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813: Jack Frost

Oppressed by her mean stepmother, a girl falls in love with a guy, whose head is turned into a bear's head and who must perform a good deed to return to normal.

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Beginning of the episode

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Crow
Ladies and ... Gypsy, Michael Nelson *IS* Lord of the Dance!
Gypsy
Ooooh! Did the other one die?

Refers to Michael Flatley, who left the stage production "Riverdance" to star in his own knock off: "Lord of the Dance." I believe it was "Riverdance" that got caught using a canned foot-noise soundtrack.

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Servo
Hey, lord of the pants, can you tear yourself away from yourself for a minute?
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Servo, as the title JACK FROST appears
Could eat no ... Frost.

Jack Sprat could eat no fat,

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Crow, reading the credit "N. Sedykh"
Oh! NN-HYKKH-NYEKKH!
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Mike, reading the credits
These names are all Russian for "Alan Smithee."

Alan Smithee, is a pseudonym used between 1968 and 1999 by film directors who wanted to be dissociated from a film for which they no longer wanted credit.

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Crow, as the camera zooms in on Marfushka
Hey, Tom Petty!

Tom Petty (born 1950) Lead Singer of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

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Tom as Tom Petty
It's alright if you love me...

Tom is singing 'Breakdown' by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers from the 1976 album 'Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers'

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Mike, over buzzing noise
Hey listen it's Spock moving in really fast motion

A reference to Star Trek (ToS) Episode "Wink of an Eye", during which accelerated characters sounded like insects while talking to those at normal speed.

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Crow
Ah, Rosanne.

Rosanne Barr Comedian/Actress, probably best known for her 1988 show 'Rosanne'

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Crow
Great, I bet Pippi Longstockings is in this.

Pippi Longstockings, a character from a series of Swedish children's books.

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Crow, as stepmother
Arsenic sucker... that should do it.

Arsenic is a metalloid chemical element (symbol As, number 33 on the periodic table of elements) which is noted for being extremely poisonous. It has been nicknamed the "Poison of Kings and the King of Poisons" for its use in ruling-class murder.

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Mike
Is this a bio-pic of Holly Hobbie?

Holly Hobbie, a title character from (and author of) a series of children's books.

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Mike as Stepmother
I'm a Domestic Goddess.

the Domestic Goddess was a theme often mentioned in Rosanne Barr's stand up comedy.

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Stepmother
Here is a place where you can knit Nastia, and you won't wake my little Marfuska. The moon is out there is plenty of light...
Mike
...Chernobyl's on fire, it's great.

In 1986, an explosion occurred at the nuclear power plant in the Ukrainian (formerly of the Soviet Union) city of Chernobyl, resulting in widespread radioactive contamination. The town has since become almost completely abandoned as a result.

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Crow, as the barking dog goes back in its doghouse
Back into Harpo's chest.

The 1933 Marx Brothers film "Duck Soup" included a sight gag of a live, barking dog emerging from a kennel tattoo on Harpo's chest.

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Tom as Tom Petty, singing
Don't come around here no more...

Tom is singing 'Don't come around here no more' from Tom Petty and Heartbreakers 1985 album 'Southern Accents'

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Tom as Pee-wee Herman
You keep knitting and knitting and knitting...

"It's like you're unraveling a big cable-knit sweater that someone keeps knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting... " Pee-wee Herman from 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' (1985)

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Crow
Ah, Penny Marshall was an adorable child.
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Mike
Danny Bonaduce *is* Sleeping Beauty.
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Crow, as Scarlett O'Hara
With God as my witness, I will never go hungry again!
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Mike
So the first plot point involves knitting socks. I think we're for quite a ride guys.
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Tom, as Rooster
Boy, I say, Boy.

Tom is imitating Foghorn Leghorn, who was once voiced by Mel Blanc

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Servo, as the sun reverses
Oh, the world's thrown in to chaos, earthquakes, floods, but that's fine. You knit your sock!
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Nastenka
Thank you rosy fingered dawn.
Mike, as The Sun
Some day you'll return the favor.

Mike is imitating Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone in the 1972 film The Godfather.

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Crow
Now I gotta keep stirring the sauce, deliver these guns to Jimmy and a ...

Crow is paraphrasing an inner monologue from Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in the 1990 Martin Scorsese film 'Goodfellas'

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Crow
This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast Chicken.
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Mike, as Ivan, after chopping up ONE piece of wood
Well, the chores are done for the day!
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Servo, as Ivan
Think I will go knock off a bottle of Finlandia

Finlandia Vodka

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Mike
He's got June Allyson hair.

