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- 1988–19991h 33mNot Rated9.0 (1.5K)TV EpisodeThe Mads present the satellite people a film so bad that apologies are sent, and Tom Servo goes off his nut from it.
- Mike and the 'bots learn the 80s were worse than they thought as they endure the putrid sci-fi epic, Space Mutiny (1988).
- 1988–19991h 32mUnrated8.9 (1.1K)TV EpisodeIt's "Canada Bashing Day" on the SOL in every respect between progressive world domination and bizarre looting.
- The trio sit through a dreary Joe Don Baker disasterpiece as Gypsy tries to find a way to save Joel from being killed by the Mads.
- 1988–19991h 33mNot Rated8.5 (813)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots hear all about new-fangled farming techniques in the 50s short The Truck Farmer (1954). Afterward, a one-time overachiever blames his boozy, neglectful parents for his run in with the law in I Accuse My Parents (1944). The guys analyze the main character from the movie and reenact a few choice scenes.
- A guy turns people into werewolves for his own sick pleasure while Mike turns into a were-Crow.
- Mike and the Bots suffer through the 1988 B movie "Hobgoblins," the story of tiny goblin-like creatures who attack a group of teenagers.
- Alien eggs hatch on Earth after a meteor crash which spells trouble for a vacationing family, a singer on tour with his entourage, and a pair of poachers in "Extra Terrestrial Visitors (1983)." Joel and the Bots write their own song.
- 1988–19991h 38mNot Rated8.4 (541)TV EpisodeThis time, the crew watches, "Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)," the fourth original Gamera film, including the Gamera Theme Song and a reenactment of an old favorite magic trick.
- Constantly-Out-Of-His-League Man battles evil while Pearl hosts her Castle Forrester Ball.
- Why the Satellite of Love is malfunctioning, who the hooded figure is that wants Bobo's soul and what the purpose of the mystery ship following the SOL is, the crew finds out in the final season opener featuring "Soultaker (1990)."
- A schmuck has to correct changes to the future by fixing them in the past while Tom and Crow try to fix Mike's past into something more pleasant.
- 1988–1999TV-148.3 (479)TV EpisodeA pair of teens discover a band of multi-eyed aliens in Attack of the Eye Creatures (1967). Crow and Tom work through their "best friends" stage and the guys lament how much the filmmakers just didn't care. The Mads get a visit from Larry Buchanan in Deep 13.
- Joel and the Bots endure Miles O'Keeffe as Ator while Doctor F. endures Frank's efforts to be Mike Douglas in "The Blade Master (1983)."
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-148.3 (673)TV EpisodeA wimpy space hero kicks tyrannical aliens off of Earth while the Widowmaker and the SOL are sucked through a wormhole.
- Mike and the bots watch Santa Claus mess around with a devil while trying to deliver gifts and then sing politically correct holiday songs.
- Doctor Forrester's funding has been cut off, and as he waits for the Satellite of Love to crash, he sends Mike and the Bots Laserblast (1978). Can our heroes escape to the edge of the Universe? More importantly, can they figure out why Leonard Maltin gave the film 2½ stars?
- 1988–1999TV-148.2 (494)TV EpisodeCrow and Tom build a cardboard fort while Joel introduces his idea for non-permanent tattoos during the invention exchange. In Bert I. Gordon's "The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)," an army colonel becomes a giant after an atomic blast.
- 1988–19991h 36mTV-148.2 (538)TV EpisodeThe Mads force Joel and the Bots to watch "Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)," the cheesy Japanese monster mash featuring Godzilla's infamous flying kick.
- 1988–19991h 33mTV-PG8.2 (603)TV EpisodeThe guys check out the first installment of the short Hired! (1940) where a Chevrolet sales manager tries to boost door-to-door sales. Later, the guys watch a mad scientist's experiments attract the attention of the press and the police in Bride of the Monster (1955). Joel and the Bots stage "Hired: The Musical" and Willy the Waffle returns to defend blatant product placement.
- A teenage girl, her dorky boyfriend, and her scientist father discover a caveman in the desert in Eegah (1962). Joel and the Bots discuss 60s sitcoms and the subtler forms of hell.
- 1988–1999TV-148.2 (542)TV EpisodeIn Operation Kid Brother (1967), a plastic surgeon gets recruited to stop a villain from developing radioactive rugs. The Bots watch some of Joel's home movies, try to hypnotize Tom, and get a visit from their old friend Torgo.
- 1988–19991h 37mTV-148.2 (804)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots take on the infamous Christmas classic "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)," in which a group of martians kidnap Santa Claus because they have no one on Mars to give their children presents. The crew performs the pinnacle Christmas carol.
- 1988–19991h 34mTV-PG8.2 (654)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots discover the difference between real and "reel" life, how to dispose of snacks in space, a real 'boss' visitor, and how JFK can wreck a fashion show in this episode featuring the classic "Teenagers From Outer Space."
- Pearl accidentally destroys the device controlling the Satellite of Love, sending the ship into a deadly trajectory towards Earth, but Mike and the bots have enough time to watch one last film: the '60s Euro-spy classic "Danger: Diabolik (1968)."
- 1988–19991h 31mNot Rated8.1 (828)TV EpisodeA weather tech's mind gets trapped in a computer and Pearl establishes her own public television pledge program.
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-PG8.1 (590)TV EpisodeJoel and crew can't settle on which of two film actors in a giant carnivorous lizard movie are more like TV actor Tige Andrews or comedian David Miller.
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-148.1 (531)TV EpisodeMike and the 'bots watch the dreary educational short Is This Love? (1957) and the horrifyingly bad Teenage Strangler (1964).
