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522: Teenage Crime Wave

Delinquent teens on the run hold a farm family hostage.

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00:00:00

Beginning of the episode

00:05:25 (add an annotation)
Mike
12 Angry Teens.

'12 Angry Men' is a classic 1957 film starring Henry Fonda about a group of jurors arguing over whether or not a boy is guilty of murdering his father.

00:06:03 (add an annotation)
Crow, in reference to the film's scrolling foreword text and a certain musical cue
Meanwhile, Darth Vader--in his relentless search for Luke Skywalker--and the doughnut-headed Princess Leia are found on the ice planet Hoth, where they are--
Mike
Excuse me. Are you done?
Crow
Yes.
Mike
Thanks.

Crow is paraphrasing the opening text scroll for the second film (or Episode V) of the 'Star Wars' movie series, 'The Empire Strikes Back'.

00:07:26 (add an annotation)
Servo
Looking For Mr. Blandbar.

'Looking For Mr. Goodbar' is a 1975 novel by Judith Rossner based partially on the real-life murder of schoolteacher Roseann Quinn. It was adapted into a movie starring Diane Keaton in 1977.

00:07:59 (add an annotation)
Freddy-Boy
Now, if that would've been me, I'd have been here on time.
Crow
Ever seen me on 'MacGyver'?

'MacGyver' was a hit TV series starring Richard Dean Anderson as a secret agent who regularly used his vast scientific know-how instead of a gun to escape dangerous situations. It aired from 1985 to 1992.

00:10:21 (add an annotation)
Mike
None of this would have happened if they had just used The Club.
Servo
...On each other.

The Club is an automobile anti-theft device designed to lock a vehicle's steering wheel in place.

00:13:30 (add an annotation)
Mike
Robin Williams IS Mrs. Brubaker!

'Brubaker' is a 1980 Robert Redford film about a prison warden posing as an inmate. 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is a 1993 Robin Williams film about a divorced actor posing as a housemaid.

00:13:34 (add an annotation)
Matron
Stop crying, Annie! That shock didn't hurt that much!
Crow, as Annie
No, it was the spinal tap!

A spinal tap (lumbar puncture) is a diagnostic procedure used to extract a sample of cerebrospinal fluid.

00:13:44 (add an annotation)
Matron
All right, the three in front. In you go.
Mike, as matron
Let's take it from the top. (singing) You're not fully clean-- (spoken) you're not singing!

"You're not fully clean unless you're Zest-fully clean!" is the slogan of Zest brand body soap.

00:15:10 (add an annotation)
Mike
It's the floppy arm of the law!
00:24:43 (add an annotation)
Mike (gunman)
You cross us up... and the old lady's dead. Am I getting through to you?
Crow
I'm thinking it over!

"I'm thinking it over" was a famous joke from the Jack Benny radio program.

00:40:14 (add an annotation)
Mike
I heard the secrets that you keep when you're talking in your sleep.

Lyrics from the song "Talking in your Sleep" by the Romantics.