Movie: (1993) In medieval times, a young boy comes under the protection of a wizard, and they plot against a malevolent ruler.
First shown: 9/26/98
Opening: Crow’s in the shop, but the loaner Crow has a radio!
Intro: Worried about a lack of results in her experiment, Pearl trades places with Mike!
Host segment 1: Pearl completes her observations, while Mike, Bobo and Observer enjoy a guy’s night
Host segment 2: The Sir Thomas “Neville” Servo Consort of the Middle Ages Just After the Plague Singers performs an ancient Air on a Delta Knight
Host segment 3: Leonardo Da Vinci visits, and he’s a good fella
End: The bots mourn the loss of Pearl; the annual Delta Knights pancake breakfast is a success
Stinger: Even his co-star is embarrassed by Mr. “I’m Comeeeng!!”
(233 votes, average: 4.20 out of 5)
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• A pretty good but not great final episode of the season, complete with a switcheroo in the theater, more workmen coming and going as they please, another choral treat from Sir Thomas, an almost TOO goofy movie and solid riffing throughout.
• Paul’s thoughts on this one are here.
• This episode is not yet available on DVD, and Shout officials despair that it ever will.
• Of course, the highlight of this ep is Pearl taking a turn in the theater, where she seems a little more Mary Jo-ish than Pearl-ish. But I think it works better that way. I’m not sure sustaining the Pearl character AND doing a good job riffing could really be pulled off. Yes, Mike did it with Eddie, but even that wore thin after a bit.
• I love the loaner Crow sketch. It may be one of my all-time favorites. Maybe it’s because that’s pretty much how my car runs.
• In the Intro segment, Servo says “No movie, no Mike.” I think he meant that the other way ’round. That was the best take they had? Or did nobody notice? Or am I missing something?
• Nice callback: “My boat.” a reference to a classic bad movie moment from “Waterworld,” referenced in episode 808- The She Creature.
• One drawback of this movie choice is that we get a rare foray into attempted comedy here, especially the scenes with Richard Kind. As expected, the riffing suffers a bit during these moments. Indeed, the whole movie really doesn’t seem to take itself very seriously, pretty much a prerequisite for a great episode.
• Self referential riff: “Later at Castle Forrester…”
• Several LOTR references: Legolas, Bombadil and Gollum.
• The medeival aire (words and lyrics by Kevin) is lots of fun. By the way, you can hear more of the “dirty” song at the end on the “Clowns in the Sky 2” CD.
• Also: Somebody put boobs on one of the Tom Servos! Yikes!
• Bill, in full James Gandolfini mode, is terrific as a mobbed up Leonardo Da Vinci in segment 3. He really sells it. One of the better hexfield viewscreen visits of the later years.
• Obscure reference: “Timothy? Where on Earth did you go?”
• Patrick is again a workman visiting the SOL. This time he’s “Eggs,” the pain leakage repairman.
• Always nice to see the big clown hammer make an appearance.
• For the pancake breakfast scene, the cast and crew pretty much called every relative and friend willing to be on camera. It held the record as the segment with the most number of people, though some of Moon 13 scenes in season 11 may have beaten it. In addition to Paul, they were: Benjamin Bakken, Andrea Jackson DuCane, Ari Hoptman, Katie Johnson, Mikey Johnson, Anne Kleinschmidt, Joe Kleinschmidt, Marie Kleinschmidt, Rick Kleinschmidt, Edna McKeever, Tom McKeever, Rachel Mertz, Dara Moskowitz, Kathleen M. Murphy, Sandy Oian, Gerald A. Pehl, Nick Prueher, David Rudrud, Tom Schufman, Krista Skogland, Lorin Skogland, Anna Stonehouse, Dan Tanz and Marshall Tebben.
• Cast and crew roundup: Nobody who worked on this movie worked on any other MSTed movie.
• CreditsWatch: Directed by Mike. Intern Nick Prueher would be back one more time in season 10 but this was intern Dan Tanz’ last episode.
• Fave riff: Sit outside and pet our millipedes! Honorable mention: Well, the movie lost me. It lost me and it’s trotting off without me.
