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==The Short== |
==The Short== |
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'''''Out of this World''''' |
'''''Out of this World''''' |
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+ | [[File:Highschool.PNG|thumb|229x229px|left|'''''Out of this World''''']] |
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===Synopsis=== |
===Synopsis=== |
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− | A tale of the never ending battle between good and evil, |
+ | 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. |
===Information=== |
===Information=== |
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− | *This short was included on ''Shorts |
+ | *This short was included on ''[[Shorts, Volume 3]]'', released by [[Rhino Entertainment]] on [[List of VHS releases|VHS]] in [[January]] [[2001]], and on [[DVD]] in [[August]] [[2004]] as an limited time exclusive bonus for ordering ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Essentials|MST3K: The Essentials]]'' from a specially created Rhino site (then by [[Shout! Factory]] on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Singles Collection]]'' in [[May]] [[2018]]). |
==The Movie== |
==The Movie== |
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===Synopsis=== |
===Synopsis=== |
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+ | [[File:Highschoolmovie.PNG|thumb|248x248px|'''''High School Big Shot''''']]In 1959. miserable high school student Marv Grant (Tom Pittman) dreams of finishing high school and going to college. His English teacher, Mr. Carter (Peter Leeds, from ''[[Girls Town]]'') is helping to get him a scholarship because he sees Marv's potential. Marv's father is a sporadically employed drunk (Malcolm Atterbury, from ''[[I Was a Teenage Werewolf]]'') who dreams of giving up liquor, getting steady work, moving out of the run-down home that he and Marv share, and remarrying. |
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⚫ | When his pretty, conniving classmate Betty Alexander (Virginia Aldridge) approaches Marv with her plight of not being able to understand Shakespeare well enough to write a paper (jeopardizing her plan of graduating and getting out of town), Marv offers to write it for her. She goes out on a mercy date with him, and he naively becomes infatuated with her. Marv asks Betty to marry him, and she flatly tells him "no" unless he can meet her monetary demands. She's on combative terms with her father and has a personal goal of wanting to "throw diamonds and furs in his face". |
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− | It's 1959 somewhere in America. Friendless, motherless, sad-sack, 26-year-old high school student and "Shakespeare queen" Marv Grant (the late Tom Pittman, who died in a car crash shortly after this film was made) dreams of improving his dismal life by escaping to college. His English teacher, Mr. Carter (Peter Leeds, who was also in MST's "Girls Town") is an ally who is working on getting him a scholarship, partly because Marv has memorized "Hamlet". Marv's father is a sporadically employed, dipsomaniacal widower and boat anchor (Malcolm Atterbury, who was also in MST's "I Was a Teenage Werewolf"). He dreams of keeping away from the booze, landing a steady job, moving out of the dump he and Marv share, sending his son off to college and getting re-married. He dreams this, that is, when he is not destroying Marv's ego with thoughtless comments. |
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⚫ | At his job, Marv overhears that a million dollars of drug money will soon be stored on the premises. He crafts a precise plan to steal it, enlisting the aid of two experienced criminals- the affable safe-cracker Stanley "Tribble" Adams and Adams' brother-in-law, the suspicious, put-upon liquor store proprietor Louis Quinn. |
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⚫ | When |
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⚫ | Marv assures Betty he will soon have lots of money and tells her how he is going to get it. She relays the info to her boyfriend, the bully/petty thug Vince ([[Howard Veit]]). Betty pressures him into snatching the money from Marv and furnishes a handgun. Vince resists, but he relents after a couple of kisses from Betty. |
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⚫ | At his |
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⚫ | Marv |
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+ | During the robbery, everybody double-crosses everybody else, and most of the characters end up dead, including Marv's father who hangs himself. |
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⚫ | Things fall apart. |
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− | Who will wind up with the million dollars and the beautiful girl - Marv, Vince, or neither one? Will sociopathic siren Betty pay the price for her pitiless plotting? How does the title of the film relate to any of its content? |
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===Information=== |
===Information=== |
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+ | * Tom Pittman (who played Marv) died in a car crash shortly after this film was made. |
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+ | * '''Cast and crew round-up''': |
