History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E15TeenageCaveman

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[[caption-width-right:282:"Amniotic Lizards?"]]

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[[caption-width-right:282:"🎶Come along with me/Baby, then you'll see/My harnessess and my nets!🎶"]]

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[[caption-width-right:282:[[Music/WhosNext Teeenage Cavemaaan! We're all cavemen!]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:352:"Amniotic Lizards?"]]

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[[caption-width-right:352:"🎶Come along with me/Baby, then you'll see/My harnessess and my nets!🎶"]]

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[[caption-width-right:352:[[Music/WhosNext Teeenage Cavemaaan! We're all cavemen!]]]]

[[caption-width-right:352:"Come along with me/Baby, then you'll see/My harnessess and my nets!"]]

One of three episodes in the series to feature two completely different short films played back-to-back. ''Aquatic Wizards'' is a harmless demonstration of water-skiing acrobatics in Cypress Gardens, Florida. ''Catching Trouble'', on the other hand, is a harrowing and highly disturbing newsreel where naturalist Ross Allen manhandles wild animals in the Everglades, ripping them away from their homes and throwing them into cages to ship to the zoo.

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!!The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of ''Film/TeenageCaveman'' has examples of:
* CallForward: [[Film/TheSheCreature The She-Creature]], [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E08TheSheCreature whose movie would be riffed]] years later in Season 8, is seen in the stock footage that runs during the dying scientist's final monologue.
* ContinuityNod: Part of the movie's StockFootage (specifically: the part with two, ahem, ''prehistoric creatures'' wrestling one another) is the same as that in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E07RobotMonster Robot Monster]]'', a first season episode. Servo — who ironically [[TheOtherDarrin was voiced by Josh Weinstein]] and ''not'' Kevin Murphy in the referenced episode — takes a moment to {{Lampshade|Hanging}} this:
-->'''Servo:''' Haven't we seen this? I know we've seen this before.
* GreaserDelinquents: For whatever reason, Frank starts acting like a mouthy teenage hood, prompting Dr. F to join in a screaming match with him when Frank pulls a switchblade.
-->'''Frank:''' ''(In an [[TranquilFury eerily low and calm voice]])'' I spent all night workin' on that bad boy. I'm doin' the invention exchange this week. ''(Motions with his head)'' Take the train.\\
'''Dr. Forrester:''' I've just about had it, smart-boy.\\
'''Frank:''' Oh, yeah?! ''(Whips out the knife and begins giggling madly)'' I'm gonna cut 'cha, man. I'm gonna cut 'cha, that's right.\\
'''Dr. Forrester:''' Yeah?\\
'''Frank:''' Cut 'cha bad, man.\\
'''Dr. Forrester:''' You want a piece of me? You want a PIECE of me?!\\
'''Frank:''' Yeah, I do!\\
'''Dr. Forrester:''' C'MON!\\
'''Frank:''' I'm gonna cut 'cha a second smile, Daddy-o!\\
''(They begin wheeling around)''\\
'''Dr. Forrester:''' I don't THINK so, Jackson! C'MON, sweet-cakes! BRING IT ON!!\\
'''Frank:''' I'M GONNA CUT YOU! I'M GONNA CUT YOU!! '''AAAAAH--'''\\
''(The screen cuts away to Joel and the 'bots looking bemused and concerned)''\\
'''Servo:''' ...What in the Sam Scratch is goin' on down there?\\
'''Joel:''' I don't know, but I don't like it. Not one bit.
* ImYourWorstNightmare: The bots have a squirrel saying this to the Robert Vaughn character when he seems to have a remarkable amount of trouble actually catching it.
* MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere: Servo says this after the giant reptile fight ends.
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: Crow makes a crack at this toward the main caveman character.
-->'''Crow''': This is why the dinosaurs died out. ''You bored them to death!''
* RunningGag: Joel and the 'bots keep singing the Bunny Hop as the cavemen go hopping through the jungle.
* ShoutOut:
** The music that plays as Frank and Dr. Forrester grapple with the gun, scissors and mallets is [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong a slightly re-arranged, softer synth-keyboard version]] of the battle ritual theme from [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "Amok Time"]].
** Several references to ''Series/FTroop'', since Frank de Kova (who played the Black-Bearded One) was also in that show.
** And to ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' when Robert Vaughn is running across the landscape--"Bob, Bob, Bob of the Jungle", followed by "Watch out for that tree!" when Bob does indeed manage to run smack into a tree.
** As the tribe hunts down Symbol-Maker's-Son: [[Film/TheWarriors "Warriors! Come out to plaaaay-ay!"]]
** The Symbol Maker's Son [[HeAlsoDid apparently dreams of]] [[Series/TheManFromUNCLE Ilya and Mr. Waverly.]]
* TakeThat: Creator/RogerCorman's quick-and-cheap filmmaking methods are the target of several quips, including a suggestion that Robert Vaughn not eat the squirrel he's cooking so Corman can use it as the monster in his next film.
* TheUnreveal: We never find out what the Mad's super-cool-looking invention (it resembled some sort of robot) actually was.

