Looks like he's playing football against Claude Rains' university.
Dr. Forrester: Your film today, Joel, is a little teen exploitation film called Untamed Youth. And, uh, well, it stars the grande dame of pimply teenage romps, the queen of adolescent angst: Mamie van Hooter.
Dr. Erhardt: Uh, Doren.
Dr. Forrester: Doren! Mamie van Doren!
Dr. Erhardt: It's got hep cats, cool chicks, insensitive authority figures, and a few showstopping production numbers. Enjoy!... if you can.
Dr. Erhardt: Uh, Doren.
Dr. Forrester: Doren! Mamie van Doren!
Dr. Erhardt: It's got hep cats, cool chicks, insensitive authority figures, and a few showstopping production numbers. Enjoy!... if you can.
Film watched: Untamed Youth
The episode is available in the Gizmoplex here
.
The Segments:
Prologue
- Joel does a maintenance checkup on Tom, revealing that he has a “magnetic tapeworm” in his innards.
Segment 1
- Joel invents the never-light pipe in an attempt to curb smoking. The Mads create Tongue Puppets, little characters that are put in the mouth and operated with the tongue.
Segment 2
- Joel and the Bots present a tribute to TV’s Greg Brady, inspired from Arkie’s uncanny resemblance to him.
Segment 3
- Crow flashes back to a time when Joel managed to connect Gypsy’s brain to Cambot to see what she was thinking about. It turned out to be RAM chips and a glossy of Richard Baseheart.
Segment 4
- After asking Gypsy to produce some cotton in the theater for Tom, Joel and the Bots discover that Gypsy is sick and can’t stop producing the stuff, filling the bridge with it. Tom manages to get Gypsy to barf up other things on command, namely salt water taffy, paper towels, and even a second version of himself.
Segment 5
- The guys imitate the dorky, glassing-wearing guy from the movie, along with his erratic dancing. A letter is read.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of Untamed Youth contains examples of:
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Much is made of Mamie Van Doren's assets.
- Call-Back: Crow mentions SPACOM as one of the crops being grown.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: The first non-sci-fi/horror/giant monster film featured on the show, and the only time the writers got drunk while writing the riffs for the episode.note
- Harsher in Hindsight: Joel and the bots have one in-universe when Baby dies, and it's revealed she had been five months pregnant. Joel immediately expresses regret for having made fun of the movie.
- Matter Replicator: Gypsy is revealed to have this function, but it quickly goes haywire.
- Mental Picture Projector: Joel hooks Gypsy up to one to see what she's thinking about. It was the same thing she was always thinking about (at that point in the show): Richard Baseheart and RAM chips.
- Noodle Incident: During one of the dance sequences.Joel: "Prison was never like this when I was there."Servo: "... What?"
- Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: Servo jokes that the lyrics to one of Penny's songs — "Jiggle and wiggle and wiggle and rock" — was her doing this.
- Running Gag: Joel and the bots find one of the girls bears a striking resemblance to Greg Brady.
- Stylistic Suck: Joel and the Bots' presentation on the life of Greg Brady is done in the style of an awkward school group presentation, with stiff performances, spurious facts and badly-hummed background music.
