Immediately proving the truth behind the opening titles, the gang’s all here.
And dealing with the aftermath of the explosion, which – unsurprisingly – seems to have originated with some sort or experiment. One, apparently, which everyone wishes to succeed. So likely a cure for cancer or something else of undeniable value to humanity, I guess? Yeah, probably not so much…
The disaster recovery effort goes on in a rather uncoordinated and haphazard way, of course…since that’s the way actors tend to go about any sort of on-screen work they aren’t familiar with. Which in most cases covers any kind of work beyond acting and waiting tables.
You might expect Lee Douglas to have more experience with manual labor, given the huge amount of moonlighting he has to do to reach half of minimum wage on average…but while he has experience with any kind of tough and menial jobs, disaster recovery is not among them. If he knew how to do disaster recovery, he could try to recover from the on-going disaster that is his whole life – and we couldn’t have that, could we? Would ruin the whole character.
Repairing the damage to the roof should be easy, though, since it only requires removing the unconvincing decal… =P
And speaking of broken buildings…the fourth wall gets broken right away and blatantly by Snuka, and that only four strips into the new chapter. That must be some kind of new record for me. Not one to be proud of, but still…
More on Monday.
But then you’ll also need to repair a 4th wall you are braking right now.
Let’s just say that the thing will come back to haunt Snuka in the next strip…
Looks like the aftermath of a couple of our parties at Kadena AB on Okinawa back in the early 90s…
I’M LUCKY TO BE ALIVE!
Somehow I have no trouble believing that…
When developing a “cure” in a B-movie, what one is curing doesn’t necessarily have to be medical. I recall a cure for “war” being a classic of WWII-era B-films. All that matters is that there is a generally recognized (if ill-defined or way too broad) problem and science* is the cure.
*”Science” in this case is a man in a lab coat or professional suit mixing colored liquids in beakers or interacting with boxes with random lighting and knobs and switches.
Yeah, after WWII there was a general mood that foresaw an age of (mostly) scientific and (also) social progress so sparkling, even the spectre of war would be banished for good. And, theoretically…for the short period of time that the US were the only nuclear power, they could theoretically have enforced a global system without interstate wars. Of course it didn’t come to pass that way.
Still, some B-movies came up with ingenious ideas about abolishing violence, like self-enslavement via robots (The Day the World Stood Still). That one might still come to pass, in a more dystopian way…
And, yeah, scientific machinery tends to be conveniently versatile in B-movies. In “Mother Riley Meets the Vampire”, Bela Lugosi demonstrates his awesome scientific power by pointing to some random bit of machinery and saying that one of those buttons would allow him to shoot down 1000 aircraft, and another one to sink 10 battleships. No further elaboration on how that was supposed to work. They didn’t even bother to illustrate that with stock footage, Bela’s word was deemed good enough for it. XD