I like to watch the credits of each film very carefully to see if I recognize any names: in the Undersea Kingdom, I saw the name Lon Chaney Jr.(playing the character Hakur here), and it sounded familiar, so I checked IMDB: Lon Chaney Jr. appeared in another MST3k movie, the Indestructible Man, as the title character!

Makes me long for "Kitten with a Whip".

Apparently, P.T. Mindslap was played by none other than "Mark Hamill." It's hard to believe - is there another Mark Hamill out there I don't know about or is he that good?

This movie just plain hurts. Pearl would definitely call this a successful experiment if I were the hapless subject in the theater. I'm also just plain shocked this was made so late as 1997. I don't know why, but it strikes me as 1993, specifically. Further, I am thoroughly ashamed this ... thing was crapped out in my lifetime in my country.

They missed an excellent opportunity for a joke in this movie: they never once asked if the space ship in the movie was Brinkman's ship! :D

Also, just curious: does anyone know the answer to the little math problem Joel gave XT-5000? Remember to post the riddle if you give the answer, because I'll have forgotten it by then. ;P

~21:27 "It's taseless, odorless, and it leaves no trace in the human body…" -- "Velvita…?"
another riff to tear your pants over

The Jewish guy who won't shut up about the Nazis is one of the most irritating characters in MST history.

Seriously - what is the point of Q's unmelting ice bullets? The idea of an ice bullet is that it melts in the target and leaves no ballistic evidence: but Q 's "hot ice" doesn't melt. Lead has a density about fourteen times that of water - force equals made times acceleration: so, why use molecular-stabilized "solid water" to make a practically weightless projectile?

Maybe this makes me a pretentious twerp, but I quite like the interpretative dance but in the short, I think it's beautiful and artful: it makes me consider looking so me acts up somewhere.

In case anyone was wondering, they came up with a grand total of 41 full nicknames for Thunk Masterthrust — now, for a complete list:

Slab Bulkhead
Fridge Largemeat
Punt Speedchunk
Butch Deadlift
Bold Bigflank
Splint Chesthair
Flint Ironstag
Bolt Van der Huge
Thick McRunfast
Blast Hardcheese
Buff Drinklots
Trunk Slamchest
Fist Rockbone
Stump Beefknob
Smash Lampjaw
Punch Rockgroin
Bock Plankchest
Stump Junkman
Dirk Hardpec
Rip Steakface
Slate Slabrock
Crud Bonemeal
Brick Hardmeat
Whip Slagcheek
Punch Sideiron
Griste McThornbody
Slate Fistcrunch
Buff Hardback
Bob Johnson
Blast Thickneck
Crunch Buttsteak
Slab Squat-thrust
Lump Beefbroth
Touch Rustrod
Reef Blastbody
Big McLargehuge
Smoke Manmuscle
Eat Punchbeef
Hack Blowfist
Snidely Whiplash
Roll Fizzlebeef

there were an additional six single names given as well:
Slab, Hunk, Fink, Clod, Stig, and Chunkhead.

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Servo's quantum linear superposition demo is definitely my favorite host segment — it's also an example of continuity within the series. The episode starts with that "Kaboom" game, in which Servo explains the inflating balloon is increasing his intellect: hence the quantum magic. If it were confined to this episode, that wouldn't be noteworthy, but Servo's expanded intellect was revisited when he was recruited - briefly - by the Observers. The take their jokes very seriously on this show, even the high-brow ones!

So, the enemy's "super weapon" started out being able to possibly destroy an entire continent and, less than an hour later, it was able to destroy a planet, and possibly a whole constellation. That's pretty impressive technological advancement. I guess it was able to annihilate the entire universe by the time the movie was over.