A fugitive from time-traveling slavers enlists the help of a nun to evade his captors.
The Episode[]
Host Segments[]
Prologue: Using a computer spreadsheet program and California Senator Dianne Feinstein as a baseline, Crow tries to calculate how many times a lady Gypsy is. Gypsy is disappointed that she is only 2.7 times a lady. It turns out that Mike is eight times a lady.
What Crow sees while on LSD
Segment One:Pearl is conducting LSD tests on the robots and monitors their hallucinations. To augment the effect, Bobo and Brain Guy have formed an acid rock band called Narcotic Casserole. Servo has his usual delirium while Crow has a harrowing experience in which he sees Mike eating a Snickers candy bar, not a Milky Way. Pearl is pleased with these results and sends up the movie Future War. As the movie is being sent up, Crow is surprised to learn that Mike is not a clown.
Segment Two: Tom makes a pair of legs (which are non-functional, like his arms) so he can kickbox. He challenges Gypsy to a fight, but she has a leg of her own and instantly defeats Servo.
Pearl's Drug Experiment
Segment Three: Inspired by a line in the movie, Mike, Crow, and Servo realize they've never thanked Pearl for not killing them. They take a moment to do so, interrupting her attempt to kill them.
Segment Four: Crow is Droppy the Water Droplet, an emissary from the National Water Council, who has come to share just a few thousand of the many uses for water.
Segment Five: Mike has a giant Robert Z'Dar-esque chin. The bots chide him for being so insensitive to all the people with large prosthetic chins. Mike doesn't really care. Down in Castle Forrester, Bobo and Brain Guy inform Pearl that Narcotic Casserole is leaving to tour with Moby Grape. Pearl gives them each exploding tracking collars.
Stinger: Robert Z'Dar and Daniel Bernhardt kick-box and Bernhardt's shirt somehow slips off.[1]
"This place looks like a maze." "We call it 'a corn'."
"You call it corn, we call it maize" is an advertisement campaign from the 1970s and 80s by Mazola. It is spoken stoically by a Native American woman to promote their now-discontinued margarine.
"Am I Ving Rhames? I can't remember."
The actor on-screen vaguely resembles actor Ving Rhames.
"Is that a heartbeat? Oh, no, I'm sorry, that's a lovebeat."
(After a title card saying "A David Hue Production" is shown) "In association with Bob Tet Offensive Productions."
Much of the fighting that occurred during the Tet Offensive, one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, took place in and around the city of Huế, Vietnam. During the Battle of Huế, intense fighting lasted for a month, resulting in the destruction of the city. During their occupation, the People's Army of Vietnam/Viet Cong executed thousands of people in the Massacre at Huế.
"Dustbusters Galactica."
The spacecraft in the movie looks like the Battlestar Galactica, a space battleship in the original and re-imagined science fiction TV series Battlestar Galactica. (The actual Galactica appears in stock footage used in Space Mutiny.) The Black & Decker DustBuster is a cordless, hand-held vacuum cleaner that was introduced in January 1979.
"Romeo was restless, he was ready to production design!"
"Romeo was restless, he was ready to kill" is the first line of the 1977 song "Mystery Dance" by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello.
"Formerly of Kajagoogoo""
Kajagoogoo was a British new wave band who's fame peaked in the 1980's with their hit song "Too Shy".
"And now, Ooh, Heaven Is a Place on Earth: The Movie."
Boxer Chuck Wepner challenged Muhammad Ali for the world heavyweight title in a 1975 fight (which Wepner lost in the 15th round by technical knockout) that loosely inspired the 1976 film Rocky.
"This dinosaur used to rule Hollywood, now Spielberg won't return his calls...."
Referring to Steven Spielberg, director of Jurassic Park, which features a Tyrannosaurus Rex as one of the film's most prominent dinosaurs. Spielberg also directed its sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which also heavily features a Tyrannosaurus Rex and was released the same year as Future War.
"Mink Stole!"
Mink Stole is an actress who began her career working for director John Waters, and appeared in all of his feature films.
"Calista Flockhart's belt!"
At the time this episode aired, Calista Flockhart was best-known for her roles as the title character on the TV show Ally McBeal. She is known for her slender build.
The concept of the 1985 musical comedy Nunsense originated as a line of greeting cards featuring a nun offering tart quips with a clerical slant. It was expanded into a cabaret show that ran for 38 weeks, and eventually into a full-length musical. The show has since been adapted into a television production starring Rue McClanahan, and has spawned six sequels and three spin-offs.
A reference to the song "ABC-DEF-GHI" from the children's television program Sesame Street. It is sung by Big Bird, who has mistaken the alphabet for one long word.
The Festrunk Brothers ("Two Wild and Crazy Guys!")] is a series of sketches from Saturday Night Live in the 1970s, wherein Dan Aykroyd and Steve Martin play Yortuk and Georg Festrunk, two brothers who emigrated from Czechoslovakia to the United States. They have heavy accents and are constantly trying to pick up women.
Spoken by Fred G. Sanford (Redd Foxx), this is the most well-known catchphrase of the 1970s TV show Sanford and Son. Whenever things aren't going Fred's way, or the cantankerous old man just wants to get a little sympathy, he would clutch his chest dramatically, faking a heart attack, and call out to his dead wife.
Surge is a citrus-flavored, heavily caffeinated soft drink first produced in the 1990s by The Coca-Cola Company to compete with Pepsi's Mountain Dew.
"Casablanca! Could you doppel me into that, Mike?"
Crow, noting the marquee on a movie theater in the shot, refers to Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, which relies heavily on the famous film as a plot device.
"Sister Suzuki Sidekick."
The first generation of the Suzuki Vitara was known as the Suzuki Sidekick in the United States. It is a series of SUVs produced by Suzuki beginning in 1988.
"Go, go." "Can you hear them? They talk about us..."
The DVD includes a theatrical trailer, the Variations of a Theme Song featurette, and "MST3K at Comic-Con '08", a cast reunion staged at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con and moderated by Patton Oswalt in honor of the show's 20th anniversary.
Available for rent or purchase on Amazon's streaming service.
