Now this is more like it.\u00a0 After those last two clunkers I was wondering if Season Three was all done.\u00a0 But this will do.<\/p>\n
Frisby (played by the unique Andy Devine) is a general store owner somewhere in the southwest named Frisby.\u00a0 He is a spinner of tall tales and a terrible braggart.\u00a0 According to him he has invented just about everything and has studied almost every field of science and engineering.\u00a0 The customers of his establishment (one of whom is played by Howard McNear who was Floyd the Barber on the Andy Griffith Show) tolerate his lies because while he is pontificating, they are able to steal small pieces of candy behind his back.\u00a0 We are subjected to an almost constant barrage of these tall tales in the first scene of the show.\u00a0 Then a car pulls up to Frisby\u2019s gas pump and while he fills their tank and regales them with the story of how he invented the rear mounted engine in their car the two men identify him as the man they are looking for.<\/p>\n
Later on, as Frisby is closing his store he hears voices in the dark telling him to walk down the road to embark on a great adventure.\u00a0 When he timidly refuses, he is levitated into the air and toward the destination that he was invited to.\u00a0 On the desert floor we see a flying saucer (of course the one from Forbidden Planet) and the same voice invites him to enter.\u00a0 Once inside, we see the two men from the car we saw earlier surrounded by other crew members.\u00a0 They tell Frisby that they are aliens come to Earth to select a superior specimen for their menagerie.\u00a0 After hearing of all his exploits and accomplishments they assume he is one of the most remarkable humans alive.\u00a0 Frisby tells them that all the stories are lies.\u00a0 But they do not understand the concept.\u00a0 His lies have finally caught up with him.<\/p>\n
When Frisby tries to leave they block his way.\u00a0 When he resists and punches one of them in the face, the face cracks and is seen to be a mask hiding a strange non-human visage.\u00a0 Seeing this Frisby faints.\u00a0 When he comes to, the unmasked alien talks to him and declares that they will be leaving Earth momentarily.\u00a0 To console himself Frisby begins playing his harmonica.\u00a0 But the music has a toxic effect on the aliens and as they stagger back from the sound Frisby dashes for the door which they gladly open to allow his exit.\u00a0 The saucer takes off to allow their escape from the \u201cDeath Sound\u201d of Frisby\u2019s instrument and he heads back to his store.\u00a0 When he gets there the customers are throwing a birthday party for him.\u00a0 He tries to tell them of his adventure but they laugh it off as just one of his wilder stories.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t get much goofier than this one.\u00a0 But it\u2019s a great farce. A-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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