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MST3K 907 - Hobgoblins

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“ It's the '80s! Do a lot of coke and vote for Ronald Reagan! ”
- Mike


The Movie[]

Main article: Hobgoblins (film)

Mischievous alien creatures with the ability to create illusions escape from the film studio vault where they've been held and complicate the evening of a group of young people.

The Episode[]

Host Segments[]

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Pearl sends...the movie

Prologue: Due to the Robert Palmer version of the song "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On", the SOL crew have been exposed to the concept of accidental and involuntary turn-ons, with even the slightest gesture being construed as a attempt to turn each other on.

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Mike, Crow, and Servo regret jumping on Pearl's couch.

Segment One: The on-turning has reached a stage of increasing malice with intentional turning on. Meanwhile Pearl is remodeling Castle Forrester and her new couch has turned up early, so she has Brain Guy send it up to the SOL for storage. However, Mike and the Bots jump up and down on it, with all manner of "stainable liquids". Pearl threatens swift retribution if they don't stop, but her words fall on deaf ears. So she sends them The Movie.

Segment Two: Due to the questionable stereotypes in the movie, Crow decides to create a film called Let's Talk Women!, but his limited exposure to women outside of movies causes him to proclaim them to be mythical creatures. Mike reminds him of Pearl, but chokes when Crow demands that Mike name one other woman.

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Mike and the Bots place dummy versions of themselves in an ill-conceived attempt to escape both the movie & the SOL.

Segment Three: Crow sets up a crisis hotline to help people who have seen the film Hobgoblins, but Bobo abuses Crow's goodwill to discuss another less savory crises...

Segment Four: Through the use of cardboard cut-outs, Mike and the Bots unsuccessfully try to flee under the cover of a performance of the song "Hobgoblins". Brain Guy sees through the ruse, but can't convince Pearl and Bobo until the cut-outs fall down, exposing the attempt.

Segment Five: Tom is The Terminator, having traveled back in time to "take care of" Rick Sloane. Crow's film research points out he may have had the opposite effect, however. With a heavy heart, Pearl takes back the couch from the immature SOL crew, but the couch is no more safe from her minions.

Stinger: The Hobgoblins ride around in a golf cart.

Obscure References[]

