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\n\u2022 Nice spit take from Joel in the opening.
\n\u2022 Josh’s make up in this show is remarkable! Quite a job. Faye Burkholder and Clayton James are listed as the makeup people in the credits. Kudos to whoever is responsible.
\n\u2022 Thanks to several commenters for pointing out a big goof in this episode: In the opening, Dr. F says the movie features special effects by Ray Harryhausen. It does not; the effects are by Willis O’Brien. In segment 3, Joel correctly describes Harryhausen as O’Brien’s protege, even though he doesn’t seem to be aware that O’Brien’s work is featured in the film he’s watching. In the early days, BBI didn’t do much in the way research. I suspect that, until about season six, the closest thing they had to a research library was a dog-eared copy of Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide.
\n\u2022 They do love that “Fentonville, east of Muncie” joke, don’t they? We’ll hear it several times in the episodes ahead.
\n\u2022 Callback: “This is where they filmed Robot Monster!” (Actually, no.) “Scorpions like this always have lots of ice cold beer around.” (“The Crawling Hand.)
\n\u2022 Joel and the bots produce giant wienies and hold them up to the screen as if they are toasting them on the footage of the volcano. At lease I hope that’s what they’re supposed to be. I’m not quite sure the effect works
\n\u2022 In the ACEG, Mike apologizes for the use of a peeing sound effect in episode 102. But he fails to mention the applause sound effect used every time Ramos is introduced in this ep. Who’s supposed to be clapping, anyway?
\n\u2022 Gypsy’s scorpion tail falls off in host segment 2. They keep going.
\n\u2022 Crow’s Bing Crosby sounds a LOT like his Dean Martin, and vice versa.
\n\u2022 There’s about five minutes after segment 2 when they seem to do nothing but golf riffs. Not really sure why. The scenery in the movie doesn’t really resemble a golf course.
\n\u2022 We get a couple of uses of the “SEEMED like [fill in the blank] … At first!” bit.
\n\u2022 At the end of the closing segment, Josh simply says “Bye!” and walks off the set. And the first cast member departure takes place (if you don’t count episode 104). Weinstein used to get short-shrift by many, but I think, thanks to his excellent work on Cinematic Titanic, that’s changing. Looking back, Weinstein was clearly a gifted young man with a sense of humor and style well beyond his years. He certainly held his own in many ways with co-stars many years his senior. And Weinstein also deserves credit for another achievement–it was Weinstein that spotted struggling young comedian Michael J. Nelson and suggested he be hired.
\n\u2022 Stinger suggestion: A shot of the Milling Around Festival.
\n\u2022 Cast and crew roundup: producer Jack Dietz also worked on \u201cThe Corpse Vanishes.\u201d ?Screen writer David Duncan also worked on \u201cThe Leech Woman\u201d and \u201cThe Thing That Couldn’t Die.\u201d In front of the camera, Richard Denning was also in \u201cThe Day the World Ended.\u201d Arturo Martinez was also in \u201cThe Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy.\u201d
\n\u2022 CreditsWatch: Melanie Hartley and Neil Brede were, once more, additional production assistants. The additional production staff was, again, Jim Erickson and a new name: Elisabet Sandberg.
\n\u2022 Favorite riff: “It’s the Oaxaca steps sequence.” Honorable mention: “Remember that bad thing we saw? It looked just like this. This is bad.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\nMovie: (1957) Giant scorpions emerge from a Mexican volcano and go on a rampage.<\/p>\n
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