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Film watched: ''Film/TheChristmasDragon''

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Film watched: ''Film/TheChristmasDragon''
''The Christmas Dragon''



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* ShoutOut: "[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 What'll it be, strangeh?]]"
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[[caption-width-right:427:This is going to be like the Lord of the Rings and have like five endings, isn't it?]]
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* Jonah, Emily, and Joel make final preparations for their escape plan and bring out their tools for it: Jonah's Percussive Drive, an automatic steering wheel built by Joel... and a cinderblock to hold the gas pedal down.

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* Jonah, Emily, and Joel make final preparations for their escape plan and bring out their tools for it: commandeering the ''Deep Hurting'': Jonah's Percussive Drive, an automatic steering wheel built by Joel... and a cinderblock to hold the gas pedal down.
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* Jonah, Emily, and Joel make final preparations for their escape plan and bring out their tools for it: Jonah's Percussive Drive, an automatic steering wheel built by Joel... and a cinderblock.

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* Jonah, Emily, and Joel make final preparations for their escape plan and bring out their tools for it: Jonah's Percussive Drive, an automatic steering wheel built by Joel... and a cinderblock.
cinderblock to hold the gas pedal down.



* Live from the Moon, Kinga Forrester hosts the Triple-Riffle Holiday Spectacular! After a rather-ominous word from her sponsor Dr. Kabahl, the hosts pass off their escape tools as the Invention Exchange while Kinga hastily puts mistletoe on an armed missile and gifts it to Max. And then comes the holiday feature presentation: ''The Christmas Dragon''. Each of the hosts will take turns riffing it, and Emily is up first.

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* Live from the Moon, Kinga Forrester hosts the Triple-Riffle Holiday Spectacular! After a rather-ominous word from her sponsor Dr. Kabahl, the hosts pass off their escape tools as the Invention Exchange while Kinga hastily puts mistletoe on an armed missile and gifts it to Max. And then comes the holiday feature presentation: ''The Christmas Dragon''. Each of the hosts will take turns riffing it, and Emily is up first.



** Singing the chorus to "Wonderful Christmastime" during action scenes.
** The lines "Six years later" and "It's over 30 feet down" getting mocked constantly.

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** Singing the chorus refrain to "Wonderful Christmastime" during action scenes.
** The lines "Six years later" and "It's over 30 feet down" getting mocked repeated constantly.



->''[[TheStinger "Da... da... dragon!" The dragon flies by and snatches up a soldier.]]''

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->''[[TheStinger "Da... da... dragon!" The dragon flies by and snatches up grabs a soldier.]]''
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Film watched: ''The Christmas Dragon''

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Film watched: ''The Christmas Dragon''
''Film/TheChristmasDragon''
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** The lines "Six years later" and "It's almost 30 feet" getting mocked constantly.

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** The lines "Six years later" and "It's almost over 30 feet" feet down" getting mocked constantly.

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* HeelFaceTurn: Pearl Forrester. Apparently, the chance to score with Aaron Neville in his 50-year-old prime is enough reason to make her side with the hosts in their attempt to escape into the past.

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Pearl Forrester. Apparently, the chance to score with Aaron Neville in his 50-year-old prime is enough reason to make her side with the hosts in their attempt to escape into the past.
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** A bumper sticker on the ''Deep Hurting'' reads [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E16PrinceOfSpace "WE LIKE IT VERY MUCH"]].
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* The hosts come together to close out the special with a holiday concert, triggering the Percussive Drive to activate the ''Deep Hurting'' and pull Joel's SOL through the Timebag to Jazzfest 1991. The escape has a few close calls, but is ultimately successful thanks to... PEARL!? Turns out, she knew of the escape plan the whole time and wants to go to Jazzfest with them. Furious at this turn of events, Dr. Kabahl pulls all his funding and demands repayment on his loans as another meteor shower destroys the Kingadome.

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* The hosts come together to close out the special with a holiday concert, triggering the Percussive Drive to activate the ''Deep Hurting'' and pull Joel's SOL through the Timebag to Jazzfest 1991. The escape has a few close calls, but is ultimately successful thanks to... PEARL!? Turns out, she knew of the escape plan the whole time and wants to go to Jazzfest with them. Furious at this turn of events, Dr. Kabahl pulls all his funding from Kinga and demands repayment on his loans as another meteor shower destroys the Kingadome.

