Not only was he a writer, but he was the puppeteer for Crow in Seasons 8-10. Not to mention the Brain Guy during that same period. Nice find!
Season Five Episode Twenty-Three: Village of the Giants
Network: Comedy Central
Riffers: Tom Servo, Mike Nelson, and Crow T. Robot
Mads: Dr. Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank
Plot Synopsis: A kid named Genius (Ron Howard) accidentally invents a substance that causes all animal life to grow. Genius's sister Nancy and her boyfriend Mike (Tommy Kirk) see the money-making potential in the substance (dubbed "Goo") and plan to sell it to help solve the world's food problem. Unfortunately, a greedy young opportunist and the group of delinquents he hangs around with decide to steal the Goo and use it for their own purposes. They soon change their minds and decide to eat the Goo themselves. They grow to gigantic proportions and temporarily take over the town.
Host Segments:
Prologue: MatBs do their quarterly workout. As Mike says, "If you can't take 30 minutes out of every year, you don't deserve a hot date!"
Segment One: MatBs put all sorts of strange items into a juicer before contacting the Mads. Dr. Forrester makes the announcement that they're making cutbacks down in Deep 13, and orders TV's Frank to fire...TV's Frank!? Yep, Frank's been given the ol' heave-ho.
Segment Two: Now that he's fired, Frank lounges around Deep 13 in his underwear, watching TV. Meanwhile, Dr. F. interviews Torgo, the former servant of the Master and former pizza delivery man, and hires him. Dr. F tells him no theme music. Torgo isn't sure what he's talking about.
Segment Three: Frank's taken up refuge in the storage closet in Deep 13 to keep Dr. F. from kicking him out. MatBs pretend to interview Frank so he’ll be eligible for unemployment benefits.
Segment Four: Frank's got his stuff packed, and is ready to go, but not before bidding MatBs adieu. The SOL crew is not that heartless, and sing a song to the former aide, titled "The Greatest Frank of Them All" (alongside a montage of clips of Frank put together by Cambot). The song energizes Frank, and so begins his plans to oust Torgo.
Ending Segment: As Mike and the Bots go through letters supporting Frank, Frank talks to Torgo, telling the goat-legged fellow that he won fair and square, and gives him some advice that will "make Dr Forrester really happy". Of course, Frank's underhanded scheme gets Torgo ejected, and Frank has his job back - though of course, the little stunt he pulled means that Dr Forrester is going to have to kill him now.
Stinger: A tribute to the late, great Frank Zappa.
Review:
The eighth and final movie of Mr. Bert I. Gordon shown on MST3K. Unlike his other films, it isn't a scary giant monster movie. Rather, this is more along the lines Bert I. adding gratuitous fanservice shots for the sake of it. Why else would there be two shots of women growing out of their clothes? Not only that, but the ending is really anti-climatic.
The riffing on this film was pretty decent, though nothing too hilarious. The real highlight of today's film is the host segments. Dr. Forrester firing Frank and hiring Torgo has to be some of the best host segments they ever produced. I nearly died laughing when Dr. F, instead of waiting for Torgo shuffle his way to the interview section, gets up and just pushes him to it (which in effect makes his theme music double in speed.) Overall, this is a pretty good episode with some good riffs, but the real highlight are the host segments. 7.5/10
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