The new Narrator reports to the TURDIS — the time-traveling Port-a-Potty — to discover that earthling crew members Clell Landis and Doctor Shay Watt? have been imprisoned by (fanfare) The Grand Galloping Goof in a Google Pixel phone.
The Goof insists that Mack the hologram take the TURDIS back to 1943 to witness the dawn of the psychedelic era.
At the Sandoz labs in Switzerland, Mack, Narrator and the Goof watch chemist Albert Hofmann ingest a whopping dose of LSD, then follow him home on his legendary bicycle ride. Thanks to the Internal Monologue Contrivance devised by Mack, we are able to hear Hofmann’s inner trip. Summoned to Hofmann’s house, the chemist’s doctor assures the panicked Hofmann that he’s fine except for incredibly dilated pupils. Hofmann settles down and enjoys the trip.
The Goof then insists on going to California in 1970 to observe the jailbreak of acid guru Timothy Leary. Disguised as an actual Port-a-Potty on the roof of a prison, the crew watches Leary attempt to shimmy to freedom on a telephone wire. When the Goof insists on getting closer to the action, he knocks Leary off the wire onto a guard below. Mack has to reset the TURDIS to make things right.
Finally satisfied, the Goof releases Doctor Watt? and Landis. Mack and Narrator journey to San Juan Capristrano to fetch them.
Top photo credit: “Way Out Wall” by Allen McGregor is licensed under CC BY 2.0
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