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Like many people here, I think this episode is better than average, but not a favorite. Most of my thoughts have already been mentioned, but I do need to tell a story about this movie:
When I was an undergraduate, I held a monthly MST3K for coworkers, friends, neighbors, roommates, basically anyone who would come. Once we were watching “Quest of the Delta Knights,” and one of the first timers saw Corbin Allred (aka “Travis”) and shouted, “That’s my neighbor!” Apparently, she had grown up next door to the guy in the early 1990’s about at the time he was making QotDK. After seeing him mocked for 90 minutes, I don’t think she was enamored with MST3K and she never came back to another viewing.
Corbin Allred seems like a decent actor, although the only other thing I’ve seen him in is the indy film “Saints and Soldiers,” a film that isn’t interesting enough to recommend to anyone. Looking at his IMDb profile, he’s had a lot of TV guest appearance and a few minor starring roles (“Teen Angel” series being the most notable). He seems to be one of those Hollywood actors that can get steady work here and there. Only time will tell if he ever gets a big break.
With some people mentioning the lack of any true fantasy elements aside from Baydool and Tee’s “Spider-Sense.” I always thought they were both people blessed with an extremly powerful/accurate situational awareness.
There is a fantasy element in that there was a prophecy about Tee and the mission to find the lost store house.
I forgot to note that in the same year as this movie, Corbin Allred (Tee) was also in Robin Hood: Men in Tights as the “runaway white boy.”
Bill’s “connected” Leonardo Da Vinci character alone is worth the price of admission.
I see this one has fallen behind The Screaming Skull.
“The pee throwing scene, ladies and gentlemen, the pee throwing scene.”
oops almost forgot.. not much too say…. 3 for the movie + riffing, 5 for the hosts. 4 overall.
3.1285 from me, 2.79 of which is for the AMC Crow skit. If you’d flip his air filter over, I’d give him an even 3.0. Shame on you, David Warner. And there’s a special circle of Hell for Richard Kind’s performance. LATER WE’LL TAKE STUFF AND DO IT RIGHT?
@ 102 You may be describing folks with hyper-awareness. Generally speaking, folks who have lived through life threatening circumstances may adopt a heighten state of alertness that causes them to automatically figure out survival scenarios given their physical surroundings. Common in Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
I just found this old link I bookmarked for this very occasion:
Leonardo Da Vinci Is Gonna Kick Your Ass!!
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44241
LEONARDO DA VINCI AND THE SOLDIERS OF FOREVER:
“The project re-imagines Da Vinci as a member of a secret society who falls headlong into a supernatural adventure…”
Note: 2/3rds of the way down in the talbacks, someone posted:
Quest of the Delta Knights, anyone?
by Walnivar1 Mar 11th, 2010 11:05:15 PM“MST3K.”
talbacks? I meant “talkbacks”.
Re: 96
If you look and listen closely, the guy who’s swinging around isn’t actually saying anything! The “I’m comiiiiing!” stuff was added in later, probably by some idiot editor who thought it needed some “comedy” right there.
What got me about this was the cast.
How could the movie be so bad with such a good cast?
Yet, somehow it was a bad movie and I thought so when I saw it in the 90s on HBO.
I loved the Sir Thomas “Neville” Servo’s ancient Air on a Delta Knight.
It showed that these guys have real talent, they are not just riffing fools.
Sampo: “In the Intro segment, Servo says “No movie, no Mike.” I think he meant that the other way ’round. That was the best take they had? Or did nobody notice?”
I think that line does work as it is. I think of the idea in the context of a sentence, “I guess we’re not watching the movie if Mike isn’t here.” And if that doesn’t work for you, just remember, Crow is a little weird.
As for this episode, I gave it 5 stars. This is on my list of “Put it on DVD NOW!” MST3K episodes. I have a great fondness for this episode, especially since I made two imperfect attempts to record it when the show was in reruns. One tape has a few seconds missing while the other was, mistakenly, recorded in LP, and thus has poor sound.
Some favorite riffs:
Pearl: “He’s trying to get himself invited.” When Baydool asks Tee about his family’s manor house.
Mike: “Hey, the horse isn’t wearing any underwear under that skirt.” Tom laughs at this while Crow groans in disgust, which is really what makes the riff work.
I also like Crow’s exasperated hiss/growl during the scene with Richard Kind.
I really like Pearl’s turn in the theater and the way that Servo and Crow fawn over her. Later, in season 10, she will conduct an experiment about withholding love. That one is all right, but this one in episode 913 works a lot better. Speaking of season 10, the end credits theater scene kind of set up episode 1001. Pearl has that guy Eggs come and check out the theater screen and he finds that shes losing a lot pain along the edges of the screen. I like this bit foreshadowing, intentional or not, of the next episode.
