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* GodzillaThreshold: After Mike and the 'Bots ruined her rent-to-own couch by jumping on it and spilling juice all over it, Pearl ''explicitly'' pulls out ''Hobgoblins'' for this week's experiment, solely to '''PUNISH''' the SOL gang.

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* GodzillaThreshold: After Mike and the 'Bots ruined her rent-to-own couch by jumping on it and spilling juice all over it, Pearl Pearl ''explicitly'' pulls out ''Hobgoblins'' for this week's experiment, solely to '''PUNISH''' the SOL gang.
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* During the credits, a passive-but-enraged Servo creates a cardboard cutout of director Rick Sloane so he (with Crow's assistance) can dress him down in an '''''immensely''''' unflattering interview. Not satisifed after returning to the bridge, Servo, in a last act of desperation, became a Terminator (with the requisite shades, leather jacket, and machine gun) and used the SOL's time machine to travel back to the 80s, intending to prevent ''Hobgoblins'' from ever being made by "taking care of" Sloane himself. When he returns, Mike discovers that Servo didn't terminate Sloane, but kicked him in the shins, since he hates guns. Checking the Complete Guide to Lesser Directors for his Sloane biography, Crow discovers that Servo's little trip to the past directly inspired Sloane to create the film. Sloane was also said to have called him "stout", which sends Servo into a seething rage and aching to go back and kill him for real. With her punishment concluded, an upset Pearl had her couch returned to the castle, and firmly reminds the crew NOT to jump on other peoples' furniture. Unfortunately for her, Bobo and Brain Guy promptly jump on the couch themselves, playing with huge containers of juice while they're at it, prompting Pearl gives them [[CartoonBomb bombs]] in retaliation.

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* During the credits, a passive-but-enraged Servo creates a cardboard cutout of director Rick Sloane so he (with Crow's assistance) can dress him down in an '''''immensely''''' unflattering interview. Not satisifed after returning to the bridge, Servo, in a last act of desperation, became a Terminator (with the requisite shades, leather jacket, and machine gun) and used the SOL's time machine to travel back to the 80s, intending to prevent ''Hobgoblins'' from ever being made by "taking care of" Sloane himself. When he returns, Mike discovers that Servo didn't terminate Sloane, but kicked him in the shins, since he hates guns. Checking the Complete Guide to Lesser Directors for his Sloane biography, Crow discovers that Servo's little trip to the past directly inspired Sloane to create the film. Sloane was also said to have called him "stout", which sends Servo into a seething rage and aching to go back and kill him for real. With her punishment concluded, an upset Pearl had her couch returned to the castle, and firmly reminds the crew NOT to jump on other peoples' furniture. Unfortunately for her, Bobo and Brain Guy promptly jump on the couch themselves, playing with huge containers of juice while they're at it, prompting Pearl gives to give them [[CartoonBomb bombs]] in retaliation.



* GodzillaThreshold: After Mike and the 'Bots ruined her rent-to-own couch by jumping on it and spilling juice all over it, Pearl ''explicitly'' pulls out ''Hobgoblins'' for this week's experiment, solely to '''PUNISH''' the SOL gang.

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* GodzillaThreshold: After Mike and the 'Bots ruined her rent-to-own couch by jumping on it and spilling juice all over it, Pearl Pearl ''explicitly'' pulls out ''Hobgoblins'' for this week's experiment, solely to '''PUNISH''' the SOL gang.
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* Crow has set up a "People and Robots Who've Had to Watch the Movie ''Hobgoblins'' Crisis Hotline", meant to console people who have been traumatized by watching this utterly horrible movie. His lone caller is Bobo, who needs someone to talk with about a personal matter, espescially after all the other hotlines he tried hung up on him. Specifically, Bobo tells , while watching the movie himself, that he's fallen obsessively in love with a woman that's not his species: [[BaitAndSwitch a chimpanzee named Emily.]]

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* Crow has set up a "People and Robots Who've Had to Watch the Movie ''Hobgoblins'' Crisis Hotline", meant to console people who have been traumatized by watching this utterly horrible movie. His lone caller is Bobo, who needs someone to talk with about a personal matter, espescially after all the other hotlines he tried hung up on him. Specifically, Bobo tells , the 'Bots that, while watching the movie himself, that he's fallen obsessively in love with a woman that's not his species: [[BaitAndSwitch a chimpanzee named Emily.]]



