the Distributed MST3K Annotation Project

Lisa: What's the use of a time machine for Gencorp?
Nick: I'll give you an example...
Crow: you could send an egg into the future...
Nick: ...you could study the long term effects of we're having on our environment. We could...
Mike: send Bob Saget to meet Charlemagne.

Bob Saget (1956- ) is a comedian known for starring on the sitcom "Full House" and hosting "America's Funniest Home Videos". Charlemagne (742/747-814 A.D.) was a prolific Frankish emperor and conqueror in Western Europe in the Middle Ages.

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Mike, as Gencorp CEO: Hi, I'm Bob Evil.

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Crow, as Nick: Search... celebrities... nude... Cameron Diaz.

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Crow: Loser status confirmed!

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Mike, as Nick with Castleton teeshirt on: Who am I trying to kid? I never went to Castleton.

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Nick: So...you cooking dinner?
Lisa: Are you offering dinner?
Crow, as Nick: No, I'm saying MAKE ME DINNER!

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Servo: I learned the truth at seventeen, that love was meant for beauty queens.

Lyrics from the Janis Ian song "At Seventeen"

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Second Host Segment

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Servo: We'll I'm lost in love and I don't know much...

Lyrics from the song "Lost in Love" by Air Supply

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Servo: ...when you get caught between the moon and New York City.

Lyrics from "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" by Christopher Cross.

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Servo: Every night, I'm lying in bed holding you close to my dream...

Lyrics (or almost) from the Eagles "The Best of My Love"

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Nick: I've run a diagnostic on the computer, everything is fine.
Crow, as Nick: Dilithium crystals are fine...

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Servo: So for some reason Vermont became the epicenter of the dystopia.
Crow: Ben & Jerry's was the key to the Armageddon

Ben & Jerry's is a brand of ice cream headquartered in Vermont.

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Crow: Ah, so Drew Carey's nemesis Mimi survives the apocalypse.

In the Drew Carey Show, one of the main characters, Mimi, is (surprise) Drew Carey's nemesis.

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Servo, as man with gun: Give me all your soylent green man!

"Soylent Green" is a dystopian 1973 film starring Charlton Heston. It depicts an overpopulated world in which a certain synthetic food called Soylent Green is produced using euthanized and recycled human bodies.

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Old man: Hey! Quiet!
Crow, whispering: Big boys don't cry...

Songs
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Reference to the 10cc song "I'm Not In Love", which features similar lyrics whispered midway in the song.

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Crow: Michael Moore in 30 years

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Michael Moore is a film director best known for his often leftist films and "documentaries"

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Crow: Vermont: City on the Go!

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Servo: So... the guy's office is in a branch library? *ding ding*
Mike, in monotone voice: Children's Book Circle will be "Madeline's Rescue" at 3pm.

"Madeleine's Rescue" is a 1953 children's book; it is the second in Ludwig Bemelmans' "Madeleine" series of stories. In 1954, it was awarded the Caldecott Medal for illustration.

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J.W.: Matt, it's time for you to decide if you're going to be one of my team players or not.

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Third Host Segment

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Lisa: What would MacGuyver do?
Mike: Get cancelled!

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Servo: He's fighting Michael Franks!

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Servo, as plane takes off: Crash and get eaten by a soccer team...or a baseball team...or a bridge club, I don't care!

movie
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Reference to the movie Alive, where a soccer team crashes on a mountain and are forced to resort to cannibalism to survive.

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Servo, while camera shows plane instrument panel: They're running out of alt!
Eddy: And their miffnots are going down!

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Servo: It's the eye of the tiger doot doot do do do do...
Eddie: Cool

"Eye of the Tiger" is a song performed by Survivor, most famously used (and written for) the film Rocky III.

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Servo: Red skies at night, red skies at night.... oh oh

lyrics from "Red Skies", a song by 80's band The Fixx.

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Servo: This is as good as any Bond film. Gold Bond Medicated Powder, that is!

james bond
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Reference to both James Bond films and Gold Bond medicated powder, a brand of foot powder.

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Crow: The movie really heightens the lack of interest in the film.
Servo: Hey I think... Huh?

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Mike, as villian starts to shoot: Hey, John Oates, no!

