History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S10E01Soultaker

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler:That Joel is on Soultaker Frank's "list," his evasiveness about how he got to the satellite, the below-referenced tidbit that the restaurant he claims to manage had already closed, and even the fact that he spent movie segments tooling around outside the theater (where there isn't usually air) could suggest that, InUniverse, Joel is dead. What keeps it from being FridgeHorror is that, with Frank as his Soultaker, you gotta figure he's pretty safe, it's just that he can push elevator buttons but can't be shot... (Still no word on Retsyn.)]]

-->'''Mike:''' Is there a word for Mom's little sickness?

* HilariousInHindsight: Crow saying that he enjoys "spurning a clown" makes a lot of sense when, in various {{Rifftrax}} shorts, Bill Corbett really dislikes clowns.

* Music/JohnnyCash: Referenced quite a bit, due to the Soultaker's outfit.

!!The ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation has examples of:

* JohnnyCash: Referenced quite a bit, due to the Soultaker's outfit.
* MartinVanBuren: A picture of him appears twice after the first commercial break, as a sign of Cambot malfunctioning.

** Made funnier if one knew that the Hot Fish Shop franchise had closed long before the episode aired.

* WhoWritesThisCrap: Inverted by Mike as Zach, to a confused Natalie: "Hey look, you wrote this crap."

* WhoWritesThisCrap: Inverted by Mike as Zach, to a confused Natalie: "Hey look, you wrote this crap.")

* ShoutOut: Joel mentions that he'd spent a couple years doing pyrotechnics for the band Man or Astro-man?, which did its own ShoutOut by performing their own rendition of MST3K's closing "Love Theme" for their 1994 album.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The bots' "alternate ending."
* FandomNod: After hearing about how well Joel's life has gone since he escaped, Mike gets upset and starts asking questions like "What's he have that I don't?" The 'Bots advise Mike not to compare the two, saying it isn't healthy, in a nod to the massive Joel vs. Mike FanDumb that dominated online discussions of the series in the Internet's infancy.

** [[SixtyMinutes "I'm Ed Bradley..."]]

* Overcrank: Since Natalie's undressing scene is in slow motion, Mike and the bots joke that now she has to put her clothes ''on'' in slow motion once the villain appears.

* TookALevelInBadass: Joel - once a humble janitor, now [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome manager of his own Hot Fish Shop! In]] '''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Osseo!]]'''

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler:That Joel is on Soultaker Frank's "list," his evasiveness about how he got to the satellite, the below-referenced tidbit that the restaurant he claims to manage had already closed, and even the very fact that he was tooling around outside the theater during movie segments could suggest that, InUniverse, Joel is dead. What keeps it from being FridgeHorror is that, with Frank as his Soultaker, you gotta figure he's pretty safe, it's just that he can push elevator buttons but can't be shot... (Still no word on Retsyn.)]]

* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler:The fact that Joel is on Soultaker Frank's "list," his evasiveness about how he got to the satellite, and the below-referenced tidbit that the restaurant he claims to manage was already closed could suggest that, InUniverse, Joel is dead. What keeps it from being FridgeHorror is that, with Frank as his Soultaker, you gotta figure he's pretty safe, it's just that he can push elevator buttons but can't be shot... (Still no word on Retsyn.)]]

-->'''Mike''': Hey by the way, do you wear your SunglasesAtNight so you can, so you can keep track of the visions in your dreams?