The Wizard of Oz

List of references to The Wizard of Oz in Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Season K

Gamera

• "The first quiz question is: Is Ted Turner dumb enough to colorize the begining [sic] of "the Wizard of Oz"?"

Gamera vs Zigra

• "Auntie Em!"

Gamera vs Guiron

• "Surrender Dorothy?"
• "Oil can!"
• "I don't think we're in Tokyo anymore, Toto."

Phase IV

• "They're spelling something. Surrender Dorothy."
• "ANT-ie Em! ANT-ie Em!"

Cosmic Princess

• "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?"
• "Pay no attention to the man behind the test tubes."
• "If I only had a brain."

Humanoid Woman

• "Poppies will make her sleep."

Fugitive Alien

• "Starfields will make him sleep."
• "O-Ee-Oh. Yeoo-Oh." [the Witch's guards' chant.]

City on Fire

• "Auntie Em! Auntie Em!"

The Million Eyes of Sumuru

• "Just try to pay no attention to that girl behind the curtain."

The "Legend of Dinosaurs"

• "I'm not in Kansas anymore."
• "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?"

Season 1

The Crawling Eye

• "It was a bizarre dream and you were all there."

The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy

• "Lions and tigers and bears. Oh my!"

The Mad Monster

• "Maybe it's helium and they'll all sound like the Munchkins."
• "He looks just like one of the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz!"
• "How about a little ball, Scarecrow?"

Project Moon Base

• "Scarecrow, I think I'll miss you most of all!"

Robot Holocaust

• "Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Follow the Yellow Brick Road."
• "Scarecrow? Tin Man? Lion?"

Untamed Youth

• "The poppies made her sleep!"
• "...and Scarecrow, and the rest of you."

The Black Scorpion

• "Fly, monkeys! Fly!"

Season 2

Rocketship X-M

• "Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man."
• "Yeah, and you were there, and you, and you, and everybody."

The Side Hackers

• "Have a little fire, Scarecrow."

Jungle Goddess

• "Oil can."
• "Or click my heels together."
• "Hail Dorothy, the Wicked Witch Doctor is dead. Hail Dorothy."

Catalina Caper

• "He'll thrash us from top to bottomus."
• "That we ain't got? Courage."

Ring of Terror

• "Ow! Hey, how would you like it if someone picked apples off of YOU?"
• "Oil can."

Wild Rebels

• "How would you like someone putting a cigarette out on you?"
• "Guess we're not in Kansas anymore, dude. Go kill Dorothy."

Lost Continent

• "Hey, we landed on a witch. Maybe the movie will be in color from this point."

King Dinosaur

• Lions and tigers and bears. Oh my!"
• "How about a little fire, Scarecrow?"

First Spaceship on Venus

• ".... a brain, a home, the nerve."
• "I... I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks!"
• "Hey, he landed on a witch."

Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster

• "And what about Scarecrow's brain?"

Season 3

Cave Dwellers

• "Come forward, Cowardly Lion!"
• "I don’t know how to get this thing to work. Goodbye, folks! Goodbye!"
• "Yeah, and what about Scarecrow's brain!"

Gamera

• "How about a little fire, Scarecrow?"
• "I'm melting!"

Pod People

• "I can't bring him down, I don't know how it works."
• "Lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my! Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!"
• "I do believe in spooks! I do believe in spooks! I do! I do! I do! I do! I do believe in spooks!"

Gamera vs Barugon

• "How about a little tongue, Scarecrow?"
• "Gamera's melting like a lemon drop, high above the chimney tops."
• "Yeah, and Scarecrow's brain!
• "Poppies. Poppies will make him sleep."
• "He's dead. You killed him."

Time of the Apes

• "And what about Scarecrow's brain?"

Daddy-O

• "Oil can!"

Gamera vs Gaos

• "I do believe in Gaos! I do believe in Gaos! I do, I do, I do, I do, I do believe in Gaos!"

The Amazing Colossal Man

• "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
• "Yeah right, Dorothy. You can go back to Kansas now."

Fugitive Alien

• "Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?"

It Conquered the World

• "How about a little fire, Scarecrow?"

Gamera vs Guiron

• "Give me those ruby slippers."
• [If only we had] "a brain, the nerve."

Earth vs the Spider

• "Poppies!"

Teenage Cave Man

• "Have a little fire, Scarecrow."

Gamera vs Zigra

• "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."

The Saga of the Viking Women...

• "How about a little fire, Scarecrow?"
• "Hail Dorothy! The Wicked Witch is dead. Hail Dorothy!"

War of the Colossal Beast

• "He got shocked all the way back to Oz."

The Unearthly

• "There's no place like home."
• "Oh, what a world, what a world."

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

• "Oilcan. Oilcan!"

The Castle of Fu Manchu

• "Auntie Em, Auntie Em. Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh!"
• "Come forward, Cowardly Lion."

Master Ninja II

• "Who killed my sister?"
• "You killed him. Hail Dorothy!"
• "The Wizard's not in!"
• "Where has my little dog gone."

Season 4

Space Travelers

• "I'm melting! Melting!"

The Giant Gila Monster

• "Dorothy? Dorothy!"

City Limits

• "Hail Dorothy! The Wicked Witch is dead!" "Hail Dorothy."
• "Come back later, the Wizard is busy."
• "You're fired, Scarecrow!"
• "How about a little fire, Scarecrow?"

