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Beginning of the episode
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Opening Host Segment
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Introduction
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Movie Begins
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- Crow
- It's just a jump to the left.
Refers to the song "The Time Warp" from the "Rocky
Horror Picture Show," and more specifically, to the
professor-narrator who pops up throughout the film.
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- Dr. Frank C. Baxter
- It's a fiction, it's a fable...
- Mike
- It's a fabulous funny freak out!
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- Dr. Frank C. Baxter
- For I think if you'll study this picture, think about it when it's over
- Crow
- ... you'll feel dirty
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- Dr. Frank C. Baxter
- ...you will realise this is more than just a story told...
- Servo
- It's a story botched!
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- Mike
- Mount Pinatubo erupted yesterday spilling movie credits all over the
Southern Hemisphere
Mount Pinatubo is a volcano in the Phillipines that erupted in June of
1991.
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- Crow, as the credit for Hugh Beaumont appears
- Hey, Ward.
- Servo, as the credit for Alan Napier follows next
- Oh and Alfred the Butler!
- Mike
- It doesn't get any better than this men.
Hugh Beaumont played the father Ward Cleaver in the 1957 TV series
"Leave it to Beaver".
Alan Napier played Afred the
Butler in the 1966 Adam West "Batman" series.
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- Mike, as the credit 'Written by' scrolls up
- William Faulkner?
- Servo
- F. Scott Fitzgerald?
- Crow
- Lazlo Gorog, you guys were close.
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- Mike
- A man, a plan, a canal, Lazlo Gorog.
Refers to the palindrome "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama".
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- Servo
- And up from the ground came a union film crew.
Referencing a part of the Beverly Hillbillies' theme song - "Then
one day he was shootin' at some food,
and up through the ground
came a bubblin' crude."
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- Crow as 'Directed by VIRGIL VOGEL' scrolls up
- Virgil Vogel va va voom.
- Mike
- Veni vidi vici Virgil Vogel.
- Servo
- Virgil Vogel vestal virgin.
In 47 B.C., Julius Caesar's army beat that of Pharnaces II, King of
Pontus. In announcing the victory, he stated "Veni, vidi,
vici", which translates from the Latin as "I came, I saw, I
conquered."
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- Archaeologist, dusting off tablet
- The fact is we found it below the great flood level, so it must be at
least 5000 years old. Which would make it one of the oldest human
records.
- Servo
- Older than Frampton Comes Alive!
Peter Frampton's Album from 1976 'Frampton Comes Alive!'
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- Algar
- Hey! Where'd you find this?
- Boy, pointing to mountain
- Kuitara! High!
- All
- Hi!
- Boy
- High!
- All
- Hi!
- Servo
- Friendly kid!
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- John Agar
- According to the inscription they got wet too... listen.
- Crow
- We're really wet!
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- Crow, As the Expedition continues to climb the mountain
- They are going to find the frozen body of the lonely goatherd.
The Lonely Goatherd is the subject and title of one of the songs from
the 1965 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music.
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- Mike, as LaFarge stumbles through the snow
- Geez, they're only keeping this guy so they can hollow him out and
crawl inside when he dies.
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- Dr. Roger Bentley
- We'll make camp there...
- Crow
- ...and we'll dig our graves over there!
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Host Segment 1
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- Crow, as tight pants fill the screen
- Filmed in Wedgie-Vision!
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- Mike, at yet another shot of John Agar's ass
- This movie is just ropes and asses!
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- Crow, as Dr. Jud Bellamin descends with the rope pulled tightly to his crotch
- You know this is why the Cleavers stopped at two children.
Hugh Beaumont (Dr. Jud Bellamin) played father Ward Cleaver on Leave It
to Beaver. They had two boys, Wally and "the Beaver".
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- Crow, as guy walking into a pitch dark cavern
- Hey, I got the Amontillado!
Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" ends with a character being
walled up in a dank tomb after being lured in by the promise of a cask
of the sherry.
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- Servo
- I have to stop Christmas from coming... but how?
Servo is emulating Boris Karloff being The Grinch, from How The Grinch
Stole Christmas the 1966 TV special of the 1957 Dr Suess book.
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- Man
- The city must have been built on...
- Mike
- Rock and roll.
'We built this city on Rock and Roll' a lyric from Starship's "We
Built This City" off the album 'Knee Deep in the Hoopla'
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- Servo, at a statue's head in the dirt
- Venus De Nothingo
The Venus de Milo is a marble statue of a woman, constructed around
130-120 BC. Its most distinctive feature is its lack of arms.
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- Servo as Dr. Jud Bellamin being groped at by Mole People
- June, No, not tonight honey.
Another Leave It to Beaver reference, this time to Ward's wife, June
Cleaver.
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- Mike
- It's an In-N-Out Burger.
A fast food restaurant chain located in California, Nevada, and
Arizona.
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- Servo
- Done a good job developing the River Styx waterfront.
- Mike, laughing
- It's beautiful.
From Greek mythology, Styx ("[river of] hate") is the name of
a river which formed the boundary between earth and the underworld
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Host Segment 2
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- Crow, as Elinu the High Priest
- No one is to tell Mr Wayne about our little Soirée.
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- Tom as Elinu, holding up the Eye of Ishtar
- Just do it.
Nike, Just do it. The Eye of Ishtar is a similar shape to the Nike
Swoosh
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- Tom, as the drums start up
- Chucka, Ooga ooga ooga Chucka, Ooga ooga ooga Chucka.
- Mike, singing
- I can't stop this feeling...
Tom and Mike are singing "Hooked on a Feeling" from 1968,
sung by B.J Thomas and written by Mark James.
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- Mike as John Algar, leaning towards Ward Cleaver
- That's Alfred the Butler, right?
