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The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation contains these tropes:

• Annoying Patient: Pearl.
• As Himself: Or rather, the Warriors from Hell as themselves.
• Author Appeal: MST3k's ripping on RenFests.
• Callbacks:
  • "Sampo! Sampo!"
  • "Lodac, did you back up the toilet again?"
• Call Forward: When Deathstalker somehow blows his cover by showing the princess's sister a stick:
  Mike (using Vadinho's voice): "Get him men, he kicked Tony!"
• Credits Gag: Features singing some of the Safety Dance song.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar
  Troxartas: RISE!
  Servo: Oh, not that kind of rise.
• I Heard That As: Troxartas, not "Trucks Artist".
  Servo: Can you paint my van?
  Mike: It's Troxartas, SUNDAY at the Metrodome!
  Crow: (As Deathstalker) Trox-artas! Good! I was thinking maybe the cover of Mars Hotel on my van.
• Mills and Boon Prose: Crow treats Pearl to a meandering, disjointed reading of a trashy romance novel.
• Overly Long Gag: Claaaaaaaaaaayyyyytooooonnnnn!!!
• Running Gags: Many of them are about how Nicias the wizard looks like he stepped out of The Lord of the Rings book.
  • The numerous jokes about the bat wings on the warriors' helmets. Squeak! Squeak!
• Shout Out: The poisoned milk scene at the end is lifted from Alfred Hitchcock's film Suspicion.
  • There are numerous shout-outs to The Lord of the Rings, including the closing sketch where Servo attempts to forge a Ring of Power for Mike. Keep in mind this was several years before the movies came out.
• Sick Episode: Pearl is suffering from ailment and making Clayton suffer along with her.
• Spell My Name with an S:
  (The opening credits show "John Allen Nelson" in a faux-Old English font)
  Mike: John Allen Relson?
  Servo: "Nelson", it's "Nelson".
  Mike: That's one of the most clearly written "R"s I've ever seen!
  (And Deathstalker gets called "Relson" through the rest of the experiment.)
• Take That: The host segments really take apart RenFests.