I clearly remember the commercials for the premiere “Quest of the Delta Knights” on the Sci-Fi Channel, prior to its use on MST3K. The announcer sure made it sound like a big deal. It wasn’t. Still, when one compares QOTDK with the junk that Sci-Fi currently runs, it’s almost a masterpiece. This movie was shot a Renaissance Faire in California, but it still beats the endless use of the same cloudy forest in British Columbia.
Any movie that has Corbin Allred, Leonardo Da Vinci, and an elderly wizard peeing into a saucepan deserves MST3K…
That peeing scene has got the grossest thing in a MSTed movie. I say that because of the realism in that scene. From the moment you hear that stream hit the pan, it is obvious what’s going on there. Then Baydool carries the pan outside, and when he stops a bit of the liquid drips out of the pan. Finally, Baydool tosses the pee onto the slave trader. Ick.
Also, a VERY detailed list explaining the references in this episode over at
Too Much Information: The Annotated MST3K
http://doctorwhochronology.com/mst3ktmi/tmi913.htm
Too Much Information indeed. :shock:
One of my personal favorite episodes, for some reason this has always been one of my more re-watched episodes.
“I got the role on Mad About You.”
I think the commercials really prevented me from sitting down and watching this one all the way. The other two that had this affect on me were “Girl in Gold Boots” and “Hamlet”. With Volume 4, I was able to watch those two with no problems and seemed to go quicker so, I think if I were to see “Delta Knights” without the commercials, it would probably go quicker for me.
As much as I’m ashamed of David Warner for being in this, I really want this on dvd. Did anyone ever figure out what ‘mannerjay’ means? It’s not in my dictionotomy, er, dictionary-and web searches only turn up refs to QOTDK. Huzzah!
Everyone’s covered every point I would make about this episode, so I’ll just throw out his role as the ‘main baddie’ Dr. P in “The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse” to add to the list of “Good Stuff David Warner Has Done”.
The comment-section for MST3K-TheMovie is long closed, so I post this here.
I do not know if you get a lot of feedback from outside of the U.S. and particularly from Germany, that´s where I live, jawoll, (but maybe from France, Spain, Netherlands?).
Anyway, MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 THE MOVIE was – to my knowledge – the only MST3K-thing that ever happend in Germany – on tape. The TV-show was never to be seen on any channel, so that baffling
little film hit us out of the blue. It must have been sometime 1997/98 (?) that I rented it from my local videorental-place, the box on the shelf had the black frame with the silouhettes of M&TB on the bottom, in the frame was reflecting tinfoil or something, so that M&TB were pointing and laughing at your reflection.
The most memorable scenes of the movie for me where Crow singing while he was chopping away (though in the original I guess he sings “a long way to Tiperary”(?), in the german version he sings “ich hack´ ein Loch in unser Raumschiff” – “I´m chopping a hole in our spaceship…”) and the “NORMAL VIEW”-song, btw in german “NOR-MA-LES-BILD!” has a little diffrent rythm.
I guess the rewriting/redubbing team did an appropriate job, I´ve seen the first 10 minutes of the german version recently on MYVIDEO since the movie was taken down from YOUTUBE and it was AWFUL. Good lord, it was AWFUL. The voices were moronically stupid (shtupit=lustig, nichtwahr?) and when Gypsy said her first line – ohhh, it was awful! Like the german redubb of a Python-movie.
Still, when I first saw it, I had a laugh. Sad, though nothing else MST3K-related ever made its way into german popculture.
Should anyone take the time to read this text – Thank you, kind sir or madam for your time, hope I haven´t bored you too much.
There are a number of decent actors in this movie, none of whom show it. The plot is completely ridiculous (what the hell is Leonardo da Vinci doing in that part of Europe anyway?). There’s the pee-throwing scene (still not the most disgusting scene they ever did on this show…plenty of others from Incredible Melting Man and raunchfest Hobgoblins top it). And yet, as far as MSTied movies go, this one’s pretty watchable. While the riffing isn’t quite as good as earlier episodes in the season, the fact that the movie is more watchable than those makes it an easy one to get through. This is probably a good one to start new viewers on; I tend to find that the two types of movies that work best are ones where the movie’s bad but still watchable or unbelievably bad but hilarious in its own right even without the riffing (Space Mutiny and Cave Dwellers come to mind). The host segments are pretty good, too (Bill’s Leonardo is a hoot, Mike’s description of his life is great (“I was upset for a while when I lost some shiny bottlecaps I liked”) and the loaner Crow bit is stellar), and the bots immediately falling in love with Pearl is great, even if it is a touch Mary Sueish (“You gave us a mint”). Definitely qualifies for the “good, not great” tag.