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-148.1 (595)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots learn the ins and outs of the circus in the short Here Comes the Circus (1946) and then try to make sense of the Nordic fairy tale film The Day the Earth Froze (1959). Joel and the Bots take a family photo and Gypsy puts on a one woman show called "Gypsy Rose Me!"
- 1988–19991h 33mUnrated8.1 (562)TV EpisodeDr. Forrester and TV's Frank plan "evil event days" in order to ruin baseball, while Joel and the 'bots watch a hobo melodrama called The Girl in Lovers Lane (1960).
- The crew riff on the short "Alphabet Antics (1951)" before watching "Daddy-O (1958)," a film about a group of teenage beatniks who spend their free time drag-racing. Joel is inspired to write a song and the Bots reenact a scene from the movie.
- 1988–1999TV-148.0 (438)TV EpisodeAstronauts find a civilization almost entirely populated by women on one of the moons of Jupiter in Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956). Joel and the Bots end up in over their heads when Timmy the Dark Crow starts causing trouble on the Satellite of Love.
- Joel and the Bots watch as the alien Ken joins an Earth spaceship to fight his former masters in "Fugitive Alien (1986)." The Mads get a visit from Jack Perkins in Deep 13 while Joel forces Crow and Tom to reenact a scene from the movie.
- 1988–1999TV-148.0 (563)TV EpisodePearl and Observer are in Ancient Rome pretending to be gods as Mike and the 'bots watch The Horror of Party Beach (1964).
- 1988–1999TV-148.0 (709)TV EpisodeNew guy, Mike Nelson, finishes his training and makes his way into the theater for the first time. His first outing is the movie The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) about a creepy doctor who keeps his decapitated fiancée's head alive in a laboratory while he tries to find her a new body. Mike tries to escape the SOL but ends up bonding with the Bots instead when his attempts fail.
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-148.0 (521)TV EpisodeIn an intriguing coincidence, Crow finally gets to direct his first feature film, "Earth vs. Soup," in between viewing The Incredible Melting Man (1977), a film about a incredibly '70s physician trying to stop an astronaut from gradually turning into soup.
- 1988–19991h 32mNot Rated8.0 (789)TV EpisodeAn overly obvious '70s wanderer hits on a witch while a babysitter watches over Castle Forrester.
- Joel and the Bots watch "Canines of the Caribbean (1985)", a Japanese rip-off of "Planet of the Apes (1968)", stage their own version of "Inherit the Wind," and Crow shows off the latest in ape fashion.
- 1988–19991h 33mUnrated8.0 (694)TV EpisodeIn "Final Justice (1984)," Joe Don Baker tracks down an Italian mobster in Malta while Pearl tries to promote a looser humorous atmosphere in Castle Forrester.
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-148.0 (593)TV EpisodeMike and the 'bots watch The Creeping Terror (1964), with its infamous walking-carpet monster, and parody Love, American Style (1969).
- 1988–1999TV-148.0 (449)TV EpisodeThe crew learns about the wonders of winter sports in the short "The Sport Parade: Snow Thrills (1945)." Later, in "It Conquered the World (1956)," a doctor tries to thwart a mad scientist's attempt to take over the world. Joel and Crow try out ventriloquism.
- 1988–19991h 33mTV-PG8.0 (591)TV EpisodeThe crew muses about a wacky short involving the Toronto Skating Club in Circus on Ice (1954). Then the guys watch Monster a Go-Go (1965) where a radiated astronaut has returned to Earth as a giant mutant. It's a battle of the action figures in the invention exchange when the Mads introduce Johnny Longtorso while Joel presents non-violent action figures.
- In Tormented (1960), a pianist thinks he has finally escaped his demanding mistress when she dies after a fall but her ghost comes back to haunt him and his fiancée. Joel gets stuck in a ventilation duct and the Bots are no help. But Joel has the last laugh later when Crow and Tom pretend to be headless ghosts.
- 1988–19991h 30mTV-147.9 (714)TV EpisodeA smarmy professor and his dimwitted students camp out in an Arkansas swamp to search for Bigfoot in "Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1983)". Pearl makes up her own urban legend, Tom takes up whittling, and Crow tends to his fires.
- 1988–1999TV-147.9 (494)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots get tips on public speaking from the short "Speech: Using Your Voice (1950)" and watch a spider devour a town in "The Spider (1958)." Crow reads his screenplay "Earth vs. Soup" and Joel sets up a rehearsal for his rock band Spidorr.
- 1988–19991h 33mNot Rated7.9 (680)TV EpisodeMike and the 'bots get terminal enchantment from Frosty (1965). With Pearl away, Observer and Professor Bobo argue over who is in charge.
- 1988–19991h 32mUnrated7.9 (537)TV EpisodeA jingle writer's honeymoon is derailed when he is forced to write a tune overnight while his new bride fantasizes about redecorating their home with telephones in Once Upon a Honeymoon (1956). Then in Night of the Blood Beast (1958), an astronaut recovering from a rocket crash discovers that alien embryos have been implanted in his abdomen. Concerned about their personal security, Crow and Tom taze, mace, and spray green dye all over Mike. Dr. F has a traumatic trombone recital thanks to Pearl's constant haranguing, but it turns out Crow is an awesome trombonist! Decorating with phones, Gypsy sings a little song. Pearl makes Dr. F apologize. Crow claims he's pregnant with the spawn of the Blood Beast. Crow's rant about babies disrupts Mike's attempts to read letters. Pearl wants Dr. F to act like a baby.
- 1988–19991h 37mTV-147.9 (521)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots watch the classic short "Mr. B Natural (1957)" in which an androgynous person teaches a geeky middle schooler to play a musical instrument. Moving on to "War of the Colossal Beast (1958)," the Colossal Man is spotted in Mexico.
