Where's the Rest of Me?
Willard Wingite (Meat Loaf), a former doctor-turned-mad scientist, has invented a serum that can preserve dead bodies in exquisite condition indefinitely, as well as allowing for any transplanted organs harvested from such a body to be impervious to rejection. He invites three of his former patients, football all-star Joe (Franco Harris), torch singer Regina Wells (Black-Eyed Susan), and developer J.J. Marshall (Drew Eliot) to his Caribbean plantation to unveil Adam (Frank Tarsia), the former leader of a revolution who was aiming to take down the dictatorship that rules over the island, and the current unwitting donor of their respective knee cap, vocal cords, and eyes. Willard has gathered them together to show off the effects of his serum as they keep Adam's corpse fresh for three years, and proposes that they invest in his plans to commercialize it. Though they agree, they accidentally spill the serum into Adam's body, reanimating him and sending him on a bloody mission to get his missing body parts back.
Tropes:
- Actor Allusion: Meat Loaf plays a mad scientist who takes an unwitting donor's heart to replace his own, after he previously played the unwitting donor of a brain for another mad scientist.
- Beat Still, My Heart: Willard's heart, originally Adam's, is crudely removed from his chest by his vengeful, reanimated donor, still beating in his grip.
- Civil War: The island setting of the episode is ruled by a dictatorial president who is said to be different than Hitler (who J.J. says would be jealous at the number of executions) only in height, which a band of revolutionaries are attempting to overthrow. When Adam gets all his body parts back, he goes right back to fighting them with his fellow revolutionaries.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Had Willard not brought his former patients to the cellar, the serum wouldn't have been spilled into Adam's body and they could've lived happily ever after. All it took was an ill-placed flask and a frisky football player to wreck his whole operation and lose his life.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Willard developed a serum that can keep cadavers as fresh as when they originally died, and even return them from the dead. Rather than use this to save the lives of good-hearted people, he instead intends to use the dead as organ farms, surgically implanting their parts inside blatantly villainous ingrates for cold hard cash.
- Deadly Doctor: Willard, who invents a serum to keep dead bodies fresh for eternity so he can harvest their parts for cash, and is also in league with the dictatorship that rules the island, performing executions on their enemies.
- Dirty Coward: As Adam strangles Joe and takes back his kneecap, Willard rushes upstairs and shuts the door rather than help his former patient. He also grabs Regina when Adam drags her to the cellar through the old dumbwaiter, only to shove her further inside and barricade the door.
- Due to the Dead: Averted for Willard and his patients, who look forward to using the dead as farms for replacement body parts. Though Willard himself looks at it from a scientific and reasonable point of view, his patients are much less considerate, noting how more and more people die everyday, and eagerly anticipate shamelessly using their parts to improve themselves. The second act has Regina outright calling Adam their "investment", not wanting a walking corpse to give them bad press instead of the logical and ethical concerns that come with the whole operation.
- Dwindling Party: When Adam comes to life, he picks off the cast one by one to get his body parts back, ending when he takes his heart back from Willard.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: More or less literally done with Adam, as he regains his lost body parts and ends the episode by taking his heart back from Willard, before going right back to standing up against the totalitarian government.
- Everyone Has Standards: Willard's patients are all too eager to begin making plans for new body parts to replace their aging, non-functional originals, but Willard doesn't support their desires just yet, as his work is still new, complicated, and relatively untested to move that far ahead. Willard is also revealed to be the man who executed Adam personally, but he boasts that Adam was still a convicted murderer in the eyes of the government.
- Eye Scream: J.J. got his new eyes from Adam, and he rips them out of his skull while killing the developer in the second act.
- Good Is Not Nice: Adam was a revolutionary leader fighting against the totalitarian president of the island and his crooked regime. After he was killed by lethal injection, his reanimated body kills the scientist who experimented on him and the patients who took his body parts away in the means to get them back.
- Great Offscreen War: One of them is happening throughout the episode, with freedom fighters trying to overthrow the dictatorial president who rules the island with an iron fist.
- Greater-Scope Villain: The tyrannical president of the island where Willard lives, whose totalitarian regime is locked in battle with the freedom fighters throughout the place.
- Hero Antagonist: Adam, who was a revolutionary leader standing out against the dictator who ruled the island before he was executed by lethal injection and Willard got his mitts on his body.
- Human Resources: The trope drives the plot, as Willard's serum kept Adam's corpse as fresh as the day he died so he could harvest his body parts to surgically implant them in his richest patients, intending to do so until every cell has been used up. The plot comes about because an overdose of the serum brings Adam back from the dead, storming after the cast to get his body parts back.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Willard frantically tells Adam this as he reveals the heart transplant scars on their chests, since he would have died if he didn't do anything.
- Literal Change of Heart: At the end of the episode, Adam reveals that Willard has his heart transplanted inside his chest, and he ends up taking it back by force.
- Mad Scientist: Willard, who invented a serum that keeps cadavers in infinitely good condition and attempts to commercialize it for cash. He's also revealed to be in league with the totalitarian government that rules the island, executing freedom fighters on their orders, and this is how he got Adam's body.
- Meaningful Name: Adam is likely named after the first man, given that he had his body parts removed and used to heal other people. The difference is that the Adam we follow here takes those parts back.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Thanks to Willard leaving the serum vial near Adam's body, and Joe accidentally knocking it into the vat above him, the revolutionary comes back to life and kills them all, then goes back out to fight back against the totalitarian government they somewhat-praised.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Adam was killed by lethal injection by Willard, who has ties to the island's totalitarian government and works as their executioner, three years ago, but Willard shows his patients how the corpse was kept fresh all that time, thanks to his serum.
- Shout-Out: Regina gives an almost-obligatory "What's up, doc?" to Willard as a means of asking why everyone's been invited to his home.
- Smoking Is Not Cool: Regina is said to have received Adam's vocal chords because her original ones were destroyed by smoking, along with her chronic drinking.
- Tempting Fate:
- After Joe is killed, J.J. storms out to leave the remaining two "zombie watchers" behind, only to run straight into Adam, who takes back his eyes.
- Regina inspecting the dumbwaiter to the old basement kitchen has her thinking that it could actually be where Willard is keeping the formula, intending to become its partial owner as a means to blackmail the scientist. She finds nothing inside and points it out to Willard, but as soon as her back is turned, Adam grabs her.
- Too Dumb to Live: Everyone has shades of it here, but the worst offenders are Willard, for leaving the beaker of his serum by Adam's vat, and Joe, for knocking said beaker into said vat while getting frisky with Regina.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Willard's clients are a football all-star, a renowned torch singer, and a successful land developer, all of whom have no complaints with using the body parts of a dead revolutionary.
- World of Jerkass: The island where the episode takes place is ruled by a totalitarian government, headed by a president who is outright compared to Hitler himself. That said, the main cast are equally reprehensible for shamelessly robbing the pieces of the dead man standing up to this government for themselves. J.J. even hints in the opening scene that he supports the corrupt president that rules the island, deciding to have new army barracks built for them, and Willard is revealed by Regina to perform executions of freedom fighters for the tyrannical administration, having personally given Adam lethal injection.
