"Clem and the Satellite" from Oct. 7 1958 was inspired by the science fiction craze so popular during the 50s, in particular the previous year's launching of Sputnik. His topical monologue touches upon an election year, the fact that Perry Mason's District Attorney never wins a case, and that Martians are likely to land in France just to meet Brigitte Bardot. Simple minded rube Clem Kadiddlehopper is visited by Pacific University's Professor Dugan T. Offenbacher (John Carradine), who decides to use Clem's barn to build a rocket using his own concoction of fuel for jet propulsion, but his beard is the subject of their first meeting: "it happens to be a goatee" "did the goat know about it?" The professor's stated goal is interplanetary space travel, but after three months in Clem's barn he gets accidentally launched into orbit, newspaper headlines about a curious satellite putting Clem before a Pentagon panel on 'Guided Missile Development.' After discussing electrons, protons, neutrons, and morons, the Washington brass reach the understandable conclusion that their 'eccentric genius' is nothing but an idiot: "and don't you forget it!" Two weeks traveling in circles around the globe has Offenbacher in no mood for queries, but once returned to Clem's barn the finale logically leaves things up in the air! Carradine's best line refers to the cow's response to being milked through the ringer in the mop bucket: "that would be udder misery!"