The point? To cash in, I guess. I just love the Connery Brothers career graph…
Which episode gave us the “Chili-peppers burn my gut” line? You may have listed it earlier, but where is “Hai-kiba!” from?
Hi-Keeba! is from Women of the Prehistoric Planet. Don’t think I’ve run into the chili-pepper line.
Never seen “Women…Prehsitoric planet.” The Chili-pepper line seems to be used in reference to Ross Hagen. I think you hear it in both “Sidehackers” and “Hellcats.” I know it’s in “Rocket Attack USA” when the bots are lampooning the narrator and having him say that the communist leader is claiming that chili-peppers burn his gut.
Haven’t yet seen Hellcats - I guess the line just didn’t stick out at me from the other two.
As for Hi-keeba, they use it a LOT.
I just watched *Hellcats * the other night and I don’t remember that line. I’m not saying it’s definitely not there, but I don’t remember it. And I defy you to explain exactly what the plot of the movie was. It does have a snappy little theme song that is completely incongruous to the film’s subject matter, a violent biker gang that does…stuff.
It’s always spoken in a quick, undertone growl. I think they’re imitating Ross Hagen when they do it.
Very much in the spirit of Sidehackers, we get this depressing little Biker film with a Gilligan-esque guitar player as a … well, let’s not say ‘hero’. Protagonist. The riffing’s pretty solid - this is a good one.
Tom Servo’s head is back to normal now, but Joel’s sporting an ugly goatee that makes him resemble nothing so much as middle-aged Shaggy.
Our opening segment has Joel shut down Gypsy’s control of the SOL so she can use her brain to explain what’s troubling her - not much, as it turns out. We also get a nice sketch about great thinkers belonging to motorcycle gangs, and a jaunty jingle for Wild Rebels cereal.
Signature Riff :
(as the camera passes over a fey-looking band playing in the background)
<Joel> : “Ladies and Gentlemen, from England, the Fem-Tones…”
Wasn’t Wild Rebels the one about a train robbery masterminded by the “Chief” from Get Smart?
No… Edward Platt, isn’t it? He’s not in this one, and while there’s robbery, there’s no train robbery.
One thing I forgot to note, that I should’ve : This one has no stinger.
I must have been thinking of “Rebel Set.” And Edward Platt it is.
I recorded the very last episode of the MST3K-- “Diabolique” was the flick and it made me sad that it was the last episode…I was recording the flick because I thought it was a really bad movie and wanted to show it to friends of mine, then at the end I discovered that it was the end of the show as well…What a bummer.
“We do it for the kicks, baby!” Gawd, Wild Rebels is one of my all-time favs. The scene in the bar with our hero dancing is almost too much to take. More great lines:
Are you sure it wasn’t Banjo who took the board to the back of the head?
Banjo: “More kicks than I ever imagined, baby.”
Crow: “So, that would be … two?”
It looks like Banjo exploded.
MST3K 2.08 - Lost Continent
Rock climbing, folks.
Joel’s goatee endures - I still don’t like it - even as the crew endures twenty minutes of plot padded to an hour and a half. It even reuses stock footage last seen in Rocketship X-M. It does star Cesar Romero and Hugh Beaumont. And we get plenty of Jungle Goddess and Gilligan’s Island references.
Also, that Chili Peppers line pops up here once, but wait for the next review on that…
We learn that Jerry and Sylvia, the mole people, operate the camera in Deep 13; the Mads gloat over their plans for Joel, and even deny him the chance to show off an invention this week. He tries to refuse to enter the theater, but pain is induced and he capitulates.
The last host segment introduces a ‘Cool Thing’ contest, where fans were supposed to send a drawing in, of what they thought the crew was marvelling at out the window, but the BEST host segment has the SOL visited by a house-shaped spaceship, flown by Mike Nelson as Hugh Beaumont, Horseman of the Apocalypse. I kid you not.
Signature Riff :
<Crow> : “Joel, why are we watching this dull mountain climbing sequence?”
<Joel> : “Well, because it’s there.”
