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"They're operating under a different theology."
- Mike


The Short[]

Out of this World

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Out of this World

Synopsis[]

A tale of the never ending battle between good and evil, as agents of Heaven and Hell move the battle to Earth for ultimate domination of bread delivery truck drivers.

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The Movie[]

Main article: High School Big Shot (film)

Synopsis[]

A clever high school student from a poor family gets drawn into a plot to commit a violent crime in an attempt to impress a girl that he likes.

The Episode[]

Host Segments[]

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Mike tries to relieve his headache

Prologue: Mike has a major headache. Crow has to practice his cymbals, Tom finds a bagpipe, and Gypsy really likes Seinfeld. These things don't go together.

Segment One: Mike turns to a drill to relieve the pressure. Dr. Forrester gives Frank and the SOL crew chemistry sets to do the work for him. Frank clones a dinosaur using his chemistry set. Alas, it does not like Dr. F. Crow mixes a potion that makes Tom Servo huge!

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Giant Tom Servo

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SOL speciality bread

Segment Two: Mike, Crow, and Tom present their specialty breads, such as a bread with a shampoo and conditioner built in, or a butter-top bread with bars of real butter stuck into it.

Segment Three: Crow and Tom egg Mike. With an omelet. And the hollandaise is too lemony.

Segment Four: Crow and Tom try and fail to break into Gypsy’s diary using dynamite and more dynamite.

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The SOL recreate the films ending

Segment Five: Mike reads a letter until the Bots reenact the tragic end of the movie with water pistols. Dr. F gives the little dinosaur something to chew on, and it's in Frank's pants.

Stinger: "A million bucks!"

MST3K cast[]

Trivia[]

  • With this episode, Julie Walker's job title changes from "Info Club Coordinator" to "Info Club Poobah".
  • Michael J. Nelson has suffered from chronic headaches in real life. He wrote an article about it for the New York Times.

Callbacks[]

  • "Might as well have Mitchell for a dad!"
  • Servo references the short at the beginning when he ponders where the bread display in a general store is.

Running Jokes[]

  • In Out of This World, Mike and the bots portraying the bread salesman as a mobster who threatens his prospects with harm unless they stock his bread.
  • In High School Big Shot, exaggerating how poor the main character and his father are.
  • Tom singing "Don't Pay the Ferryman".

Obscure References[]

  • "Say I'm starring in Forever Plaid!"

Forever Plaid is an off-Broadway musical about a 1950s pop music group.

  • "I just saw Howard Hughes in the desert!"

A reference to Melvin Dummar, a Utah gas-station owner who claimed to have picked up reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes as a hitchhiker in the Nevada desert.

  • "This is Charles Kuralt. We're gonna leave you now with images of bread!"

Servo is referencing the late Charles Kuralt's sign-offs on CBS News Sunday Morning, which typically transitioned to images of flowers.

  • "Hey, Dr. Giggles!"

Dr. Giggles was a 1992 horror movie starring the thick-lipped actor Larry Drake.

  • "Uh... that's Christine Jorgensen!"

In the early 1950s, Christine Jorgensen became famous as one of the first people to undergo a sex-change operation. Her story partially inspired the film Glen or Glenda.

  • "Niels Bohr buys groceries."
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Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who was a key contributor to the development of quantum mechanics.

  • "How's the German expressionist date going?"

German expressionism was a dark and moody school of film-making developed in Germany in the 1920s.

  • "Is this an Andy Warhol movie?"

Andy Warhol made a series of short movies, which he called "screen tests", that consisted of a single, uninterrupted shot of someone's face that went on for several minutes.

  • "Terry Malloy!"

Terry Malloy is the name of the dockworker character played by Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan's 1954 Academy Award-winning film On the Waterfront.

  • "She committed thought crimes! Put the rat mask on her!"

A reference to the punishment of criminals in the dystopian society depicted in George Orwell's novel 1984.

  • "Dad's turned into Gregor Samsa."

Gregor Samsa is the character in Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis who wakes up one morning to find he has changed into a giant bug-like creature.

Video releases[]

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