History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E21TimeChasers

* BerserkButton: For Eddie, [[IncrediblyLamePun puns]]. Don't insinuate his reality sucks, either.

-->'''Eddie''': Hey! What did I say about [[IncrediblyLamePun puns]]!?

* IncrediblyLamePun: In-universe example: Eddie ''really'' hates them - threatening Servo after he makes one, then smacking Crow hard for making one.
-->'''Lisa:''' Did you bring your ray gun?\\
'''Mike:''' (''as UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan''): Weeell, noo, I...

* SetWrongWhatWasOnceMadeRight: When Crow's trip back to 1908s Wisconsin just makes the present ''worse'' (Mike is now dead, and his abusive brother Eddie is on the SOL with Servo and Crow), Crow goes back to the 80s again, to talk his own past self out of changing the past. This does restore the present to the status quo, but leaves past Crow stuck in 1980s Wisconsin as a permanent resident.

** NiceJobBreakingItHero: When Crow finally convinces Mike to quit temp work (by encouraging him to focus on his rock band Sex Factory), he creates a BadFuture where Mike became famous only to get killed on stage (see GreatWayToGo above), resulting in Mike's sleazy {{Jerkass}} brother Eddie being sent to the SOL instead.

** GeniusBonus: [[invoked]] The derisive nickname for UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan while in office was "Ronnie Raygun".

-->'''Crow:''' This... is not our star, is it? I will ''not'' accept this as our star, sorry. See, he's coming up the stairs right now, going inside to meet the ''real'' hero, real hero coming up, and -- [''Nick enters''] -- D'oh!

* Servo suggests that Crow go back in time and prevent Mike from being shot into space. Crow succeeds in traveling back to 1985 Wisconsin, where he finds Mike as an aimless loser working at a cheese factory. He tries to persuade Mike against working a string of low-paying temp jobs, but young Mike is unconvinced, and Commercial Sign doesn't help either.

-->'''Servo:''' Evidently, Vermont was the epicenter of the dystopia.\\

** The Bots realize just how pathetic 1985 Mike's life is when they see he's a Music/{{Journey}} fan. They also seem to equate working at a cheese factory as failing at life.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Eddie replacing Mike for two segments.

Movie watched: ''Film/TimeChasers''

* As the Bots continue to be Dr. Smith and the Robot, Mike attempts to park the SOL, but collides with the Widowmaker. He checks out the damage, and then has a neighborly talk with Pearl.

* Servo suggests that Crow go back in time and prevent Mike from being shot into space. Crow succeeds in traveling back to 1985 Wisconsin, where he finds Mike is a loser working at a cheese factory. He tries to persuade Mike against working a string of low-paying temp jobs, but young Mike is unconvinced, and Commercial Sign doesn't help either.

* Back in 1985, Crow succeeds in turning young Mike's life around by convincing him to focus on his rock band. Crow returns to the present day. He finds a horrifying new timeline, where Mike died on-stage just as his band was on the cusp of rock stardom; where Mike's rude and crude older brother, Eddie, was sent to the SOL in Mike's place; and where Servo is Eddie's fearful yes-man.

* Fed up with Eddie, Crow goes back to 1985 to prevent himself from disturbing the timeline. Young Mike continues the string of low-paying temp jobs that eventually gets him shot into space, and all is well.

* Crow, dressed as Gilligan, tries to make Mike say "''Series/GilligansIsland,''" with Servo standing by to give his best Skipper impersonation, but Mike doesn't fall for it. Instead, he steps out to have another chat with Pearl. The two talk about Crow's time travel, and eventually realize that there must be a second Crow still stuck back in 1985. Sure enough, back in 1985, Crow's time travel clone is now working at the cheese factory. The factory TV plays over the credits.

--> '''Nick''': So, uh, you cooking dinner?\\
'''Lisa''': Are you offering dinner?\\
'''Crow''': "No, I'm saying, 'Make me dinner!'"

--> '''Pearl''': It's supposed to get down to absolute zero later, that's why I always wear a sweater.

** After Eddie punches Crow out of his seat as a LamePunReaction, Crow says, "Rip my arms off, Eddie." During the second season Joel would rip off Crow's arms in response to Crow's puns.

-->'''Mike Nelson''': You could send Bob Saget to meet Charlamagne.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Brain Guy makes a surprise appearance during the movie's credits to make his own riffs, but after a couple he becomes too embarrassed to continue. Mike and the Bots admit that he was ActuallyPrettyFunny.

--> '''Crow''': Loser status confirmed.

* GoKartingWithBowser: Pearl and Mike have a nice porchside chat as evening sets in just before the movie.

