What Did You Watch? 2025-02-09 (Sunday)

On the day of the superb owl (where were the owls?), I watched:

WE ARE THE 80'S

WE ARE THE 80'S

WE ARE THE 80'S

Several YouTube vids.

THE LOVE BOAT:
Happy Valentine's Day!
� "Computerman". Captain Stubing expositions to the crew that this is
their annual Valentine's Day cruise, full of single passengers looking
for love. How is this different from the rest of the year? Anyhow, Julie
announces that she hired a computer dating service to hook up the
passengers this year, just as he arrives with his hopelessly
antique-looking desktop thru the passenger entrance via a big cart and
immediately starts sleazily trying to make the moves on Julie, who
rebuffs his efforts. Later, on the Lido Deck, the matchmaking begins and
the sleazy guy starts to pair people off, including Julie, much to her
surprise, to the matchmaker. Unfortunately, no matches are found for
Captain Stubing, which is weird because it seems to imply that the
computer only matched up six or eight passengers and the ASCII computer
graphic went through a LOT of names while looking for the Captain's
match. For the rest of the cruise, the pairs seem to be doing fine, save
for Julie and hers. OK, he was willing but she was just being a bitch
about it. Eventually, the paired-up passengers fail, each accompanied by
a stupid ASCII computer graphic. Meanwhile, Julie has a change of heart
and discovers they have a connection. Unfortunately, their night in his
cabin (why was his cabin personalized? I thought it was Julie's at
first) is interrupted by the angry dissatisfied couples his computer
matched up earlier. How they got his room number is anyone's guess (OK,
maybe not THAT much, given previous eps), but what exactly are they
expecting him to do about it? At the end of the cruise, as the
passengers disembark, we discover the couples are back together again,
or maybe they all switched partners, and the sleazy guy admits to having
"fixed" his computer to pair him with Julie b/c he fell in love with her
on first sight. So I guess they're going to date now?
� "Parlez-Vous?". Two women pretend to be French and not understand
English in order to get husbands. I have no clue how or why this would
work, but the one hooks up with a man whose roommate is "Bill Nye the
Science Guy" and the other falls in love with Gopher. Eventually, the
one with Gopher gets tired of his embarrassingly bad French and spills
the beans, which he takes surprisingly well. The other one, however,
recants his offer to buy her an engagement ring.
� "Memories of You". Patti Duke is convinced a male passenger is her
husband who mysteriously vanished, but when she confronts him abut it,
he denies it. I think she made it up to get Doctor Bricker from
constantly hitting on her. Eventually, he opens up to the possibility
that the stress of writing commercial jingles together caused him to get
amnesia so she decides to get married to him and move to a more idyllic
rural residence.

RIFFTRAX:
"Super Argo And The Faceless Giants". A useless Mexican superhero who
happens to wrestle and his Indian guru sidekick are asked to stop a mad
scientist's army of robotized athletes. Wow, this one almost didn't
need the additional mocking.

SUPERARGO VERSUS DIABOLICUS:
After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, masked wrestler Superargo
quits wrestling and, following the advice of his friend Col. Alex Kinski of
the Secret Service, becomes a secret agent, using his superhuman abilities to
stop villain Diabolicus' plans to wreck global economy by turning uranium
into gold.
After watching Rifftrax, I noticed a passing line to Superargo defeating
Diabolicus and wondered if there was more to it. This one made more sense
than the one Rifftrax did.

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000:
"The Puma Man". Professor Tony Farms discovers that he is really Puma Man, a
superhero who is descended from the gods. Together with an Aztec priest, they
try to thwart the plans of Kobras, who is in possession of the sacred puma
mask, and plans to hypnotize government leaders with it and take over the
world. Puma Man spends most of the movie flying awkwardly and jumping around,
leaving the Aztec priest to perform all the physically demanding tasks.

What did you watch?