In Los Angeles, California, a man returns to his apartment and opens a can of beer, but it sprays all over his face. He eats a sandwich, but it is rancid. He puts the food down a garbage disposal, but when he turns it on, his tie gets caught in the drain. He plugs in the television, gets an electric shock, and the television explodes. A bookcase falls onto him and when the man gets up, he stumbles out the window, plummeting to the ground below. On television, a public service announcement discusses the short attention span of today’s youth, but someone quickly changes the channel. A Pethouse video shows Taryn Steele, the “Pethouse Plaything of the Month,” who goes about town naked. An elderly man named Murray is excited by the new remote control for his television, but presses the wrong button and is transported inside the television to the local weather report. As his wife, Selma, presses the remote control button trying to get him back, she transports Murray into a music video by Huey Lewis and the News, then King Kong, then Bambi. Finally, Selma transports him into a live broadcast of President and Mrs. Reagan disembarking Air Force One and Secret Service men arrest him. In a hospital, Brenda and Harry are anxious to see their newborn son, but the doctor refuses. When they insist, they are presented with a "Mr. Potatohead" doll. Finally, the doctor reports their son has been misplaced, but a moment later, the nurse arrives with the baby. The television channel is changed, to a commercial for Hair Looming, a company that installs carpeting on bald men’s heads. The 1955 movie Amazon Women on the Moon portrays a spaceship about to land on the moon. When the film breaks, the station airs a commercial about the tragedy of African Americans who are born without “soul” and end up behaving like white people. On another station, Jerry picks up Karen for a blind date, but she insists on running a compatibility report reviewing his dating history. Karen quizzes him on the report, then refuses to go out with him, saying, “The statistics don’t paint the picture of a mature man.” On another channel, the show “Bullshit Or Not” examines the Jack the Ripper murders and suggests that the killer was really the Loch Ness Monster. A movie criticism show reviews the life of viewer Harvey Pitnik, with two critics commenting on Harvey’s miserable life. As Harvey watches on his television, the critics discuss him suffering a heart attack. Harvey screams at the television, telling them to stop talking about his life, and suffers a heart attack. The movie Amazon Women on the Moon resumes with the spaceship landing on the moon. A commercial for “Silly Paté” airs, promoting the new Silly Putty in the form of edible paté, available in both toy stores and gourmet food shops. Harvey Pitnik’s funeral airs on television with various comedians roasting his life, followed by Harvey’s wife. A commercial airs for black singer Don Simmons’s new album of “non-threatening,” middle-of-the-road music typically sung by white singers. The movie Video Pirates airs with a pirate ship boarding the MCA Home Video boat and plundering all the movies available in VHS, Beta, and Laser Disc. The video pirates discover a treasure trove of unreleased movies including Son of the Invisible Man, in which a scientist has recreated his father’s formula for rending people invisible. As the scientist takes off his bandages and clothes, he believes he is invisible, but everyone can see him. Amazon Women on the Moon resumes as the space crew is in the throne room of "Queen Lara," but the film quickly breaks again. When it resumes, Queen Lara holds the men prisoner. A commercial airs for the Cosmopolitan Museum of Art, which has lost its lease and is holding a going-out-of-business sale. They’re selling all their treasures at highly reduced prices, saying “every Van Gogh must go.” A commercial airs for the paperback release of the novel First Lady of the Evening, about a former prostitute who marries the U.S. President. On another channel, teenager George is on a date with Violet and stops at a drugstore to purchase a condom, but the pharmacist knows the teen’s family. When George purchases a box of Titans, he is the condom company’s one-billionth sale and is named the “Titan King” in a public ceremony. Amazon Women on the Moon resumes with the men escaping prison. They make it back to their spaceship and take off just seconds before the moon explodes. The ship heads back to Earth, where the captain and Queen Lara, who escaped with them, plan to start a life together. At a video store, the clerk gives Ray a personalized pornographic video. When played, Sherrie, the star of the video, speaks directly to Ray. As she simulates making love to him, her boyfriend, Frankie, returns home, gets jealous, and shoots Sherrie, then himself. As Ray watches on his television, police come in and arrest him for the murders. The movie Reckless Youth airs with young Mary Brown visiting her doctor because she has a “social disease.” Mary explains that after winning a beauty pageant in Iowa, she moved to New York City, but went to a party and contracted the disease. When she returned to Iowa to marry her sweetheart, Ken, she infected him, and he slowly began going blind. The doctor locks Mary in a dungeon to protect society from her, warning viewers to “resist temptation” or they will end up like Mary.