* GreatWayToGo: In the altered timeline, Mike became a huge rock star (well he was on his way, opening for Music/{{Motorhead}}) to the point where women were throwing their hotel keys on stage for him. One night in UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}} someone threw a key with a large keyfob, hitting Mike in the head; he went down and never got back up. Eddie sobs that he's proud of his little brother for this.

--> '''Crow''': Okay, if you can see a character's eye boogers, you're too close.

--> '''Eddie''': You're all right, get up here.\\
'''Crow''': Goll-lee, Edward...

* ILied: In the previous episode (''Film/SpaceMutiny''), Mike and the 'Bots helped Pearl, Brain Guy, and Prof. Bobo escape from AncientRome, with the promise that it meant no more bad movies. "Y'know, sometimes I think I lie because I'm evil."

* JerkAss: Mike's brother Eddie is crude and bullies the robots, even while they watch the film.

-->'''Servo''': They're running out of ALT!\\
'''Eddie''': And their MIFFNOTS[[note]]MPH KNOTS[[/note]] are going down!

--> '''Crow''': You could send an egg into the future!

--> '''Mike:''' ''(as Nick)'' I want you to buy me an Orange Julius.

--> '''Nick''': Wait a minute, you read my contract! I can change anything anytime I want to!\\

'''Mike''': ''(whiny)'' "No, ''YOU'' read it!"

-->'''Lisa (pointing down)''': What's that?\\
'''Crow (as Nick)''': That means I like you!

--> '''Mike''': Let's go, director's college buds who brought their own suits to the shoot!

** The actor who played Matthew Paul ("Pinkboy") was reportedly mad, but director David Giancola blamed it on the alcohol at the viewing party. He's apparently gotten over it, either way.

** The show that the robots all liked is apparently "''[[Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman Dr. Jane Seymour, Medicine Quinn]]''".

--> '''Lisa:''' Looks like there was a war!\\

--->'''Crow:''' Oh yeah, we could prevent Creator/NewtGingrich, Creator/JimCarrey, and Music/TheSmashingPumpkins!

--> '''Mike''': ''(sweetly)'' Oh, he's looking for honey, like [[Literature/WinnieThePooh Pooh]].\\
'''Crow''': Oh, he's "like poo" all right.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Servo acting like a little kid and getting excited when told he can watch ''Film/MondoCane''.

* WithLyrics: Servo superimposes the lyrics to soft-rock songs like "At Seventeen" and the theme from ''Film/{{Arthur 1981}}'' over the film's easy-listening soundtrack.

* BadassMustache: Worn by Mike's brother Eddie.

-->'''Servo:''' Evdiently, Vermont was the epicenter of the dystopia.\\

** During the Bad Future scene, Servo notes that a raiders, standing on a car and wearing an eyepatch, looks like a pirate and chants, "Arrr! Sixteen men on a dead Dodge Dart!"

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Servo's advice to Crow before leaving was to "blend in" -- and no one in 1985 Wisconsin finds Crow's appearances the slightest bit odd or worth commenting on. Taken even further when Crow travels back and confronts his past-self. ("Hey, robot from the future, there's another one of you guys to see you.") Justified in that ''everyone'' at the plant seem to be [[TheStoner stoners]]. Crow fits right in.

** The show that the robots all liked is apparently "''[[Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman Dr. Actress, Medicine Quinn]]''".

* WithLyrics: Servo superimposes the lyrics to soft-rock songs like "At Seventeen" and the theme from ''Film/{{Arthur}}'' over the film's easy-listening soundtrack.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one in 1985 Wisconsin finds Crow's appearances the slightest bit odd or worth commenting on. Taken even further when Crow travels back and confronts his past-self. ("Hey, robot from the future, there's another one of you guys to see you.") Justified in that ''everyone'' at the plant seem to be [[TheStoner stoners]]. Crow fits right in.

* BerserkButton: For Eddie, [[IncrediblyLamePun puns]].
** Don't insinuate his reality sucks, either.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The [=MST3K=] version cuts out most of Nick's adventures in New York City, or at least the part that established Nick had even visited New York to meet with Robertson, and 95% of the cabbie's lines, so the entire subplot of the NY cabbie driving Nick around is a complete BigLippedAlligatorMoment.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The MST3K version cuts out most of Nick's adventures in New York City, or at least the part that established Nick had even visited New York to meet with Robertson, and 95% of the cabbie's lines, so the entire subplot of the NY cabbie driving Nick around is a complete BigLippedAlligatorMoment.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The MST3K version cuts out most of Nick's adventures in New York City, or at least the part that established Nick had even visited New York to meet with Robertson, and 95% of the cabbie's lines, so the entire subplot of the NY cabbie driving Nick around is a complete BigLippedAligatorMoment.

'''Lisa (pointing down)''': What's that?\\