108 - The Slime People
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"Aww, guys, it's just me! Your old friend, Joe! Oh, I have a staph infection and eczema, but...come on, guys! Let me come with you! I'm not gonna kiss you, you know!"
"Hi. I'm a slime person, and this is our story. Sure, we're not much to look at, but we's good people."
"No, I don't want to sing The Happy Wanderer Song again."
"Man, I dunno' about you, Professor. But I've got a thing about women on stepladders."
"Local High School Grabs Corn Crown. Blue Earth To Build Beet Palace."
♬ ♮ "Somethin' new is comin' to town,
And George The Milkman's bringin' it 'round." ♮ ♬
"Did you actually see the wall?" No, I saw them on the Dark Side of the Moon tour.
"Real scary being chased by a giant crawdad..."
"Little cayenne pepper, whoo-wee!"
*as the protagonist punches the monster* Oh, I think I saw that on Star Trek once!
"You might run into trouble."
Oh really, I might? Like the last two hours didn't count?!
"What is this, Joel, the Bataan Death March?"
"I think it's the Bataan Death WATCH..."
Kissing you is like plunging my tongue into a vat of shiitake mushrooms.
If he starts singing ♫ Oh What a Beautiful Morning ♫ I'm gonna' lose it!
[Will somebody please tell me what happened?] Well, you signed a contract that your Agent couldn't get you out of, and uh...
A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a... argghhh.
Tip O'Neill 79 cents/pound.
Francis Bacon 3/$1.
Lancelot Links $2.49/pound.
You know, he'll never make Slime's Man Of The Year.
*our protagonists improbably dive out of the car at the last second*
Oh, they saw Commando Cody.
Would you like a copy of our Watchtower?
What, are we walking through a music video?
Hey, Joel, are they in the smokey mountains?
No.
On top of Old Smokey?
No.
Smack him, Joel.
Oh, all right, you lovable old coot. You little subplot. Come on.
"I'll keep watch."
That's not a watch! It's a gun!
This is how I keep time, city boy.
It's Roger Ebert!
Look, Gene, I thought it was shoddy and manipulative. A real tearjerker. I give it a thumbs down.
"There's nothing like being in a gun fight with 60 pounds of nitro fuel on your back."
Has been actors .79 cents, Juicy eighteen year olds $3.95 a pound
Joel, I think we're in for a long, hard ride with this film.
Yes, we've been dealing with genetic mutations since you were in short pants.
Come and get me I'm a fuzzy little fuzzy rabbit. I'm being bad. You have to spank me. I've been bad, bad, bad, bad.
Do you have an atomic bomb strong enough to start a volcanic eruption in the Mount Oliver crater? ( People were casual about atomic bombers, storing them next to the toaster oven etc.)
That was a gripping scene. Here it is again from a different angle.
"What's the professor carrying?" "The film?" "A grudge, maybe."
"The weight of the world."
"Uh-oh, this isn't good. I've seen good before and it didn't look like this."
Yeah you can usually find a blonde hair in a field of wheat. In the fog...
Crooks are always dropping obvious clues like that! It's really a cry for help!
'You think we'll meet them on the road?' "Of course you will! You did last week.
“… I don’t even want to think about slime people.” Though it’s hard, looking at a mug like yours.
"Oh my gosh! We're out of gas!"
"...oh sure, that old trick. he wants to make out with the whole family..."
Ya know, I think this is the same lettering as Bionic Woman.
Boring bold.
Well they have the technology.
A Marine that says 'Gee Whiz!'? What's he gonna do, storm the Cunningham's house?
Well, if we meet more slime people we'll just roll them down the hill; they hate that!
Crooks are always dropping obvious clues like that. It's really a desperate cry for help.
And remember folks, even after the end of the world, signal those turns.
Okay everyone stop......look scared.....move on...okay then.
Joe, I think we're in for a long hard ride, with this film.
"There are a lot of things I want to tell you." And they all rhyme with the letter K.
Joel: Now that was a gripping scene. Crow: And here it is again from a different angle.
"I've decided to do a book, exposing all the insanity that's going on around here." I call it the dictionary.
"Oh, I'm stuffed. That's the best progressive dinner I've ever had. Martha's Jell-O™ mold was out of this world!"
"Get your hand off my knee!"
"Y'know, there's nothin' like bein' in a gunfight with 600 lbs. of hi-test nitro rocket fuel on your back!"
"Oh, my goodness! Tip Roast is 79 cents!"
"Well, of course it's high, but it IS the Apocalypse, you know."
"He's pulling into a Texaco™ station."
"You can trust your plane to the guys who are inane."
"The Production Company has installed a small piece of information for you, the readers, to read-- As if you cared about what happened in the last segment..."
[Eww, what is that? What is that stuff?] It's the rest of the movie!
I have a staph infection, and eczema,..... but let me come with ya.
Now remember folks, even at the end of the world, signal those turns.
"Now, we've always known there are fish in the ocean, haven't we?" 'No, that's a little far-fetched for me!'
"Steve, have you ever really looked at a squirrel? I mean REALLY, up close!"
If you drag out our rotting, broken carcasses, it means it didn't really work out very well.
"Genius waits for no one!" But stupidity hammers on doors of abandoned buildings!
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I've never seen anything like it -- even in Tijuana!!
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This movie would be better if there wasn't so much reliance on fog.
I mean seriously... they should've called this movie "Fog and the Slime People".
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...Note how My Favorite Moon Man pronounces measures. He must've been Aunt Fritillaria's voice coach (see Episode 805).
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Joel at 39:40: Hey, it's Michael J. Pollard. (Pronounces it POLE-lard.) Ah, Joel: we love you and your verbal stumbles.
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J. Elvis = NOT FUNNY
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Oh, the army went straight to hand-to-hand combat. No wonder they lost. Should have used guns.
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Tolliver gets left just outside the door and they don't even bother checking on him. There's no chance he could have survived. Five minutes later, Bonnie disappears and they know she's alive because of course the slime people would kidnap her to draw the rest of them out.
In other news, salt water dissolves the fog wall, but at no point during the war did human blood have any noticeable effect.
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So Tom Gregory flies into LA, sees it wrecked, people dead, etc. Bonnie tells him the tale of the Slime People and how the Army fought them and lost. Then he mentions that he's a newscaster ("sports, mostly"). How could he not have heard about this story?? The ARMY fought monsters. The entire city of Los Angeles was EVACUATED. Yet it's all news to this asshat "newscaster."
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I am very confused by that fan letter. The girl writes to the MST3K crew, and asks them for... an address she can write to?
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Is it just me, or sometimes when Cal is talking, does he sound a lot like John Wayne? Some of his speech mannerisms are very similar.
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Can't believe that with all the "Commando Cody" episodes shown, there is not one mention of Clayton Moore who played one of the thugs. Moore was t.v.'s "Lone Ranger" during the 50's. Hard to identify by sight but the voice is unmistakable. A possible riff: "Oh, sorry Mr. Moore, I didn't recognize you without your mask". Heehee.
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The bad guys run up the steep mountainside, trying to escape. Gee, if only Cody had some way to make that climb faster so he could head them off...
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Wow, this film is mediocre... Did they smear the lens with vaseline?
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I'm suing the makers of the movie for second hand fog
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I love how the dial on Cody's chest somehow tells the rocket pack to go up or down.
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So, the fog... how do you think they did that? Superimposed in post? A small fog machine close to the camera? Or do they actually make industrial fog machines that good, even for outdoor use?
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Joel: "I don't think that cotton candy thing was legit."
Servo (in Larry's voice): "I don't know. Looked pretty real..."
Way to defend yourself, Josh! But, you know, Joel, that cotton candy thing (like all the inventions) was your creation...
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How does Crow whistle with no lips?
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Listen to Lisa, especially at 1:11:01. Close your eyes and picture Rocket J. Squirrel. "Here he is, Mr. Know-it-all!"
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They spend the whole movie trying to find a way to get through the fog wall. If the pilot flew in through the fog dome, why doesn't he pile everyone in his plane and fly back out?
