There's a party over at NOVA, Dr Marner (Austin Pendleton) is showing off the new line of military kill bots, the S.A.I.N.T.s, when a sudden storm shuts it all down. Before they can get the robots to the showroom, #5 is hit by a bolt of lightning and escapes, spurring their creator, Newton Crosby, PhD (Steve Guttenberg) and his partner, Ben (Fisher Stevens) into action to bring it back to the lab. #5 goes out into the world in search of input and meets a very special animal lover, Stephanie (Ally Sheedy). Together they do their best to show that #5 is indeed alive and doesn't deserve to be disassembled. Hijinks, stereotypes, and a Perfect Strangers interlude is what you're getting in Short Circuit, this week on Doom Generation! 

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Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) has devoted his life to the study of virtual reality and in order to pursue his studies, he must work under a government contract at VSI alongside Timms (Mark Bringelson) and under the giant head of the mysterious Director (Dean Norris). Using a VR program, the Doc seeks to enhance the intelligence of a chimp while VSI seeks to make it a weapon. The project goes wrong and the chimp is killed in an escape in front of neighborhood staple, Jobe (Jeff Fahey). The Doc decides Jobe is about as smart as his previous subject, so why not? After injecting this simple man with brain drugs and messing with his cortex, Dr. Angelo loses control as Jobe seeks to become a God. Also a whole bunch of other stuff happens which somehow makes The Lawnmower Man one of the longest movies Doom Generation has ever covered - enjoy! 

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In dystopian Old Detroit, officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is transferred to Metro West AKA Hell and is paired with officer Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) and sent out into the mean streets. Meanwhile OPC, headed by the Old Man (Dan O'Herlihy), the company providing money to assholes like Dick Jones (Ronny Cox, really?!) and Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer) in order to militarize the police, has created a robotic cop Ed-209 to clear the streets of crime. While Ed-209 malfunctions, Murphy and Lewis follow crime boss, Clarence Bodicker (Kurtwood Smith) and his gang into an abandoned building where the gang gets the drop on them and Murphy gets shot to shit and left for dead. Seeing his opportunity to get in with the Old Man and move up the corporate ladder, Bob has Murphy saved and transformed into the ultimate justice machine sans dick, Robocop, coming to bust up your operation. This week on Doom Generation.

When Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) calls up Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) to meet him at the Twin Pines mall parking lot after 1 am you think it might be to blow him, but Surprise! It's SCIENCE! Having turned a DeLorean that runs on plutonium into a time machine, Doc plans to travel through time, unfortunately the terrorists he got that plutonium from shoot Doc and Marty mistakenly goes BACK IN TIME-UH. In 1955 he meets his folks George and Lorraine (Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson) and almost negates his own existence by interrupting their creepy meet cute and getting his mom all hawt and bothered. In order to save his family, Marty has to get his parents together and get his dad to stand up to life long bully, Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson). Fire up the flux capacitor as we hit 1.21 GIGAWATTS on a trip thru Back to the Future featuring the sequels, this week on Doom Generation. 

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From the creative minds of Jim Henson, Frank Oz, and Brian Froud and featuring the voice talents of Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, and more. Skeksi appear in the world of Thra and ravage the land while their peaceful counterparts, the Mystics, seek to bring about balance. They send Jen, a Gelfling whose people have been driven to extinction by the Skeksi, on a quest to fulfill the prophecy. Unfortunately for Jen, the supposedly all knowing Mystics are short on important information and send Jen to Aughra for a shard he doesn't know what to do with. Fortunately for Jen, he meets another Gelfling, Kira, who can speak to the animals and joins him on his journey. Together they discover the way to save their land by healing The Dark Crystal, this week on Doom Generation. 

Sculptor Molly and banker Sam (Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze) are in love. They're literally building a life together when asshole "best friend" Carl (Tony Goldwyn) ruins everything. In order to pay off mysterious debts to shady characters, Carl hires Willie (Rick Aviles) to rob Sam, but he fights back and he's killed in the struggle. With his spirit able to be present unnoticed, Sam discovers the plot and goes to charlatan psychic, Oda Mae (Whoopi Goldberg) to help deliver the message that Molly, you in danger, girl. Have a seat at the pottery wheel for Ghost, this week on Doom Generation.

