* CrossesTheLineTwice: When Nick is [[ManOnFire burning to death]], Mike comments "My fajita plate was really hot and I touched it!!" It helps that the effect [[SpecialEffectFailure looks terrible]], even if it was a full body burn (considered one of the most dangerous stunts you can do) *inside* a building.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** In one scene, when a character remarks that "[Being a security guard] is not that difficult," Mike riffs: "JFK Jr. could do it." This was intended to poke fun at the ''George'' magazine he founded, which was losing money and not taken very seriously as a publication. A little more than a year later, John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a private plane crash he himself was piloting (the crash was attributed to pilot error caused by his inexperience). Suddenly, this riff sounds a lot more mean-spirited than it was meant to be.
** A character picks up a gun, and Tom Servo riffs: "If found: please return to [[Creator/HunterSThompson Hunter Thompson]]," a reference to Thompson's vast collection of firearms. About six and a half years later, Hunter Thompson committed suicide with a handgun.
* HilariousInHindsight: Servo's riff on Creator/DaranNorris' emcee, "Proof that there's no life after drama club!" is ironic when you consider that Norris was one of two guys to have a career after acting in this stinkbomb. (The other was the guy who played [[strike:Toe Cheese]] [[strike:Back Sweat]] [[strike:Sweat Gland]] [[strike:Butt Crack]] Road Rash, who you may remember as Zed's pal Maynard in ''Film/PulpFiction''.)
** Speaking of Daran Norris, this episode came out the same year he would appear in ''Star Games'' as Happy the A.I. Clown. That movie would end up being riffed on Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}, with Mike, Kevin and Bill seemingly unaware of their previous encounter with him.
* HoYay: The cold opening involves Mike and the Bots accidentally turning each other on at the slightest provocation.
-->'''Crow''': (angry stammering; turns to Tom) Now, ''there!'' There, you ''did so'' mean to turn me on that time!
-->'''Tom Servo''': Okay, I admit it, I turned you on on purpose, okay?!
* MemeticMutation: The "Hobgoblins" song sung by the cardboard duplicates is one, while Mike's "It's the 80s" song riff is used both straight and as a snowclone.
* {{Squick}}:
** The ShipTease moment for Bobo and Pearl. Even in-universe the Bots are rightfully ''horrified''.
** The [[FetishRetardant creepy]] Music/DavidLeeRoth-esque woman that appears in Kyle's fantasy got this reaction.
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