* GodzillaThreshold: After Mike and the 'Bots ruined her rent-to-own couch by jumping on it and spilling juice all over it, Pearl ''explicitly'' pulls out ''Hobgoblins'' for this week's experiment, solely to '''PUNISH''' the SOL gang.

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* GodzillaThreshold: After Mike and the 'Bots ruined her rent-to-own couch by jumping on it and spilling juice all over it, Pearl Pearl ''explicitly'' pulls out ''Hobgoblins'' for this week's experiment, solely to '''PUNISH''' the SOL gang.
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* Crow has set up a "People and Robots Who've Had to Watch the Movie ''Hobgoblins'' Crisis Hotline", meant to console people who have been traumatized by watching this utterly horrible movie. His lone caller is to be Bobo, who needs someone to talk with about a personal matter, espescially after all the other hotlines he tried hung up on him. Specifically, Bobo tells , while watching the movie himself, that he's fallen obsessively in love with a woman that's not his species: [[BaitAndSwitch a chimpanzee named Emily.]]

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* Crow has set up a "People and Robots Who've Had to Watch the Movie ''Hobgoblins'' Crisis Hotline", meant to console people who have been traumatized by watching this utterly horrible movie. His lone caller is to be Bobo, who needs someone to talk with about a personal matter, espescially after all the other hotlines he tried hung up on him. Specifically, Bobo tells , while watching the movie himself, that he's fallen obsessively in love with a woman that's not his species: [[BaitAndSwitch a chimpanzee named Emily.]]



* GodzillaThreshold: After Mike and the 'Bots ruined her rent-to-own couch by jumping on it and spilling juice all over it, Pearl ''explicitly'' pulls out ''Hobgoblins'' for this week's experiment, solely to '''PUNISH''' the SOL gang.

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* GodzillaThreshold: After Mike and the 'Bots ruined her rent-to-own couch by jumping on it and spilling juice all over it, Pearl Pearl ''explicitly'' pulls out ''Hobgoblins'' for this week's experiment, solely to '''PUNISH''' the SOL gang.

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Though director Rick Sloane ''requested'' that his film be featured on the show, it suffered some of the harshest riffing ever. The Mads removed the film case from the [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Ark of the Covenant]], and are using it as a ''punishment''. The bots tried to flee the theater during ''the opening credits''. Crow set up a hotline for people traumatized by the movie. Mike and the 'bots tried to escape ''again'' by replacing themselves with cardboard cutouts in the theater and the bridge (it nearly worked, too). Crow impersonated Sloane during the end credits claiming he was "high on crack" and had "[his] brain replaced with rat droppings". Servo tried, and failed, to go back in time to prevent the movie from being made.

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Though director Rick Sloane ''requested'' that his film be featured on the show, it suffered some of the harshest riffing ever. The Mads removed Pearl had the film case removed from the [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Ark of the Covenant]], and are using it she explicitly uses the film as a ''punishment''. The bots ''punishment'' for Mike and his robot pals. It's so horrible that the 'Bots tried to flee the theater during ''the opening credits''. credits'', Crow set up a hotline for people traumatized by the movie. Mike and movie, the 'bots crew actually tried to escape ''again'' in the middle of the movie by replacing themselves with cardboard cutouts and a tape recorder in the theater and on the bridge (it nearly worked, too). Crow impersonated Sloane during the end credits claiming that he was "high on crack" and had "[his] brain replaced with rat droppings". droppings" when he was writing the film, and finally, Servo tried, and failed, to go back in time to prevent the movie from being made.



* Mike and the 'Bots find themselves getting accidentally turned on from each other. They blame Robert Palmer.

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* Taking after the Robert Palmer song "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On", Mike and the 'Bots find themselves getting accidentally turned on from and involuntarily turning each other. They other on at the slightest gesture. They're getting pretty tired of it, but they blame Robert Palmer.
Palmer instead of each other.



