Line #23 Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E20TheHumanDuplicators


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:"''Eht Numah Srotacilpud!''... oh."\
3	"Let's all play the ''Series/FamilyFeud''!"]]
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5	Film watched: ''Film/TheHumanDuplicators''
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7	The episode is available in the Gizmoplex [[https://www.gizmoplex.com/mst3k/season:4/videos/mst3k-091-thehumanduplicators here]].
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9	!!The Segments:
10	[[AC:Prologue]]
11	* Joel is taking suggestions from the Bots for new upgrades. Servo goes a bit overboard with his requests.
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13	[[AC:Segment 1/Invention Exchange]]
14	* Joel's invention for the week is a life-size Beanie-Chopper with an enlarged propeller, which disappoints Crow and Servo when it doesn't send him through the roof. Dr. Forrester and Frank, on the other hand, can't keep a straight face as they unveil their most ridiculous invention yet: a refrigerator alarm that only goes off when William Conrad steals the food.
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16	[[AC:Segment 2]]
17	* Joel and the 'Bots pause for arts and crafts time, attempting to make their own scale-model spaceships from everyday items. Joel's looks disturbingly familiar.
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19	[[AC:Segment 3]]
20	* Servo has been duplicating himself to the point where the clones have overrun the bridge. When Joel takes Servo away for a time out, the clones turn on an innocent Crow.
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22	[[AC:Segment 4]]
23	* The SOL gets a visit from Hugh Beaumont, who's been feeling incredibly stressed out over his life... [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E08LostContinent especially after the last time the crew met him]].
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25	[[AC:Segment 5]]
26	* Crow and Servo commend Richard Kiel for his ability to embrace his true android nature and share their own confidence in themselves to Joel. Back in Deep 13, Dr. F and Frank are still laughing over their useless invention... until William Conrad actually ''does'' raid their fridge.
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29	!!The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of ''The Human Duplicators'' provides examples of the following tropes:
30	* AIIsACrapshoot: When the robot Dornheimer tells Kolos the dangers of creating a machine with more wisdom than yourself, Joel sighs, "There's a lesson to be learned there", as Servo and Crow make veiled threats.
31	* AntiClimax: The bots express their disappointment that the Beanie Chopper didn't send Joel through the roof.
32	* BerserkButton: Hugh Beaumont in the fourth host segment. When Crow asks him how [[Series/LeaveItToBeaver Beaver]] is doing, he explodes into a lengthy rant about how nobody ever asks him how HE'S doing.
33	* CallBack:
34	** [[Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians "S-A-N-T-A-C-L-A-U-S, hooray for Santy Claus!"]]
35	** When seeing the Director's credit for Hugo Grimaldi:
36	---> '''Crow:''' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E17VikingWomenAndTheSeaSerpent I'm a Grimaldi warrior!]]
37	** [[Film/MrBNatural "Knew your father, I did!"]]
38	** After riffing on how the secret lab looks like a music studio:
39	---> '''Crow:''' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E03PodPeople It stinks!]]
40	* ComingOutStory: The bots are happy Richard Kiel came out of the closet... [[BadBadActing as a robot]]. Then:
41	-->'''Servo:''' ''(after Crow faints trying to tell Joel)'' Joel, we're ''robots'' and we want the world to know.
42	** TransparentCloset:
43	--->'''Servo:''' How did you know?\
44	'''Joel:''' ''Tom'', it was more than a ''little'' obvious.
45	* ContinuityNod: Mike Nelson reprises his Hugh Beaumont character from the ''Film/LostContinent'' episode, and his job in that episode (member of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) is mentioned.
46	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The final host segment. Servo and Crow [[ComingOutStory come out]] to Joel as robots, and Joel tells them "[[TransparentCloset it's more than a little obvious]]."
47	** Joel's spaceship model, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall but mostly because of the materials]].
48	* DontExplainTheJoke: Parodied. Forrester and Frank's giggling about the William Conrad Fridge Alert CrossesTheLineTwice that it comes around to being funny.
49	-->'''Frank:''' Who's gonna need this?! Maybe Creator/QuinnMartin, and he's dead!
50	* DudeNotFunny: In-universe.
51	-->'''Crow:''' Oh I get it! She's blind! That explains the decorating.\
52	'''Servo:''' D'oh!
53	** Then:
54	--->'''Crow:''' You know, because two Wongs don't make a W--\
55	'''Joel & Servo:''' ''CROW!''\
56	'''Crow:''' ''(sheepishly)'' I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
57	* HatOfFlight: Joel's invention, the Beanie-Chopper, only ''looks'' like one of these, to the 'Bots' great disappointment.
