clearly intended as a spoof of Ripley's Believe It or Not! with Jack Palance and In Search of...; Archie Hahn as a man who dies after being mauled (by Roger Barkley and Al Lohman, mimicking Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert), then is roasted at his funeral by a variety of people, including Steve Allen, Henny Youngman, and even his own wife; William Marshall as the leader of the Video Pirates, who hijack an MCA Home Video ship, uncover a vast amount of videotapes and laserdiscs, and promptly begin illegally bootlegging the media; Ed Begley Jr., as the son of the Invisible Man, having trouble with his formula; Angel Tompkins as a president's First Lady who is also a former hooker; Matt Adler as a sexually frustrated teenager trying to purchase a pack of condoms, with unexpected results; Marc McClure renting a personalized date video that spills over into real life; "Reckless Youth" – an epilogue at the end of the credits, with Carrie Fisher and Paul Bartel in a black-and-white ephemeral film warning about the spread of "social diseases" in the style of Reefer Madness. Alternative versions An alternate version of the "Pethouse Video" sketch was filmed for the television broadcast of the film, with Monique Gabrielle in lingerie instead of appearing naked throughout the segment. However, most European television broadcasts of the film retained the original theatrical version. Bullshit or Not? was retitled Baloney or Not? for the television version. The American television edit, in addition to the alternative "Pethouse Video" sketch, features an additional bridging sequence between the death of Harvey Pitnik and his subsequent celebrity roast. In it, the mortician successfully cons Pitnik's widow into having the celebrity roast as part of the funeral, and her performance gets such strong positive feedback, it becomes a continuing performance series lasting for weeks. The DVD release features an unreleased sketch titled "The Unknown Soldier", starring Robert Loggia with Ronny Cox, Bernie Casey, and Wallace Langham. Some television broadcasts of the film featured the sketches "Peter Pan Theater" and "The French Ventriloquist's Dummy", which were not present in the theatrical version. Cast "Mondo Condo" (directed by John Landis): Arsenio Hall as Apartment Victim "Pethouse Video" (directed by Carl Gottlieb): Donald F. Muhich as Easterbrook Monique Gabrielle as Taryn Steele "Murray in Videoland" (directed by Robert K. Weiss): Lou Jacobi as Murray Erica Yohn as Selma Debby Davison as Weatherperson Rob