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* It's time for the main event! After another plug for her sponsors, Kinga has Jonah and Emily transferred into Joel's Satellite of Love so all three hosts can riff the last part of the movie together.

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* It's time for the main event! After another plug for her sponsors, sponsor, Kinga has Jonah and Emily transferred into Joel's Satellite of Love so all three hosts can riff the last part of the movie together.



* The hosts come together to close out the special with a holiday concert, triggering the ''Deep Hurting'' into pulling Joel's SOL through the Timebag to Jazzfest 1991. The escape has a few close calls, but is ultimately successful thanks to... PEARL!? Turns out, she knew of the escape plan the whole time and wants to go to Jazzfest with them. Furious at this turn of events, Dr. Kabahl pulls all his funding from Kinga and demands repayment on his loans as another meteor shower destroys the Kingadome, leaving Kinga in tears.

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* The hosts come together to close out the special with a holiday concert, triggering the Percussive Drive to activate the ''Deep Hurting'' into pulling and pull Joel's SOL through the Timebag to Jazzfest 1991. The escape has a few close calls, but is ultimately successful thanks to... PEARL!? Turns out, she knew of the escape plan the whole time and wants to go to Jazzfest with them. Furious at this turn of events, Dr. Kabahl pulls all his funding from Kinga and demands repayment on his loans as another meteor shower destroys the Kingadome, leaving Kinga in tears.Kingadome.



* CallBack: The crew's concert to power the Percussive Drive opens with "Hooray For Santy Claus" and "Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas" from ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E21SantaClausConquersTheMartians Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]''.
* HumiliationConga: Her test subjects escape, her own grandmother betrays her, Dr. Kabahl cuts her funding, meteors destroy the Kingadome... Kinga is not a happy camper by the episode's end.
* {{Irony}}: Despite eight different versions of the [=MST3K=] Love Theme having been sung over the years, Joel only knows the words to the version originally written for Mike.

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* CallBack: CallBack:
** [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S13E01SantoInTheTreasureOfDracula "Also, he's a Dracula."]]
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The crew's concert to power the Percussive Drive opens with "Hooray For Santy Claus" and "Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas" from ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E21SantaClausConquersTheMartians Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]''.
Martians]]''. When those songs prove insufficient to power the Percussive Drive, they play the Season 5-6 version of the [=MST3K=] Love Theme as their final Hail Mary to reach the Timebag.
* CelebrityResemblance: Friar Mendel in the movie is riffed on by the crew for his perceived resemblance to [[Creator/NickNolte Nick Nolte]]. This later leads to "Friar Nolte" (played by [[Creator/PattonOswalt Patton Oswalt]]) visiting the crew during the second host segment.
* HeelFaceTurn: Pearl Forrester. Apparently, the chance to score with Aaron Neville in his 50-year-old prime is enough reason to make her side with the hosts in their attempt to escape into the past.
** Also for Growler and M. Waverly, who are ordered by Kinga to barricade the Timebag before the SOL makes it through, but decide to drop it at the last second out of dissatisfaction for their Bonehead jobs.
* HumiliationConga: Her test subjects escape, her own grandmother betrays her, Dr. Kabahl cuts her funding, meteors destroy the Kingadome... Kinga is not a happy camper in tears by the episode's end.
* {{Irony}}: Despite eight different versions of the [=MST3K=] Love Theme having been sung over the years, Joel only knows the words to the Mike version originally written for Mike.(specifically the Season 5-6 version).
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Friar Nolte's inebriated attempt to explain the meaning of Christmas.
--> '''Friar Nolte:''' Oh, you have the glory of the Middle-Earth shone 'round about them, and they were so afraid. Those daffodils. You stick those shepherds on the set of ''[[Film/ThePrinceOfTides Prince of Tides]]'', that'll teach 'em fear and help 'em to hold their mud like men.
* ProductPlacement: When the 'Bots are dropped into Joel's SOL, he can be seen reading some of the books published by real-life Gizmoplex sponsor Bearmanor Media.
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** Singing the chorus to "Wonderful Christmastime" during action scenes.
** The lines "Six years later" and "It's almost 30 feet" getting mocked constantly.
** Fin's sarcastic quips and growing kill-count with his slingshot.
** The heavily-gelled hairdos that everybody in the movie sports.
** Babbling when saying "Orb of Borealis".
* StockScream: Crow does the [[WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} Goofy Holler]] when one of Gazared's soldiers gets snatched up by the dragon.
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* Friar Nolte visits the Moon to offer a drunken and incoherent ramble that vaguely explains what Christmas is all about in relation to the movie. Kinga sends Emily's 'Bots over to Joel so he can riff next.

