Men in Charge

For those who were wondering how public radio villain/scientist Anders Lurkawhile went from being a Men in Charge pest to a pest with occasional full-length episodes of CHAOS on Men in Charge, here is the straight dope. It begins when Tony and Kevin are stunned as Anders Lurkawhile approaches them for aid in finding the Dean of Men, who is unaccountably important in this early stage of the plot. In his Portable Management Center Cavern in the Himalayas, Sherpa Tenzing holds the most important clue.

  In yet another exclamatory episode, Kevin and Tony discuss how damp tissues of lies can become before they (the tissues of lies) fall apart. Pretty damp, we learn. But the rest of the episode isn’t quite as educational. In “What’s New with You?” host Roger Basement—winner of the coveted Baritone award--interviews playwright Art Buckle and learns that his ontological condition isn’t quite as stable as he might wish, Baritone awards notwithstanding.

Report on recent mission of the crew of USF Rocket Vanguard//By Phil the Used Android//The Earth Space Force Rocket Vanguard had been utterly destroyed by a miscalculation of the ship’s used android, Phil//ERROR//…destroyed by a miscalculation of Pip the stowaway street urchin//CORRECTION…Explosion was only overloading of delivery mechanism for Lt.

  As you’ll remember from Chapter 3, parts A&B, of Rocket to the Future! Part 1, Cadet Billy is now wearing the radioactive name tag that declares him “Warlord of Mars!” Taking this designation seriously, he takes Lieutenant Nemesis and Farley Stubbs as hostages in an escape pod to Phobos, the scarier of the Mars moons. Why? Not just for the view, but to meet with his Martian army of insurrectionists. Meanwhile, Captain Major and the crew try a venereal time warp to leave Mercury in time to… well, they have no idea.

Kevin and Tony discuss the categories into which things should be sorted that are so adorable we could scream. We’re not talking about the adorability intrinsically tied into screaming: that is, animatronic dolls that people swarm over each other to buy on Black Friday. We’re more talking about underwear on the floor for days. We do eventually get around to airing segments: Erin Maxwell, Rogue Podiatrist invades Reggie Forge’s Ethics Lite™ Women’s Empowerment Seminar to look for foot-bending shoes.