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<\/a><\/p>\nMovie: <\/strong> (2014) A group orphans go on a quest to find Christmas.<\/p>\n Host:<\/strong> Emily, Joel, Jonah.<\/p>\n Cold opening: <\/strong> The rhyming plotters are ready to go. After the open: <\/strong> Kinga, Max and Dr. Kabahl present the triple ripple holiday spectacular\/extravaganza.<\/p>\n Invention exchange:<\/strong> Jonah has a B52s wig for Tom. Joel has a perpetual motion machine. Emily has a paperweight that looks like a cinderblock. The Mads have the Missile-toe.<\/p>\n Segment 1:<\/strong> Friar Nolte visits to explain what Christmas is all about. The bots are then transported to Joel’s SOL.<\/p>\n Segment 2:<\/strong> The escape plotters meet again and discuss how they’ll explain their departure to the bots. After intermission: <\/strong>Jonah explains things to his bots.<\/p>\n Segment 3:<\/strong> The Mads get all three riffers in one place, without any of the bots. In the theater, from left: Jonah, Emily, Joel.<\/p>\n Close: <\/strong> Kinga almost foils the escape plot but thanks to the bots, the plotters make it through the Time Bag. Dr. Kahbal renounces the Mads and Kinga is ruined.<\/p>\n Stinger: <\/strong> “The dragon!!” <\/p>\n Thoughts:<\/strong> \u2022 Fave riff<\/strong> “Ooh, right in the orphan maker.”<\/p>\n \u2022 Honorable mentions:<\/strong> “Ah yes, the medieval obsession with cleanliness.” “You’re next, Bran Stark.” “Ooteeny!” “Quick, get it before it renders.” “They prefer the term henchman-American,” “You will never find a wretched hive of scum and whovery.” “You guys can pull a sled, right?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n Movie: (2014) A group orphans go on a quest to find Christmas.<\/p>\n Host: Emily, Joel, Jonah.<\/p>\n Cold opening: The rhyming plotters are ready to go. After the open: Kinga, Max and Dr. Kabahl present the triple ripple holiday spectacular\/extravaganza.<\/p>\n Invention exchange: Jonah has a B52s wig for Tom. Joel has a perpetual […]<\/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-33717","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\/33717","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=33717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33724,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33717\/revisions\/33724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 This episode premiered on Dec. 16, 2022.
\n\u2022 I remembered this as kind of a slog but I really enjoyed it this time and a laughed a lot.
\n\u2022 Lots of LOTR references. “Minas Tirith,” “Tom Bombadil,” “Saruman,” etc.
\n\u2022 Naughty riff: “That’s what the sock is for.”
\n\u2022 Obscure East coast riffs: Longwood Gardens, Dorney Park.
\n\u2022 The reactions to flying off on the dragon are very funny.
\n\u2022 Great line from Joel: “I only know the Mike version.”
\n\u2022 The closing credits have several new Christmas-themed tunes. They also now have a (rather lengthy) “in memoriam” section.<\/p>\n