Mystery Science Theater Mysteries, things/people/events from MST’ed movies that were never explained and made no sense, even for a bad B movie. Some of these things may have been explained later in interviews, etc., but if someone was watching the movie for the first time with no background, what’s a total mystery?
Mine is who is that woman in the photo on Rowsdower’s dashboard? Girlfriend, wife, ex? Dead sister? Is he stalking someone?
Mine would have to be: “In The Touch of Satan,” why show us where the fish lives and not tell us more about the fish? Is he a great white? A nice tasty red snapper? The world wants to know!
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Chicken of Tomorrow –
Is the Chicken of Tomorrow now the Chicken of Yesterday? Did the aforementioned Chicken actually arrive in 1963? Was the Texaco corporation behind the Kennedy assassination? Is the Chicken of Today one of a series of clones produced with alien technology discovered in a UFO near Roswell, New Mexico? Was Colonel Sanders a space alien? Somehow IT ALL TIES TOGETHER!!
“Y’look like yew’re enj-oy’n’ this”
That.. makes total sense. I mean, for real, I’ve wondered about this for years, but yes, this fits both his character and his goofy-as-hell speech pattern.
Thank you Sir! I think we can say that this mystery is solved!!
Gare
Speaking of Riding With Death (and Death doesn’t pony up for gas):
Has anyone ever really determined what the heck Denby’s plan was supposed to be? Something about deuterium, and sabotage, I get all of that.. but – then what? He already proved he could blow up a military test jet, as seen in the stock footage of a pilot ejecting.. so why put it into the radio of a race car? Also, why did the race car have a radio?? So what was his plan?
Gare
I wish we could figure this out. The answer is out there somewhere, but it’s so… elusive….
speaking of Riding With Death, just where the HECK is Abby and how can she see all that stuff happening?
Crow: “Is she in Heaven, Mike?”
Why does Kitty Reed tell Jimmy she “never had a mother, at least one that I can remember” and then moments later tell him “my folks split up a year or two ago?”
WHYY?
Why does a woman with direct ties to ORGANIZED CRIME lie about her past. That is indeed a poser…
On another note, who was that woman in Jimmy’s house at the start of the film, of whom Joel said “Mom is hot!” She turned out not to be Mom, of course, but who was she?
He said they were useless. He didn’t say that being struck by them was a pleasant experience. A water gun would be “useless” in an attempt to harm me but that doesn’t mean I won’t take (literal) steps to avoid getting sprayed by an active sprinkler.
Well, no offense, but Chekhov’s Rule is such BULL. Maybe the gun’s a decoration on the wall (and it isn’t randomly loaded). Maybe it’s being worn by a law enforcement officer who does not in fact kill people every day. Maybe it was found in a corpse’s hand. All sorts of possibilities…
(having perused all of the questions)
All right. I’ll get this off my chest right now:
Jesus H. Christ on a Hand-Carved Mahogany Surfboard, Some of You People Are Such Complete and Utter IMBECILES.
I’m not specifying which ones, though.
It was a monster movie. “The Mole People” were the title characters. Thus “The Mole People” were, obviously, the “monsters.” The “monsters” were the underground creatures.
Well, if he did that for one family, he’d be expected to do it all the other families, wouldn’t he? Santa’s deal is toys, that’s all, nothing else.
The movie didn’t say that there was NEVER a monster. There was a monster until the monster disappeared. AFTER THAT, “There was no monster.” Which was demonstrably the case.
She was “actress” Mary Torres and this was her only film. She served the purpose of theoretically titilating the audience.
Actress Adrianna Miles’s first role was as “German National” in 1992’s Nemesis. She is allegedly fluent in English, German, Italian, French, and Czech (which doesn’t mean that she can speak any of them without an accent). Buys your ticket and takes your chance. ;-)
So he doesn’t have to share said fortune with said guy.
Mr. B. Natural is a supernatural being who was possibly active in the Garden of Eden, implying a lifetime of six thousand years or more. That makes any effort at “logical” explanations pointless.
However, see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite
Uh, to for whatever reason indicate to people that he was at that time a virgin? Is any other explanation really necessary?
