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* HollywoodDarkness: Spectacularly averted.
-->'''Servo:''' ''(grumbling)'' I can't watch this. I mean, I can't '''''see''''' this!
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** Saying certain backdrops are midwestern towns.

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** Saying certain backdrops are midwestern Midwestern towns.
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-->"You haven't won, Dr. Forrester; you've lost. And I feel sorry for you. You're nothing but a sad little man in a hole in the ground [[JerkAss who can only feel power by hurting others]]. Well, we won because, we survived, and we survived because, well, [[LikeASonToMe we're Robinsons, roughly]]. That's what Robinsons do is survive, basically, and well, if you think it's so easy, well, [[DareToBeBadass YOU should try and watch a movie sometime!]]"

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-->"You haven't won, Dr. Forrester; you've lost. [[Film/ItsAWonderfulLife And I feel sorry for you. You're nothing but a sad little man in a hole in the ground [[JerkAss who can only feel power by hurting others]]. Well, we won because, we survived, and we survived because, well, [[LikeASonToMe we're Robinsons, roughly]]. That's what Robinsons do is survive, basically, and well, if you think it's so easy, well, [[DareToBeBadass YOU should try and watch a movie sometime!]]"
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* RunningGag: Due to one of the characters looking like an Asian Marlo Thomas, Joel and the bots repeatedly say, "''Series/ThatGirl''!"
** Saying certain backdrops are midwestern towns.
** Saying the sick character looks like Burt Young.
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* LetsSeeYOUDoBetter: Joel's challenge to the Mads after the movie. They fail miserably.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Just after the Mads humiliate themselves trying to riff a scene of the movie:
-->'''TV's Frank:''' You know, we ''could'' have made funny comments, but the movie wasn't that good!


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** During a horribly underlit scene in Fu Manchu's dungeon:
--->'''Servo:''' What is this? Kirlian photography?\\
'''Crow:''' Yeah, [[Film/TheThreeStooges Moe, Larry, and Curly-an]] photography.
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* {{Yellowface}}: Discussed in Crow's editorial "The Theatre/MissSaigon Syndrome".

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* {{Yellowface}}: Discussed in Crow's editorial "The Theatre/MissSaigon Syndrome".Syndrome".

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->''[[TheStinger [Two mooks hop on a guard]]]''
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** [[IronWoobie Molybdynum-and-Kevlar Woobie]]: And yet, despite the fact that the movie breaks them, they just keep going!

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** [[IronWoobie Molybdynum-and-Kevlar Molybdenum-and-Kevlar Woobie]]: And yet, despite the fact that the movie breaks them, they just keep going!
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** [[IronWoobie Molybdynum-and-Kevlar Woobie]]: And yet, despite the fact that the movie breaks them, they just keep going!

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** [[IronWoobie Molybdynum-and-Kevlar Woobie]]: And yet, despite the fact that the movie breaks them, they just keep going!going!
* {{Yellowface}}: Discussed in Crow's editorial "The Theatre/MissSaigon Syndrome".

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* IncrediblyLamePun: Quite a few about barges and fez hats.
* NotSoStoic/ HeroicBSOD: Joel and the Bots rarely ever lose it over movies, and this one has them losing it by the ''first'' break from the movie.

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* IncrediblyLamePun: Quite a few about barges and fez hats.
* NotSoStoic/ HeroicBSOD:
HeroicBSOD[=/=]NotSoStoic: Joel and the Bots rarely ever lose it over movies, and this one has them losing it by the ''first'' break from the movie.



* IncrediblyLamePun: Quite a few about barges and fez hats.



* TheWoobie[[invoked]]: Both the bots in the host segments.

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* TheWoobie[[invoked]]: Both of the bots in the host segments.
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** Joel has a brief [=BSOD=] moment when he realizes he's forgotten the Invention Exchange for the week, and all he can come up with is the [[BigHeadMode Big Head]], which [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E18StarForceFugitiveAlienII he did already]]. Fortunately, Tom and Crow had their own invention handy.
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* WithLyrics: Tom Servo does this with the opening credits theme of the movie.
-->'''Servo:''' I'm bored, I'm bored with these credits already...
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** Not only that- ''every'' host segment falls apart due to the horribleness of this movie. Compare ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate'', where they got through two host segments without breaking up.

