DAY OF THE DULL-FIN

DAY OF THE DOLPHIN (1974)
dir: Mike Nichols

DAY OF THE DULL-FIN
Sick #102, February 1975
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Jerry Grandenetti

Terrell (George C. Scott) is a scientist running a marine biology laboratory for the government and is giving a press conference where he has shown they have given birth to a dolphin and taught it to speak.

In the parody, it shows Terrell ignoring his wife (Trish Vandevere) in favor of the dolphins, though in the movie they are partners. His boss DeMilo (Fritz Weaver) comes to the island Scott's lab is on to see the work they have been funding, and an undercover agent named Mahoney (Paul Sorvino) comes snooping around. Here they are combined into one character. Reference is made to Scott's previous role as General Patton.

Terrell is showing the dolphin Alpha he has raised in captivity, and its companion Beta.

Terrell is informed that his superiors at the institute came to look around so they could kidnap Alpha and Beta to use for an assassination attempt, putting bombs on Beta's back and using her knowledge of English to get her to put them on the bottom of the yacht where the President will be attending. Alpha is the one who can talk and would inform on them so he must be killed. The scientists think they killed him but he swims out to sea.

New characters were created for this parody.

What actually happens in the movie is Alpha comes back to Terrell to say Beta is in trouble. Terrell tells Alpha to swim back out and reroute the assassination. Beta plants the bomb on the scientists' boat and blows it up. Now Terrell must go on the lam because authorities will catch up to him, knowing he committed a murder. He must let Alpha and Beta go and doesn't look back.