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** In real life, Mike Nelson accidentally called this episode ''A Touch of Satan'' instead of ''The Touch of Satan'' in the episode intro on the DVD.
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!!The ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation has examples of:

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* RefugeInAudacity: Making fun of the elderly is taken to the same extent in this episode as mocking Joe Don Baker for being fat is in ''FinalJustice''.

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* RefugeInAudacity: Making fun of the elderly is taken to the same extent in this episode as mocking Joe Don Baker for being fat is in ''FinalJustice''.''Film/FinalJustice''.
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* TakeThat: When Melissa's grandma-sister Lucinda sits in front of her mirror, an annoyed Crow complains that now "[[Film/{{Titanic}} a withered old Billy Zane is going to come out and give her a withered old]] ''[[Film/{{Titanic}} Coeur De La Mer]]''".

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* TakeThat: When Melissa's grandma-sister Lucinda sits in front of her mirror, an annoyed Crow complains that now "[[Film/{{Titanic}} "[[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} a withered old Billy Zane is going to come out and give her a withered old]] ''[[Film/{{Titanic}} ''[[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} Coeur De La Mer]]''".
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--> '''Crow''': Mike, what were you guys ''doing'' there in the 70s, making witch movies, inhaling huge clouds of marijuana, big ugly flared pants on...

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--> '''Crow''': Mike, what were you guys ''doing'' there in the 70s, making witch movies, inhaling huge clouds of marijuana, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking big ugly flared pants on...on]]...

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The Lucinda thing was played for laughs - they were fully aware she was a murderous witch.


* AccidentalMisnaming: Steffi keeps calling Brain Guy "Brian."

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* AccidentalMisnaming: AccidentalMisnaming:
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Steffi keeps calling Brain Guy "Brian."" She also calls Crow "Cow".



** Don't forget Cow.



* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Mike and the bots think that Lucinda killing a cop was accidental. [[invoked]]
** According to Brain Guy, Sam I Am from ''Green Eggs and Ham'' is a {{Jerkass}} trying to force others to like what he likes.

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Mike and the bots think that Lucinda killing a cop was accidental. [[invoked]]
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Invoked. According to Brain Guy, Sam I Am from ''Green Eggs and Ham'' is a {{Jerkass}} trying to force others to like what he likes.



* DumbBlonde: Steffi, [[WeirdnessCensor who somehow fails to notice anything unusual about a talking gorilla and an "omnipotent" alien who carries his own brain around in a bowl.]] [[BabysitterFromHell On the other hand, she's]] ''[[BabysitterFromHell very]]'' [[BabysitterFromHell good at browbeating them into submission.]]

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* DumbBlonde: Steffi, [[WeirdnessCensor who somehow fails to notice anything unusual unusual]] about a talking gorilla (she seems to be under the impression he's a dog) and an "omnipotent" alien who carries his own brain around in a bowl.]] bowl. [[BabysitterFromHell On the other hand, she's]] ''[[BabysitterFromHell very]]'' [[BabysitterFromHell good at browbeating them into submission.]]



-->'''Mike:''' Yep, pretty much a shut-out for Satan.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: when describing Luther's recipe for hard cider.

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-->'''Mike:''' Yep, pretty much a shut-out for Satan.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: when When describing Luther's recipe for hard cider.
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[[TheStinger "This is where the fish lives."]]

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\n[[TheStinger ->[[TheStinger "This is where the fish lives."]]"]]
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* DealWithTheDevil: Subverted. Crow attempted to sell his soul to Satan for unworldly power, but he accidentally sold it to someone named Stan instead. Stan proceeded to sell it to the city, meaning that Crow is gonna have to go through a lot of annoying paperwork and phone calls to get it back.

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* DealWithTheDevil: Subverted. Crow attempted to sell his soul to Satan for unworldly power, but he accidentally sold it to someone named Stan instead. Stan proceeded to sell it to the city, Citigroup, meaning that Crow is gonna have to go through a lot of annoying paperwork and phone calls to get it back.



* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: when describing the moonshine.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: when describing the moonshine.Luther's recipe for hard cider.
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** Some demonic characters from TheScrewtapeLetters are referenced during the opening credits.

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** Some demonic characters from TheScrewtapeLetters ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'' are referenced during the opening credits.

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Mike and the bots think that Lucinda killing a cop was accidental. [[invoked]]
** According to Brain Guy, Sam I Am from ''Green Eggs and Ham'' is a {{Jerkass}} trying to force others to like what he likes.



* DealWithTheDevil: Subverted. Crow attempted to sell his soul to Satan for unworldly power, but he accidentally sold it to someone named Stan instead.

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* DealWithTheDevil: Subverted. Crow attempted to sell his soul to Satan for unworldly power, but he accidentally sold it to someone named Stan instead. Stan proceeded to sell it to the city, meaning that Crow is gonna have to go through a lot of annoying paperwork and phone calls to get it back.


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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Called out. Selling your soul to the devil will solve all your problems kids! [[invoked]]
-->'''Mike:''' Yep, pretty much a shut-out for Satan.


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* ManChild: Brain Guy becomes this due to Steffi's browbeating. At the end of the show he goes to bed but only after making sure to get his blankey, pacifier, and teddy bear.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Subverted. Crow attempted to sell his soul to Satan for unworldly power, but he accidentally sold it to someone named Stan instead.
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* HereWeGoAgain: Towards the end of the movie, footage very similar to the beginning appears, prompting Mike and the bots to lament that the movie's starting all over again.
--> '''Mike''': We're back at the beginning! This film is a Möbius strip!
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** Crow suggesting Secret Santa gifts for Mike to get the family in the movie.
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* CallBack: During the opening credits, Mike puts Crow on "Clu Gulager alert", referencing the ''San Francisco International'' episode.
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* NumberOfTheBeast: A joke that Melissa deliberately arranges her purchases at the market so she gets $6.66 in change.
** Near the end of the movie:
-->'''Mike (As Jodie)''': Hey, the odometer's all 6's!