* Pearl is remodeling Castle Forrester and sends up a couch to the SOL for storage, with explicit instructions to NOT jump on it. Naturally, Mike, Crow, and Servo jump on it in defiance, so Pearl punishes them with an especially-bad movie: ''Hobgoblins''![[note]]AAAAAGH![[/note]]

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* Pearl The SOL crew keep turning each other on, and are now doing so intentionally out of malice. Pearl, meanwhile, is remodeling Castle Forrester Forrester's great hall, and sends up a sees that her rent-to-own couch arrived a day early. She has Brain Guy send it up to the SOL for storage, with explicit instructions to for Mike and his mechanical friends NOT to jump on it. Naturally, the first thing Mike, Crow, and Servo do is don footie pajamas and jump on it in defiance, so the couch, squirting boxes of stainable juice all over the upholstery. Thoroughly infuriated, Pearl punishes them with an especially-bad movie: ''Hobgoblins''![[note]]AAAAAGH![[/note]]
one of the most foul, cruel, and depraved films ever made; a film whose case is removed from a tomb of unspeakable horror, with its mere title making the crew wail and cry at Movie Sign: the 1980s sleaze-fest known only as... '''''HOBGOBLINS!'''''[[note]]AAAAAGH![[/note]]



* Crow puts together an educational film about how to treat women with respect... just as soon as he can find some.

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* Crow puts together As Mike and Sevo read, Crow, disgusted by how one-dimensionally prudish and slutty Amy and Daphne are, creates ''Let's Talk Women'', an educational film about how meant to treat clear up female misconceptions so women can be treated with respect... just as soon as respect. Thanks to his inexperience with women outisde of movies, however, Crow deems them cryptids and/or mythological creatures, turning his film into a paranormal documentary meant to clarify whether or not they exist. When the film ends, Mike reminds Crow that Pearl is a woman. Though Crow accepts this, he can find some.
challenges Mike to prove whether any woman aside from Pearl exists, leaving him utterly stumped.



* Crow sets up the ''Hobgoblins'' Crisis Hotline for people traumatized by watching such a horrible movie. His lone caller is Bobo, who needs someone to talk with about a personal matter.

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* Crow sets has set up a "People and Robots Who've Had to Watch the Movie ''Hobgoblins'' Crisis Hotline for Hotline", meant to console people who have been traumatized by watching such a this utterly horrible movie. His lone caller is to be Bobo, who needs someone to talk with about a personal matter.
matter, espescially after all the other hotlines he tried hung up on him. Specifically, Bobo tells , while watching the movie himself, that he's fallen obsessively in love with a woman that's not his species: [[BaitAndSwitch a chimpanzee named Emily.]]



* Mike and the 'Bots make a break for it and leave cardboard decoys of themselves to fool Pearl. It almost works until Brain Guy sees through the trick.

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* The movie manages to get '''so''' bad, Mike and the 'Bots make a break for it and 'Bots' desperately sneak out of the theater (and intend to do the same with the SOL itself) at the 68-minute mark. To complete the ruse, they leave behind cardboard decoys cutouts of themselves in their seats, which make stilted, generic riffs through a tape recorder. They're also shown to have done the same thing on the bridge as an additional means to fool Pearl. the Mads, with the cutouts there singing an unoriginal ''Hobgoblins'' theme song. It almost works until somewhat on Pearl and Bobo, who ''are'' able to sense that something's off about their captives, while Brain Guy sees through tries to tell Pearl that these are obviously cardboard cutouts. To prove his point, the trick.
cutout of Mike falls forward and shuts off the tape recorder, revealing the real SOL gang in tropical apparel and with packed luggage behind it. Infuriated at their escape attempt, Pearl sends them back into the theater to endure the rest of the movie.



* In a last act of desperation, Servo goes back in time to prevent ''Hobgoblins'' from ever being made. It doesn't quite pan out. Pearl reaffirms her rule to NOT jump on her couch when Bobo and Brain Guy decide to try it themselves.

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* In During the credits, a passive-but-enraged Servo creates a cardboard cutout of director Rick Sloane so he (with Crow's assistance) can dress him down in an '''''immensely''''' unflattering interview. Not satisifed after returning to the bridge, Servo, in a last act of desperation, Servo goes became a Terminator (with the requisite shades, leather jacket, and machine gun) and used the SOL's time machine to travel back in time to the 80s, intending to prevent ''Hobgoblins'' from ever being made. It doesn't quite pan out. made by "taking care of" Sloane himself. When he returns, Mike discovers that Servo didn't terminate Sloane, but kicked him in the shins, since he hates guns. Checking the Complete Guide to Lesser Directors for his Sloane biography, Crow discovers that Servo's little trip to the past directly inspired Sloane to create the film. Sloane was also said to have called him "stout", which sends Servo into a seething rage and aching to go back and kill him for real. With her punishment concluded, an upset Pearl reaffirms her rule to NOT jump on had her couch when returned to the castle, and firmly reminds the crew NOT to jump on other peoples' furniture. Unfortunately for her, Bobo and Brain Guy decide to try it themselves.
promptly jump on the couch themselves, playing with huge containers of juice while they're at it, prompting Pearl gives them [[CartoonBomb bombs]] in retaliation.



