History Film / Hobgoblins

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor[=/=]LotusEaterMachine: The hobgoblins purposefully corrupt their victim's fantasies to kill them.

* {{Expy}}: In one of the film's odder aesthetic choices, Club Scum seems to have borrowed the emcee from ''{{Cabaret}}''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: You may recognize bouncer Road Rash from the business end of [[PulpFiction Butch Coolidge]]'s katana.
* HeyItsThatVoice: The manager at Club Scum, played by DaranNorris, will sound familiar to anyone who has seen ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''. He is also [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Rodyle]], [[DigimonFrontier Mercurymon]], [[TeamAmerica Spotswoode]], [[FushigiYuugi Tatsuki]], and [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Knock Out.]]

This movie is probably best known for being featured on a particularly memorable episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Rick Sloane, the movie's director, actually ''requested'' that the film be featured on the show. Despite this, Sloane and his film suffered some of the harshest riffing that the show ever dished out. Series writer Paul Chaplin commented that the film "[shot] right to the top of the list of the worst movies [they had] ever done". Nonetheless, the choice of this film lead to the creation of an episode that many fans of the show consider to be one of the best.

* DisneyDeath: Nick. Though did anyone, both watching the movie or in-universe, even really mourn him when he "died?"
* DrillSergeantNasty: Appears as part of the Nick's "fantasy." He starts randomly chucking grenades around and viciously pointing a submachine gun at his surroundings (though never actually firing it-- perhaps fake explosions were cheaper than a prop gun that could fire blanks?)

* {{Expy}}: In one of the film's odder aesthetic choices, Club Scum seems to have borrowed the EmCee from ''{{Cabaret}}''.

* SelfParody: The sequel, at least [[TrailersAlwaysLie so it would seem]] from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI8omyZbfeEthe trailer]].
* SpeedSex: After the rake fight, Daphne and Nick immediately make for the van for some celebratory sex, and it's seen [[DontComeAKnockin rocking vigorously]] [[FunnyBackgroundEvent while Kevin and Amy argue in the foreground]]. They reemerge after exactly thirty seconds, none the worse for wear.

* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: [[spoiler:Why didn't [=McCreedy=] blow up the hobgoblins' vault in the ''first place''?]] It makes a "bit" more sense in the uncut as [=McCreedy=] uses the opportunity to screw his boss over on not being able to file an insurance claim because said boss never believed [=McCreedy=] about the Hobgoblins. Of course, Kevin is almost certainly going to be fired too, but the movie never really addresses that.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The manager at Club Scum, played by DaranNorris, will sound familiar to anyone who has seen ''FairlyOddparents''. He is also [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Rodyle]], [[DigimonFrontier Mercurymon]], [[TeamAmerica Spotswoode]], [[FushigiYuugi Tatsuki]], and [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Knock Out.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: The manager at Club Scum, played by DaranNorris, will sound familiar to anyone who has seen ''FairlyOddparents''. He is also [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Rodyle]], [[DigimonFrontier Mercurymon]], [[TeamAmerica Spotswoode]], [[FushigiYuugi Tatsuki]], and [[TransformersPrime Knock Out.]]

** In the sequel, [=McCreedy=] gets thrown into the psychiatric hospital as a consqeunce of his actions.

* MakeoutPoint: Called "Reputation Road". It's surprisingly elaborate, with signs to indicate where you should park based on what you plan to do. Servo thinks they must have public funding.

* MadeOfPlasticine: Apparently Dennis was killed by attempting to crowdsurf when nobody was actually there to hold him up. Even though he was like two feet off the ground, tops.
* MakeoutPoint: Called "Reputation Road". It's surprisingly elaborate, with signs to indicate where you should park based on what you plan to do. Mike thinks they must have public funding.

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Hahahaha...'''You wish.'''It sure does take a while for the title creatures to show up on-screen and you want them to murder the whole cast.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The final gag of the film, a caption reading, "PLEASE REMAIN SEATED UNTIL THE FILM COMES TO A COMPLETE STOP", is actually funny.

