
First shown: 12/10/94
Opening: Mike has a headache
Intro: Frank clones a dinosaur, Crow mixes a potion that makes Tom Servo huge!
Host segment 1: “Specialty breads”
Host segment 2: Crow and Tom don’t know what is wrong
Host segment 3: Crow and Tom fail to break into Gypsy’s diary
End: Mike reads a letter while the bots reenact the end of the movie, Dr. F. gives the dino something to chew on!
Stinger: “A million bucks!”
I may not be a shipping clerk, but let’s take a look at this one anyway.
• I suspect this is going to be one of those “Sampo’s theorem” things, where somebody is going to declare their undying love for this episode, but for me the phrase for this ep is “hit and miss.” Admittedly, the short is strange, what with the fey devil conning angels into tempting bread truck drivers, but it’s a little long and it feels to me like their riffing kind of runs of out of steam toward the end. The movie is just a bit too drab for me, and while the riffing is great in some places, it kind of dies down in others. The host segments are hit-and-miss as well.
• Jurassic Park had been out for more than a year, so the cloned dinosaur but was hardly a brand new bit, but I do like Frank patiently saying “No…no…bad boy…” as Dr. F is devoured.
• Mike really does suffer from chronic headaches, as he said in a New York Times piece a couple of years ago.
• Props, as it were, to Jef Maynard on giant Servo. Movie bad!
• Segment 1 is sort of a state park joke of a segment. Yes, the bread truck driver was kind of a dork. We get it.
• Segment 2 gets off a cute punchline…then keeps on going for some reason.
• Non-spaghetti ball bumpers: Bulletin board, book, beaker.
• That’s Malcolm Atterbury Stanley Adams, the poor man’s Jackie Gleason, as they wry safe cracker.
• Segment three is kind of dud, but I do like the obscure reference to the ’60s TV show “T.H.E. Cat” which I absolutely LOVED when I was kid (so of course it was cancelled). Oh and props to Jef again for the great blown up bots in this segment.
• Mayhem in the theater: Tom does a “Don’t pay the ferryman” joke once too often and Mike hurls him out of the theater.
• That sounds like Kevin as the voice of the dinosaur at the end. Kind of similar to his killer shrew voice.
• Fave riff: How’s the German-expressionist date going?










(96 votes, average: 4.15 out of 5)



