- Ann Magnuson, a popular artist in New York, entertains an audience with various characters like Stevie Nicks.
- Actress, musician and performance artist Ann Magnuson, plays numerous characters in this early Cinemax High-Art meets Low-Culture comedy special. A biker mama named Sweet Pea (Piglet's Ol' Lady) is on the way to a wet t-shirt contest to try winning tickets to the Vulcan Death Grip concert. Piglet and Sweet Pea are involved in a Harley and panel van collision, where she flies into a wormhole of surreal scenarios. First she runs into a Stevie Nicks lookalike who distributes unicorn horns ("I make everything horny around here!") and gives her some sparkly red stiletto heels. Next she befriends a talking bong (think H.R. Pufnstuf) and looks into a knothole/wormhole where she's on the label of a tea box and Hare Krishnas are singing. Then they encounter Shirley Maclaine as a ticket scalper hanging out with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. After sticking her head through another wormhole to Nina Hagen's fish tank, they stumble into Salvador and Gala Dalí trying to decide what to eat ("No grasshoppers!"). She pops into a dingy and rows across Saturn's rings, where a mystical blue van appears and summons her inside. There, a producer cum Jim Baker-style character mistakes her for the TV show host, Polly Anna (a Tammy Faye Baker-type). Sweet Pea is made up as Polly Anna and pleads for money to save her sick poodle, as well as hocking her Christian exercise routines and Shroud of Turin beach towels. She confronts the Stevie Nicks lookalike who tells her she had the power to return home all along. Once she places her hand on the TV, Sweet Pea is transformed into the lead singer of Vulcan Death Grip herself and they Rock Out! At the end of the song the singer pass out (from being wasted) and returns to consciousness confused as to which character is the real Sweet Pea. She begs for help and gets devil-forked on the bum which rockets her half way out of the airbrush painting on the side of the original van she sailed into. Back in reality she finds Piglet beating the snot out of Charles Manson as Sadie Mae Glutz begs him to, "Stop beating up Christ!". Sweet Pea begs Piglet to be saved ("Remember me? Your LIttle Beaver?") and he and the devil have a tug of war over her. Sweet Pea and Piglet are reunited, suck face, sucker punch one another and ride off into the sunset as Charlie and Sadie Mae are gifted the talking bong. Never released to DVD.
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What is the broadcast (satellite or terrestrial TV) release date of Vandemonium Plus (1987) in Australia?
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