Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

Season 8, Episode 25, Aired

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Movie Plot: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank A man's mind gets sucked into a massive computer system. Intro: Crow creates a catch phrase for himself to justify a large t-shirt order. He has Tom cue a laugh track every time he says it, but it malfunctions. Segment One: The 'bots don't like the catch phrases Mike chooses. Pearl decides to make money by having her own PBS station, and hosting a pledge drive. Tom wants to help, but Mike says she will use the money to send them more bad movies. Segment Two: The 'bots order a pet monkey over the internet. It gets scared, hides in the rafters and throws things at Mike. The 'bots make Mike assume a non-threatening position. Segment Three: The bots' monkey still does not like Mike. As an example of other Pearl-based programming, Pearl and Observer sing a duet, which they forget the words midway through. Segment Four: Tom has Mike dopple him down to the Nanite world so he can make fun of them, but he winds up in a rough section and Mike becomes like Apollonia and doesn't help. Segment Five: Bobo comes up to the SOL to help with the monkey, but ends up turning against Mike and the 'bots. Meanwhile, Pearl counts the money her pledge drive made and pays her phone bank. Stinger: Fingal says, 'Mom, 'm I nuts?'moreless
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  • Never stick a good movie in the middle of your crappy movie.

    8.7
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    By jamoon2006, Dec 04, 2007
    "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" is a lame PBS-produced movie that's sort of like "The Matrix," loaded with "Casablanca" references and rivals "Street Fighter" as the low point in the late Raul Julia's career.

    The movie is shot on tape, so it looks even crappier than it actually is. The weird mixture of quasi-futuristic mumbo jumbo and half-baked Bogart homage is delightfully goofy, and it makes the whole movie a welcome target for Mike and the Bots. It's a great episode for riffs, and there's a very funny bit during the credits when Mike, Crow and Servo call a customer support hotline to voice their displeasure with the movie.

    In a pleasant surprise, the host segments are not all that bad for this Sci-Fi Channel episode. While the movie runs, Pearl hosts a public television-style fundraising drive to raise money for her evil plans. Clearly, the writers have watched enough PBS and do a wicked send-up of the perennial pleas for money.

    Good riffs, funny host segments...great episode all around.moreless

  • Not as good as the others.

    6.2
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    By animallovah, Jan 25, 2007
    While most episodes of this show are great, this one was lacking. The beginning took forever to start the film mocking. There seemed to be plenty of long pauses during the movie. While most episodes of this show are great, this one I don't really care for. Nothing like the real classics like The Final Sacrifice or SoulTaker.

  • Bankrupt at the Memory Bank

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    By sh811a, Jan 11, 2007
    Sometimes a lot of movie stars that we know and love sometimes had stared in bad movies before before they came on strong. Oh, well as the saying goes you got to start somewhere, even if it was a very bad start for one of my favorate actors Raul Julia.

    The movie as well see is god awful. The story is a blantant rip off of Philp K. Dick and Willium Gibson lore, in fact the story hardly makes much sense at all, people that misbeahve in that world have to be sent into a alternate cyper universe where they have to be an animal for a while, if while reading this your thinking huh right now that was the same reaction I had seeing that part of the film. And there are plenty more moments of huh in some other places mainly on certain facts about that supposed world of tommarow it's just unnessasarily confusing we just don't know what is wrong or right as well as the customs in that place, no wonder Raul's character finds the place unlivable. Plus the dialog is just terrible, some of the things they say feel like they've been written by a hack writer and that is exactly what this film has been written by a hack. But most of all what is horrible is how truely cheap this film is from the cinamatography they used looked like home video camera, unconvincing effects, backgrounds, oh the list goes on.

    What I loved about the episode were it had a lot of the best sarcastic jokes and one liners that made me just roll on the floor laughing. From the scenes before the movie we see Peril create a crooked PBS pledge drives and she presents the movie and then says something about Raul Julia "What the hell was he doing in this piece of sh...."

    But my favorate was when the MST guy in one scene of the film Raul character does something and suddenly it's raining computer pixels. One of the bots says, "Wow it must take that much coocane to watch this film."moreless

  • Raul Julia is a clerk who gets stuck doing penance as an animal in another dimension. I don't get it either.

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    By Lokar, Feb 08, 2006
    The late, great Mr. Julia had the role of one Mr. Fingal, a data entry clerk busted for watching movies on company time. The free spirit--and by that I mean he's abrasive and wanders around yelling at fellow workers--is sentenced to spend time as an animal 'familiar' in a parallel world. So he runs around sniffing things; meanwhile the other clerks try to set him free, and it's all the least exciting thing you have ever seen. It's a sleepy little 'film' made for public television. Pearl uses it in a telethon of pain.

    Mike and the robots tear it up with some very funny dialogue. One of the best episodes of the latter years.moreless
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  • Robert Palmer/Power Station: Crow said, "Well, some like it hot, and some sweat when the heat is on." This is an allusion to the Power Station song, 'Some Like It Hot'. Robert Palmer was the lead singer.

  • Johnny Cash: As the transpod is shown Tom said, "I hear the transpod comin', it's comin' round the bend..." This is an allusion to the song 'Folsom Prison Blues' by Johnny Cash. The lyrics are, "I hear the train a-comin', it's comin' 'round the bend..."

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