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Beginning of the episode
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00:01:34
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Opening host segment
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- Crow and Servo, singing
- Here we coma a-wassailing, et cetera, et cetera.
- Crow
- Give us our wassail if you please, sir.
The opening host segment deals with wassail, a spiced punch drink
served at Twelfth Night and Christmas celebrations.
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00:02:42
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Intro
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00:05:45
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Movie begins
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- Mike, as a farmer is murdered with a pitchfork
- The "American Gothic" people take revenge.
American Gothic is a famous painting featuring a man and a woman, with
the man holding a pitchfork.
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- Servo, as Grandma stumbles through the door
- Grandma Kramer!
On the TV show Seinfeld, Kramer was Jerry Seinfeld's neighbor; he
frequently stumbled into Jerry's apartment unannounced.
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- Mike, as the long-haired grandmother falls to the floor
- A kabuki actor's been hit!
Kabuki is a Japanese style of theater.
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- Servo
- The last days of Edgar Winter.
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- Servo
- The Touch of Satan... softens hands while you do the dishes.
A play on the slogan for Palmolive Dish Soap.
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- Mike
- This is very 70s. I'm guessing Anthony Zerbe must be in this.
- Crow
- I think it's Tony Musante as a kind of hip Satan that solves crimes.
Anthony Zerbe was a character actor guest starring in 70s shows such as
'Mannix', 'Kung Fu' and 'Hawaii Five-O'. Tony Musante guest starred in
70s shows such as 'Marcus Welby, M.D.' and 'The Rockford Files'.
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- Crow, commenting on the music
- With Screwtape on kettle drum; Wormwood on harpsichord.
Wormwood and Screwtape are demon characters in the C.S. Lewis satire
The Screwtape Letters.
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- Mike
- Okay, Crow? I'm putting you on Clu Gulager alert.
- Crow
- I'm on it, Mike. I take this very seriously.
Clu Gulager appeared in many movies during the 1970s (including some
that made it to MST3K).
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- Mike
- Oh, David Spade is Satan!
- Crow
- It's good casting.
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- Servo singing
- What do you get when you fall from grace? You only get cast into
perdition.
A parody of the Burt Bacharach / Hal David classic, "I'll Never
Fall In Love Again"
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- Mike
- Odd, disturbing score co-written by Mike Post and Igor Stravinsky.
Mike Post is a famous composer of television theme songs. Igor
Stravinsky was a famous composer in the first half of the 20th century.
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- Crow, after character emerges from building marked "Ellen's Place"
- Huh, what was Ann Heche doing in there?
Anne Heche is perhaps best known for her open lesbian relationship with
comedian Ellen DeGeneres.
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- Servo
- You know, I was just thinking: that Gerald Ford is rather clumsy.
Gerald Ford was president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He
had a reputation for being clumsy.
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- Crow
- I'm gonna get out my guitar and practice "Sister Golden
Hair".
A 1975 hit by the band America.
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- Mike, singing
- But the trees can't help their feelings if they like the way they're
made...
- Crow
- Mike, stop it now!
From the 1970s Rush hit, "The Trees"
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- Crow, as Jody walks through the woods
- The first Richard Carpenter music video!
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- Crow, as Jody skips stones across the pond
- Ha! Let's see Christopher Atkins skip a stone like that!
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- Mike
- Whelp, I suppose the plot is not gonna unfold itself.
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- Luther
- You didn't 'call' him, did you?
- Mike
- Or, 'mail anything'?
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- Crusty old farmer
- Oh, bosh!
- Servo
- Oh, Hieronymous!
Hieronymous Bosch was a late Gothic painter famed for his rather
strange and often nightmarish religious triptychs.
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- Crow
- I sure hope he said 'peanuts'.
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- Mike, as unbelievably sweaty farmer
- You know with Mitchum you can skip a week, did you know that?
"So effective you could even skip a day" is the slogan of
Mitchum anti-perspirant and deodorant, often touted as the strongest
anti-perspirant you can buy without a prescription.
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First host segment
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- Melissa
- This is where the fish lives.
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- Crow, as Grandma looks into a mirror
- Oh man. Now a whithered old Billy Zane is gonna come in and give her a
whithered old Coeur de la Mer.
A reference to the movie "Titanic" (1997).
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- Crow, as characters approach an old shed
- You know, if she had another of these, she'd be Melissa "Two
Sheds" Strickland.
A reference to a "Monty Python's Flying Circus" sketch about
a composer who is bugged by an interviewer about his irrelevant
nickname "Two Sheds".
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- Crow
- Wait, you can't use 'Amazing Grace' in a *Devil* movie!
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- Servo, after Grandma kills the cop
- Can't you just call Harvey Keitel over to fix things?
Reference to the movie Pulp Fiction (1994); Harvey Keitel played a
slick, suit wearing 'problem solver' named "The Wolf".
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- Crow, during one of the painfully long pauses in dialog between the two main characters
- TALK QUICKER!
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- Dad
- Pay attention to the word of the Lord.
- Servo
- For he loves you and he may KILL you if you don't!
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- Mike, as mob slowly approaches
- Casual...it's kind of like a Lake Woebegon witch burning.
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- Servo, to the tune of 'Amazing Grace'
- This song, is in, the puuublic domain. That's why, we used, it
twiiiice.
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- Crow, after old lady burns
- In the wake of the tragedy, the town built a better grandma! Stronger!
With a steel frame and a sprinkler system!
A play on the tagline for "The Six Million Dollar Man"
(1974).
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- Mike, as Luther
- May the Dark One hold your soul in his clutches -- er, I mean, safe
trip!
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- Melissa
- No! He cheated me! He never told me!
- Mike
- Man, if you can't trust the *Devil*!
