Movie's starting! Come on you guys! Joel, Crow, Servo! Movie!
Film watched: Hercules and the Captive Women
The episode is available in the Gizmoplex here
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The Segments:
Prologue- Gypsy begs Joel to let her join the guys in the theater this week. Tom and Crow are against the idea, but eventually relent.
Segment 1/Invention Exchange
- Frank creates the Lawn Baby, a baby seat attached to a lawn mower, on his own, and it shows, with baby Melvin nearly getting hurt. To get early child development going, Joel creates the Womb-Mate, headphones that a pregnant woman places around her stomach. In the theater, Gypsy tries to riff along with the others, but she ends up leaving within the first five minutes.
Segment 2
- The 'Bots wonder if the film's brand of "good-natured brawling" actually exists. A good-natured brawl promptly breaks out, with the Mads crowing that Joel has finally cracked.
Segment 3
- Crow has written an essay about Hercules and his son Hymus. The facts he gives are all ones that he's honestly reading from his book and totally not making up at all.
Segment 4
- Crow and Tom create a talking Hercules action figure. Tellingly, its one phrase is, "I'm so sleepy, I can barely keep my eyes open."
Segment 5
- Joel hosts a funeral for the final Hercules movie, followed by a lively party. Frank is torn to shreds by the Lawn Baby, but at least baby Melvin is still safe.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of Hercules and the Captive Women contains examples of:
- Cannot Tell a Joke: Gypsy in the theater.Crow: C'mon Gypsy, let's have it!
Gypsy: Uhh, okay. Um... (sees Leon Selznick's credit) Look at that dumb name. That's so stupid!
Crow: Oh, brother... - Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: As the movie begins with "good-natured brawling", Gypsy sees it as if it's really happening in real life instead of, well... just a movie.Gypsy: Hey, stop fighting! Everybody stop fighting!
Joel: (hiding his amusement) Um, it's...it's okay, Gypsy. It's just a movie.
Gypsy: (catching herself) Oh?...Oh! Sorry, sorry... - Continuity Nod: The Deep 13 Day-Care from Time of the Apes and Daddy-O is brought up again as the theme of the Mads' Invention Exchange.
- Eating the Eye Candy: Suggested when Antinea leans quite closely over Hercules to make sure the poison killed him.Servo: (as Antinea) Oh, it all looks so good. Where should I start?
- Even Evil Has Standards: Dr. F takes good care of his baby and is furious that Frank would try to install a car-seat on a lawnmower. "You could have hurt baby Melvin!"
- The "Fun" in "Funeral": Joel and the Bots celebrate the last of the Hercules movies in the style of a wake — a very irreverent, sardonic wake.Servo: Hercules, wherever you are out there, I'd just like to say... Bite me!
- Harmful to Minors: Frank's invention exchange, a baby car-seat that fits on top of a lawnmower. Dr. F is not amused.
- I Have to Go Iron My Dog: Gypsy, after having her fill of Captive Women (About five minutes).
- Supposedly based on how her actor, Jim Mallon, would usually be one of the first writers to leave during the first screening of a movie.
Servo: Gypsy, I weep for you. - Lame Pun Reaction: Quite a few, and they start early.A map of Greece is displayed, a Bonanza joke is made
Servo: If that map burns there will be a Greece fire!
(Joel and Crow laugh)
Crow: Good one! - Lost Food Grievance: Joel and the bots improvise a skit where the sailors on Hercules's ship get into an argument over a missing dinner roll and fruit cup.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Subverted by Crow and Servo's Hercules action figure. Unfortunately all they ever see Herc do is lie around being seduced by Evil Queens, so their figure only brings the "mundane".
- Sarcasm-Blind:Servo: (pretending to read the hieroglyphs in the opening credits) One time, this big lobster came and attacked a lady, but Mister Ed saved her.
Gypsy: Really?
Joel: I think he's kidding, Gypsy. - Shout-Out: When the lepers storm Antinea's castle, Joel, pretending to be Antinea's army commander, says "Shall I call the cops? I'll call the cops." This is a (slightly misquoted) line of dialogue from The Graduate, spoken by a then-unknown Richard Dreyfuss in the original film.
- They Just Dont Get It: At the beginning of the "interesting facts about Hymus" segment, Joel is trying to teach Tom how to play Trivial Pursuit and Tom is completely failing to understand the concept of the game. Joel gives up and says the trope name word-for-word.
- They Killed Kenny Again: TV's Frank gets shredded alive by a lawnmower.
- This Is Gonna Suck: During the opening scene, Crow sees a man get up from his seat and approach a battering ram a group of men are carrying, and hopes it's not Hercules. The man proves he is Hercules by pushing down the battering ram effortlessly, driving Crow into despair.
- Uranus Is Showing: Several of the riffs come from this, particularly the "blood of Uranus" line.Ismene: This day is dedicated to Uranus!
Crow: The day is dedicated to his —?
Joel: That's enough.
