After catching a mysterious gill-breathing humanoid in the Amazon,
scientists bring it back to Florida to study and display to the public,
but he escapes, looking for his new gill-less girlfriend, who knows how to
say "Stop!"
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Beginning of the episode
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Opening host segment
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- Bobo
- According to your calendar, this is the year 2525.
- Servo
- 2525? Is man still alive?
- Gypsy
- Did woman survive?
- Crow
- Can you pick your son, pick your daughter too, from the bottom of a
long glass tube?
Paraphrases lyrics from the 1969 song "In the Year 2525 (Exordium
and Terminus) by Zager and Evans.
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- Mike
- A planet where apes evolved from men?!
- Bobo
- Well, it's maybe a little more complicated than that, but that is the
broad outline, yes.
- Mike
- You did it! You finally did it!
- Bobo
- Damn us all to hell, yes, yes.
- Mike
- It's a mad house! A--
- Bobo
- --Mad house. I know.
Paraphrases lines spoken by the character George Taylor (Charlton
Heston) in the 1968 movie "Planet of the Apes."
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Movie begins
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- Servo, seeing the movie title
- The Randy Johnson Story!
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- Servo, seeing the credit "Music Supervision by Joseph Gershenson"
- Great supervision. Give me a needle drop on some "This Island
Earth" music.
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- Mike, seeing the phrase "A Tributary of the Upper Amazon"
- Live, from Lincoln Center, a tributary to the upper Amazon! With Johnny
Carson! Steve and Eydie!
- Crow
- Vice President Al Gore!
- Mike
- Buddy Hackett!
- Crow
- Don Rickles!
- Mike
- And Beck!
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- Crow
- We now return to our tributary to the upper Amazon with Celine Dion!
- Servo
- John Kenneth Galbraith!
- Mike
- Tom Wopat!
- Crow
- Gerald Ford and the Statlers!
- Servo
- Starship!
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- Mike
- With Karen Black!
- Crow
- Thomas Aquinas!
- Servo
- Queen Latifah!
- Mike
- Nico Machiavelli!
- Crow
- Vanilla Ice!
- Servo
- Gabriel García Márquez!
- Mike
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer!
- Crow
- Martin Buber and Junior Samples!
- Servo
- Christina Pickles and Franz Liszt!
- Mike
- Bonnie Bedelia and Gregor Mendel!
- Crow
- Geraldine Ferraro and Carrot Top!
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- Mike
- The Creature of Calumet Harbor!
Calumet Harbor is the artificial harbor on Lake Michigan at the mouth
of the Calumet River in south Chicago.
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00:16:42
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- Crow
- With Edna St. Vincent Millay and Topo Gigio--
- Mike
- It's--it's over, Crow.
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- Crow
- With Martin Heidegger and Men Without Hats!
- Mike
- Crow! That's it.
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- Crow, after seeing Clint Eastwood in a lab coat
- This guy's bad. This is his first and last movie.
Actor/director Clint Eastwood (1930- ), later known for films like
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "Dirty Harry,"
made his debut in this movie.
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First host segment
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- Servo
- Well, Mike, jerking around must have caused a flame-out...
A direct quote from "This Island Earth", the experiment used
in MST3K: The Movie, spoken originally by the exceedingly nerdy lab
assistant Joe as Cal loses control over his jet.
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- Mike
- Henry Rollins to the rescue.
Henry Rollins was the muscular singer for the punk band "Black
Flag" from 1981-1986.
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- Crow
- With Benazir Bhutto and Flavor Flav!
- Mike
- Crow, please.
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- Crow
- Hmm, suddenly we've got an Aaron Copland thing going on.
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was an American composer. Some of his best
known works are "Fanfare for the Common Man",
"Rodeo", "Appalachian Spring", and "The Red
Pony Suite".
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Second host segment
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- Mike
- Ugh, he looks like a rat of NIMH.
A reference to the scientifically-altered intelligent rats from the
Newbery Award-winning book "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH"
by Robert O'Brien or the animated film based on it, "The Secret of
NIMH".
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- Crow, as a shark is shown
- This is not Greg Norman.
Professional golfer Greg Norman's nickname is "The Shark".
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- Servo, as Gill Man meditating
- O, that this too too solid flesh would...
An opening line from one of Hamlet's many, many soliloquys-- this
particular one coming from Act I, scene 2, line 131.
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- Servo, as Gill Man attempting to mate with foxy ichthyologist
- Ah, can't you see what I'm trying to tell you, Mrs. Claypool? I love
you!
One of Otis B. Driftwood's attempts to woo the fabulously wealthy Mrs.
Claypool in "A Night at the Opera".
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- Mike, as John Agar puts his gams on display with upsettingly tiny swim trunks
- Oh, Daddy-Long-Legs!
The uncharacteristically femmy way in which Mike makes this remark
leads me to believe it is a reference to either the Jean Webster novel
"Daddy-Long-Legs" or any of the three film adaptations of the
book.
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- Servo
- Can we watch "My Life as a Dog" again tonight?
Reference to the Swedish movie "Mitt liv som hund" (1985)
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- Servo
- Rock the casbah, rock the casbah.
"Rock the Casbah" is a song on the album "Combat
Rock" (1982) by The Clash.
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- Mike
- And the John Birch Society meeting comes to an end.
The John Birch Society is an extremely conservative organization that
was founded to fight communism.
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- Tom, as truck with police on the back drives by
- Good thing they enlisted the help of the Joads.
The Joads were the migrant family who travelled around looking for work
in John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath.
