History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E17VikingWomenAndTheSeaSerpent

** To _Son of Ali Baba_ (via an (in)famous BeamMeUpScotty):

Films watched: "The Home Economics Story" (short) and ''[[Film/VikingWomenAndTheSeaSerpent The Saga of the Viking Women and their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent]]''

"The Home Economics Story" is a 1951 educational short in which four college-bound girls learn about the career possibilities a home economics degree would lead to.

!!The ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' presentation of ''Film/VikingWomenAndTheSeaSerpent'' has examples of:

Films watched: "The Home Economics Story" (short) and ''Film/VikingWomenAndTheSeaSerpent''

"The Home Economics Story" is a 1951 educational short in which college-bound girls learn about the career possibilities a home economics degree would lead to.

!!The ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' presentation of ''The Home Economics Story'' has examples of:
* CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2: Joel calls Iowa State College (now Iowa State University), which produced the short, "the high school ''after'' high school."
* DistaffCounterpart: ''The Home Economics Story'' is essentially one to ''Why Study Industrial Arts'', which would be riffed [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E09TheSkydivers three seasons later.]]
* ShoutOut: The films ''The Group'' and ''Film/ThreeCoinsInTheFountain'' are name-dropped to describe the group of students.
* ToiletHumor: Joel's response to a line that sounds like "Five pound ''potty''" is to note one of the ladies in the short had a big breakfast.

!!!!The ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' presentation of ''Film/VikingWomenAndTheSeaSerpent'' has examples of:

!!This episode contains examples of:

* BrickJoke: So first we get the Home Ec short, an outdated piece of drivel that Joel and Bots riff mercilessly over its weird take on college for women. Then the feature starts...a Roger Corman piece of drivel that Joel and the Bots riff mercilessly over its weird take on Vikings and women. An hour and half later, after the Home Ec short has been forgotten in the flood of Roger Corman weirdness, and the victorious Vikings are looking towards the shores of their homeland and all the women have their men, the music swells, and the film focuses on the heroes, Tom Servo can't resist:

* CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2: Joel calls Iowa State College (now Iowa State University), which produced the "Home Economics Story" short, "the high school ''after'' high school."
* DistaffCounterpart: The Home Economics Story ↔ [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E09TheSkydivers Why Study Industrial Arts]]

-->'''TV Frank''': (is fighting it with a poker) ''Dear God, what have I done?!''

** The films ''Film/TheGroup'' and ''Film/ThreeCoinsInTheFountain'' are name-dropped to describe the group of students in the short.

* ToiletHumor: Joel's response to a line in the short that sounds like "Five pound ''potty''" is to note one of the ladies in the short had a big breakfast.

* BrickJoke: So first we get the Home Ec short, an outdated piece of drivel that Joel and Bots riff mercilessly over its weird take on college for women. Then the feaure starts...a Roger Corman piece of drivel that Joel and the Bots riff mercilessly over its weird take on Vikings and women. An hour and half later, after the Home Ec short has been forgotten in the flood of Roger Corman weirdness, and the victorious Vikings are looking towards the shores of their homeland and all the women have their men, the music swells, and the film focuses on the heroes, Tom Servo can't resist:

* NonIndicativeTitle: Downplayed: Even thought the Meat Re-Animator ''is'' shown to bring meat back to life, for some reason it is also shown working with waffles.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: TV's Frank gets electrocuted to death by defibrilator paddles.

* Joel is making waffles... a lot of waffles. Crow and Tom Servo think that Joel might be getting a little obsessed.

* As Joel bores the 'Bots by naming all the great ways to enjoy waffles, Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank use their new Meat Re-Animator to bring a pre-cooked chicken back to life, only for it to threaten them at knifepoint. Joel's invention, the Waffle Iron, is literally a steam iron that flattens waffles into pancakes.

* Joel has made even more waffles, and now he's reprogrammed the 'Bots to love waffles as much as he does. The crew name all sorts of new and strange uses for waffles.

* "Waffles."

* Servo is so stuffed with waffles that he wonders if the world would be better off without waffles. Introducing Willy the Waffle (as played by Crow), who shows Servo just how important waffles are to everything.

* The crew celebrates all things waffles with a glorious song proclaiming their favorite food in all the world. Dr. Forrester threatens shock therapy on anybody who mentions waffles again, starting with Frank.

** Forrester enrages the SOL crew by dismissing: [[TakeThat "Let's face it, sticky fingers, waffles are nothing more than a vehicle for butter and syrup."]]

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* CallForward: Many fans had no idea where the heck the concept of Willy the Waffle came from 'til ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S10E12Squirm Squirm]].''

--> '''Stark''': My son! My son!\\

* TheCheerleader: In the short, a shot of cheerleaders at a football game in enthusiastic hips-forward, shoulders-back poses gets thoroughly mocked.
--> '''Joel and the bots (as the cheerleaders):''' Look! Look! Look at my crotch! Look! Look! Look at my crotch!