#Heather thomas zapped full

In this skit, Johnny makes fun of the popular “laundry test” commercials of the day. Only in the 70s did Johnny Carson get this risqué. We can even call it something else, if you like – how about “A Survey of Unanticipated Garment Displacement In Popular Media: A Historico-Cultural Analysis”. If it makes you feel better, consider this a “scholarly expedition through the annals of visual media”. Yes, it’s a little bit cheesy and slightly pervy, but it’s a time honored tradition. Instead, let’s get a little low-brow and take a look at great moments in having a female’s clothes unexpectedly yanked off on television and film. The telekinetic power is also creatively used in a Star Trek like montage starring Barney’s sheepdog and Starfleet clad men inside a toy model of The Enterprise, and a Carrie like chaotic Prom climax.We could go through the great dramatic moments in the history of cinema, or list the best cinematography or musical scores (yawn)…. Memorable moments in the film include drunken scuba diving lab rats being used for a school report on driving under the influence, harvesting fast growing dope with the principal’s orchids, and the marijuana scheme where cool dude coach Dexter hallucinates about riding bikes with Einstein only to be chased down by his wife shooting salami sticks at him. To top it all off, the standard of the school is set by a punk rebel who’s repeated senior year 3 times, putting his hopes for graduation into classy poems about chicks. And high school wouldn’t be the same without a torrid affair between the unauthoritative principal who takes more interest in the classifieds than running the school and his mousey slightly desperate English teaching. Jane ( Heather Thomas) is a blonde bucksome bombshell that is in the dreams of all boys in school, and of course dating college jock Robert Wolcott. Peyton ( Willie Aames) is the overly confident and somewhat annoying womanising bestie who adds much comedy to the flick as he seduces femme fatale’s from the principal’s secretary to the school beauty Jane: “I don’t want you to do anything you don’t want to.

Together they experience all the intense new emotions of a physical romance, only to be challenge by antics of the best friend Peyton. Barney’s love interest Bernadette ( Felice Schachter) is the naturally pretty and smart newspaper writer and school presenter who takes a keen interest in conducting research on Barney’s telekinetic powers. Even without his power, he is cool in his own way having access to his own chemistry lab in which he has created a weed plantation. Scott Baio (TV’s Charles in Charge) is Barney, someone who seems to have the nerd-jock crossover down pat.

#Heather thomas zapped full

The school is full of stereotypes which are perfectly played by the cast. After using his newly found skills to take out the Baseball Game, win thousands in a poker match, and take out revenge on enemies he can’t seem to secure the most important thing to him: a date to the Prom. This leads to pranking the teaching to get out of a sticky situation, and gaining the higher ground over his parents through the use of a dummy acting as a possessed vessel. Barney slowly realises his newly found talent through extreme adolescent emotions, both good and bad. Through experimenting with chemical mixtures and alcohol, a powerful concoction is created that first gives extraordinary visual strength to Edgar the lab mouse, then leading to an explosion. Rosenthal captured in this 1982 quirky comedy the essence of a teenage boys mind and what you could do with an overactive imagination if you had special powers.īarney is scientific genius with uptight parents that are convinced that he is a possessed junkie. What would you do if you had the ability to move objects with your mind? Combine that concept with the 80s teen T&A genre, and a touch of Grease, and you get Zapped! Writer/Director Robert J. Starring: Scott Baio, Willie Aames, Felice Schachter, Robert Mandan, Scatman Crothers, Heather Thomas