History Film / TheSkydivers

* RevengeBeforeReason: Suzy invents a stupid plot to kill Harry because she's angry at being jilted, pretty much. Despite the fact she's apparently wealthy and she has another man who's willing to do anything for her, while Harry has a stale marriage and a three-man sport parachuting business. She has nothing to gain from his death, but she does it anyway. Lampshaded by Tom Servo: "Now that Harry's dead, we get all the...what do we get?"

* RevengeBeforeReason: Suzy invents a stupid plot to kill Harry because she's angry at being jilted, pretty much. Despite the fact she's apparently wealthy and she has another man who's willing to do anything for her, while Harry has a stale marriage and a three-man sport parachuting business. She has nothing to gain from his death, but she does it anyway.

* BuxomIsBetter: Holy cow, the "beefy girl" at the party has a ''RACK''!

--->'''Servo:''' Now this here is the butt of choice.
--->'''Mike:''' Yeah, it won the Palme D’Butt at Cannes.
--->'''Servo:''' [[HehHehYouSaidX Heh Heh. Can]]

* GenderBlenderName: The actress who plays Beth is apparently named Kevin.

Apparently to make up for the almost dialogue free ''Film/TheBeastOfYuccaFlats'', the film consists almost entirely of stilted dialogue punctuated by StockFootage of parachutists. That would be fine, if the dialogue wasn't all like this:

* InformedAttractiveness - Beth at least is cute in a "small town, small dating pool" way. Suzy doesn't even make it into that category. She's supposedly the sultry temptress of the parachuting camp and beautiful enough to drive men to murder. In fact, in the words of [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/The_Skydivers.aspx The Agony Booth]], "by the looks of it, I'd say Suzy's had three, maybe four kids, is about 40, wears granny panties, and has been hitting the donuts, hard". According to [[MST3K Michael J. Nelson]], "I bet she smells like Marlboros and Arpege and Juicy Fruit and body odor."

--->'''Mike:''' It won the ‘Palme de Butt’ at Cannes.

* DownerEnding
* FemmeFatale: Suzy.

* InformedAttractiveness - Suzy is supposedly the sultry temptress of the parachuting camp, beautiful enough to drive men to murder. In fact, in the words of [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/The_Skydivers.aspx The Agony Booth]], "by the looks of it, I'd say Suzy's had three, maybe four kids, is about 40, wears granny panties, and has been hitting the donuts, hard". According to [[MST3K Michael J. Nelson]], "I bet she smells like Marlboros and Arpege and Juicy Fruit and body odor."
** Beth. "She keeps getting prettier every day."
--->'''Crow:''' ''(sighing)'' Honey, even if a hairstyle is in, it may not be the right hairstyle for ''you''.
*** Beth at least is cute in a "small town, small dating pool" way. Suzy doesn't even make it into that category.

* MustHaveCaffeine: Everyone in this movie. Affairs are built and lives are destroyed around cups of coffee.
** It's a Creator/ColemanFrancis movie. They ''all'' revolve around coffee.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Tony Cardoza, the ubiquitous actor/director/producer. Aside from producing and starring in Coleman Francis' movies, he also produced ''{{Hellcats}}''. He got his start co-producing Creator/EdWood's ''Night of the Ghouls''.

* ThatPoorCat:
-->'''Mike:''' Don't laugh - they've got a ''kitten'' in that bomb.
-->'''Servo:''' ''(mewls like a cat)'' Boing!

'''Joe:''' Coffee? I like coffee!

** It's a ColemanFrancis movie. They ''all'' revolve around coffee.

The "plot" involves the eponymous skydivers getting away from their bland, loveless marriages with bland, loveless affairs, watching ColemanFrancis's extended family go-go dancing, and either killing, dying, or suffering total mental breakdown as a result of all the deaths. They even skydive, occasionally.

Still, ''Skydivers'' is merely "poor" by comparison with the final film in ColemanFrancis' trilogy... ''Film/RedZoneCuba''.

* HotAmazon / BrawnHilda: '''''And HOW'''''. The "beefy girl" at the party, who even picks up a guy and tosses him like a beanbag.

* InformedAttractiveness - Suzy is supposedly the sultry temptress of the parachuting camp, beautiful enough to drive men to murder. In fact, in the words of [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/The_Skydivers.aspx The Agony Booth]], "by the looks of it, I'd say Suzy's had three, maybe four kids, is about 40, wears granny panties, and has been hitting the donuts, hard".

