107 – Robot Monster. Shorts: Commando Cody Parts 4 and 5

Okay to the shorts first. This is honestly the point when I’m sick of Commando Cody. Cody rolls out of the car before it exploded and now he’s fighting some gangsters. Oh right the moon men hired cheap and goofy gangsters to capture Cody. They hi-jack a plane with a scientist and bail out when it starts to crash. Cody gets in, but BOOM the plane crashed. Sucks to be them….Just kidding they found a spare parachute and had enough time to escape unscathed. The gangsters try one last heist before the moon men kill them I guess, but they fail and only one is hospitalized. The just DIE I guess. With Cody en route to interrogate him, the injured gangster is transported to a top security facility. On they way the driver of the armored ambulance, falling for one the oldest tricks in the book, gets out to assist a fallen pedestrian. He turns out to be another gangster and the captive gangster gets away. When they learn that Cody is in pursuit, they ram an unmanned ambulance into Cody’s car, sending both vehicles over a cliff. The end? Find out next Cody Time, same Cody Place!
Okay now for Robot Monster! Okay so here’s the monster. A guy in a Gorilla suit, a diving helmet with TV antennas on top, and a Bubble Machine. I love this movie so much! The aliens (Yes that is the whole race!) called Ro-Men wipe out the Earth aside from like 6 people cause of immunity from their death rays. There are three scientists (One is a woman), a housewife, a young girl, and our child protagonist. So yeah the Ro-Man has to kill the Hu-Man, but he falls in love with the girl and he captures her. She can also tie herself up apparently. Kinky. I guess? The Ro-Man kills a few of them, but the High Council of Ro-Men kills Ro-Man due to his Hu-Man emotions and they destroy the Earth! Just kidding it was ALL a dream. So the kid goes to eat dinner and roll cast list! I adore this movie for all the best reasons. I know, it sucks, but goddamn! It transcends badness and becomes unbelievably goofy and lovable.
Okay this one has some explaining. This is probably my favorite episode of the season. Solely because of the movie! I absolutely love this movie. It’s campy, dumb, cheesy, has laughable dialog, ridiculous costumes, and overused footage. The amount of times they traverse over the same area claiming that it’s new and the lizard footage is over used all the time! The episode like most of season 1 sucks, but the movie is completely worth it! The sketches mostly suck. At the end they wear garbage bags…cause? At the beginning they do the damn Flaming (insert item here) invention again and it sucks again! The only tolerable skit is when Crow and Tom pretend to be Ro-Man to scare Joel, but I backfires and he starts beating them up. This episode is all right by season 1 standards, but just watch the movie alone and get some friends. You’ll have a better experience.
Time to get nostalgic. This is actually the third episode of the series of saw of the series and the first Joel episode I ever saw. This episode does hold a very, very soft and warm place in my heart.  If I had to see one Season 1 episode again. It would be this one.

Episode Rating – 2/10

Movie Rating – 10/10

Favorite Riff – “We’re only at half a billion bubbles so far I’ve been counting.”

Possible Stinger – Ro-Man – “Yes! To be like the Hu-Man. To laugh, feel, want.”

Episode – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NacFWgA–kA

Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq9IKsH9BXg

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