h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've decided to revive the Forrester Family Experiment: that being the attempt to break someone's will to live by showing them horrendously awful movies. I'm even going to try to break new ground and avoid movies that MST3K has used.

However, I've recently decided that I'm going to expand on that. Mike and Joel never lost their will to live, though some of the movies came pretty close to finishing them off. So, I came to a decision: they just didn't have the strong cultural backbone. They both obviously had the knowledge and know-how of fairly well-educated in the world's culture people, but the approach to the movies was all wrong. They only had movies that almost finished them off once in a blue-moon, and all of the other movies were merely annoying. So, Dr. Forrester should have been showing them good movies as well! Invasion USA was a bad movie, but how much worse would it have seemed if it had been the follow up to Casablanca?

The following is an "episode guide" of movies that I've inflicted on my current victim.

101-The Brain
102-Plan 9 From Outer Space
103-Godzilla's Revenge
104-Detective
105-The Creature From 20,000 Fathoms

He was mortified after The Brain, and he was shaking a little after Plan 9. His only comment on Godzilla's Revenge was that it was "Godzilla meets Barney", and he had the audacity to actually enjoy Detective. The Creature From 20K Fathoms seemed to have little to no effect.

After this, I've decided to base it off of an Invention Exchange. If my invention is better, he watches the movie I select. If his is better, he gets a good movie instead.

For the first exchange, I had the "Infinite Monkey Simulator", a computer program that randomly spewed out symbols. I actually managed to get "To be or not to be, that is the ques" before it went back to garbage. His invention was a method of transporting money through solid objects....a form of teleportation that he admits is just a simple magic trick. It was decided that his invention was equal to mine, in that his was a magic trick and I was only getting partial results, so we came to the following compromise:

106-Manos: The Hands Of Fate-MST3K Version

I'll keep you updated on the progress of the experiment.