{"id":709,"date":"2016-04-14T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2015-11-21T10:31:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T15:31:20","slug":"episode-guide-503-swamp-diamonds-with-short-what-to-do-on-a-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Episode guide: 503- Swamp Diamonds (with short: ‘What to Do on a Date’)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Short:<\/strong> (1951) Young Nick hopes to ask schoolmate Kay for a date, but can’t think of a venue.
\nMovie:<\/strong> (1956) Four women (including one undercover cop) break out of prison, with a plan to recover a cache of stolen diamonds. <\/p>\n

First shown:<\/strong> 7\/31\/93
\nOpening:<\/strong> Crow and Tom are obsessed with the ‘Spock in love’ episode of “Star Trek”
\nInvention exchange:<\/strong> The Mads present the U-view, J&tB demonstrate the Andrew Lloyd Webber grill
\nHost segment 1:<\/strong> Tom has decided that he wants to date Gypsy
\nHost segment 2:<\/strong> Tom calls Gypsy to ask for a date
\nHost segment 3:<\/strong> Tom and Gypsy go out on a date, briefly
\nEnd:<\/strong> Tom thought the date went well, Gypsy dumps him, Joel reads a letter that upsets Tom, Frank is still watching himself
\nStinger:<\/strong> “Ssssssssshut up!”
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\u2022 This is one of those episodes where the short pretty much overwhelms the movie that follows it. The same thing happened with \u201cWar of the Colossal Beast,\u201d which was almost completely swamped by \u201cMr. B.\u201d The short is just so precious and silly, and the movie is so slight and ephemeral (despite some very good riffing) that tail wags the dog, as it were.
\n\u2022 This episode appeared on Rhino’s \u201cMystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 10\u201d (and 10.2).
\n\u2022 Callback: Shut up, Iris! (The Beatniks); “To be like the Cor-Man…” (Robot Monster)
\n\u2022 Watch carefully during the “U-View” bit: Both Frank and Dr. F reach about six feet to take things from each other. A great blink-and-you-missed-it, unremarked-upon sight gag.
\n\u2022 We spend that entire invention exchange looking at the back of an old-style CRT TV, dating the whole sketch.
\n\u2022 The ST:TOS episode Joel calls \u201cthe Elias Sandoval episode\u201d (and which we refer to in our episode guide as the \u201cSpock in Love” episode) was in fact called \u201cThis Side of Paradise.\u201d I\u2019m not going back, Jim!
\n\u2022 Mike \u201cTouch\u201d Connors was born Kreker Ohanian. So “Touch” doesn’t sound so bad after all.
\n\u2022 Naughty riff: “Beverly can handle a Johnson, can’t she?”
\n\u2022 The “Baywatch” bit during the \u201cU-View\u201d invention exchange is kind of an expansion of a throw-away gag Tom Servo did in the previous episode: \u201cDon\u2019t get drunk and swim under the dock.\u201d Doodly-doodly-doodly\u2026 \u201cI\u2019m drunk and swimming under the dock!\u201d
\n\u2022 The previous time around, I asked if anybody could identify the guitar Joel is playing in segment 1. A couple of people told me it was a copy of a Stratocaster, probably a Yamaha. The song he was singing was Neil Young\u2019s “Old Man.”
\n\u2022 Gypsy seems a little grumpy in this one. She\u2019s usually more easy-going.
\n\u2022 Then-current reference: \u201cThe Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag\u201d (1992).
\n\u2022 I remember being bothered, the first time I saw this, about the “cutting off the legs of the pants” scene. I thought–“They’re in a mosquito\/tick-infested swamp and they want to expose MORE skin?? Are they crazy??” Then I saw them in shorts and I forgot about all that… :grin:
\n\u2022 Let\u2019s keep in mind: a snake was shot and killed \u2014 on camera \u2014 in the making of this movie.
\n\u2022 When BBI cleared out of the studio after the show was cancelled, they held an auction designed, mostly, to sell off office furniture and the like. But Barb says there was a bit of confusion that day, and among the things offered for bid were boxes of video tapes, most of which had unedited rough footage of host segments (sometimes three or four or five takes of the same segment, so you can see them trying different line readings) and a few aborted theater sequences where they got started and then stopped for some reason. One of the tapes included some stuff from this episode. BBI was a little embarrassed that these tapes made it into circulation. A lot of it was recovered, but some stuff has been copied and shared a bit<\/a>.
\n\u2022 Check out this list of Touch’s other possible names<\/a> from Ward E.
\n\u2022 Cast and crew wrapup: Director Roger Corman also gave us “It Conquered the World,” “Teenage Caveman,” “Viking Women,” “Gunslinger,” “The Undead” and was executive producer on “Attack of the Giant Leeches,” “High School Big Shot” and “Night of the Blood Beast.” Cinematographer Frederick West also worked on “It Conquered the World,” “Gunslinger” and “The She-Creature.” Editor Ronald Sinclair also worked on “Viking Women,” “The Sea Creature,” “The Amazing Colossal Man,” “Earth vs. the Spider” and “War of the Colossal Beast.” Makeup person Carlie Taylor also worked on “Daddy-O.” Production manager Bartlett Carre was production supervisor on “The She Creature.”
\nIn front of the camera, Beverly was, of course, also in “It Conquered the World” and “Gunslinger.” Lou Place was more often behind the camera: he directed “Daddy-O,” was assistant director on “The Undead” production manager on “It Conquered the World and “Agent for H.A.R.M.” Jonathan Haze was in “It Conquered the World,” “Teenage Caveman,” “Viking Women” and “Gunslinger”. Ed Nelson was in “Teenage Caveman, “Night of the Blood Beast,” “Riding with Death” and “Superdome.”
\n\u2022 CreditsWatch: Host segments directed by Joel Hodgson. And he’s not in the credits, but that’s Mike doing the “Baywatch” voices, of course.
\n\u2022 Fave riff from the short: \u201cKay has worked on the kill floor. She knows where to deliver the blow.\u201d Honorable mention: \u201cThe sensuous pagan ritual begins.\u201d
\n\u2022 Fave riff from the movie: “Let’s just stand here and jut some more.” Honorable mention: \u201cAs we left the clam flowage that day…\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Short: (1951) Young Nick hopes to ask schoolmate Kay for a date, but can’t think of a venue. Movie: (1956) Four women (including one undercover cop) break out of prison, with a plan to recover a cache of stolen diamonds. <\/p>\n

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