The Cadaver story
A medical undergraduate tries to get his roommate to stop drinking by convincing him that he killed a girl. Directed by: Alf Kjellin. Story by: James Bridges.
14 total · 7 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alcohol abuse | major | Skip Baxter overindulged in the giggle juice to an insane degree. He often did often did not remember events from the night before, like when he dunked a girl in the shower or when he was set up with the presumed murder. |
| murder | major | The plot tuns on a passed out drunk Skip being tricked by his roommate, Terry, into thinking that he'd murdered a waitress in a drunken rage. When the truth finally came to light, Skip lost his mind and legitimately murdered Terry. |
| poetic justice | major | Though arguably taken a few steps too far, it seems a point of the story was that Doc Carrol having played around with cadavers to fool people once too many times finally ended up a cadaver himself because of it. |
| practical joking | major | Mr. Carroll was berated by the professor after he scared the bejesus out of the female students by posing as a cadaver and "coming to life" in the middle of an anatomy class. He later tried to put his talents in this same area to a more philanthropic use when he staged a murder in order to make his roommate give up the alcohol said roommate was badly abusing. |
| roommate and roommate | major | The plot turns on Doc Carrol trying to teach his out-of-control roommate Skip Baxter a lesson by planting a cadaver in their room, but the plan backfired. |
| what if I killed someone by accident | major | Skip woke up to discover that he'd apparently murdered a waitress in a drunken rage. |
| what it is like in university | major | The viewer is shown an idea of what kind of antics went down in a 1960s-era dormitory for male medical students. |
| American football | minor | Skip was cut from the football team for missing too many classes. |
| brother and brother | minor | In the closing sketch, Alfred Hitchcock was disappeared behind a wall of ivy thorough the designs of his dastardly, mustachioed brother. |
| coping with a bad hangover | minor | Skip complained of having a terrible hangover after waking up from a night of binge drinking. |