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818: Devil Doll

An American reporter becomes suspicious, after watching a British ventriloquist act.

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00:00:00

Beginning of the episode

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Opening Segment

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First Host Segment

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Movie Begins

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Mike, as Vorelli
I must've been REALLY drunk last night.
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Crow
Oh, Federated Incorporated Industries, Limited.
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Mike
When is he going smash watermelons?

Gallagher is a prop comic best known for his shtick of smashing various objects onstage, most famously watermelons.

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Mike, as Hugo, sounding forced
All I want is my fair share. All I want is what's coming to me.

A (slightly misquoted) line from "A Charlie Brown Christmas". The voices in the cartoon were done by children who had trouble memorizing lines, hence the forced sounding reading.

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Crow
The Puppet Haters Club will be right back!
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All
Butt-Lady, Butt-Lady, Butt-Lady...
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Mark
His act is certainly different...
Mike
...than a good act.
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Marianne
He really does seem have some unusual power.
Crow
He should use it in the act.
00:24:35

Second Host Segment

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Pitch
Well I'm A devil, not THE Devil.
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Crow
Meanwhile, at stiflejoy co
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Crow, as Marianne looks with a blank stare
Fever for the flavor of Pringles: actual footage

Fever for the flavor of Pringles was the 80's advertising slogan for Pringles potato chips.

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Mark
Hey!
Marianne
Hmm? Oh... nothing. Daydreaming I suppose.
Servo, as Marianne
About this great "Are You Being Served" I saw last night.

"Are You Being Served?" was a long-running British sitcom, now often seen in the US on PBS reruns.

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Crow, as camera pans across the audience
Pasty, Pasty, Beefy, Pasty.
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Servo, looking at Marianne in nightgown
Um, does she have four breasts?
Crow
That's what I'm counting.
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Crow
Mike, do you think if I went away, and painted the entire satellite, and then came back, that I'd miss anything?
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Servo
Kubrick saw this scene and said "We've found our Heywood Floyd"

William Sylvester (Mark) played Heywood R. Floyd in "2001: A Space Odyssey".

00:44:04

Third Host Segment

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Varelli
Come...
Crow, as Vorelli
Let's play Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering is the first of many collectible card games. It features elements of both traditional card playing and fantasy role-playing games.

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Mike
I see a bad moon rising...

Lyrics from the Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) song "Bad Moon Rising"

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Servo, as Varelli kisses Magda
Alice baby, you're the greatest.

A famous line often uttered by Jackie Gleason at the end of many "The Honeymooners" episodes.

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Mike, as Magda
After years of waiting, you're going to see the remaining 10% of my butt...
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Servo
He looks like Alfalfa E. Neuman

Alfred E. Neuman and Alfalfa are two vaguely similar-looking characters from Mad magazine and The Little Rascals (Our Gang), respectively.

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Mike
She's in Pon Farr...

In Start Trek pon farr is a part of the Vulcan mating cycle that turns otherwise logical Vulcans into violent, irrational, emotional creatures.

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Crow
We now switch live to Leer-Cam!
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Mike, as Hugo
So, is anyone going to offer me some HAM?
01:09:29

Fourth Host Segment

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Crow
Isn't it obvious? Just to become more powerful in the service of the Master, so that I may deliver more souls onto his dark realm.
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Servo
Bite me, I'm a toaster strudel! But caution, my filling may be hot!
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Mike, as Mark, after Marianne breaks up with him
First Robert Denby, and now you!
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Servo
Hugo the dummy was arraigned in superior court, county of Los Angeles. In a moment, the results of that trial.

The television show Dragnet would end with the announcer saying such and such a trial was held in such and such a court. Then "In a moment, the results of that trial" just before the commercial, after which would be (surprise) the results of the trial.

01:27:41

Final Host Segment

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Crow, as Vorelli
Oh you're an ugly little dummy aren't you Miko? An ugly, smelly, horrible, little dummy, stuffed with sawdust. A dummy who will never have ham, certainly not unless he gets it himself. A dummy who will never drink wine.
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Crow, as Vorelli
Not only can't you have ham, you can't have any luncheon meats. Not bologna, or ferrenja, not even cotto salami. Why? Because luncheon meats make the sawdust in your stomach explode.
01:31:53

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