People are odd. They do odd things. Because they’re odd. A film in which everything that the characters do makes sense is a film that is depending far too much on suspension of disbelief.
Besides, it’d be a great icebreaker. Some women would specifically be interested in a virgin because (1) as his first time, she’d theoretically be remembered for the rest of his life and (2) there’d a guarantee of no STDs.
Michael was a jerk.
Michael was a jerk.
Michael was a jerk.
Michael was a jerk.
Michael was a jerk.
Well, when else was she going to have the chance to do it? You only go around once. Grab for the gusto.
I think a more pertinent question might be what was her SCHOOL life like…
Because the pilot might not have been dead. Manning risked his life to save another’s because that’s apparently just the kind of guy he was. And he paid dearly for it.
I think the witness was believed to have been seeing things. When you see things you are by definition not necessarily seeing something that is in fact there.
It’s cosmic stuff. We wouldn’t understand.
Yes.
Because it was designed to be used by Turtle Aliens. Use of it by humans caused unanticipated side-effects.
http://www.agonybooth.com/space-mutiny-1988-part-1-6735
http://www.agonybooth.com/space-mutiny-1988-part-2-6743
http://www.agonybooth.com/space-mutiny-1988-part-3-6748
http://www.agonybooth.com/space-mutiny-1988-part-4-6754
http://www.agonybooth.com/space-mutiny-1988-part-5-6760
http://www.agonybooth.com/space-mutiny-1988-part-6-6769
http://www.agonybooth.com/space-mutiny-1988-part-7-6778
That means that it met the requirements of its genre admirably. So what’s the problem? ;-)
Well, no one said that anyone needed Vegas showgirls to do it. Why did the villain need to staff his yacht entirely with beautiful women? He didn’t. He just did, that’s all. In the Sixties, it was all about style.
The rug factory was where the villains were secretly constructing their ultimate weapon. THAT’S why the factory was radioactive.
Since you forthrightly admit that you don’t know what the goal of the movie was, I see no basis for any presumption that a plastic surgeon/hypnotist wasn’t the only person who could achieve said goal.
;-)
I thought that the people in the plane thought they were shooting at Billy in the hippie’s car.
IIRC Mila asked Ator that very question mere minutes after that encounter. And he answered it. At length. I don’t happen to have a transcript handy, though.
A sword-and-sorcery film features a nuclear device and you’re hung up (no pun intended) on hang-gliders…
;-)
Maybe he found a cache of hidden supplies near the castle. After Akronus(sp?) was the one who taught him “the power of flight” in the first place, and he’d have needed to HAVE hang-gliders to do that, right?
The Tribe of People Prone to Receive Odd Nicknames.
A.K.A. Humanity.
Considering that the employees were expected to exchange inventions whenever they met, I’m guessing it was a technological research center or something of that sort and its mission was to advance the cause of SCIENCE!
My first guess is that it was founded by Bob Honcho, but that’s all it is, a guess.
Actually, these are the kind of things that can only be answered by the Brains themselves…if even by them.
Krankor didn’t happen to have any in his crew. That’s why we didn’t see any. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
That’s really all they were obliged to show us. The title promised us sidehacking and the filmmakers delivered.
In Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason was VERY late in arriving in Manhattan and he didn’t do all that much once he got there, but he DID get there.
Where did it say that Vorelli “hated” Hugo? Does Nelson Muntz “hate” the kids that he bullies? No. Bullies single out and pick on the weak. Vorelli is a bully who berates and mistreats the helpless Hugo because he can.
Also, on some level, Vorelli can admit to himself that he has done a monstrous thing to Hugo, and it’s easier to resent Hugo than to resent himself. One sees that sort of thing all over. :-|
I’m fairly certain that Dr. Forrester violated any number of the laws of physics just by getting the Satellite into orbit in the first place. It’s science fiction. It works however the writers want it to work.
How many invention exchanges featured devices that struck anyone as particularly plausible?
Ray Bradbury wrote stories about spaceships but he never explained how they worked. Are we going to hold the Brains to a higher standard than Ray Bradbury? Oh, I Don’t Think So.
