help godawful films deteriorate more quickly. Mike disapproves, but Crow doesn't care.

Segment Five: The Bots read letters of congratulations, and Mike gives his victory speech after topping Proposition Deep 13. Dr. F gives his concession speech. He then slaps Frank around. A lot.

Stinger: The beast is very pissed off.

Other Notes

Guest Stars

Obscure References

  • "Feel the glory of the Royal Scam!"

A misquoted line from the Steely Dan song "The Royal Scam".

  • "Why do I conk my hair?"

In African-American dialect, the verb "conk" refers to straightening one's hair.


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