The 5th Quarter

THE DARK HORSE follows the "bad boy" of Dressage, "Mean" Acer Greene, who was recently banned for life from the sport when his controversial antics go too far. Soon he discovers the sport of Hobby Horsing — Finland's newest craze — and finds a trainer to help him hone his technique, thinking that if he does well in a competition the dressage federation will consider lifting their ban. Through persistent training, Acer perfects his hobby horse skills and learns to let go of his fear, but he'll soon find out how competitive the sport really is — and that these athletes aren't horsing around.

A LIFT OF THEIR OWN lands us in the middle of the 1970's where the Vietnam War is affecting everything: music, culture, sex and former bodybuilder Martin Fuller's gym. Finding the opportunity to lift weights for the first time, a lonely housewife quickly realizes she loves it and invites her friend to try it out. More and more women eventually join the gym and it isn't long before women's weightlifting takes the world by storm.

10 CENT LSD NIGHT tells the story of a historic baseball game in 1965 where, as part of a promotion to make up for the stadium's dwindling fans and money, the Houston Astros sold government-funded LSD to 67,000 attendees. Not wanting to miss any of the fun, the athletes, managers and even the film crew (which causes this episode's missing footage to be replaced by trippy animation) took part in the mind-expanding festivities.

I'M SO MEAN documents the intense and bitter rivalry between the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference during the mid-90's, The feud began with the infamous diss track "The Western Conference is Dumb" by Orlando Magic superstar Shaquille O'Neal, which made Shaq numerous enemies in the West. The feud escalated after Shaq unexpectedly signed to the Los Angeles Lakers and released the follow up diss track "The Eastern Conference is Dumb".