First up is the movie. It starts out in a cemetery and the keeper looking for his cat Puma (That’s the actual name of the cat. He doesn’t have a Puma). Also he pronounces it “Pyooma”. The keeper accidently steps on Puma’s tail. It runs off and while searching for him the keeper shows us a 22 year Old’s gravestone. Cut to flashback and the male lead/future corpse Lewis is a college student played by a goddamn 42 year old. He’s like twenty years older than he’s told to be! Also his girlfriend looks like he’s in her early forties. She calls him and they engage in small talk. Seriously everyone in this movie looks ten to twenty years older than they should. You can cut the sexual tension between them with a spork. Then Satan interrupts their date by slithering beside her foot. The snake is easily pushed away AND OUR HERO CRUSHES IT TO DEATH! Oh if you aren’t between thirty and forty you look like you’re in your early teens. Also there’s a fat couple. You know what. They’re happy. This movie reeks with swell. Hell the fat couple despite being comic relief really is the happiest ignore in the movie. Hell as we’ll see he is fully proud of their fatness and won’t change for anyone. The forty-year-old leads talk about the autopsy they have to do for class and the teacher looks younger than our main character. They go to the morgue and abandoned their dates in favor of the corpses.

Odd lot of people, but they’re all medical majors. The autopsy scene is boring as hell. They can’t show anything so it’s just the professor describing all of this and all the students having varied reactions from the students. Then as the body is taken off you can see the hand twitch a few times. Great job guys. Our “fearless” character is however shown to be fearful. Of something. Lewis is adamant about him not being afraid of anything or not getting it. Next scene is a superfluous moment of the girls being mad at the guys for having to take a class that was sprung on them. Eh this is just Catalina Caper syndrome. The women being angry for dumb reasons. Lewis chats with some guy and some guy was killed! I don’t know. They’re going to visit the body and it’s gonna be late at night so he decides to go with them. The light goes out and Lewis gets scared.

He finally understands why he was so scared of the dark. He tells a story of when eight year old Lewis’ grandfather died and they kept the casket in the house. Young Lewis was scared and wanted the lights on that night and when his mom said no he started crying. She then told him if he didn’t stop his grandfather would turn into a zombie and beat him. Great parenting. Knowing that the actor is forty-two playing a twenty-two year old if they showed that flashback he would probably played by a twenty-eight year old. Then they talk about initiations. They sound boring as hell. Lewis’ isn’t told, yet, but they’re all dumb as hell. Lewis’ girlfriend is making a big deal over him being fearless. She’s so dumb. Oh my god like Catalina Caper most of this movie could be cut down. It’ll be shorter than the already short hour, six minute run time. Also a teacher running the on campus beauty contest. That’s not creepy in the slightest. One of the initiations was having a guy go a day without water…are you sure you want to kill him? One of the is the glasses guy having to run around in his underwear pretending to be cupid as he spies on couples making out. Wouldn’t it be funny if he saw the closeted gay couple? Also this movie has such terrible lighting. The movie spends all it’s damn time making fun of the fat couple. They aren’t that bad. The fat guy’s is making him fast for a week, only eating bread and water at specific intervals. The real test was to see him decline. See! This guy is happy the way he is and so is his girlfriend! Our elderly youngster’s initiation is to go to the corpses mausoleum and take his ring.

Oh right the title. He goes to the funeral and when he gets to the coffin Puma startles him and he…dies. He must be forty-two because he just had a heart attack!

This is the only time they play a short after the movie. I can see why. It really kills the flow of the episode. It starts by showing the end of part 2 and we see he just fell out of the car. Which makes sense because he didn’t close the door and they showed the side of the car he fell out of. So Bela steals a car and drives off. Captain and reporter meet up with some other military guys and they go off to do stuff. Also they just left the assistant on the ground. Bela runs on invisible to save his assistant. I’ll give him this he does care about his partner. He’s always saving him. Then Bela kills some other guy. Then they run off in the distance again. Cut back to the robot, Bela, and his assistant. Also they learn what draws the spiders and for some reason if you destroy the disk the people wake up from suspended animation. Also our leader talks about talking over the world. Swell guys. Bela’s shadow appears, which is dumb because he’s INVISIBLE!!! The doctor drops some chemicals and I think he goes into suspended animation. Wait….they just said, “Why do we always come here around the time the sun sets?” Are they pointing out the continuity flaws of the short? IN the short. The assistant sneaks off through the front entrance so they’re bound to find the secret area now. He is caught when he should have just waited in there and then they drive off. The box with the chemicals makes the power lines snap and the car lose power so some exploding power lines crush them. Considering that we don’t see part 4 I assume they died.

The pre-episode skit is The Bots ticking Joel into thinking its movie time. Huh. Invention exchange is the Human-Operation for the Mads and Joel’s is Pin-Bolus (organ pinball). Both are funny. The next skit is Joel and the Bots advertising the Old School. It’s a joke regarding the fact that everyone looks like they’re I their damn forties. Funny. Next skit is Joel dissecting a vacuum cleaner and like the guys in the movies. This frightens Crow, Tom, and Gypsy. This is a funny skit. It even has the funny transitions and repetitive score that the movie has. The next skit is doing a gag where Joel would give them ram chips if they named something good. After naming several good things about the movie (namely the fat characters being likable and happy) Joel doesn’t give them anything because they didn’t mention how short it was. Then Dr. F tells them to get back in the theater to watch the short. Final skit is Frank singing the song “If Chauffer’s Ruled the World”. Not my favorite song around. This movie sucks. It has bad music, bad lighting, bad acting, obviously old actors, obviously young extras, being really short, and just dull to sit through. This is the last time we watch Phantom Creeps. Shame. I thought it was entertaining. But then again, that’s probably why they stopped showing them. The episode was pretty funny with very frequent riffs and most of the skits were funny. Even the physical humor in “If Chauffer’s Ruled the World” was pretty funny. I recommend it. It’s a really funny episode.
Episode Rating – 9/10
Movie Rating – 2/10
Favorite Riff – ‘I heard you gave him a test that goes back to the 15th Century!’ “Discover America? The Spanish Inquisition? Break off from the Catholic Church?”
Stinger – One of the students saying, “Weird. Yeah, I guess that is the word for it. Weird.”
Episode – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XILUzue6PJc
Trailer (there is no trailer so have the movie!) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POEYGpiZ_l4