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The She-Creature

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808 - The She-Creature
Air Date April 5, 1997
Movie Director Edward L. Cahn
Year 1956
Cast Chester Morris
Marla English
Tom Conway
Cathy Downs
Preceded by 807 - Terror from the Year 5000
Followed by 809 - I Was a Teenage Werewolf


Contents

The Movie

Synopsis

A mysterious hypnotist (Morris) reverts his beautiful assistant (English) back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life. [1]

Information

  • The monster costume was created by master make-up artist Paul Blaisdell and is considered one of his best. [2]

The Episode

Host Segments

Tickle Me Carlo Lombardi doll

Opening: Crow and Servo get their Thigh Master and and Thawmaster switched around. Because of this, Tom's pot roast remains frozen and Crow has melted himself into a puddle of goo while exercising.

Segment 1: On the Planet of the Observers the observers are trying to dissect Professor Bobo. Pearl promises to stop sending Mike bad movies if he creates a distraction. The nanites distract two of the observers with a tractor beam leaving Brain Guy to guard Pearl. Pearl then lures Brain Guy into the force field that's containing her by telling him the other observers have created an invisible man and put him in with her. Furthermore this invisible man is ill and needs attention. When Brain Guy gets close Pearl holds his brain hostage and escapes.

Gypsy tries to get the Satellite of Love away from the Planet of the Observers but she can't since they disabled the navigation system. Mike asks the nanites to solve the problem and they do by devastating the observer's planet.

Segment 2: Crow shows Mike the Tickle-Me-Carlo-Lombardi doll he invented. The doll turns out to be creepy and aggressive.

Segment 3: Pearl, Prof. Bobo and Brain guy have escaped in The Widowmaker relatively unscathed. Pearl abuses them and their microbus gets a flat tire. Bobo gets out to fix it and plummets to a nearby planet.

Segment 4 Mike and the bots are checking out Lance Fuller's instructional book "Do Not Act". The bots practice with Mike as he unresponsively mumbles without emotion to scenes from King Lear, The Odd Couple, Network, Schindler's List. He perfects the Lance Fuller non-acting technique by reciting a line from Waterworld.

Closing Segment Mike and the bots discuss the meaning of the question mark at the end of the film. They try to escape but are being held by Brain Guy's psychic abilities. On the Widowmaker Pearl and Brain Guy forge a new friendship based on tormenting Mike.

Stinger Bobo is still lying on the planet's surface waiting to be rescued.

Obscure References

Mike: King is the Scorpio Killer

The Scorpio Killer was the antagonist in the movie Dirty Harry.

Tom: I'm not a coffee achiever.

Reference to a commercial from the 80's presented by the National Coffee Association.

Tom:Kaiser Soze on piano.

Kaiser Soze was the criminal mastermind in the movie "The Usual Suspects."

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