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609 - The Skydivers
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♫Oh you never would believe ♪ where those Keebler cookies come from!♫
It made ya mad. It made ya mean mad. It worked on you 'til you were nothin' but a big ball of mean....
"Feels good. Makin' like a bird. Floatin' around up there." Poopin' on people.
Hi! Boy, I'm not attracted to your wife, she's a regular orangutan! Sooo.... whatcha doin?
"Unknown vehicle on desk please acknowledge... Unknown vehicle acknowledge, over... Car on desk, acknowledge... Vehicle not responding, mandatory termination procedure begun, in the name of God and country!... Ah, beautiful, beautiful! Splash one, splash one, look at the carnage! Hahaha! Ah what a great day! I'm gonna swing her around again and confirm termination.. beginning run... Termination complete. Acceptable losses. Let's go home."
"Damn you Servo!!!"
"Hey Nel-stone. Ya know why I call you Nel-stone? Cause you are so stoned. You wake and bake every-day. You are SO HIGH!"
Hi, I'm Petey's dad. Is Petey off on another adventure? I'll keep my eye out for communism!
This is an "I can't pay you but I'll put your name in the credits" cast list.
I feel like a cheeseburger. Will you go make love to the guy at Jack in the Box?
Do the actors do there own skydiving? No the skydivers do there own acting.
"Come on! I thought someone was gonna die!" "Yeah make with the death!"
"Well, Frankie, are you a chicken?" Ah, let me see... Am I a chicken? Well, I don't have a comb, or a gizzard, but sometimes I do ingest gravel to grind my food...
They thought of scattering his remains from an airplane, but it seemed a little insensitive.
"Put your arms around me and kiss me, Harry!" - Or kiss me smooth, either way.
I predict that in a climactic finale, she jumps without a chute and then her hair opens up.
"Harry, let's go out and join the party." No, let's stay in the crawlspace!
I need to get out of the sun to maintain my fish-belly white complexion...
Rat-a-tat-tat!! I keep a copy of..Popular Mechanics under my ..mattress...
Oh Heavens! Earl we'd best leave I put the Black Curse of Loki on 'em.
We'll need actors, people who can read...lines with...and interact with others.
"This here is the butt of choice, right there..."
"Yeah, it won the Palm De Butt at Cannes!"
"It's turned into a John Waters film!"
"I think that heroin has hit this town in a big way!"
"Hey, I thought somebody was gonna die!"
"Yeah, make with the death!"
Excuse me, we're filming a James Bond movie here! Could you move, please?
Due to my education in Industrial Arts, I knew my wife was having an affair...
That's the last time I let a DART decide where I go on vacation...!
Now people like to whisper the word 'sinkhole' around this neighborhood, but it's really not a problem...
Did the actors do their own skydiving? I think the skydivers did their own acting.
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Who would win? The shape-shifting boat, or Petey?
Petey the Plane
It's like they forgot to have things happen in this movie... lol
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Wow a Robyn Hitchcock reference I've been into him since the Soft Boys days. He has actually gotten better and weirder with age, he's playing with Peter Buck from R.E.M. now, anyways it always surprises me the great musical taste these guys have.
As a survivor of several duller than death planetarium shows I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the planetarium sketch! And it probably has the best lighting in the history of MST3K IMHO. But I digress......back to Uranus!
I want an official Deep 13 Swing Choir costume!
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If this isn't the greatest opening host sequence for any MST3K ever then I don't know what is!!!!!
So, all of Dr. Forester's psychosis and sociopathy stem from his rejection by his high school swing choir....?
Once I put acid in someone's chute, but they just got high, I guess.
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Two things: wouldn't you notice an odor if acid was in your backpack? And when SPOILER ALERT Harry dies, there's a shot of Beth with her chute all packed before running to Harry's side. Would she actually repack her chute first? I don't think so, Coleman Francis!
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Iff'n you're wonderin' if our beloved characters will ever get around to that cup o' coffee, skip to 1:06:10.
You're welcome. Coleman Francis was a true visionary genius.
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and i ask you: in what other t.v. show can you get interrupted by 2 robots and their maker making fun of a horribly slapped together black-and-white film about skydiving to see one robot saw himself in half trying to make a napkin holder then get teased and laughed at when his two halves start arguing with each other over whose fault the accident was? priceless.
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at least there's this riveting soundtrack... this is downright "hitchcock-ian"... (yeah, ROBYN hitchcock-ian..)" ... it's robyn hitchcock's birthday today! march 3rd!
i've watched so many mst3k episodes, for years and months and nights (at least 1 a night before/off to bed).. and this has to be the one that i lose the most sleep over... because the riffs are so spot on, and never get old. such a good episode. <3
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Tony Cordova has dun alotta crappy movies huh lol. Skydivers,Red Zone Cuba,Yucca Flats and even a very small cameo in Hellcats as the artist!
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Holy crap, I almost peed myself laughing when Gypsy was singing the Beach Boys in the beginning. I always felt she (?) was the most underrated character on the show.
Are they doing the twist ironicly? The music isn't even appropriate, perhaps they're twisting dramatically, yeah thats it.
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I swear in the later episodes when they show cambot in the rollcall it sounds like they say kill yourself anyone else get that???
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...I like the part where they switch randomly to a shot that has nothing to do with anything...
Oh! Nevermind, they didn't do it yet...
So, um...sooo...they put acid in that parachute...then...er...oh. Well, that's one way to approach it: have it do nothing, then never mention it again...yep. One way to go about that there "plot point"
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This is one of my favs, that I rarely see people mention when talking about mst3k.
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This is one of the few movies (from this show) where the band featured in the party scene actually doesn't suck.
“Why Study Industrial Arts?” had the flattest acting I’d ever seen… Until I saw “The SkyDivers”.
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When I took shop all we did was cut one piece of steel with the torch and take apart and reassemble the same lawnmower engine a hundred times.
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Why Study Industrial Arts? Because this episode is still gone.
The YouTube account with the full episode link has been deleted :( Here's a playlist of the episode in parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs_ffkJ8FaQ&list=SP0DD1F28F3FD65C7C&feature=plpp_play_all
Petie the Plane was the most nuanced and dynamic character in the movie.
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At 20:32 you can see the film crew walking behind the plane :-)
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Wait, since when could you say "puss" on TV?
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I though Tom Servo was kidding when he said "Kevin Casey as Beth". Then I looked at the opening credits again... KEVIN CASEY played BETH! And this during the Kennedy years!
Planning trip to our nation's solar system.
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So... Would anyone like some coffee?
Oh wow. Trace Beaulieu cracks me up so much in the swing choir bit.
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This is the only Coleman Francis ep I can give a laugh, simply because it's the least depression. Red Zone Cuba is on par with Camus.
Take THAT, swing choir!
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Is it just me or does Coleman Francis use exactly the same soundtrack for all of his movies? I swear I heard the same music in Red Zone Cuba...
Someone with ADD edited this film
We'll need actorspeople who can read... lines with... and interact with others