Episode #313 & #314      "36! 24! 36! Dick! Parts I & II"

  We see Dick in a panic at the Super Bowl saying that the big women are angry and things are about to blow. Then a flashback: for no apparent reason, Rutherford has been overrun by breathtakingly beautiful women. As if by magic, suddenly every nerd has his own stunning girlfriend. The aliens are no exception: Dick has Gabriella, a beautiful Russian; Tommy has Chloe, a sexy redhead; Harry has Mascha, a dazzling brunette. Even Office Don has Kirsta, yet another stunner. Sally’s fit to be tied and convinced that something’s seriously amiss, but the men are oblivious and spend all their time showering the women with lavish gifts. Harry’s the only holdout; his feelings for Mascha are deeper and go beyond consumer goods (though he does present her with a macaroni necklace and makes her a mushy videotape). Strangely, Mascha is touched. Mary is also puzzled by what’s going on in town, but she’s thrilled and excited when she receives two tickets to the Super Bowl from a former student whose team will be playing. She invites Nina to be her guest. At Johnny Foam’s, in the women’s room, Sally overhears some of the gorgeous women discussing their plan for world domination, but despite her urgent warnings the men are too smug to believe that things aren’t as they seem. Sally has no choice but to infiltrate the group (later identified as Venusians) and try to save the planet. Sally hides in the women’s room where the beautiful ones are communicating with their leader, Prell, through the vanity mirror; she instructs them to go to California to complete their mission. Sally is discovered and seized, and the Venusians threaten to kill her; she insists that she wants to be one of them, and they somewhat reluctantly agree on the condition that she’ll submit to a makeover. Just as suddenly as the fabulous beauties appeared in Rutherford, now they’re leaving. Sally gives Dick a note disguised as a grocery list and pointedly tells him to have a good look at it, but Dick doesn’t get it. All the men are devastated that they’ve been abandoned, and the aliens are the saddest of all. But they find a compact that one of the Venusians has left behind and realize it’s a transmitter, finally get the significance of Sally’s note and take off to California in the Rambler to save her. Dick, Harry and Tommy track the women across country and intercept a message from Prell that they’ll be at an exit off Route 66 the following day. Harry spots Mascha looking at jewelry, and she tells him that something big is going to happen Sunday in San Diego at the Super Bowl. Sally has been forced to undergo a series of tests including walking a runway, giving attitude and starving herself and is at last accepted as one of the Venusians. Albright and Nina are staying at a San Diego hotel where participants in the half-time show are also staying, and the two women are being driven nuts. When his attempts to buy tickets at the box office three hours before the game fails, Dick breaks into Mary’s and Nina’s room, steals their Super Bowl tickets and substitutes tickets to Sea World. At the stadium, Dick and Harry use the tickets and smuggle Tommy in dressed as a baby. The aliens follow some Venusians into the restroom and are immediately whooshed into the Venusians’ lair below, captured and tied up. There they encounter Prell and Sally, who appears to be brainwashed, and the others. Prell informs the aliens of the Venusians’ intention to loot the planet of all the good stuff by hypnotizing all the men to do their bidding. Their master plan is to be accomplished by hijacking a satellite and running their custom made beer commercial (during which, their research indicates, men are most susceptible to suggestion). Sally puts in the tape, but instead of a beer commercial it’s Harry’s tape for Mascha. Sally’s not brainwashed at all, she reveals, she’s been undercover to stop the Venusians. Furious, Gabriella engages Sally in a kung fu battle and beats her. The Venusians leave the aliens in the control room, which is about to explode, but Mascha comes back, saves them and helps them divert the Venusians’ transport ship, stranding the Venusians on earth. Mascha wants to stay in Rutherford with Harry, but he insists (a la Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca") that she take an appliance repair job she was offered in Phoenix.