- 1988–19991h 32mNot Rated7.9 (757)TV EpisodeA grandfather tells his grandson several horrifying stories in "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1996)." Crow and Tom review each other, Servo accidentally turns Mike into an infant, and the crew shows off a collection of Ernest Borgnine children's books.
- Mike accidentally destroys the camping planet with an over-packed homemade bomb. Servo sings a song about the seventies and becomes a trucker while Crow becomes Turkey Volume Guessing Man.
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-147.9 (635)TV EpisodeMike and the 'bots suffer through The Giant Spider Invasion (1975). Meanwhile, Pearl and her two underlings find alien pods out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).
- 1988–19991h 33mUnrated7.9 (664)TV EpisodeDr. Forrester and TV's Frank fool around with voodoo as Mike and the 'bots make Batman (1966) jokes in order to endure Zombie Nightmare (1987) with Adam West.
- The crew pokes fun as a knight and his adopted mother try to save a damsel from an evil wizard in The Magic Sword (1962). Joel and the Bots get into the spirit of things by making medieval costumes.
- Joel and the Bots learn from Body Care and Grooming (1947) that they might as well be dead if they don't keep their socks tidy. Later, the guys take on The Painted Hills (1951) in which famous collie Lassie witnesses the murder of a prospector. Crow gives a detailed report on bearded guys and the crew discusses the end of the film.
- 1988–19991h 33mUnrated7.9 (616)TV EpisodeA hero and his talking motorcycle take on an evil dictator in Warrior of the Lost World (1983). The guys try to get post-apocalyptic driving permits and discuss things to do after the apocalypse.
- 1988–1999TV-147.9 (306)TV EpisodeA jingle writer's honeymoon is derailed when he is forced to write a tune overnight while his new bride fantasizes about redecorating their home with telephones in Once Upon a Honeymoon (1956). Then in Night of the Blood Beast (1958), an astronaut recovering from a rocket crash discovers that alien embryos have been implanted in his abdomen. Mike and the guys give decorating with telephones a try and Crow discovers that shrimp babies have been implanted in his chest. The crew and the Mads celebrate Thanksgiving with guests Jack Perkins, Mr. B Natural, and Dr. Forester's mother Pearl.
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-PG7.8 (588)TV EpisodeJoel and the 'bots get water on the brain after an episode of Undersea Kingdom (1936) and Roger Corman's moldy horror flick, Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959).
- A grunge punk fights an evil corporation enforcing an evacuation of the Bronx in Escape from the Bronx (1983). Mike and the Bots have "Men's Night" on the SOL and Dr. Forester tries to come up with a way to boost the show's ratings.
- A giant mutated turtle wakes from eons of slumber and attacks Japan in "Gamera: The Giant Monster (1964)." The Bots create their own beauty salon and are treated to a visit from Gamera himself on the Hexfield.
- 1988–19991h 37mTV-147.8 (474)TV EpisodeIn "Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)," the seventh offering from Gamera, the infamous turtle faces off against an alien called Zigra determined on world domination. Joel and the Bots build a scale model of Gamera and make shoebox dioramas.
- A promiscuous teen is framed for murder and then sent to a Catholic reform school in Girls Town (1959). Mike explains the honor system to the Bots and Tom "scats" until Mike and Crow can't take it anymore.
- 1988–19991h 33mUnrated7.8 (566)TV EpisodeJoel and the bots watch a segment from an early General Hospital episode, before watching a film about a wanna-be singer trying to get away from his hoodlum friends. The bots have a slumber party and Servo demonstrates the life of a 50s rock star.
- 1988–19991h 33mNot Rated7.8 (710)TV EpisodeIn order to impress the Bureau of Mad Scientists, Pearl unleashes the mephitic Girl in Gold Boots (1968), a poorly acted, and even worse edited tale of a girl who attempts to make it big in LA as a dancer with the help of a petty thug.
- 1988–19991h 30mTV-147.8 (523)TV EpisodeTwo laid back detectives crack down on an underground porn ring while Frank threatens to blow up Deep 13.
- 1988–19991h 31mNot Rated7.8 (561)TV EpisodeA hero on a quest to gather magical stones battles an evil sorcerer and learns the benefits of a potato diet in Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell (1988). Tom and Crow put on a Renaissance Fair for Mike and Crow reads a trashy romance novel to Pearl as a favor.
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-PG7.8 (620)TV EpisodeA small town cowpoke straightens out some rowdy kids by making them put on a rodeo show in Junior Rodeo Daredevils (1949). A group of drunken scientists battle with dogs dressed as rabid shrews in The Killer Shrews (1959). Joel and the Bots concoct a Killer Shrew drink and the Mads are thwarted in their latest attempt to destroy the world.
- The villains of Deep 13 force Mike and the 'bots to watch Why Study Industrial Arts? (1956) and The Skydivers (1963) after challenging them to a swing choir contest.
- 1988–1999TV-147.8 (483)TV EpisodeKen and the crew of the Bacchus 3 return in "Star Force: Fugitive Alien II (1987)" while Joel and the Bots make a Captain Joe action figure and stage a "name that puppet" quiz show.
- 1988–19991h 32mNot Rated7.8 (545)TV EpisodeIn Gunslinger (1956), the widow of a murdered sheriff tries to stop the crime in her town with the help of the man hired to kill her. Joel and the Bots discuss mortality and how to have the best funeral before taking the 70s to task for being a terrible decade.
- 1988–19991h 39mNot Rated7.8 (532)TV EpisodeThe crew watch a ninja and a drifter save an airport from thugs in "Master Ninja I," a feature-length presentation assembled from two episodes of the series "The Master (1984)" while building a model car and training their ninja skills.
- 1988–1999TV-147.8 (552)TV EpisodeWhile Mike and the Bots wrestle with Santo vs. the Vampire Women (1962), TV's Frank is assumed into Second Banana Heaven, leaving no one for Dr. Forrester to kill.