Aside: Brigid Conley Walsh was the only woman in any MSTied movie to warrant a jaw drop and a Ron Simmonsesque “Damn!” from me. Really, the difference between her and Jenni from the previous week’s Screaming Skull is like night and supernova. Just flat-out stunning.
Taking into account I’ve never seen #909 Gorgo, I would rank season 9 Experiments as such:
#910 The Final Sacrifice
#907 Hobgoblins
#903 The Puma Man
#902 The Phantom Planet
#904 Werewolf
#913 The Quest of the Delta Knights
#906 The Space Children
#908 Touch of Satan
#911 Devil Fish
#901 The Projected Man
#912 The Screaming Skull
#905 The Deadly Bees
What do you think, sirs?
More proof that Mike still doesn’t understand bot building: Joel would have fixed Crow himself. Mike had to send him away.
That said Mike sure has come a long way since he was first sent into space. When he first arrived on the SOL he was constantly trying to escape. Now during his semiannual check up he tells Pearl what a good life he has.
Isn’t Pearl taking a little too much credit here? When the Bots explain what movie sign is she admires her own subtle touch. It seems to me movie sign was around before she was. What was that? It’s just a show? I should really just relax? Okay.
It is awful funny that at no time did Pearl refer to Crow as Art while she was on the SOL.
Enough good can’t be said about the guy’s night host segment. They play it just right on the gentle ribbing and seem like a group that does it on a regular basis. You suppose that is what it was like in the Best Brain offices?
The Servo choir segment was really pretty much from the same template of the Starfighters choir host segment but with new lyrics and costumes. But this new song had a lyric about liking pie at its end which is a callback to the end of When Loving Lovers Love.
Anybody else get the impression that David Warner is sort of a poor man’s Liam Neeson playing Qui-Gon Jinn?
So in conclusion: Ask your girlfriend. She’ll tell you I am.
Favorite Riffs:
Baydool “Time for food.’
Crow “Hope you like rats.”
Baydool “Can you say Baydool?”
Pearl as Travis “Let me try: Get bent. No I guess I can’t.”
Baydool shrugs his shoulders.
Tom “That’s my pee.”
Crow “The pee throwing scene ladies and gentleman.”
Travis speaks his first words of the entire film. Crow “Man do you ever shut up?”
Baydool and Travis count up their earnings from begging: Tom “Back now this is a lot of money.”
Travis stops Baydool from getting hit by a hammer. Tom “Please hammer don’t hurt ‘em”
Baydool opens the trap door for the first time. Mike “Come on up mom.”
Travis “Why do we beg?”
Baydool “It allows me to move around freely.”
Crow “Like a good pair of underwear.”
Travis slips into the dungeon. Tom “Oh good the bars are still open.”
Leonardo “I’m great with maps so how about it?”
Mike “How great can you really be at maps?”
Crow “It’s like being good at eating cereal.”
In reference to Thena’s cleavage: Tom “There’s a midget under her dress pushing up.”
Crow “Lucky midget.”
Quest of the Delta Knights fails the Bechdel Test. At no point do two females converse with each other.
Servo with a rack is kind of creepy.
You know what else is creepy? An adult woman seducing a pre-pubescent boy.
@ #29: I believe it’s just a generic madrigal tune.
@ #51: Personally, I rather liked Cast a Deadly Spell.
@ #54: In his Bad Song book, Dave Barry remarked that he was surprised at how many votes Timothy got (fourth overall), as he regarded it as far more obscure than the other big vote getters. Also, you might want to rewatch Castle of Fu Manchu and note Joel’s quip when one of the characters was coming.
@ #61: There’s no real certainty one way or the other. The “Leonardo was gay” comes from The Da Vinci Code, a book full of horse hoo passed off as “facts”. He’s so bad about that sort of thing that TV Tropes has a trope called Dan Browned, which describes when the writer not only fails to do the research, but has the utter gall to claim otherwise.
@ #87: The Renaissance wasn’t exactly noted for being very sanitary.
Brigid’s best role was as a Nympho in the psyche ward on a episode of NCIS!!!
