History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E06Laserblast

** ''Franchise/StarTrek'': MONAD, Mike & the 'Bots falling into Trek mode when they take control of the Satellite of Love.

** Jokes at Eddie Deezen's expense, culminating in Mike and the 'bots urging for Billy to kill Deezen's character only to regret it when he finally does and Deezen is replaced by an even more annoying hippie.

** References to Leonard Maltin's 2½-star review of the movie, culminating in the 'bots spending the credits comparing the score to other movies in one of Maltin's books, coming to the conclusion that Maltin apparently considers ''Laserblast'' to be a better movie than ''HannahAndHerSisters'', ''TaxiDriver'' and ''BeingThere'' and as good as ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'' and ''Film/SophiesChoice''.

** Jokes at Eddie Deezen's expense, culminating in Mike and the 'bots urging for Billy to kill Deezen's character only to regret it when he finally does.

* ShoutOut: The final scenes with Dr. Forrester were a parody of ''[[TwoThousandOne 2001: A Space Odyssey]]''

** "Can't we just get [[Film/MadMax beyond Thunderdome]]?"

Film watched: ''{{Laserblast}}''

''Laserblast'' was featured on MST3K in what would be the last episode of its final season on Comedy Central (before moving to the Sci-Fi Channel). As such, the MST3K episode itself was something of a [[SeriesFauxnale series finale]] as the staff wasn't sure it would be saved from cancellation. It also marked the final episode with Trace Beaulieu, who portrayed both longtime nemesis Dr. Forrester and the voice of Crow T. Robot.

--->'''Servo:''' "[[{{Escape2000}} Leave the Bronx! You are ordered to leave the Bronx!]]"

** Mike's MissionControl role is a parody of Ed Harris in ''Apollo13''.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Happens to MONAD

'''Forrester:''' Did ''I'' say that? Hmmm. Well, maybe I did. What do you want? I'm evil!

* LogicBomb: Subverted: Mike and the 'bots try to disable MONAD with one of these but it doesn't work. So they [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim simply]] [[ThrownOutTheAirlock throw him out the airlock]].

* OralFixationFixation

** "Can't be just get [[Film/MadMax beyond Thunderdome]]?"

-->'''Servo:''' "''Film/RedZoneCuba III: The Destruction Of Cherokee Jack''".

''Laserblast'' was featured on MST3K in what would be the last episode of its final season on Comedy Central (before moving to the Sci-Fi Channel). As such, the MST3K episode itself was something of a [[SeriesFauxnale series finale]] as the staff wasn't sure it would be saved from cancellation. It also marked Trace Beaulieu's final episode, who portrayed both longtime nemesis Dr. Forrester and the voice of Crow T. Robot.

!!The ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation contains examples of:

--->'''Servo:''' "[[{{Escape2000}} Leave the Bronx! You are ordered to leave the Bronx!]]"

* {{Cowboy Bebop At His Computer}}: The [=MST3K=] crew's [[http://www.mst3kinfo.com/guide/ep706.html summary of the episode]] claims that while shutting down operations on Deep 13, Dr. Forrester tells the SOL crew that the satellite will drift through space and probably fall into a black hole, while in the actual episode, he instead tells them that its orbit will decay in two hours, and Mike and the bots will die in a crash landing. Servo then makes the satellite drift into space himself, and that's the last the SOL crew hears from Forrester. The mistake is likely related to the staff having written the Season 7 summaries many years after the broadcast and trying to do them from memory, as opposed to the other summaries which were written during the show's production.

** Mike's [[MissionControl]] role is a parody of Ed Harris in ''Apollo13''.

** References to Leonard Maltin's 2½-star review of the movie, culminating in the 'bots spending the credits comparing the score to other movies in one of Maltin's books, coming to the conclusion that Maltin apparently considers ''Laserblast'' to be a better movie than ''HannahAndHerSisters'', ''TaxiDriver'' and ''BeingThere'' and as good as ''{{Unforgiven}}'' and ''[[Film/SophiesChoice Sophie's Choice]]''.

* SeriesFauxnale: At this point, Comedy Central had canceled their run and they weren't sure about their future so they set this up to be a Series Finale. Fortunately, the Sci-Fi Network (now SyFy) rescued it from cancellation and gave it three more seasons.

** A shot of a beach ball at a pool party leads to a joke about [[ThePrisoner Rover]].

** ''{{Roadhouse}}''

* Adorkable: We get this side to Tom Servo with this line. If this fact about him isn't cute, I don't know what is:

-->'''Servo:''' "RedZoneCuba III: The Destruction Of Cherokee Jack".

-->'''Mike:''' This is ''so'' ColemanFrancis right now.

''Laserblast'' was featured on MST3K in what would be the last episode of its final season on Comedy Central (before moving to the Sci-Fi Channel). As such, the MST3K episode itself was something of a [[SeriesFauxnale series finale]] as the staff wasn't sure it would be saved from cancellation. It also marked the final episode of Trace Beaulieu, who portrayed both longtime nemesis Dr. Forrester and the voice of Crow T. Robot.

** Actually, Mike is doing a parody of Ed Harris in ''Apollo13''.

* {{Expy}}: MONAD, a parody of ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''' NOMAD.

* SanitySlippage: Mike dressing as [[StarTrekVoyager Capt. Janeway]]. Although s/he saves the S.O.L., s/he indulges herself with some "Proud Mary" afterward, Tina Turner-style.

** ''StarTrek'': MONAD, Mike & the 'Bots falling into Trek mode when they take control of the Satellite of Love.
** ''StarTrekVoyager'': Mike shows up in one sketch dressed as Captain Janeway. Things somehow drift into him singing "Proud Mary" in the style of Tina Turner.