First shown: 1/22/89.
Opening: It's Superbowl Sunday! The Mads show off their "no-d" glasses, which are 3-d glasses with one lens removed. Dr. Erhardt: "Look, I can only see length!"
Host segment 1: Crow's barbershop is open for business, and Joel is the first customer. They discuss "that black Carson, Arsenio Hall" and other hot topics of the day. [This segment was later re-shot in episode 105- THE CORPSE VANISHES.]
Host segment 2: In order to disprove the theory of evolution, Servo teaches himself to fly. He literally loses his head.
Host segment 3: The Bots help Joel with his taxes. It goes pretty well until Crow and Servo discover they're being claimed as "business expenses." Crow: "Maybe we should be wearing ties and demanding maintenance contracts!"
End: The crew of the SoL play a game of football, and Gypsy and Joel duet on "We Are the Champions." The whole thing degenerates into a tickle fight as the credits roll. A portion of this scene was included on the MST3K Scrapbook tape.
Special Notes: This episode originally aired on Superbowl Sunday 1989, which explains the first and final host segment's obsession with football.
During one of the commercial breaks, Trace Beaulieu and Josh Weinstein appeared, as the Mads, in a commercial for a Twin Cities restaurant entitled Pizza and Pasta, one of MST3K's first sponsors. The commercial still exists on many fan-copies of this episode.
Servo's head comes off for the first time in this episode (during host segment 2). It appears to be accidental, but the cast covered it pretty well.
This episode also marks the first time the show used a movie that was actually two TV shows loosely spliced together. In this case it was two episodes of "Space: 1999." The concept would later reappear on Comedy Central with the "Master Ninja" episodes and on The Sci-Fi Channel with the movie "Riding With Death."