Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Wild World of Batwoman [VHS]
Nothing captures the peculiar pastiche of the pop-cultural zeitgeist  likeMystery Science Theater 3000(MST3Kto fans). The formula is  simple: subject a hapless temp worker, Mike Nelson, and his robot friends, Tom Servo and Crow, marooned in space to the worst B, C, even Z-grade movies imaginable and record the results. OnThe Wild World of Batwoman, they quip through a movie summed up best by Crow: "It looks like they just put a whole lotta movies in a blender and turned it on really fast!" The plot of the movie is hapless at best, inexplicably puncuated by bikini-clad "Batgirls" go-go dancing with guns (Mike quips: "That's 40 pounds of butt in pants with a 30-pound capacity."). The episode starts with a '50s educational short on student cheating that is so dour in tone that Tom wonders, "Is this Ingmar Bergman's first American movie?" In a sub-skit, Tom and Crow go mano a mano (or roboto a roboto) trying to out-shun each other: "I double shun you." Tom trumps with, "I shun you version 3.0 for Windows." The worse the movie, the better and more wacky theMST3Kepisode; never has subpar art ever inspired such heights of hilarity, andBatwomanis as bad as they come. Which means it's great. Get it?--Tod Nelson