Pence is still mad at the idea that Mary Tyler Moore could make it on her own, though.

Ah, the Murphy Brown option. Very traditional.

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I just read about that - Jesus Christ. There's an alternate history novel where Hitler emigrated to America and became a Golden Age Sci-fi writer, and that seriously reminded me of it.

"Oh, he's a made-for-TV hippie!"

I think he's tied with the Mael brothers in that category.

"I KILLED THAT FAT BARKEEP!"

"Let's you and I go out to Rhinelander and roll on each other."

"Damn you, Pee-Wee!"

Were you near Shalimar, Florida? Because there's one near there, complete with large plush Scooby in the window.

I haven't seen it myself, but apparently in the full cut of that there's a 20 minute sequence where the folk singer with wrote the John Prine-ish theme song sings another song about Jesus with a bunch of random hippies in the town square, and then the sheriff comes and arrests them.

Welllll…according to Tony Cardoza, it might have actually been a David Carradine situation…

I love that episode. It was presumably made by and for the Air Force (although for what reason I can't imagine) so there all these goofy little details (one member cheerfully assuring another that "I'll provide the Dexies!" If he'll cover his night flight; the general mentioning that he's all fired up after delivering…

I'm paraphrasing here, but in the episode guide, someone says that Francis' main themes were pain, death, vigilante justice, coffee, and light aircraft.

I believe that's an urban legend. The real issue was that, like Manos, they shot the whole film without synchronized sound, planning to dub it in later. The problem was that they could only be bothered to dub over some of it (again, con man), so the rest of the film is just a random radio newscaster they hired for an…

Coleman Francis is the Satan to Ed Wood's Jesus in the Z-movie pantheon.

Creeping Terror is also pretty high up on the wasting-your-time scale - the director/producer/star was a literal con man who disappeared after the movie was finished. So not exactly invested with artistic purpose.

This really doesn't surprise me either, though - even early on, the cast seemed mildly uncomfortable with the initial conception of Gypsy (she was based on Mallon's scatterbrained mom, but more than one person said to the Info Club guys that they were a little embarrassed that their only onscreen female character was…

Yeah, this isn't counterproductively depressing at all.

Well, they partially control the bots, to be fair - just the jaw part via radio control, but that's how a lot of Jim Henson's later puppets operated (the Gorgs and the Doozers on Fraggle Rock, and Hoggle in Labyrinth), so it's not that sacreligous to me.