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101: The Crawling Eye

A mysterious cloud and a giant crawling eye terrorize an alpine village and behead mountain-climbers.

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Beginning of the episode

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Servo, at a shot of a mountain
This must be a Paramount picture.
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Joel, as a character falls down a cliffside
Going down!
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Joel, about a character's stocking cap
Oh, he got that hat from Mike Nesmith.

Mike Nesmith (1942- ) was a member of the 1960s pop group The Monkees. His signature look was to wear a wool stocking cap to keep his hair out of his eyes.

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Crow
Kind of like titles with idiot clips.
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Servo
"Duncan Sutherland." Duncan. What a yo-yo.

"Yo-yo" is a slang term for an adult dimwitted enough to still be playing with a childhood toy, especially one made by Duncan Yoyo (since the 1920's).

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Servo, as a tunnel opening appears onscreen
The light at the end of the credits.
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Servo, as distraught man drops book of matches
429 matches exactly. Exactly 429.
Joel
That's a good impression, Servo.
Servo
I'm an excellent driver.

Servo gives us two choice quotes from the movie Rainman, as spoken by Dustin Hoffman's character, Ray.

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Joel, as Cleaver sitting on chair comes into frame
There's Ward Cleaver.

A reference to Ward Cleaver, the Beav's father on the family friendly tv sitcom, "Leave it to Beaver" (1957-1963).

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Servo, as front lit man walks on camera from the dark behind him
Here's Johnny!
Joel
Wendy, I'm home.

A couple of quotes from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), spoken by bad Dad Jack Torrance, as played by Jack Nicholson.

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Joel, as creepy man mounts the stairs and camera cuts to intended victim
Pretty laaady!

A Jerry Lewis quote that will come up in later films as well.

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Crow as Mother, while shadowy man advances up stairs towards female victim
Norman, I told you not to bother the guests!

Norman is the caretaker of the Bates Motel, from Hitchcock's Psycho (1960).