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804 - The Deadly Mantis
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"Richmond, Virginia?" - No, Richmond the United Arab Emirates--Wake up!
The plane drops its eggs on the runway to be fertilized by male planes...
"That'll be all, men." Yeah, I think this guy is familiar with dishonorable discharge.
"You'd do almost anything for a story, wouldn't you? Almost." Would you put clams up your nose?
"Doesn't look like bone; more like gristle or cartilage." It's your thumb you dork.
In their last, futile attempt to save themselves they taped their plastic salad bowls to the roof of the plane.
"I've never seen a blip like that before! It's there, and then it's gone!" - I think that's the definition of a 'blip'.
This just in: The Colonel's advances were rebuffed once again! Sweaty hands smacked away. Breasts escaped unharmed.
Tell the Eskimos I deeply respect their culture, but they were also very delicious.
Frosty The Snowman's partially melted body was found at the site, the victim of a pistol whipping. Herbie The Misfit Elf is wanted for questioning.
I feel a disturbance as if a million monkeys cried out at once and then were silenced
"I never suggested I was looking for a dragonfly..." - So shut your fat gob.
♫ Just uh hangin around with uh rodeo clown in the back of muh GMC ♫♪
Here in the frosting mines of Canada the slaves of Betty Crocker work round the clock.
Hey, maybe this guy'd volunteer to smear himself with peanut butter and stand on the Chrysler Building...
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What's on Pearl's dashboard?
I got a trivia question about the DEW line right because of the episode. Thanks MST3K!
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Mantis in my pantis. One of the worst references to a mans junk I have ever heard
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The deadly mantis and his love for large transportation vehicles.... Still a better love story than twilight
01:22:22 "There's got to be a morning after"
Couldn't help but think of the South Park "Succubus" episode!
I wonder if I would hear "Let me be frank about Frank" if I turned my crank to FRANK?
This riff was just too long to put up at the top of the site, but still wanted to share it. Gets me every time!
"Oh, we're going to Nova Scotia! Good, some herring would be nice and... oh, no, no, no. We're going to the British Isles, great, to taste some Guiness and -- I guess it's Morocco, for some beautiful rugs, and -- uh, the Ivory Coast, then, for its lovely ivory and... I guess we're going to the... The South Sandwich Islands! I've got some family there and -- ah, forget it."
This might belong as a favorite riff, but the comment at 45:45 "Clay Shaw throws another party" knocked me off the chair! There are so many layers of depth as to WHY that line is a classic. Long live Kevin Bacon!
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I love the throwbacks to previous episodes/experiments. Turn your crank to Frank, some refueling music from Starfighters, and "why don't they look" from the "Last Clear Chance" short.
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That holy bomb scene is a total ripoff of -- or homage to, depending on how you look at it -- Monty Python & the Holy Grail's holy hand grenade bit. Here's a link to the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk.
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Is it just me or is the building they show at 28:16 the same one that the TV show Bones uses as the Jeffersonian?
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Okay, during a host segment the crew expresses a distaste for country music, yet earlier during the movie they reference a song by Kay Kyser.
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Were they perhaps referring to NORAD?
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Was that bomb repair ape Mike?
I'm gonna have the "O Holy Bomb" song stuck in my head for days.
I can't get past the mantis not only moving around in the arctic, but the fact that it survived being frozen. I guess the writers didn't wanna get bogged down in the range of survivable temperatures for insects...
I agree with gal dagon. I wanted the Mantis to swallow them up when they were taking pictures. All the humans were stupid and boring in this movie.The deadly Mantis was the real hero/star. Oh, and of course Mike & the Bots were exceptional in this(I agree) underrated episode!!
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I have two things to say about this episode:
1. Pearl reminds me so much of River Song in this episode, with the hair and the gun.
2. That whole "every known species of animal has a bony skeleton" bit at 30:50. I'm no biologist, but doesn't he completely contradict himself in the next few sentences by giving examples of animals that DON'T have a bony skeleton?
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Every single comment they say for the old man KILLS me! I am in tears right now, trying not to laugh so hard...it's late. lol Gods, I love this show!
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Woah anyone else get the "your crank is turned to Frank" joke?
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23:55 Can someone, ANYONE, tell me What The F--- a supersonic shield IS,
I WANT ONE, what ever it IS !!
I agree this one is underrated when compared to others that have a much higher rating. This was one of the first sci-fi movies I remember as a kid too, so that made it even better.
Was anyone else fervently hoping for a "final scare" moment when they all approached the mantis? I would've been happy to see it take them all out in it's death throes.
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So did the US government give the film makers money to talk up the Arctic radar stuff or did they just think the audience wouldn't understand why there were military installations in the Arctic Circle without some exposition?
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A very underrated episode.
31:10 this sketch with the old guy is possitively side splitting XD