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most of you would know her immediately. (Hint: “It’s just a jump to the left!)
What I didn’t know until now is that she apparently was inside “Hugo the Dummy” (uncredited) in the movie in episode 818- DEVIL DOLL. She was also an Ewok, and she was in “The Dark Crystal,” “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” as well.
It seems she passed away on Aug. 26 at the age of 91. There’s a nice obit here.
First shown: 2/15/97
Opening: Crow’s goofy eyes make him a “space child”
Intro: The space child is overthrown. While Bobo suffers through the 32nd Annual Lawgiver Daze, Tom offers baked goods and Crow takes a fall
Host segment 1: Mike tries an imitation of the goofy professor. It brings everyone down…down…down…
Host segment 2: Tom tries–and fails–to sing a ballad about what he’s been up to
Host segment 3: Crow the archeologist, searching for evidence of a previous him, has a breakthrough
End: Crow believes there’s life beneath the floorboards…and he’s right Meanwhile in Deep Ape, The Lawgiver is presented with a hunky gift
Stinger: “The Load” hits the wall
(106 votes, average: 4.1 out of 5)
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• We’ve had a number of examples where the riffing is good and the segments are good but the movie just drags everything down. Well, let’s also note when it’s other way around. I think this episode is a good one, but I think a lot of the credit goes to the wonderfully stupid movie. I mean, you got The Gesture Professor, Ward Cleaver, Alfred the Butler, John Agar and Nestor “The Load” Paiva. And you got ropes and asses, whipping the mole and all sorts of outlandish stuff. The segments are okay and the riffing is good, but I think it’s the movie itself that puts this one over the top.
• References explained here.
• Mike’s take on this episode can be found here.
• Pearl’s float is not very convincing—it’s pretty tough to approximate a full-scale parade in about 10 square feet of set space.
• The strange blue light still suffuses the set, and it’s especially strong in segment 2.
• The concept of “the sketch that never really gets started” is a long tradition on this show (see “The Emotional Scientist” or “The Life of Fu Manchu” or “Joel wants to be a soda jerk”). This episode has not one but TWO such segments—Mike’s attempt at being the gesture professor and Servo’s aborted folk song.
• Crow finally remembers who he is, and who Mike is. At last.
• Crow’s voice begins to settle down a bit in this episode.
• Robert Smith was the first actual guest star for the show. He would not be the last.
• Ward E has a list of the pastries in the intro segment.
• Daddy-O notes: That huge underground cavern and those Mole People should look familiar to you…they were briefly (and incongruously) seen in episode 515-THE WILD WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN.
• He also notes that this movie’s original ending had Dr. Bentley and Adal happily strolling off together. The studio insisted that a new ending be shot two weeks after filming was completed, because there was reluctance to imply an inter-racial relationship. After all, Adal was a Sumerian. So she got clobbered with a column instead.
• He also notes that Dr. Baxter, the gesture professor, was a University of Southern California professor of ENGLISH, not science.
• That’s Paul and Patrick, of course, as “pale day players.”
• Somebody asked last week about the absence of “annoying commercials.” The copies of the show that I have for the first half of season 8 were screeners provided by Sci-Fi Channel, and they had no commercials. Sometime in the second half of the season they got sick of sending ‘em to me and I returned to taping. When I get to those, that item will return.
• Fave line: “Disney’s Dominatrix World!”
This is the short that was riffed during the RiffTrax Live show last week. The riffs here are about 85 percent what we saw that night.
Download it here. Free sample here.
And while we’re on the subject of RiffTrax Live, a few more straggler reviews on the web here, here, here, here, here and here.