58	-->'''Crow:''' (''dejectedly'') I thought you were gonna go through the roof.
59	* HeadTurningBeauty: The trio who appear a few minutes into Lisa's introduction.
60	* HeyThatsMyLine: Uttered by Servo [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A0yfKVclqw to one of his clones]] during the promo.
61	-->'''Clone:''' Here, at Comedy Central!\
62	'''Servo:''' Warning you for the last time -- that's ''my'' line!
63	* HilariousInHindsight: Crow's spaceship is a model of the Satellite of Love - the ''actual'' model used for exterior shots. He dismisses it as cheap and plans to put lighter fluid on it and burning it to a crisp - which is what happens to the model a few years later in an [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E05Escape2000 episode]]. [[invoked]]
64	* HughMann: {{Invoked}} after Glenn is duplicated:
65	-->'''Welles:''' "Where in blazes have you been? Haven't you ever heard of a telephone?"\
66	'''Crow:''' ''(robotic monotone)'' "Yes. I have heard of a telephone."
67	* JokeAndReceive: Crow tries to make an obvious joke in one riff. Alas, it's a tad '''too''' obvious.
68	-->'''Secretary:''' Glen, did you hear me... well say something.\
69	'''Crow:''' "Something"!\
70	'''Glen [in movie]:''' Something.\
71	'''Crow:''' D'oh! Got riffed back on that one!
72	* LaughingAtYourOwnJokes: TV's Frank and Dr. Forrester can't help guffawing at the concept of a refrigerator alarm that only sounds when William Conrad is stealing the food (based on Conrad's ads for First Alert). Most of the segment, they can't even explain the invention because they can't stop laughing in advance.
73	-->'''Frank:''' Who's going to need this? Maybe Quinn Martin – and he's dead!
74	** BrickJoke: The final segment finds William Conrad himself setting off the alarm. The Mads are still laughing.
75	--->'''Dr. F:''' Frank! It's the big one - literally!\
76	'''Frank:''' Don't worry, Dr. F. He's not gonna get far.
77	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In the first break, Joel and the bots create model spaceships as an art project. The parts used for Joel's golden spaceship (a lacrosse mask, a bowling pin, food trays, and ping pong balls) look a ''tad'' familiar... Cue [[OhCrap sudden realization, some coughing]], [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and Commercial Sign]].
78	-->'''Gypsy:''' '''''Wait a minute...'''''
79	* MesACrowd: Servo orders a whole bunch of copies of himself about midway through the film. They end up sticking around for the rest of the series for jokes requiring additional Servos.
80	* NoodleIncident: "The boys did '''what?!''' ''[[ActorAllusion THEY DUPLICATED]] '''[[ActorAllusion LUMPY?!]]'''''"
81	* RunningGag: Lots of GameShow-related jokes given the resemblance of the interior of Kolos' spaceship to the set of a TV game show.
82	* SdrawkcabName: Invoked by Crow because the film's title card is mirrored at first.
83	-->'''Crow:''' Eht Namuh Srotacilpud! [''[-title flips around to become legible-]''] ...Oh.
84	* ShoutOut:
85	** "[[ComicStrip/DickTracy Calling]] [[Series/{{Thunderbirds}} Scott Tracy]]!"
86	** "[[Series/TheAddamsFamily You rang? Oh wait, I'm not Ted Cassidy]]."
87	** "I'm Literature/BillyBudd for [[Creator/HermanMelville Melville]] Buick. We're having a [[Literature/MobyDick whale]] of a sale!"
88	** The android guy following the hero around is compared to [[Film/CitySlickers Jack Palance]] and [[Film/Escape2000 Henry Silva]].
89	** "[[Series/TheTimeTunnel Wherever Doug and Tony are now, at least they're together.]]"
90	* TookALevelInJerkass: Hugh is really, ''really'' bitter since his appearance in ''Lost Continent''.
91	-->'''Hugh:''' ''(sexually frustrated)'' Think my wife greets me at the door in Saran Wrap and stiletto heels? No!
92	** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The S.O.L. crew still think he's a nice guy after Hugh gives a nice farewell after his bitter, sexually frustrated rant.
93	* ZergRush: Tom tries to order his clones to do this to Joel and Crow, but they ignore him. Then, after Joel takes Tom away, the copies do this to Crow anyway.
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96	->''[[TheStinger [Man gets strangled by himself].]]''

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