Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-4849011-20150322002931/@comment-4849011-20150331001756

To Chronobunny- Thank you. I appreciate that.

To Hellhound- I’m having some trouble again, but I do have something for you. I don’t know if Day of the Dead has any laughing heads, but I have thought of two examples. There was an episode of Challenge of the Super-Friends in which the Legion of Doom partnered with a witch and a demonic creature. The demon appeared as just a fiendish head and neck. After the Legion had captured the Justice League, the demon gave them the power to control corpses. However, that wasn’t enough for them and they made the witch summon the demon again. They captured the demon, but he escaped and turned the zombies against them. They had to release the Super-Friends in order to save themselves (It was not a proud moment for the supervillains). The superheroes had trouble, but the witch (for whatever reason; it’s been a while since I’ve watched the episode) told them how to beat the walking dead. She explained that the way to stop them was to tie them to dead trees using dead vines (At this point I should note that one time I watched this episode with my nephew, who was maybe six or seven at the time. At that part he looked like he was thinking, “Well, that’s stupid…” so I joked, “It’s just that easy!”). After the zombies were stopped, the Justice League attempted to capture the Legion of Doom, but the witch appeared again. Since she had done something to help the forces of good, she was now going to do something to help the forces of evil. After she teleported the Legion to safety, she cackled wickedly. Then she disappeared and the fiendish head appeared, laughing wickedly before disappearing. The fact that the head appeared where the witch had been makes you wonder what the relationship was between the two, whether they had switched places or if they were actually the same being in two different forms. Well, I guess it makes you wonder if you actually care.

There’s also a 1960s B-movie called The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052646/?ref_=ttmc_mc_tt). It’s about a scientist who keeps his girlfriend’s severed head alive. She doesn’t like that very much, so she conspires with the monster in the basement to attack him. It was an Mystery Science Theater 3000 and the clip with the monster attacking was used in a “Film Dub” segment on an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. The scientist (voiced by Ryan Stiles) and the girlfriend’s head (voiced by Greg Proops) were arguing when the monster (voiced by Colin Mochrie) reached out and grabbed his arm. As the monster violently tugged at his arm, Colin shouted, “Buy an encyclopedia! Buy an encyclopedia! I’m working my way through correspondence school!” It cut to the head, and when it cut back to the scientist, his arm had been torn off. The head was seen mocking and laughing, and Greg dryly jeered, “Now you know how I feel! Ha ha ha ha ha!” Before or after that Ryan made a joke about feeling “disarming”.

Not related to anything, but while I was searching I found an article on a short French film called The India Rubber Head (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000359/?ref_=kw_li_tt).