Did you WANT to see every minute of every journey? Would that have made it a better movie? No. It would only have made it a LONGER movie. Just like we don’t want to see every minute of the detectives on “Law & Order” driving from one part of New York to the next. We accept that they did indeed drive to each location because, hey, there they are. ;-)
The movie started with the trio within driving distance of The Bay of Pigs Training Camp. Then they flew to Cuba. Then they flew AWAY from Cuba and back to somewhere in the USA.
BTW, I realize now that it was wrong — incredibly stupid and wrong — for me to have said that. My apologies for saying that. :-|
Was it necessarily a vote? Wasn’t one of them at least nominally the leader of the unit?
Did you mention this part? ‘Cause it’s at least as out there as Prince of Space. IMHO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burusera
(seriously, people, check the link, because I doubt anyone will be able to imagine it for themselves)
The Egyptians mummified the comatose alien 3000 years ago. It wasn’t the alien’s idea.
Didn’t it burn the oily guy AFTER the alien and Ben teleported away? The alien was no longer there to exercise control over the crystal.
Roxie’s dad. He sounded much the same when he said “Run, kids! Run!”
And you’ll be happy to give it to us. ;-)
That’s a “Bride of the Monster” reference, right? I heard Lugosi say “kitten” quite clearly.
Is that supposed to be why Mikey stole the bike? Because Bikee likee Mikey? Crikey.
;-)
As a Space Vampire, she had extraordinary healing abilities.
They were priestesses of a fictional religion who practiced “magic.” There is no evidence that they advanced the plot or were indeed intended to do so.
He was enjoying his post-lunch-break afternoon walk before returning to work.
He Just Didn’t Care.
Well, no one said that Kalgan KNEW that.
That doesn’t mean that he IS reporting to them.
I think the Enforcers are supposed to be the equivalent of the cops to the Southern Sun’s community. Kalgan’s just one more rogue cop who doesn’t play by the rules.
Impulse engines are slow on Star Trek. Not necessarily elsewhere in the multiverse.
The fact that Lea knew the Professor indicates that he USED to live on the Southern Sun. Maybe he and however many other people flew ahead as scouts or researchers OSLT.
I guess the shipbuilders just thought it sounded good. I mean, who were they trying to impress?
Who says they didn’t think of it?
Perhaps they know something about the community that we don’t. Since they live there and we don’t.
Candles are readily available in any number of stores. They’re not difficult to acquire.
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Honey, are you feeling OK?
Shrug. Just had answers and felt like sharing them. Thanks, though. :-)
Hopefully someone will read the seven-part Space Mutiny review and see how much better it is at answering their questions than I am. And then expound upon it at length. ;-)
THE FINAL SACRIFICE. Why does Satoris break into the McGreggor residence to steal the map? If he needs it to find the idol, he eventually finds the idol anyway without the map. If he wants to make sure no one else can use the map, his ritual later in the film torches it from a distance.
What is that game the two guys in the shotgun shack in Wild Rebels are playing? Some sorta combo of checkers,chess and yahtzee.
That little kid in Godzilla vs Megalon – How do you get a voice like that? Why can’t everyone sound like that?
What is the name of the band in Pod People?
Why do Wolf Raiders have hair in their helmets?
How does Gamera create his flame power? Servo and Crow’s Gamera diagram thingy explained a lot but not this.
The Martians in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians – Is that excrement smeared on their faces?
Why did the Beatniks, who were in L.A., have to drive two hours to find gas water?
How did Eegah keep his prehistoric good looks for all those years?
Why is Jane Koberly wearing a bathing suit in her mugshot shown on TV in Teen-age Crime wave?
Taking out an empty third grade classroom in The Violent Years? I don’t get it.
Red Zone Cuba – Why toss gramps down the well and off the blind woman? Were the frog legs that bad?
Flag on the moon. Well, how did it get there?
Whose hand was it that almost saved Bart Fargo’s watch from a watery death?
The Jim Backus Militia Compound? What were their intended goals?
Laserblast and Diabolik – Why eat your food in a pool of water?
Riding with Death – Why doesn’t Sam just become invisible all the time and eliminate the time wasting involved with pumping Buffalo for info?
Why would the driver of their own personal fire truck have a position indicator? This one bugs me to no end.
Why does Eat have a bunch of pool sticks but no pool table?
Why did Joel totally screw up the new show?