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205 - Rocket Attack USA
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Joel: Could you state that in a desperate cry to God to save you from an unholy death, please?' Tom Servo: DUCK AND COVER-AH-AH-AH-Ahgrah!!
Spit it out, son. You sound like a manure salesman with a mouthful of samples.
Remember, the film is in color, it's just that everything is grey in Russia.
That's my boss, always taking us on these kooky adventures. But I'll be back later.
I was going to use his skull, but I welded a phone to it. Wasn't that puckish of me?
"Remember, when you're taking snaps on holiday, don't cut off the subject's head!"
"All right, Captain. As long as you didn't get inside."
"Well, I got to Third, if that counts for anything."
"Paris this year says, 'Newsprint, Newsprint, Newsprint-- Yards of it!!' "
I'm standing in a shotgun shack in another part of the world. But this is not my beautiful wife--
"I toldja there was something queer about this place." Yeah, it's Oscar Wilde's birthplace. So what?
"Did Morris give you the TNT?" He gave me the T and the N, but not the other T...and I had the A.
"We've whipped the problem with the skin friction on the warhead..." Ummm, are we talking about the same thing here buddy?
"Because Helen's my imaginary friend, she not real, you keep doing this to me."
"I can't work over the phone like they can..." You know my voice is badly dubbed.
"Send this message in code to all our foreign operators:" bblllghhghgbllghgbbbllllgghhh!
Let me help you. It's a child-proof bomb. You have to push down and turn!
[It's alright Captain, as long as he didn't get inside] Well, I got to third, if that counts for anything!
If this follow spot keeps up with me, i'm gonna have to do a number! Ugh, let's see, one of my Judy Garland favorites...
"So we were just switching to radar controls and everything went boom." - Uh, could you put that into layman's terms, please?
This is my mailing list. If you're interested, I'm selling it. Notice the perfect demographic.
"Did anyone see you?"
"Naw, just the guy in the club, the belly-dancer, the fire-eater, the cab driver, everyone on the street and the guy filming this. Besides that, no one."
"Is he dead?" "No, just stunned." Stunned?? He took six bullets!!!
"Spit it out, man. You sound like a manure salesman with a mouthful of samples."
Suddenly, Ivan tells a salty joke involving an elephant and a ladder- I can't repeat it, but the punchline was "what, and give up show business??"
These two- don't get me started! I just fused their pelvises together. Oh boooy...
This was my most fiendish experiment. I connected these two by the frame. Very expensive.
This is my skull. Stick around, and find out how that could have happened.
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Too funny! Countless references to at least 3 Kubrick films. Thank you MST3K
Ram Chips - Good things: Tom Servo's phone conversations and that North By Northwest was made the same year. Bad thing: The whole sorry ending beginning with Agent (What a dope) John getting gunned down in his inconspicuous white coat. As Crow said, Oh, I just don't understand this - we lost the commie threat? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!!!
Frank @ 1:33:32-38. Iconic.
Audrey Hepburn coming down the stairs in My Fair Lady = Gypsy looking drop dead gorgeous in her tin foil bow. For the first time I noticed her eyelashes!
I read somewhere that they gave Tom Servo a haircut because of complaints that his gumball head was a distraction against the movie screen. It didn't last long, fortunately.
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I like the idea of Crow's punctuation jokes, but as a grammar geek, I cringe every time because almost every one of them is incorrect. I gotta learn to let go!
Madame Sousatzka. Madame Sousatzka! MADAME SOUS--! Gotta love Frank's energy.
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The Soviets made their own version of this film which was nearly a shot for shot copy of ours, except their “British Agent” had more of a Flemish accent and “any suburb USA” Hazlet was replaced by idyllic "easy livin'" Krasnoznamensk.
Incidentally: their chunky tie-shunning truck driver went on to serve as General Secretary of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, just before their 1991 collapse.
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The water polo foosball table actually looks like a really cool idea.
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00:58:35 - Eh. Fake British Guy looks more like Dustin Hoffman than Bill Bixby... if you ask me.
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Ivan attempts to sell Amway products to his unwitting guests....does anyone remember Amway? I had a friends whose parents sold that crap and tried getting all of our parents to join...totally 90's reference that cracked me up.
Joel @ 34:20, hikeeba!
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I refuse to believe that Gumby and Pokey were ever involved in any kind of Commie activities.
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I was practically screaming at the screen. ICBM's were adapted as orbital launch vehicles, not the other way around!
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Shout out to everyone else who's been to Hazlet! :D
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Wow, I actually did really great at the Nuclear war quiz show.
Loved the "Airplane" call back at 36:00. "The white zone is for loading and unloading only." I laughed until they took me to a hospital. A hospital, what is it? It's a big building with doctors and medical equipment, but that's not important now!
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Heh, the rocket DOES have a shadow! It's shown for a few seconds before and after Crow's comment...just saying. :-P
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Check out that jumpsuit that Mike's wearing as Joel's Russian counterpart-
it's Joel's old tan KTMA jumpsuit.
"Coincidence? Read the book..."
A Time-Life books Mysteries of the Unknown reference...man, that takes me back!
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"The police are thick in this area." Yeah, they're like that around here too.
"Is he dead? - No, just stunned." You stunned him just as he was coming to!
There is nothing more rife for riffing than propaganda of the past...or present.
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Barry Mahon, the director of this movie, was also the director of Errol Flynn's last movie, "Assault of the Cuban Rebel Girls" (IMDB lists it simply as "Cuban Rebel Girls"). And for Rifftrax fans, he also directed the Thumbelina part of "Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny".
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First 'stinger' episode!
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Love the Charlie McCarthy hearings.
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28:35 - Here's the hand-off, and... FUMBLE! I blame Servo's new aerodynamic shape for what happened; fortunately that didn't last too long.
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"The Phanton Creeps" one of the best shorts IMPO
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always funny, never grows old