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[[caption-width-right:343:...can slice a tomato so thin you can see through it!]]

Film watched: ''Film/TheMagicSword''

In a highly unusual admission, Joel Robinson and Tom Servo said the movie was "pretty good for a Creator/BertIGordon film" during a theater segment. (Crow T. Robot seemed to disagree, but [[LikesOlderWomen found something he liked about it too]].) The writers of the show continued the praise in their ''Amazing Colossal Episode Guide.''

The episode is available in the Gizmoplex [[https://www.gizmoplex.com/mst3k/season:4/videos/mst3k-082-themagicsword here]].

!!The Segments:
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[[folder: Prologue ]]

* Joel has decided to draw caricatures for a living, and is using the 'Bots as his subjects. He's apparently wanted to draw Cambot naked, even though ''all'' of the 'Bots are naked.

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[[folder: Segment 1/Invention Exchange ]]

* Joel's created Big Gulp Berets to appeal to hippies and beatniks who want to attend poetry readings while enjoying a cool bottled spring water. Frank stars in a one-act play demonstrating Dr. Forrester's new decorator biohazard clean-up throw pillows, but he's concerned about the mutated strain of dysentery he's spilled on himself.

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[[folder: Segment 2 ]]

* Joel stars in a commercial for Basil Rathbone brand doggie treats, with Crow and Servo as his dogs. They're packed with bits of Nigel Bruce and also come in pesto flavor.

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[[folder: Segment 3 ]]

* Joel puts on a grand pageant about life in the Middle Ages, with himself as a happy king, Crow as a knight, and Gypsy as a lady-in-waiting/unicorn. Tom, dressed as a serf, ruins the whole thing with a heaping reality check of how hard life ''really'' was back then.

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[[folder: Segment 4 ]]

* Crow has become smitten with Creator/EstelleWinwood and sings a love ballad for her. Tom once again feels the need to interject with counterpoints.

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[[folder: Segment 5 ]]

* The film's seven curses make the crew discuss George Carlin's own seven curses. Back in Deep 13, Frank is reduced to a skeleton via the dysentery, creeping Dr. F out.

!! The ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' presentation of ''Film/TheMagicSword'' has examples of:
* AskAStupidQuestion: When Lodac first appears:
-->'''Lodac''': I am Lodac!\\
'''Sir Branton''': The sorcerer?\\
'''Joel''': No, the pre-emergent tank mix, of course he's the sorcerer!
* BadBadActing: Frank, while trying to sell the merits of Forrester's half of the invention exchange in a one-act play. Complete with glances at the teleprompter.
* BlatantLies: Dr. Forrester's attempt to reassure Frank that he looks fine in the final segment.
* BrainBleach:
-->'''Crow:''' ''(singing about Estelle Winwood)'' She's rooty-toot-toot / I bet she smells like Juicy Fruit...\\
'''Servo:''' '''''Blecch!'''''
* DiggingToChina: Referenced when George asks Sybil what's in the hidden basement, and Tom replies with China.
* GirlOfTheWeek: Crow rather famously ended his idolization of Kim Catrall to pursue Estelle Winwood in this episode instead.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Joel reads a letter that reveals that doing this helped a family give their son something to talk to them about while in college.%%InUniverse
-->'''Joel''': (reading the letter) ...so kudos to guys (and Gypsy) for finding a way for parents and kids to connect. When people ask us how we manage to stay in such close touch with Bill and his generation, because they too wanna enjoy that kind of meaningful relationship with their kids, we simply tell them KeepCirculatingTheTapes
* NightmareFace: The ogre-woman's deformed face keeps freaking out Joel and the bots.
* OrphanedPunchline: One scene opens with one of the characters saying, "...If you'd move that darn cat!", a reference to an urban legend that [[Series/TheTonightShow Johnny Carson]] supposedly told Zsa Zsa Gabor.
* {{Pun}}
-->'''Crow''': "Hey, Joel! Serf's up!"
* RunningGag: The king's resemblence to Grady from ''Series/SanfordAndSon''.
* SeriousBusiness: Tom Servo's rant about the Middle Ages.
* SevenDirtyWords: Briefly discussed in the final host segment.
* ShoutOut:
** [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "Strider!" "Boromir!"]]
** [[Film/ThePrincessBride "My Westley will come for me." and "Mawwiage!"]]
** [[Film/SupermanTheMovie "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!"]]
** [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."]] Doubles as an ActorAllusion since Gary Lockwood was in that movie too.
* SilverFox: Crow has this reaction toward Sybil.
** Which turns a little {{squick}}y if you realize [[FridgeHorror Estelle Winwood died eight years before the episode aired.]]%%Invoked
** Servo averts this however, interrupting Crow's "Ode to Estelle" with his LongList:
--->'''Servo:''' ''(singing)'' Here's a quick list of people much better looking than Estelle...
--->'''Crow:''' ''(rolling eyes)'' You're so shallow.
--->'''Servo:''' Fred Biletnikoff, [[Creator/{{NBC}} Brandon Tartikoff]], [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid and Marty Krofft]]...
--->'''Crow:''' [[SarcasmMode Very funny...]]
--->'''Servo:''' [[Series/TheMunsters Fred Gwynne]] and Anthony Quinn and Rin Tin Tin and Pearl Bailey and Moms Mabley and Mayor Daley and Hank & Phoebe Snow... ''(deep breath)'' Creator/EthelMerman and [[Creator/PaulReubens Pee Wee Herman]] and Strom Thurmond and Vince Lombardi and Burgess Meredith and George & Mary & Jesus Jones... ''(deep breath)'' Edith Head and Series/MisterEd and UsefulNotes/{{Nostradamus}} and Creator/DannyThomas and Leona and [[Series/TheJeffersons Sherman Hemsley]]...
--->'''Crow:''' ''(completely frustrated)'' Joel, make him stop!
--->'''Joel:''' Servo, you're not helping things at all. Can you go and cut those coupons like you promised?
--->'''Servo:''' Daaaaaaah, okay! ''(leaves singing)'' Willy [=DeVille=] and Agnes [=DeMille=] and [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella De Vil]] and Roscoe Tanner...
* StrippedToTheBone: What happens to TV's Frank by the episode's end after he gets infected with dysentery from the Invention Exchange.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When they see Bert I. Gordon listed as writer, executive producer, special effects supervisor ''and'' director of the film, Tom declares "we are in big, BIG trouble, guys!"
** Then it gets subverted when Joel and Tom admit the movie actually isn't all that bad.
%% * YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Servo's reaction when Crow proclaims his new love is named... Estelle.
-->'''Tom:''' '''''WINWOOD?!''''' ''(laughs derisively)''
* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: The riffers are most unimpressed by Lodac's final threat.
-->'''Joel:''' Oh, go to bed, old man!

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