History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E04TheIncredibleMeltingMan

* It's time for some baseball on the Satellite of Love, but a brawl breaks out on the field when Servo beans Mike at the plate.

* Dr. Forrester and Pearl call up the SOL with shocking news: Hollywood has picked up Crow's ''Earth vs. Soup'' screenplay and wants to make it into a movie. The Mads are going to be overseeing production, and they have a few suggestions for Crow.

* The Mads make a rare in-person visit to the SOL to discuss the script for ''Earth vs. Soup''. The whole meeting is spent trying to figure out who's supposed to get which pages, while Crow heads out to get some Pellegrinos and ends up missing it.

* Shooting for ''Earth vs. Soup'' has begun, and they can barely get through a two-second scene without director Crow's ego getting in the way.

* Dr. Forrester screens ''Earth vs. Soup'' to his focus group in Deep 13. The reactions are mixed, to put it nicely.

* The Mads inform Crow that ''Earth vs. Soup'' will be released in theaters... as a trailer. Crow is absolutely furious when he learns that he won't even be credited for his work.

* {{Fanservice}}: Forrester asks the focus group if they'd like to see Julia Ormond naked. Half the group raises their hands ([[AllMenArePerverts the male half, natch]]).

** During the "script confab", Pearl accidentally takes the script to ''Peter Graves at the University of Minnesota'' script from ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E17BeginningOfTheEnd Beginning of the End]]''.

* The Mads make a rare in-person visit to the SOL to discuss the script for ''Earth vs. Soup''. The whole meeting is spent trying to figure out who's supposed to get which pages, while Crow heads out to get some Pelligrinos and ends up missing it.

* The Mads make a rare in-person visit to the SOL to discuss the script for ''Earth vs. Soup''. The whole meeting is spent trying to figure out who's supposed to get which pages.

-->'''Crow:''' ''(amused)'' So, how many monster movies end with a janitor scooping the monster into a garbage can?

** "Hal Needham once said, "[[Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit Give me a Firebird and a dilapidated building, and I'll give you drama.]]"

---->'''Dr. Forrester:''' ''(carrying a water cooler)'' Mother! I think I can get my whole head in here!

--->'''Crow:''' ''(as Brute Man)'' Wassa matter? Donchoo like it?

* {{Fanservice}}: Forrester asks the focus group if they'd like to see Julia Ormond naked. Half the group raises their hands ([[AllMenArePerverts the male half, natch]].)

-->'''Crow:''' ''(high-pitched)'' They shrunk me and trapped me on this huge log!

-->'''Crow:''' ''(while Mike rushes Tom on the mound)'' ORDER IN THE COURT! ORDER IN THE COURT!

-->'''Ted Nelson:''' ''(to cops)'' Don't shoot! I'm Dr. Ted Nelson!

-->''(Cops open fire, hitting Ted Nelson and killing him)''
-->'''Servo:''' ''(amused)'' Wasn't far off.

** "Hal Needham once said, "[[Film/QTheWingedSerpent Give me a firebird and a dilapidated building, and I'll give you drama.]]"[[note]]Needham did not have anything to do with the production of ''Q'', however.[[/note]]

** "Hal Needham once said, "[[Film/QTheWingedSerpent Give me a firebird and a dilapidated building, and I'll give you drama.]]"

* It's time for some baseball on the Satellie of Love, but a brawl breaks out on the field when Servo beans Mike at the plate.

* Dr. Forrester and Pearl call up the SOL with shocking news: Hollywood has picked up Crow's ''Earth vs. Soup'' screenplay and wants to make it into a movie. The Mads are going to be overseeing production, and they have a few suggestions to Crow.

--->'''Servo:''' ''(as Brute Man)'' Wassa matter? Donchoo like it?

-->'''Pearl:''' Ninety percent of the audience didn't like the character [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]]. Even though she wasn't in this movie, we need to do something about that.

-->'''Pearl:''' Ninety percent of the audience didn't like the character [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]]. Even though she wasn't in this movie, we need to do something about that.

