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- Nathaniel Pickman Wingate has opened a gateway to another dimension using equations and equipment in his basement laboratory. His wife, Nancy, wants him to get ready for his own birthday party. He wants his son Sam to help him. Sam is up in his room looking at pictures of Jasmine on his computer, and a poster of her arrives which he puts in his closet. Although it is Nathan's birthday, the family is enthralled by a visit from Cousin Desmon, who is now a count in Liechtenstein. While Sam is away getting equipment for his father with his friend Alex, his father gets sucked into the other dimension, and a creature from the parallel universe escapes, pursued by another. The first temporarily traps the second with its spit, attacks Desmon, and becomes a duplicate, absorbing his thoughts from the unconscious body. The other manages to get free, and unable to find a human to mimic, finds the poster of Jasmine, and becomes her. Sam soon finds her, and becomes his new girlfriend, but she has to find the false Desmon and take him back to their dimension to keep him from harming himself or Sam's family. Sam's sister Linda ("Lindy") is obsessed with talking on the phone, and can neither spell "Desmon" (she spells it "Dezmon") or Chameleon (she spells it "Kamillion", hence the title), what Nathan called the creatures on his tape recorder. The false Desmon drives away Emma the French maid, and plays childish, seemingly deadly pranks on the rest of the family: Angelica, a slut who owns half the house, Larry, a minister, supposedly born again, but badly sinning, and Floyd, a mechanic. Both chameleons try to figure out the ways of the new dimension, while Desmon finds new ways to make mischief, but I can't give away why. Meanwhile, everyone is operating on Nathan's belief that after the four hours of coolant runs out, half the planet will be blown away.
- We begin with Shô Kosugi demonstrating the use of a katana, saying nothing about the film he is introducing. When Gordon is taking his girlfriend's picture in Hong Kong, several Caucasian thugs led by a Chinese man, Kogan, threaten her, so he beats them up. Elsewhere, Bernard Wong pays his workers extra money to continue digging his land after discovering human bones. The thugs are members of the Black Ninja Clan, whose dead are buried on Wong's site. One of their operatives strangles Gordon's girlfriend, believing she knows where Gordon has hidden the Golden Ninja statue that apparently gives him power and won't say, while another hires Ghost Ninja, a beautiful witch dressed in white to kill Wong, his daughter Fanny, her husband George, and her son, Bobo, for three million dollars. Fanny is frightened by a cat in the house upon move-in, and the Black Ninja leader keeps swinging her sword to hallucinate frogs jumping to their deaths out of her refrigerator and her soup ladle turning into a flying snake (strung on a wire that is highly visible without pausing despite being a split-second shot). The witch keeps spooking Fanny and Bobo, who insists on riding his bike in the living room, but George doesn't believe either of them. Gordon (sitting in front of a poster of a strangled woman marked "this could happen to you" and another poster of a swimsuit model) responds to their complaints (in shot-reverse shot, as they're obviously not in the same film) and commands Magic Chan, a wizard with a magic mirror he has forgotten, and his obese sidekick, Firecracker, in the same manor, and frequently keeps in touch on the phone after his Caucasian operative living next door, Sara, is murdered by a zombie man. Sometimes he uses a black phone, but more often it is a Garfield phone (which the camera moves and music suggest is supposed to be funny). The Ghost Ninja is more interested in her own desires than killing the family, and masturbates to the couple's lovemaking before spiriting herself into Fanny's vagina (there is no full-frontal nudity) in order to lure George away from her, though she makes him physically ill, as she did to Bobo by stuffing his mouth full of handfuls of grass. The Ghost Ninja, once compelled by the Black Ninja leader, calls upon more women like dressed her, plus one impersonating Bobo's grandmother as a lure for him, and the zombie man, in an all-out assault against the family, while the two bumbling idiots (Firecracker and Magic Chan) are having a drinking contest, and Gordon, in a red ninja suit, who has been offing the Caucasian ninjas, prepares to confront Kogan, the Black Ninja leader.
- Huangmeixi tragic opera in which Bai Suzhen, and her younger sister, Qingqing are centuries old snake spirits who have trained to take on human form for a thousand years. Suzhen takes the form of a young doctor and falls for Mr. Xu, a poor pharmacist who rescued her beaten snake form in a previous incarnation, and Qinqing her handmaiden and matchmaker. Although the medicine Suzhen makes has saved countless people, many monks insist that they are snakes and inherently evil, and try to make Xian escape them and become a monk himself. When he learns the truth with the posions from the Dragon Boat festival, he is literally scared to death. Suzhen, though pregnant, must then fly to the celestial mountains and battle for the flower that can restore him to life.
- L. Frank Baum is attempting to write a new story. Before he has written more than his name, he is interrupted by his youngest son, Kenneth, and their dog, Dorothy. Persuaded to write about Santa Claus by Kenneth, and with the support of his butler, he spins a yarn about a "Santanapping" preventing Santa Claus from performing his annual duties and the ambition of the young ryl, Whisk, to assist in Santa Claus's rides, who, with Kilter the pixie and Nutter the knook, has to do just that, according to Santa Claus's emergency orders.