Teenagers from Outer Space

• "Run, Toto, run!"
• "Hooker headers and thrush pipes! Woofers and tweeters and bears, oh my!"
• "Auntie Em! Uncle Henry! You were there, and you , and you..."
• "Do not look at the man behind the curtain."
• "Scarecrow, I'll miss you least of all."
• "Somewhe-e-e-re...."

Being from Another Planet

• "I am the great and powerful Oz! Pay no attention to the man behind the boiler."

The Killer Shrews

• "I can't stop him, I don't know how it works. Goodbye, folks!"
• "Dorothy? Dorothy!"
• "How about a little fire, doggie?"

Hercules Against the Moon Men

• How about a little fire, Scarecrow?"
• "What do they got that I ain't got?"
  "Pants!"
  "Well, you can say that again Huh?"

The Magic Sword

• "The Wizard's not in!"

Hercules and the Captive Women

• "We represent the Lollipop Guild."

Manhunt in Space

• "Oz never did give nothing to Bill Tinsman
  That he didn't, didn't already have."

Tormented

• "I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks! I do, I do, I do, I do believe in spooks!"

Fire Maidens of Outer Space

• "I can hear my heart breaking."
• "How would you like it if we picked your apples?"
• "I can barely hear my heart beat."

Crash of Moons

• "The house began to pitch, the hinges to unhitch."
• "He walks like a flying monkey."

The Human Duplicators

• "Where are you off to?"
  "To see the Wizard."

The Day the Earth Froze

• "Poppies will make her sleep."
• "Fly, monkeys! Fly!"

Bride of the Monster

• "I can barely hear his heart beating."
• "Hi, uncle Bela, aunt Thor."

Season 5

Hercules

• "Courage."
• "Hail, Dorothy!"
• "Poppies."

Secret Agent Super Dragon

• "Fashions from the Lollipop Guild Collection."

The Magic Voyage of Sinbad

• "O-Ee-Oh. Yeoo-Oh." [the Witch's guards' chant.]
• "Dorothy? Dorothy!"
• "Fly, monkeys! Oh, I mean seahorse."

Eegah

• "Poppies will make us sleep."

I Accuse My Parents

• "Courage."
• "Auntie Em! Auntie Em!"

Operation Double 007

• "What happened was just this."
• "Can you even dye my eyes to match my doll?"
• "O-Ee-Oh. Yeoo-Oh." [the Witch's guards' chant.]

The Painted Hills

• "And you were there, and you, and you..."

Mitchell

• "Sorry, folks, I can't come back. I don't know how it works. Goodbye!"

The Brain That Wouldn't Die

• "She had a heart, and a brain."
  "And a noive."

The Wild Wild World of Batwoman

• "And you, Tin Man. Step forward."
• "I can hear my heart breaking."

Alien from L.A.

• "Do you represent the Lollipop Guild?"
• "O-Ee-Oh. Yeoo-Oh." [the Witch's guards' chant.]

Outlaw

• "Toto, I have a feeling this isn't the Red Onion."

Santa Claus

• "The house began to twitch."

Village of the Giants

• "You killed him. You killed the spider."
• "I'm melting!"
• "Surrender Aunt Bee!"

12 to the Moon

• "Perhaps you are right, my Munchkin."

Season 6

Girls Town

• "Fly, monkeys! Fly!"
• "How would you like it if somebody picked your apples?"
• "And a couple of tra-la-las."

Invasion USA

• "Surrender Dorothy."
• "Dorothy? Dorothy!"

The Creeping Terror

• "You were there... and you, and you."

Bloodlust!

• "What happened was just this,
  the house began to twitch,
  and then..."
• "Now fly, monkeys! Fly!"

The Skydivers

• "Merry old land of Oz."

The Violent Years

• "Auntie Em!"

Last of the Wild Horses

• "Now fly, my horsies! Fly! Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh!"
• "The Emerald City is closed!"

Kitten with a Whip

• "How would you like it if someone picked your apples?"

Racket Girls

• "Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?"

Angels Revenge

• "Oilcan! Oilcan!"

The Amazing Transparent Man

• "Dorothy returns home."

Season 7

The Brute Man

• "We represent, the Lollipop Guild..."

Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell

• "And a couple of folderols."
• "O-Ee-Oh. Yeoo-Oh." [the Witch's guards' chant.]

The Incredible Melting Man

• "I'm melting... But you knew that."

Escape 2000

• "How about a little fire, spaceman."

Season 8

The Undead

• "... and your little dog too!"
• "Satan, I'd like to move up the ladder in the Lollipop Guild."

Terror from the Year 5000

• "Surrender Dorothy."
• "It's one of those 'Fly, monkeys! Fly!' monkeys."

Parts: The Clonus Horror

• "I can barely hear my heart beating."

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies

• "Pay no attention to the woman behind the mole!"

Prince of Space

• "Surrender Dorothy!"

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

• "Last thing I knew, I was about to be killed by an elephant
  "I should have wrapped him up in cellephant."

Season 9

The Projected Man

• "I'm melting!"

The Phantom Planet

• "Come out, come out, wherever you are..."
• "Are you a good spaceman or a bad spaceman?"

The Deadly Bees

• "Fly, monkeys, fly!"

Season 10

Squirm

• "It’s Glinda the Good Witch. And she’s hung up in the wires."

Diabolik

• "Dorothy!"

Season 11

The Time Travelers

• "How about a little fire, Scarecrow."

The Beast of Hollow Mountain

• "I'm melting!"

Starcrash

• "Oh no, Glinda the Good Witch is multiplying at an alarming rate."
• "Oil can."

RiffTrax

On January 17, 2014, RiffTrax did an official riff of the 1939 classic film.