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Servo: Hey! That moss is taking a likin' to that tree!
Eddie: Hey! What'd I say about puns?
Servo: To jam them up my...
Eddie: That's right!

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Eddie, as Nick: Hey children of the corn!
Servo: Hi!
Crow: Hi!

movies
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Both a Steven King short story and a series of films about children being possessed by an evil entity living in the corn fields, who go on to kill all of the town's adults.

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Crow: Is this Prefontaine, or Post-fontaine?

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Edward Nelson: Oh yeah, the throaty roar of a K Car.

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Eddie, as Nick: Yep, Grandma came back from the dead, built a duplicate plane, then crashed it.

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Servo: Walking on broken glass...

"Walking On Broken Glass" is a song by Annie Lennox, former lead singer of the Eurythmics.

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Eddie: Cisco Kid was a friend of mine...

Lyrics to the song "The Cisco Kid" by War, ostensibly about the comic book, television, and radio series of the same name.

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Crow: Remember when everybody was getting Nick Miller haircuts and wearing Castleton shirts?

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Servo: All my friends drivin' low riders

Reference to the lyrics of "Low Rider" by War.

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Crow: Dr. Demento, patriot.

Dr. Demento (1941- ) is a disc jockey specializing in parody/novelty songs. He has given airplay to such artists as Elmo & Patsy, Bobby Pickett, and "Weird Al" Yankovic (whose career he helped launch).

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Servo: My god, ISO 9001 certification is a license to kill!

ISO 9001 is part of a set of standards (ISO 9000) related to quality management. A "license to kill" is a (likely) fictional license, most often seen in James Bond films, that gives the possessor the right to use deadly force.

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Crow: Whee! We're getting poison sumac! Whee!

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Fourth Host Segment

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Mike: If you can see a character's eye boogers, you're too close.

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Mike: There's a man on the wing of the plane!

Reference to the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", also featured in Twilight Zone: The Movie

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Tom: Screenplay by Nigel Calder and Jim Varney.

Nigel Calder has written books about modern sciences, and marine engines, among others. Jim Varney was the actor who played "Ernest" in the "Ernest goes to..." movies.

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Computer voice: Warning, transport unsafe!
Crow: Thanks Steven Hawkings!

Steven Hawking is a wheelchair bound theoretical physicist, capable of speaking only with the aid of a speech synthesizer. Hawkings is a common mispronunciation of his last name.

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Crow: Is... is he Kirok now? Is that how that works?

Kirok is the name and personality taken by Captain Kirk after losing his memory on a planet inhabited by Native Americans, in the Star Trek episode "The Paradise Syndrome".

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Crow: Maybe he'll be torn apart by Ewoks...

In the 1983 Star Wars film "Return of the Jedi", the Ewoks were a race of teddy bear-like creatures indigenous to the forest moon of Endor; they help Han, Leia, and the other heroes foil an Imperial invasion and shut down the Death Star's shield.

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Crow: He's climbing an ent!

In J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth saga ("Lord of the Rings", et al.), the Ents are walking tree-like creatures capable of speech. In "The Two Towers", they carry out an assault on Saruman's fortress keep at Isengard.

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Nick: You still don't get it, do you?
Tom: Kevin Spacey WAS Keyser Soze.

movies
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Mike: You know, I wish uncooked liver had been the star of this movie.

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Crow: He died as he lived: mud-stained and splaying!

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Servo: He's dead, but don't worry: they have a spare!

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Crow: So, eight 5¼" floppies hold the keys to time travel?

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Crow: You know, by the way, speaking of the Revolutionary War and all that, whatever happened to that whole deal with the Spanish? Weren't they supposed to take over?
Mike: Oh, yeah, you know what? I think they ended up getting molten gold poured down their throats... it just didn't work out.

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Crow: So, getting back to the movie, who do they think this would appeal to, anyway? Elderly squirrels?
Mike: People without heads?
Crow: Toadstools?
Servo: Clumps of dirt, maybe?
Mike: Barber poles?
Crow: Coffee tables perhaps?
Servo: Little bits of material that break off plastic trays?
Mike: Used napkins?
Crow: Italians, maybe?

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Servo: Go to Hell, citizens and officials of Rutland, Vermont!

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Crow: Filmed in Vermont! The other, smaller Wisconsin!

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Final Host Segment

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