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* [[Creator/NickNolte Friar Nolte Nolte]] visits the Moon to offer a drunken and incoherent ramble that vaguely explains what Christmas is all about in relation to the movie. Kinga sends Emily's 'Bots over to Joel so he can riff next.
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->''[[TheStinger "Da da dragon!" The dragon flies by and knocks down a soldier.]]''

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->''[[TheStinger "Da da "Da... da... dragon!" The dragon flies by and knocks down snatches up a soldier.]]''
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* Father Nolte visits the Moon to offer a drunken and incoherent ramble that vaguely explains what Christmas is all about in relation to the movie. Kinga sends Emily's 'Bots over to Joel so he can riff next.

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* Father Friar Nolte visits the Moon to offer a drunken and incoherent ramble that vaguely explains what Christmas is all about in relation to the movie. Kinga sends Emily's 'Bots over to Joel so he can riff next.

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* The hosts take some time to rhyme about how they'll break the news of their impending departure to the 'Bots. The Mads are just trying to figure out what they're saying.

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* The hosts take some time to rhyme about how they'll break the news of their impending departure to the 'Bots. The Mads are just still trying to figure out what they're saying.
saying to no avail.



* Jonah tries to indirectly tell his Crow and Servo that he'll be leaving soon. They end up misinterpreting his hints and taking them way out of priportion. It's now Jonah's turn to riff.

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* Jonah tries to indirectly tell his Crow and Servo that he'll be leaving soon. They end up misinterpreting his hints and taking blowing them way out of priportion.proportion. It's now Jonah's turn to riff.



* The hosts come together to close out the special with a holiday concert, triggering the ''Deep Hurting'' into pulling Joel's SOL through the Timebag and arriving at Jazzfest 1991. The escape has a few close calls, but is ultimately successful thanks to... PEARL!? Turns out, she knew of the escape plan the whole time and wants to go to Jazzfest with them. Furious at this turn of events, Dr. Kabahl pulls all his funding from Kinga and demands repayment on his loans as more meteors destroy the Kingadome. Kinga breaks down in tears as Max wishes everybody "Crappy Holidays" and pushes the button.

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* The hosts come together to close out the special with a holiday concert, triggering the ''Deep Hurting'' into pulling Joel's SOL through the Timebag and arriving at to Jazzfest 1991. The escape has a few close calls, but is ultimately successful thanks to... PEARL!? Turns out, she knew of the escape plan the whole time and wants to go to Jazzfest with them. Furious at this turn of events, Dr. Kabahl pulls all his funding from Kinga and demands repayment on his loans as more meteors destroy another meteor shower destroys the Kingadome. Kingadome, leaving Kinga breaks down in tears as Max wishes everybody "Crappy Holidays" and pushes the button.tears.



* CallBack: The crew's concert to power the Percussive Drive opens with "Hooray For Santy Claus" and "Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas" from ''Santa Claus Conquers the Martians''.

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* CallBack: The crew's concert to power the Percussive Drive opens with "Hooray For Santy Claus" and "Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas" from ''Santa ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E21SantaClausConquersTheMartians Santa Claus Conquers the Martians''.Martians]]''.
* HumiliationConga: Her test subjects escape, her own grandmother betrays her, Dr. Kabahl cuts her funding, meteors destroy the Kingadome... Kinga is not a happy camper by the episode's end.
* {{Irony}}: Despite eight different versions of the [=MST3K=] Love Theme having been sung over the years, Joel only knows the words to the version originally written for Mike.
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* The hosts come together to close out the special in song, triggering the ''Deep Hurting'' into pulling Joel's SOL into the Timebag, destination Jazzfest 1991. The escape has a few close calls, but is ultimately successful thanks to... PEARL!? Turns out, she knew of the escape plan the whole time and wants to go to Jazzfest with them. A furious Dr. Kabahl pulls all his funding and demands repayment on his loans while more meteors destroy the Kingadome, leaving Kinga sobbing.