“Yes, Mike did it with Eddie, but even that wore thin after a bit.” I do not understand this statement. I could have had more Eddie Nelson and his bootlick Tom.
Olivia Hussey is in this movie (for all of five minutes or so). That SEEMS pretty embarrassing, but remember, Olivia Hussey was in Turkey Shoot, AKA Escape 2000. So, you know.
BOLD CLAIM: this is one of the worst movies ever shown on MST. I’m not going to say THE worst, because I don’t really believe in THE anything anymore, but man, there’s no part of this movie that communicates any kind of quality, commitment, or love of the craft on the part of the filmmakers or actors. The plotting is weird, the filmic geography is impenetrable, and the attempted humor is sad, sad, sad.
That said, I vehemently disagree that failed comedy does not make for good MST. I hold Catalina Caper up as an example of FANtastic MST done with failed comedy.
I’m proud to declare I like pie!
…And this episode!
Definitely in my top 20, maybe 15. The host segments alone are fantastic, but the movie riffing is great, too! As for where the Loaner Crow came from, refer to my comment on 821 – Time Chasers (#149), wherein I postulate that the Loaner Crow is actually the Crow from Eddie’s reality.
The Servo Choir is one of my favorites (and the one from Starfighters). The amount of work that went into these just amazes me. Multiple people controlling the Servos, recording Kevin’s voice multiple times, etc…
As already mentioned, David Warner is great no matter what he’s in. I know him best from Tron & his voice as Ra’s Al Ghul on the Batman Animated Series. I also just noticed that in Batman Beyond & the Superman Animated Series, Olivia Hussey played the voice of Talia Al Ghul, Ra’s daughter!
And no, I won’t soon forget the cheese.
About halfway through my college career I started a weekly MST3K night and this was our first episode. I believe the biggest group laugh came from, “Are we being attacked or entertained?”
Movie:
* Having Pearl in the theater is like a reversal of Segment 1 from Beginning of the End when M&tB peek in on the mads and see how they behave without having to be evil scientists. In the theater, Pearl can drop the mad scientist persona, cut loose a bit and be Mary-Jo. Her humor and mint-giving are what endear the bots to her.
* It has David Warner in a dual role. That alone makes it watchable. Too bad it all goes downhill once Leonardo comes into the picture.
* I really do want to know what the director was aiming for. This really could have been much better if it hadn’t tried to ram ineffective comedy down our throats.
* For fans of Mel Brooks’s “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” you may recognize the kid who played T as the “I’ve got to go home alone now,” kid from that.
* I want to think that the, “Timothy? Where on earth did you go?” is primarily a reference to Timmy always falling down the well in any reference to Lassie, but is it also something else?
* Has anyone else realized that when Voltaire is getting zapped by the machine and Mike quips, “Mother!” he’s channeling Daffy Duck?
* Favorite Riffs:
Pearl: “It seems a bit chilly in here, could you turn down your guy?”
Mike: “Hey, her dough has risen.”
Crow: “We’re almost back to where we first escaped from.”
Servo: “Let me get my purse!”
Host Segments:
* Segment 1 is a nice throwback to Segment 2 of Escape 2000 where Mike is having a Mens Night party with the bots, only with completely different results.
* I saw this before Starfighters so Segment 2’s song stands out a bit more than the United Servo Mens Academy Chorus, but both are still classic.
* Favorite Line: “I’m strong, and I’m savvy and I’ve got these!”
Things I Learned from This Episode:
* David Warner is both yin and yang.
* No matter how unpractical or unsanitary, women of the middle ages still wore cleavage-exposing dresses.
* Baydool is a name, not an intestinal condition.
* Leonardo was a moron who stole all of his ideas.
* Archimedes would have had time to finish writing and flee if he hadn’t taken the time to declare, “Eureka!” after every realization.
@127
I’ve heard the “Leonardo was gay” thing back in the 90s, long before DaVinci Code. I think it was a t-shirt from a hippy catalog listing famous gays of history. Not that I’m saying t-shirts from hippy catalogs are good sources of historical knowledge, but the concept didn’t start with that book.
I’m so ready for this one to be on DVD.
Is this the first appearance of Fem-servo (Shervo?)? I could have sworn I saw him/her before. Wasn’t he/she/it used in Pumaman, wearing the party dress?