Actress June Allyson (1917-)

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Servo
Damn, Hobbits!

In J.R.R. Tolkien's "Middle-earth" literary saga (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, etc.), Hobbits are short, rotund, hairy-footed, human-like creatures. A number of central characters in the saga, such as Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, are Hobbits.

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Mike
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils plan their next album.

Country Rock band most popular in the 70's and 80's

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Mike, as Ivan walks through the forrest
This is the early version of Snow White, called Snow White and the one normal sized person.
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Crow
The Human Schnauzer.

A Dog breed with a fairly distinctive mustache and beard look to the face

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Servo, after Ivan has thrown a few cudgels into the air
I think he's missed the point of juggling.
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Crow, as Bandit leader holds a note
The Gyuto Dwarfs

The Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir

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Ivan
Alright who is playing Hide and Seek with me now?
Mike, as Father Mushroom
Hey dol, derry dol, Tom Bombadillo!

Mike is paraphrasing from Tom Bombadill's Song from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring

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Crow
I thought Jerry Gracia was Father Mushroom.

Jerry Garcia (1945-'92) was very familiar with the psychedelic properties of certain mushrooms

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Mike, as Father Mushroom disappears
Frodo gets drunk and screws with his neighbors.

In J.R.R. Tolkien's "Middle-earth" literary saga (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, etc.), Frodo Baggins is one of the central characters; he is tasked with carrying the One Ring to its place of origin, Mount Doom, so it can be destroyed.

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Crow, as Ivan looks for Father Mushroom
If disappearing elf hide-and-seek were in the Olympics, Finland would be in great shape.
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Crow as Ivan, unable to find Father Mushroom
You're goin' down mushroom boy, you mincing little fungus!
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Father Mushroom
Good boy Ivan, since you admit you lost I am going to give you the things I promised
Mike as Father Mushroom
Then we shall drink Tranya! Ah ahaha ha!

Mike is impersonating Clint Howard's character "Balok" from the Star Trek episode "The Corbomite Maneuver" (episode # 1.10) 10 November 1966

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Tom, as Ivan
Wow, dad! It's a Daisy!

Tom is very likely imitating Peter Billingsley as Ralphie Parker in the 1983 film A Christmas Story, where the item Ralphie desperately wants most for Christmas is a Daisy Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action BB Gun

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Crow, as camera tilts down past 2 birds on an etched stone
Heckle and Jeckle in The Ten Commandments

Heckle and Jeckle are a pair of animated Magpies from the '40s and The Ten Commandments was a Cecil B. DeMille directed film from 1956 starring Charlton Heston

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Tom, as Ethel Thayer, as Ivan prepares to fire his bow
Norman, The Loons! Kill them!

Tom is imitating Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) as Ethel Thayer in "On Golden Pond". "Norman. Come here. Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons! The loons! They're welcoming us back."

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Tom, to flying feather
Now go find Forrest Gump, stick him in the eye and *KILL HIM*

The open sequence to the 1994 film Forrest Gump, has the camera following a feather as it floats over a town, eventually leading to Forrest Gump sitting at the Bus Stop.

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Crow, as Lt. Sulu
There is a Feather Craft approaching captain.

Crow is imitating George Takei as Lt. Hikaru Sulu from Star Trek.

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Mike
It's looking for a Duncan Hines cake to slice
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Mike, as Nastenka sings in the forest
Hildegard von Bingen Unplugged.

Blessed Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a German abbess, and composer of music. Wrote about her visions and around 80 of her compostitions survive to this day.

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Mike, singing as Nastenka
I want to be the girl with the most cake.

Lyrics from the Courtney Love/Hole song 'Doll Parts' from the 1994 album 'Live Through This'

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Tom, as Nastenka continues to sing
She's a Castrati.

The Castrati were male singers who had been castrated at an early age to preserve their youthful high pitched voices.

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Mike, singing as Nastenka
The minute you walked in the joint *Barr-rump*.

Mike is singing 'Big Spender' written by Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields from the 1966 musical 'Sweet Charity'

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Crow
Great news Mike, through the magic of the Hex-field View Screen, I got an expert to clarify some of the questions raised by todays movie.
Mike
Oh really? Great.
Crow
Yeah, thanks to me digging around in your wallet, I was able to raise the money to bring us the distinguished poet, author, and professor...
Tom
Pushkin?
Mike
Solzhenitsyn?
Crow
Yakov Smirnoff!

Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1839) Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-) Russian novelist and Nobel prize winner. Yakov Smirnoff (1951-) Russian-born American Stand-Up Comedian.

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Mike, as Ivan
Do I look like Simon Le Bon?

Simon Le Bon is the lead singer and lyricist for Duran Duran

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Nastenka
I have no time to speak to you, I've got to work
Tom, as Nastenka
I'm a welder by day and a dancer by night

The lead character of the 1983 movie Flashdance, Alex Owens played by Jennifer Beals, is a welder by day and an exotic dancer by night.

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Mike, as camera pans out from Nastenka
She looks like a Grey.

The 'modern' basic alien style, small nose/mouth large eyes.

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Mike, as bears run away
Ben, Ben, Ben!

'Gentle Ben' 1967 a film, then a tv show, with Clint Howard as Mark Wedlow who befriends a bearcub they call Ben.

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Crow, as Father Mushroom rings his bell
Paul Williams.

Diminutive Actor, singer, songwriter, including "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainbow Connection"

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Tom
Was her bucket full of Rogaine?

Hair loss treatment from Pfizer

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Crow, as Ivan
Damn it Puck! This time you've gone to far.

Puck a pagan trickster spirit, turned a characters head into that of an Donkey in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Tom, as Ivan
I've got to go find a Pic-a-nic Basket.

The favoured food source of Yogi Bear from Jellystone Park. Created by Hanna-Barbera Productions

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Tom
Tonight on a very special Grizzly Adams

"The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams" first a film 1974, then a TV show 1977, starring Dan Haggerty as a Trapper on the run from the law who also adopts a bear he calls ben.

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Mike, as Nastika
Every time I meet a man he's either gay or a bear.
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Tom
A tribute to Eurasian Milfoil.

Eurasian water-milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) an invasive species of aquatic plant now found over North America

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*ding*
Crow
with Retsin.
*ding*
Crow
Again with Retsin.
*ding*
Crow
Retsin.

Certs breath mints used '<ding> with Retsin' in an advertising compaign, Retsin apparenly simply being a marketing name for vegetable oil.

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Crow, as flowers grow from a tree stump
The KGB has her under surveillance.

The KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security) was the primary internal intelligence and security agency for Soviet Russia from 1954 - 1991. The flower buds resemble microphones.

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Crow
She shouldn't cry, there is always Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Seinfeld, and Ben Kingsley.

3 Men who were involved with significantly younger women.

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Father Mushroom
Just look at yourself and ask...
Tom
...Do I crap in the woods?
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Servo, as Father Mushroom disappears in a clound of smoke
I didn't know there were that many land mines left in Narnia.

Narnia: A magical land created by C. S. Lewis in a series of books (The Chronicles of Narnia) first published in the 1950s.

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Crow
When Animals Attack.

A TV special from 1996 hosted by Robert Urich, which essentially kicked off the shockumentary TV genre.

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Mike, as women flee from Ivan
Now it'll go into slow motion and you'll hear Barber's Adagio for Strings as he tears them apart.

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings (1936), frequently used to depict tragedy and loss. Notably in the 1986 Oliver Stone film 'Platoon'

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Mike, as two girls creep through the trees
Charlie was close, I could feel it.

Charlie was slang used by members of the United States armed forces when talking about the enemy during the Vietnam War. It is an abbreviation of Victor Charlie, which was the NATO phonetic alphabet abbreviation for Viet Cong.

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Crow
Friend Good.

Crow is imitating Boris Karloff as Frankenstein from 1935 film 'Bride of Frankenstein'

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Tom, as bear cub takes giant mushroom away
Hurry the DNR is coming, load em up on the truck and get out of here.
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Mike, as girls run away
Delayed Reaction Syndrome.
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Tom, as young girl
Quick there is a sale on babushkas at bloomingdales-skis.

Bloomingdale's is an American chain of department stores owned by Macy's, Inc.

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Crow
Chernobyl's exploding again, lets go watch.

Chernobyl a city in northern Ukraine, infamous because on April 26 1986 the 4th reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had a meltdown which ultimately became reguarded as the worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear power.

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Mike
How not to be seen.

A Monty Python Sketch where people learn the lesson of 'How Not to be Seen' or die trying.

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Crow
So, what, are we looking for Waldo here? what?