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** Not only that- ''every'' host segment falls apart due to the horribleness of this movie. Compare ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate'', ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate Manos]]'', where they got through two host segments without breaking up.
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** Not only that- ''every'' host segment falls apart due to the horribleness of this movie. Compare ''ManosTheHandsOfFate'', where they got through two host segments without breaking up.

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** Not only that- ''every'' host segment falls apart due to the horribleness of this movie. Compare ''ManosTheHandsOfFate'', ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate'', where they got through two host segments without breaking up.
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** Not only that- ''every'' host segment falls apart due to the horribleness of this movie. Compare ''ManosTheHandsOfFate'', where they got through two host segments without breaking up.
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** [[IronWoobie Molybdynum-and-Kevlar Woobie]]

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** [[IronWoobie Molybdynum-and-Kevlar Woobie]]Woobie]]: And yet, despite the fact that the movie breaks them, they just keep going!
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* TheWoobie[[invoked]]: Both the bots in the host segments.

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* TheWoobie[[invoked]]: Both the bots in the host segments.segments.
** [[IronWoobie Molybdynum-and-Kevlar Woobie]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: At the end of the movie, as Forrester and Frank are celebrating and awaiting the official surrender from the Satellite of Love, Joel comes back with this rant.
-->"You haven't won, Dr. Forrester; you've lost. And I feel sorry for you. You're nothing but a sad little man in a hole in the ground [[JerkAss who can only feel power by hurting others]]. Well, we won because, we survived, and we survived because, well, [[LikeASonToMe we're Robinsons, roughly]]. That's what Robinsons do is survive, basically, and well, if you think it's so easy, well, [[DareToBeBadass YOU should try and watch a movie sometime!]]"
** This leads the Mads to try and watch the film. They don't do so well.

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* TheWoobie: Both the bots in the host segments.

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* TheWoobie: TakeThat: Joel and the bots challenge Forrester and Frank try to riff the film. They fail miserably. This was in response to critics who claimed that ''anyone'' could riff the movies like Best Brains did.
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Both the bots in the host segments.
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-->'''Servo:''' I don't know, this is terrible!

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-->'''Servo:''' I don't know, this is terrible!terrible!
* TheWoobie: Both the bots in the host segments.
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** Surprisingly, the first one to break is the usually [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] and easy-going Crow, who was delivering great joke after great joke throughout the first 20 minutes of the movie; and furthermore, seems to be the least likely of the bots to lose it over ''anything''.

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** Surprisingly, the first one to break is the usually [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] and easy-going Crow, who was delivering great joke after great joke throughout the first 20 minutes of the movie; and furthermore, seems to be the least likely of the bots to lose it over ''anything''. And yet, despite his valiant efforts, he collapses into hysterical tears while reading aloud his editiorial on the Miss Saigon Syndrome.
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** Servo even wears a fez at one point.
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** Servo even wears a fez at one point.
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* NotSoStoic/HeroicBSOD: Joel and the Bots rarely ever lose it over movies, and this one has them losing it by the ''first'' break from the movie.

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* NotSoStoic/HeroicBSOD: NotSoStoic/ HeroicBSOD: Joel and the Bots rarely ever lose it over movies, and this one has them losing it by the ''first'' break from the movie.
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* NotSoStoic: Joel and the Bots rarely ever lose it over movies, and this one has them losing it by the ''first'' break from the movie.

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* NotSoStoic: NotSoStoic/HeroicBSOD: Joel and the Bots rarely ever lose it over movies, and this one has them losing it by the ''first'' break from the movie.
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** Surprisingly, the first one to break is the usually [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] and easy-going Crow, who was delivering great joke after great joke throughout the first 20 minutes of the movie; and furthermore, seems to be the least likely of the bots to lose it over ''anything''.
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Film watched: ''Film/TheCastleOfFuManchu''

This was the only Fu Manchu movie that Joel and the Bots watched and is arguably one of the worst films they ever had to endure.
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!!!The MST3K presentation provides examples of:

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar
--> '''Nayland Smith:''' Thank you, Kurt, it was very kind of you to come.
--> '''Joel:''' Well, I didn't mean to, but, uh, the new seats covers-"
--> '''Servo:''' Joel, NO!
* IncrediblyLamePun: Quite a few about barges and fez hats.
* NotSoStoic: Joel and the Bots rarely ever lose it over movies, and this one has them losing it by the ''first'' break from the movie.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: On the really bad British dub.
-->'''Joel:''' Why are they dubbing the British?
-->'''Servo:''' I don't know, this is terrible!

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