Cave Dwellers

Indoctrinationability: Good

Episode: This is one of the better episodes in my Opinion. It starts out with everyone looking like they just woke up, giving it a neat, Holiday feel. Joel's hair is mussed and he's wearing a robe. Then they all discuss what their favorite new name would be. The whole episode is colored by this intro leaving one with a real sense of Holiday and lack of responsibility all throughout. Heck I missed my Finals because I was watching this show! Sad, really.

Movie: The movie isn't too terrible. It's about Ator (Played convincingly by Miles O'Keefe) a guy who needs a bra if a guy ever did. He runs around topless throughout the whole movie with his pecs like melons and slightly feminine jawbone (Makes you wonder if Miles O'Keefe used to be a woman!) fighting invisible men with his Sidekick, Thong(?) Alongside a typical 80's Valleygirl looking Neela who's father (The really dull old guy) is being forced to watch Willie Nelson perform magic tricks at the behest of John Saxon (Or someone bearing a very strong resemblance)

Invention Exchange: Joel makes a Smoking Jacket, a jacket which smoke comes out of. Crow has one on too. Like father like son, think about it, won't you? Thank you!

The mads come up with the latest craze, Robotic Arm Wrestling. They writhe around while Joel and the Bots are cheering Frank Then Dr. Forrester gets mad then they cheer Dr. F.

Host Segments: Joel and the bots are convinced they can do a better job of filming an opening credit sequence for the movie so they give it a crack. Tom Servo is the really dull old guy, Joel is the “mean John Saxon-Type guy” and crow is Ator, complete with large artificial pecs. They “frolic, cavort, gad-a-bout the ship” in an admittedly much more lucid fashion than in the movie. The credits are a hoot, lots of good stuff in there!

Crow asks Joel about the weird names people give ordinary objects in the movie, Joel explains that the movie had a really low budget so in order to dress things up they gave really fancy names to some ordinary objects in the movie...

Joel: it was kind of obvious that breastplate that the woman was wearing was an off the rack auto part from NAPA, but you can't very well say `Hither, yon, there goes the hubcap of the Plymouth Somerset', you can't do that.

Tom: Oh, right, but you could say is “She has donned the maiden shield of Valley 7!”

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Crow: They give cool names to TV shows too, like “White Shadow” could have just been called “Haloed Hoop Honkey” or "Jake and the Fat man", you could have called that.. uhh... *thinking*

All: Jake and the Fat man...

Crow: Yeah, pretty much.

The bots are wondering why the sounds don't seem the match what's going on in the movie very well. Joel explains that sound effects artists use a technique called folleying to make convincing sound effects. The bots are not interested but Joel insists that they humor him. He makes convincing sound effects using everyday household items, like the “Hollywood meat slammer”, two paddles with steaks attacked to them, you clap them together to simulate a fist hitting someone. In my opinion they should have done this bit over, at the end, in order to get a convincing sound for a woman screaming, Joel Sets fire to TV's Madam (A puppet), but it is only obvious that Trace is doing the puppeteering for both her and crow when he accidentally (force of habit?) moves Crow's mouth instead of TV's Madam when she's screaming. Joel kind of looks into the camera with a “Should we do this over?” look then we get the familiar Commercial break music.

Conclusion: Our heroes stare intensely into the camera breathing really hard through their noses. The mads don't see what they're so upset about, they don't feel the movie was that bad. Frank adds that they (mads) have it even rougher, for they not only have to watch the movie they have to watch them (Joel & Co) watching the movie! Tom goes off about the continuity errors, cavemen wearing sunglasses, Four wheeler tire tracks along the hills in this supposedly pre-Columbian era.

Book: The book has a full page dedicated to Miles O'Keefe. Written by Mike Nelson with a picture of Miles looking like a frog. There are many characters missing from most of the first column. Was there a printing error? Did someone censor this essay? Did Mike delete part of his essay in order to fit DOOM2 onto their computers at Best Brains? Did he fall for the fake Quake beta that ended up formatting his Hard Drive? Or just another example of this man's strange but compelling humor? What an excellent thing it must be to have such an odd sense of humor. You can screw up and people will think it's funny and you did it on purpose!

Favorite Lines:

Really dull old guy: I wonder if it's... worth... the risk... of... counting on that.
Crow: or the risk of acting

::Really dull old guy looks into the camara pensively::
Crow (As old guy): What do you, the viewers at home, think?

Neela: What's wrong? I've never seen you looking so worried...
Tom (as Neela): ...Or so ashamed.

Narrator: Swore he'd rescue Sunya and crush the Iron Handed rule of Dakkar. Greeba...
Crow (As narrator): ...son of Flogmog, keeper of the seven rings of fintoozler.

After lengthy narrated flashback we see Ator pulling ropes attached to rocks.
Tom (Embellishing narration): Then he worked out on the charismatic soloflex of Xantar 13!

Favorite Observations:

Neela has been hit in the chest by an arrow, she ducks into some bushes, the bad guys pass her by... She comes out of the bushes limping.

Joel: Why is she limping?

Tom: Because she's got an arrow in her chest.

Joel: Oh, I can see how tha... HUH?!?

Ator goes off into the woods to prepare a `surprise', then comes out with a handglider.

Tom: Ok, this is a little ridiculous.. so he kills a dear, tans the hide, stretches the skins, makes an anadized aluminium frame, learns to extrude and weld all in the space of about 15 minutes?

Neela and Thong decide that they cannot go in through the front secret entrance because there are guards near it. So Neela remembers another secret entrance around the back (It's a double dog secret entrance!) and they go to it. When they get there we see that there are lit torches all along the walls.

Joel: Nice, well lit secret entrance!

Tom: Well it's secret but they didn't want it to get buried