!!The unspeakably depraved ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version of... ''Film/{{Hobgoblins}}''[[note]]AAAAAGH![[/note]], contains examples of:

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!!The !!Compliments of the pissed-off Pearl, the unspeakably depraved ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version of... ''Film/{{Hobgoblins}}''[[note]]AAAAAGH![[/note]], contains examples of:



** Rick Sloane, the director of ''Hobgoblins'', loved [=MST3K=]'s riffing of the film. [[ParodyAssistance He even submitted the film to them]].

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** Rick Sloane, the director of ''Hobgoblins'', loved [=MST3K=]'s riffing treatment of the film. [[ParodyAssistance He even personally submitted the film to them]].



* AnythingButThat: Mike and the bots beg Pearl to send them any movie but ''Hobgoblins'' for their experiment, but she's made up her mind.

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* AnythingButThat: Mike and the bots 'Bots beg Pearl to send them any movie but ''Hobgoblins'' for their experiment, but she's made up her mind.



** Tom, dressed in a leather jacket and sunglasses and holding a machinegun, explains to a suitably horrified Mike that he just finished going back in time to track down ''Hobgoblins'' director Rick Sloane and k...ick him in the shins. Mike is relieved; he thought Tom was going to say he "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} terminated]]" Sloane.

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** Tom, dressed in a leather jacket and sunglasses and holding a machinegun, explains to a suitably horrified Mike that he just finished going back in time to track down ''Hobgoblins'' director Rick Sloane and k...ick and... kick him in the shins. Mike is relieved; he thought Tom was going to say he "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} terminated]]" Sloane.



* BeAWhoreToGetYourMan: The takeaway from the movie: Amy wasn't any fun until [[MyGirlIsASlut she put on a literal strip show and started giving it up]] like her friend Daphne. The crew {{Lampshade|Hanging}} the UnfortunateImplications.

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* BeAWhoreToGetYourMan: The A takeaway the guys get from the movie: Amy wasn't any fun until [[MyGirlIsASlut she put on a literal strip show and started giving it up]] like her slutty friend Daphne. The crew {{Lampshade|Hanging}} wastes no time in lampshading the UnfortunateImplications.



* CartoonBomb: Pearl uses a pair to blow up Bobo and Brain Guy at the end of the episode. She ''really'' doesn't want anyone jumping on the couch.

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* CartoonBomb: Pearl uses a pair to blow up Bobo and Brain Guy at the end of the episode. She ''really'' doesn't want anyone jumping on the that couch.



* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The S.O.L. Crew was forced to watch the very bad titular movie after they jump on her couch.

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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The S.O.L. Crew was forced to watch the very bad titular SOL crew are sent this atrocious movie specifically to be punished after they jump jumping and squirting juice boxes on her couch.Pearl's rent-to-own couch.



** Pearl using this movie to punish Mike and the 'bots for jumping on her rent-to-own furniture is treated as a beyond the pale [[EvenEvilHasStandards even by her own henchmen]].
--->'''Pearl:''' Get... ''[[TheScottishTrope The Movie]]''.\\
'''Bobo:''' Aaaagh!

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** Noted above, Pearl using uses this movie '''solely''' to punish Mike and the 'bots 'Bots for jumping on her rent-to-own furniture is couch while squirting juice on it; an act that's treated as a beyond the pale [[EvenEvilHasStandards even by her own henchmen]].
--->'''Pearl:''' Get... ''[[TheScottishTrope The Movie]]''.the movie]]''.\\
'''Brain Guy:''' NO!\\
'''Bobo:''' Aaaagh!AAAAGH!



* GodzillaThreshold: Variation: Because Mike and the bots ruined her couch by jumping on it and spilling juice all over it, she ''explicitly'' pulls out ''Hobgoblins'' for the experiment.

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* GodzillaThreshold: Variation: Because After Mike and the bots 'Bots ruined her rent-to-own couch by jumping on it and spilling juice all over it, she Pearl ''explicitly'' pulls out ''Hobgoblins'' for this week's experiment, solely to '''PUNISH''' the experiment. SOL gang.



