Line #31 Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E18AttackOfTheEyeCreatures


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2	[[caption-width-right:315:Did Mel Tillis write these titles or wah-huh?]]
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4	Film watched: ''[[Film/TheEyeCreatures Attack of the The Eye Creatures]]''
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6	!!The Host Segments:
7	[[AC:Prologue]]
8	* Crow and Servo are going through their "best friends" phase, which doesn't last long.
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10	[[AC:Segment 1]]
11	* The Mads present the Router Ouija Board, meant for contacting the spirits of dead woodworkers. Joel sends the Mads his invention, the Funny Gag Fax, which squirts water at Dr. Forrester.
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13	[[AC:Segment 2]]
14	* Inspired by the teenage couples continously making out in the film, Servo wants to make out with someone. He first asks Crow, Gypsy, and Magic Voice, before Joel plants a slobbery kiss on him.
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16	[[AC:Segment 3]]
17	* Joel and the Bots pay tribute to Earl Holliman, the man who "would have been Creator/WilliamShatner, had there not already been one."
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19	[[AC:Segment 4]]
20	* Joel and the 'Bots become the Rip Taylor Trio, impersonating Mr. Taylor as they present their line of Eye Creature gags.
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22	[[AC:Segment 5]]
23	* An incensed Joel and the 'Bots point out that with all of the poor special effects and lack of plot/character development, the crew of the movie just didn't care. The Mads try to show that the film's director Larry Buchanan ''did'' care, but it sadly turns out that he really doesn't.
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26	!!The [=MST3K=] treatment of ''[[Film/TheEyeCreatures Attack of the The Eye Creatures]]'', along with proving that they just didn't care, provides examples of:
27	* BrainBleach: The final scene with the CovertPervert military Officers:
28	-->'''Tom:''' Joel, I ''demand'' you take my head off.
29	* CallBack: The "Sessions presents...!" RunningGag from ''Tormented'' makes its return for another couple scenes of {{Padding}}.%%InUniverse
30	* CreatorsApathy: Invoked, and the original TropeNamer ("They Just Didn't Care"): the entire final segment is devoted to pointing out all the many ways in which the filmmakers just. Didn't. Care. Not least of all the "the the" error in the opening title.
31	* EyePoke: Forrester attempts an old-fashioned ''[[Film/TheThreeStooges Stooges]]''-style two-finger poke on Frank after losing patience with him, but forgets that Frank can turn his plastic face shield down and winds up only hurting his hand.
32	* HollywoodDarkness: The movie does a [[SpecialEffectsFailure less-than-stellar job]] with its day-for-night shooting.%%InUniverse
33	-->'''Tom:''' Sure is dark out there! I hope they don't get a ''moon''burn!
34	* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Joel says this (nearly) word for word in Segment 2 after his TakeThatKiss.
35	* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Joel makes the old man into one of these. Immediately after he promises to give the kids and their friends "a backside full of rock salt" if he catches them again on his land:
36	-->'''Joel:''' ''[as Mr. Bailey]'' Wait, come back! I-I don't know how to love! I miss you already!
37	* NotSoStoic: Joel ends up apologizing for the rest of the male sex, and later, actually loses his cool, berating one character:
38	-->'''Joel:''' ''[angrily]'' You know what? You are '''''one [[SickAndWrong sick]] mamma-jamma'''''.
39	* {{Pun}}:
40	** After inventing the Woodworker Ouija Board, the Mads announce that they'll invent "Literature/TheLatheOfHeaven". When they ask the spirit of Ethan Allen to "Give them a sign," they receive a ''[[VisualPun literal]]'' [[VisualPun wooden sign]] that reads "BLESS THIS MESS."
41	** Eye puns abound, of course.
42	* PungeonMaster: Joel and the Bots for the duration of the film but cranked up to eleven when they channel standup comic Rip Taylor in Segment 4. The density of eye puns is terrif''eye''ing.