"Where's Waldo?" was a series of children's books in the late 1980's and early 1990's, where children had to find a man wearing glasses, a striped hat and a striped shirt in a crowd.

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Tom
Antony! Antony!

A line from Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene XV

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Mike, over italianish guitar playing
It's prince spaghetti day here in the italian north end of the swamp.

Refers to a Prince Spaghetti commercial from the 80's. See my correction to Bathtub's "Antony Antony" annotaion above.

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Crow
It's ok, you win, I'm in love with you.

Likely a reference to the Diane Schuur song, "All Right, OK, You Win (I'm In Love With You)".

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Mike, singing
From the land of sky blue waters...

Advertising jingle for Hamms beer.

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Tom, as Ivan wandering the woods
...I mean where else are you going to do it, but in the woods?

As in, "Does a bear .... in the woods?"

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Crow, after beggar crys out
Oh great, Shakespeare in the Park.

Free performances of Shakespeare's plays in Central Park in NYC by The Public Theater.

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Ivan
What kind of a good deed will I have to do?
Crow, singing
...What kind of bear am I?

Refers to the song "What Kind of Fool Am I." a 60's hit for Anthony Newly, from the stage musical, "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off."

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Crow, as the stepmother smears Nastinkas eyebrows
Why is she putting bisquik on her face?

Bisquick is a pre-made biscuit mix produced by General Mills. Although normally used for biscuits, it can also be used for several other baked goods.

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Mike, as Nastinka
Uh, why are you so mean to me tanta Ernest Borgnine?
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Marfuska
Mama...
Tom
...don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.

A Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings song 'Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys'

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Crow
Alfalfas greatest role.

Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer of The Little Rascals series of films from the 1930s

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Stepmother
And now my darling you put this on.
Tom
Its a Burger King birthday crown.

Birthday parties held at Burger King restaurants traditionally involve giving paper crown-hats to the party-goers.

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Mike
It's like having Andrea Dworkin make you over.

Radical Feminist who has been credited with the quote, "All sex is rape." (although there is little evidence that she actually said/wrote this, some attribute it to her famous book, 'Intercourse')

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Stepmother
You are a queen!
Mike
...In that you look like Freddy Mercury.

Freddy Mercury (1946-'91) was the lead singer of Queen

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Crow, as old woman climbs on Ivans back
It's Light Bear Transit.
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Tom, as film cuts to a roast piglet and Mike and Crow cry
Babe! Ohhhh no, Babe.

Babe the talking pig from the film 1995 film Babe

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Evil Stepmother
Get in here, you little viper!
Crow
Somebody needs viping.
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Tom
Larry Drake and Vanessa Redgrave.

Both Larry Drake (1950-) and Vanessa Redgrave (1937-) are actors.

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Tom, over close up of Marfushka
Someday I'll be a real boy.

... is the dream of the wooden puppet Pinnochio in 'The Adventures of Pinnochio' by Carlo Collodi from the 1880s most people would be familar with the Disney film from 1940. Marfuskas make-up makes her look similar to the painted wooden toy.

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Mike
Invasion of the Matryoshka People

Matryoshka are the cylindrical russian nesting dolls

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Tom
She's imprinting on the geese.
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Tom
she caught a water mocassin!

A venomous snake related to the Copperhead

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Mike, after the stepmother whips Marfushka with the wet braid
The private pain of Alfred E. Neuman.

Alfred E. Neuman is the cartoon mascot of "Mad" magazine; he appears as a homely, gap-toothed, grinning little boy.

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Crow
She makes Olivia Hussy look like Thelma Ritter.

Olivia Hussey is the young actress who went topless in 1968's "Romeo and Juliet". Thelma Ritter is a celebrated stage/screen actress from primarily the 1950s and 1960s (when she was in her 40s and 50s).

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Ivan
Rawwr, raaar.
Crow
Chewbacca? Where are you?

In the "Star Wars" sci-fi saga, Chewbacca is the Wookiee companion of the bounty hunter Han Solo. Wookiees are tall, fur-covered creatures that speak in a language resembling grunts, growls, and roars.

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Ivan
A stick, granny's stick, how is she going to be able to walk without it.
Crow
I don't know, Richard Burton.
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Mike, As Ivan spins around and around
Scott Hamilton's interpretation of The Three Bears.

Scott Hamilton (1958-) Olympic Champion Ice Skater.

