Hackenbush is reluctant to stay when he hears there are financial difficulties, but pauses when Mrs.Upjohn reassures him ("I""ll take care of your salary").Hackenbush quips: "The last job I had, I had to take it out in trade.And this is no butcher shop.Not yet, anyhow." He also describes his education, medical background and experience - prefaced by bragging: "I""ve got the most peculiar talents of any doctor you ever met.Their main objective was to keep humans entrapped in the Matrix.The evil machines kept humans pacified and fooled by an illusionary world hat mimicked everyday reality." Lloyd""s films of this period often included timeless gags, pathos, and clever visual elements.The film - Lloyd""s fourth full-length feature, was directed by Fred C.Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, and produced by Hal Roach.Lloyd was one of the three giants of silent comedy, joining Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.Other Lloyd films that featured the same innocent, bespectacled character includedGirl Shy (1924),The Freshman (1925)- his most successful film,For Heaven""s Sake (1926), andThe Kid Brother (1927)- often considered one of his best films.The film was preceded by Fleischer Studios"" and Paramount""s 17-episodeSupermananimated shorts in the early 1940s (1941-43), two serials: the 15-episodeSuperman (1948)- one of the most successful serials of all time, andAtom-Man vs.Sulu, take us home"; as the probe reached closer to orbiting Earth, it disrupted weather patterns (causing extensive cloud cover that blocked the Sun), ionized the atmosphere, and vaporized the oceans; on their return in the Klingon vessel, theEnterpriseofficers heard Starfleet""s Red Alert distress warning about the probe "causing critical damage" - "Avoid the planet Earth at all costs"; Spock determined that the probe wasn""t intentionally hostile, but was unaware of its destructive force; he surmised that the probe""s alien signal was actually a transmission of communication matching the songs of long-extinct humpback whales (hence, there was no reply in the 23rd century).