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705: Escape 2000

A ruthless developer wants everyone out of the Bronx, especially a gang of misfits.

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Beginning of the episode

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Opening Segment

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Crow
It's for the really... uh... sad... kids... with... hurt puppies.
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First Host Segment

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Mike, singing
Workin' on a sex farm...

Reference to "Sex Farm," a song from the "mockumentary" about the fictional band Spinal Tap.

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Servo, as Trash
I better get over to the Zombie Nightmare set
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Mike
See, this is the danger of expanding rock videos to full length features.
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Mike, as vaguely uniformed people incinerate Trash's Mother
A little taste of the weather in New Mexico!
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Announcer
Abandon all buildings.
Servo
The Bronx has hit an iceberg and is sinking.
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Second Host Segment

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Servo, as ladder swings over Trash
Ah, the Ladder of Damocles.
Crow
So far, his greatest adversary is a ladder.

Reference to the mythological story of Damocles in which a sword was precariously suspended over Damocles' head by a single hair.

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Crow
Ah Mr. Homeless People. Once again we see that there is nothing you can possess that I cannot take away.
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Crow, laughing at the poor speech onscreen
You guys didn't rehearse, did you?
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Mike, as 'Toblerone' Dablone laughs and runs around
We're getting a big slab of Toblerone here!
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Third Host Segment

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Crow, singing
She's so popular.

The movie soundtrack is reminiscent of Peter Gabriel's “Games Without Frontiers”. Note Crow's line is actually a (common) mishearing of the lyrics. The actual lyrics are “Jeux sans frontieres” (the song title in French).

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Mike
How can you have any meat if you don't eat your pudding?
Tom, singing
Dark sarcasm in the classroom

The soundtrack here is also reminiscent of Pink Floyd's “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II).”

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Mike
So the hero of our movie has to go hire another hero.
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Crow
This is just plain crooked, I HATE evil corporations that try and evacuate the Bronx and plant guns!
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Crow
This trampoline accident could have been avoided. Never use a trampoline with unstable TNT in your pocket.
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Crow, as villains rush down below the sidewalk
Hurry! Hurry! We didn't get a permit to film!
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Fourth Host Segment

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Servo
I wonder if the silver pants guys hate the blue uniform guys?
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Crow
Wow, he must be in god mode with Unlimited Ammo!

"God mode" (invincibility) and "unlimited ammo" are often used as cheat codes in first-person shooting video games.

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Mike
You guys, you know, I normally like a movie with silver guys jumping out of trucks, but I gotta say, I'm a bit disappointed with this one.
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Mike
He died as he died: dead.
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Servo
Ah, finally the ultimate showdown between vaguely evil and somewhat ambiguous.
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Mike
Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend.

Lyrics from the 1969 song "One Tin Soldier" by Original Caste, later famously covered by Coven.

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Servo, Steve Perry voice
Leave Bronx! Leave Bronx! Leave Bronx!....
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Mike
This is Dolby Stereo reminding you to LEAVE THE BRONX!
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Final Host Segment

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Stinger

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Third Host Segment