Main cast: Mary Jo Keenen (Suzy St Claire), Neal Jones (Gary Gregory), and Dan Frazer (Sam)
Director: David Misch
Horribly self-absorbed and perpetually delusional Suzy St Claire wants to be a movie star, to express the deep and complicated emotions that she claims to have inside her, but sadly, she can’t get an acting gig aside from appearing on some dancing show on TV.
On the other hand, she and her boyfriend Gary Gregory are very successful dancers currently on a hit Broadway show, but she’s not satisfied with this. No, she wants to be an actor and she will accept nothing else.
However, Gary is clingy, whiny, and, worst of all, he refuses to let her walk off their show when she receives a plum acting offer. Because he has casting approval changes, he certainly can force her to stay, or so this show tries to convince me.
Well, it doesn’t matter. Suzy will just kill him and dismember the body. Then, here comes Hollywood and stardom! It’s as simply as that, really.
Oh wait, his leg comes back to haunt her. Yes, you read that right.
Don’t feel bad for Gary, by the way. He may be clingy and whiny, but he’s also determined to force Suzy to do whatever he wants for the rest of their lives, because he’s confident that he knows what is best for her. In other words, these two unpleasant douchebags deserve one another, and them in a dysfunctional relationship serves as a quarantine that keeps them from harassing other people.
Once again, Taps is an episode that is elevated by the cast members. While Neal Jones is appropriately menacing as the domineering tyrant that believes he’s a gentleman, Mary Jo Keenen is hilarious as the ditsy yet scheming hussy that is determined never to let anything stand in her way of her dreams of stardom. She keeps the episode fun to watch, which is good as the story is actually quite absurd.
Sure, the guy’s leg comes to life to terrorize her. That’s actually a horror genre staple, especially in Korean and Japanese horror films. At the same time, with the way things are in this episode, just how hard can it be anyway to just grab that leg and throw it into a trash can? The things it can do in this episode makes no sense, as in the end, it’s just a piece of leg from knee down, and there’s no reason why Suzy can’t do anything against it.
So yes, watch this thing if you will, but I’d suggest not thinking too hard in the process, or else your entertainment may end up being dampened quite a bit!
