Mystery Science Theater 822 Overdraw At the Memory Bank Part A

This is my favorite MST3K episode. I mean you have a PBS movie staring Raul Julia what more could you ask for. How a lady with a made up straight out of the 80's name like Apollonia James, oh wait its in there. Grab a glass of cold Reconst and a bag of Flavo Fives and enjoy. Got to get this on DVD so I can riff it myself.

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A little on how this came to be:

The late Raul Julia played Aram Fingal, a bored worker in the future who got caught watching "Casablanca" on the job one too many times. To be punished for this, Fingal is sentenced to a 48-hour "Dopple", where his consciousness is removed and placed in the body of a baboon, so that he can experience the world through an animal's perspective. But while this is going on, his human body is misplaced at Novacorp, causing a corporate scandal. In a desperate attempt to save Fingal's consciousness - and Novacorp's reputation - Computech's Apollonia James transfers his mind to the corporate mainframe computer, where Fingal creates his own reality centered around Rick's cafe from Casablanca. Hoping Fingal won't disrupt Novacorp's control over the world, the Novacorp's Chairman also enters the mainframe to kill him. Got it?

"Overdrawn" had aired numerous times on Sci-Fi Channel, allowing it to be used by "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" for one of their broadcasts, where Pearl Forrester decided to host a Pledge Drive to fund her attempts to take over the world, where she declares "It's day one of the Public Pearl TV pledge drive. And if you pledge at the $150 Producer Level, you can get a lovely blue totebag". During a kissing scene between Fingal (Raul Julia) and a female character in the movie, Tom Servo comments "I guess PBS means Public Boinking System". When Fingal was watching the "Casablanca" scenes, Tom comments on the quality of the movie when he states "Never show a good movie in the middle of your crappy one".

The Internet Movie Database declared "Overdrawn" among the bottom (worst) 100 films of all time, receiving hundreds of votes placing it there. The mere fact that hundreds of people remember it is impressive. It beat out Whoopi Goldberg's "Theodore Rex", "Orgy of the Dead", John Travolta's "Battlefield Earth", and both "Meatballs" 3 AND 4 as the 100 worst films. It was however voted as not as bad as Bill Cosby's "Leonard Part 6", "Problem Child 3" and "Monster a-Go Go". It only equaled the terror of "Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie", "Robot Monster", and the classic "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians".

The other two parts are at Veoh.