Line #17 Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E17TheSwordAndTheDragon


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2	[[caption-width-right:320:When one sword tries to get along with an incorrigible dragon!]]
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4	Film watched: ''[[Film/IlyaMuromets The Sword and the Dragon]]''
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6	As you can guess, despite having quite a lot of good special effects for the late-1950s, this movie was prime riffing material for [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]. Among other things, the riffing often centered on the fact that the movie "came from Finland," despite being a Russian-made movie. Like a previous [[Film/{{Sadko}} Russian-made-otherwise film]] that appeared on the show, the changes were likely made to avoid mentions of Russia during the height of the Cold War... but it doesn't change how goofy the whole thing was.
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8	The episode is available in the Gizmoplex [[https://www.gizmoplex.com/mst3k/season:6/videos/mst3k-137-theswordandthedragon here]].
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10	!!The Segments:
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12	[[AC:Prologue]]
13	* Tom dresses up as a wizard to host the Satellite of Love's first (and last) game of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
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15	[[AC:Segment 1]]
16	* While organizing their comic books, Dr. Forrester and Frank are visited Bridget and Mary Jo, their attractive new neighbors from Deep 12. Desperate to impress who they assume to be their future lovers, they ask Mike and the 'Bots to do something to entertain them. The SOL crew performs a topical satirical revue Crow has written titled ''Supercalafragalisticexpiala-wacky!!!''. The government bashing musical amuses the Mads, but it sends the ladies fleeing as fast as they can.
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18	[[AC:Segment 2]]
19	* Crow and Servo present "A Joke by Creator/IngmarBergman", a four minute, black and white sketch with a predictable punchline.
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21	[[AC:Segment 3]]
22	* Gypsy mimics the scene where Ilya's wife makes a magic tablecloth with the help of the local forest critters. Mike, Servo, and Crow play said critters, prompting a throroughly weirded out Gypsy to bail on the sketch.
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24	[[AC:Segment 4]]
25	* Ilya Muromets contacts the SOL to reveal that he's now working at a pancake house. He is beaming with pride for his work, but he loses it when Crow suggests having ham on the side instead of bacon.
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27	[[AC:Segment 5]]
28	* Gypsy offers her review of ''Supercalafragalisticexpiala-wacky!!!'', which commends Mike for his talent, but considers Servo as the weakest link. Thinking Bridget and Mary Jo will be back for a date, the Mads are still loafing around Deep 13, but they promptly panic when the phone rings.
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31	!!The ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation of ''[[Film/IlyaMuromets The Sword and the Dragon]]'' has examples of:
32	* ArtisticLicense: Tom Servo's ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' session is ludicrously truncated; Servo never explains the rules or character abilities to his players, and decrees the outcome of a combat encounter via Game Master Fiat rather than dice rolls. Most likely due to a combination of time compression and RuleOfFunny.
33	* TheDanza: Bridget and Mary Jo are named after their actresses, Bridget Jones and Mary Jo Phehl.
34	* DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce: Gypsy parodies the scene where Ilya's wife sings as forest creatures help her create a magic tablecloth, with the help of Mike & the 'Bots. Gypsy bails on the sketch early because it's too weird for her.
35	* {{Feghoot}}: "A Joke By Creator/IngmarBergman" has Servo and Crow playing two bored Scandinavians who decide to count the boards on a pier and the slits between them. Roughly four-and-a-half minutes long, slow as molasses, and all for the sake of the {{pun}}chline:
36	-->'''Crow''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgrUCprTuUs When you're out of slits, you're out of pier.]] [[note]]In reference to the advertising tagline, "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer."[[/note]]
37	* HeelFaceTurn: After Falcon learns Ilya is his dad, he immediately switches sides, without any shock, angst, or any assessment on how cool it is to be a Tugar or how crappy it is to be Russo-Finnish.
38	-->'''Mike:''' The kid's loyalty turns on a dime!
39	* HoYay, Invoked:
40	-->'''Crow:''' It may be the wine, Lars, but you're a ''pretty'' man...
41	-->'''Tom:''' Sven, no! Don't! You mustn't!
42	* HotBlooded: One sketch parodies Ilya's [[ThirdActMisunderstanding hot-tempered, quick-to-insult nature in the film]] by showing that he throws his entire self into ''whatever'' he does, be it defending his homeland from rampaging hordes or working at a dinky pancake house. When Crow tries to request some honey-baked ham slices in place of a bacon side, Ilya pulls out his sword ready to run the little guy through until Mike gives him a quest just to placate him.
