[The town""s name is consistently mis-pronounced in the film.] Agatha insists that her obnoxious mother Mrs.Hermisillo Brunch (Jessie Ralph) live with the family, that also includes two dreadful daughters.In one of the film""s first lines during a breakfast scene (accompanied by a sick-sounding trumpet playingThere""s No Place Like Home,) his grouchy mother-in-law complains to Agatha about an off-screen Egbert: "What""s he up to now?" She criticizes Egbert""s bad habits, threatening to move out and "go on the county" welfare instead, while complaining about her "lingering death":Well, I bet you anything he""s smoking up in his room again...they are apes.Chimpanzees to be more precise.They are harmless, friendly, and by all reports, extremely intelligent and sophisticated creatures." However, they needed to know where Taylor""s spacecraft came from and how the animals came to be aboard it.The symbolic bridging device that interconnects and links together the various stories is the recurring cameo shot of Lillian Gish, his greatest star, as Eternal Motherhood.She was compared to a ""Robin Hood"" who stole from the rich.She whispered to him: "You and your friends better batten down the hatches, ""cause when it hits, you""re all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could ever live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.It is gin rummy, isn""t it?" The unhappy marriage dissolves on account of the unbalanced, smothering, obsessive, insistent maternal love of Mildred for the daughter:You might as well get this straight right now once and for all.