{"id":3742,"date":"2017-05-25T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2017-05-23T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T00:00:08","slug":"episode-guide-803-the-mole-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=3742","title":{"rendered":"Episode Guide: 803- The Mole People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/803.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/803.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"803\" width=\"259\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/803.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/803-150x115.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Movie:<\/strong> (1956) Pompous archaeologists find a lost civilization underground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First shown:<\/strong> 2\/15\/97<br \/>\n<strong>Opening: <\/strong>Crow&#8217;s thinks his goofy eyes make him a &#8220;space child&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Intro: <\/strong>The space child is overthrown. While Bobo suffers through the 32nd Annual Lawgiver Daze, Tom offers baked goods and Crow takes a fall<br \/>\n<strong>Host segment 1:<\/strong> Mike tries an imitation of the gesture professor from the movie. It brings everyone down&#8230;down&#8230;down&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Host segment 2:<\/strong> Tom tries&#8211;and fails&#8211;to sing a ballad about his adventures in space<br \/>\n<strong>Host segment 3:<\/strong> Crow the archeologist, searching for evidence of a previous him, has a breakthrough<br \/>\n<strong>End:<\/strong> Crow believes there&#8217;s life beneath the floorboards&#8230;and he&#8217;s right. Meanwhile in Deep Ape, The Lawgiver is presented with a hunky gift<br \/>\n<strong>Stinger:<\/strong> &#8220;The Load&#8221; hits the wall<br \/>\n<span id=\"wp-postratings-3742\" class=\"wp-postratings\" data-nonce=\"310c3ad1be\"><span class=\"wp-postratings-vote wp-postratings-scale wp-postratings-shape-star\" style=\"--wp-postratings-shape:url(data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%27http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%27%20viewBox=%270%200%2024%2024%27%3E%3Cpath%20d=%27M12%202.4l2.95%205.98%206.6.96-4.77%204.65%201.12%206.57L12%2017.46l-5.9%203.1%201.12-6.57L2.45%209.34l6.6-.96z%27\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E)\" data-post-id=\"3742\" role=\"radiogroup\" aria-label=\"Rate this post\"><input type=\"radio\" id=\"wp-postratings-3742-5\" name=\"wp-postratings-3742\" value=\"5\" data-rating=\"5\" \/><label for=\"wp-postratings-3742-5\" style=\"--wp-postratings-step-fill:30%\"><i class=\"wp-postratings-item\"><\/i><span>5 Stars<\/span><\/label><input type=\"radio\" id=\"wp-postratings-3742-4\" name=\"wp-postratings-3742\" value=\"4\" data-rating=\"4\" \/><label for=\"wp-postratings-3742-4\" style=\"--wp-postratings-step-fill:100%\"><i class=\"wp-postratings-item\"><\/i><span>4 Stars<\/span><\/label><input type=\"radio\" id=\"wp-postratings-3742-3\" name=\"wp-postratings-3742\" value=\"3\" data-rating=\"3\" \/><label for=\"wp-postratings-3742-3\" style=\"--wp-postratings-step-fill:100%\"><i class=\"wp-postratings-item\"><\/i><span>3 Stars<\/span><\/label><input type=\"radio\" id=\"wp-postratings-3742-2\" name=\"wp-postratings-3742\" value=\"2\" data-rating=\"2\" \/><label for=\"wp-postratings-3742-2\" style=\"--wp-postratings-step-fill:100%\"><i class=\"wp-postratings-item\"><\/i><span>2 Stars<\/span><\/label><input type=\"radio\" id=\"wp-postratings-3742-1\" name=\"wp-postratings-3742\" value=\"1\" data-rating=\"1\" \/><label for=\"wp-postratings-3742-1\" style=\"--wp-postratings-step-fill:100%\"><i class=\"wp-postratings-item\"><\/i><span>1 Star<\/span><\/label><\/span> (<strong>256<\/strong> votes, average: <strong>4.30<\/strong> out of 5)<br \/><span class=\"wp-postratings-text\" id=\"wp-postratings-3742-text\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 We&#8217;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&#8217;s also note when it&#8217;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 &#8220;The Load&#8221; 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&#8217;s the movie itself that puts this one over the top.<br \/>\n\u2022 References <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annotatedmst.com\/episodes\/91\/The_Mole_People\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u2022 Mike&#8217;s take on this episode can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/aceg\/8\/803\/ep803.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u2022 Pearl\u2019s float is not very convincing \u2014 but, then, it\u2019s pretty tough to approximate a full-scale parade in about 10 square feet of set space.<br \/>\n\u2022 The strange blue light still suffuses the set, and it&#8217;s especially strong in segment 2. Stonehouse was experimenting.