* NauseaFuel: Invoked. Mike and the bots get audibly disgusted whenever Daphne starts talking about her busy sex life with meathead army recruit Nick.

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* NauseaFuel: Invoked. Mike and the bots get audibly disgusted whenever the slutty Daphne starts talking about her busy sex life with her meathead army recruit Nick.boyfriend Nick. They give the same reaction to the [[FunnyBackgroundEvent "Funny" Background Event]] where, as Amy berates Kevin for losing the rake battle, Nick's van is seen a-rockin' (and boinging, for whatever reason) furiously as he and Daphne get busy in it. Mike does make a joke about the SpeedSex implications when the pair reemerge after 30 seconds, though.



** Just before the fourth host segment, the movie is getting so bad that Mike resorts to an offscreen plan: distract the Mads with cheap {{Cardboard Pal}}s and [[BadBadActing poorly done pre-recorded riffs and banter]]. By the time Observer has halfway convinced Pearl that these are in fact obviously fake, we see that he and the 'bots had changed into {{Hawaiian shirt|edTourist}}s and [[ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction instantly packed their luggage]] for their vacation/escape.

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** Just before the fourth host segment, the movie is getting gets so bad that Mike resorts to an offscreen plan: distract the Mads with cheap {{Cardboard Pal}}s and [[BadBadActing poorly done pre-recorded riffs and banter]]. By the time Observer has halfway convinced Pearl that these are in fact obviously fake, we see that he and the 'bots had changed into {{Hawaiian shirt|edTourist}}s and [[ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction instantly packed their luggage]] for their vacation/escape.



* SpeedSex: Mike jokes that one of the male characters suffered this.

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* SpeedSex: Though he and the guys are disgusted when Daphne and Nick get it on the latter's van, eagerly rocking in the background as Amy demeans Kevin for losing the rake fight, Mike jokes quips that one of the male characters Nick must have suffered this.this when he and Daphne reemerge from the van seconds later.



* StylisticSuck: The prerecorded riffs that accompany the {{Cardboard Pal}}s in the theater are very stilted and generic when compared to the gang's usual quips. This carries out into the following host segment, where they sing an equally uninspired song. Pearl is confused and suspicious, Brain Guy immediately recognizes that they're cardboard cutouts and Bobo thinks the song is a banger.

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* StylisticSuck: The prerecorded riffs that accompany the {{Cardboard Pal}}s in the theater (which themselves are twice as big and unconvincing as the actual SOL gang) are very stilted and generic when compared to the gang's usual quips. This carries out into the following host segment, where they sing an equally uninspired song. Pearl is confused and suspicious, Brain Guy immediately recognizes that they're cardboard cutouts and Bobo thinks the song is a banger.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Hey, the end credits! Well, it was a terrible movie, at least it was short."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"These are the ''beginning'' credits."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Oh, well, then kill me, please?"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Hey, the end credits! Well, it was a terrible movie, at least it was short."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"These
"\\
"These
are the ''beginning'' credits."]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Oh,
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"Oh,
well, then kill me, please?"]]
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While ''Hobgoblins'' is probably not the worst movie to ever be screened on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', it is [[TriviallyObvious one of them]], and possibly the sleaziest.

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While ''Hobgoblins'' is probably not the worst movie to ever be screened on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', it is [[TriviallyObvious one of them]], and quite possibly the sleaziest.
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* StylisticSuck: The prerecorded riffs that accompany the {{Cardboard Pal}}s in the theater are very stilted and generic when compared to the gang's usual quips. This carries out into the following host segment, where they sing an equally uninspired song.

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* StylisticSuck: The prerecorded riffs that accompany the {{Cardboard Pal}}s in the theater are very stilted and generic when compared to the gang's usual quips. This carries out into the following host segment, where they sing an equally uninspired song. Pearl is confused and suspicious, Brain Guy immediately recognizes that they're cardboard cutouts and Bobo thinks the song is a banger.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Hey, the end credits! Well, it was a terrible movie, at least it was short." "These are the ''beginning'' credits." "Oh, well, then kill me, please?"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Hey, the end credits! Well, it was a terrible movie, at least it was short." "These "]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"These
are the ''beginning'' credits." "Oh, "]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Oh,
well, then kill me, please?"]]

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