History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E01Reptilicus

* {{Calvinball}}: As Captain Brandt is playing chess:

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: After creating a bunch of Tom Servo clones, Crow casually melts them all down. In fact, he accidentally melts the ''original'' Tom Servo down and leaves a clone in his place. Jonah and the clone notice this mistake, and ''don't care at all''.

* DistressCall: Kinga Forrester lures Jonah to Moon 13 by sending out a fake distress signal.

** "[[WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine The island of Sodor!]] No!"

* ExpositionFairy: This episode starts the trend of replacing the commercials with clips of TV's Son of TV's Frank explaining the various pieces of MST3K lore.

* ThemeTuneCameo: Kinga's "Show Trap" plays a ''VideoGame/MarioPaint'' rendition of the MST3K theme as it works. Jonah notices the song and thinks it sounds familiar.

** During "Every Country Has a Monster" Jonah knocks over several of the monster models and looks directly at the camera with an OhCrap expression. Fortunately this is ''exactly'' in the spirit of MST3K.

** When they wonder where to find a drug powerful enough to knock out Reptilicus: "We could feed him Keith Richards!"

** During the war room sequence after Reptilicus escapes, Jonah and the Bots reference the famous ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' sketch by the Dead Alewives. "I cast magic missle! I'm attacking the darkness!"
** Jonah calls one girl Anime/SailorMoon due to her outfit.

** [[Film/SinginintheRain "All I do the whole night through is dream of you…"]]

** "In Denmark, the Beatles chase you!"

** During the war room sequence after Reptilicus escapes, Jonah and the Bots reference the famous "Dungeons and Dragons" sketch by the Dead Alewives. "I cast magic missle! I'm attacking the darkness!"

* MoneyDearBoy: Kinga's exposition at the start of the episode reveals her grand plan (at the moment) to be rebuilding the brand to sell off to Disney for billions--could also count as LeaningOnTheFourthWall, depending on the viewer.

* HughMann: A riff on oneof thw writers' names. "[[AC:Ib Melchior. Yes, that is my human name. Why?]]"

* HughMann: "[[AC:Ib Melchior. Yes, that is my human name. Why?]]"

** And there's the American International Pictures logo in the film itself:

[[caption-width-right:350:(They all sing the Munsters theme.)]]

* It's two months later. The bots discuss the upgrades Jonah's given them. For his first invention exchange, Jonah invents a foldable bubble wand, the Bubble Fan. Kinga claims to have something better than an invention: true star power, in the form of a monster movie just packed with famous actors. It falls flat when Max points out that Danish comedian Dirch Passer is the only celebrity in ''Reptilicus''.

Is a long-old flying dino\\

* BroadStrokes: In a perfectly fitting case of the MST3KMantra, the first episode of the revival makes absolutely no attempt to explain what Crow, Tom, Gypsy and Cambot are doing back in space helping a guy riff on bad movies.

** [[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} "Don't cross the streams, Venkman!"]]

** The ExpositionFairy segments play a jazz version of "Livin' in Deep 13" from ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E10TheViolentYears The Violent Years]]'', the "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E07WildRebels Wild Rebels Cereal]]" jingle music, and [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E10TheFinalSacrifice Tom Servo's "Canada Song"]].

* RearrangeTheSong: The ExpositionFairy segments play a jazz version of "Livin' in Deep 13" from ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E10TheViolentYears The Violent Years]]'', the "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E07WildRebels Wild Rebels Cereal]]" jingle music, and [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E10TheFinalSacrifice Tom Servo's "Canada Song"]].

** [[Film/WhenAStrangerCalls "The calls are coming from INSIDE the aquarium!"]]

* It's two months later. The bots discuss the upgrades Jonah's given them. For his first invention exchange, Jonah invents s foldable bubble wand, the Bubble Fan. Kinga claims to have something better than an invention: true star power, in the form of a monster movie just packed with famous actors. It falls flat when Max points out that Danish comedian Dirch Passer is the only celebrity in ''Reptilicus''.

* ThrowItIn: During the Electric Eel Skit, Jonah pretends to be the movie's director:

* It's two months later. The bots discuss the upgrades Jonah's given them. For his first invention exchange, Jonah invents s foldable bubble wand, the Bubble Fan. Kinga claims to have something better than an invention: true star power, in the form of a monster movie just packed with famous actors. It falls flat when Max points out that Danish comedian Dirk Passer is the only celebrity in ''Reptilicus''.

->'''Crow:''' Only God [[PlayingGod may play God]]! [[Film/BruceAlmighty And]] [[Film/EvanAlmighty sometimes]] Creator/MorganFreeman!

* ExpositionFairy: This episode starts the trend of replacing the commercials with clips of TV's Son of TV's Frank explaining the various pieces of MST3K lore.

* ThemeTuneCameo: Kinga's "Show Trap" plays a ringtone-esque version of the MST Love Theme as it works. Jonah notices the song and thinks it sounds familiar.