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[[caption-width-right:323:I have a feeling this is aptly named.]]

Film watched: ''Film/Tormented1960''

The episode is available in the Gizmoplex [[https://www.gizmoplex.com/mst3k/season:4/videos/mst3k-085-tormented here]], and on Creator/ShoutFactory [[https://www.shoutfactorytv.com/mystery-science-theater-3000/mst3k-tormented/543832d569702d0e699e0000 here]].

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

* Tom and Crow have built another fort, this time in the ventilation ducts. Gypsy's ''far'' too big to fit inside, and she sends them all crashing down.

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[[folder: Segment 1/Invention Exchange ]]

* Joel reverse-engineered a See & Say to create the Aunt Catherine Wheel, meant to help children learn about their extended family. Frank sports the Drinking Jacket, which comes with liquor-hiding pockets and covered with its own [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens DTs]].

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[[folder: Segment 2 ]]

* As Joel cleans the mess Crow and Tom left in the vents, he loses his balance and is left dangling by one arm. When he pleads for the 'Bots to save him, blackmail swiftly ensues.

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[[folder: Segment 3 ]]

* Joel asks the 'Bots about singers they'd like to see fall from a lighthouse, acting them out with little dolls. Music/KennyRogers is bad enough to be recommended ''twice''.

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[[folder: Segment 4 ]]

* Tom and Crow use Vi's "talking head" routine to scare Gypsy. When they attempt to try it on Joel, he just takes their bodies and leaves them alone in the dark.

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[[folder: Segment 5 ]]

* Driven to despair by the film's bleak tone, Joel gets everyone singing a happy upbeat song to combat it. Frank joins in with a song about how he's gonna kill Dr. Forrester and be best friends with the 'Bots, to which Dr. Forrester retaliates with a live grenade.

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!!The ''[=MST3K=]'' presentation of ''[[Film/Tormented1960 Tormented]]'' provides examples of:
* AccidentalMisnaming: Invoked. In the opening credits, they misread "Vi" as the Roman Numeral for six.
* CreditsGag: When the grenade Forrester uses to blow up Frank goes off it makes the end credits skip.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Tom and Crow's talking head routine. Instead of scaring Joel, it just mildly irked him and he walks off with their bodies, leaving them in the dark.
* ForgotTheDisability: Tom in the movie "keeps forgetting" that Mrs. Ellis is blind. Tom Servo is particularly aghast at this latest bit of idiocy.
* HarmfulToMinors: Lampshaded: "Sandy's grown up a lot this week."
* LegFocus: After Joel spends a host segment dangling from the ventilation ducts, Crow compliments him on his calves.
* LongList: What famous singers would ''you'' like to see plunge from a lighthouse?
* MonochromeCasting: Memorably mocked by Crow: "It's a jazz musician's party and there's not one black person here!"[[note]]On the other hand, it was a party for Meg's parents' friends, none of whom were into jazz.[[/note]]
* RunningGag:
** "Sessions presents...!" during the numerous, interminable {{padding}}[[invoked]] shots of lighthouses and beaches, with impressions of famous easy-listening artists to fill out the time left in each scene. Ends up becoming an OverusedRunningGag because, by the end of the movie, Joel's sick of it.
** Tom Stewart's SuspiciouslySpecificDenial and [[FreudianSlip Freudian slips]] throughout the movie.
* SarcasmMode: Servo snarks at the shock there's a scandal involving a jazz musician.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: TV's Frank gets blown up by a grenade.
* TwoWordsICantCount: After Joel has called the Mads' drinking jacket the sickest thing they've ever created.[[note]]Considering Frank attended AA, as did Joel...[[/note]]
-->'''Dr. Forrester:''' Two words: Get! Over it!
* ViewersAreGeniuses: Joel's Speak'n'Say-like Aunt Catherine Wheel is named after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_wheel Catherine wheel]], an old name for a cartwheel, which, in turn, references the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_wheel breaking wheel]], the infamous [[ColdBloodedTorture medieval torture device]].
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->[[TheStinger "Tom Stewart killed me! Tom Stewart killed me!"]]
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