Melvin Plug

Melvin Plug

Background

Melvin Plug is a resident of Perfection, Nevada.

During the events of Tremors (1990) played by Robert Jayne

Earl Bassett and Valentine McKee drive into Perfection and stop at Walter Chang's Market. Earl warns Melvin not to mess with their truck and Melvin tells him he isn't scared of him. Later, while Valentine and Earl are pumping Melvin's septic system, raw sewage starts shooting out all over them from a loose hose. After leaving town, Valentine and Earl walk into Walter's store while telling Melvin and Nestor about finding Edgar and Old Fred dead. Valentine tries to use Walter's phone, but the line is dead. Nestor tells Valentine that they have to go to Bixby to bring the police. Mindy sees Valentine and Earl drive back into town and they park their truck in front of Walter's store. Mindy sees something latched onto Valentine and Earl's truck, and Burt Gummer uses a shovel to detach it and Walter haggles with Valentine and Earl for it. Later Melvin gets a photo of the thing hanging around his neck. After trying to get help, Valentine, Earl and Rhonda LeBeck drive back into town and tell the others about the Graboids. Valentine thinks they should leave, but most of the others think someone will come when they discover the phone lines are down. He pulls off a map of Perfection Valley from the wall and points out that the Graboids are heading in the direction of the town. As they are talking, Walter comes up with the name Graboids. After playing a prank on Earl, Melvin screams and they find him up a light pole. A Graboid emerges from the ground and everyone runs into Walter's store except Nestor and Melvin. Valentine tells everyone to get onto their roofs. The Graboid that originally attacked Valentine and Earl's truck starts to attack different buildings to test their structural integrity. It pushes over Nestor's trailer and pulls him underground. Valentine runs to a bulldozer and attaches the trailer to it and picks up the others.

Burt and Heather make pipe bombs and get into the trailer with the others. They drive towards the mountains, but before they can reach them, the Graboids set a trap and dig a pit in the direction the bulldozer is heading, causing it to crash. Burt uses a pipe bomb to make the Graboids run away, but they come back again. They use another one to make them run away while they run towards a set of boulders. Burt tells Heather that if it comes to dying by the Graboids or starvation, he plans on letting them take him while he is holding a lit pipe bomb. Earl has the idea of attracting the Graboids and then feeding them a pipe bomb. They manage to kill one, but as they try it against the last one, it spits the pipe bomb back at them. Valentine, Earl and Rhonda are forced to run off the boulder and as they try to run back, the Graboid emerges in front of them. Valentine has the idea to use himself as bait and runs towards the edge of a mesa. Earl runs after him followed by Rhonda who hands Valentine a lighter to light the fuse on the last bomb. Valentine uses the bomb to make the Graboid run towards the edge of the mesa and it falls to its death.