107 - Robot Monster
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I got the girl! I got the girl! Oh happy day! I will love her and pet her and hug her and squeeze her and I will call her Georgette.
That guy's uglier than a mud fence. He can make a train take a dirt road!
What's so scary about a monster that looks like the mascot of a college football team?
She can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worth.... ah.... well...maybe not.
Oh, man, that Schlitz Malt Liquor! Boy, do I have the 'Zactlys!
What are the Zactlys?
Ahhh....
You're so bossy you should be milked before you come home at night.
"Dibs!"
"I'll get a stool and a pail."
"That's utterly ridiculous."
"Oh, cow could you say that?"
"Are you going to milk this for all it's worth?"
Boy, their survival clothing must be getting pretty gamey by now.
"I bear a charmed life." Except in the shirt department.
He's got a ham radio! And a lunchbox.
Maybe it's a ham and cheese radio.
Oh, it's just a V-2 rocket.
Aww, he could have had a V8!
Due to an error, there are still a few of you left alive. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Look, they have Asteroids!
They must be pretty advanced if they have Atari!
Man, he should just get some counseling; he wouldn't want to smash people all the time.
All right, give me a snowcone and two bomb pops!
See that dartboard back there? I've got this giant dart...
Don't do it, Joel! You'll ruin the screen!
You're watching the all car chase network.
Joel: Just think of it as getting two booster shots on the same day from the same doctor.
Crow: Yeah, Dr. Mengele.
Servo: Doesn't the Geneva Convention have rules against this kind of thing?
*Cody fires off every bullet in his revolver, then tucks the barrel into his pants*
Ouch, that's hot!
Commando Soprano.
"Now, will you tell us where Cody is?" In Wyoming.
What's the physics of a broken jaw, college boy?
Are you referring to the mandible or the maxilla?
Keep digging graves, Mother. Better dig two, this isn't going so well.
a Ro-Man outstanding in his field.
So in this movie it's wed, bed, dead, right?
Hey, no shoes, no shirt, no ceremony.
We're only up to about half a billion bubbles so far, I've been counting.
He must be from Texas A&M. You know, Ape & Monster
Hey! You two! My marriage license has expired! You're not really married, come back!
They look really bored. He should've opened with a joke.
What kind of universe is this, where they alter your clothing in your sleep?
Joel: At least she got to bring her clutch purse
Servo: I think it's alligator. Very nice. Very stylish.
Aren't they supposed to fight the humans?
There are no humans, this is from another film.
That ladies and gentlemen is the destroyer of the universe. Pretty pathetic.
Even at the end of the world love springs eternal. Man need woman to be his steed. Woman needs man, yeah, now she got the need.
I want to see the girl Alice again.
"OK, now tilt the camera down a little bit."
What time is it? "It's Miller time."
What day is it? "It's Miller day."
I liked 'armageddon married in the morning" (from my fair lady- I'm gettin' married in the morning." and "uh, we are waiting to hear other options first."
Well don't give me any more brain-teasers and my head won't blow up!
I thought it was a rush.
George Nader, that's Ralph Nader's naughty brother, he wrote Safe at Any Speed.
I think we've all 'reported to the moon' at one time or another.
"When do we get to see the other three Banana Splits?"
"While Mommy braided Cindy's hair, Daddy read from The Home Repair And Improvement Bunker Guide."
"He comes from a planet where they evolved from apes and water coolers."
"Smash, slug, shoot, mug... He just wasn't beat up enough as a kid!"
"When you shoot down a Cody, do you call a ranger, or do you call an air traffic controller?"
"It's gutting 'em that's the hard part!"
"Calling all cars... Calling all cars... Be on the lookout for two men and a babe... May be armed with a gigantic experimental brassiere... You know what to do... Strap it on and parade around singing show tunes!"
"How many times do I have to tell them? No kickball in the lab!"
"Don't ever interrupt me while I'm playing the nickel slots!"
"And stop talking into a pine cone!"
We're gonna have to hose those 2 down like the dogs in the backyard.
ROY: You're so bossy you oughtta be milked before you come home at night!
JOEL: Dibs!
