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Things I liked about the movie:
The name!
The teenager-hating soda fountain owner.
It’s a hand!
There are dozens of campy hand-related riffs. “Let your fingers do the walking,” “Good thing she has a hand gun!” and “Let’s give him a hand!” It’s a pretty dumb movie, of course. In fact, this is the worst movie panned by the crew yet! Disclaimer. The monster is so seemingly harmless (he’s only a hand!) that they had to beef it up by having a teenager partially strangle a bunch of people to make it seem scarier. This is similar to The Crawling Eye in this regard, as the name might suggest. The primary difference between the two movies is the size of the crawling body part.
You’ve never heard this one before. Seriously. An astronaut goes up, comes back, radiation is involved. The monster is the astronaut (or in this case part of him) going around killing people under a different power. Just the hand! There is some kid who likes a girl, a scientist, a government agency. Yada yada yada. Sadly, in the end, the hand is eaten by cats. Yes, this is as good as it sounds. There is a sub-plot in which an otherwise likeable kid goes crazy for unknown reasons and tries to strangle people including a very crabby soda fountain owner who doesn’t like teenagers, who are, ironically, his primary source of income.
Host Segments
Prologue: With
the assistance of Cambot, Joel gives an overview of the show
Segment One: Joel invents a Safety Circular Saw, but using it is very “tricky”; the Mads invent the Limb Lengthener, which Dr. F demonstrates on Dr. E
Segment Two:
Crow is bowling while Servo does the voice-over announcing, but Joel wants to play other games – first Murder
Ball, then Paper-Scissors-Rock – so the ’Bots decide to ditch him instead
Segment Three:
Joel and the ‘Bots do their best William Shatner as Captain Kirk impressions
while being choked by a crawling hand.
Extremely funny! Tom and Crow
ask, “How does Shatner do it week after week?
And more importantly, who lets him do it?”
Segment Four:
The ’Bots talk about how lame a monster the crawling hand is, so Joel tries to
convince them otherwise, until a giant crawling hand shows up.
Final: The
’Bots get RAM chips for saying a good thing and a bad thing about the
movie: a letter; the Mads are fighting it out
Funny riffs
Movie: Not a trace, not a solitary trace.
Joel: Must be a talent meter.
Marta’s
boyfriend almost strangles her
Joel (as
Marta): Every time I get a boyfriend, he crushes my windpipe!
Good
thing she has a hand gun!
Let your
fingers do the walking!
The
world’s least effective strangler.
Crow: He looks like a cross between Jerry Mathers
& James Dean!
Servo: Beaver without a cause
The
ineffective police chief is Alan Hale, Jr., who plays The Skipper on Gilligan’s
Island.
Crow as police
chief reading a note: Dear Skipper: Why
haven't you sent help? Signed, The Castaways.
Tom as
the police chief: Where's the little body, little buddy?
A
character trips over a ball
Tom: It's the crawling bladder!
Joel: You can tell it's a low budget movie 'cause they can't wreck the cars.