* TheEighties
** EightiesHair: ''Dear God.''

* FollowTheLeader: This movie really hopes that you didn't see ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''.
** Rick Sloane has said that he started writing the film before ''Gremlins'' came out, but couldn't find backers. In the initial drafts, the hobgoblins were [[TheGhost never seen]].
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The extra in the Club Scum fight scene who overturns his own table no less than three times.

* IndecipherableLyrics: Iced Chicken? Pig Sticker? Pig Liquor? FISH PICKER! [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hla1_iYAztU Kiss Kicker '99]]
** The mysterious lyrics are finally revealed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kspr_19zgl4 here]] (see video description)

** ManOnFire: The result.
*** MadeOfIron: Yet, he looks like he lost a fight.

* [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Our Hobgoblins Are Different]]: They're plush-sized furry space creatures that can make your deepest fantasies manifest.
** They're also incredibly incompetent for monsters. They only manage to kill one guy in the entire film. They even failed to kill one of the main characters!
* PlotHole: Why is it the Hobgoblins didn't escape from the vault when it was open for several minutes but the second time it was opened they run out in a second?

* TooDumbToLive: Most of the characters.
** Okay, please name the characters that aren't too dumb to live.

* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?]]: Epic rake-dueling! With Casio sound effects!

** Okay, please tell the characters that aren't too dumb to live.

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: It sure does take a while for the title creatures to show up on-screen.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Appears as part of the army boyfriend's "fantasy." He starts randomly chucking grenades around and viciously pointing a submachine gun at his surroundings (though never actually firing it-- perhaps fake explosions were cheaper than a prop gun that could fire blanks?)

* IndecipherableLyrics: Iced Chicken? Pig Sticker? Pig Liquor? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hla1_iYAztU Kiss Kicker '99]]

*** MadeOfIron

* MickeyMousing

** They're also incredibly incompetent for monsters. They only manage to kill one guy in the entire film.

* ReallyGetsAround: Daphne.

* [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?]]: Epic rake-dueling!

''{{Hobgoblins}}'' is a movie that has to be seen to be believed. The haircuts, fashions and generic music showcase most of what was wrong with [[TheEighties the '80s]]. The plot is completely uninspired, the monsters are [[FollowTheLeader blatantly ripped off]] from ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'', the [[SpecialEffectsFailure "special effects"]] are completely atrocious and the soundtrack contains one of the most incomprehensible songs ever "sung" (which, despite this, the movie actually ''grinds to a hard stop'' to show the band performing said song in its entirety).

!!''{{Hobgoblins}}'' contains examples of:

''{{Hobgoblins}}'' is a movie that has to be seen to be believed. The haircuts, fashions and generic music showcase most of what was wrong with [[TheEighties the '80s]]. The plot is completely uninspired, the monsters are [[FollowTheLeader blatantly ripped off]] from ''{{Gremlins}}'', the [[SpecialEffectsFailure "special effects"]] are completely atrocious and the soundtrack contains one of the most incomprehensible songs ever "sung" (which, despite this, the movie actually ''grinds to a hard stop'' to show the band performing said song in its entirety).

* AffectionateParody: ''{{Hobgoblins}}'' was clearly meant to parody ''{{Gremlins}}'', ''{{Ghoulies}}'' and other 80s little monsters movies. However, it is so unfunny that the result is that it is utterly terrible.

* FollowTheLeader: This movie really hopes that you didn't see ''{{Gremlins}}''.

''{{Hobgoblins}}'' is a movie that has to be seen to be believed. While it is probably not the worst movie to ever be screened on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', it is one of them, and it is certainly the sleaziest. The haircuts, fashions and generic music showcase most of what was wrong with [[TheEighties the '80s]]. The plot is completely uninspired, the monsters are [[FollowTheLeader blatantly ripped off]] from ''{{Gremlins}}'', the [[SpecialEffectsFailure "special effects"]] are completely atrocious and the soundtrack contains one of the most incomprehensible songs ever "sung" (which, despite this, the movie actually ''grinds to a hard stop'' to show the band performing said song in its entirety).

