Hopping Down the Bunny Trail: A Double Feature- "It Came from Outer Space" and "Munchies" -Tonight!

Tonight on Me-TV, we have twice as many goodies to add to your pre-Easter basket- with this month’s double feature! The first part is suitable for a double feature, with some visitors being doubles who will try to be like us! The second part has our Sven Squad displaying a creature that not only doubles- it quadruples- and so on and so on-thanks to some snack food chicanery! Beware of the deceptive duplicates spawned when “It Came from Outer Space”- followed by the multiple monsters known as “Munchies”!!

Our first story, from master of science fiction, Ray Bradbury, brings us to the normally peaceful desert town of Sand Rock, Arizona, is Author John Putnam, an amateur astronomer, and his girlfriend Ellen witness to a bright object streaking across the sky-and striking the ground nearby! John, eager to explore this phenomenon, arranges for a copter ride to the point of impact. After arrival, he heads down into the huge crater created by the object, expecting to see the remains of a smoldering meteor. Wrong! It’s not a meteor at all- but a strange spherical metallic object- with a hatch in it! He thinks he sees- something about to emerge from inside the object- but an unexpected avalanche occurs, and he barely escapes a premature burial under the collapsed dirt and rocks -which conveniently cover up whatever it is he saw!

John attempts to explain what he saw to his copter pilot pal and skeptical girlfriend- who both find it hard to believe his story. Regardless, Ellen is willing to stand by her man and aid him in trying to discover whatever it is that is now buried – but neither of them can convince the local authorities that there's something unusual out in that desert area. Soon, however, she herself doesn’t need any further convincing- when both of them get a fleeting glimpse of some sort of creature- not to mention an unexplainable glittering slime trails on the ground.

Things get more unsettling when some of their local friends are missing- and abruptly re-appear- but are not acting like their normal selves! When the authorities finally do realize something is terribly amiss- and want to do something about it- it ends up being John’s responsibility to convince them that taking the wrong course of action could mean the end for all of them! Will they discover what's really in the crater- and- will their fear of what it might be bring their own destruction upon them?

We've pointed out before that this was originally a 3-D film, Universal’s first- and you’ll notice a few specific scenes designed to take advantage of the 3-D effects. We’ll go over our cast, featuring Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush, as well as a recognizable face from “Gilligan’s Island”- and there are plenty of Sven antics to break the tension-including a classic Sven bit playing off one of the greatest sitcoms of all time (talk about someone pretending to be someone familiar...)-we thought it would be appropriate to show you this ‘50s segment in a 1950s film! Plus, a song, some Easter relevant fun regarding eggs, a visit from that bad egg the Imp, a vintage visit from a celebrity pal, and more!

And then- it’s time for us to tag in the Sven Squad- as Nostalgiaferatoo, Gwengoolie, and the aforementioned Imp bring us a horror comedy- with the likes of Harvey Corman, Robert Picardo and more-in “Munchies”-a film often called Roger Corman’s version of “Gremlins”! It begins with archeologist Simon Watterman discovering a creature in a cave in Peru. He brings it back to the US, but his evil twin brother ( it’s Harvey Corman in a dual role) kidnaps the little creature- but when his kidnappers harm it, it turns vicious- and Simon’s son must try to destroy it using one of the snack-making machines in the evil twin’s factory. That’s a bad idea, because as the machine chops up the nasty thing- it multiplies into MORE of them! They discover the perfect way to create more Munchies- not only that, but the little creeps develop an attraction to -women! Gwengoolie better look out- as she and Nosty and Imp get to work to provide an assortment of fun to snack on!

"It Came from Outer Space" comes at you first tonight on MeTV at 8 pm eastern/pacific, 7 central- or check the time and channel in your local listings, or at www.metv.com. Join the multitudes who live-Tweet about us during the show on Twitter /X, as well as posting live on BlueSky-using the hashtag #svengoolie on both. Then, the Sven Squad brings you the “Munchies” right afterward at 10:30 eastern/pacific, 9:30 central time. In the Chicago viewing area, viewers get bugged again with an encore of the “Deadly Mantis” at 11am on WCIU, The U!

Thanks to the many viewers who visited with us at last week’s C2E2 comics and entertainment convention- we met up with many fans, including some celebrity ones! We’ll have highlights of all the fun sometime soon.

The new Svengoolie baseball jersey is a big hit (get it? Hit? Baseball?)- you can get yours by visiting our store- it’s sure to it a home run with everyone who sees it!

But tonight-join us for twice the terror -with classic 1950s science fiction- and 1980s Roger Corman creature chaos, courtesy of the Sven Squad!