If you were wondering why there are never any Princess Bride jokes in pertinent MST3K episodes... somebody in said in a writer's meeting "Fine! One episode, ever!" and here it is.

27:21 why no Motörhead riff? 2 eps ago we got Nitzer Ebb, someone on the writing staff is a goth.

I think the Fontanelles might rock the hardest of all in-plot MST3K bands

Ok look, I'm as hetero as they come, but there's something inherently awesome about the geometry of Steve Reeves isosceles-triangleing those pillars down. Holy fuck.

IT'S...

Why does ShoutFactory's stuff always run at about 50% less frames per second? It's excruciating

Can someone explain the joke at 13:00? "Except for ginseng (jimson[weed])"?

When I was like 10 I was given a cheapo "build your own circuit" electronics kit. The only thing I ever did with it was make the EXACT SAME siren sound from this movie, using a... potentiator? Voltimiter? Some doodad or other plus a 9v battery.

I was really hoping for The Sonics "Strychnine" when I heard that opening jukebox lick... all of a sudden it's a garage version of Catalina Caper! Coulda woulda shoulda.

Dr Sherman is the same guy Scotty showed the formula for transparent aluminum to in Star Trek IV: Planet of the 80's. http://www.scifihistory.net/uploads/3/0/6/7/30676431/8846347_orig.jpg

While I agree with the main doctors ideas and experiments in theory, I just can't approve of his sloppy methods.
Why are revolutionary scientists always depicted as insane?
Also, why are people who are miraculously saved by unconventional means always begging for death? Seems rather ungrateful to me.

"...and a face that can be made beautiful again."

I know we all want to put this guy's balls in a vise, break off the handle, give him a spoon and set fire to the building, but this line especially.