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623: The Amazing Transparent Man

A mad scientist makes a crook invisible so he can steal radioactive material, but he would rather rob banks instead.

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00:00:00

Beginning of the episode

00:01:33

Opening Host Segment

00:06:09

Short: The Days of Our Years

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Mike
Quite a coup getting Francis Poulenc to do the music.
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Crow
Wooo! Whiter Shade of Pale!
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Servo
Bar-car is kind of a downer tonight.
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Mike
It's Up With Breakmen.

"Up With People" were a disgusting singing group kind of like a tone-deaf and macrame-addicted Polyphonic Spree. They sang "Up With People." Lyrics inside. Blech:

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Sign
PLAN 5 MODEL HOME
Servo
Plan 5 From Outer Space!
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Narrator
The others? They were along for the ride. Whether they liked it or not. Liked it? They hated it.
Mike
Flag on the moon.

A reference to the odd narration of MST3K experiment #621, "The Beast of Yucca Flats".

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Servo
Diarrhea is like a storm...

Reference to a Pepto-Bismol TV commercial.

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Crow
Charlie was close now. You could smell him.

"Charlie" is radio-letter-code for "C," which is the second, and identifying, letter, of the phrase "Viet Cong," or the North Vietnamese (our enemies in the Vietnam War). Over the radio, soldiers would call the Cong, "Charlie," then...