{"id":4210,"date":"2017-08-03T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2017-08-05T23:26:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:26:37","slug":"episode-guide-813-jack-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=4210","title":{"rendered":"Episode guide: 813- Jack Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Movie:<\/strong> (1966) A Russian version of the Cinderella story includes a mushroom sprite, a bear-headed hero and house with legs.<\/p>\n

First shown:<\/strong> 7\/12\/97
\nOpening:<\/strong> Mike Nelson IS Lord of the Dance!
\nIntro:<\/strong> Mike mediates a squabble between Bobo and Brain Guy
\nHost segment 1:<\/strong> Crow hires a Russian expert
\nHost segment 2:<\/strong> Crow’s a bear, while Bobo and Brain Guy find common ground
\nHost segment 3:<\/strong> Crow hires another Russian expert–or someone like him
\nEnd:<\/strong> Tom fails in his attempt to be cute; Bobo and Brain Guy discuss ape movies, but Pearl returns to settle the matter
\nStinger:<\/strong> “Bring on my fiancee!”
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\u2022 For the longest time, there was the “Russo-Finnish troika” of “Day the Earth Froze,” “Sinbad” and “Sword and the Dragon.” The Sci-Fi era needed one too, I guess, so now it’s a quartet, and wow, is this one ever out there. It’s not directed by Aleksandr Ptushko, as they other ones were, but it definitely has that weird vibe that gives them plenty of riffing fodder, and they do a great job with it. Some of the host segments are great, others don’t do much for me.
\n\u2022 Check out Mary Jo’s take on this episode here<\/a>.
\n\u2022 This episode was included on Shout!Factory’s Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Vol. XVIII.
\n\u2022 To start things off, we get one of the host segment highlights of the season as Mike parodies human peacock Michael Flatley, especially his deeply self-satisfied, nose-breathing smirk.
\n\u2022 Mike almost puts one over on Brain Guy, who is almost sucked into the theater, but not quite.
\n\u2022 Obscure reference: Hildegard von Bingen<\/a>. Even I needed to look that one up. The next time somebody tries to tell you all MST3K does is fart jokes, remind them of THIS.
\n\u2022 The segment where Crow becomes a bear is another gem, a great example of Bill’s slightly demented Crow, very different from Trace’s Crow but very funny. Grr!
\n\u2022 Crow is still a bear when he returns to the theater.
\n\u2022 That\u2019s Patrick as Yakov Smirnoff; and that\u2019s Paul as Earl Torgeson. Both the “Crow hires an expert” segments didn’t do much for me. Yakov’s standup act wasn’t quite as lame as they make it out to be, and the second bit just sort of wanders off without a real payoff.
\n\u2022 In the comments, a number of readers have noted that by about eight episodes in, Bobo’s character had totally, well, devolved. When we first met him at the beginning of the season, he was a sophisticated gentleman and scientist. Slowly but surely the writers changed him into the happy-go-lucky, termite-eating dimwit who so exasperates Brain Guy and Pearl. Not really a criticism. Just an observation.
\n\u2022 Dalesim: As thug smells his hand, Mike: \u201cHm. I thought I was Dale!\u201d
\n\u2022 Cast roundup: Georgiy Millyar and Valentin Bryleyev were both in “The Day the Earth Froze.” That’s it.
\n\u2022 CreditsWatch: Kevin again gets the “Produced & Directed” credit. Following this episode, Grip Mike Parker takes two episodes off. And this was the last episode interns Tamara Melloy and Randy Smith worked on.
\n\u2022 Fave line: “Apparently there’s no Finnish word for ‘subtle.’ ” Honorable mention: “I thought Jerry Garcia was Father Mushroom.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Movie: (1966) A Russian version of the Cinderella story includes a mushroom sprite, a bear-headed hero and house with legs.<\/p>\n

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