Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.
Directed by
Carl Gottlieb, John Landis, Joe Dante, Robert K. Weiss, Peter Horton
Written by
Michael Barrie, Jim Mulholland
Monique Gabrielle
Taryn Steele (segment "Pethouse Video")
Bryan Cranston
Paramedic #1 (segment "Roast Your Loved One") (uncredited)
Michelle Pfeiffer
Brenda (segment "Hospital")
Rosanna Arquette
Karen (segment "Two I.D.'s")
Phil Hartman
Baseball Announcer (segment "Murray in Videoland")
Joe Pantoliano
Sy Swerdlow (segment "Hairlooming")
Peter Horton
Harry (segment "Hospital")
Matt Adler
George (segment "Titan Man")
Garry Goodrow
Checker Player (segment "Son of the Invisible Man")
Forrest J. Ackerman
U.S. President (segment "Amazon Women on the Moon")
Steve Guttenberg
Jerry (segment "Two I.D.'s")
Kelly Preston
Violet (segment "Titan Man")
Griffin Dunne
Doctor (segment "Hospital")
Joey Travolta
Butch (segment "Amazon Women on the Moon")
Donald Gibb
Graceless Pirate (segment "Video Pirates")
Mike Mazurki
Dutch (segment "Reckless Youth")
Tino Insana
Mr. Sylvio (segment "Video Pirates")
Ed Begley Jr.
Griffin (segment "Son of the Invisible Man")
Sybil Danning
Queen Lara (segment "Amazon Women on the Moon")
Carrie Fisher
Mary Brown (segment "Reckless Youth")
Robert Loggia
Gen. McCormick (segment "The Unknown Soldier") (uncredited)
Corinne Wahl
Sherrie (segment "Video Date")
William S. Taylor
Gruesome Pirate (segment "Video Pirates")
David Alan Grier
Don Simmons (segment "Blacks Without Soul") / Don Simmons (segment "Don 'No Soul' Simmons")
Wallace Langham
Private Anson W. Pucket (segment "The Unknown Soldier") (uncredited)