Mystery Science Theater 3000 experiment #515: The Wild World of Batwoman (with short, Cheating).
Original airdate: November 11, 1993.
Available from Amazon.
The short Cheating was previously viewed here, and happily it hasn't changed since then. Still, we see student council John screw up his life forever when he's caught cheating on a math test, and the short ends up being the basis of most of the host segments that followed.
The main feature, such as it was, features Batwoman (Katherine Victor) leading a group of more attractive Batgirls going up against the villainous Rat Fink (Richard Banks), who is eager to gain revenge on Batwoman for foiling all of his previous schemes. So, he has his henchmen drug one of the Batgirls at a club, and they hold her hostage, promising to release her only if Batwoman helps him steal a new invention. And then, it all goes to incoherency, complete with stock footage from The Mole People being used for no discernable reason. The movie was retitled She Was a Hippy Vampire after DC Comics sued for copyright infringement. Regardless of title, it's still pretty damn bad.
The episode opens with Mike dealing blackjack to Crow and Tom with Gypsy as his beautiful arm candy. Tom suddenly withdraws from the game, while Crow insists that Mike "hit him" until there's an enormous pile of cards in front of him, and that's when Crow wants to double down. After the invention exchange (TV's Frank's 'Atomic Powered Hair Dryer' is demonstrated on Dr. Forrester; Mike shows up a large back shaving razor), most of the episode is parodying the Cheating short, where Mike and the robots discuss, then write essays about the negative aspects of cheating. But, it seems that Crow copied Gypsy's paper word for word, and something needs to be done. However, he apologizes as only he can at the end of the episode, and TV's Frank runs away from Dr. Forrester's new mushroom cloud hairstyle.
Recommended episode. "END!! END!!"
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