- Tom
- Yeap.
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- Elinu, the High Priest
- You will die in the Fire of Ishtar!
- Crow
- Hey that movie wasn't *that* bad, I mean...
Ishtar a Warren Beatty/Dustin Hoffman film from 1987
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- Servo, singing as the music picks up
- Who will buy this wonderful feeling...
Tom is singing lyrics to 'Who will buy' from the 1968 musical Oliver!
adapted from the Charles Dickens book Oliver.
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- Servo, as a Guard falls over holding Agar's sword to his gut
- He died like a man,... with a dress on.
It was said of Admiral "The Napoleonic Wars" Nelson that he
ate, slept, and died with his boots on. From then on, this Hero of the
British Navy and Paragon of Mahood is invoked every time
"they" say, "He died with his boots on."
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- Crow, as the guard whine under the torchlight
- It's a pride of Dr. Smiths!
The guards whimpering sounds very similar to the way Jonathan Harris
played Dr. Zachary Smith on the 1965 TV Show 'Lost in Space'
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- Servo, as Algar touches a dead guard
- Data is down!
The albino guard looks like Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data the
android from the 1987 show Star Trek: The Next Generation et al.
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- Crow, as we see just the heads of the 3 scientists
- The three Weird Sisters.
The three Weird Sisters, three Anglo-Saxon Fates or goddesses of
destiny, are known mostly for their appearance in Macbeth.
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- Crow, singing as they see the guards whipping the Mole People
- Boomboomboomboomboom. Crack that Whip! Boomboomboomboomboom.
Crow is singing Whip It! by DEVO from their 1980 album Freedom of
Choice.
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- Servo, surveying the Mole People slaves
- Ah Kathy-Lee Giffords Garment workers.
After Kathy-Lee Gifford started up a line of clothing, it was found
they were being made in Sweat-Shops
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- Crow, as the light shines on Load's dead body
- He died as he lived, a total load.
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- Crow, after the Load's funeral
- Is the first stage of grief pure unbridled joy?
Ref. to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's identification, in humans, of Five
Stages of Grief: 1) Denial, 2)Anger,
3) Bargaining, 4)
Depression, 5)Acceptance
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- Servo, as Algar and Ward walk towards the matte painting
- Scenic design by El Greco.
El Greco (The Greek) or Domenikos Theotokopoulos was a Greek-Spanish
painter, sculptor and architect, lived 1541-1614.
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- The King, sounding like Boris Karloff
- And why did Ishtar send you to our Kingdom?
- Crow
- It was a Monster Mash.
Crow is emulating Bobby 'Boris' Pickett pretending to be Boris Karloff
on his 1962 song, 'Monster Mash'
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- Mike, to the back of three similar figures
- It's three Emo Phillips'.
- Tom as Emo Phillips
- ... We were wondering if we could eat now?
Emo Phillips, a comedian, used to sport a distinctive page-boy haircut
similar to the men onscreen.
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- Elinu, the High Priest
- Ishtar has given us the food of the tunnels, the fish of the river and
the sacred milk of the goat.
- Servo
- ...again.
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- Adad
- You are speaking of Heaven my lord.
- Mike as Adad
- And I've heard oooh heaven is a place on earth.
Mike is quoting from Belinda Carlisle's 1985 song 'Heaven is a Place on
Earth'
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- Tom as Elinu
- Suddenly Susan is on.
Suddenly Susan a Brooke Sheilds TV Show from 1996.
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- Servo singing as camera pans over hot mud
- ... A bubbling crude ...
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- Tom, as Algar picks up a pelt
- They killed Fozzie Bear!
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- Mike, as guard reaches for the torch
- Look out! Harold Lloyd is behind you!
The guard looks a bit like silent film star Harold Lloyd
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- Tom, as dancer shakes it for the camera
- Cindy Lou Who! no!
The dancer looks like Cindy Lou Who the odd part is she looks more like
the modern film version than the book version. The film being made well
after this TV show.
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- Tom, to dancer
- Thank you Bjork.
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- Tom, as first sacrifce steps forward
- Ah Helen Mirren volunteers to go first.
The sacrifice looks similar to english actress Helen Mirren
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- Crow, as the second sacrifice steps forward
- Its like Al Lewis in a long wig.
Al Lewis, Grandpa from The Munsters.
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- Tom, as the third sacrifice steps forward
- The death of Shirley Manson.
- Crow, singing
- Stupid Girl....
The third sacrifice looks fairly like Shirley Manson lead singer of
Garbage. Stupid Girl is one of their Hit Songs from 1995 off the album
Garbage.
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- John Agar
- You ever hear of anyone smoking dried mushrooms?
- Servo, baked
- Sure, heh!
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- Crow, as the moles rise up out of the ground and attack the temple
- Folks, don't have a dirt basement if you have man-eating moles.
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- Tom, as Adad looking up to the sunlight
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is the title of a very popular
"rite of passage" book for girls, written by Judy Blume
published in 1972.
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- Servant Girl
- You will take me with you?
- Servo, as John Agar
- Uh, well, I'd like to honey, but I'm a gay married impotent priest with
a terminal illness and occasional herpes and I'm a hologram on the run
from the law.
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- Crow
- Oh movie, I'm not a praying man but if you can hear me... please kill
John Agar.
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- Mike, as Ward
- I've been thinking, now that we have two children it's time to marry
June.
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- Tom, singing
- There's a bright golden haze on the meadow...
Tom is singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' from the 1955 Rodgers and
Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!
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- Servo
- Then let this be a lesson to all of us, never attempt to discover
ancient civilizations!
- Mike
- Stick your head in the sand!
- Crow
- Don't go chasing waterfalls!