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The city is under siege with a kid crime army led by the Foot Clan under their master Shredder (James Saito) and Master Tatsu (Toshishiro Obata). Newscaster April O'Neil (Judith Hoag) is trying to spread the news of the rise of this criminal empire while being suppressed by her boss Charles (Jay Patterson) under the direction of police chief Stearns (Raymond Serra) while Charles's son Danny (Michael Turney) runs with the Foot Clan. While all this happens, Splinter (Kevin Clash), a big mutated rat, has been training turtles he found in the sewers to fight crime in the city - he named them after his favorite painters Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael. Together with April and vigilante, greasy, hot ass Casey Jones (Elias Koteas) they manage to save the city, Splinter and themselves in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, this week in Doom Generation.

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Insurance investigator, John Trent (Sam Neill), checks himself into an asylum run by Dr. Saperstein (John Glover) as the fabric of society begins to tear.

On the dark and stormy night he checks in, Dr. Wrenn (David Warner) arrives to hear the story of how he got there.

When mysterious horror novelist, Sutter Cane (Jurgen Protchnow) goes missing in the lead up to the release of his latest work, agent Jackson Harglow (Charlton Heston) hires Trent to find him along with editor, Linda Styles (Julie Carmen).

Together they head to the town of Hobbs End where the characters of Cane's novel come to life. Linda takes them straight to an inn that features in the stories run by Mrs. Pickman (Francis Bay) and find the Byzantine church that's been leaking the evil into the town, starting with the children.

Soon, Sam can't tell if he's acting on his own or if that's just the way he's written and now he can't help himself from delivering the work that will allow the return of the Old Ones, Cane's latest and greatest, In the Mouth of Madness, this week on Doom Generation.

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Semi respected scientist and fascinating bastard, Edward Jessup (William Hurt) embarks on a study into schizophrenia using isolation tanks and eventually psychedelics with the help of his cohorts Drs, Rosenberg (Bob Balaban) and Parrish (Charles Haid). His studies are put on the back burner when he meets anthropologist, Emily (Blair Brown). They eventually marry, have a couple kids, and decide to split. Eddie takes the opportunity to go trip balls with the Hinchi tribe in Mexico with his guide, Eccheverria (Thaao Penghlis) and decides that if he uses the drugs and the tanks in conjunction he can break through the barrier to discover the original self. Things get weird when his hallucinations begin to materialize in the physical world and Jessup begins to lose his grip on reality and achieves Altered States, this week on Doom Generation. 

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It was a different time but not THAT different when Richard Elfman decided to bring the wild things he saw on stage with his equally terrifying brother, Danny Elfman's band, The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo and marry their showmanship with the racist cartoons of the past to create the Forbidden Zone!

The story of the family Hercules (Ugh-Fudge Banana, Phil Gordon, Hyman Diamond and Virginia Rose, the only one with a SAG card) and their daughter Frenchie (Marie-Pascale Elfman) who live in a house that happens to have a doorway into the 6th dimension. When neighborhood friend, Squeez-It's sister, Renee (Matthew Bright) disappears into the portal, Frenchie decides to check it out for herself.

She goes down down down and meets Queen Doris (Susan Tyrell) and her King Fausto who lock her up for different reasons, the King wants a sex slave and the Queen wants to torture her with the help of daughter, The Princess (Gisele Lindley). When her family comes looking for her, they find a world beyond comprehension where you always expect to see a skid mark and the boys are always humpin' - Forbidden Zone, this week on Doom Generation.

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L.A. is like...Nowhere

The people that live here are just...lost.

West coast bohemians, Dark (James Duval), his girlfriend Mel (Rachel True), her girlfriend, Lucifer (Kathleen Robertson), best friend Cowboy (Guillermo Diaz), his boyfriend Bart (Jeremy Jordan), dreamboy Montgomery (Nathan Bexton), trio of binge bunnies, Alyssa, Dingbat and Egg (Jordan Ladd, Christina Applegate, Sarah Lassez) and Egg's brother, Ducky (Scott Caan) are gathering for kick the can before the big party at Jujyfruit's (Gibby Haynes). In one night, with the help of a rogue Lizard Creature (Roscoe), a teen idol (Jaason Simmons), Handjob (Alan Boyce) the drug dealer and a televangelist Moses Helper (John Ritter) everything transforms...literally. Part of Gregg Araki's Apocalypse Trio (NOT THAT ONE) featuring television's finest, this week on Doom Generation.