History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E04TheDeadlyMantis

* Servo announces Business-Casual Day on the SOL. His bossy nature and restricting rules (mostly on Mike as only he wears clothes) ironically makes things less productive, or would if there was any productivity going on.

* Deep Ape has new neighbors: a trio of cultists who want the apes to fix their "holy and everlasting" thermonuclear bomb. Mike offers a bit of help, which results in the bomb going off and destroying the whole planet. The Nanites repair the SOL and get it out of blast range in time, though not before Bobo sends them their next movie.

* The crew believes that Pearl is no more and hold a wake in her memory, but their victory is short-lived when she comes racing after them in her own space vessel the Widowmaker, with guns blazing and Bobo in her backseat. Gypsy takes the wheel and loses Pearl in an asteroid field.

* As the SOL continues its journey through the cosmos, the crew turns on the radio for some entertainment. The only stations they get are country music, even on public radio.

* Servo is doing the driving and accidentally hits an alien. They bring it aboard and find that it's perfectly fine, but it then decides to eat Crow.

* Crow has made a giant meatloaf. Coincidentally, the alien from earlier is gone now. Mike gets a letter from Bobo's assistant Peanut, who was thrown into Earth's past from the force of the bomb's explosion and has started a very friendly relationship with a girl named Ludmilla... Ludmilla ''Nelson''. Pearl is back on their trail, but Bobo keeps interrupting her villainous boasts.

* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Mike's reign of terror begins when he inadvertently helps Prof. Bobo and Dr. Peanut detonate a thermonuclear bomb. While Mike later tries to protest that they'd have blown themselves up anyway, odds are that Pearl would have seen what Bobo and Peanut were doing and stopped them, if not for Mike happening to throw in a suggestion on how to activate the bomb.
-->'''Servo:''' Good one, Nelson!%%InUniverse

-->'''Mike''': ''(offhand)'' Well why not just use a pair of locking pliers and a spanner?

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Mike's great-granddaughter looks like Mike in a wig.

!!The Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 presentation includes the following tropes:

'''Mike:''' ...there is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Jackson_(1988_film) Jackson]].\\

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

'''Servo:''' ''(as the mantis'' "Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini,"[[note]]"Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord"[[/note]] heh heh...

* AllMenArePerverts: The entire Arctic base, especially one ensign whom Crow compares to [[Series/HappyDays Donny Most]], suggesting the below ADateWithRosiePalms. "I've got a mantis in my pantis."

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "I have a feeling this guy is familiar with dishonorable discharge."

-->'''Servo:''' [[WhatAnIdiot Good one, Nelson!]]%%InUniverse

** Gypsy saying "Alright, baby, out! Out-out-out-out!" when she takes the wheel from Mike is actually a reference to TheMovie -- it's exactly what ''Mike'' says to her [[Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie in Segment 2]] when he shoos her off the bridge and takes the helm (and breaks the Hubble).

*** The year in which he ends up is [[{{Music/Rush}} 2112]].

-->'''Mike''': Do you know how to drive?
-->'''Tom''': [[ImmediateSelfContradiction That's exactly what I was wondering!]]

%%* IAteWhat: Crow takes great delight in telling Mike and Servo just what the well-marbled, piquant meat they're eating is: the space monster they ran over that ate most of Crow. %%What was their reaction?

* IAteWhat: Crow takes great delight in telling Mike and Servo just what the well-marbled, piquant meat they're eating is: the space monster they ran over that ate most of Crow.

** [[CallBack Called back]], of all things, in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E08TouchOfSatan Touch of Satan]]'', where Mike, while climbing a ladder, can indeed be clearly seen wearing toeless sandals. Hey, they're comfortable.

* PaperThinDisguise: In the tunnel, Servo suggests the mantis tries to disguise itself as a highway worker but is given away by his giant ovipositor.

* TooDumbToLive: Invoked with Bobo, as he shoots his own toe off within seconds of Pearl handing him a gun. ''Twice''.

'''Servo:''' ''(as the mantis'' "Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini," heh heh...

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: ''One'' thermal nuclear bomb is enough to destroy the whole Earth.

-->'''Crow:''' ''(as the mantis)'' [[NotSoDifferent We're very alike]], you and I, Colonel. Join me. No? You care too much, don't you? ''([[EvilLaugh laughs]])''

-->'''Crow:''' It's certainly a joyous day for any Nelson woman when she meets the ape of her dreams.[[note]]'''Servo:''' I'm hiding my sock monkey, that's for sure.[[/note]]

** The crew reads a letter at the end of the show like in the Comedy Central seasons. Instead of fan-mail, however, they get a letter from Peanut about his new life in Earth's past and even provides a photo for Cambot to put up on stillstore.

** Even though the show no longer reads fan-letters at this point, the classic line "Put that up on stillstore, Cambot," is used to show the photo of Peanut and his new girlfriend Ludmilla.