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I think we could've used just a little more fog and it would've been perfect
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"That thing they're hanging onto must be the plotline." No, Crow, I don't think it's that substantial.
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"You know, you give life to two inanimate objects and they turn around and mock your entire species. You know, if I ever get trapped in space again, I think I'm just going to bring books."
Lol, oh Joel, you know you love 'em. :P Also, Servo, I think that's a brilliant idea for a show! ;)
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*GASP!* And all these years, I credited screenwriter Richard Hilliard (Horror of Party Beach) with that brilliant 'sodium' angle. Turns out he was plagiarizing the plot of Slime People all along! Is nothing sacred?
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I just realized that cambot is gypsy from season K with a gold ball in the "mouth"
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On a break from having a life I went on IMDB and determined that (based on the ages of the actors playing them) Tom Gregory would be 43 and his wildly improbable love interest Lisa would be 22. Honestly, would it have been that much ickier if one of the slime people had locked lips with her in the kitchen? (In the interests of full disclosure, I myself am a 42-year-old man, though I self-identify as a Cybernetic Remotely-Operated Woman.)
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That old man is a terrorist. You never point a goat's ass at someone unless you mean it.
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The fog is so thick i can't see anything the actors are doing. I don't know if that is a bad thing or not...
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Porterhouse Steaks 89 cents a lb. Wow! Give me a time machine, LWOL -](:}'
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"Come on Marine." - DON'T call me Marine, gee!
Joel's response assumes a Marine would be insulted by being called a Marine - not so; Marines are very proud of that title. (Now if he had said, 'Come on Soldier.', that would be another story).
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"Hey, the three Spooges!"
Whoa. I'm glad censors can be kind of clueless.
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"Excuse me, Mr. Melman. Mr. Letterman's looking for you."
A Line referring to the late, great Larry "Bud" Melman (Calvert DeForest), from David Letterman's Late Show when he was still with NBC (they wouldn't let him use that name when he moved to CBS).
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His younger daughter is 14, his older daughter is 30, and they both still live at home.
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So the guy who died around 39:35- he was slowly walked to death?
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I like the reference toward the end to the great WKRP Turkey episode. 1:32:09 the shot of the plane flying over with parachute men tumbling out. "They're dropping turkeys."
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Video not available in the US my ass. It streamed just fine a week ago!
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Wow. The guy who plays Tolliver (the crazy guy who gets killed) had a really long career, mostly in voice work and narration, but he was in the 1953 War of the Worlds and North by Northwest. I wonder how they got him to be in this movie. :)
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This movie is a TRAIN WRECK, just picture that....... without the loss of life.
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Dr. F.: "Come in, Joel, my little 3.98-all-you-can-eat space buffet."
Dr. Erhardt: "Pasty boy!"
I'd totally patronize a Space Buffet featuring a "pasty boy" special. I mean, who wouldn't?
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Tolliver and the auctioneer from North by Northwest are played by Les Tremayne, an old time radio veteran. The other guy at the lectern in NBNW is Olan Soule' who played "Brains" in Jet Jackson as well as many OTR roles.
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I love the old sci-fi flicks, claiming they intentionally left it all to the imagination... only because they had no special effects. These producers were the Tom Sawyers of their day!
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The professor says the fog is turning back into vapor. Isn't that pretty much what fog is?
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I'm thinking I prefer the newer Servo to the older one. They were both good though, but New Servo had more energy.
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Wow, devotion to duty. the budget ended and the cast had to take a 100% pay cut.
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Wouldn't it have been ironic if after the fog lifted, the military bombed the area just to make sure the "slimers" were dead?
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Is that not Servo adding to the squishy mud sounds starting at 1:24:57? He carries on with it in between riffs for quite a while. At 1:27 he gets so loud Crow asks Joel, "Is that your stomach?"
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There you have it; citizens freely using sodium were able to not only combat the Slime People, but also destroy the monsters from the Horror of Party Beach. So up yours Mayor Bloomberg!
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When the plane is flying it sounds like a lawn mower.
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Table. Salt. Wow....