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MST3K 2.09 - The Hellcats**
Ouch. FIVE minutes of plot, padded to a full length movie. Ross Hagen returns, and we get a lot of use of that Chili Peppers line, which I’m forced to conclude originates with Sidehackers. How can they stand these biker movies? How could I stand to watch these two episodes back to back? This one’s not one of their best, but it’s okay - they did manage to make Lost Continent watchable, though.
I did get a kick out of Tom Servo going all “meta” on Joel and Crow as they make reference to ‘Then Came Bronson’.
The Hellcats is available on DVD.
In the SOL, our first host segment shows that everyone’s ill, including Magic Voice. The Mads don’t pony up an invention this week. Unfortunately, the rest of the host segments deal largely with flashbacks. That’s right, folks - it’s our very first MST3K clipshow.
Signature Riff:
<Joel> “Utah. I can’t believe I’m still in Utah.”
Isn’t Lost Cont where we get the basis for the scene padding warning, “rock climbing, Joel” that gets used from here on out whenever the scene is being… padded ?
Absolutely. I wasn’t aware they used it a lot later, but yes.
Is it also the one with that chick with the great ass wearing the tight slacks? 
Yeah, throughout the rest of the Joel Period™, “rock climbing” is used as a generic statement of boring scene padding. Like walking, walking, walking to where some action might be, driving, driving, driving to get to another character, etc…
Have you done Being From Another Planet yet? I lost track of about 2 or 3 pages of this thread. Keep up the good work!
No - the core party of players would be termed, in the vernacular, a “sausage fest”.
Not yet, but stay tuned.
MST3K 2.10 - King Dinosaur
We begin this week’s installment with their first non-serial Short, ‘X Marks the Spot’, a cheery little film about bad driving habits. Amusingly, as it peters out, Tom and Joel leave, but Crow lingers - and then in the next host segment is inspired to advocate activism.
The main feature is brought to us by Mr. Lippert (Lost Continent, Rocketship X-M, Jungle Goddess) but isn’t padded as much - there is a LOT of stock footage, which the crew makes note of. This is also their first Bert I. Gordon picture. This film’s another victim of the “shoot really bright day for night” filming technique. Apparently, the film takes its toll on the crew, as they fall to bickering amongst themselves for a moment or two.
The alltime classic line in the film itself has to be when the “scientist” points at the giant lizard, declaring it resembles the prehistoric T-Rex. Apparently, it’s had a lot of work done, because as the crew points out, it looks like an iguana.
They use one of my favorite recurring gags here - too bad I didn’t know it was a recurring gag when I first spotted it during these reviews. Whenever our group of protagonists in a film is gathered, as if to camp, one of the fellows will pipe in with the end of some urban legend tale… ("… and the call was coming from upstairs!" The others : “Aaaaah!”) - and this one has the best use of that gag so far.
<Crow> : “And there, on the handle, was some stock footage of a hook.”
After the movie, Crow nearly loses it; and Dr. Forrester pushes the button with Frank’s head.
MST3K 2.11 - First Spaceship on Venus
We open on the SOL as Joel adjusts Tom’s Sarcasm Sequencer; while looking for their Invention, the Mads find they have Abe Vigoda in a junk drawer.
The film itself was in color, so there’s that, but the international cast was badly dubbed. They have an adorable robot on treads called ‘Omegon’ that inspires a slew of Twikky jokes, and extremely silly spacesuits. Like, beige versions of the Oompa Loompa technician outfits from the Wonkavision segment of the old Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie. (inspiring Servo : “This is the day the teddybears go to Veeee-nus.”
This movie also showed me just how hardwired I’ve become to MST3K thought patterns. I’d never seen this one before, but as a scientist rattled off some coordinates on the spaceship, I instinctively added ‘You sunk my battleship!’ - because I knew that it was something like they’d normally add there. Lo and behold, as I finished my comment, I noticed Crow had said it right along with me. Eerie.
Crow and Servo build a robot, inspired by the film, but which communicates through foam. They’re also visited by a Space Gorilla, which Servo sings into docility. Tom’s head explodes as his Sarcasm Sequencer overloads.
Signature Riff :
(after the suggestion of a spacewalk to fix some meteor damage)
<Crow> : “Outside? In this weather?”
I just wanted to be the 300th post.
Mitchell!