"First Lady of the Evening" (directed by Weiss): Angel Tompkins as First Lady Terry McGovern as Salesman Michael Hanks as Announcer "Titan Man" (directed by Weiss): Matt Adler as George Kelly Preston as Violet Ralph Bellamy as Mr. Gower Howard Hesseman as Rupert King Steve Cropper as Customer Chris Wolf as Mascot Bip "Video Date" (directed by Landis): Marc McClure as Ray Russ Meyer as Video Salesman Corrine Wahl as Sharri Andrew Dice Clay as Frankie Willard E. Pugh as Speaking Cop "Reckless Youth" (directed by Dante): Carrie Fisher as Mary Brown Paul Bartel as Doctor Herb Vigran as Agent Tracy Hutchinson as Floozie Mike Mazurki as Dutch Frank Beddor as Ken "The Unknown Soldier" (directed by Horton) Robert Loggia as General McCormick Bernie Casey as Major General Hadley Ronny Cox as General Balentine Wallace Langham as Private Anson W. Pucket "Peter Pan Theatre" (directed by Gottlieb) Jenny Agutter as Cleopatra Raye Birk as Vanya Mark Bringelson as Theater Customer #1 Victoria Ann Lewis as Theater Customer #2 Vivian Bonnell as Theater Customer #3 Kellye Nakahara as Theater Customer #4 Reception The majority of critics agreed that the quality was inconsistent throughout the film. Variety called it "irreverent, vulgar and silly... [with] some hilarious moments and some real groaners too." Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times felt that the exercise was somewhat unnecessary: "Satirists are in trouble when their subjects are funnier than they are." Janet Maslin of The New York Times, in a largely positive review, described the film as "an anarchic, often hilarious adventure in dial-spinning, a collection of brief skits and wacko parodies that are sometimes quite clever, though they're just as often happily sophomoric, too." Certain portions of the film were singled out for praise. "The funniest episode probably is 'Son of the Invisible Man', directed by Carl Gottlieb, in which Ed Begley Jr. plays a man who thinks he is invisible but is not", wrote the Chicago Sun-Times. "The film's best sight gags come from Robert K. Weiss, who deserves kudos for the inspired idiocy of his Amazon Women segments", was the opinion of The New York Times. In a retrospective article for Entertainment Weekly, Chris Nashawaty called this film "the beginning of the end of Landis' career". He cited the episodes featuring Monique Gabrielle, Archie Hahn, Ed Begley Jr. and David Alan Grier as "inspired", but criticized others for their failure: "You'll never see