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<\/a><\/p>\nMovie:<\/strong> (1961) When robot aliens attack Japan, Space Chief takes to the air to battle them.<\/p>\n First shown:<\/strong> 10\/11\/97 \u2022 This is one of those<\/em> movies. There are bad movies like, say, “Revenge of the Creature.” There are VERY bad movies, like, say, “Prince of Space.” And there are the dregs: “Manos,” “Fu Manchu,” “Red Zone Cuba” … and now this “little cockroach of a movie” (as Servo calls it in a fit of rage toward the end) joins that wretched roll call. Segment three works because (in addition to Bill’s hilarious return as Krankor) it so piquantly makes the case that, as Servo noted many seasons ago, “every time I think I’ve seen the worst movie ever made, along comes the worst movie ever made.” The final 20 minutes or so, which feature a solid 10 minutes during which essentially the same four or five shots are repeated again and again and again and again, is easily one of the most punishing bits of film MST3K has ever subjected its viewers to. Because of that, I predicted there would be wide differences of opinions on this one. Some MSTies love these bottom-dwellers; others will retreat to the oft-used line: “even Mike and the bots couldn’t save it.” Pro tip: One way to get through it: stop watching the episode just after segment three and wait a day or so before watching the final half hour. Movie: (1961) When robot aliens attack Japan, Space Chief takes to the air to battle them.<\/p>\n First shown: 10\/11\/97 Opening: Tom and Crow worry about Mike’s eyelash mites. Intro: The nanites take on the mites; The Mad Goth (Bobo) is getting more attention than goddess Apearlo Host segment 1: Mike’s love of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode-guide","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","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=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24961,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions\/24961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOpening:<\/strong> Tom and Crow worry about Mike’s eyelash mites.
\nIntro:<\/strong> The nanites take on the mites; The Mad Goth (Bobo) is getting more attention than goddess Apearlo
\nHost segment 1:<\/strong> Mike’s love of Noh theater causes confusion
\nHost segment 2:<\/strong> Tom comes down with Roji Panty complex; Pearl and Observer have no luck with Bobo
\nHost segment 3:<\/strong> M&tB are near despair, then Krankor visits
\nEnd:<\/strong> Crow has some suggestions, while a conk on the head from Pearl restores Bobo’s memory, with unfortunate consequences
\nStinger:<\/strong> Little boy faw down
\n (260<\/strong> votes, average: 4.44<\/strong> out of 5)
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\nThat said, the riffing is really quite good, all things considered, and, as in the other recent eps, the SOL segments are funny and fun (the wonderful “Noh Theater” sketch, especially) while the “Roman Times” segments are unremarkable, though I think Kevin’s performance is great.
\n\u2022 This episode was included in Shout’s MST3K: Vol. XXXVII.
\n\u2022 Kevin’s take on this one is here<\/a>, including his wonderful reaction to the Hitler Building shot.
\n\u2022 References<\/a>.
\n\u2022 That’s Paul as first hapless nanite soldier, and again Paul, Beez and Patrick are “Roman day players.”
\n\u2022 Kudos to Beez or whoever created the tiny garbage around Mike’s eyes.
\n\u2022 Yes, that’s Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba as Space Chief. Chiba would go on to star in many martial arts movies, most notably as Terry Sugury in the “Street Fighter” series.
\n\u2022 Then-current reference: At about the time of this episode the aging Russian space station began to have a series of mechanical failures. The Mir fell from the sky long ago.
\n\u2022 All I can say about The Noh Theater bit is: Somewhere Abbott and Costello are smiling.
\n\u2022 This show had several complicated moments \u2014 note that both Tom Servo and Bobo are on camera at the same time, then Callipygeas and Bobo are on screen at the same time, as are Krankor and Crow later on. Patrick was probably running the puppets in all cases.
\n\u2022 Servo has a breakdown, contracting Roji Panty Complex. He sure does break down a lot.
\n\u2022 This show explicitly answered the question that has so often been asked by fans: “why do Mike and the bots put up with these bad movies?\u201d In this show, Mike is so appalled he gets up to leave, only to realize that there is no air in the rest of the ship.
\n\u2022 Callback from the old days: Gooood morning!\u201d
\n\u2022 Cast and crew round up: Scriptwriter Shin Morita also wrote “Prince of Space” (dull surprise).
\n\u2022 Produced by Kevin. Directed by Mike. This was Jill Roozenboom’s last episode as production manager. It was also intern Meshach Weber’s last episode.
\n\u2022 Fave line: “Our quick and pointless plot cul-de-sac is over!” Honorable mention: “Say, has anybody seen my record?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n