{"id":33244,"date":"2023-04-06T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=33244"},"modified":"2023-04-03T12:35:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T16:35:38","slug":"episode-guide-1301-santo-in-the-treasure-of-dracula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=33244","title":{"rendered":"Episode guide: 1301- SANTO IN THE TREASURE OF DRACULA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1301.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1301-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1301-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1301-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1301-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1301-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1301.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Movie: <\/strong>(1969) The masked wrestler El Santo travels back in time to confront Count Dracula and acquire Dracula&#8217;s treasure. Original title: <em>Santo En El Tesoro De Dr\u00e1cula<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Host:<\/strong> Jonah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening: <\/strong>Kinga unveils Moon 1; Max explains what happened to Moon 13. They unveil the Kingadome and the Gizmoplex.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Invention exchange:<\/strong> Jonah gave an unhappy Crow blinkers. Grandma Pearl suggests a different activity, believing that Synthia and new clone Mega-Synthia can handle things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Segment 1:<\/strong> The bots try regressing Jonah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Segment 2:<\/strong> Jonah and GPC host QVSanto, the luchador home shopping channel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Segment 3:<\/strong> Crow and Tom&#8217;s trash talk is very kind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Close:<\/strong> J&#038;tB sing the praises of Perico but there&#8217;s trouble in Moon One as the Kingadome is hit by a meteor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The new normal: This season there are two parallel theme songs, sung by Tom Servo (Baron Vaughn in Jonah episodes and Conor McGiffin in the Emily episodes), along with Felicia Day and Paul (Sabourin) &#038; Storm (Sicostanzo). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonah episodes:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>TOM<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the not-too-distant future<br \/>\nNext Sunday afternoon<br \/>\nThe evil Kinga Forrester<br \/>\nShe ran her empire from the moon<br \/>\nHer latest plan was the Gizmoplex<br \/>\nA twisted scheme based on stolen specs<br \/>\nNow she&#8217;s pulling the strings from the old Moon base<br \/>\nAnd she&#8217;s back to her experiments with prisoners out in space<br \/>\n<strong>KINGA<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ll send them cheesy movies!<br \/>\nThe worst motion picture wrecks (la la la)<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll have to sit and watch them all<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll stream them at the Gizmoplex! (la la la)<br \/>\nNow keep in mind they can&#8217;t control<br \/>\nWhere the movies begin or end (la la la)<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll have to keep their sanity<br \/>\nWith the help of their robot friends<br \/>\nRobot Roll Call<br \/>\nCambot! (TOM: And, action!)<br \/>\nGPC! (TOM: Which one?)<br \/>\nTom Servo! (TOM: That&#8217;s me.)<br \/>\nCrooooow!<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re wondering how we eat and breathe<br \/>\nAnd other science facts (la la la)<br \/>\nThen repeat to yourself, &#8220;It&#8217;s just a show.<br \/>\nI should really just relax!&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>ALL<\/strong><br \/>\nFor Mystery Science Theater 3000!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A middling start to the third season of the revived show. Some moderately funny riffs but not a lot of gut-busters.<br \/>\n\u2022 This ep marks the first appearance of\u00a0Yvonne Freese\u00a0as\u00a0Mega-Synthia in a TV episode (the character originated as part of the live &#8220;Great Cheesy Movie Circus Tour).&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2022 This ep premiered in the Gizmoplex March 4, 2022.<br \/>\n\u2022 If Joel ever talked about it anywhere I must have missed it, so, has there been any explanation as to how and why Cambot became a fleet of mini-Cambots?<br \/>\n\u2022 GPC swings into the theater to deliver a riff once in the first half, and again in the second half. She also helps out in the &#8220;Perico&#8221; song.<br \/>\n\u2022 The ending bit, where the meteor strike on the Gizmoplex somehow <em>requires<\/em> Kinga to turn to &#8220;Dr. Kabahl, the strange financier from the future,&#8221; kind of comes out of nowhere, but it gets fleshed out (somewhat) in future episodes.<br \/>\n\u2022 Stinger: Hoods vs. thugs.<br \/>\n\u2022 Callback: &#8220;Manos, the Hands of &#8230; oh, never mind,&#8221; (Manos)<br \/>\n\u2022 Fave riff: &#8220;Is the hubcap dating the second unit director?&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2022 Honorable mention: &#8220;Dream of ear-less silver-faced demons.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>Movie: (1969) The masked wrestler El Santo travels back in time to confront Count Dracula and acquire Dracula&#8217;s treasure. Original title: Santo En El Tesoro De Dr\u00e1cula.<\/p>\n<p>Host: Jonah.<\/p>\n<p>Opening: Kinga unveils Moon 1; Max explains what happened to Moon 13. They unveil the Kingadome and the Gizmoplex.<\/p>\n<p>Invention exchange: Jonah gave [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode-guide","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33244"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33268,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33244\/revisions\/33268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}