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912 - The Screaming Skull
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"The Screaming Skull is a motion picture that reaches it's climax in shocking horror..." But, we cut that.
Crow - "I'll just tell people that I accidentally strangled myself against the coffee table."
Remember folks, if you die of boredom you do NOT get a free coffin. Sorry.
"The only cure for her fear is to teach her she's loved. I mean really loved." - I mean REALLY REALLY...!
"At least some oboe player got a paycheck outta' all this horse-hockey."
So this movie is kind of a combination of "Tell-Tale Heart", Blithe Spirit, and well... uh... a piece of lint I guess.
This is generally regarded as a less than healthy form of expression in a marriage.
Yeah we have a pretty good marriage. It's been three days. I haven't killed her yet.
They put a tiny bit of movie in a box and then just filled the rest with a bunch of foam peanuts.
The movie that dares to graphically depict sometimes seeing peacocks and sometimes not seeing peacocks.
Oh, good thing she's able to see that with her remote camera attached to the flexible hose.
Mike: Oh there he is. You know, have people wised up to hiring guys like this?
Crow: Aw come on, Mike. How is he any different than you? Really?
You guys might be tempted to make a Smoke On The Water joke here, but I urge you to refrain.
Well, you use one of those older Phillips analog chips in your robot, you're gonna get this.
Hey, it's Micky & he's wearing pants today! Heeeeey. Micky!
If this turns out to be her husband, I'm just gonna return the unused portions of this movie.
"I'm going to speak to Mickey in the morning." With a series of grunts and whistles.
It's like they had two servings of tension, which they try to stretch out to seven people.
"...as if she was affraid of something." I did have a gun at her ribs during the dinner.
If this turns out to be her husband I'm just going to return the unused portion of this move.
Y'know, they weren't really expecting anybody to watch this, everybody was supposed to be necking by this point.
I think they hired a pudgy little 13 year old to noodle on his Tuba, too.
Yep, when you think shocking horror you think German Oom-pah band music.





DAMN, offer not good in UT, FL and AZ, I live in AZ, so if I die... I don't get the free burial? WHAT A BUMMER!
I had a VHS of that Gumby short when I was a kid. Turns out when you play it in conjunction with White Zombie's La Sexorcisto, it syncs up perfectly. Like Dark Side and The Wizard of Oz.
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do they cover funerals services if you die of boredom too?
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Mickey, Torgo, and Piers Morgan…...would the least repulsive among you please step forward.
NOT...so fast Piers!
I really like the extremely bitter skit the bots came up with. "Please, Mike! Just WORK the LUMPS."
(mocking tone) "Thneh thnehthneh thnedaTHNEDATHNEHH!"
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Who watched this on Chicago's UHF channel 32's 'Son of Svengooli' Friday nights back in the day?
1:26:50 - Geez, Mike's credit rating really takes a beating both here and in the "Russian Experts" bit from Jack Frost. No wonder he had to live on rice all the time, even after he got back to Earth.
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I saw the unriffed verssion on a late-night movie slot before I saw this episode and remember thinking "Man, this would make a great MST3K"... I felt a sense of pride when I later heard them use some of the same riffs I made.
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This is one of my favorites. Hands-down.
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Mickey the gardener looks a lot like Tom Cochrane, who wrote and originally recorded "Life Is a Highway." (He also did "Lunatic Fringe" when he was with Red Rider.) Here's a shot of him from the "Highway" video: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img.skitch.com/20080514-1ei1t7udt5dhyk8cjpyrkfmgqs.preview.jpg&imgrefurl=http://toosweet4rocknroll.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/tom-cochrane-life-is-a-highway/&h=288&w=380&sz=12&tbnid=fjOg5VyU_1Z8FM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=119&zoom=1&usg=__2RI7_z2v0WUX0YQOdZw-P0B0wtk=&docid=TxzBrUZzxAANwM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H_sAUbvTIITtiwL9lYCYDw&sqi=2&ved=0CFQQ9QEwBw&dur=1467
The snippet of Hamlet at the end of link 1 is a nice touch!
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Seeing that classic Mercedes 300SL is the best part of this movie. I would love to have one of those.
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So, his first wife smashed her skull, but the skull(s) troubling them seem to be in great shape.
ROBOT RUMP!
"Bolis" and "Horse Flop".......HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA xD
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Is anyone else completely creeped out by Gumby? That clay monstrosity has creeped me out since I was a kid......
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Why does Mike need golf clubs on a satellite?
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Can’t say I didn’t see that Toni Basil reference coming.
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You know, a slinky that actually goes down stairs as advertised would've been way more intimidating than this stupid thing.
"I'm hearing things again." What did you hear? Was it a gunshot or more of a stabbing sound?
GET ON WITH IT, MOVIE!
Calm down dear, you're not crazy, it's just our mentally imbalanced groundskeeper wandering around the house at night, don't fret.
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OK, am I the only one who winced when Gumbo landed on that roof?
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Crow and Tom doing the voices for the lumps of clay is easily one of my all time favorite things that has ever happened on MST3K. No matter how many times I've seen that part I still laugh my butt off. And the follow up "NO MIKE! THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENS IN THE REAL WORLD! THIS IS REALITY!" Is just the icing on the cake.
"MIKE! It's Crow, Mike! It's Crow!" :p
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I know this won't be a popular opinion, but I actually liked this movie. [ducking to avoid being hit by rotten tomatoes]
Mike screaming hysterically as he carefully selects a golf club to beat Crow with is probably one of the best host segments. Boy that Crow skull is durable. Also the 'bots' traumatized crying at the robot massacre is wicked hilarious.
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I have a new favorite host seg. Tom servo as a gentle butterfly,defies his very nature(which I characterize as beligerant). Hilarious!
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I think Mickey and Torgo are somehow related...or maybe they just shared a locker at Bad Actors University
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@0:08:33 what the hell??? XD
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I've watched this episode at least a half dozen times and butterfly Servo still make me giggle.