Looking older than their years, alien teens bring a big lobster to Earth, where rebellious but sensitive alien Derek is hunted by his co-horts.
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...away from Miss Gulch, in the beginning (who wants to take or kill the black Scottish Terrier), and later, mirroring this in the dream world of Oz, away from the remaining Directional Wicked Witch.
'Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood' (1976)
From the chorus of 'I am the Walrus'. "I am the eggman / They are the eggmen / I am the walrus / Goo goo g' joob"
Michael Jackson never actually bought the bones of John Merrick (the Elephant Man), though he did view them in a London Hospital.
In the short Phantom Creeps in MST3K 0203 - Jungle Goddess, a character says "The driver is either missing or he's gone" in a voice that sounds like Ronald Reagan. Crow riffed 'Welcome to Death Valley Days', as that was a show starring Ronald Reagan.
From a Bugs Bunny cartoon. The Abominable Snowman says "Just what I always wanted, my own little bunny rabbit. I will name him George and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him"
Monty Python reference from the 'The Meaning of Life' (1983)
Mary Jo Pehl says in the "MST3K Amazing Colossal Episode Guide" (pg. 67) that the writers became "fixated" on this actor's delivery of the word torture. It's a classic example of ACTING!, and references to it crop up in episodes for years to come.
Monty Python reference from 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' (1975)
'Terminator' (1984)
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Citizen Kane (1941). Xanadu from Coleridge "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree"
Monty Python Reference from 'And Now for Something Completely Different' (1971). Clever, because Grandpa is sitting on ... a Comfy Chair!
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A common riff, referring to the Hat Party sketch in MST3K 0310 - Fugitive Alien
Drug reference to the Beatles 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' [LSD] "Picture yourself on a train in a station / With plasticine porters / With looking glass ties, / Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile, / The girl with kaleidoscope eyes."
From the chorus to Country Joe's 'I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag'
Possible reference to the Marx Brothers 'Animal Crackers' (1930). "Three cheers for Captain Spalding", Harpo brings three chairs, and the Margaret Dumont characters says "No one asked for the chairs, put them right where you found them"
Biblical reference, Luke 24:1-5
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'Wizard of Oz' (1939) "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"
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Charles Foster Kane's last word in 'Citizen Kane' (1941)
"Goodnight, sweet prince", Horatio to the body of Hamlet
Chorus from 'They're Coming To Take Me Away' by the band Napoleon the 14th.
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