- The guys get a look at the future of the car industry in the short Design for Dreaming (1956) and then watch as a group of astronauts take off for the moon in 12 to the Moon (1960). On the SOL, Nuveena drops in for a visit and the crew thinks she might be the key to escaping the mads!
- 1988–19991h 24mNot Rated7.7 (675)TV EpisodeA map heist goes horribly wrong off the coast of Catalina and it's up to a bunch of scantily clad scuba-partying teens to save the day in "Catalina Caper (1967)."
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-PG7.7 (533)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots watch a greased-up Steve Reeves get hypnotized and seduced by an Evil Queen in Hercules Unchained (1959). The crew presents the Steve-O-Meter at the invention exchange and ponder the meaning of Hercules movies.
- 1988–1999TV-147.7 (606)TV EpisodeScientists run a clone farm for VIPs while Pearl and her goons are forced into babysitting omnipotent Space Children.
- 1988–19991h 33mTV-PG7.7 (610)TV EpisodeMike and the bots endure (and barely survive) their third Coleman Francis abomination.
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-147.7 (456)TV Episodeand the Bots watch an alien infiltrate a scientist's human duplicator machine. The guys make spaceships from household objects and Servo shows off his duplicating skills.
- A vengeful skull comes back from the dead and the bots are scarred for life when Gumby abuses his robot slaves.
- Angry worms munch on a town and a doughy guy learns the value of springs by a demonic little sprite when the crew watches "Squirm (1976)."
- The guys take a crack at "Future War (1997)" in which a man escapes to LA but is being tracked by cyborgs. Mike and the Bots thank Pearl for not killing them which derails her plans. Tom makes himself a pair of legs so he can kick-box.
- 1988–19991h 31mTV-PG7.7 (658)TV EpisodeIn "Horrors of Spider Island (1960)," a spider terrorizes stranded bikini clad dancers while Pearl decides to move the castle.
- 1988–19991h 37mTV-147.7 (544)TV EpisodeIn "Track of the Moon Beast (1976)", a mineralogist is hit by a meteor which causes him to transform into a lizard-monster. The Bots rush the Halloween season on the SOL and devote an episode of Legends of Rock to "The Band That Played California Lady".
- 1988–19991h 32mNot Rated7.7 (566)TV EpisodeMike and the bots semi-suffer through this '70's jiggle-fest while the Mads turn them into the cast of "Renegade."
- Danger!! Death Ray (1967) features a slick secret agent investigating an evil organization that stole a top secret death ray. Tom makes his own death ray for peaceful use but caves in to the pressure to use it on Crow. Later, the Bots stage an episode of "This is your life" for Mike and Crow shows off his sunglasses designs.
- 1988–19991h 33mTV-PG7.7 (567)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots have another outing with Hercules in Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964). This time Hercules faces off with a cult of moon men who unleash a sandstorm on the world. The Mads explain deep hurting while Joel and the Bots sing a song about pants.
- 1988–1999TV-147.7 (489)TV EpisodeAn adventurer sets sail in search of the bird of happiness in Sadko (1953). Crow has trouble with his own lifelong quest and the guys have a meeting of the Junior Jester Club.
- A hero and his loser friend are transplanted to the planet of Gor and are soon caught up in an evil sorcerer's plot in Gor II (1988). Mike and the Bots are inspired to perform the song "Tubular Boobular Joy" because of the amount of skin shown by characters in the movie.
- 1988–19991h 33mNot Rated7.7 (650)TV EpisodeMike and the 'bots take on Coleman Francis' mise-en-scène epic, Red Zone Cuba (1966). A true tour-de-force of ineptitude, combining 2 vagrant day-labourers, an escaped convict (Francis), Cuba, uranium, and frogs legs.
- 1988–19991h 33mTV-PG7.7 (550)TV EpisodeReports of drugged chewing gum sends a womanizing secret agent to Amsterdam to investigate a crime ring in Secret Agent Super Dragon (1966). Tom and Joel read through Crow's new screenplay "The Spy Who Hugged Me" and chat about spy movie puns.
- 1988–19991h 33mTV-PG7.7 (551)TV EpisodeToday's experiment: the educational short, What to Do on a Date (1951), and the Roger Corman flick, Swamp Women (1956)
- The crew pokes fun as a group of twenty-something "teenagers" hold an elderly farm couple hostage on Thanksgiving in Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955). Mike and the Bots open the first deli in space and contemplate the "doughy guy."
- Joel and the bots watch a film short about a little boy wandering at the Canadian National Exhibition, and his parents can't find him. Then they watch a film about a shop owner, who convinces three losers to help him rob an armored car. Joel and the bots take acting lessons and hold a writing workshop.
- Gamera is back in "Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)" and this time he is up against Gaos, a bat-monster with the ability to shoot laser beams. Joel and the Bots make an arts and crafts project.
- 1988–19991h 31mTV-147.6 (469)TV EpisodeMike Nelson is put on trial by the Galactic Tribunal for his unintentional planet destroying spree.
- Mike and the Bots watch a cheap ripoff of The Most Dangerous Game, while Mother Forrester visits Deep 13.
- A sea monster eats out for some Italian while dolphins seek revenge against the SOL.
- 1988–1999TV-147.6 (412)TV EpisodeThe Mads force "Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)" on Joel and the Bots. In this one, a group of friends are shipwrecked on an island guarded by a crab. The Bots meet Mothra on the Hexfield and the Mads start re-thinking the structure of their experiments.
- Joel and the Bots have a casual day on the SOL and endure another incoherent Hercules movie (Hercules (1958)).
