Scenario for another of those oh-so-popular “ecological disaster” films. This one stars Jane Fondue and Jock Lemming.
Scene: The testing laboratories of the Pollyanna Microwave Oven Company. Eerie background music. The camera moves over sinister-looking concrete towers belching forth noxious vapor, workmen clutching their throats and dying, etc. Within Headquarters Building, amidst an arcane array of buzzing and crackling radars, seismographs, oscilloscopes, ultracentrifuges, and Mr. Coffee coffee-makers, stands Jock Lemming, plant superintendent, who is monitoring a computer screen that reads: “extreme danger. entire plant about to go bonkers!” Lemming is a neurotic, disturbed, flatulent—but yet innately noble—human being who is being used as a tool by the greedy owners of the company. At the moment, he seems worried about something. His tie is loose, his shirttail is out, his pants are falling about his knees—the man is a mess! But a kind of dyspeptic idealism shines through.
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