I like how it became “Debbie’s Belated Birthday Card” as the gag ran its course.
Here’s a question:
On several episodes, they use the line, “He’ll never touch you Terry. You’re dirt.”
Where is that from?
Ringing a bell, but it’s not coming to me at the moment…
If I can find my copy I will check but that line almost sounds like one from ‘Sidehackers’.
I’ll try to be more helpful.
Yeah, they’ve used it more than once, so I think it’s a quote of some other source. I think it’s in “Sidehackers” but I heard it most recently in the short “Young Mans fancy” and in “Girls Town.” They like to use it when someone has an unrequited crush.
Speaking of the MSTies - and why not on a thread like this - There is a link on the MST3Kinfo website to an interview with Trace Beaulieu. It mentions he was asked to audition for the role of JarJar Binks. :eek: I honestly don’t know what to think.
Not surprising that he turned it down. I mean, he has to maintain the quality of movies that MST is associated with.
Just checked the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide, and the line first appears in episode 522, Teenage Crime Wave. High-on-her-horse Jane says it to deliquent Terry.
Thank you.
MST3K 8.20 - Space Mutiny
One of my all-time faves, and one I use to introduce novitiates to the show. Available on DVD in Volume 4. Incredibly, though Space Mutiny makes extensive use of recycled Battlestar Galactica footage, Mike and the Bots don’t even make a single riff in that direction.
Intro : Tom and Crow ridicule Mike’s old encyclopedias, so he updates them - to no avail. Pearl, Bobo and Observer are imprisoned in Rome - Brain Guy’s brain is “out of range”.
A little narration starts us off, painting a picture of a generational colony ship whose occupants - some of them, anyway - have become disgruntled with being stuck in space. It’s not clear why exactly they’re stuck, since transport ships land on the ‘Southern Sun’ and seem to travel faster than the colony ship, but… eh. The leader of the ship’s security forces, Kalgan, played by John Phillip Law (who will return for one last jab at the eyeballs of MST fans) is sabotaging the ship. An untimely explosion takes out the hanger bay door controls, just after a ship carrying space witches has landed, and during the landing of our hero, Blast Hardcheese. Blast is able to “eject”, but the Professor who was riding with him is killed, creating a tiny smidgen of angry tension between him and the female lead, who’s pushing 50.
Oh, and the Space Witches are called Bellerians, and use Spencer’s Gifts electro-globes to cast… well, not spells, exactly. They do dance around a lot.
Host Segment : Mike tries to enjoy a quiet moment - Crow and Tom are dueling in outer space, and ruin the moment - along with two hyper-warp escape shuttles.
In the next theater segment, the running gag to end all running gags kicks off, as Crow dubs our hero, David Ryder, with the first of a series of nicknames. (Crow : “Slab Bulkhead!”) A low-ranking engineer type discovers some explosives unaccounted for, and ends up caught by Kalgan before he can make it to the bridge to report. D’oh! Kalgan ties up the other person who found out about the explosions at the ship’s painfully dated techno dance club, where the female lead and the hero awkwardly reconcile. Seeing the aftermath of the murder, our Hero and his grandmother… er, female lead… give chase.
Host Segment : Crow’s a Bellerian. Or is he? Bobo tries to use his regurgitation skills to escape, but screws it up.
There’s a running firefight in the basement - er, belowdecks - and the Captain does a little “research” on the Bellerians. Kalgan gets away, and our main characters take time out for a tender love scene - meanwhile, all hell breaks loose. Bellerians seduce enforcers, pirates attack, total chaos. Kalgan gets the bright idea to abduct Lea (the female lead) since she’s the captain’s daughter, and such. He tortures her with a laser to the teeth. Then he has to leave her with an incompetent guard - it’s in every villain’s contract - whom she seduces and escapes from, just in time for Big McLargeHuge to come running useslessly to the rescue.
Host Segment : Inspired by the movie, Tom has erected railings all over the SOL.
The mutiny comes to a head in engineering, as a fight breaks out for control of the ship’s sump pump - er, engines. Kalgan is downed and apparently killed, and his mutinous mole in the engineering crew is roasted by our hero as he sits helpless. Kalgan returns, though, and engages our hero in a duel of the golf carts. This can only end one way - badly. Fitting, as that was how it began. Kalgan is apparently killed in an explosion, but don’t worry - they left it open for a sequel.
During the credits, the Bots express contempt for the 80’s and finally turn on Mike, attacking him, briefly driven to violence by the movie’s awfulness.
Finale : Crow and Tom, inspired by the hero, try to bulk up. Observer gets his brain back, and thanks to Mike’s feeble distraction of Flavia, Pearl and the gang escape. Of course, Bob starts a fire before he goes. Accidentally.
Signature Riffs:
Tom : “I have my doubts this movie’s ‘starring’ anyone.”
Mike : “Passed from editor to editor, in a desperate attempt to save it!”
Crow : “Sting, Debbie Reynolds, and God.”
Mike : “In the future, geese will be rocket-powered!”
Tom : “Kalgan, blow me away!”
Mike, as Captain : “I don’t know if this helps, but - Ho Ho Ho.”
Crow : “Well, it is the rare meeting where something actually got done.”
Crow : “So, in the future, there’s absolutely no shame.”
Crow : “Put your helmet on, we’ll be reaching speeds of three!”
Crow, as Captain : “Fetch me my warrior muumuu.”
Mike : “And our brave hero roasts the disabled man.”
Next : 8.21 - Time Chasers
I love the names, and the running gag about the dead girl.
“Okay, look alive, everybod-- Oh…sorry, Susan…”
“She’s presenting like a mandrill!”
“Did you see my butt?”
“Lea jumps on her Big Wheel to give chase.”
“Accursed mountebank!”
Love this episode.
(When I first saw 12 to the Moon I was surprised (since I saw Space Mutiny first) that the hunky names riff was used extensively there, too.)
I loved the part where the hero gives his fearsome battle cry, then nonchalantly hops off his floor waxer.
John Phillip Law didn’t age well, did he?
It’s from Teenage Crimewave, and the line in the movie is actually more like “You’re dirt, Terry. He’ll never touch you.”
I had an angels-singing epiphany when I finally saw that episode after seeing so many others.
Just the other day, I was in the car with my husband when he started giggling for no apparent reason. When I asked what was so funny, he just said, “Big McLargehuge!” We haven’t watched Space Mutiny in a couple of years, but it’s one of those that just sticks with you.
Space Mutiny is one of the first episodes I remember watching, and along with Overdrawn at the Memory Bank it’s the one that gets the most airtime at home. The golf cart fight sequence (topped by Ryder’s ridiculous scream) is hilarious, and the number of railing kills is just staggering. So is that editing error with the dead woman. Oh, and then there’s Guy Pringle, a.k.a. Lobster Boy…
I think it’s the simple nonchalance that line is delivered with that gets me everytime.
That and ‘Slab McBeefchunk’…
My husband and I watched this one last night, but our DVD froze and we couldn’t get to the last seven minutes. Did Joel and the bots ever mention the fact that there were no prehistoric women in the movie?!
Whoops, thought the title would be qouted, too. I’m talking about episode 1.04, Planet of the Prehistoric Women.
Or, Women of the Prehistoric Planet, since that’s what it’s called :smack: