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MST3K 910 - The Final Sacrifice

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“ Dear Counselor Troi: I waited at Denny’s but you didn’t meet me! ”
- Mike


The Movie[]

Main article: The Final Sacrifice (film)

A young man is targeted by a vicious cult that had killed his father. He is aided by a former member of the cult who is seeking redemption.

The Episode[]

Host Segments[]

FINALSACHOST

Crow and Servo go looting

  • Prologue: Gypsy has to turn off the power, and Mike warns the bots not to loot, but they do it anyway. Crows steals his own TV and Tom gets Mike's recycling. They're not very good looters.
  • Segment 1: Pearl tries to rule the world one person at a time. She tries with her first victim, but fails. Tom is next on the list, but Pearl fails again. Brain Guy sends the movie while she thinks how to rule the world.
  • Segment 2: Tom sings "The Canada Song" to try to stop Mike and Crow from making fun of Canada, but soon starts impugning the country as well.
    Cananda Song MST3K

    Mike & the Bots perform "The Canada Song"

  • Segment 3: Bobo ate a bad can of Canadian Bacon and got hockey hair. Soon, everyone gets it, except for Mike who already had it from 1982-1992.
  • Segment 4: Crow and Tom are trying to find out how to get rid of their Hockey hair, when they discover that Mike has gotten grizzled old prospector's syndrome.
  • Segment 5: Crow and Tom start a cult of their own, but freak Mike out with the un-culty things they do. Meanwhile, Pearl tries a new strategy to rule the world one person at a time.
  • Stinger: Troy lying in front of a fire and saying "Rowsdower".
Finalhockeyhair

Hockey Hair strikes Castle Forrester

Obscure References[]

