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608: Code Name: Diamond Head

In Hawaii, a secret agent tries to get back a stolen formula for a deadly gas.

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00:00:00

Beginning of the episode

00:01:33

Opening Host Segment

00:04:52

Short: A Day at the Fair

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Mike
Eurgh, Freddy Krueger.

Freddy Krueger is the hideous villain in the Nightmare on Elm Street horror movies.

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Narrator
Into the truck goes one of the calves that Johnny Olson has raised.
Servo
Tell us what they've won, Johnny Olson!

Johnny Olson was a famous American TV announcer for variety and game shows from the 1950s through to the '80s, probably best known for "The Price is Right".

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Crow
They need Rogaine.

Rogaine is the brand name for Minoxidil, a drug used to treat male pattern baldness.

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Mike
Hitler's Death Car!

Many carnivals featured the "Death Car" of famous people, (such as actor James Dean and serial killer Ed Gein) the car which they supposedly had been killed in, as a pay attraction.

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Crow
Later, these moths turn up in the mouths of Bob's victims.

A reference to "Silence of the Lambs" (1991).

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Narrator
Other fair-goers like to picnic on the grass, like this.
Mike, as Narrator
Grazing in the grass is a gas, baby, can you dig it?

An oft-repeated line in the hit by The Friends of Distinction, "Grazing in the Grass"

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Narrator
Wonder what it would be like to fly it?
Mike, as Narrator
...over Cambodia, secretly maintaining plausible deniability.

American flights over officially non-combatant Cambodia in the Vietnam War used the dubious doctrine of plausible deniability to avoid wider political repercussions.

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Servo, as parade girls (singing)
Here we are now, entertain us. I feel stupid, and contagious.

A reference to the music video of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana (1991).

00:15:25

Movie Segment 1

00:25:06

Interval Host Segment 1

00:27:08

Movie Segment 2

00:43:40

Interval Host Segment 2

00:44:52

Movie Segment 3

01:09:22

Interval Host Segment 3

01:10:58

Movie Segment 4

01:28:00

Final Host Segment