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514: Teenage Strangler

Members of a teen gang are suspects in a recent rash of stranglings.

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00:00:00

Beginning of the episode

00:01:37

Opening host segment

00:03:03

Invention exchange

00:06:15

Short: Is This Love?

00:06:19 (add an annotation)
Servo
Is this love? Or is it just rough sex with Michael Douglas?

A reference to Michael Douglas' performance as Detective Nick Curran in the steamy thriller Basic Instinct.

00:06:45 (add an annotation)
Sign
Kellock Hall: Women's Residence
Mike
Ah, except for Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari

A reference to the 1980s television show "Bosom Buddies," where two men (played by Hanks and Scolari) disguise themselves as women to live in an apartment that they can afford.

00:17:31 (add an annotation)
Tom
Watch out for snakes!

Reference to a line spoken in Eegah! (Episode 506)

00:20:53

First host segment

00:22:50

Movie begins

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Tom
Richard Speck on a date.

Richard Speck - Killed eight student nurses one night in July of 1966. He died in prison in 1991.

00:34:05 (add an annotation)
Girl
I turned for just a second, and it looked like...
Mike
...And you became a pillar of salt? What? What?!

A reference to the Biblical story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. As Lot and his family flee their home, his wife turns to look back and becomes a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19, verse 26)

00:39:41

Second Host Segment

00:41:46

Second Movie Segment

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Cop, to rowdy teens
Alright, hold it down in here!
Tom
Bored Straight.

Scared Straight - A documentary in which several juvenile delinquents were taken to an actual prison to be screamed at, and intimidated by, actual convicts, in an attempt to make the delinquents end their criminal ways.

00:44:25 (add an annotation)
Tom, as teen punk
Jeez, now you've ruined it, no more killing all summer.
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Cop
Alright boys, follow me...
Mike
...time to introduce you to your new husbands.
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Tom, in an evil, crazy voice, as the killer opens the door
Watchtower! Heh heh heh.

The Watchtower - a magazine published by the Jehovah's Witnesses, who are known to go door to door to people houses in the hopes of converting them to their religion.

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Cop
There's been another murder.
Woman
Oh, no!
Crow, as woman
It wasn't me who was murdered, was it?
01:08:32

Third Host Segment

01:10:42

Third Movie Segment

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Mike
Jimmy pops the clutch and politely asks the world "Would you mind eating my dust, so much?"

A variation on the tag line from Eat My Dust! (1976), "Ron Howard pops the clutch and tells the world to "Eat My Dust!"

01:18:52 (add an annotation)
Tom
They're driving at speeds approaching the actual speed limit!
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Crow
He crashed, then shot himself!
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Crow
Oh no, Mr. B Natural is in one of those lockers!

Reference to the short, Mr. B Natural, from episode #319 - War of the Colossal Beast.

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Mike, as the Janitor (as Torgo)
The Master wants you, but he can't have you.

A reference to a line spoken by the infamous Torgo, spoken in Episode 424, Manos: The Hands of Fate.

01:27:00 (add an annotation)
Crow
Looks like he took dance lessons from Arch Hall Jr.

A reference to one of the actors in the movie, Eegah! from Episode 506. The character dancing in this scene dances similarly to Arch Hall Jr's character in the final scene of Eegah.

01:28:29

Final Host Segment