704 – The Incredible Melting Man
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Things I liked in the movie:
The happy janitor at the end.
Impressions
This is a funny episode. The movie is pretty rough. There seems to be just the right balance of stupidity and quiet spaces to get the riffing going really well.
Synopsis
A man goes into space.
Gets irradiated. After re-entry,
he goes around killing people. (See Night
of the Blood Beast, The Crawling Hand, Monster A-Go-Go, etc). The big twist is this guy is melting. In the end everyone dies and the melting guy
gets tossed into a trash can by a janitor.
It really is just a whole lot of walking around.
Host Segments
Prologue: Mike and company are playing baseball. Tom beans Mike.
Segment One: Mike nurses his injury. Dr. Forrester and Mother Forrester announce to Crow that a studio has bought his screenplay, "Earth Vs. Soup." Clay and Pearl declare themselves in charge of the film. The budget is a measly 30 million, of which Crow gets $800 to shoot his film, and the studio insists on Kevin Bacon for the lead.
Segment Two: The mads use 45% of the budget to fly up to the ship just to make sure they have all the pages of the (one page) script.
Segment Three: Crow lets being the director go to his head.
Segment Four: Dr. Forrester conducts a focus group for a screening of "Earth Vs. Soup." They had 68% walkouts and want to get that down.
Segment Five: Pearl tells Crow that he his movie is being released as a trailer and he has to remove his name from the credits. He’s very sad.
Stinger: Old people saying "Let's get the hell out of here!"
Funny Riffs
Mike: Uh, Melt, you got a little something, there...
Mike as woman: I had my breasts lowered and my hips pulled out at odd angles, I hope that's OK.
Mike: Is there a credible melting man?
Crow: Hey, you've got protoplasm in my peanut butter.
Mike: He'd make a pretty good dip with taco chips.
Mike: I think his shampoo has the wrong pH.
Mike: Be careful, the paneling is out-acting you.
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