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<\/a><\/p>\nMovie:<\/strong> (1985) A smug professor and his students camp out in the rural Arkansas swamp, in hopes of finding a Bigfoot-like creature.<\/p>\n First shown:<\/strong> May 9, 1999 \u2022 In some episodes, the riffers need a little extra something from the movie to take their riffing from good to great. This is one of those episodes. It starts out as only okay. They keep up with the action with some funny stuff, but it really didn’t have me rolling. But when mountain man Crenshaw arrives, they really have something to work with and they take full advantage of it. The movie itself is stupid but at least it’s watchable. The host segments are mostly good fun. So all in all this one comes out a winner. Movie: (1985) A smug professor and his students camp out in the rural Arkansas swamp, in hopes of finding a Bigfoot-like creature.<\/p>\n First shown: May 9, 1999 Opening: Crow and Mike’s Cub Scout meeting is crashed by Servo the Brownie Intro: Now Servo’s a Flemish glass blower; Pearl has a potato-powered evil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5923","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\/5923","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=5923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25689,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5923\/revisions\/25689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOpening:<\/strong> Crow and Mike’s Cub Scout meeting is crashed by Servo the Brownie
\nIntro:<\/strong> Now Servo’s a Flemish glass blower; Pearl has a potato-powered evil plan
\nHost segment 1:<\/strong> M&tB’s flashbacks get fuzzier and fuzzier
\nHost segment 2:<\/strong> Pearl cooks up a monster legend, complete with haunting, evocative folk song
\nHost segment 3:<\/strong> Tom takes up whittling in a big way
\nEnd:<\/strong> Crow’s tends to his fires; Pearl’s legend biz gets kicked in the ankle
\nStinger:<\/strong> “I saw the little creature.” “Nooo!!”
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\n\u2022 Bill’s thoughts are here<\/a>.
\n\u2022 References are here<\/a>.
\n\u2022 This episode was on Rhino’s Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 5.
\n\u2022 Mike gets the title of the movie wrong in his intro on the DVD version (as he did with his “The Touch of Satan” intro).
\n\u2022 It’s fun to hear Kevin and Bill harmonizing as the sing “On the Wings of a Dove.”
\n\u2022 Gypsy is acting weird again. Did Joel completely fix her?
\n\u2022 The whole IMF accreditation thing was created because the suits at the channel were pushing for a “story arc.” So I only give the Brains partial blame on this. But I have to say that with this episode (or maybe the previous one?) the IMF stuff really starts to feel very invention exchangey. Not sure whether that’s a good thing or not.
\n\u2022 Segment one is a clever idea, one of those segments that practically writes itself in response to something really stupid in the movie.
\n\u2022 Segment 2 is saved by Bill, whose delivery is pitch perfect.
\n\u2022 That’s Kevin’s wife Kathleen’s guitar in that segment. She gets a credit at the end.
\n\u2022 An “s-bomb” got missed by Sci-Fi censors, and Rhino left it in.
\n\u2022 Movie observations: What was that whole “let’s play this out” business when the girls returned to the camp? They walk in and you expect something to happen, but they just say hi and go on with the movie. Play WHAT out?? Also, during the yucky outhouse flashback, I need to point out: If you can hose somebody off, that means you have plumbing. If you have plumbing, why are you using an outhouse?
\n\u2022 I have to say that I don’t really feel the white-hot rage Bill feels toward Old Man Pearce. Yeah, his character is a bit of a jerk, but I just don’t find him that despicable. He’s certainly not the movie’s bad guy. In fact, one of the biggest structural flaws of this movie is that there are no real antagonists (except, perhaps, for the derisive locals).
\n\u2022 Segment 3 is also a lot of fun, a good example of a sketch where they take a simple idea and take it to the extreme.
\n\u2022 Riff that’s a bit of stretch: One of the girls is “Mark Knopfler” because she’s wearing a headband. Sheesh.
\n\u2022 We get another fire aboard the SOL. And not the last one this season.
\n\u2022 That’s Brad Keeley as a tourist kid, in a bit that really goes nowhere.
\n\u2022 Again, no cast and crew round up: nobody involved in this movie worked on any other MSTed movie.
\n\u2022 CreditsWatch: Directed by Kevin. For interns Erin F. Erskine and Josh Huschke, who started at the beginning of the season, this was their last show until they were called back for one more a few weeks later.
\n\u2022 Fave riff: “Why don’t you take the skin chair?” Honorable mention: “There’s a red scarf floating in the air!…oh, it’s her.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n