History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E06AttackOfTheGiantLeeches

* Joel turns out to have left the Holo-Clowns from last episode's Rainy Day Fun Sketch turned on for a few weeks, and they've become more than a little unhinged from their continued existence.

-->'''Crow''': I hate when they talk during the... (''has a realization'')

* HypocriticalHumor: During the short.
-->'''Crow''': I hate when they talk during the...(has a realization)

Films watched: ''Film/UnderseaKingdom'' and ''Film/AttackOfTheGiantLeeches''.

!!This episode contains examples of:

* ActorAllusion: Intentionally invoked or not, when Ray "Crash" Corrigan starts swinging on ropes the guys accompany it with ape noises. Corrigan was most famous as an Ape-suit performer.

* CompanionCube: After ''Undersea Kingdom'', Crow claims not to have been affected by being blindsided by a short, only to call attention to his Billy action figure. He has the doll in the rest of the host segments.

* FashionVictimVillain: Invoked by Joel and the bots when they discuss this trope during one of the sketches.

* Tom recites a haiku inspired by his experience with the Holo-Clowns. Dr. Forrester uses Frank as a test subject for Patches, a leech that sucks all the desire to smoke straight out of a person’s bloodstream. Joel presents the Insty-Adolescence Kit and demonstrates it on Tom, turning him into a, pimply, greasy, emotional, smart-mouthed teenager.

* Joel turns out to have left the Holo-Clowns from the last episode on for a few weeks, and they’ve become more than a little unhinged.

* Tom recites a haiku inspired by his experience with the clowns. Dr. Forrester uses Frank as a test subject for Patches, a leech that sucks all the desire to smoke out of a person’s bloodstream. Joel presents the Insty-Adolescence Kit, and demonstrates its uses on Tom, turning him into an emotional, smart-mouthed teenager.

* Joel and the Bots ponder how they’d each take over the world. Specifically, what they’d wear when they do it, what complex plot they’d come up with to do it, and how they’d make the world pay. Dr. Forrester provides visual aid.

* Over coffee, Joel and the Bots reflect on how the movie reminds them of their various unusual dreams.

* Impersonating the backwoods yokels from the film, the guys sing “A Danger to Myself and Others”.

* Joel tries to understand the motives of the giant leeches, then reads a letter. In Deep 13, Patches has been sucking Frank’s blood for a little too long. Dr. F discusses various employment opportunities with the now-speaking Patches.

* AcceptableTargets: Invoked with the abundance of hick jokes, and in Dave's case, fat jokes.

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* FashionVictimVillain: Invoked by Joel and the bots when they discuss this trope during one of the sketches. This episode even provides the page quote.

The episode is available on Shout! Factory TV [[http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/mystery-science-theater-3000/mst3k-attack-of-the-giant-leeches/53cd481f69702d27d3492a00 here]].

* FashionVictimVillain: Invoked by Joel and the bots when they discuss this trope during one of the sketches.

* Tom recites a haiku inspired by his experience with the clowns. Dr. Forrester uses Frank as a test subject for Patches, a leech that sucks all the desire to smoke out of a person’s bloodstream. Joel presents the Insty-Adolescence Kit, and demonstrates its uses on Tom, turning him into a pimply, emotional teenager.

* Over coffee, Joel and the Bots ponder how the movie reminds them of various unusual dreams they’ve had.

* AcceptableTargets: Invoked with the lots of hick jokes, and in Dave's case, fat jokes.

* CompanionCube: After the ''Undersea Kingdom'' short, Crow claims not to have been affected by being blindsided by a short, only to call attention to his Billy action figure. He has the doll in the rest of the host segments.
* ContinuityNod: In an unusual bit of direct episode-to-episode continuity, Joel accidentally left the [[{{Hologram}} Holo]]-Clowns (played by Mike and Paul) from [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E05BeingFromAnotherPlanet last episode]] on for three weeks, which made the clowns [[DrivenToMadness go crazy]].
-->'''Joel:''' Hi everybody, welcome to the Satellite of Love, my name's Joel Robinson, about three weeks ago I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the 'Bots but now I can't get it to turn off and it's [[TheInsomniac getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal]]!

* HormoneAddledTeenager: Joel's invention, the Insty-Adolescent Kit, turns Servo into a pimply adolescent [[EmoTeen with a persecution complex]].

* MustHaveCaffeine: Tom Servo even has coffee inside his gumball-head.

->''[[[TheStinger Boy watches fight from the ceiling]]]''