History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S10E01Soultaker

!!The thrilling, high-stakes, host-meets-host ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' presentation of ''Soultaker'' has examples of:

* The 'Bots are having a wet T-shirt contest, but they don't seem to understand how they work. They and Mike are then caught in an awkward moment when Commercial Sign fails to start.

* Cambot is experiencing malfunctions, Gypsy is being uncharacteristically mean, and a mysterious man is trying to contact the Satellite of Love. None of it matters to Pearl as she shuts them up with a movie.

* As the Satellite falls to pieces, Pearl and her crew get a surprise visitor... TV's Frank! Turns out he left Second-Banana Heaven and found a new gig as a Soultaker, which he demonstrates on Bobo.

* Joel is done with the repairs and everything's back to normal. Mike and the 'Bots ask if they can get a lift back to Earth with him, but Joel convinces them to tough it out and grow from the ordeals ahead. Meanwhile, Frank needs a soul to take back to his boss, and Bobo is happy to donate his.

!!The thrilling, high-stakes, host-meets-host ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation of ''Film/{{Soultaker}}'' has examples of:

* ActorAllusion: The riffers recognize Joe Estevez from ''Film/Werewolf1996'', but it only gets referenced in a few jokes. "Yetiglanchi!"
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Why do Natalie's parents hate Zack so much? In the original cut there's some dialogue indicating that Zack and Brad were both drug dealers, and that Natalie's parents broke off their relationship after they found out. While Zack eventually went straight, Brad didn't (he both uses and sells cocaine in the extended Summerfest scene). Without this backstory it seems like they have an irrational grudge against Zack, who seems to be a NiceGuy hardly worthy of their scorn, even if he's "slightly lower middle" class.

* BrainBleach: When Robert Z'Dar's crotch is thrust in Crow's face.

* BriefAccentImitation: Mike makes fun of Joe Estevez's slight slurring at one point:
--> '''The Man''': So that's your decision, then?\\
'''Mike''': So shat's your deshishion, shen?
* TheBusCameBack: Joel Robinson and TV's Frank return for this episode. Sadly, Joel doesn't participate in the theater segments.
* CelebrityResemblance: A woman in the film who's about to die looks like [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Art Garfunkel]], according to Mike and the Bots.
--> '''Tom''': (singing) Like a bridge, over...

* ForTheEvulz: Dr. Forrester rigged the Satellite of Love to malfunction and crash back to Earth after ten years for no real reason.

* HappilyEverAfter: The Bots are unhappy with the movie's ending, so they suggest that after the credits, [[DiabolusExMachina Zack's life completely falls apart]]; Mike asks if that isn't a little extreme, and they sarcastically suggest that he'd prefer an ending that's so unrealistically saccharine it makes the average Disney movie look bleak.
-->'''Mike:''' So, there's no middle ground with you? It's either straining grain alcohol through toast in back alleys or a happy little world of rodents in feety pajamas?
-->'''Crow:''' Well ''[[BluntYes yeah]]'', Mike. Why's that so hard to understand?

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The first indication that there's something wrong with the satellite comes when the show refuses to cut to commercials, leaving Mike and the Bots awkwardly standing in front of the camera in silence.

-->'''Mike:''' Is there a name for Mom's little sickness?
-->'''Servo:''' Yeah, [[Music/SarahMcLachlan Lilith Fair-ism]].

-->'''Servo''': (''as Natalie''): "INTERIOR: BEDROOM. Me, draped across the bed, tousled but tawny. I lay there, hand on my taut tummy-- still pretty, in a worried kind of way. Zoom in closer to my prettiness. Closer."
* MissingTheGoodStuff: Crow gets something in his eye and misses the footage of the heroine taking off her clothes. Mike and Tom intentionally invoke this trope by claiming that what happened was a lot hotter than what was actually depicted on-screen.
-->'''Crow:''' Aw, hell, a ''robe''?!
-->'''Servo:''' I saw a lot! I saw everything!
-->'''Crow:''' Shut up, Servo!

* NoodleIncident: Before becoming a Soultaker, TV's Frank did some work as an angel. Apparently, he got in trouble for appearing before people as [[Series/TouchedByAnAngel Della Reese]].

-->'''Pearl:''' ''(beaming)'' I ''knew'' these two would get along.[[note]]Of course, TV's Frank mocks Observer, {{Stage Whisper}}ing to Pearl, "Who's the Hostess Snow Ball?"[[/note]]

* OffTheShelfFX: TV's Frank's Soultaker ring is a green glow stick bracelet with the connector strategically hidden by the way he holds onto it (which is pretty much exactly what they did in the film, too.).

** Mike and the Bots get a lot of mileage out of Vivian Schilling's resemblance to Tonya Harding.

** Summerfest

* SeriesContinuityError: Dr. Forrester rigged the [=SoL=] to slowly self-destruct after ten years, which happens now, despite the [=SoL=] being over 500 years old by the events of season 8.

** As Joe Estevez tries to convince Natalie to come with him, Crow asks, "Aren't you due on the set of ''[[Film/Werewolf1996 Werewolf]]''?"
** As the SOL begins fully breaking down, Crow can be heard singing "Nearer My God To Thee", which was reportedly the last song played by the musicians on the ''Titanic'' before it sank.

--->'''Mike''': Music/DavidByrne is right. [[Music/TalkingHeads Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens]]!"

** Frank as well, who went from being Dr. Forrester's mook to a powerful soultaker, strong enough to defeat the supposedly omnipotent Observer.

-->'''Mike''': Hey by the way, do you wear your [[Music/CoreyHart sunglasses at night]] so you can, so you can keep track of the visions in your dreams?

* NoodleIncident: Before becoming a Soultaker, TV's Frank did some work as an angel. Apparently, he got in trouble for appearing to people as [[Series/TouchedByAnAngel Della Reese]].

* NoodleIncident: Before becoming a Soultaker, TV's Frank did some work as an angel. Apparently, he got in trouble for appearing to people as [[Series/TouchedByAnAngel Donna Reese]].