Brain Bleach/Live-Action TV/Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is rife with aghast reactions to events on the screen. Examples include:
Tom: I'm being punished for something, I know it. What did I do? I DIDN'T ASK TO SEE THIS MOVIE! |
Crow: Mike, I'm going to ask you to kill me now... Mike, please kill me. |
Crow: How can we make a sketch when we have to watch...uh...uh...uh...MANOS! THE HANDS OF FATE... |
Tom: Mike, if I run out of vomit can I have some of yours? |
Crow: To be dead...To be nothing...To watch Neptune Men no more... |
Crow: [mocking the narration] There was no dignity for anyone who worked on this film! |
- "Robot Rumpus", a Gumby cartoon short preceding The Screaming Skull, after the Bots seeing a robot's head hung on a wall:
Crow: Now I need years of powerful Adlerian therapy. |
- Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues..., and the reaction to the farmer's poo-stained trousers, ending with Tom's panting.
- And in The Undead, Servo sadistically shares something about Crusty Gravedigger Smolkin.
Servo: Smolkin's naked sometimes, Mike. |
- There's also Mike and the 'Bots' cries of horror whenever the camera pans down during Prince of Space, revealing that the Chicken-Men of Krankor are going commando.
Mike: (disgusted) What gets into some civilizations?! |
- And during the sex scene between Linda Evans (yay!) and Joe Don Baker (oh sweet merciful Bahamut) in Mitchell:
Joel: BABY OIL?! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! |
- The sequence begins with a bizarre shot of a bulge slowly sliding down the inside of Joe Don Baker's trouser leg. It turns out to be his snubnosed Colt revolver, but for a second...
- Even worse, the implication in context is that it was dislodged by Joe Don Baker's...no.
- The sequence begins with a bizarre shot of a bulge slowly sliding down the inside of Joe Don Baker's trouser leg. It turns out to be his snubnosed Colt revolver, but for a second...
- Attack Of The The Eye Creatures. The final scene with the the Covert Pervert Scrappy Military Officers:
Tom: Joel, I demand you take my head off. |
- Soultaker. Robert Z'Dar's crotch is thrust in Crow's face.
Crow: Wh-wha-WHOA! That took my soul, right there! |
- The Giant Spider Invasion. The cast screams upon seeing filthy Wisconsin hick Dan Kester in his stained pajamas.
Servo: I don't know how, but I just became sterile! |
- Making matters worse, Dan then chases his nubile niece around a table threatening to spank her.
Mike: Aaaaand the movie ramps up the repulsion. |
- Space Mutiny. Leah's seduction of pudgy, balding middle-aged guard Murray, screaming when he takes off his pants.
- The Sinister Urge, written by Ed Wood, featured a scene in which porn director Johnny Ride gave mannish porn mogul Gloria Henderson a long kiss.
Servo: Please, Mike, cover my eyes. |
- It Lives by Night. Comes into play at the end of the movie along with a healthy heaping of Fridge Horror:
Crow: Now, wait a minute -- how did she turn into a bat? The only contact she had with him was in the hotel, and... [long, awkward pause] ...Oh my God. |
- Not all the examples come from the experiments. One host segment of Bride of the Monster featured Tom Servo dressed in a nurse's outfit while Joel used an invention to see what Crow was dreaming of: a sexual fantasy with Tom dressed in the same nurse's outfit. Tom's reaction was identical to VanDorn's in Hardcore.
Servo: Turn it off! Turn it off! Turn it off!!! |
- A similar occurrence happened when Mike decided to contact the Mads without permission, resulting in them stumbling into a disturbingly domestic, loving scene that left Mike, Crow, and Servo with their mouths widely agape.
Mike: So...we can contact the Mads when we like...but...I don't think I'm going to do that anymore. |
- The Horror of Party Beach. The bots' reaction to Mike dancing in tiny bikini briefs.
Crow: Part of me will never be back. Part of me is gone forever. |
- The tradition continues on in Riff Trax.
- For example, in the Riff Trax of Attack of the Clones, Kevin tells Mike during the Greasy Spoon scene regarding slovenly cook Dexter, "Mike, I invite you to think about his underpants." Mike understandably reacts in horror: "Why, Kevin?!" Kevin subverts the trope by telling him that so long as he's thinking about Dexter's underpants, he's forgetting the rest of the movie. Mike's response. "[sigh of relief] You're right. Ah, his underpants..."
- The tradition continues on in Riff Trax.
- Special Mention goes to Child Bride. When watching this movie, the producers decided that they would never use it in their show. There's a hilarious moment in one interview.
Kevin: "I remember now that hillbilly... teenage..." |
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