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423: Bride Of The Monster

A mad scientist, his huge lab assistant, and his giant octopus terrify anyone entering the swamp near his house.

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00:00:00

Beginning of the episode

00:01:34

Opening Host Segment

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Joel
Oh, come on you two, Sturm und Drang are calling here on the... thing.

Sturm und Drang is German for "storm and stress." It is also an 18th century German literary movement.

00:07:28

Short: Hired! Part 1

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Servo, as Jimmy looks at a record
Copkiller, that sounds like fun.

Reference to the song "Copkiller" by Ice-T and his band, Body Count. In the early 1990s, the song was extremely controversial.

00:16:46

Movie Begins

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Joel
Hey, it's Bert and Ernie!

A reference to Bert the cop and Ernie the cab driver from "It's a Wonderful Life."

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Joel
Hey, it's Boo Radley's house!

Boo Radley: a character from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

00:21:05 (add an annotation)
Servo, singing
It's a sinister day in the laboratory, a sinister day in the lab... Hello.

Sung to the tune of "It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood," which opened every episode of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.

00:24:00

Host Segment

00:27:28

Second Movie Segment

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Crow
I can barely hear his heart beating.

Spoken in the voice of the Tin Man from the film "The Wizard of Oz." The original line was "I can fairly hear my heart beating!"

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Captain Robbins
Well there's one nice thing about birds, they never cause anybody any trouble.
Crow
Yeah, tell that to Tippi Hedren!

Tippi Hedren played Melanie Daniels in the movie The Birds, a movie that was about birds that began to attack people.