MST3K #507: I Accuse My Parents

Mystery Science Theater 3000 experiment #507: I Accuse My Parents (with short, The Truck Farmer).
Original airdate: September 4, 1993.
Available from Amazon.

First, there's an 11 minute short from Encyclopædia Britannica detailing the then-new and exciting method of farming involving trucks. Unfortunately, they never instructed anyone how to plant and grow trucks in a garden.

Jim Wilson (Robert Lowell) is a young man who finds himself on trial for serious felonies, and when he is asked to speak in his own defense, says "I accuse my parents" for not giving him the home life that everyone else seemed to have (with a drunken mother and indifferent father), which somehow led him to getting involved with some criminal activities after meeting a new girl named Kitty Reed (Mary Beth Hughes), who also happens to be involved with a mobster named Charles Blake (George Meeker). It's a pretty bad movie, actually, considering all of this started over an essay contest.

We open the show with Tom Servo painted naked, expressing his desire to be a "real live boy". An initially shocked Joel says Servo is exhibiting "Pinocchio syndrome". Later, after the invention exchange, Crow, Tom and Gypsy all draw their idealized families while Joel analyzes their secret desires. Gypsy soon takes center stage to lip-synch to a song in the movie, but Crow and Tom ruin it by spilling drinks all over the sound board. Close to the end, Joel and the 'bots attempt to analyze the roots of Jimmy's problems, concluding that "true Jimmy scale dementia is a complex phenomenon". Really? The show ends with the robots trying to hold up Joel looking for hamburgers, and Joel reads a postcard featuring something called a Barco-rammer. Down in Deep 13, after TV's Frank had accidentally baked the exotic dancer inside the cake, he and Dr. Forrester find him alive, and he immediately accosts a shy Dr. F looking for money.

Recommended, but not the best MST3K episode.