History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E08TheLovesofHercules

!!Tropes featured in the [=MST3K=] presentation of ''Film/TheLoveOfHercules'':

Film Featured: ''Film/TheLovesOfHercules.''

!!Tropes featured in the episode:

* GagBoobs:
** Jayne Mansfield being... well, Jayne Mansfield, it's only natural that this gets brought up a couple of times.
--->''(Deianira screams as a wild bull charges at her)''\\
'''Crow:''' He's gonna bounce straight off you!\\
'''Servo:''' Russ Meyer presents Ferdinand the Bull as you've never seen him!
** This is probably what Kinga was going for when introducing the film (see the page quote). She also makes a (ahem) questionable hand gesture, but that may not be entirely intentional.

-->''[[TheStinger The hydra lightly smacks Hercules with its wing and he falls to the ground with exaggerated spins.]]''

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In a nod to the movie's ax-throwing trial by ordeal, the bots tie Jonah to a wall (or rather tie a wall to Jonah, since he can still walk around with it on his back) and launch various stuff at him, tailored to his crimes, from a tiny catapult, in what Tom calls "a little bit of high-concept fun we're calling ''[[AC:People's Throwing Court]]''."

* {{Mondegreen}}: Jonah mishears "Themis" as "tennis", and guesses that the Trial of Themis must be Wimbledon.

* Jonah and the bots are binge-watching ''Series/{{Wings}}.''

* RealLifeRelative: It's noted that Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay are surprisingly awkward kissers considering they were actually married at the time. [[note]]This was the second of four films they made together.[[/note]]
-->'''Servo:''' So, these two are married in real life, and this is how they kiss?\\
'''Crow:''' She's laying eggs inside of him right now.

* AdaptationalWimp: There's quite a few riffs about how this Hercules mostly just seems like a reasonably buff guy rather than an inhumanly strong demigod. Making it weirder is that Mr. Universe winner Mickey Hargitay is likely one of the most genuinely strong people to play the role.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: When Hercules' final opponent turns out to be a barely-foreshadowed Bigfoot-looking monster, rather than Licos, Jonah quips, "I must have fallen asleep in Greek mythology the day they talked about Sasquatch."

* ThrowingTheFight: After Herc "kills" a rampaging bull:
-->'''Jonah:''' ''(as Herc, to the bull)'' Good job, Elmer. She bought it. We'll split the money later.

** And speaking of early seasons -- not one episode after being called out for basing her inventions on Jonah and the 'Bots' riffs, she advances to stealing inventions from ''Joel'' -- the Mexican Jumping Bean Bag Chair was his planned invention for ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E05RocketAttackUSA Rocket Attack USA]]'' (until Gypsy ate it).

* SpecialEffectFailure: [[invoked]] Jonah and the bots mock the Hydra model for being so stiff and immobile, specifically noting when Herc has to ''crawl underneath its claws'' before it can "attack" him.

** And speaking of early seasons -- not one episode after being called out for basing her inventions on Jonah and the 'Bots' riffs, she advances to stealing inventions from ''Joel'' -- the Mexican Jumping Bean Bag was his planned invention for ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E05RocketAttackUSA Rocket Attack USA]]'' (until Gypsy ate it).
** Later, Jonah is eating a box of Grown Man Bowl Cuts cereal, from ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E02CryWilderness Cry Wilderness]].''

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Queen Deianera strips behind a shoulder-high curtain, Crow and Tom Servo both find ways to peek around the curtain. Afterwards, without a trace of irony, Crow complains that the view was terrible, because, "She wasn't even wearing underwear."

-->''(Deianira screams as a wild bull charges at her)''\\

* LoudOfWar: Jonah and the Bots' angelic chorus continues after the end of the film, and the Mads and Skeleton Crew try to outdo them in the final scene.

* CherubicChoir: Jonah and the bots sing a triumphant but wordless theme over the last scene. Then it persists into the last host segment, and the Mads join in from Moon 13.

* IResembleThatRemark:

'''Jonah:''' Oh, come on, is it that ''[sings]'' unusual to want to talk like Tom Jones?\\

* MortonsFork:

** This is probably what Kinga was going for when introducing the film (see the page quote).

** Singing Music/PearlJam songs based on Herc's [[CelebrityResemblance]][[invoked]] to Eddie Vedder.

** Whenever a character in the film commands another to "Speak!", Jonah and the bots respond in unison with ''"Arf!"''
** Recurring riff: "It's like a Thomas Kinkade painting -- [[TakeThat horrible...]]"

--->'''Crow:''' ''[as Deianira]'' 911 ''[[Music/FearOfABlackPlanet is]]'' [[Music/FearOfABlackPlanet a joke.]] [[Music/PublicEnemy Flavor Flavius]] [[Recap/CommunityS2E06Epidemiology was right.]]

--->'''Crow:''' ''[as Deianira]'' 911 ''is'' [[Music/FearOfABlackPlanet a joke.]] [[Music/PublicEnemy Flavor Flavius]] was [[Recap/CommunityS2E06Epidemiology right.]]

* TakeThat: "It's like a Thomas Kincaid painting--horrible!"

* GagBoobs: Jayne Mansfield being... well, Jayne Mansfield, it's only natural that this gets brought up a couple of times.

-->'''Servo:''' This isn't some sitcom that needs a new kid when the old kid grows up! You can't Raven-Symoné us!