<br \/>\n\u2022 The concept of \u201cthe sketch that never really gets started\u201d is a long tradition on this show (see \u201cThe Emotional Scientist\u201d or \u201cThe Life of Fu Manchu\u201d or &#8220;Joel wants to be a soda jerk&#8221;). This episode has not one but TWO such segments\u2014Mike\u2019s attempt at being the gesture professor and Servo\u2019s aborted folk song.<br \/>\n\u2022 Crow finally remembers who he is, and who Mike is. At last.<br \/>\n\u2022 Crow\u2019s voice begins to settle down a bit in this episode.<br \/>\n\u2022 Robert Smith was the first actual guest star for the show.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Ward E has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/ward_e\/list803.html\">list of the pastries<\/a> in the intro segment.<br \/>\n\u2022 That huge underground cavern and those Mole People should look familiar to you &#8230; they were briefly (and incongruously) seen in episode 515-THE WILD WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN.<br \/>\n\u2022 It&#8217;s been widely reported that this movie&#8217;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. Sheesh.<br \/>\n\u2022 By the way, Dr. Baxter, the gesture professor, was a University of Southern California professor of ENGLISH, not science.<br \/>\n\u2022 That&#8217;s Paul and Patrick, of course, as &#8220;pale day players.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2022 Cast and crew roundup: Producer William Alland also worked on &#8220;Revenge of the Creature,&#8221; &#8220;The Deadly Mantis,&#8221; &#8220;The Space Children&#8221; and &#8220;This Island Earth.&#8221; Screenwriter Laszlo Gorog also worked on &#8220;Earth vs. The Spider.&#8221; Cinematographer Ellis Carter also worked on &#8220;The Deadly Mantis&#8221; and &#8220;The Leech Woman.&#8221; Editor Irving Birnbaum also worked on &#8220;The Phantom Creeps.&#8221; Special effects guy Clifford Stine also worked on &#8220;This Island Earth,&#8221; &#8220;The Creeping Terror&#8221; and &#8220;The Thing That Couldn&#8217;t Die.&#8221; Costumer Jay A. Morley Jr. also whipped up some gowns for &#8220;Revenge of the Creature&#8221; and &#8220;The Deadly Mantis.&#8221; Makeup guy: Bud Westmore worked on lots of MSTed movies. Hairdresser Joan St. Oegger also worked on &#8220;Revenge of the Creature,&#8221; &#8220;This Island Earth and &#8220;The Amazing Colossal Man.&#8221; Art Director Alexander Golitzen, set designer Russell A. Gausman, sound person Leslie I. Carey and music supervisor Joseph Gershenson worked on a bunch of MSTed movies too. Score composer Hans J. Salter also worked on &#8220;The Brute Man&#8221; and &#8220;This Island Earth. Score composer  Herman Stein also worked on &#8220;Revenge of the Creature and &#8220;This Island Earth. Score composer Henry Mancini worked on &#8220;Revenge of the Creature,&#8221; &#8220;The Deadly Mantis,&#8221; &#8220;The Thing that Couldn&#8217;t Die&#8221; and &#8220;This Island Earth.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn front of the camera: John Agar also appeared in &#8220;Revenge of the Creature and &#8220;Women of the Prehistoric Planet.&#8221; Hugh Beaumont also appeared in &#8220;Lost Continent&#8221; and &#8220;The Human Duplicators.&#8221; Nestor Paiva also appeared in &#8220;Revenge of the Creature.&#8221;  Robin Hughes also appeared in &#8220;The Thing that Couldn&#8217;t Die.&#8221; Marc Hamilton also appeared in &#8220;This Island Earth.&#8221; Patrick Whyte  also appeared in &#8220;Kitten with a Whip.&#8221; Eddie Parker also appeared in &#8220;This Island Earth,&#8221; &#8220;Bride of the Monster&#8221; and &#8220;Undersea Kingdom.&#8221; Regis Parton also appeared in &#8220;This Island Earth.&#8221; Ben Chapman was production manager for &#8220;The Giant Gila Monster&#8221; and appeared in &#8220;The Killer Shrews.&#8221; Robert Hoy also appeared in &#8220;Revenge of the Creature&#8221; and &#8220;Master Ninja II.&#8221; Bob Herron also appeared in &#8220;The Slime People.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2022 CreditsWatch: Jim gets the &#8220;produced and directed by&#8221; credit this week and Kevin gets the &#8220;associate producer&#8221; credit. This is the last episode, for the duration of the show&#8217;s run. for which Jim gets a &#8220;contributing writer&#8221; credit.<br \/>\n\u2022 Fave line: \u201cDisney\u2019s Dominatrix World!\u201d Honorable mention: &#8220;Why, thank you! Oh, you mean the flashlight.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>Movie: (1956) Pompous archaeologists find a lost civilization underground.<\/p>\n<p>First shown: 2\/15\/97 Opening: Crow&#8217;s thinks his goofy eyes make him a &#8220;space child&#8221; Intro: The space child is overthrown. 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