Film watched: The Girl in Lovers' Lane
The episode is available in the Gizmoplex here
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The Segments
Prologue- Tom and Crow have gotten their hands on a shop drill to try to give themselves belly buttons. Joel allows it, but only after copious whining and wheedling.
Segment 1
- For the Invention Exchange, Dr. Forrester and Frank present a line of evil baseball promotions, such as "Colorless, Odorless, Toxic Gas Night", "Slide Whistle and Brass Knuckles Night", and "Used Syringe Night". Joel and the 'Bots have combined Doc Martens with MAD cartoonist Don Martin to make a wacky new fashion statement.
Segment 2
- Joel and the 'Bots put on their weather-beaten Stetsons and break out their acoustic guitars for a musical number they call "The Train Song".
Segment 3
- Inspired by the "beating" scene in the film, Servo and Crow prepare a prank involving Joel's old pinball machine. Joel sees right through it, so the Bots are forced to jump him where he stands.
Segment 4
- Crow interrupts Joel and Servo's home science experiment to show off his impression of Jack Elam. When it fails to impress, Crow gets defensive.
Segment 5
- Crow and Servo get carried away coming up with an alternate ending to the film, one involving aliens, dinosaurs, and pygmies. Joel reads some fan mail, while Dr. F tries to silence Frank, who's also brainstorming a new ending, with a railroad spike through the head.
The MST3K presentation of The Girl in Lovers' Lane contains examples of:
- Accidental Misnaming: Joel and the Bots mishear Bix Dugan's name as "Big Stupid", and keep referring to him as such.
- Adaptational Alternate Ending: The final host segment consists of Joel and the Bots rewriting the ending to remove Carrie's death from the plot. The Amazing Colossal Episode Guide explains that this really was very therapeutic for everyone involved with the show.
- Contemplate Our Navels: Literally — Crow and Tom each drill themselves a bellybutton. Upon getting his, Crow starts contemplating it.
- Continuity Nod:
- "To live like the E-lam, to be like the E-lam..."
- Joel and the Bots compare Jesse to Torgo.
- Cutting the Knot: When Crow and Tom's attempt at recreating the alley beating scene with Joel keeps failing, they opt to just beat him up while he's playing pinball.
- Fanon Dis Continuity: In-universe; Crow and Servo, upset at the ending, come up with their own instead, which involves Carrie living, Jesse getting abducted by aliens, Danny and Bix taming dinosaurs in a post-apocalyptic world, and a kingdom of pygmies. Caught up in the general enthusiasm, TV's Frank comes up with his own, which involves Bix as a being of pure energy.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Parodied: At one point during the movie, there's a shot of a train going down the tracks... from the perspective of the tracks themselves. As such:Crow: (as the train approaches) Uh... uh, Camera #3, get off the track. Camera #3- (the train goes over the camera; Crow, Tom and Joel scream in horror)
- Ho Yay: "And once again, Bix saves Danny from a heterosexual experience."
- In Name Only: The Bots' alternate ending for this movie.
- Mondegreen Gag: Joel and the 'bots mishear Bix Dugan as "Big Stupid" and continue to call him this. They're not far off.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Crow and Servo's alternate ending is just full of this.
- Shout-Out:
- "How's this, Mr. Jarmusch?"
- "I'm happy here on Omicron Ceti 3, Jim."
- When Bix runs back to stop Jesse from assaulting Carrie, Joel and the Bots sing "Big Stupid to the res-cue!" to the tone of "Jim Dandy".
- Spoof Aesop: In Crow and Servo's bizarre alternate ending to the movie.Servo: And the moral is "Never love a pygmy!"
Crow: Because... they're immortal!
Servo: Yeah!
Crow: And they can fly!
Servo: Mm-hm!
Crow: And you can't fly! - They Killed Kenny Again: TV's Frank gets nailed through the skull with a railroad spike.
- Train Song: "The Train Song" a.k.a. "What a Pleasant Journey". Joel tries to rhyme "Circle Pines" and "magazines" (he changed the latter's pronunciation from "maga-zeens" to "maga-zeyens"), and Crow takes the song (and the train) completely off the rails with his verse.
- What the Hell, Hero?: When Jesse attempts to force himself on Carrie, Joel and the Bots make their disgust with Jack Elam clear.
- With Lyrics: Joel and the Bots make lyrics up for the movie's theme tune.Joel: (singing) The Girl In Lovers' Lane...
Crow: With Jack Elam, not Jack La-Lanne.note (Servo: Not La-La-a-anne...)
Joel: And lots of actors, there's no time to name...
Crow: A screenplay by Jo Heims that's pretty lame. (Servo: Pretty lame...)
Servo: The entire crew, feels a sense of shame. (Crow: Shame.) If only they'd had / half a brain / they could attain / a measure of fame / from a film like Shane! / But no. To their disdain, / The Girl In Lov-ers Lane!
Joel: (Makes Rawhide whip crack noise)
Crow: (spoken, in '20s radio announcer accent) The Girl In Lovers' Lane!