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: This film makes guys jumping out of a plane look boring.

* XtremeSportXcusePlot

The film was shown on ''{{MST3K}}'' with the educational short film ''Why Study Industrial Arts''.

* HotAmazon / BrawnHilda: '''''And HOW'''''. The "beefy girl" at the party, who even picks up a guy and tosses him like a beanbag. Servo gives her a masculine, gruff voice while Mike calls her Tom Boerwinkle, a big ex-NBA player.
* InformedAttractiveness - Suzy is supposedly the sultry temptress of the parachuting camp, beautiful enough to drive men to murder. In fact, in the words of [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/The_Skydivers.aspx The Agony Booth]], "by the looks of it, I'd say Suzy's had three, maybe four kids, is about 40, wears granny panties, and has been hitting the donuts, hard". Or as [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike]] puts it, "I bet she smells like Marlboros and Arpege and Juicy Fruit and body odor."

* LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek: Crow calls the film a "chick film" at the end. In a weird way, he's not wrong.
* MustHaveCaffeine - Everyone in this movie. Affairs are built and lives are destroyed around cups of coffee.
-->'''Servo''': Even the soundtrack is making coffee!

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome - This film makes guys jumping out of a plane look boring.

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!! The ''{{MST3K}}'' presentation contains:

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Mike consoles Servo after Crow's UranusIsShowing jokes, only to lose control of his drink when Crow says one more.
* AlsoSprachZarathustra: Servo sings the opening notes at the beginning of his ill-fated planetarium show.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Let's just say Servo DidNotDoTheResearch on his Astronomy presentation.
* BetterThanSex: Crow uses this phrase to mock the movie's [[MustHaveCaffeine fixation with coffee]], as well as the lack of chemistry between the two lead characters.
-->'''Beth:''' I made some coffee.\\
'''Crow:''' Coffee? Wow, that's better than sex!
* TheChewToy / IronButtmonkey: Crow. In this episode alone, he accidentally saws himself in half, puts himself in a double jock lock, gets blasted by Servo's fighter plane, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking gets tangled in his parachute]], and it's all played for laughs.
** Crow tells Servo that it's the key to being a {{Determinator}}.
* CookingDuel: Mike & The Bots vs Deep 13 in a battle of Swing Choir {{medley}}s.
* DisproportionateRetribution: In the opening, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bBDtxk2mGA Crow ruins Servo's planetarium show.]] In the third interval, Servo picks up a fighter plane, blasting Crow and his recently-acquired car. And that's the only misfortune Crow suffers we know for sure Servo caused.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The student's unsettling narration at the start of ''Why Study Industrial Arts'' about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin why he studies Industrial Arts]]. The riffing picks up on the subtext:
-->'''Student:''' And you know, I like the ''feel'' of a board moving ''smoothly'' against a sharp saw.
-->'''Mike:''' Then I ''thrust'' the nail into the ''soft, yielding'' wood...
* HairWings: They speculate that Beth's very rigidly-styled hair could double as a parachute.
-->'''Crow''': I predict in the climactic scene she jumps without a chute and her hair opens up.
* NauseaFuel[[invoked]]:
-->'''Mike:''' ''(nauseated)'' ...did Forrester's dance make anyone else ''physically ill''?
-->'''Crow:''' '''[[ActorAllusion I LIKED IT!]]'''
* PornStash
-->'''Crow:''' (as industrial arts student) Tap-ta-tap-tap... I keep ''Popular Mechanics'' under my mattress!
* RunningGag. Beth's hair.
** Don't forget Petey Plane, kids!
* UranusIsShowing: Crow unleashes a barrage of "Uranus" jokes during Tom's planetarium show.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Tony Cardoza, the ubiquitous actor/director/producer. Aside from producing and starring in Coleman Francis' movies, he also produced ''{{Hellcats}}''. He got his start co-producing EdwardDWoodJr's ''Night of the Ghouls''.

Still, ''Skydivers'' is merely "poor" by comparison with the final film in ColemanFrancis trilogy... ''Film/RedZoneCuba''.

* NauseaFuel:

-->'''Crow:''' '''I LIKED IT!'''

* YouFailPhysicsForever: Let's just say Servo DidNotDoTheResearch on his Astronomy presentation.