History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E02TheBruteMan

* {{Landlord}}: Servo spends the episode's host segments trying to buy a house with no funds ("It's called the No-Cash method") and no clue what he's doing so he can become one of these. Mike shrugs and says that Servo's going to jail because of this.

** Crow cooing over {{landlord}} Servo's newly purchased "drive-by cutie" like it's a new kitten.

* OverlyLongGag: Crow laboriously overexplaining his joke about replacing Tom Dooley with Tom Dewey (the Republican candidate UsefulNotes/HarryTruman defeated to become president) in the song "Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley". [[DontExplainTheJoke The joke being, of course]], that it's not much of a joke before you start explaining it.

* OverlyLongGag: Crow laboriously overexplaining his joke about replacing Tom Dooley with Tom Dewey (the Republican candidate UsefulNotes/HarryTruman defeated to become president) in the song "Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley". [[[[DontExplainTheJoke The joke being, of course]], that it's not even a good joke before you start explaining it.

Films watched: ''{{The Chicken of Tomorrow}}'' (short) and ''Film/TheBruteMan''

''{{The Chicken of Tomorrow}}'' is an educational short about how eugenics and gasoline mean bigger chickens on your dinner table.

* DontExplainTheJoke / OverlyLongGag: Crow's joke about replacing Tom Dooley with Tom Dewey in the song "Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley".

--> '''Servo''': Turns out you can purchase one of these babies with no cash!
--> '''Mike''': With no cash?!
--> '''Servo''': Yep. It's called the "no-cash" method.

* HulkSpeak: One of the riffs as the creeper walks down the street.
--> [[Music/HarryNilsson "Everybody talking me. Can't hear word saying."]]
** Also:
--> '''Servo''': [[Theatre/MyFairLady Often walk down street before / Feet stay beneath pavement before / House street where live.]]

** CrankyLandlord: In a matter of minutes after closing the purchase after the movie, Servo officially becomes one of the ten worst landlords according to the Village Voice, which does indeed have an annual list.

-->'''Crow:''' (as chicken) May I have a piece of my own white meat, please?
* MemeticMutation: [[invoked]] Rondo's "Whassa matter? Don't you ''like'' it?" becomes an oft repeated CallBack in later episodes.

-->'''Servo:''' The seedy alliance between big oil and big chickens.
-->'''Mike:''' That guy's escaping disguised as a chicken!
-->'''Crow:''' ...Chickens!

* {{Corpsing}}: While the riffers' laughing isn't discouraged, Mike spends over a half minute cracking up at the crotchety old grocer's vitriol for humanity.

--> '''Crow''': "God is dead"? ''GOOD!''

** In general, the crotchety old grocery man really amused the crew, especially his apparent hate for his delivery boy ("'''DEAR GOD I HATE YOU!!!!'''"). Mike says "Creeper, creeper, creeper..." numerous times in the episode. Mike and the 'bots then [[ShipperOnBoard ship the grocery man and the old spinster who shops there]] ("Let's be crotchety together!")

** In general, the crotchety old grocery man really amused the crew, especially his apparent hate for his delivery boy ("'''DEAR GOD I HATE YOU!!!!'''"). Mike says "Creeper, creeper, creeper..." numerous times in the episode.

-->'''Forrester:''' Mother, '''''[=NoooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooOOOO!!!!=]''''' ''(shrugs, smiling)'' Ah, well. He's not the ''first'' oily man that's taken Mother to the mat.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In-universe. During ''The Chicken of Tomorrow'', when one chicken says, "That's what ''you'' think, big boy!" the trio reacts, with Crow exclaiming, "That was ''weird''!"

* {{Landlord}}: Servo spends the episode's host segments trying to buy a house with no funds ("It's called the No-Cash method") and no clue what he's doing so he can become one of these. Mike shrugs and says that Servo's going to jail because of this.
** CrankyLandlord: In a matter of minutes after closing the purchase after the movie, Servo officially becomes one of the ten worst landlords according to the Village Voice, which does indeed have an annual list.

* MemeticMutation: [[invoked]] Rondo's "Whassa matter? Don't you ''like'' dis face?" becomes an oft repeated CallBack in later episodes.

* Corpsing: While the riffers' laughing isn't discouraged, Mike spends over a half minute cracking up at the crotchety old grocer's vitriol for humanity.

* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: When the grocer is reading over the Creeper's letter (left under obviously mysterious circumstances) Mike concludes it with "Signed: Not the Brute."

* Hulkspeak: One of the riffs as the creeper walks down the street.

* RunningGag: Mike says "Creeper, creeper, creeper..." numerous times in the episode.

-->'''Crow:''' (as chicken) "May I have a piece of my own white meat, please?"

!!The MST3K Treatment of ''Film/TheBruteMan'' provides:

* ContinuityNod: Crow identifies the Creeper's hideout as KTMA, the low-power UHF station MST3K started on.

Films watched: ''{{The Chicken of Tomorrow}}''(short) and ''Film/TheBruteMan''