!!!!The ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' presentation of ''Film/CatchingTrouble'' provides examples of:

!!Tropes for the host segments include:

* ShoutOut: The music that plays as Frank and Dr. Forrester grapple with the gun, scissors and mallets is [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong a slightly re-arranged, softer synth-keyboard version]] of the battle ritual theme from [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "Amok Time"]].
* TheUnreveal: We never find out what the Mad's super-cool-looking invention (it resembled some sort of robot) actually was.

!!Tropes for the ''Teenage Caveman'' part of this episode include:
* CallForward: [[Film/TheSheCreature The She-Creature]], [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E08TheSheCreature whose movie would be riffed]] years later in Season 8, is seen in the stock footage that runs during the dying scientist's final monologue.
* ContinuityNod: Part of the movie's StockFootage (specifically: the part with two, ahem, ''prehistoric creatures'' wrestling one another) is the same as that in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E07RobotMonster Robot Monster]]'', a first season episode. Servo — who ironically [[TheOtherDarrin was voiced by Josh Weinstein]] and ''not'' Kevin Murphy in the referenced episode — takes a moment to {{Lampshade|Hanging}} this:
-->'''Servo:''' Haven't we seen this? I know we've seen this before.

!!The [=MST3K=] treatment of Aquatic Wizards provides examples of:

!!The [=MST3K=] treatment of Catching Trouble provides examples of:

* It's raining outside, trapping the SOL crew in boredom. ''Hungry Hungry Hippos'' and ''Mousetrap'' are out of the question, and books are lame, but poker could be appealing.

* Joel and the 'Bots wrote a book, ''Rainy Day Epicacs'', filled with delightful home remedies to induce vomiting. Frank demands to be allowed to present the invention, leading to a big fight between the Mads.

* Ross Allen is clearly the villain of ''Catching Trouble'', so the SOL crew go hunting for him. They succeed, and a swift hammering is Ross' reward, followed by a visit from a giant rattler.

* Joel's attempts to teach the 'Bots the history of technology is interrupted by a power struggle between Dr. Forrester and Frank, which ends with a cattle prodding. The 'Bots sleep through Joel's lesson, in which [[Series/TheFlyingNun The Flying Nun]] is somehow involved.

* Progressive thinking was a problem even in prehistoric times, as described by Joel.

* Crow and Tom are the last survivors of a horrible movie-viewing brought on by Roger Corman. Crow got slime on the fan letter written by an L.A. stuntman. The Mads share a moment over coffee as they recover from their wounds.

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* CallForward: The She-Creature, [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E08TheSheCreature whose movie would be riffed]] years later in Season 8, is seen in the stock footage that runs during the dying scientist's final monologue.

* Joel's attempts to teach the 'Bots the history of technology is interrupted by a power struggle between Dr. Forrester and Frank, which ends with a cattle prodding. The 'Bots slept through Joel's lesson.

* MamaBear: Sadly doesn't appear, but boy do the 'bots ''really'' want to see her enter the fray.
** [[FridgeHorror Which probably means Ross shot her offscreen.]]

* TakeThat: This short is followed with a host segment entitled "Catching Ross", wherein Joel brutally torments an action figure modeled after Ross while Tom mocks it. Fans complained when the short was put on a collection ''without'' "Catching Ross" included.

* ContinuityNod: Part of the movie's StockFootage (specifically: the part with two, ahem, ''prehistoric creatures'' wrestling one another) is the same as that in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E07RobotMonster Robot Monster]]'', a first season episode Servo — who ironically [[TheOtherDarrin was voiced by Josh Weinstein]] and ''not'' Kevin Murphy in the referenced episode — takes a moment to {{Lampshade|Hanging}} this: