403 - City Limits
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"in the movie City Limits, Tom, what was the name of the movie?"
"Oh jeez, seems like I outta know this one..."
Oh man, Mike Nelsons's Morrissey impression gets me EVERY TIME. I had never heard The Smiths until after seeing this, and I laughed SO F***CKING HARD when I heard them for the first time. "Is it wrong not to always be glad?" I thought that was made up lyrics to mock The Smiths, but no....that's real. Wow.
Good luck with the leather mug stand. Huzzah.
... Uh, sorry. I was looking for Soc 101.
Now, has everyone gone potty? We're not stopping.
"Another company, another town..." The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd.
"There ain't no bullets!"
*throws gun*
See? Still works.
That Super Dave Osborne really cracks me up.
Hey! That's not Old Milwaukee. It's Colt 45!
Hey, those jazz dance classes are really paying off!
That's coming out of your allowance until you pay Michael Jackson back!
"They were called the Clippers." They used to be called the Cost-Cutters.
"All right. Get in. But don't mess up the comic books!"
Frank, take him out!
Come here, Suedehead.
Joel: "Hey, I'm not really a skull, lady!"
Servo: "I'm not really an actress!"
Whoa, Rogaine® out of control
Tom: 🎵When I grew up and went to school there were certain teachers who would shoot the children🎵
Joel: Hurt the children.
Tom: Sorry... just the guns....
Joel: In the movie City Limits, Tom, what was the name of the movie?
🎼Bum-bum bump-bump Bah-nah-nuh-nuh-nunnn Bah-nah-nuh-nah-nuh-nun-unt dunt-dunt dunt-dunt🎼
Hey, looks like someone found a Ronco rhinestone and stud setter!
Underweight? Try a Sport Shake! They have a whole stick of butter in every can!
Filmed on location in Mazomanie, Wisconsin over by the new high school.
Someone's been digging in the remnant pile big time!
"Boy, ya' think he'd see that comin'. It happened already!"
"Would you quit being evil over my shoulder?"
"Oh, c'mon this is offensive on so many levels."
"Yeah, the position's filled. You'd be bored: It's mostly data entry."
Boy..it was windy last night! The Cows stuck right to the barn!
"How many dogs do you think he killed to get that coat?" "Plenty!"
You can call him Ray...or you can call him Jay...or you can call him Sonny!
Superman...uhh, DC...of course!...Mighty Thor...Marvel!...yeah!...Little Audrey...burn it!!
This guys just funny...you can't explain it... you can't explain it...he's just funny...
Oh..so you think..like..your Dad could sign my Big Bamboo Album?
Looks like the sets were designed by Edward Hopper!
♫I wish I could see Citizen Kane. I wish I could see The Rules of the Game. I wish I could view The Seven Samurai. But every film I see make me wanna die. Uh uh uh uh!♫
Raymond Carver! If we don't save him minimalism is doomed!
It's the wackiest motorcycle in the army! Wah wah wah waaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!
Ya know she just has those glasses so she can pull them off dramatically
I can sympathize... But you have a contractual obligation to finish this film
Well, that's the great thing about the Apocalypse - there's always plenty of parking!
Hey! THat's not a museum. It's the cover of the Far Side Gallery!
So the future is ruled by vicious fops, is that what we're supposed to believe here?
- Yep, pretty much
"Hello, I'm Antonio Fargus. I'll be your fop-ish foil for the next hour."
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more lame superhero ideas. Quickie, Bow Job, and Supachunk
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blond guys should not wear soul patches.
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please tell me the butt master ad is fake
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Did I mention that I cried?
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This episode is an underrated gem. The Morrissey sketches get me every time.
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It was nice to hear James Earl Jones just one more time as Vader in Rogue One. This film highlights an altogether different aspect of his career...
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What is this evil corporation do anyway? There seems to be no commerce in this movie except for everyone's comic book obsession. Nobody seems to have any money. Where do they get their fuel? Argh, this movie is stupid!
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Ok, dammit, 24 people watching this episode with me and NO ONE is adding Best Riffs but me? Everyone bailed, didn't they? This is the suckiest movie I've seen on this site thus far, but the riffs are seemingly funnier at the end. Or am I sleep deprived?
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Wow! They called Caitlyn Jenner decades early!
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There is a riff that just hit me. (And I smacked it back) Kim is wearing a yellow body suit (like the ones they wear in hazardous areas). One of the bots says, "I am curious yellow."
That is a very specific reference. In the early 70's, about the same time that Deep Throat came out, there was a Swedish film hitting the XXX theatres that was a big smash that has 2 different titles (or sometimes the two were moved into one title) The Swedish title translated in to I Am Curious or I Am Yellow. The posters often gave it the title I Am Curious (Yellow).
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Ok, super weird. Tom Servo says "What you call hell, Ramos calls home", which is a Rambo reference. But last episode starred Richard Crenna and not one single Rambo riff?
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Will never forget the first time I saw Mike as Morrissey. I'm pretty sure I squealed like a school girl.
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What was that very disturbing moment at 1:17:59?
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Is that Toblerone at 1:04:10??
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Really wish Joel would've blown his nose before going into the theatre. Pretty distracting
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I don’t think I want to know what a ‘pussy-nibble’ is.
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19:00 they're singing "Magic Bus" and then as soon as they stop, there's a bus!
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Nice. A commercial for Welcome Back Cotter.
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Wait, was that Joel in the ad at 2:16?
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Really Deep Man... He's really deep, man.
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James Earl Jones must have had gambling debts. What the hell is he doing making a turkey like this?
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Can't decide if JEJ is better in this or Conan the Destroyer...
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does anyone know the song they reference at 36:34 - 36:42?
pretty hard to google "Mr. newman/numan, doo doo doo doo"
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IN THE FUTURE..... There will be bad grammar!