  • "The true story of Neil Peart."
Neil Peart was a rock drummer best-known for his work in the Canadian progressive rock band Rush. Crow mispronounces his last name as "Pert", rather than "Peert".
  • "Yep! I used to be Robert Frost you know!"
Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet, considered by many to be among the greatest in U.S. history. McCreedy bears some resemblance to him.
  • "JFK Jr. could do this."
John F. Kennedy Jr. failed the bar exam several times, and he later co-founded the magazine George which was a commercial failure.
  • "Ah, Burgess Meredith's in there reading."
In the Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last", actor Burgess Meredith plays a bank teller who read books in a bank vault during his lunch break. Subsequently, this protects him from a nuclear blast which leaves him the sole survivor of the incident.
  • "I mean besides you, Cer-ebus!!"
Cerberus is the three-headed guard dog of the Underworld in Greek Mythology. Crow’s pronunciation matches the name of an anthropomorphic aardvark.
  • "Wow, David Crosby's eating in there!"
David Crosby was a singer, musician and songwriter best known as a band member and co-founder of Crosby Stills Nash & Young. He was notorious for his habits of excessive eating and rampant alcoholism before changing his lifestyle later in life.
  • "You know he's already got Loverboy beat as a live act!"
Loverboy is a Canadian rock group from the early 80's best known for their song "Working for the Weekend".
  • "This is a really cheap bio-pic on Jim Morrison..."
Jim Morrison was the lead singer of the 1960s–70s band the Doors.
  • "We're on the road to nowhere... come on inside!"
While Dennis is living his fantasy of being a rock star, Crow sings the song "Road to Nowhere" by Talking Heads.
  • "Paige Sullivan..."
Servo is singing the name to the tune of the hymn-like song "Ed Sullivan" from the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
  • As the name "TAMI BAKKE" appears: "Is she related to Wacky T. Bakke?"
"Wacky Tobacky" is facetious slang for marijuana, derived from the fact that it is often smoked like tobacco, but renders the user "wacky".
  • "We paid for this wing with the profits from D.C. Cab!"
D.C. Cab is a 1983 comedy movie starring Adam Baldwin, Mr. T, Gary Busey, and Whitman Mayo.
  • "Used it to kill Archduke Ferdinand!"
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 is considered the most immediate cause of World War I.
  • "Look what they did to Casey Martin!"
Casey Martin is a professional golfer. Due to a birth defect in his left leg, he sued for (and won) the right to use a golf cart in PGA Tour events.
  • "This movie is making me nostalgic for the film Gymkata."
Gymkata is a 1985 gymnastics/martial arts film, usually regarded as being of similar quality to movies used by MST3K. It later became a RiffTrax Just the Jokes feature.
  • "They made love in their Chevy van, and that's NOT all right with me!"
“We made love in my Chevy van/And that's alright with me” are lyrics from the 1973 song "Chevy Van" by Sammy Johns. The van featured in the movie is a Dodge rather than a Chevrolet.
  • "Call me Ishmael."
Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick opens with the line "Call me Ishmael."
  • "I was Tokyo Rose"
Tokyo Rose was the name given by Allied Forces to a group of Japanese female disc jockeys who played music and news, but were also accused of spreading anti-American propaganda during World War II. One of these women was Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who was imprisoned for treason upon returning to the United States after the war. She was paroled in 1956 and officially pardoned in 1977.
  • "Take on me... take me on!"
Lyrics from the a-ha song "Take On Me". Some parts of the music video for the song take place inside a newspaper comic, which the black-and-white security footage resembles.
  • "Invest in arbitrage and read Jay McInerney!"
The term arbitrage is mainly applied to trading in financial instruments, such as bonds, stocks, derivatives, commodities, and currencies. Jay McInerney is best-known for his 1984 novel Bright Lights, Big City, which was adapted into a movie starring Michael J. Fox.
  • "I think we've stumbled onto Mel's Rock Pile!"
"Mel's Rock Pile" is a recurring SCTV sketch in which the nebbishy Mel (portrayed by Eugene Levy) plays music while his teenage audience dances around him (and often makes fun of him).
  • "Hey, don't scratch the Quarterflash!"
Quarterflash is a 80's band best known for their 1981 song "Harden My Heart".
  • "The historic first meeting of Luke and Laura!"
One of the most well-known storylines in soap opera history is that of Luke Spencer and Laura Webber from General Hospital, in which the two fell in love and got married despite Luke having drunkenly raped Laura when they first met.
  • "Can't you see what I'm trying to tell you—I love you."
Groucho Marx says this line in the 1933 film Duck Soup.
  • "Koala bears are attacking! We hate QANTAS! Grrrrr!"
The bots point out the hobgoblins' resemblance to koalas and refer to QANTAS, the national airline for Australia (the animal's native country).
  • "I don't like Shari Lewis' new show."
Shari Lewis was the creator and host of the educational TV show Lamb Chop's Play-Along, in which the title character was a hand puppet like the hobgoblins.
  • "This guy gets his kicks calling about used Vegas!"
The Chevrolet Vega is a compact car built during the 1970s.
  • "That is not a woman, that's David Lee Roth!"
David Lee Roth is a heavy metal/hard rock vocalist and known for wearing spandex clothing and having long blond hair similar to Fantasia.
  • "Wow, this makes me want to take out my extensive Adam Ant collection."
Adam Ant is the alias of British punk/rock musician Stuart Leslie Goddard. He was lead singer of the new wave band Adam and the Ants in the late 70s and early 80s before going solo.
  • "Wilkommen, bienvenue..."
These are the opening words to "Wilkommen", a song from the musical Cabaret (sung by the MC, who is typically portrayed as effete).
  • "This is one of those movies that's just as famous for its great soundtrack." "Yeah, Hobgoblins is usually shown on a double bill with The Harder They Come."
The Harder They Come is a 1972 film starring reggae musician Jimmy Cliff. It is most notable and lauded for its reggae soundtrack. The SOL crew may also be implying that marijuana use (common among reggae musicians and fans) would make Hobgoblins more tolerable to watch.
  • "Just as long as Demi Moore doesn't come out shaking her saline bags."
Demi Moore starred in the critically-panned movie Striptease in which she played an exotic dancer. She also allegedly had breast augmentation surgery, which often involves the use of saline implants.
  • "Pinky! Brain!"
The characters Pinky and the Brain first appeared in 1993 in a recurring segment on the animated TV series Animaniacs. They spun off into their own series in 1995 due to their popularity.
  • "Fresh Fish!"
A reference to the Laurel and Hardy short Towed in a Hole in which they sell fish out of a truck.
  • "He found Ben Stein's money!"
Win Ben Stein's Money is a game show that aired on Comedy Central during the late 1990s. Contestants competed to win prize money, which was shown to be kept in a vault. Any money not won by a contestant went to the show's co-host Ben Stein.
  • "Hey, it's a common man with a common van!"
"I'm just a common man, drive a common van" is from the 1986 song "Common Man" by Sammy Johns, who is best-known for his hit single "Chevy Van" (see above).
  • "And sometimes when we touch, the honesty's too much."
Lyrics from "Sometimes When We Touch", a 1977 ballad written by Dan Hill and Barry Mann.

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