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Beyond Atlantis comes to an end, and so does my MST3K marathon viewing for the night.
I'll be back on tomorrow to pick up the remainder of the marathon, starting with Warrior of the Lost World.
Til next time, have a fantastico one, and all the best!
Time to pick up where I left up with the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon, starting with Warrior of the Lost World as the first of the final four episodes!
Not gonna lie, I got fooled with Synthia's intro in the style of Synthia's Selects.
And Kinga thinking she's having a stroke after being decent to other people... looooooooooool
... oh, i dunno 😕
[machine-gun toting bad guys enforce a blockade]
"DO YOU HAVE ANY FRUIT TO DECLARE?!"
:D
I love these goobers.
The most judgmental AI *ever.*
[Persis Khambatta enters the scene]
Paper Chase Guy: "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?"
Servo: [hisses at the Paper Chase Guy]
Crow: "Now I hate him even more."
And the guys have it absolutely right about the sentient wisealeck motorcycle:
On one hand, you feel bad about Servo.
On the other... [laughs forever]
Paper Chase Guy: "This is turning out to be more than I bargained for, lady."
Joel: "Oh, what HAVE you liked on this trip?!"
I love and appreciate how petty and small the riffers make the Paper Chase Guy look throughout this whole thing.
This host segment where Joel stuffs his face with objects and imitates the Paper Chase Guy in mumbly fashion as his mom drives him through the Apocalypse is BRUTAL.
Hilariously brutal.
I don't even care that they didn't bother to write an ending to this sketch.
[laughs forever]
Riff of the episode, right here.
Kid: "Mom, buy me The Road Warrior!"
Mom: "But you have The Road Warrior at home!"
The Road Warrior at home? [gestures to a copy of Warrior of the Lost World]
/Megaweapon has entered the chat
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Crow: "Make it last!"
Servo: "Yes, yes, make it slooooow, Megaweapon!"
Joel: "OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER"
Priorities, priorities, priorities...
Crow as the Paper Chase Guy: "Look, I like you and all, but you're just an apocalypse thing."
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Trace's delivery, y'all.
[end credits music comes to a stop]
[the words "for John" appear:
Joel: "John. This movie belongs in the John, because it's so bad, y'know..."
Crow and Servo: [laugh stupidly]
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I LOVE THAT :D
Warrior of the Lost World is done, but the 80s aren't done JUST yet! It's City Limits next on the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon!
OF COURSE the Bots would call for a rain of ping-pong balls on Joel!
Mike as Morrissey, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :D
It's a hell of a takedown, and I'm all here for it.
Seeing James Earl Jones in an MST3K'd movie is every bit as surreal as seeing Gene Hackman and Gregory Peck in an MST3K'd movie (with Hackman and Peck in the same movie, too, Space Travelers)!
Gotta love Dr. Forrester's introduction to this movie: "James Earl Jones at a low point of his career and Kim Cattrall at a high point of her career."
The transcendent lyricist of our times, Crow T. Robot.
Can I just say how much I love this reference to the cover of a Far Side book?
Because I do.
This goofy-as-hell reference!
Yeah, sometimes the jokes could be a LITTLE dated...
THIS WRITING KILLS ME 😂
As does Trace's delivery as Crow!
Heh, perfect, that.
It's not just the joke, but how it's told. In combination with the surrealness of the scene, the effect is considerable.
god-tier reference to that one Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons
And on that gold stinger, it's time to bid adieu to City Limits!
Up next is Parts: The Clonus Horror, where the Neil Diamond references are comin' to America... TODAY!
HEADCANON: it's the mustache that made Eddie Nelson in Time Chasers such an utter bastard.
Dorf Goes Riffing
Also, Pearl cosmically jinxes herself into becoming a grandmother somehow.
[back from lunch break]
I will always and forever be here for the gratuitous Super Mario jokes on this show, including but not limited to Mike humming the underground theme.
I mean, this is wrong, but it's not incorrect.
Crow: "Tom Jones here."
IT'S NOT UNUSUAL TO SHARE RIFFS WITH ANYONE
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Like, NO ONE caught this juxtaposition in post-production. Geez.
Observer: "I took the liberty of making some fruit leather."
Pearl: "What the hell is fr-"
Space Kids: "FRUIT LEATHER!!! FRUIT LEATHERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"
lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
THAT MAN IS PLAYING GALAGA
Thought we wouldn't notice... but we did.
Crow: "I thought it was skin cream, but it was Elmer's Glue."
Honestly, who among us HAVEN'T made that mistake?
Parts: The Clonus Horror is a surprisingly headdy movie for an MST3K episode.
I want you to appreciate how much it pains me to admit that.
The classics never go out of fashion.
Damn. That ending.
But onto lighter and brighter things! The end of Parts: The Clonus Horror means that there's just one episode left in the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon lineup, and that's my second favorite episode of all time (behind only Jack Frost), which is Mitchell!
LET'S GO!
It's SURGICALLY ENHANCED Mitchell, too. Hoo boy.
Well... [rolls up sleeves]
IT'S GO TIME
I remember watching this on Rhino VHS for the first time, and with only a very few MST3K episodes under my belt.
It felt so odd to bid farewell to an era that I haven't really gotten to know by that point.
[best read in Billy Dee Williams' voice]
I want to contribute to a Kickstarter to degrade the visual quality of this movie.
This Surgically Enhanced print makes Joe Don Baker look like Peter Frampton. Not quite sure what THAT'S about.
I'm just going to smudge my glasses to compensate for the print's greater visual clarity.
Holy crap... it just occurred to me...
... with this surgically enhanced print of the movie, we really DID get more volume on that jacket!
BUCKLE UP, IT'S THIS SCENE IN SURGICALLY ENHANCED QUALITY
Crow: "Word on the street is you're a jerk!"
A massive laugh, each and every time.
Crow's Edward G. Robinson impression forever.
Jeff Kirvin@optiMSTie Do I really want to see Joe Don Baker in higher resolution, though?
@jeffkirvin The short answer? No.
The long answer? Noooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Redrua@optiMSTie Surgicslly enhanced Mitchell also means surgically enhanced #JoeDonBaker sex scene #MST3K #MST3KTurkeyDay #MST3KTurkeyDayRedux
@Redrua We're all gonna need more Schlitz for this...
Bob Ballentine@Redrua @optiMSTie You can see that bottle of baby oil so much more clearly.
.seaks@optiMSTie the #JoeDonBaker hashtag about to catch fire
@seaks You guys watch Joe Don Baker hashtags?