This movie is most well known by being [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E07Hobgoblins one of the most popular episodes]] of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Despite Rick Sloane, the movie's director, having actually ''requested'' that the film be featured on the show, it suffered some of the harshest riffing ever seen thus far: The Mads removed the film case from the [[IndianaJones Ark of the Covenant]]. The bots tried to flee the theater during ''the opening credits''. Crow set up a hotline for people traumatized by the movie. Mike and the 'bots tried to escape ''again'' by replacing themselves with cardboard cutouts in the theater and the bridge (it nearly worked, too). Crow impersonated Sloane during the end credits claiming he was "high on crack" and had "[his] brain replaced with rat droppings". Servo tried, and failed, to go back in time to prevent the movie from being made. ''[=MST3K=]'' writer Paul Chaplin commented that the film "[shot] right to the top of the list of the worst movies [they had] ever done". However, it's near universally recognized as having created one of the best episodes of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' ever.

* AffectionateParody: ''{{Hobgoblins}}'' was clearly meant to parody ''{{Gremlins}}'', ''{{Goolies}}'' and other 80s little monsters movies. However, it is so unfunny that the result is that it is utterly terrible.

** Especially considering that while this movie came out quite a while before ''PulpFiction'', the MST3K episode that made it well known came out a few years afterwards.

* {{Narm}}: It's in abundance, but the moment that ''really'' stands out is the infamous rake fight

->''"[[FetishRetardant Can you catch a venereal disease from a movie?]]"''
-->--'''Tom Servo'''

This movie is most well known by being one of the most popular episodes of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Despite Rick Sloane, the movie's director, having actually ''requested'' that the film be featured on the show, it suffered some of the harshest riffing ever seen thus far: The Mads removed the film case from the [[IndianaJones Ark of the Covenant]]. The bots tried to flee the theater during ''the opening credits''. Crow set up a hotline for people traumatized by the movie. Mike and the 'bots tried to escape ''again'' by replacing themselves with cardboard cutouts in the theater and the bridge (it nearly worked, too). Crow impersonated Sloane during the end credits claiming he was "high on crack" and had "[his] brain replaced with rat droppings". Servo tried, and failed, to go back in time to prevent the movie from being made. ''[=MST3K=]'' writer Paul Chaplin commented that the film "[shot] right to the top of the list of the worst movies [they had] ever done". However, it's near universally recognized as having created one of the best episodes of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' ever.

--> '''Servo''': "Club Scum", eh? So why are there lunch ladies back there serving tater tots?

--> '''Crow''': "Yes girls, this is the only way to make your boyfriends like you."

-->'''Mike:''' Ah, Hobgoblins four hours in.

* FailOSuckyname:
--> '''Crow''': "{{Serpico}}. DirtyHarry. [[{{Chinatown}} Jake Giddes]]. ...Kevin."
** Road Rash. ''Road Rash''.

* FridgeLogic: Why didn't they just blow up the hobgoblins in the first place, rather than keep them locked up for decades?
** [=McCreedy=] likely couldn't have gotten another job due to people blaming him for being crazy for telling the story of the hobgoblins. He waited until he was fired, void of any responsibility, and in a position where he could get back at the studio's owner for firing him (after all, the insurance company won't be happy to learn no one was on duty).
** Or as {{Phelous}} points out, [=McCreedy=] could just lock the vault to begin with.

--> '''Crow:''' You're the expert on that.

* InsecuritySystem:
--> '''Mike:''' "Tell me again why they have an elaborate security system ''but they don't lock anything?!''"
* IndecipherableLyrics: [[strike:Iced Chicken]] [[strike: Pig Sticker]] [[strike: Pig Liquor]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hla1_iYAztU Kiss Kicker '99]]

*** MadeOfIron:
-->'''Crow:''' So the only side effect of his [[KillItWithFire complete immolation]] is... ''mild redness and irritation?''