- Madolyn, Wesley, and Doh, three children from the town of Minuet, which has dancing (the primary form of communication) but no singing, follow advice of strange old couple Seemore and Melodia, who can sing, and encounter a creature called Susie who sends them on a trip to various singing communities by chasing them into the River Glissando. Seemore and Melodia explain at the beginning that the performers will indeed be singing in order to interpret the dances for the viewer.
- The Baam send their giant robot Zeron to fight Daimos. Summary movie of the series.
- Steve McQueen multiply remakes the most famous shot of Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), in which the façade of a house collapses and Keaton is saved by being in exactly the right position as a window from a multitude of different camera angles.
- Wah Sang was a boxing champion seven years ago. He now works at a garage and cares for his seven-year-old son Henry. They live a small apartment and Wah spends much of his time gambling and drinking. Henry wants Wah, whom he addresses by that name him to return to boxing, but Wah is hesitant because he suffered a brain injury. Henry is a go-kart racer, and at the track, Susan sees her friend Jenny, whose son is also in the race, being rude to him, so she approaches him and bets him dinner if he can win the race. Henry tries to pass Jenny's son in a curve and runs into the grass. When his crew come to aid him, she sees Wah, her ex-husband, there, and confronts him, demanding to know if Henry is their son. Thus begins Wah and Susan competing for Henry's affections, though Henry does not yet know that Susan is his mother. Susan is married to a cardiologist, and she has a successful career in car sales (particularly to white English-speakers). They live in a large house and believe they can give Henry a better life, while Wah descends further into gambling and risks losing his son when he attacks his creditors for trying to take his son. Wah suggests that Henry ought to live with Susan for a while, and when Henry refuses, Wah slaps him around for addressing him so informally in order to get him to leave. Henry calls Susan, who takes him in happily, but when she tells him that she is her mother, he is outraged because Wah told him that his mother died shortly after his birth. Wah admits to Henry that Susan is his mother, and that he still loves her, but couldn't deal with her continuing with her career, then contemplates returning to boxing to pay his debts, even though this means risking his life.
- Interested in what happened when a ship with a huge hole in the side washes up on shore, three boys, Joey, Allen, and Ned, stowaway in the cargo bay of a ship. When the ship gets attacked, they are left behind because they aren't on the roster. They are rescued by the rising of a gigantic underwater sea vessel (which the narrator decides he'll call a submarine even though they hadn't been invented at the time of the story) commanded by the enormous Captain Nemo, who doesn't want to hurt them but wants to keep his ship a secret. They fight a shark the the narrator insists is stock footage from another movie, beat up a crying octopus, get stuck between icebergs while the first mate is steering the ship, and ultimately get caught in a sea vortex before waking up.
- Local kids' program in which Peggy and her wizard friend, Don, run an Indianapolis diner with Chef Choufleur and a staff full of puppets and show Terrytoons including Deputy Dawg, Hector Hethcote, and Hashimoto-san.
- Ben is haunted by the ghost of a woman who was his girlfriend in a previous life, and it interferes with his hysterical girlfriend and his investigation of a man who has been murdering and raping young women (in that order) in public gardens.
- Shiza, Hope, and Anjola must put aside their differences if they wish to succeed in a Nollywood acting school.
- New Year's Eve special for kids inspired by the 1963 film The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors. A pair of twins enthused by a musical television program and dreaming of getting into show business leap into their TV and run around in the palace of King Tarrop the 77th, who is viewing numerous musical performances in his throne room, many involving campy ethnic stereotypes. It does not really follow the plot of the original film, and is primarily devoted to the musical performances (which include several songs in English, one in French, and one in Italian) but the eccentric characters are largely recognizable even without bearing a close resemblance to the originals.
- The Frankish knight Roland captures Fierrabras, son of the Prince of the Moors, and out of chivalry has King Karl spare him. Karl remands Fierrabras to Roland's custody, and they become friends. Ronald is in love with Karl's daughter Emma, but as a simple knight, he is not of the status to marry Princess Emma, although she loves him. Emma is betrothed to Eginhard, King Karl's army commander. Roland and Emma decide to elope in the garden at night, but King Karl catches them. In the bad light, Fierrabras is able to take the fall for Roland, who spared his life, and gets put in prison. Eventually, King Karl learns the truth from Emma and sets Fierrabras free, and Fierrabras and Roland strike out together against the Moors. Fierrabaras will not strike his own father, however, and the opera ends in a happy reconciliation between the parties. In this production, Franz Schubert himself appears, taking bits of the spoken dialogue and manipulating the characters onstage, sometimes handing them sheet music from which to sing, as though he is composing the opera as it is being performed.
