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\n\u2022 Again, no opening segment.
\n\u2022 Again, no buttons: table slapping.
\n\u2022 Again, no Bots during invention exchange.
\n\u2022 Both inventions were previously shown on KTMA and “hell in a handbag” is from Joel’s standup act.
\n\u2022 Is this the first we get the classic unison line “THANK YOU!” from the Mads? (Last time around, commenters noted that, no, that line was used last week.)
\n\u2022 Great line from the opening bit: “No, that’s when I became a SCIENTIST.”
\n\u2022 As Joel enters the theater, he is grumbling about having to carry Servo, and mutters “I gotta get wheels for you…”
\n\u2022 During the short, when the opening text appears, Joel and Crow duck out of the way so people can read it. Tom doesn’t care.
\n\u2022 The blue screen is still somewhat “thin” making Tom look a bit strange.
\n\u2022 The seats are again dark gray.
\n\u2022 I am going to guess that it was Josh who was the big NASA fan on the writing staff. His mention of Alan Shepard and his golf cart is incredibly space-program-nerdy.
\n\u2022 Host segment 1 is a first-season classic, as Tom Servo puts his best moves on an unsuspecting blender. It’s also an almost word-for-word do-over of a segment from episode K11- Humanoid Woman. Great line: “Nobody drinks from my gal!”
\n\u2022 This movie has a plot we will see again and again on MST3K: The mad scientist determined to prove his detractors wrong–just before he kills them, preferably by way of the very invention at which his detractors scoffed. But there’s an interesting twist to this plot: This guy may be mad, but he’s a patriot! He plans to give the war department his invention to help them build an army of werewolf soldiers to win WWII!
\n\u2022 It’s amazing that this movie came out in 1942. It feels like 1932, especially the sound, which sounds like an early talkie.
\n\u2022 The plot is somewhat similar to the “Phantom Creeps” serial of season 2 and I swear some of the same sets were used. If not they’re pretty similar.
\n\u2022 Movie comment: Does the title refer to the doctor? It can’t refer to poor Petro. And is the monster angry mad or insane mad? Wolf Petro is pretty surly but I don’t think you can call him mad.
\n\u2022 Joel’s hair is never in good order on the show but in segment 2 it’s particularly weird.
\n\u2022 Joel calls Servo “Crow” at one point…they both react with irritation.
\n\u2022 There’s a reference to Doonesbury at one point. Remember when Doonsebury was relevant? (This offhand comment caused some ruffled feathers in the comments section last time, and for that I apologize. I didn’t mean to diss Trudeau, who I think is very talented. I just think there was a period in the previous century, when the comics page was part of a daily ritual for most people — me included — where Doonesbury part of the daily conversation. With the decline of newspapers, that’s not really the case any more. That’s all I meant by it. Again, my apologies to Trudeau fans for the flip remark.)
\n\u2022 Joel turns the bots off at the end of segment three. Something he did not do much.
\n\u2022 There’s a comment about keeping one’s computer plugged in. This is at least a couple of years before people began to buy home computers in any real numbers. These guys were ahead of their time.
\n\u2022 In segment three, they again reference the idea that Tom Servo looks like a fire hydrant. I don’t really see it.
\n\u2022 Naughty line: “You’re very well equipped.” “Thank you, I didn’t think you could tell through the trousers.”
\n\u2022 In a very KTMAesque move, J&TB leave the movie before it is over and we get about 20 seconds of empty theater.
\n\u2022 Gypsy is still barely understood over her squeaking jaw joint, and her light is still off.
\n\u2022 Cast and crew roundup: Producer Sigmund Neufeld also produced “Lost Continent.” He is not to be confused with director Sam Newfield, who also directed “Lost Continent,” “I Accuse My Parents” and “Radar Secret Service.” (Perhaps his most infamous film was made in 1938: “The Terror of the Tiny Town,” a Western featuring an all-little-people cast.) Cinematographer Jack Greenhalgh also worked on “Lost Continent” and “Robot Monster.” Makeup guy Harry Ross also worked on “Lost Continent” and “Viking Women and the Sea Serpent.” Go-to makeup guy Harry Thomas also worked on “Project Moon Base,” “The Unearthly,” “Bride of the Monster,” “Invasion USA,” “Racket Girls,” “High School Big Shot” and “Night of the Blood Beast. Production manger Bert Sternbach also worked on “Lost Continent. Production Designer Fred Preble also worked on “Radar Secret Service.” Nobody in front of the camera was ever seen in another MSTed movie.
\n\u2022 What’s your pick for stinger? Mine is: Petro, sitting in the chair, “gettin’ a whiff of his own overalls.” Or Zucco laughing as he holds up a vial of his serum.
\n\u2022 Fave short riff: How come they got Groucho Marx mustaches on their helmets?
\n\u2022 Fave movie riff: “Now, Bingo is his name-o.” Honorable mention: “Now I’m going to go turn my daughter into a woodchuck.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\nShort: (1951) Cody and Ted manage to steal the Moon Men’s gun, but are soon cornered. Movie: (1942) A discredited scientist succeeds in turning his servant into a werewolf, and begins to plot revenge.<\/p>\n
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