- 1988–1999TV-147.6 (465)TV EpisodeThe creature from the black lagoon is captured and taken to a Florida aquarium to be studied in Revenge of the Creature (1955). Mike and the Bots almost crash into Earth and when they try to get in touch in Deep 13, it's not Dr. Forester who responds to their call. Meanwhile, Mike and Tom try to figure out why Crow seems so different.
- 1988–19991h 33mNot Rated7.6 (697)TV EpisodeMike and the 'bots sit through The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964). Pearl returns a trio of space-brats to their parents.
- An aging woman ventures to Africa to learn the secret of eternal youth but finds it comes at the price of human life in The Leech Woman (1960). On the SOL, the nanites go on strike and Pearl is forced to lay down some new laws for Mike and the Bots.
- 1988–1999TV-147.6 (469)TV EpisodeA Russian hero plots an invasion against the Mongols in The Sword and the Dragon (1956). Mike and the Bots create their own topical comedy show, reenact the table cloth scene from the movie, and try their hand at playing Dungeons and Dragons.
- 1988–19991h 33mNot Rated7.6 (596)TV EpisodeSwarms of giant grasshoppers are headed straight for Chicago in Beginning of the End (1957). Mike catches the Mads off guard, Crow presents his latest screenplay "Peter Graves Goes to the University of Minnesota," and Tom performs a stand-up comedy routine about grasshoppers.
- Joel and the Bots sit through two shorts. Then, in "Teenage Cave Man (1958)," a rebellious cave boy goes against clan rules and wants to explore horizons beyond the river. Joel and the Bots battle boredom on the Satellite of Love.
- 1988–1999TV-147.6 (452)TV EpisodeThe crew watch the education short "The Home Economics Story (1951)." In "The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957)," viking women set sail to rescue a group of enslaved men. Joel and the Bots consider the waffle and present an iron that can turn waffles into pancakes.
- 1988–1999TV-147.6 (497)TV EpisodeThe guys face off against Hercules once again as the strong man fights evil Queen Antinea to get his son back in Hercules and the Captive Women (1961). Joel and the Bots play with some lousy action figures and finally lay the Hercules series to rest.
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-PG7.6 (611)TV EpisodeMike and the Bots watch a high school student fall into the depths of despair because he got caught Cheating (1952). Later, the guys try to make sense of The Wild World of Batwoman (1966) as a scantily clad superwoman does battle with villains named Ratfink and Professor Neon. The Bots write essays about the short but Crow gets caught cheating.
- 1988–19991h 33mNot Rated7.6 (517)TV EpisodeIn Village of the Giants (1965), a child genius creates a growth formula that ends up in the hands of some incredibly annoying teenagers. Meanwhile, Dr. Forrester shakes things up in Deep 13 when he downsizes Frank and interviews Torgo as his possible replacement.
- 1988–19991h 39mUnrated7.5 (466)TV EpisodeThe crew pokes fun at another segment of a 1960s episode of General Hospital (1963) before watching an astronaut attempt to stop two planets from colliding with each other in Crash of Moons (1954). The guys read through Crow's latest screenplay called "A Space Opera" and have a chat with John Banner on the Hexfield.
- 1988–1999TV-147.5 (521)TV EpisodeOur heroes discover just how boring an alien attack on Tokyo can be when they view an anti-vehicle for Sonny Chiba.
- 1988–19991h 38mNot Rated7.5 (518)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots watch "X Marks the Spot (1944)," a short in which a driver finds himself on trial in heaven. In "King Dinosaur (1955)," the crew pokes fun as scientists are terrorized by snakes, bugs, and dinosaurs on a newly discovered planet.
- 1988–19991h 38mTV-PG7.5 (554)TV EpisodeA military team sent to search for a lost rocket ends up trapped on a mountain inhabited by dinosaurs in "Lost Continent (1951)". Joel refuses to enter the theater during movie sign but the Mads have ways of forcing him into the theater.
- 1988–19991h 33mUnrated7.5 (466)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots watch an early episode of the soap opera behemoth General Hospital (1963) before watching a movie made of several edited television episodes about space pirates. On the SOL, Joel refuses to play soap opera with the Bots and the Mads get stuck in their bean bag chairs.
- 1988–19991h 33mTV-147.5 (459)TV EpisodeIt's a day in the life of the people who operate San Francisco International Airport while Mike distracts everyone with his Steve Urkle impersonation.
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-147.5 (489)TV EpisodeThree archeologists discover an underground civilization but are taken prisoner by the natives in The Mole People (1956). Bobo suffers though Lawgiver Daze and Mike does his best to imitate the professor from the movie.
- 1988–1999TV-147.5 (445)TV EpisodeDespite being possessed of all the knowledge in the Universe, the omnipotent Observers insist on observing our heroes' reactions to the dead-on-arrival The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958).
- Metaphysics helps to solve a murder case while Mike and the Bots impersonate the Grateful Dead.
- 1988–19991h 33mNot Rated7.5 (479)TV EpisodeJam Handy shows the world the glory of sexism with electric kitchen appliances and Ed Wood analyzes the world of criminals spoiled by their parents.
- 1988–19991h 38mNot Rated7.5 (563)TV EpisodeA mad scientist creates havoc when an experiment to stop the aging process goes awry when the crew of the Satellite of Love watches "The Unearthly (1957)".
- 1988–19991h 38mTV-PG7.5 (536)TV EpisodeA college med student's final fraternity initiation goes wrong when he's assigned to retrieve a gold ring from a cadaver he had recently performed an autopsy on in "Ring of Terror (1961)."
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-147.5 (554)TV EpisodeThe crew watch a squeaky-voiced valley girl search for her missing archaeologist father in Alien from L.A. (1988). Mike and the Bots devote a song to leading lady Kathy Ireland and later define her acting technique as "dull surprise."
