Plus, people are already going to ballgames and stuff... I guess they just reroute the traffic around that smoking crater in the center of town.   Game on!

Isn't this the one where "going full Tucci" became a thing?

Well, hmm.   I'm only eight minutes in, but I'm starting to think he didn't like it.

Act I

The lifeless body of Jack Smelt floats in the swimming pool of a palatial mansion. As the police begin converging on the house Jack's voice narrates, in flashback style, the events leading up to his own murder.

Six months earlier, Jack was unable to find work as a screenwriter. Broke and on the verge of having his car repossessed, Joe tries to persuade bigwig producer Benicio Foote to buy his most recent script, but is thwarted when Benicio's assistant Vera gives the script terrible coverage.

Fleeing from the repo men, Jack hides his car in the garage of a seemingly-deserted mansion on Pico Boulevard - but then is startled when a woman inside calls to him. Mistaken for the undertaker summoned to collect the woman's deceased chimpanzee, Jack is ushered in by the mysterious butler, Griswold McFee.

Jack recognizes the owner of the mansion as long-forgotten silent-film star Lila Horvath. When Lila learns that Jack is a writer, she asks for his opinion on a script she has written that she hopes will revive her acting career.

Although Jack finds the script awful, he flatters Lila into hiring him as an editor...

Act II

The band begins a worldwide investigation of UFO activity and strange, related occurrences. Witnesses report that the UFOs make distinctive sounds: a five-tone musical phrase in a major scale.

The band broadcasts the phrase to outer space, but are mystified by the response: a seemingly meaningless series of numbers repeated over and over, until Barney recognizes it as a set of geographical coordinates pointing to Devils Tower, Wyoming.

Meanwhile, Barney's increasingly erratic behavior causes Betty to leave him, taking their three children with her. When a despairing Barney inadvertently sees a television news program about a train wreck near Devils Tower, he realizes the mental image of a mountain plaguing him is real.

The lead guitarist's girlfriend Mindy - who has been having similar visions - sees the same broadcast, and she and Barney head for Devil's Tower in spite of the false public warnings about nerve gas.