Pacific Ocean Park
The Wax Max
Airdate: Saturday, February 24, 1968, 8:30 PM
Writer: James Komack
Director: James Komack
While attempting to show off for 99 at an amusement park's shooting gallery, Max complains that his poor shooting is caused by a defective gun. He then quotes Genghis Khan as saying, "a warped barrel is a fool's frustration," not knowing that this is a KAOS code phrase. Thinking Max to be a KAOS agent, the carny worker gives Max a kewpie doll, despite him wanting a lace pillow that says "mother." Max and 99 then enter the Tunnel of Love, though Max insists on separate boats because they're "just friends." They leave the tunnel to find the park empty of patrons and filled with KAOS assassins. KAOS is desperate to get the kewpie doll back because it contains the weekly plutonium drop. Max and 99 get captured in the Chamber of Horrors, where Waxman attempts to behead them and turn them into wax dummies.
CONTROL Insider's Report:
* This is a parody of the Vincent Price classic, House of Wax.
* I think this has one of the lamest endings of any episode, which really brings down this episode's rating to me.
Catchphrases:
* "I asked you not to tell me that."
* "The old inflatable head in the cloak trick."
* "If he had only used his wax for niceness instead of evil."