- In this narrated story of illustrated still images, Peter's parents take him to historic Chancemoor Castle, being the sort of parents who like educational vacations. The box office clerk looks convincingly like a gremlin. When Peter gets separated from his parents, the clerk finds him, reveals pointed ears she did not previously seem to have, and introduces herself as Shanakzoot, a hobbit (although she wears shoes) and apprentice to the Wizard Alyosious. Shanakzoot tells Peter that he is a special boy with a gift for magic, and if he can master a magical transformation, she will introduce him to Alyosious and the queen of the castle, Isadore. They exist in a parallel dimension that can be slipped into, topographically the same as the town but a heavily forested enchanted realm without all the contemporary houses and storms. Peter needs to learn more magic in order to retrieve the magic ring of Chancemoor from Zandor, the evil wizard of Stumbleswake Castle, who killed the king there, or Chancemoor Castle will crumble to dust in both dimensions. As Peter learns new magic, live-action sequences feature a Wizard who demonstrates how to do six simple sleight of hand tricks, two with standard card decks and four with other common household items such as paper, string, and drinking glasses..
- When students in a school keep dying under various circumstances, the remaining students need to learn how to cope. This culminates in their teacher refusing requests to make love to his assistant, Helen. The students' consolation prize is a visit from a live goat.
- Fairy Baidong, who appears to be an old man but has only been training for 150 years (miniscule in fairy time), sees that the people of Earth are suffering because of intrusions from the world of Evil. He and a young assistant, Lu'Jan, set up a medical facility on earth to help the people, taking the name Budong (Baidong means All-Good). He also takes under his wing the impoverished scholar Shuangde, who lives in a temple where he trains two sisters, Qing'er (with whom he is in love) and Cai'er, in the ways of Good, for they are human girls raised by Evil spirits. Budong tells him not to associate with them because they are evil. In his zealous quest to do good, he is tricked by the Master of Darkness into freeing his spirit, though not his body, and that by holding the Master of Darkness's spirit, he can contain him. Thus, he claims righteousness as he kills Qing'er, Cai'er, the warrior Cuo of the jade sword, who was raised by an evil tree spirit who fled and has been a major fighter of Evil, and even Lu'An when he opposes him. He then sends the cronies of the Black Wind to Heaven, then makes him and a fairy gardener, Bau (White) his leading enforcers to help the people, but the lackeys under them are all corrupt, and Budong falls more and more deeply into pride. It requires the rebellion of Black and White and the intervention of the goddess Guanyin to stop Budong, and the resurrected Lu'An with his magic sword to stop the Master of Darkness.
- Four car-obsessed teenagers hang out in a clubhouse: two good kids: 4U, a guy with a toy car over his shoulders and his girlfriend, Euphoria, in a yellow blue frilly jump-suit, try to reform Fast Lane, a guy with slicked up fiery red hair and a cardboard hot rod around his shoulders, who often serves as a bad influence to Couch Potato, a chubby guy in a yellow jump-suit. They had vignettes, after which Bob Keeshan would sum up the lesson, surrounding the cartoons "Rainbow Brite," "Popples," and "Ulysses 31," the latter replaced mid-season with "The Get-Along Gang."
- Peggy Nicholson, a small group of kids who auditioned at a local McDonald's, and puppets ride in a WTHR van to visit sites around central Indiana, with additional featured segments in each episode, such as an origami lesson, introduced by a scantily clad dancer on a ladder singing "Origami, origami, origami you, origami me" and being questioned by the instructor if she knows what the word means.
- Interview featurette on the DVD of The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors in which Andrei Stapran discusses how he was cast in the film, working with Aleksandr Rou, and an incident at school related to the length of his hair for the role. He then discusses his later life as a director and promotes the socially conscious films he made about Chernobyl, The Caribbean Crisis, and the Afghan War.
- Three concurrent stories involving a deadly female beast in the forest: the warrior, Vork, who has had recurring clashes with her, a Lord trying to get an herb from the forest to save his sick daughter and rapes a woman for not talking to him, and two brothers who loved the same woman who was killed by the beast, who clash over her soul.
- Chief Frederick has two wives, Chichi and Clara. Clara, the second wife, thinks she is superior to Chichi because she is the one who has borne Frederick three sons. Their clashes erupt into physical violence among the half-siblings that spills out among their neighbors, ultimately killing one.
- Treemonisha returns to the plantation of her parents after being educated by a white woman. At the celebration of her return, she decides to decorate her hat with leaves from a nearby tree. Her mother, Monisha, tells her that she cannot take leaves from that tree, under which she found her, revealing that she and Ned adopted her. When she goes to find different leaves, she does not return. Lucy witnesses her abduction by cronies of Simon, a conjurer who follows a mixture of ancestral folk-wisdom and local religious beliefs who wants to sacrifice her to a den of wasps. Remus, indebted to Treemonisha, who taught him to read and write, disguises himself as a scarecrow and sets out to free her. After a difficult journey home, witnessing the lot of other African-Americans, she returns home to find herself defending those who captured her from the assault of her family and friends.
- The director wants to make a tragedy, but it's a comedy studio. The writer doesn't have a script, so he may yet get to direct a tragedy. Sheldon, the producer, tosses a "gizmo" out the window--a horizontal tube on a wooden base topped with two artificial hands--and it inspires the writer to write a script about it as a wacky invention, although one of the actors believes it's a missing modern art piece by Fernando Fiasco.