"He looks so sinister!" "Must be the Master himself." "I'm scared. He has the meanest look..." "I'd hate to run up on him in the dark, or even in the light, for that matter."
MADS ARE BACK: WIZARD OF MARS: Astronauts (maybe cosmonauts) crash on Mars and are stranded until they eventually find John Carradine's floating head, who provides a 15 minutes of exposition. I usually complain when they cut stuff out of the movie, but this one was so dull when the astrocosmonauts were wandering around the desert pretending it was Mars that I didn't mind. The cheesy special effects with double-exposures and psychedelic matte paintings were kind of charming, but the jokes rarely landed. I was unfamiliar with the after show guest, Julie Klausner, who made a sitcom on Hulu I never heard of and has a podcast, but she was entertaining enough. Not an episode I'd recommend to newcomers. 2.5/5.
Earth is visited by a GIANT ANTIMATTER SPACE BUZZARD! Gawk at the amazingly bad bird puppet, or chuckle over the silly dialog. This is one of the greatest b-movies ever made.
Lesson Learned:
Osmosis: os·mo·sis (oz-mo'sis, os-) n., 1. When a bird eats something.