  • "Now I have to listen to As It Happens."
As It Happens is a Canadian interview show that airs on CBC Radio One. It consists of telephone interviews with newsmakers and other persons of interest.
  • "Twin Peaks Theme" [echoing bass notes]
Upon seeing the opening shot of the Canadian wilderness, Servo duplicates the bass line from the opening theme to the television series Twin Peaks.
  • "Ray Davies?!"
Ray Davies is the former lead vocalist and songwriter of the rock band The Kinks. The film's main villain Satoris looks remarkably similar to him.
  • "He's checking his Bioré strip."
Bioré is a popular line of skin care products which was launched by Korean company Kao Corporation in the 1980s.
  • "Randy Bachman is being pursued by sado-masochists!"
Randy Bachman is a Canadian musician and radio personality best-known as a founding member of the bands The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive.
  • "This is where they get all the stuff to put in TGI Fridays."
TGI Friday's is a casual dining restaurant chain known for decorating its wall with eccentric bric-à-brac.
  • "And I will be the one / To hold Larry Csonka down / Kiss him so hard / I'll take Larry Csonka's breath away..."
A parody of the 1993 song "Possession" by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, which is about stalking (the crew makes various jokes about Troy stalking Larry Csonka).
  • "He's working on his Bud Cort scrapbook."
Bud Cort is an actor who played the male protagonist in the film Harold and Maude. Troy bears a slight resemblance to Cort's appearance in that film.
  • "Mrs. Costanza!"
Estelle Costanza is a character on the sitcom Seinfeld, portrayed by Estelle Harris.
  • "That's enough trees for the Spotted Owl, isn't it?"
The habitat of threatened species the Spotted Owl has been a long-running struggle between conservationists and the logging industry.
  • "Free pictures of Brian Mulroney with fill-up!"
Brian Mulroney was a Canadian politician who served as the 18th Prime Minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993.
  • "'Course, the clock's set to Miami time."
Larry Csonka is a former NFL running back who played for the Miami Dolphins for the majority of his career. The man in the photo resembles Csonka, mostly because of his moustache.
  • "It's his Michael Feinstein signature bat."
Michael Feinstein is a pianist and songwriter known for his cabaret style of playing.
  • "The McCulloch's are here!"
McCulloch Motors Corporation is an American manufacturer of chainsaws and other outdoor power tools.
  • "Oh, I love trash!" [Car collides with trashcan] "Ow!"
"I Love Trash" is a song written by Jeff Moss and sung by the Sesame Street Muppet character Oscar the Grouch, who lives in a trash can.
  • "Damn you Pee-wee!!"
The movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure concerns the effete childlike character Pee-wee Herman attempting to recover his missing bicycle.
  • "Well, let's just go get some bullwhips and pose for Mapplethorpe."
Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's controversial works documented and examined the homosexual male BDSM subculture of New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • "And they take refuge in the Anne Murray National Forest."
Anne Murray is a Canadian singer. She does not have a National Forest named after her.
  • "Ziox!" "Isn't that a sandwich cookie?"
Hydrox is a type of sandwich cookie often compared to it's more well-known imitator, Oreo.
  • "I solved Myst in ten minutes, why can't I do this?"
Myst is a computer game from the early 1990s that is known for its many intricate puzzles. Completing the game in ten minutes would indicate significant skill at solving such puzzles, but also implies nerdiness.
  • "I know all the songs from Once Upon a Mattress."
Once Upon a Mattress is a slightly bawdy musical comedy based on Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Princess and the Pea". It is frequently produced by high school theater departments.
  • "He's wearing fashions by Mac Davis."
Mac Davis was a country music singer and songwriter best-known for the songs "It's Hard to Be Humble" and "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me". His appearance on The Muppet Show was referenced during Episode #207.
  • "I found a kid in the back of my truck." "And Play is in the front seat."
Kid 'n Play is a hip-hop duo that was popular in the late 1980s and into the 1990s. They also made several films, including the House Party series.
  • "This is no time for zymurgy!"
Zymurgy is the study of fermentation, specifically for alcoholic beverages like beer and wine.
  • "If this doesn't work, I'll throw balls of carp dough!"
Carp dough is homemade fishing bait used specifically to catch carp.
  • "Canadian MANNIX!"
Mannix is an American detective TV series that ran from 1967 to 1975 on CBS. The show's hero often gets his car run off the road by another car in the same fashion as in this movie.
  • "Oh Sherrie!"
Servo briefly sings the chorus from #1 hit song "Oh Sherrie" by singer Steve Perry, whose hairstyle was similar to Servo's 'hockey hair' ailment.
  • "It's a cult." "They worship Blue Oysters."
Blue Öyster Cult is an American rock band that formed in 1967.
  • "If you find a package store, get me some Yukon Jack."
Yukon Jack is a Canadian honey-based liqueur made from Canadian whisky and honey. It is advertised as “The Black Sheep of Canadian Liquors”. "Package store" is another term for "liquor store", or a store whose primary trade is in alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere.
