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(Our hero Maciste (AKA Colossus) returns to find pandemonium: people are running in every direction, large stones falling around, and a volcano erupting)

"I leave you alone for one hour—!"

- Servo (as Maciste)


The Movie[]

Main article: Colossus and the Headhunters (film)

Synopsis[]

The hero Maciste helps an embattled tribe on a mysterious island.

The Episode[]

Host Segments[]

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The SOL crew with NummyMuffinCoocolButter

Prologue: Tom has done Crow's taxes. Turns out Crow owes $37,000 in back-taxes for the $12 he made selling Grit in 1989. Mike, on the other hand, is getting a $20,000 tax refund.

Segment One: Dr. F has invented NummyMuffinCooColButter, the world’s most adorable pet. He sends Nummy to the SOL, much to Frank's dismay. Mike adores him immediately.

Segment Two: Pining for his beloved pet, Frank sings "Nummy Muffin Coocol Butter".

Segment Three: Nummy’s fur is everywhere, the Bots hate him, and Gypsy is allergic.

Segment Four: Nummy is sick, and Frank is sick, so Mike sends Nummy back to Deep 13.

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TV's Frank misses NummyMuffinCoocolButter

Segment Five: The bots want to know what it feels like to get your head chopped off. And they want Mike to demonstrate. Mike reads a letter from a girl who got a B on her speech about MST. Also, her cat always tries to claw Tom Servo when he’s on TV. Another little girl has written a poem: "To Gypsy: Roses are red, violets are blue, I love you." The Mads are transfixed by NummyMuffinCoocolButter.

Stinger: A guy gets shot by an arrow during a big battle scene.

MST3K cast[]

Trivia[]

  • The mention of Penn Gillette was a nod to the fans’ growing irritation with the Comedy Central spokesman, whose voice overs played at the end of episodes, often over dialogue.
  • David Sussman ends his 17-episode run on the writing staff with this episode.
  • This is the first time “Info Club Coordinator Julie Walker” appears in the credits. (She wouldn’t be “Poobah” until later in the season.)
  • No one pushes the button to end the show. The Mads are still playing with NummyMuffinCoocolButter when a heart wipe closes in, ending the segment.

Callbacks[]

  • "Watch out for snakes!" (Eegah)

Obscure References[]

  • "...for the total of twelve dollars I made selling Grit in '89?"

Grit is a magazine that began as an early nationwide newspaper. Subscriptions were sold door-to-door by children, many of whom were recruited through ads in comic books. Crow had tried to sell Grit previously in Experiment #417.

  • "Besides, Willie Nelson and Redd Foxx are calling!"

A reference to the fact that both Nelson and Foxx had highly-publicized tax problems after being audited by the IRS.

  • "No matter what occurs, I will find you!"

Frank is quoting the 1992 movie version of The Last of the Mohicans.

  • "Let's see, do I sleep tonight, or not..."

Tom is referring to the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens.

  • "The Ringo Starr Gang!"

A reference to the 1981 movie Caveman, in which Starr played the title role.

  • "The Cross and the Switchblade!"

The Cross and the Switchblade is a 1963 book (filmed as a movie in 1970) in which evangelist David Wilkerson described his work among street gangs in New York City.

  • "Terry Anderson!"

Terry Anderson was one of several Americans held hostage by Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon beginning in 1985.

  • "Is the Marat/Sade down here?"

Marat/Sade is a play about the Marquis de Sade's confinement to an insane asylum.

  • "Go back to watching Phenom!"

Phenom is a short-lived sitcom from 19931994 about a teenage tennis player.

  • "They've imprisoned Michael McDonald!"

Michael McDonald was the lead singer for the Doobie Brothers during the late 1970s.

  • "I don't want to go to Camp Snoopy!"

Camp Snoopy was a small indoor amusement park located inside the Mall of America. It was based on the characters from the comic strip Peanuts. It has since been re-branded as Nickelodeon Universe.

  • "It's the Sledge-O-Matic!"

The Sledge-O-Matic is a recurring bit in which prop comic Gallagher smashes objects (most famously watermelons) with an oversized wooden mallet.

  • "King Vitaman!"

King Vitaman was a breakfast cereal produced by the Quaker Oats Company until 2019.

  • "His favorite band is Blind Melon!"

Blind Melon is an alternative rock band best known for its 1993 hit "No Rain".

  • "Maybe we could give her an extra long scarf and send her out for a drive."

In 1927, choreographer and dancer Isadora Duncan was a passenger in an Amilcar CGSS convertible owned by racer Benoît Falchetto when her long silk scarf became entangled around the open-spoked wheels and rear axle, pulling her out of the car and breaking her neck.

  • "And now, the traditional viewing of Berlin Alexanderplatz!"

Berlin Alexanderplatz is a 1980 14-part West German TV miniseries. The complete series is 15½ hours long. Upon its 1983 release in the United States, ticket holders were required to come to the theater for three consecutive nights to see the entire film.

  • "There can be only three hundred!"

A parody of a line "There can be only one!" from the film Highlander.

  • "Behold the only thing greater than yourself!"

From the Roots TV miniseries, spoken by Kunta Kinte after he raised his infant daughter over his head for her to witness a star-filled sky.

  • "We'll take them away, ha-haaa hee-hee"

Paraphrasing lyrics from the song, "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" by Napoleon XIV.

  • "Either these curtains go or I do."

Reportedly Oscar Wilde's last words.

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MST3K 605 Promos

  • "This is a typical Robert Bly retreat."

Robert Bly was a leading voice in the Mythopoetic men's movement, a body of self-help activities and therapeutic workshops and retreats for men undertaken by various organizations and authors in the United States from the early 1980s through the 1990s. Bly urged men to recover a pre-industrial conception of masculinity through spiritual camaraderie with other men in male-only gatherings.

  • "Well, his life, his love, and his lady is the sea."

A line from the song "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" by Looking Glass, in which a sailor leaves behind behind a lovelorn barmaid.

Video releases[]

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MST3K DVD Cover

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