History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E23VillageOfTheGiants

** ''Countless'' riffs based on Music/FrankZappa songs. Zappa was a BigNameFan[[invoked]] of the show and the episode was dedicated [[InMemoriam in his memory]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
-->'''Crow:''' "That's not ''mud!''"
** The growing scene has a split-second nip slip.

* ContinuityNod: Awkward henchman/[[CrustyCaretaker groundssatyr]] Torgo from ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'' briefly takes over Frank's job in Deep 13. During his job interview, he mentions running [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate his own delivery business]] that had to shut down [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E08OperationDouble007 because of "sanitation problems"]]. His "haunting Torgo theme" and the cheerful jazz background music from ''Manos'' return along with him.

* GoodTimesMontage: Parodied with a bittersweet ClipShow-style montage of all the times Frank got hurt, maimed, and killed during the NotableOriginalMusic.

* NotableOriginalMusic: "The Greatest Frank of All", a tender love ballad that {{Smurf|ing}}s out most of the words with "Frank".
-->'''Tom:''' Hopin' to find\\
Sweet Frank on the line\\
Nothin' but sweet lovin' Frank ('''Crow:''' ''(harmonizing)'' 'Cause it's Frank...)\\
'''Mike:''' Knowin' that love could be Frank\\
If only the sun and the moon would ''collide'' to be Frank...!\\
Let me be frank about Frank ('''Tom:''' Let me be frank about Frank...)\\
Let me be frank about Frank\\
'''All:''' 'Cause Frank is the best Frank\\
That's ever happened to meeeeeee

* Mike and the 'Bots decide to take up exercising. Mostly Mike. The 'Bots can do without, to be honest.

''[[PleaseDontLeaveMe "Please, don't go."]]\\

[[InMemoriam "Please, don't go." "Goodbye, [[Music/FrankZappa Frank]], you were enjoyed." (singing) "Let me be frank about Frank..."]]

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Frank is happy to take an offscreen ice augering if it means he gets his old job back. Also the GoodTimesMontage of all the previous times Frank got killed during the song.

* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Dr. Forrester is furious at Frank for his underhanded tactics in getting rid of Torgo, which naturally means he's obviously the best fit for his old job. But Forrester's still going to have to [[TheyKilledKennyAgain kill him with a power auger]].

* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Dr. Forrester is furious at Frank for his underhanded tactics in getting rid of Torgo, which naturally means he's obviously the best fit for his old job. But Forrester's still going to kill him with a power auger]].
-->'''Frank:''' Fine? What do ''you'' think! ''({{Everybody Laughs|Ending}}, FadeToBlack)'' ...Thank you, Dr. Forrester!

* ActorAllusion: [[invoked]] Plenty of references to Lloyd Bridges here. There are also plenty of [[Series/TheAndyGriffithShow Opie]] and ''Film/{{Willow}}'' jokes at Ron Howard's expense.
-->'''Crow:''' [[RunningGag I liked]] ''Willow''!

** [[ActorAllusion Alluding]] to Creator/RonHoward (Genius)'s career, mainly his early breakout role as the {{adorably precocious|Child}} Opie Taylor on ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' and one of his more notable bombs as a director, ''Film/{{Willow}}''.

** Crow sings "Opie Opie Opie" to the tune of the Witch's/Miss Gulch's/the flying monkeys' theme from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' as Genius rides up on his bike (like Miss Gulch).
** "[[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Attack of the Fifty-Foot]] Music/{{ABBA}}!"

Nothin' but sweet lovin' Frank ('''Crow:''' ''(harmonizing)'' Cause it's Frank...)\\

Let me be frank about Frank ('''Tom:''' Let me be frank about Frank...\\

* ShoutOut: ''Countless'' riffs based on Music/FrankZappa songs. Zappa was a BigNameFan[[invoked]] of the show and the episode was dedicated [[InMemoriam in his memory]].

Let me be frank about Frank ('''Tom:''' ''(harmonizing)'' Let me be frank about Frank...\\

* NotableOriginalMusic: "The Greatest Frank of All", a tender love ballad with that {{Smurf|ing}}s out most of the words with "Frank".

* NotableOriginalMusic: "The Greatest Frank of All"

** The film supposedly being based (very loosely) on Creator/HGWells' ''The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth''.

** Crow sings "Opie Opie Opie" to the tune of the Witch's/flying monkeys' theme from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' as Genius rides up on his bike (like the Witch's real-world counterpart Miss Gulch).
* ShoutOut: ''Countless'' to Music/FrankZappa songs. Zappa was a BigNameFan[[invoked]] of the show and the episode was dedicated [[InMemoriam in his memory]].

** Giving [[ChildProdigy boy genius]] Genius the voice of glasses-wearing goofy, doofy Mikey from ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E14TeenAgeStrangler Teen-Age Strangler]]": "And I didn't steal no bike, neither!"

* CallBack: While the giant teenagers are dancing:
-->'''Crow:''' "Why wasn't [[Film/TheAmazingColossalMan Glenn Manning]] this much fun?"

* RunningGag: "I ''like'' ''Film/{{Willow}}''!"

** "Jim Begg."
* ShoutOut: ''Countless'' to Music/FrankZappa songs. Given he was a BigNameFan of the show and the episode was made [[InMemoriam in memory of Zappa]], it makes sense.

* Frank asks Mike and the 'Bots to fake a job interview so he can use it to apply for unemployment. The interview ends when Dr. Forrester evicts Frank from the janitor's closet.

* CallBack:
** While the giant teenagers are dancing:

** [[Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate Torgo]] briefly takes over Frank's job in Deep 13.

[[AC: Segment 1]]
* Mike and the Bots decide to take up exercising

[[AC: Segment 2]]
* To Mike and the Bots' shock, Dr. Forrester has decided to fire TV's Frank.

->''You know, as in tune as Creator/BertIGordon was with {{the Fifties}}, he just didn't get {{the Sixties}}!''\\

'''Torgo:''' ''What'' theme music? (walks away, Haunting Torgo Theme plays.)

* PetTheDog: Mike and the Bots are super nice to Frank after he gets fired. They get ready to send him a card and even give him a job interview for a position on the SOL (although they really just do this so he doesn't commit fraud while trying to apply for unemployment benefits.)

[[InMemoriam "Please, don't go." "Goodbye, Frank, you were enjoyed." (singing) "Let me be frank about Frank..."]]