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+ | ** Cinematographer: John Nicholaus Jr. also worked on ''[[Attack of the Giant Leeches]]'' and ''[[Night of the Blood Beast]]''. |
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+ | ** Editor Carlo Lodato worked on ''[[Attack of the Giant Leeches]]''. |
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+ | ** Makeup guy Harry Thomas also worked on ''[[Night of the Blood Beast]]'', ''[[The Mad Monster (film)|The Mad Monster]]''; ''[[Project Moon Base (film)|Project Moon Base]]'', ''[[The Unearthly]]'', ''[[Bride of the Monster]]'', ''[[Invasion USA]]'' and ''[[Racket Girls]]''. |
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+ | ** Set designer John F. Burton also worked on ''[[The Girl in Lovers Lane]]'' and ''[[12 to the Moon]]''. |
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==The Episode== |
==The Episode== |
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===Host Segments=== |
===Host Segments=== |
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+ | [[File:BigShot1.png|thumb|250x250px|'''Mike tries to relieve his headache''']] |
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− | '''Prologue:''' [[Mike Nelson|Mike]] has a major headache. [[Crow T. Robot|Crow]] has to practice his cymbals, [[Tom Servo|Tom]] finds a bagpipe, and [[Gypsy]] really likes [[wikipedia:Seinfeld|Seinfeld]]. These things don't go together. |
+ | '''Prologue:''' [[Mike Nelson|Mike]] has a major headache. [[Crow T. Robot|Crow]] has to practice his cymbals, [[Tom Servo|Tom]] finds a bagpipe, and [[Gypsy]] really likes [[wikipedia:Seinfeld|''Seinfeld'']]. These things don't go together. |
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⚫ | '''Segment One:''' Mike turns to a drill to relieve the pressure. [[Dr. Clayton Forrester|Dr. Forrester]] gives [[TV's Frank|Frank]] and the [[Satellite of Love|SOL]] crew chemistry sets to do the work for him. |
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⚫ | '''Segment One:''' Mike turns to a drill to relieve the pressure. [[Dr. Clayton Forrester|Dr. Forrester]] gives [[TV's Frank|Frank]] and the [[Satellite of Love|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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+ | [[File:GiantTomServo.png|thumb|250x250px|'''Giant Tom Servo''']] |
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+ | [[File:BigShot2.png|thumb|250x250px|'''SOL speciality bread''']] |
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'''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 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. |
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− | '''Segment Three:''' Crow and Tom egg Mike. |
+ | '''Segment Three:''' Crow and Tom egg Mike. With an omelet. And the [[wikipedia:Hollandaise sauce|hollandaise]] is too lemony. |
'''Segment Four:''' Crow and Tom try and fail to break into Gypsy’s diary using dynamite and more dynamite. |
'''Segment Four:''' Crow and Tom try and fail to break into Gypsy’s diary using dynamite and more dynamite. |
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+ | [[File:BigShot3.png|thumb|250x250px|'''The SOL recreate the films ending''']] |
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− | '''Segment Five:'''Mike reads a letter until the Bots reenact the tragic end of the movie with water pistols. |
+ | '''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!" |
'''Stinger:''' "A million bucks!" |
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+ | ==== Trivia ==== |
+ | * It’s with this episode that Julie Walker stops being called “Info Club Coordinator” and becomes “Info Club Poobah.” |
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+ | * [[Michael J. Nelson]] does suffer from chronic headaches in real life and even wrote an article about it for the [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/magazine/10funny-humor-t.html?_r=0 New York Times]. |
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+ | ==== Callbacks ==== |
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+ | * ''"Might as well have [[MST3K 512 - Mitchell|Mitchell]] for a dad!"'' |
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+ | * Servo references the short at the beginning when he ponders where the bread display in a general store is. |
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+ | ==== Running Jokes ==== |
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+ | * 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. |
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+ | * In ''High School Big Shot'', exaggerating how poor the main character and his father are. |
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+ | * Tom singing "Don't Pay the Ferryman". |
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+ | == Obscure References == |
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* ''"Say I'm starring in ''Forever Plaid''!"'' |
* ''"Say I'm starring in ''Forever Plaid''!"'' |
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''[[Wikipedia:Forever Plaid|Forever Plaid]]'' is an off-Broadway musical about a 1950s pop music group. |
''[[Wikipedia:Forever Plaid|Forever Plaid]]'' is an off-Broadway musical about a 1950s pop music group. |
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* ''"Hey, Dr. Giggles!"'' |
* ''"Hey, Dr. Giggles!"'' |
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− | ''[[Wikipedia:Dr. Giggles|Dr. Giggles]]'' was a 1992 horror movie. |
+ | ''[[Wikipedia:Dr. Giggles|Dr. Giggles]]'' was a 1992 horror movie starring the thick-lipped actor Larry Drake. |
* ''"Uh...that's Christine Jorgensen!"'' |
* ''"Uh...that's Christine Jorgensen!"'' |
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* ''"Niels Bohr buys groceries."'' |
* ''"Niels Bohr buys groceries."'' |
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[[Wikipedia:Niels Bohr|Niels Bohr]] was a Danish physicist who was a key contributor to the development of quantum mechanics. |
[[Wikipedia:Niels Bohr|Niels Bohr]] was a Danish physicist who was a key contributor to the development of quantum mechanics. |
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− | * ''How's the German expressionist date going?'' |
+ | * "''How's the German expressionist date going?"'' |
German expressionism was a dark and moody school of film-making developed in Germany in the 1920s. |
German expressionism was a dark and moody school of film-making developed in Germany in the 1920s. |
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+ | *''"Is this an Andy Warhol movie?"'' |
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+ | Andy Warhol made a series of short movies, which he called "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Tests screen tests]", that consisted of a single, uninterrupted shot of someone's face that went on for several minutes. |
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* ''"Terry Malloy!"'' |
* ''"Terry Malloy!"'' |
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Terry Malloy is the name of the main character in Elia Kazan's 1954 classic film ''[[wikipedia: On the Waterfront|On the Waterfront]]''. |
Terry Malloy is the name of the main character in Elia Kazan's 1954 classic film ''[[wikipedia: On the Waterfront|On the Waterfront]]''. |
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− | * ''She committed thought crimes! Put the rat mask on her!'' |
+ | * "''She committed thought crimes! Put the rat mask on her!"'' |
A reference to the crimes and torture of Winston Smith in George Orwell's ''[[wikipedia:Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]''. |
A reference to the crimes and torture of Winston Smith in George Orwell's ''[[wikipedia:Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]''. |
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*''"Dad's turned into Gregor Samsa."'' |
*''"Dad's turned into Gregor Samsa."'' |
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− | Gregor Samsa is the character in Franz Kafka's novella ''[[wikipedia: The Metamorphosis|The Metamorphosis]]'' who |
+ | Gregor Samsa is the character in Franz Kafka's novella ''[[wikipedia: The Metamorphosis|The Metamorphosis]]'' who wakes up one morning to find he has changed into a giant bug-like creature. |
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+ | ==Video releases== |
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+ | *Commercially released on DVD by [[Shout! Factory]] in March 2017 as part of [[Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXXVIII|Volume XXXVIII]], a 4-disc set along with ''[[MST3K 602 - Invasion USA|Invasion USA]]'', ''[[MST3K 605 - Colossus and the Headhunters|Colossus and the Headhunters]]'', and ''[[MST3K 1007 - Track of the Moon Beast|Track of the Moon Beast]]''. |
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+ | **The DVD includes the original version of ''High School Big Shot'' and a theatrical trailer. |
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{{Season6}} |
{{Season6}} |
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+ | {{DEFAULTSORT: High School Big Shot}} |
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[[Category:MST3K Episodes]] |
[[Category:MST3K Episodes]] |
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[[Category:Season 6]] |
[[Category:Season 6]] |
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[[Category:Episodes with shorts]] |
[[Category:Episodes with shorts]] |
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[[Category:Teen Exploitation]] |
[[Category:Teen Exploitation]] |
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Revision as of 13:12, 28 December 2019
“ | "They're operating under a different theology." | ” |
- Mike |
The Short
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.
Information
- This short was included on Shorts, Volume 3, released by Rhino Entertainment on VHS in January 2001, and on DVD in August 2004 as an limited time exclusive bonus for ordering MST3K: The Essentials from a specially created Rhino site (then by Shout! Factory on Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Singles Collection in May 2018).
The Movie
Synopsis
In 1959. miserable high school student Marv Grant (Tom Pittman) dreams of finishing high school and going to college. His English teacher, Mr. Carter (Peter Leeds, from Girls Town) is helping to get him a scholarship because he sees Marv's potential. Marv's father is a sporadically employed drunk (Malcolm Atterbury, from I Was a Teenage Werewolf) who dreams of giving up liquor, getting steady work, moving out of the run-down home that he and Marv share, and remarrying.
When his pretty, conniving classmate Betty Alexander (Virginia Aldridge) approaches Marv with her plight of not being able to understand Shakespeare well enough to write a paper (jeopardizing her plan of graduating and getting out of town), Marv offers to write it for her. She goes out on a mercy date with him, and he naively becomes infatuated with her. Marv asks Betty to marry him, and she flatly tells him "no" unless he can meet her monetary demands. She's on combative terms with her father and has a personal goal of wanting to "throw diamonds and furs in his face".
At his job, Marv overhears that a million dollars of drug money will soon be stored on the premises. He crafts a precise plan to steal it, enlisting the aid of two experienced criminals- the affable safe-cracker Stanley "Tribble" Adams and Adams' brother-in-law, the suspicious, put-upon liquor store proprietor Louis Quinn.
Marv assures Betty he will soon have lots of money and tells her how he is going to get it. She relays the info to her boyfriend, the bully/petty thug Vince (Howard Veit). Betty pressures him into snatching the money from Marv and furnishes a handgun. Vince resists, but he relents after a couple of kisses from Betty.
Things fall apart. Marv's cheating is revealed and his college prospects are crushed. Marv's dad proposes to a woman he's been seeing but is snubbed, and he then loses out on the promise of a job.
During the robbery, everybody double-crosses everybody else, and most of the characters end up dead, including Marv's father who hangs himself.
Information
- Tom Pittman (who played Marv) died in a car crash shortly after this film was made.
- Cast and crew round-up:
- Cinematographer: John Nicholaus Jr. also worked on Attack of the Giant Leeches and Night of the Blood Beast.
- Editor Carlo Lodato worked on Attack of the Giant Leeches.
- Makeup guy Harry Thomas also worked on Night of the Blood Beast, The Mad Monster; Project Moon Base, The Unearthly, Bride of the Monster, Invasion USA and Racket Girls.
- Set designer John F. Burton also worked on The Girl in Lovers Lane and 12 to the Moon.
The Episode
Host Segments
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!
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.
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!"
Trivia
- It’s with this episode that Julie Walker stops being called “Info Club Coordinator” and becomes “Info Club Poobah.”
- Michael J. Nelson does suffer from chronic headaches in real life and even 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 mocking the late Charles Kuralt's sign-offs on CBS News Sunday Morning.
- "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.
- "Niels Bohr buys groceries."
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 main character in Elia Kazan's 1954 classic film On the Waterfront.
- "She committed thought crimes! Put the rat mask on her!"
A reference to the crimes and torture of Winston Smith in George Orwell's 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
- Commercially released on DVD by Shout! Factory in March 2017 as part of Volume XXXVIII, a 4-disc set along with Invasion USA, Colossus and the Headhunters, and Track of the Moon Beast.
- The DVD includes the original version of High School Big Shot and a theatrical trailer.
preceded by: Season 5 | MST3K Season 6 | followed by: Season 7 | ||||||
1994 - 1995 | ||||||||
601 | Girls Town | 1994-07-16 | 609 | The Skydivers | 1994-08-27 | 617 | The Sword and the Dragon | 1994-12-03 |
602 | Invasion USA | 1994-07-23 | 610 | The Violent Years | 1994-10-08 | 618 | High School Big Shot | 1994-12-10 |
603 | The Dead Talk Back | 1994-07-30 | 611 | Last of the Wild Horses | 1994-10-15 | 619 | Red Zone Cuba | 1994-12-17 |
604 | Zombie Nightmare | 1994-11-24 | 612 | The Starfighters | 1994-10-29 | 620 | Danger!! Death Ray | 1995-01-07 |
605 | Colossus and the Headhunters | 1994-08-20 | 613 | The Sinister Urge | 1994-11-05 | 621 | The Beast of Yucca Flats | 1995-01-21 |
606 | The Creeping Terror | 1994-09-17 | 614 | San Francisco International | 1994-11-19 | 622 | Angels Revenge | 1995-03-11 |
607 | Bloodlust | 1994-09-03 | 615 | Kitten with a Whip | 1994-11-23 | 623 | The Amazing Transparent Man | 1995-03-18 |
608 | Code Name: Diamond Head | 1994-10-01 | 616 | Racket Girls | 1994-11-26 | 624 | Samson vs. the Vampire Women | 1995-03-25 |