43	-->'''Ilya:''' That is a SUBSTITUTION, spawn of the DEVIL!\
44	'''Crow:''' Well, now, hey, hold on there --\
45	'''Ilya:''' NO ONE, not even a TUGAR, shall order OFF THE MENU!\
46	'''Mike:''' Hey, yo, Ilya! Yo, ''Muromets!''\
47	'''Ilya:''' What?!\
48	'''Mike:''' Hey, c'mon, you're, you're Ilya Muromets! Defender of the realm! I mean, accept this challenge -- prove to us that you ''could'' bring ham!\
49	'''Ilya:''' Yes... yes, yes, I will gather my strength, and I shall go FORTH, and I shall go to the back and I shall request HAM! For it is HAM that I seek! HAM! ''HAM!''\
50	'''Crow:''' Good luck!\
51	'''Ilya:''' ''[bellowing at the top of his lungs]'' '''''[[ChewingTheScenery HAAAAAAAMMMMM!]]'''''
52	* KillerGameMaster: Servo, apparently.
53	* LargeHam: Kevin Murphy's performance as Ilya during one host sketch. Bonus points for him hamming it up ''about'' [[StealthPun ham]].
54	* LeFilmArtistique: "A Joke by Creator/IngmarBergman" [[DeliberatelyMonochrome is shot in black and white]] and spends [[OverlyLongGag four painfully slow minutes]] [[{{Feghoot}} telling a joke with an underwhelming punchline]].
55	* LickingTheBlade: In the film, when Ilya kisses the sword of "[[DubNameChange Invincor]]" ([[NamedWeapons Svyatogor]]) he is given.
56	-->'''Mike:''' This is the best-tasting sword ''ever''!
57	* LukeIAmYourFather: Ilya reveals himself to Falcon, who was raised by Khali.
58	-->'''Ilya:''' I am your father.
59	-->'''Crow:''' Great; my dad's Creator/BurlIves.
60	* MillionMookMarch: Called out by Crow during one of the wide shots of the Tugar army on the move.
61	-->'''Crow:''' Now ''that's'' what I call a horde!
62	* MondegreenGag: Servo hears and repeats Durbar's name as "Dove Bar" during the movie's 2nd act.
63	* NerdsAreVirgins: The opening and closing segments with Forrester and TV's Frank meeting the girls from Deep 12 revolve around this trope.
64	* OverlyLongGag: "A Joke By Creator/IngmarBergman", in which Tom Servo and Crow spend four minutes riffing on [[LeFilmArtistique the film styles of Ingmar Bergman]] to tell a joke with a cheap punchline.
65	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After witnessing ''Supercalafragalisticexpialia-wacky!!!'', Bridget and Mary Jo are seen fleeing from Deep 13 as fast as they can.
66	* ShoutOut:
67	** ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' references abound once they recognize Creator/PaulFrees voicing Kalin.
68	** The above-mentioned {{Feghoot}}, which was just an OverlyLongGag meant to give them an excuse to reference a Schlitz Beer motto.
69	** As the Russo-Finns, dressed in blue and white, charge over the steppes: "Fifty thousand [[Film/TheSoundOfMusic Maria von Trapps]] face off against the Mongol horde!"
70	--->'''Mike & The 'Bots:''' ''[singing over each other]'' '''''The hills are alivethe hills are alivehills are aliveare alive--!'''''
71	** "[[Film/DoctorStrangelove The whole point of having a dragon is to tell the vorld you have a dragon! Vhy did you keep it a secret?!]]"
72	** Crow also calls the three-headed dragon "[[Characters/GodzillaTheGhidorahs Ghidorah]]". Made funnier by the fact that King Ghidorah was, in fact, based upon this exact dragon in appearance.
73	* StealthPun: see Large Ham above.
74	* TakeThat: "Supercalifragilistic-expialawacky" can best be summed up by Mike's second stanza:
75	-->'''Mike''': ''[singing, dressed as Uncle Sam]'' I'm the government, I'm the government, I'm filled with bloat and perks! I'm the government, I'm the government -- I'm the reason nothing works!
76	* TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX: The episode came out after Music/{{Prince}} changed his name. No prizes for guessing what was referenced in one riff.
77	-->'''Subject''': Oh radiant prince!\
78	'''Servo''': That's 'The Artist Formerly Known as Radiant Prince.'
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81	->''[[TheStinger [Ilya throws a hammer to a tree, breaking its branch despite not even hitting it]]].''

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