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Beginning of the episode
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- Crow
- Help me, I'm on fire! Oh, what a world, what a world.
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- Dr. F
- Wouldn't it be hard on all those Flintstone kids if their favorite
cartoon vitamin came in... LIFESIZE? Hm?
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Start of short "Posture Pals"
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- Crow
- Hey, it's Whistler's mother!
James McNeill Whistler's painting "Arrangement in Grey and Black:
The Artist's Mother", also known as "Whistler's Mother"
features a strong silhouette of the profile of a woman's face.
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- Narrator
- Your body is like a growing tree.
- Servo, as narrator
- ...with Dutch elm disease.
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- Servo, during a panning shot of a tree
- The... larch.
In the sketch "How To Recognise Different Types Of Trees From
Quite A Long Way Away" from "Monty Python's Flying
Circus", a slide shot of a larch tree is shown as a narrator says,
"The larch. The... larch."
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- Crow
- And now, Red in the Silent Spot.
On "The Red Skelton Show", many episodes ended with a
pantomime sketch called "The Silent Spot."
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- Crow, as actress shown on screen
- Thank you, thank you very much. I'm wearing a lovely pantsuit.
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- Joel, pointing at Tommy's chalk-silhouette
- He's got V.P.L.
- Servo
- Hey, lemme tell you--Joel!
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- Narrator
- He's leaning backward, out of balance, just like a house about to fall.
- Servo
- Just like his dad on Friday night.
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- Narrator
- And what gives Jane her worried frown?
- Joel
- Valium?
Valium (diazepam) is a sedative drug used to treat such problems as
anxiety, seizures, and insomnia.
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- Joel
- And you truck like the doodah man.
Joel quotes a line from the Grateful Dead song, "Truckin'"
from the album, "American Beauty". "Truckin' - got my
chips cashed in, Keep Truckin - like the doodah man."
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- Joel
- Ms. Martin! Tommy drew a bong!
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Beginning of second short, "Appreciating Our Parents"
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- Joel, reading shorts credits
- Oh... Professor in Family Life, that's an easy major.
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Beginning of movie
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- Crow
- Hey! Your car's barking! Better change your bark plugs!
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- Joel, as Professor Conway
- (after a toast and a drink) What's the word? Thunderbird. What's the
price? Forty twice. Quite.
Thunderbird is cheap wine that was famous in the 1950s. The commercials
featured a wealthy man rhyming with a bum: "What's the word?
Thunderbird! / How's it sold? Good and cold. / What's the jive? Bird's
alive! / What's the price? Thirty twice."
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- Joel, as Professor Conway
- (smoking) So round, so firm, so fully packed. It's toasted.
This is an advertising slogan for "Lucky Strike" cigarettes.
Servo's follow-up "L.S./M.F.T." is from the same advertising.
It stands for "Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco."
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- Crow
- (As woman is reading from her romance novel) That's not writing, that's
typing.
Truman Capote, author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's", allegedly
said this about the loose grammatical style of Jack Kerouac, author of
"On the Road."
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- Woman
- Coffee?
- Joel
- Yes it is.
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- Crow, as doctor
- (Checking a man's pulse) Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
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- Doctor
- Can you suggest any further treatment, Charles?
- Crow
- Anything further, Father?
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- Servo
- Jethro is dead. Long live Jethro.
"The King is dead. Long live the King!" is a phrase used in
some European countries to mark the transfer of power from one
sovereignty to another.
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- Crow, as Doctor Conway
- (playing organ) I'm sorry, I can't think of the ending.
- Servo
- I can't think of anything else.
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- Lobo
- Time for go to bed.
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- Joel
- By that time, my lungs were aching for... (to Crow) oh, that's your
line, I'm sorry.
"By this time, my lungs were aching for air" (a reference to
the TV series "Sea Hunt," starring Lloyd Bridges) is a
recurring riff on MST3K and is traditionally delivered by Crow.
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- Crow, as Conway
- (sneaking around the halls) Uh... nothing dear, just checking the
joists.
