YMMV / Mystery Science Theater 3000 S08 E22: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

• Funny Moments:
  • When Appolonia appears in the simulation like a Messenger From God, complete with Cherubic Choir: "You can't always get what you wa-ant..."
  • Upon arrival at "Nirvana Village", which looks like a mall with the word "Nirvana" in huge letters engraved on the floor:
    Crow: Come / As you are / To my mall / To my atrium, yeah yeah...
  • Servo unleashes a symphony of farting, belching, wheezing and other urpy noises during the length of the Chairman's monologue at the garden. You can see and hear Crow barely stifling a cackle.
  • Fingal: I can't take this any more. I'm so bored!
    Servo: Okay, which one of us said that?
    Crow: Hm, I felt it...
  • Rick: It's up to you.
    Fingal: It's okay. I can handle it.
    Crow: What I want to know is: What is this "it" which is to him "up" and which he can perhaps "handle".
  • Fingal: Why don't we go back to my place and make love?
    Felicia: I thought you'd never ask... big boy.
    Servo: Actually I'm "Size Doesn't Matter" Boy...
  • When Fingal is first hit by the Dopple beam and his face freezes in a funny expression with his eyes and mouth open:
    Crow: (In Puerto Rican accent) I seemed to have died, is that okay?
    • And before that, when Fingal gives a deep breath, the Dopple beam hits him and his face contorts into that look as he sucks in another breath:
    Crow: Not that deep!
  • "My lunchbox can withstand a nuclear blast."
  • "Oop... It's the big one!!"
• Harsher in Hindsight: Early in the film, Mike and the Bots make jokes that the Chairman resembles their former castmate, TV's Frank. For the rest of the film, however, the jokes about the Chairman overwhelmingly reference his heavy build, making the lighter jokes about Frank come off like personal digs at Frank Conniff's weight.
• Heartwarming Moments: The MST crew went out of their way in the episode and the episode guide commentary to point out how talented Raul Julia was. In a way, featuring the movie wound up being a tribute to the actor instead of an insult, in that it highlighted how much a thespian of his calibre didn't deserve to be in such schlock, even if he did it as a passion project to help support public broadcasting. As Bill Corbett explains in the episode guide:
  Corbett: "The real problem here — rare indeed for our show — is that the lead character is played by an actor who is actually a very good and highly respected actor: Raúl Juliá. And the recently deceased Raul Julia, at that. So we spent much of the movie feeling a bit worried that we might be besmirching the late Mr. Julia's reputation. But in the end, we went light on Raul and hard on this extraordinarily dumb movie whose relentless "funny" techno-futuro-jargon was the screenwriting equivalent of water torture."
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The spoof of public television pledge drives got even funnier when it was announced that MST3K episodes would air on PBS stations.
  • And, Mike, Kevin and Bill did later get to tackle Casablanca by itself.
  • MST would later use Kickstarter to crowdfund the Netflix and Gizmoplex seasons—which is basically just the 21st century version of a pledge drive.
• Memetic Mutation: "'M I nuts?" and "Is it SEXY?"
  • Also, "Huge slam on anteaters out of nowhere!"
• Values Dissonance: The constant jokes about the Chairman's weight, in an era where "fat shaming" is seen as increasingly unacceptable.

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