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It’s always a good idea to wear a motorcycle helmet that completely obliterates your peripheral vision.
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Is the singer at the beginning in the box Mike?
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Mike Nelson's Morrissey song...brilliant! Still giggling..."I cried last night..."
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Our hero strikes out on his own
With his bike and a helmet of bone.
He soon joins a gang
And goes out with a bang
As Darth Vader is flying the drone.
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Forgot how bad acting low budget films wear back in the day. Lol
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I never really remember much from this episode but I love the opening skit with the ping pong balls, so hilarious!
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Dave Earl Jones must have signed a really shitty contract for Star Wars if he ever had to work again, let alone work in a movie like this.
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One thing I have noticed with these crappy films is lighting and this one is terrible, unless it's in the bright daylight everything is dark, even the indoor shots are too dark.
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'Dhalgren', anybody?
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Damn. This recording cuts off the closing clip. If I remember it correctly, it is the fascist pig in the tower screaming as the toy plain dive bombs him.
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THE WORST.. WHAT KIND OF ACTING IS GOING ON IN THIS FILM? COMEDY
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Link two is broken, says the account got terminated for multiple copyright infringements. Somebody must have a little too much time on his or her hands to just keep flagging MST3k episodes. Sheesh.
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I am so confused. This movie is REALLY dumb.
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This episode isn't very funny. I can't recall laughing so little during an mst3k episode. I don't know if it's this movie, Joel's stuffy nose, or what but it just isn't doing it for me. :(
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His shell is Krylon gold
His beak cracking wise
His jokes are seldom old
He's got Crow T. Robot eyes
He'll turn sarcasm on you
He isn't always nice
He's as cold as Midwest snow
He's got Crow T. Robot eyes
And he'll riff these
Cheesy movies
So you're laughing, slapping your knees
He's a puppet, it's no secret, from his claws to his lacrosse net
Kim Cattrall makes him rhapsodize
He's got Crow T. Robot eyes
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Did I mention that I cried?
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Ping Pong Balls........takes me back to the days of the good Captain Kangaroo!!!
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Always-Smells-Like-Maple Man! I think I knew him way back. He'd fry that maple bacon for breakfast. That stink never comes off!
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I had a crush on the main actor in this when he was in Top Gun...the guy Maverick and Goose replace at the beginning...
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Wow, Rae Dawn was smokin... oh wait. Wrong family member. Sorry.
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Is it just me, or does young Danny De La Paz look a lot like Aziz Ansari?
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In color 90s mst3k reels are the best, why doesn't this have more laughs?!
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How did they get into the water silo thing at the beginning? After climbing the latter, did they jump up fifteen feet?
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Holy Cheese Phone! One of the funniest things I've yet to see in MST3K is when Joel casually opened his umbrella!
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I didn't discover this site until a couple weeks back when a friend told me about it on Twitter. There was quite a lot of episodes I had never seen and this was one of them. The opening skit where Crow and Servo pull the old Captain Kangaroo skit with the ping pong balls on Joel made me lose it. Just classic. Instantly won my laugh vote right there. Now, on with the rest of the episode.
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Holy crap. This show never gets stale. I have watched this episode semi-frequently ever since it first aired and I just now caught Crow's callback to the absurdly calm blind man from Rocket Attack USA. I've seen that host segment at *least* 30 times and it never clicked until now. Wow.
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I love how the VERY LAST ping pong ball bounces right off of Tom's head.
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I want to hear more about the Buttmaster
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I’ve seen that skull mask somewhere else but I can’t place it.
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♫Jeeper-creepers, etc, etc… ♫
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Love the umbrella Joel ;)
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This is a HIGHLY underrated episode. CLASSIC!
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♫I got Crow T. Robot eyes...♫
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If it hadn't been so dark, it might have been semi-likable!
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"Sorry --- I was looking for SOC 101" --- music to my ears. I'm a Sociology instructor.
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So according to the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide, Kim Cattrall sent Crow a bouquet of flowers after watching this episode. Way to go, Mr. T. Robot!
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Since this movie was made after the cold war the plague is the new enemy wow why it couldn't be zombies lol.
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This movie is like Red Dawn but they're fighting eachother
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Few caught it... and fewer yet cared, but at 59:33 Rae Don Chong says "Leland!" and Servo says "Sklar". I am a huge James Taylor fan, and Leland Sklar was his bass player for 40 years. Obscure callback, thanks!
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Except for the action scenes too dark to see anything, I kinda sorta like this movie...
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Tom's hands are peach in this one. I guess he took his white gloves off? :)
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This movie deserved to get picked apart... it's really lame, thankfully Joel and the Bots made it worth watching. Without them who knows if this movie would ever get seen again.
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The RevJJVQ is RIGHT.... *5:53* says it ALL !!
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One of the best riff fests ever...and that is saying something!
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I wonder what JEJ would sound like after inhaling Helium.
Also, as a basketball fan, the fact that the gang is called "the Clippers" never fails to amuse me.
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Gripping storyline. A Mark Wahlberg look-alike wants to become a Shriner.
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The final segment says what I was thinking during the whole movie - what the heck is ever going on??
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*5:53* Freeze frame on Joel's espression. THATS how I look while watching City Limits.........OH GOD THIS IS SOOOOOO BAD-
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That guy from The Lion King, that other guy from Beauty and the Beast, that girl from Star Trek VI, and Rae Dawn Chong come together in a dull, goofy, under-lit movie. It's supposed to be after the apocalypse, but mostly it just looks like Nevada, and you're never sure who you're supposed to be rooting for or why. Riffing is fair-to-middling. Host segments are delightfully nutty; it helps if you know Morrissey for his early work rather than his more recent militant PETA skinhead image.