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303 - Pod People
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"Well, time to start camping. Heh. You dress up as Oscar Wilde, and I'll sing Noel Coward Songs."
Crow - "Delicious Kity...Kitty's like a potato...so nice. Where do I start? It all looks so good. Little wing-ed potatos!"
Servo, if you don't stop doing your Anthony Newley I'm gonna throw you against the wall.
-(Smiles, clearly pleased) Well? -(Smiles wide, gives A-Ok sign) IT STINKS!
Hey, it's Andy Travis from WKRP!! ~Joel
Oh terrific we were saved by the gates of Hell.
Hey what is it about the gates of Hell that compels people to wander into them?
It's because of Smucker's: Raspberry Preserves.
You know, this scene didn't originally appear in the movie but they uh they restored it. Aren't you glad?
Oh, thank you AMC.
Do you know what playing is, Trumpy? - "Yes...it's where I break you in half."
"Trumpy, you come down!" *cue Joel dancing like a fool, among other...things...*
"She's gone to bed, she was shattered." This town's in tatters. Sha-dooby.
Your experiment this week Joel is called Pod People. It has nothing to do with pods, it has nothing to do with people, it has everything to do with hurting.
"I'm doing a one-man show: Leslie Nielsen, Leslie Nielsen, Leslie Nielsen!"
The helpless cough of a squirrel with a crushed face...That's what life is all about
Boy, I sure hope Trumpy doesn't sneeze. He'll pistol whip that kid with peanuts.
I'm doing a one-man show: Leslie Nielsen, Leslie Nielsen, Leslie Nielsen!
"Sack of monkeys in my pocket! my sisters ready to go! hear the engines roll now Idiot control now!"
Come on, your breakfast is getting cold... and she's not getting any warmer... that means more oatmeal for everyone!
I've laughed with monsters, I've cried with monsters, I'll die with monsters from Hell.
Crow: I'm getting out of here, this place sucks.
Syntho birds... Hey it's a Casio forest. They parked next to a datastream.
This is more intense than when Bobby Brady got lost in the Grand Canyon!
Patience, gentle viewer; this'll all make sense in the end -- NOT!
This'll pay the rent for a while... where's Sam? "He's paying the rent!"
I've laughed with monsters, I've cried with monsters, I'll die with monsters from hell
With a pickle in mind. We kick the nipple beer. Steady as a goat. We're flying over trout. Ghetto down the highway....
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I wonder if Trumpy - with his wondrous powers of broadcasting Africa - had just showed the boy the ET movie and said "You see this?! FAME! THIS is what I want!"
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Wow, that movie was rough. High-budget for fog. Maybe I wasn't in the mood, but the whole things seemed a little slow. Heck of a lot of movie and character references though. Maybe I'll try it again someday.
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lmao one of the worst movies and some of the best skits and riffs ever! It stinks!
The skit at the end of the film is the perfect way to wrap up this stinker of an episode.
"Will there still be a clown in the sky...."
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Crow's Trumpy Voice!!! ROFL
HUHZAHHHH
Every skit in this episode made me giggle like a damn fool. I needed that ^-^
That guy has Renaissance festival written all over him -- huzzah!
I cried at the "Trumpy you ARE magical" skit. Damn, that is some obnoxious silliness.
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Seriously though. Why did the opening and closing credits of "Pod People" feature scenes from a totally different movie?
"Idiot control now!"
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I've always wondered: Did the director *intend* for the kid to come across as mega-creepy? Because he does.
Also, I totally understand how Anthony Newley is Joel's Kryptonite. I have the same reaction when I have to listen to Katy Perry. :/
Tom's impersonation of Richard Gere from "An Officer and A Gentleman" is uncanny!
It's the worst quality movie that mst3k ever took and tried to fix.... turn up your television, cause the sound quality is just as horrible.... "Cause it's time for ....... POD PEOPLE
classic MST3K! i have been looking for a site that has some of the films that MST3K used to spoof. the best content I found thus far is at http://scifi.digidev.tv
Hmm, Joel seems to have confused Buddha with a central Polynesian Tiki image of Maroi mythology. Bad Joel.
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Cheap Movie? Yes. But it had the highest fog-machine budget of any film in history.
Aww... The kid hatched a Drowzee from Pok'e-mon.
Seriously, how many episodes do an Oscar Wilde reference?
I love Frank's line: "You know the kids today with their loud music, hula hoops, fax machines..."
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Director J.P. Simon actually has a somewhat of a following. He gave us cult classics like Slugs ("They creep, they ooze, they kill) and Pieces ("It's exactly what you think it is").
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Host segment four- there's a suspiciously-familiar tan jumpsuit mixed in with all that floating clothing...yep, it's Joel's KTMA jumpsuit showing up again.
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"IT STINKS!" No seriously, this movie stinks like rotten Limbuerger cheese.
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This is the first episode of MST3K I ever saw. I didn't have cable as a kid, but I saw this when Rhino put a few episode on VHS. I still remember the commercial Rhino put on those tapes: it had two 90's guys in a desert doing interpretative dance about calling their 800 number to request a catalog..."It's a free call...it's a free catalog..." Good times!
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Isn't it just heartwarming how the It Stinks Guy's girlfriend is comforted by the Non-Threatening Best Friend? Basically, he explains that musicians, by nature, are unfaithful cads. He advises her to suck it up and accept a life of playing second fiddle to an endless stream of nubile young groupies...because he really does love her! Honest!
Essentially, it's HER fault for not taking Ricky's complete lack of respect for her, or for their relationship in stride like a good little doormat.
This is one of the funniest MST3K's I have seen so far. Anytime they are searching in the fog, "Chief? MacLoed?" Let the Riffs rip.
I lost it At 53 minutes, when crow does his trumpy impression. "little wing-ed potatoes. ouch thats my snout. ow. letgo"
What is it about the gates of Hell the compels people to wonder into them?
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A very difficult movie to watch, made palatable only by some great riffing.
A very difficult movie to watch, made palatable only by some great riffing.
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Love episodes like this. It's full of quirky Euro-eighties zeitgeist, idiosyncratically bad dialogue, complete abuse of genre tropes, and it's in color!
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This movie makes a LOT more sense after reading the Wikipedia page:
"The film was originally meant to be about evil aliens, but the producers demanded script alterations in order to cash in on the success of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial by featuring a child and cute, lovable alien."
Assuredly, the title sequence features the original pre-Trumpy alien monster.
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I cant bring him down- I dont know how it works! Joel's parting words as well [Mitchell]
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In my humble opinion the best MST3K episode EVER.
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Loved the Wall of Keyboards skit.
lol "Gregorian Chant #5"
Frank in that 'I'm A Virgin' t-shirt cracks me up every time.
"Good?! He's the BEST!"
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Also the voice they riff for Trumpy is hilarious, it just gets better everytime I watch this movie.
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This is the first episode of MST3K I've ever seen. <3 Special place in my heart