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* The hosts come together to close out the special in song, with a holiday concert, triggering the ''Deep Hurting'' into pulling Joel's SOL into through the Timebag, destination Timebag and arriving at Jazzfest 1991. The escape has a few close calls, but is ultimately successful thanks to... PEARL!? Turns out, she knew of the escape plan the whole time and wants to go to Jazzfest with them. A furious Furious at this turn of events, Dr. Kabahl pulls all his funding from Kinga and demands repayment on his loans while as more meteors destroy the Kingadome, leaving Kingadome. Kinga sobbing.breaks down in tears as Max wishes everybody "Crappy Holidays" and pushes the button.



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* CallBack: The crew's concert to power the Percussive Drive opens with "Hooray For Santy Claus" and "Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas" from ''Santa Claus Conquers the Martians''.
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* The hosts come together to close out the special in song, triggering the ''Deep Hurting'' into pulling Joel's SOL into the Timebag, destination Jazzfest 1991. The escape has a few close calls, but is ultimately successful thanks to... PEARL!? Turns out, she knew of the escape plan the whole time and wants to go to Jazzfest with them. A furious Dr. Kabahl pulls all his funding and demands repayment on his loans while more meteors destroy the Kingadome, leaving Kinga sobbing.



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->''[[TheStinger "Da da dragon!" The dragon flies by and knocks down a soldier.]]''

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* Jonah tries to indirectly tell his Crow and Servo that he'll be leaving soon. They end up blowing his hints way out of proportion. In any case, Jonah riffs next.

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* Jonah tries to indirectly tell his Crow and Servo that he'll be leaving soon. They end up blowing misinterpreting his hints and taking them way out of proportion. In any case, Jonah riffs next.
priportion. It's now Jonah's turn to riff.



* It's time for the main event! After another plug for her sponsors, Kinga has Jonah and Emily transferred into Joel's Satellite of Love so all three hosts can riff the last part of the movie together.

[[AC:Segment 5]]




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* Jonah tries to indirectly tell his Crow and Servo that he'll be leaving soon. They end up blowing his hints way out of proportion.

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* Jonah tries to indirectly tell his Crow and Servo that he'll be leaving soon. They end up blowing his hints way out of proportion.
proportion. In any case, Jonah riffs next.

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* The hosts take some time to rhyme about how they'll break the news of their impending departure to the 'Bots. The Mads are just trying to figure out what they're saying.



* Jonah tries to indirectly tell his Crow and Servo that he'll be leaving soon. They end up blowing his hints way out of proportion.

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[[AC:Segment 5]]
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* Kinga Forrester hosts the Triple-Riffle Holiday Spectacular! After a rather-depressing word from her sponsor Dr. Kabahl, the crewmates pass off their escape tools as the Invention Exchange. Kinga hastily puts mistletoe on an armed missile and gifts it to Max. And then comes the holiday feature presentation. Emily is up first.

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* Live from the Moon, Kinga Forrester hosts the Triple-Riffle Holiday Spectacular! After a rather-depressing rather-ominous word from her sponsor Dr. Kabahl, the crewmates hosts pass off their escape tools as the Invention Exchange. Exchange while Kinga hastily puts mistletoe on an armed missile and gifts it to Max. And then comes the holiday feature presentation. presentation: ''The Christmas Dragon''. Each of the hosts will take turns riffing it, and Emily is up first.



* Father Nolte visits the Moon to offer a drunken and incoherent ramble that vaguely explains what Christmas is all about in relation to the movie. Kinga sends Emily's 'Bots over to Joel so he can riff next.

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* Jonah, Emily, and Joel make final preparations for their escape plan and bring out their tools for it: Jonah's Percussive Drive, a special remote-control steering wheel built by Joel... and Emily with a cinderblock.

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* Jonah, Emily, and Joel make final preparations for their escape plan and bring out their tools for it: Jonah's Percussive Drive, a special remote-control an automatic steering wheel built by Joel... and Emily with a cinderblock.



* Kinga Forrester hosts the Triple-Riffle Holiday Spectacular! After a rather-depressing word from her sponsor Dr. Kabahl, the crewmates pass off their escape tools as the Invention Exchange. Kinga hastily puts mistletoe on an armed missile and gifts it to Max. And then comes the holiday feature presentation. Emily is up first.

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* Jonah, Emily, and Joel make final preparations for their escape plan and bring out their tools for it: Jonah's Percussive Drive, a special remote-control steering wheel built by Joel... and Emily with a cinderblock.

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