Plot
Fictional television station WIDB-TV (channel 8) experiences problems with its late-night airing of science-fiction classic Amazon Women on the Moon, a 1950s B-movie in which Queen Lara (Sybil Danning) and Capt. Nelson (Steve Forrest) battle exploding volcanoes and man-eating spiders on the moon. In place of the faltering film, the channel airs various other movie clips, trailers, commercials, public service announcements, infomercials and talk shows in between a few snippets of the main feature.
These segments feature:
- Arsenio Hall as a man who nearly kills himself in a series of mishaps around his apartment;
- Monique Gabrielle as a model who goes about her daily routine in Malibu, California, completely naked;
- Lou Jacobi as a man, zapped into the television, wandering throughout sketches looking for his wife;
- Michelle Pfeiffer and Peter Horton as a young couple having trouble with eccentric doctor Griffin Dunne delivering and then concealing their newborn baby;
- Joe Pantoliano as the presenter of a commercial recommending stapling carpet to a bald head as a hair loss prevention measure;
- David Alan Grier and B.B. King in a public-service appeal for "blacks without soul";
- Rosanna Arquette as a young woman on a blind date, employing unusual methods of investigation to reveal the past indiscretions of Steve Guttenberg;
- Henry Silva as the host of a show entitled Bullshit or Not?, clearly intended as a spoof of In Search Of . . .;
- Archie Hahn as a man who dies after a critical mauling (Roger Barkley and Al Lohman resembling Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert) and is roasted at his funeral by a variety of people, including his wife;
- William Marshall as the leader of a gang of pirates illegally bootlegging videotapes;
- Ed Begley, Jr. as the son of the Invisible Man, having trouble with his formula;
- Angel Tompkins as a First Lady who is also a former hooker;
- Matt Adler as a sexually frustrated teenager who becomes a spokesperson for a condom company;
- Marc McClure renting a personalized date video;
- and an epilogue at the end of the credits, with Carrie Fisher and Paul Bartel in a black-and-white ephemeral film warning about the spread of "social diseases" in the style of Reefer Madness.
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