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-147.5 (451)TV EpisodeA Senate candidate finds a seductive reform school dropout hiding in his home in Kitten with a Whip (1964). The crew throws a Mexican fiesta like the one in the film and chat with a real kitten with a whip on the Hexfield.
- 1988–19991h 38mNot Rated7.5 (531)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots endure yet again two equally bad episodes from the failed action series "The Master (1984)".
- 1988–1999TV-147.4 (503)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots watch a re-edited version of Time Walker (1982) called "Being From Another Planet" in which a mummy awakened by a university team goes on a killing spree. The Mads are awfully proud of their "Tragic Moments" figurines while Joel and the Bots play haunted house on the SOL.
- 1988–19991h 32mUnrated7.4 (600)TV EpisodeThe SOL crew take up fishing and debate whether films would be better if the actors/actresses were all nude during their watch of a heavily edited version of "Zaat (1971)" in which a scientist transforms himself into a killer fish.
- Joel and the bots watch a film about teenage gang battling.a corporation for control of an abandoned city. Crow sings a song about his love to Kim Cattrall, and the guys try their hand at a trivia game.
- 1988–19991h 32mNot Rated7.4 (446)TV EpisodeAn upper-middle class family teaches Mike and the Bots how to be incredibly bland and boring in A Date with Your Family (1950). Later, a group of barflies must figure out what to do when the Soviets attack the U.S. in Invasion USA (1952). Mike and the Bots have a dinner party inspired by the short and get a visit from "Bob the A-Bomb" on the Hexfield.
- An heiress stranded in Africa is made queen of the jungle in the feature film "Jungle Goddess (1948)" and Bela Lugosi stars in the short "The Phantom Creeps (1939)." Joel and the Bots create their own infomercial.
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-147.4 (485)TV EpisodePearl sits in on part of this week's experiment as part of her annual review, and Leonardo da Vinci stops by to insist the guy playing him in the film is a mook.
- 1988–19991h 37mTV-147.4 (459)TV EpisodeAn expedition to the moon goes wrong when a group of astronauts accidentally lands on Mars in "Rocketship X-M (1950)." Joel and the Bots are visited by Valeria from "Robot Holocaust (1987)" and Frank learns to push the button.
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-PG7.4 (578)TV EpisodeKiller peanut brittle terrorizes the universe while Pearl settles into her ancestral home by building a doomsday device.
- Pearl and Bobo plot their escape from the Observers' planet while the SOL crew is subjected to a dark, dreary tale of hypnotism, murder, and chesty amphibians.
- 1988–19991h 37mTV-147.4 (641)TV EpisodeA motorcycle racer and a violent stunt rider start a war of vengeance against each other in "Five the Hard Way (1969)." Joel and the Bots write a song inspired by the movie and chat with a few characters from the film on the Hexfield.
- 1988–1999TV-147.4 (461)TV EpisodeMichael Landon terrorizes his high school as a savage werewolf while a hostile alien infiltrates the SOL.
- The Mads send the crew "Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)," another Gamera movie. This time, a group of travelers scour the jungle in search of the giant egg of a lizard-dog creature. Later, Joel and the Bots enjoy a simulated day at the beach.
- The crew takes on "The Wild Rebels (1967)," a movie about a stock-car racer who is recruited as a getaway driver for a biker gang. The guys get into the spirit of the film by making a commercial and Joel explains how to appreciate a bad movie.
- 1988–19991h 32mNot Rated7.4 (446)TV EpisodeMike and the Bots scratch their heads in confusion as an angel and a devil wage a bet about the morals of bread truck drivers in Out of This World (1954). Then the crew fights lapsing into a depression while watching the incredibly dour High School Big Shot (1959) in which a high school loser takes part in a heist to impress an attractive but dimwitted classmate.
- 1988–1999TV-147.4 (443)TV EpisodeMike and the Bots learn the dangers of not paying attention at railroad crossings in the short Last Clear Chance (1959). Later, they watch government agents use high-tech radar to track criminals on the black market in Radar Secret Service (1950). The guys stage Mike's 10-year high school reunion and, inspired by the short, Tom asks the golden question: "Why don't they look?!"
- 1988–19991h 32mNot Rated7.4 (576)TV EpisodeMike and the Bots are asked What About Juvenile Delinquency? (1955) in a short about a teenage thug whose gang mugs his father. Then it's time to watch science go awry in Monstrosity (1963) when a rich, elderly woman hires a doctor to transport her brain into one of her beautiful kidnapping victims. Mike demonstrates chin puppetry while Magic Voice hits it off with the Voice-Over Guy from the movie.
- A secret organization called "Mighty Jack (1968)" uses a submarine to battle a terrorist organization. Joel and the Bots make a Mighty Jack pet food commercial and sing the song "Slow The Plot Down!"
- 1988–19991h 33mUnrated7.3 (524)TV EpisodeMike and the 'bots go "boing" watching Are You Ready for Marriage? (1950) and Racket Girls (1951). Meanwhile, Tom Servo and Crow prepare to be married.
- 1988–19991h 38mNot Rated7.3 (474)TV EpisodeThe crew watches the second chapter of "The Phantom Creeps (1939)" and a film about an American spy sent to the Soviet Union to investigate a missile attack in "Rocket Attack U.S.A. (1960)." Joel hosts a quiz show with the Bots.
- 1988–1999TV-147.3 (450)TV EpisodeScientists break the time barrier with not-so-great results and the Observers have finally had enough of their human observations.
- Killer bees terrify a remote English island while a bowler hatted guy appears where he's least expected.
- Mike inadvertently helps a group of bomb-worshiping mutants destroy Earth with a thermonuclear device, but even this sort of drastic action doesn't save the gang from having to watch The Deadly Mantis (1957).