"This will be the biggest social event of the year!" - It's the only social even of the year-
"I have discovered the secret of our failure to destroy the remaining hu-mans." 'It's these gorilla suits, they really slow me down!'
"What time is it?" 'It's miller time!' "What day is it?" 'It's miller day!'
'That's the kid's disease, he grows up to be John Travolta.' 'Oh no! That's so sad!'
If I told you once, I've told you a thousand times: we're not rounding off pi to 4!
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Trivia from IMDB about George Nadar (Roy in the film):
"Resigned to being a 'B' list actor after agreeing to be outed by Confidential magazine as gay rather than his good friend Rock Hudson, 'A' list actor. Hudson and Nader were lifelong friends, but never lovers."
Don't know about you, but my respect for him just skyrocketed.
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Is Erhardt a man or a woman? I've never been quite sure about that.
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Is it me or, did that whole wedding thing seem to come out of nowhere?
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Dr. Erhardt sounds like a combination of Jay Leno and a gremlin...
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They say this film stars nobody but I remember Gregory Moffett from the old George Reeves Superman TV show. ... in one episode...
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What would be the stinger in this episode if they'd had them at this point? Probably something like, "To live like the human. To be like the human."
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Was that a baby alligator killing a lizard?
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That...That's Willem Defoe's character from The Life Aquatic as the prof, right?
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I love this episode! The movie is so hilariously bad. But my favorite part is when Servo sneezes. I wonder if this is why Kevin's Servo suffers from hay fever.
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Easily the best episode of season one.
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How could such a horrible movie be made for 12000?? That's a lot of money for the time!
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Not gonna lie, I love this movie.
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I remember watching this movie in the pre MST3K days. At least the riffing makes it tolerable...
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"You're too beautiful to be so smart or too smart to be so beautiful."
I feel like this should be the title of my dissertation on men's envy of women and its effects on culture.
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I rock aviators just like Joel, especially that one time during sex.
"Oh come on, Funky. Keep it PG here you dirty monkey, or do I have to throw cold water on you."
I think you exploded robots with a question too, Trixie? What was that question too?
"No no. That was Timmy Turner I think during that nerd meeting. Or was that me? It was so long ago in my childhood."
So have we figure out how bumblebees fly in physics yet?
"Have you took a science class in high school?"
I was a special ed kid and doodled allot then. So no those teachers never accepted me for those classes.
"I ether slept or read an action comic book during those classes myself. I'm as lost as you are there."
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Feels kinda funny, seeing Ro-Man popping up everywhere in pop culture nowadays... I wonder if anyone would have even remembered this piece of meh if it wasn't for a guy and two robots stuck in space...
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Yeah, J. ELVIS isn't funny. Child or not.
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How many movies used that alligator vs monitor-lizard footage? There's at least three just on MST.
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Why does Cody have the only rocket suit? A number of times it would have been very helpful if he'd made another one. Heck, he should be mass producing them.
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This movie out-Lynched David Lynch!
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ya know i think i saw the monster in this movie in a looney toons movie once, i think it was "looney toons back in action".
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Meanwhile, on episode 5.2 of the Venture Brothers (Venture LIbre): http://imgur.com/2MKjMaE
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I've totally lost track of the Commando Cody storyline by this point.
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"What's the kid going to do with the hot-glue-gun?" Crow asks. They forget, Joel used the same prop similarly earlier in this very episode!
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Normally the guys are quite good at hiding as they control Tom Servo and Crow. But at 49:00 you clearly see Kevin Murphy's head. Please comment if this is common, and I have just missed it all these years. (?)
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Dr. F: "Come in Joel-y, you pusillanimous poltroon!"
"Jolita, my little vacuum flower!"
Dr. E: "You anti-gravitational sewage leak!"
I had to go look up "pusillanimous." :o
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does anyone else think Joel looks kinda baked?
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Elmer Bernstein did the music for Robot Monster. Ghostbusters, The Magnificent Seven, and....this.
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Somehow i never saw this episode before. glad i finally did, now i know where Ro-Man comes from. I do like the Commando Cody shorts. they are like a window on a previous era of storytelling.
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How much we have advanced in 15 years! We know how bumblebees fly nowadays. What can we do in the next 15 years?