  • "My Hawkwind album cover will help!"
Hawkwind are an English rock band known as one of the earliest space rock groups.
  • "A treasury of Sergio Aragonés sketches."
Sergio Aragonés is a cartoonist who created cartoons in the margins of Mad magazine. He also created the comic book Groo the Wanderer.
  • "I'm sorry, what was that about Burton Cummings?"
Burton Cummings is a Canadian musician and was the lead singer of the band The Guess Who for a number of years.
  • "I can see why Quebec wants to be separate from all this."
The Quebec sovereignty movement refers to the history and present status of multiple multilateral political movements aimed at attaining statehood for the Canadian province of Quebec. Three years before the episode first aired, the movement had suffered a narrow defeat in a national referendum.
  • "It's just a jackalope."
The jackalope is a mythical animal of North American folklore described as a jackrabbit with antelope horns. Taxidermied specimens are popular novelty items in some rural areas.
  • "Geddy Lee's birthplace!"
Geddy Lee is the former lead singer, bassist, and keyboardist for Canadian progressive rock band Rush.
  • "Hey, their tin roof's...RUSTED!"
Refers to an iconic line in the song "Love Shack" by rock band The B-52's.
  • "Hey, Bonanza!"
The opening credits of the western television series Bonanza show a map being scorched by fire.
  • "Now Mike, technically that paper is SA-MOKIN'!"
Crow riffs the catchphrase of the chaotic protagonist played by Jim Carrey in the 1994 movie The Mask.
  • "Bless my stick, O Holy Willie Mosconi."
Willie Mosconi was a famous American professional pool player nicknamed "Mr. Pocket Billiards."
  • "Da-da-da-da-da...Charge!!"
The soundtrack is mocked as similar to the fanfare played during sporting events known as "Charge".
  • "Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Alan Jackson!"
Alan Jackson is an American country music singer-songwriter. He resembles Rowsdower inasmuch as he has curly hair and a moustache.
  • "...ya big disgrace, shovin' those sandwiches into your face, singin' we will, we will Rowsdower!"
The soundtrack's beat prompts Crow to sing a pastiche of the hit song "We Will Rock You" by the band Queen.
  • "Wow, it's a Stuart Anderson's Cattle Company cult."
Stuart Anderson's Cattle Company chain of restaurants was later rebranded as the more popularly-known Black Angus Steakhouse.
  • "The guy upstairs has bad enuresis."
Enuresis is a condition in which one has lost the ability to control their urination. 
  • Crow: "It's Heckle!" Tom: "No it's clearly Jeckle."
Heckle and Jeckle are cartoon magpies from Terrytoons Studios. They are basically identical.
  • "Gordon Lightfoot at home."
Gordon Lightfoot was a Canadian singer and songwriter best known for his songs "Sundown" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".
  • "I was gonna sing something from Bone Machine."
Bone Machine is a 1992 album by the raspy-voiced singer Tom Waits.
  • "Oh! Another M.I.!"
M.I. is an abbreviation of myocardial infarction, which is the clinical term for a heart attack.
  • "He's invoking the powers of Bryan Adams!"
Bryan Adams is a popular Canadian sing-songwriter.
  • "Fallderi-faldera-ha-ha-ha..."
This is part of the refrain of the lighthearted tune "The Happy Wanderer", which is associated with hikers and mountaineers.
  • "Hey, this is it. This is the actual Crazy World of Arthur Brown."
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown is a British rock band famous for the song "Fire".
  • "It's Expo '67."
The Lost City somewhat resembles Habitat 67, a featured exhibit at Expo '67 in Montreal.
  • "Luke, it is your destiny."
A spire of The Lost City resembles the silhouette of character Darth Vader from the Star Wars franchise, prompting an iconic quote from the movie The Empire Strikes Back.
  • "If women don't find you handsome, at least you should be handy."
The raspy-voiced hermit sounds similar to handyman Red Green from the Canadian TV comedy The Red Green Show, as portrayed by comedian Steve Smith. The "Handyman Corner" segment customarily concluded with the aphorism "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
  • "I'm just remembering a scene from Bio-Dome."
Bio-Dome is a 1996 comedy film starring Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin in which they appear as two dim-witted friends that inadvertently become trapped in a "bio-dome", a form of closed ecological system. The film has themes of environmentalism, combined with drug use, sexual innuendo, and toilet humor.
  • "Look into your heart, eh?"
A reference to the 1990 mafia movie Miller's Crossing, in which the character Bernie (who has been taken into the woods for execution) pleads for his life. "Eh" is a spoken interjection in English that is most commonly associated with Canada and Canadian English.
  • "Jenna Elfman! She's the daughter of Danny Elman!"
Jenna Elfman is an American actress. She is not a blood relation of composer Danny Elfman, but she is married to his nephew Bodhi Elfman.

Callbacks[]

Behind-the-Scenes[]

MST3K Cast[]

Regular Cast

Guest Cast

MST3K Crew[]

TBA

Songs[]

Notes[]

Goofs[]

  • As Rowsdower is being chased by a cult member in a pickup truck, Crow remarks "Oh no! He's got a Chevy! They're so dependable!" despite the truck having a GMC logo prominently visible on its grille.

Video releases[]

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MST3K DVD Cover

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