- 1988–19991h 33mTV-PG7.3 (519)TV EpisodeIn the second installment of Undersea Kingdom (1936), the explorers are threatened by soldiers from Atlantis. Then in Indestructible Man (1956), an executed criminal goes on a rampage after being resurrected by mad scientists. Joel and the Bots plan an Undersea Kingdom parade and wonder what they would do if they were indestructible.
- A woman gets hypnotized back into her Dark Age'd past life while Tom takes a crack at being an observer.
- 1988–19991h 33mNot Rated7.3 (462)TV EpisodeA cowboy winds up in the middle of a turf war between a rancher and his neighbors in Last of the Wild Horses (1948). An invention from the Mads goes awry and creates mirror versions of everyone on the SOL. The crew must battle the mirror versions of themselves while trying to withstand the movie.
- When the ninth chapter of "Radar Men from the Moon (1952)" encounters technical difficulties, it gives the Mads an earlier opportunity to bring the Satellite of Love and its crew to their knees via "Robot Holocaust (1987)."
- 1988–19991h 38mTV-PG7.3 (537)TV EpisodeThe guys watch "Robot Monster (1953)," a post-apocalyptic film about aliens and robots, riff on two more installments of "Radar Men from the Moon (1952)" and try to understand surrealism.
- 1988–19991h 29mTV-147.3 (582)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots have a tough time agreeing on how to spend their free time between segments of the teen sci-fi thriller "The Crawling Hand (1963)."
- The guys watch "Space Travelers," an updated version of the movie Marooned (1969) about three astronauts trapped in a space capsule that is quickly losing oxygen. On the Satellite of Love, The Great Crowdini performs a stunt and the guys debate what they would do if one of them had to sacrifice themselves.
- 1988–19991h 33mTV-PG7.3 (526)TV EpisodeMike and the robots watch a never ending loop of jets flying and refueling while Crow struggles to get onto the Information Super Highway.
- An evil ventriloquist traps souls in his stage dummies while Crow innocently falls in league with a devil.
- 1988–19991h 32mNot Rated7.2 (530)TV EpisodeA deformed creeper is the pro-/antagonist of Mike and the robots' experiment preceded by a bunch of chickens.
- 1988–19991h 37mTV-147.2 (505)TV EpisodeThe intrepid hosts are trapped between Isaac Asimov's Literary Doomsday Device and Robert Ito from "Quincy M.E. (1976)" in a fur caveman outfit while watching "Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966)."
- 1988–19991h 37mTV-147.2 (459)TV EpisodeIn "The Bat People (1974)," a not-so bat man terrorizes people while Mike tries to grow a mustache again.
- 1988–19991h 33mNot Rated7.2 (485)TV EpisodeA down-home country family eat apple pie and raise championship pigs during A Day at the Fair (1947). In the failed television pilot turned movie Code Name: Diamond Head (1977), an undercover agent battles a villain in Hawaii. The Bots discover what it would be like to live with a Crash Test Dummy and the Frugal Gourmet.
- Joel and the Bots attempt to puzzle out what's going on in the unintelligible biker film, "The Hellcats (1968)." Flashbacks from earlier episodes fill out the host segments.
- The crew stages their own moon landing pageant as they watch the film "Moon Zero Two (1969)" about an astronaut hired to capture an asteroid made of sapphires.
- 1988–19991h 37mTV-147.2 (442)TV EpisodeThe gang on the SOL have a gag-weapon war with the Mads and watch "The Stranger (1973)," an unsuccessful TV pilot about an astronaut stuck on an Earth-like planet where "perfect order" rules.
- 1988–19991h 38mUnrated7.1 (530)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots suffer through "First Spaceship on Venus (1960)." A gorilla in a foreign ship attacks the Satellite of Love.
- 1988–1999TV-147.1 (427)TV EpisodeA minister encourages railroad workers to stop getting brutally injured on the job in The Days of Our Years (1955). During the feature film The Amazing Transparent Man (1960), a mad scientist makes an escaped criminal invisible so he can steal radioactive supplies but the crook would rather rob banks with his power of invisibility. In Deep 13, Frank opens a bed and breakfast and Dr. Forester demands that Mike and the Bots help in his endeavor.
- 1988–19991h 27mNot Rated7.1 (444)TV EpisodeGiant scorpions rise out of a volcano and attack Mexico in "The Black Scorpion (1957)" while the Bots throw a party for Joel.
- Joel invents a pipe with a smoke detector and a sprinkler system built in for the invention exchange. The guys watch "Untamed Youth (1957)," a 1950s teen flick about youths sentenced to manual labor at a cotton farm.
- As two Earth boys plead for Gamera to rescue them from a planet of cannibals in "Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)," Crow experiences a wonderful dream in which he turn the tables on the Mads.
- Joel, Crow, and Servo sit through "SST: Death Flight (1977)," a star-studded TV movie about a doomed SST flight while Gypsy goes through some interesting changes.
- A scientist's experiment gone wrong gives him the touch of death while the SOL crew find themselves back in their old time period.
- 1988–19991h 30mUnrated7.0 (556)TV EpisodeThe crew of the Satellite of Love presents and screens the 1942 Bela Lugosi not-so classic movie "The Corpse Vanishes (1942)."
- 1988–1999TV-147.0 (420)TV EpisodeMike and the Bots try to make sense of Colossus and the Headhunters (1963) in which a man named Maciste tries to lead his people from a destroyed island to a land of other tribes. Meanwhile, Dr. Forester invents the world's cutest pet called Nummy Muffin Coocol Butter. Mike and the Bots are forced to take care of Nummy despite Frank wanting to keep him.
- 1988–19991h 38mNot Rated7.0 (475)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots watch two more episodes of "Radar Men from the Moon (1952)" and "Project Moon Base (1953)," a film about a sabotaged space station. They also introduce their new product SPACOM to the Mads.