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The lizard fight...oh boy...I always forget about that part. It's just so crazy.
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I used to think this was one of the worst movies ever, but I think I've come to agree with Joel: though made on the cheap, by an amateur with an agenda, the movie is delightfully odd and playful (though the last reel is notably--and disturbingly--distatsteful), especially considered as a daft, superfluous allegory for the Holocaust.
Anyway. Still bad, but...an interesting kind of bad. Nothing nearly as execrable as...say..."Castle of Fu Manchu."
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Jeez. The "plucky boy hero" in this movie manages is so damn worthy of a good kick in the little pants. I kept waiting for a giant fiery turtle to fly in and carry him away. No such luck, though. :/
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The director of this film later tried to shoot himself in the head... but missed.
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I love it how the bride is covered from head to toe and yet her fiancee can't seem to find a simple shirt anywhere!
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"I'm surrounded by idiots of my own design."
It's okay, Joel. I think every parent feels that way sometimes.
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Every movie or short from this era (commando cody era) the bad guys wanna take over the world...and yet somehow the world is the same thing as a single county and the entire human population is 2-4 over-explaining white guys, a few inept goons and 1 woman who does absolutely nothing to move the story along
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I am sorry. Commando Cody is a little TOO much into that auto-eroticism. I mean, he is just twisting his nipples left and right. I am afraid that one day he is just going to twist those nipples right off.
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This was the first episode I ever saw. With no idea what MST3K was I searched for RoMo on youtube and found this. "Okay, whatever, the commentary seems nice too." Six years later I am on my third complete run through of every episode!
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It appears that they filmed outdoors because they had no money to rent lights. No real sets other than what Griffith Park and Bronson Cave could offer.
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Seriously what the F*&@ is going on in this movie?! I love it, easily one of the worst things I've ever seen!
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Joel.. God bless his heart for trying to find some spec of decency in this surreal piece of CRAP!
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Unlike most other commenting misties I have seen, I quite enjoy opening up an episode and seeing 2 parts of "Commando Cody" listed as the short.
Please laugh this if you agree.
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If the men you have now can't get you money, then use the money you don't have to hire someone who can get you money, for money.
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Oh Commander Cody You're the best, Nipple twist and Nipple twist and Weeeee
That Gorilla Alien with a helmet complete with tv antenna, would've put Jim Henson's Creature Shop to shame.
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I can't believe no one commented on the fact that if cody was doing such important work why his building has no flipping security.
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My god, this movie was SO BORING! Have something happen! The riffing was funny, but that's it. Why was this even made?
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I've always loved Daft Punk; but man!! this video was just weird.
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I'm so glad I finally watched this episode. Now I recognize the clip used in the opening of the TV show Svengoolie :-)
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And last time I checked, wasn't the original movie of Robot Monster available as public domain in the Library of Congress and on Archive.org so what gives?
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The youtube link seems to have been flagged and is blocked from US viewing but at least the Vimeo one still works!
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Joan is quite the spunky, empowered woman. After parachuting from a crashing plane, she brushes herself off, and hitchhikes back to work. She looked like she enjoyed the parachuting. Makes up for her role as cook on the Rocketship.
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I like the alleged resemblance of Clayton Moore to John Clease the boys riffed on.
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08:33 I can't believe with all their ST:TOS references they missed the first four notes of the theme song. same rhythm and instrumentation even!
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Why doesn't this episode get any love? Sure, Commando Cody has gotten beyond stale by this time, but the feature is funny even without the riffing (which is pretty spot on for a Season 1 episode). Plus, what beats a scenic picnic with a guy in a combo gorilla/astronaut suit?
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He has a friend (the scientist) who gets into more fistfights and is frankly better at it. He has a ridiculous looking nemesis, with thugs as his sidekicks. He flies like a spaz. He is, quite frankly, in over his head.
Is Cody an early precursor to the Pumaman?
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I think Alice should have weighed her marriage options a little more.
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Ram Chip moments - Bad Thing: Inane toy xylophone music and cruel treatment of animals. Good Thing: Alien Bubble machine.
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SNAZZY smoking jacket!