-->'''Crow:''' Their garden tools make little Casio sounds.

* MyGirlIsASlut.
-->'''Crow''': So, Mike, I learned from today's movie that Daphne was a slut, and Amy wasn't fun until she became a slut.
-->'''Mike Nelson''': Well, that's [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop the fun message of today's movie]]!

* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Club Scum, mocked by Crow.
-->'''Crow''': "Chord, chord, chord, chord, chord, other chord."

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!!The ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode of this movie contains examples of:

* CardboardPal: Mike and the 'bots try to trick the Mads by placing cardboard cut outs of themselves in the theater, along with a tape recorder playing some poorly acted generic riffs ("That's stupid") and escaping. In the host segment, we see they did the same on the bridge. Only Observer wasn't fooled.
** During the movie's closing credits, they used another cutout for their faux interview with Rick Sloane.
** Notably, the cardboard cut-outs are based on the silhouettes of Mike and the bots that appeared on the back of Rhino VHS releases of MST3K at the time (the "Pointing Mike" cut-out being the most obvious).
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: When Nick runs away from the hobgoblins, Crow riffs "Oh, Nick's in the ''French'' army, I see."
* DisproportionateRetribution / CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Pearl uses this movie to punish Mike and the 'bots for jumping on her rent-to-own furniture.
** "Get... ''The Movie''." "[[TheScottishTrope Aaaagh]]!"
** A John Agar film festival? [[BigNo NooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooOOOOOooooo!]]
* CreatorBacklash: In a surprising twist, Sloane actually brought his own work to the Brains' attention. He thought they did a good job with it, though he did take offense to their personal insults of him mentioned above.
* FridgeBrilliance: There are a lot of riffs that the hero's name is Kevin. Then you realize writer and Tom Servo's actor is ''Kevin'' Murphy and that he's probably heard all of these jokes at some point.
* AHandfulForAnEye: During the rake fight, Crow suggests, "Throw some Miracle Gro in his eyes!"
* ShipTease: When Bobo calls Tom & Crow's "''Hobgoblins'' Crisis Hotline" for advice about the crush he had on "a woman... (looks at Pearl behind him) a woman ''not of my species''[[hottip:*:(a chimpanzee named Emily)]], {{squick}}ing the 'Bots horribly.
* StableTimeLoop[=/=]YouCantFightFate: Servo's attempt to erase the existence of ''Hobgoblins'' by going back in time and kicking Rick Sloane in the shins ends up being the latter's inspiration for the movie.
** Tom explains this while dressed in a leather jacket and sunglasses while holding a machinegun; Mike explains that he thought that Tom was going to "[[TheTerminator terminate]]" Sloane.
** "That bastard! I'm gonna go back and kill him."
** Appropriately enough, Rick Sloane's admiration for the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation of ''Hobgoblins'' inspired him to create the sequel.
*** According to an [[http://www.badmovies.org/interviews/ricksloane/ interview with Rick Sloane]], he enjoyed the riffing until he got to the part with the faux-interview attacking him personally at the end.
**** Sloane: "I had never seen them rip apart any other director before on the show." He must have missed the ColemanFrancis episodes...
* WithLyrics: "It's TheEighties! Do a lot of coke and vote for RonaldReagan!"
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* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: The manager at Club Scum, played by DaranNorris, will sound familiar to anyone who has seen ''FairlyOddparents''. He is also [[TalesOfSymphonia Rodyle]], [[DigimonFrontier Mercurymon]], [[TeamAmerica Spotswoode]], [[FushigiYuugi Tatsuki]], and [[TransformersPrime Knock Out.]]

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-->''"[[FetishRetardant Can you catch a venereal disease from a movie?]]"''