-->'''Crow:''' [[Disney/TheLionKing Look harder, Simba!]]

-->'''Mike'''

* {{Angrish}}: Crow's rant in Humiliation Conga below.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Inverted.
-->'''Ted Nelson:''' ''(to cops)'' Don't shoot! I'm Dr. Ted Nelson!
-->'''Servo:''' '''BLAM! BLAM BLAM!'''
-->'''Ted Nelson:''' I'm Dr. Ted Nelson!
-->''(Cops open fire, hitting Ted Nelson and killing him)''
-->'''Servo:''' ''(amused)'' Wasn't far off.

* MonochromeCasting: Mary Jo Pehl pointed to the complete aversion of the trope in the film as one of its strong points.
-->'''Mary Jo Pehl:''' ...I thought this movie was really progressive, ahead of its time really, for several reasons: It featured an African-American doctor before television tokenism really took hold; the nurse is a person of size who is also a health professional and is not simply in the movie to be the butt of fat jokes (except ours). Never mind that she freaks out at the first sign of pus -- hey, big girls get upset and queasy too.... It also portrays elderly people having viable, amorous relationships. An unpleasant thought though it may be, the movie puts it out there.

* TakeThat: The segments involving Crow's film are a not-so-subtle jab at the ExecutiveMeddling that Gramercy Pictures inflicted on ''Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie'', and the Deep Hurting that Best Brains endured in the process. Mary Jo Pehl later called these host segments "therapeutic".[[note]]Ironically, unbeknownst to the crew, ''Incredible Melting Man'' was also put through the wringer by its producers, and the director wound up loving the episode.[[/note]]
-->'''Mary Jo Pehl:''' I remember at one point, while the studio shepherds in charge of ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie MST3K: The Movie]]'' were in Minneapolis, it was during the height of the ubiquitous O.J. Simpson deal. The studio exec informed us over lunch that there was a big trial in Los Angeles with O.J. Simpson because he'd been accused of murdering his wife, and "had (we) heard anything about it out here?" It was like a hog-pile on our souls.
** Specifically, Clayton Forrester's increasingly large bottles of water are a nod to the Gramercy executives' alleged tendency to carry little paper cups around with them ''everywhere.''
--->'''Dr. Forrester:''' ''(carrying a water cooler)'' Mother! I think I can get my whole head in here!

--> "It's still better than ''Film/MrsDoubtfire''."\\

* TechnologyMarchesOn: [[invoked]] At one point, Crow yells, "''There's'' your Windows 95!" when the melting man kills a character who resembles Bill Gates.

[[TheStinger "Let's get the hell out of here!"]] ''[[[TheStinger Man nods]]]''

** During the credits, when the gang is going over what they've learned from the movie, it's mentioned that they've [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E01NightOfTheBloodBeast seen a movie where NASA appeared to have only a handful of employees]] before.

-->'''Pearl:''' Ninety percent of the audience didn't like the character [[Disney/101Dalmatians Cruella de Vil]]. Even though she wasn't in this movie, we need to do something about that.

-->'''Pearl:''' Ninety percent of the audience didn't like the character Cruella de Ville. Even though she wasn't in this movie, we need to do something about that.

* NoBudget: [[invoked]] The budget for ''Earth vs. Soup'' is $30 million. But somehow, after the studio (and Pearl and Clayton Forrester) take their share, only ''$800'' is left to actually make the movie. ...And then Crow blows most of ''that'' on a scarf.

* CallBack: "[[Film/MonsterAGoGo Dr. Ted Nelson was found alive and of normal size. There was no Melting Man.]]"

-->'''Mary Jo Pehl:''' I remember at one point, while the studio shepherds in charge of MST3K: The Movie were in Minneapolis, it was during the height of the ubiquitous O.J. Simpson deal. The studio exec informed us over lunch that there was a big trial in Los Angeles with O.J. Simpson because he'd been accused of murdering his wife, and "had (we) heard anything about it out here?" It was like a hog-pile on our souls.