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Crow, as image of Nastinka appears
Help me Obi Wan Kenoboski

A line from the first "Star Wars" film (1977). The line "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope" is spoken by Princess Leia in a hologram message.

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Ivan
There is only one thing I have left to do...
Crow
...join the band Nelson.

Hair Metal band from the early 1990s

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Tom, singing slowly
Just hear those sleigh bells ring a ling...
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Tom
Val Kilmer is Prince Valiant.
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Tom, singing
Fresh is better, get Mentos Fresh and Full of life!
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Mike
What would you do for a Klondike Bar?

Slogan for "Klondike"-brand chocolate/ice cream bars.

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Crow, as tree monsters lumber forward
Quick, give them Dutch elm disease!

Dutch Elm Disease: A lethal fungal infection which has devastated whole populations of elm trees throughout the world. ("Dutch" because it was first scientifically studied in the Netherlands, although it actually originated in Asia.)

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Ivan
... and it's the first time I've sat on a shovel.
Mike as Ivan
The flat part, anyway.
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Mike, as Ivan spanks Baba Yaga with the broom
Robert Mapplethorpe's "Strega Nona."

"Strega Nona" or "Grandma Witch" a book by Tomie De Paola about a good witch who looks after Calabria a town in Italy, and Robert Mapplethorpe a photographer whos work was very sexual in nature.

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Crow, as camera pans across winter landscape
Later, in Tingly-Wingly Pixie-Wixie Land...
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Servo, singing a translation of Jack Frost's song
It's colder than a bucket of penguin poop, it's colder than a polar bear's butt. The dogs are sticking to the fire hydrants...
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Jack Frost
But, any living creature who touches my magic scepter will never wake up again.
Crow
Admittedly it's a design flaw, but...
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Crow
Yes, every culture's mythology features the young hero chasing a pig-sleigh.
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Crow
So the premise of this movie is that everyone is just nuttier than all get out?
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Mike
I enjoy watching people's mental illness...
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Servo
Apparently there's no Finnish word for "subtle".
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Servo, as Ivan
The new Ace of Base record is out!

Ace of Base (1992- ) is a Swedish dance-pop band best known for songs such as "The Sign", "All That She Wants", "Don't Turn Around", and "Cruel Summer".

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Mike, as the dog, who is brushing his face with his paws
I'm out of wiper fluid!
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Ivan
I hurt your feelings, Nastenka. Won't you please forgive me?
Crow, as Ivan
And my a-ha hairdo?
Ivan
Please...
Crow, as Ivan
Take on me.
Servo, as Ivan
Take me on.

a-ha is a Norwegian synth-pop band best known for their 1984/1985 hit "Take On Me" as well as the songs "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." and "The Living Daylights" (the latter of which was the theme song for the same-named James Bond movie).

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Soundtrack, as girl who was frozen solid mysteriously returns to normal
DING!
Crow
She's done!
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Mike, after the stepmother hits her own daughter and then hands her a lollipop
Classic case of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome.

"Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy" is a kind of abuse in which a parent or other caregiver harms (or feigns harming) their dependent so as to elicit attention or sympathy--in contrast to the real MS, which involves only an individual.

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Crow
It's the seven dwarves! Filthy, Rotting, Lousy, Skanky, Scabby, Septic, and... Doc.

In Disney's 1938 production of the classic fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, the dwarves were named Bashful, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy and Doc.

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Crow, as Ivan uppercuts a bandit
Take THAT, Hamburglar!

The Hamburglar is one of many marketing characters used for McDonald's restaurants and their "Happy Meal" children's meal line.

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Baba Yaga
Surrender, Ivan! Or Nastenka will learn to sit on a shovel!
Servo
That's her answer to everything.
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Crow, as a scraggly bandit
It's... oh, never mind.

A running gag in the TV show "Monty Python's Flying Circus" involved an unshaven, ragged man (played by Michael Palin) rushing up to the camera from a distance and saying "It's...", after which the show's opening sequence would be shown.

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Mike, as Marfushka returns
It's Prokofiev, and this time he's pissed!

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was a Soviet composer whose works include the opera "The Love for Three Oranges," the ballet "Romeo and Juliet," and the children's story "Peter and the Wolf."

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Crow
Proving once again that slightly unattractive people ARE evil!
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Servo, looking at a little boy
A young Mike Nelson!
Mike
Hey!
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Mike, seeing the ending text "and they lived happily ever after........."
Yeah, right, until the mushroom guy moved in.