Mystery Science Theater 3000

I am a hard-core mystery science theater fan, and this is a fine episode given the truly bizzare material they have to work with. Riffing is fine and host sketches are snappy, but the source movie holds you in a transfixed curiousity like roadkill or the homeless gentleman in time square wearing nothing but an oversized styrofoam hand.

Where should I begin? The movie starts with a weak little add-on comparing the batgirls to "vampires", only drinking some yogurt-concoction instead of blood (also not being undead, walking in daylight, the ability to look at holy symbols and cross running water, etc.) This is somewhat explained by the fact that they were required to change the title to "The Hippy Vampires" after the creators of Batman sued. This is followed by an apathetically witnessed murder, which after no attempt at prevention is made the "batgirls" pursue the perpetrators of. The primary villain is less menacing or malevolent than any of the two minor characters, employing a mad scientist who goes using his knowledge of forbidden science to make people happy and prone to dancing. A few short incidents include an atomic explosion that merely leaves everybody a little dazed and reverses a case of head trauma, a poorly explained and randomly inserted duplication machine, a breif, non-sequiter, and highly offensive seance, and a footage of the "monsters" which is in fact stolen directly from another MST3K feature, "The Mole People". Enjoy!