- 1988–19991h 38mNot Rated7.0 (508)TV EpisodeIn "The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)," an evil mastermind plans to destroy the world but his arch-nemesis gets in the way. The movie is so terrible that the crew has a nervous breakdown, but the Mads celebrate their victory a little too quickly.
- 1988–19991h 38mNot Rated7.0 (374)TV EpisodeShredded and stitched into incoherence from the 1974 Japanese series "Saru no gundan (1974)," "Canines of the Caribbean (1985)" follows the travails of a scientist and two small children who are accidentally frozen and thaw into a future ruled by apes.
- Mike and the 'bots gorge on Gorgo (1961), a maudlin monster mess featuring two giant mother-and-son lizards and a Samuel Beckett lookalike. Leonard Maltin shows up to hawk his movie guide, which inexplicably praises the film.
- 1988–19991h 41mTV-146.9 (322)TV EpisodeJoel and the Bots suffer through "Planet of the Dinosaurs," the US version of "Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds (1977)," a dreary 70s Japanese dinosaur movie. Where's Doug McClure when you need him?
- 1988–19991h 31mUnrated6.9 (702)TV EpisodeIn the series' first national broadcast, the Mads have moved into Deep 13, Joel has spruced up the Bots, and Forrest Tucker sleepwalks his way through "The Crawling Eye (1958)," this week's literally eye-popping film.
- A blob from Heaven brainwashes children into doing his bidding while Pearl starts her own space program.
- The crew puts Commando Cody on trial for crimes against reality after watching the sixth episode of "Radar Men from the Moon (1952)" while slime monsters invade Los Angeles in "The Slime People (1963)."
- This week's film is "Phase IV (1974)," a deep sci-fi story about ants that leaves Crow wishing he'd brought a pair of boots into the mystery science theater.
- 1988–1999TV-146.8 (322)TV EpisodeIn "The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967)," the groovy femme fatale Sumuru plots world domination, while Joel gets even with the Bots for locking him out of the ship.
- "The Last Chase (1981)," this week's film, features two intrepid heroes fleeing their Orwellian futuristic society in a souped-up racecar - but Joel and friends are more interested in reading fan mail from their adoring public.
- With Crow disassembled, Joel and Servo are left by themselves to tackle "Fugitive Alien (1986)," the first part of a baffling Japanese sci-fi epic.
- 1988–19991h 40mTV-146.8 (321)TV EpisodeToday's experiment features real humans from Japan and a budget that must have been tens of dollars when the SOL crew watches "Star Force: Fugitive Alien II (1987)."
- The crew discover disturbing secrets in Crow's memory bank while watching "Hangar 18 (1980)," a film about bland government officials investigating, and then trying to cover up, a flying saucer crash.
- This week's experiment is the disastrous disaster film "City on Fire (1979)," which assures viewers the events depicted could happen in any city, anywhere. Even, as Tom points out, while the crew are watching this.
- 1988–19991h 36mUnrated6.7 (544)TV EpisodeThings get hairy on the Satellite of Love thanks to the lupine antics of "The Mad Monster (1942)" and the second chapter of "Radar Men from the Moon (1952)."
- 1988–19991h 40mTV-146.7 (340)TV EpisodeCrow gets unfrozen just in time for "Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)," yet another Gamera film, and the SOL crew meets the Mads for the first time.
- The stranded crew of the Satellite of Love have no sympathy for the stranded crew of Moonbase Alpha when they take in "Cosmic Princess (1982), two repackaged episodes of "Space: 1999 (1975)."
- 1988–19991h 41mTV-146.6 (330)TV EpisodeThe crew watches "Humanoid Woman," the US version of "To the Stars by Hard Ways (1981)," a Russian film about a bug-eyed alien babe is the backdrop for a variety of antics aboard the Satellite of Love.
- 1988–19991h 40mTV-146.6 (316)TV EpisodeJoel and his faithful robot companions celebrate Thanksgiving by scarfing down "Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars (1981)," a chopped up version of "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967)" repackaged as a TV film.
- Crow is a frozen Christmas tree and Tom is busy, so Joel has to watch the original "Gamera: The Giant Monster (1964)" all by himself.
- 1988–19991h 38mNot Rated6.5 (324)TV EpisodeThe 007-ish exploits of "Mighty Jack (1968)", a government organization created to defeat the notorious crime syndicate known as "Q", took everything that was bad about espionage movies and threw the rest out.
- 1988–19991h 40mNot Rated6.4 (327)TV EpisodeIn between tending to some sick vacuum-flowers, Joel Hodgson and his robot buddy Crow begin their first movie-riffing experiment aboard the Satellite of Love while watching "Invaders from the Deep (1981)."
- The SOL crew watches "Hamlet (1960)," a dark and dreary West German production of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays while Pearl concocts a deadly new virus.
- 1988–19991h 40mNot Rated6.4 (355)TV EpisodeTom Servo gets his new "Mighty Voice" and a chance to use it during "Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)," another Gamera film. Crow is still frozen.
- Earth-orbiting inventor Joel Hodgson invites the audience to watch "The Green Slime (1968)" with him and his robot friends aboard the Satellite of Love.
- 1988–19991h 38mTV-146.4 (655)TV EpisodeThe Mads fall victim to their own newly-installed security system, and the unfortunately-shaped Satellite of Love is besieged by Demon Dogs hoping to pray to the Giant Bone, all the while "The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (1958)" is happening.
- 1988–19991h 40mNot Rated6.4 (356)TV EpisodeThe historic first meeting between Gamera and the crew of the Satellite of Love in "Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)."
- Servo writes a letter to his uncle in which he recalls many memories of his time aboard the satellite. Meanwhile, the crew are subjected to "Superdome (1978)," a drama about a New Orleans Super Bowl full of intrigue, romance, and catfish.