>* I want to think that the, “Timothy? Where on
>earth did you go?” is primarily a reference to
>Timmy always falling down the well in any reference
>to Lassie, but is it also something else?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_(song)
Pearl’s turn in the theater is not unlike her son’s. When Dr. F was in the theater, I heard more of Crow than I did of Dr. Forrester. In Pearl’s case, it’s more Mary Jo Pehl than Pearl Forrester. It works well though. Mike’s riffing as Eddie was mostly in character, although I think he could have had a few more “ignorant white trash” style riffs. You know, something that the gentler, more learned Mike would never say.
Back to the movie, I’ll say again how amusing this one was for me. Some weeks prior to this episode, the Sci-Fi Channel was constantly touting the premiere of a new, exiting fantasy movie called “Quest of the Delta Knights.” It was funny to see it later used on MST3K. If the movie had a slightly bigger budget and didn’t have to be filmed at a Southern California Renaissance Faire, “Quest of the Delta Knights” might have been a better movie.
I love the “Aire on the Delta Knights”. Mike’s impression of Bill McLaughlin is back and the Servo Choir returns. The extended “naught one” song is the main reason for buying the Clowns in the Sky CD. It really is filthy. I don’t even want to know what, “Dilly die me jacksies on me vicar’s baby brand,” means.
I wonder if any of the pee that Baydool tossed at the slave trader landed on T?
Unbelievable that the Sci-Fi channel featured this movie in its original form. To quote Leonardo, it’s a bad movie. I remember constantly seeing commercials for “The Twilight Zone” and “Farscape” on the channel, but never this movie. It’s…bad.
My favorite thing about this episode is the bots developing schoolboy crushes on Pearl, and her indifference to same. When Eggs comes in and does his thing, it totally reminds me of my encounters with repairmen and cable guys and other really competent people who know how to do stuff. Unlike Pearl, I just get out of their way. It’s for the best, really.
Later we’ll take stuff and do it, right?
@ #133: Point taken. However, I imagine that The Da Vinci Code helped popularize the belief.
Interesting sidebit: Intern Nick Prueher also worked for the Onion, as well as co-founding the Found Footage Festival… and going on to work on the Colbert Report and other stuff too. (I interviewed him for my website… but I didn’t know about the MST3K connection at the time! So no MST3K content, unfortunately. I just told him that I wish I’d known that when I did the interview… I would have asked him all sorts of questions like whether or not they were buckwheat pancakes or sourdough.)
I love this episode, but it may be because I used to go to the (now defunct, at least in original form) Northern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire where I believe segments of this were filmed; in fact, around the time this movie was made. In any case the faire scenes all looked very familiar to me. (The Southern California faire still exists, but I have never been, so can’t compare visually.) I don’t “play faire” any more but I still get a kick out of those scenes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlDF_X8dH_g&list=SPEB4C85DE577A1FDC&index=83
classic promo for this episode
The Pearl in the theater bit is funny, and the loaner Crow bit. But the movie, ugh. Next week, a major rebound!
David Warner meet David Warner.
I can’t believe I overlooked this, but this was a birthday episode for me. Not everyone gets one, so I’m glad that I did.
Love this episode. “Her dough has risen!”
It may be a ‘good, not great’ episode to some, but I always enjoyed it. As to the discussion of why David Warner played duel roles, maybe it was so Warner didn’t have to disappear after only about the first third of the film. The filmmakers probably figured ‘we’re paying him, we’d better use him!’
Seriously, this is not a good, not great episode. It is a GREAT episode. I glow watching this, Magic Sword, or, Deathstalker. I love love this genre. And Brigid Conley Walsh – wow. Her dough rises. She is one of the foxiest ever on the series.
How about I come over there and SHOW you “what I do” …
This episode is particularly entertaining to me as I performed at the renfair at which they shot this bit of drivel for two years as a member of one of the ‘guilds’ that portrayed members of the peasant/serf class. It was like watching a movie that they shot in your home town. This renfair hometown was in Novato, California and was called Black Point. My favorite schtick was to lie in the mud by the beer tent, holding up my pewter mug so the ‘mundanes’ could pour fresh beer into it. This routine would last entire weekends. My favorite memory, though, was watching eight trek fans dressed as Klingons (full makeup) make their way around faire as part of a time travel/away team scenario. They spoke only Klingon and all of us went along with the whole thing in character as well. There were no fatalities. HUZZAH!!
How is it possible your favorite riff is not “Eww, wizard whiz!”. Awesome episode!