43	* RootingForTheEmpire:
44	** {{Invoked\|Trope}}:
45	-->'''Crow:''' I don't know about you, but I'm rooting for the the Eye Creatures. [sic; the double-"the" is in the original quote, which becomes a RunningGag]
46	** Crow actively roots for a gun-toting character to "kill all the characters" in the film.
47	* RunningGag:
48	** They of course take the "the the" mistake from the the title card and run with it.
49	** Several jokes at the expense of Susan's peculiar beehive hairdo.
50	** Smoochers! "Another carload a' them blasted smoochers on my property! I'll get the law after 'em!"
51	--->'''Joel:''' ''[as the old man]'' Oh, oh! A ''single'' smoocher! The worst kind!
52	** Because the Eye Creatures have perpetually gaped mouths, Joel and the Bots periodically make yawning noises.
53	* TheScrappy: Invoked. Servo immediately pegs Culver as "instantly the most unappealing character in film history".
54	* SickAndWrong: Joel and the bots' reaction to the Air Force peepers' ''commander'' joining in on the peeping.
55	-->'''Tom:''' Jeez, ''Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller'' is not as sick as this.\
56	'''Joel:''' This is ''sick''.\
57	'''Crow:''' Joel, I need a shower.\
58	'''Tom:''' Oh, I ''refuse'' to watch this.
59	* SpecialEffectsFailure: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] and [[DiscussedTrope discussed]]. The entire last segment is Joel and the Bots ripping into the movie's ''many'' poor effects with "They just didn't care!" highlighting each one.
60	** Most prominent is how the movie was obviously shot [[HollywoodDarkness mostly at daytime]].
61	--->'''Tom''': In fact, you couldn't have picked a nicer ''day'' to film a ''night'' sequence! [...] Y'see, they just didn't care.
62	** And, of course, there's the various PeopleInRubberSuits costumes of the eye creatures themselves, a race "unfortunate enough to have evolved with heavy-duty zippers running up their backs."
63	--->'''Joel:''' Some eye creatures are born with scaly protective coverings. Others are born with hundreds of eyes protruding from fleshy knobs. Still others, like this [[PrettyBoy whisper-thin fellow]], are born with tight acrylic wool-blend turtleneck sweaters from Chess King. Folks, they just didn't care!
64	* {{Squick}}: Joel says "[[SickAndWrong Ewwwwwwwwww]]" more in this film than all of the previous experiments combined.%%InUniverse
65	* StealthPun: The "Rip Taylor Trio" host segment features a lot of "eye" jokes; some of these are '''sight gags'''.
66	* TakeThatKiss: Tom wonders what it's like to kiss someone, and Joel unexpectedly complies.
67	* ViewersAreGeniuses: Upon seeing the (the) movie title, Joel exclaims it's an anacoluthon. He's right: an anacoluthon is a syntactical inconsistency or incoherence within a sentence, like "Did you know that she-... I'm not sure."
68	* WaxingLyrical: The movie doing a close-up on a character resembling Music/RickAstley prompts Joel to [[JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} belt out the appropriate song.]]
69	* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Parodied with Tom wanting to experience this thing called "making out" in the first skit. He asks Crow, who is horrified; Gypsy, who bursts out laughing; and Magic Voice, who of course doesn't have a body -- yet making out is nothing new to her. Tom starts waxing philosophical about his many questions... until Joel [[ShutUpKiss shuts him up]] with a WesternAnimation/BugsBunny-esque TakeThatKiss.
70	-->'''Joel:''' [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I've always wanted to do that!]]\
71	'''Servo:''' ''({{beat}}, then thoughtfully)'' Hmmmm.
72	----
73	->''[[TheStinger (Mike, in a technicolor sweater, hangs up)]]''
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75	->'''Crow:''' The the end! Let's let's go!
76	%% This can stay as it, at least, is a direct quote from the work.

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