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...Comedy Central, is the smart person's all-purpose entertainment event of the '90s: a deftly satirical musical-comedy puppet show that masquerades as a two-hour put-down of bad films. Three figures -- a human, Mike Nelson (played by head writer Michael J. Nelson), and two robots, Tom Servo (Kevin Murphy) and Crow (Trace Beaulieu) -- sit in front of a movie screen and, as First Spaceship to Venus or Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster or I Accuse My Parents unspools, they crack wise. That's about it, plus a sketch or two and some edgy banter with...
Along with standard kid stuff, like the endless fascination with bong jokes, the show offers giddy social commentary. Watching a '50s industrial film promoting General Motors cars in a gleaming world-of-tomorrow landscape, Servo (he's the red gumball machine with Slinky arms) intones, "Future not available in Africa, India, or Central or South America." Listen to Crow (the gold robot constructed of a lacrosse helmet, a split bowling pin and some Tupperware sections) explain the Hercules sex-and-pecs epics of the late '50s: they stem from "European indignation toward postwar conservatism and sexual repression, which translates onto...
Many jokes are made about Mike's unfamiliaritywith the show's routines. None of the viewer mailis for him, and he doesn't know that Tom Servo,the gumball machine robot, needs to be carriedinto the movie because he doesn't have any legs...
...tinkerer who started out in a small basement shop 16 years ago, Lyngsø credits the gadget with cutting down the proliferation of meetings that have come with the growth of his own firm, Søren T. Lyngsø, Dansk Servo Teknik, to two plants and 160 employees. He finds that the machine starts saving money even before conferences start: nowadays his managers whenever possible skip calling meetings rather than watch the machine add up the cost...
...said the U.N. had been partly responsible for "an abatement of the Cold War in recent years. The emergence of nonaligned nations has helped servo as a bridge. The presence of a group uncommitted to a belief in the superiority of either economic system has served to soften debate...