Stuff and Nonsense
* Watch for Clint Eastwood as a lab assistant. It's a small role and Crow predicts that he doesn't have a future in Hollywood.* And that's Big Stupid (Brett Halsey) from "Girl in Lovers' Lane", who has his head crushed by the creature at the end of the movie.
* With a new era comes a new Robot Roll Call. Those hard to hear voices are saying...
Cambot: You're on!
Gypsy: Oh, my stars!
Tom Servo: Check me out!
Croooow: I'm different!
Riffs Explained
"Ah, the Schmenge's at Seaworld..." - Servo.
The Schmenge Brothers are the leutoinian kings of Polka! Played by John Candy & Eugene Levy on the comedy show SCTV.
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801: First Broadcast - 4 pm Saturday, Feb 1st 1997
 Excellence Level: Bronze
Movie Pain: Medium - Slow moving creature feature
Riffing: Chuckle-Fest
Skits: Induced mostly smiles
Frighteningly tight swim trunks (usually worn by John Agar) star in MST3K's relaunching, this time on the Sci-Fi network. The move comes with the bad (Pearl as new head Mad) and the good (I miss Trace but grew to love Bill Corbett's Crow).
The Sci-Fi debut doesn't start off well, host segments stink and it ranks low on the funny Riff-O-Meter for the first half of the movie, almost grade D material. But, M&TB get into the groove by hour 2, making us laugh at Chris the dog and "Globe on a stick", which remind us why we loved this show so much.
Host Segments
Intro: Mike, Servo, and Gypsy return to the SOL and find Crow there. They soon discover that apes rule the Earth. Segment 1: Professor Bobo sends the guys a movie because the Lawgiver told him to. Segment 2: Nanites help with ship repairs. Segment 3: Phil the alien comes looking for Servo. Tom owes him some French Vanilla pudding. Segment 4: Crow makes Mike a tiny cup of espresso. End: We learn that Mike's descendants are responsible for all this monkey business on Earth. We meet the Lawgiver and it's Pearl Forrester, who vows to carry on the work of her son. Stinger: John Agar swims with his stick.
Notable Riffs
*"Yeah, go put on your sports bra." - Crow
*"Hey can I get a Latte out of the back of your head?" - Crow
*"Everybody's drifted over to the world of barnacles exhibit." - Crow
*"Thank God the milkmen showed up!" - Mike
*"A parade of tiny upsetting shorts." - Mike
*"Do you need any milk, sir!" - Crow
*"What are you doing for dinner tonight?" - "Eating not with you." - Agar/Servo
*"No you can't cash a check here sir, this is the commercial window." - Mike
*"It's a success - we've made him afraid of flag poles!" - Mike
*"Somehow this is going to get me into tiny swim trunks." - Crow as John Agar
*"Look what we found, a sand dollar!" - Crow
*"Please don't attach me to a block and tackle and throw me into a padded palm tree! Nooooo!" - Mike
*"Thrill to the moderate pace of the chase!" - Mike
*"Even though it didn't figure in the final scene, I'm glad they checked their flashlights anyway." - Crow
*"The disorganized, short-lived, badly botched and thoroughly ineffectual Revenge of the Creature!" - Crow
*"Doesn't it even occur to them to check for a zipper?"
*"Let's see, which part of John Agar haven't I seen?" - Mike
*"Good thing they enlisted the help of the Joads." Servo
Animation courtesy of 4 Degrees
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