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** "This is where the fish lives."

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* WithLyrics: To AmazingFreakingGrace no less: "This song is in / The public domain / That's why we used it twice~"

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* RunningGag: Jokes about Walnuts, pauses and Jodie's Maverick. And rednecks.

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* RunningGag: Jokes about Walnuts, walnuts, pauses and Jodie's Maverick. And rednecks.rednecks.
** "Stop it!"
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** Don't forget Cow.

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My Name Is Not Durwood has been split. Bad examples and those not fitting other tropes are being removed.


* AccidentalMisnaming: Steffi keeps calling Brain Guy "Brian."
-->"My name is not Brian! It's Brain! Brain Guy! Observer! Oh, forget it."



* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Steffi keeps calling Brain Guy "Brian."
-->"My name is not Brian! It's Brain! Brain Guy! Observer! Oh, forget it."
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: when describing the moonshine.
-->'''Crow:''' "Boy, I hope he said peanuts."
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* PoliceAreUseless: As Lucinda is killing the cop:
-->'''Crow:''' "Where's my bike?! I reported it stolen 80 years ago!"

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-->'''Servo:''' What, what?
'''Servo:''' I suppose you're gonna blame this on me?\\

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-->'''Servo:''' What, what?
'''Servo:'''
I suppose you're gonna blame this on me?\\
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-->'''Servo:''' I suppose you're gonna blame this on me?\\

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-->'''Servo:''' What, what?
'''Servo:'''
I suppose you're gonna blame this on me?\\
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* TheSeventies: It's very much a 70s movie, so there are many, but one blatant reference:
--> '''Crow''': Mike, what were you guys ''doing'' there in the 70s, making witch movies, inhaling huge clouds of marijuana, big ugly flared pants on...
--> '''Mike''': Well, we had to do ''something''.


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** To Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus, when the character Melissa shows a new friend her shed:
---> '''Crow''': If she had another one of those, she could be Melissa Two-Sheds Strickland.
---> (later, when the shed is burning down)
---> '''Crow''': Aw, now she's Melissa No-Sheds Strickland.

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* AccidentalMurder: Lucinda killing the cop is made to be this.
-->'''Servo:''' I suppose you're gonna blame this on me?\\
'''Crow:''' I meant to ask him in for pie. I don't know what happened.



* HypocriticalHumor: Bobo resents being treated like a pet, only to then get yelled at for chewing up Steffi's shoe.



* UnfortunateNames
-->'''Servo''': Emby Mellay? That's not a name, it's a bad Scrabble hand.

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* UnfortunateNames
-->'''Servo''': Emby Mellay? That's
MyNameIsNotDurwood: Steffi keeps calling Brain Guy "Brian."
-->"My name is
not a name, it's a bad Scrabble hand.Brian! It's Brain! Brain Guy! Observer! Oh, forget it."


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* UnfortunateNames
-->'''Servo''': Emby Mellay? That's not a name, it's a bad Scrabble hand.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Bobo may be a talking ape, but Steffi's more focused on him chewing up her shoe... again.
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[[TheStinger "This is where the fish lives."]]
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** Some demonic characters from TheScrewtapeLetters are referenced during the opening credits.
--->'''Crow''': "With Screwtape on kettledrum, Wormwood on harpsichord."
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* ShoutOut: When Lucinda kills the police officer, there's a joke about calling [[Film/PulpFiction Harvey Keitel]] in to "fix" things.
** When Melissa talks Jodie into staying at the farm after aforementioned murder:
--->'''Melissa:''' Then stay. Just ''one more day''.\\
'''Mike:''' Oh, you mean '''''[[Film/TheUndead STAY!!!]]'''''
* TakeThat: When Melissa's grandma-sister Lucinda sits in front of her mirror, an annoyed Crow complains that now "[[Film/{{Titanic}} a withered old Billy Zane is going to come out and give her a withered old]] ''[[Film/{{Titanic}} Coeur De La Mer]]''".
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Film watched: ''Film/TouchOfSatan]]

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Film watched: ''Film/TouchOfSatan]]
''Film/TouchOfSatan''



* AmasingFreakingGrace: "Public domain, we don't have to pay anyone! Hahahaha!"

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* AmasingFreakingGrace: AmazingFreakingGrace: "Public domain, we don't have to pay anyone! Hahahaha!"
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[[caption-width-right:314:Softens your hands while you do the dishes]]

Film watched: ''Film/TouchOfSatan]]

!!The ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation has examples of:

* AmasingFreakingGrace: "Public domain, we don't have to pay anyone! Hahahaha!"
-->'''Crow:''' You can't use Amazing Grace in a devil movie!
* AwesomeMcCoolname
-->'''Jody''': Who are you?
-->'''Mike''': My name is Margret Rawhide Chew.
* BrickJoke: Near the beginning, when Jodie first goes to the pond where he meets Melissa, Crow says "Now the credits are going to unspool backwards, right?" Guess what happens in the movie's end credits?
* DownerEnding: In the film.
-->'''Tom:''' So in the end, Satan wins, I guess?
-->'''Mike:''' Yep, pretty much a shut-out for Satan.
* DumbBlonde: Steffi, [[WeirdnessCensor who somehow fails to notice anything unusual about a talking gorilla and an "omnipotent" alien who carries his own brain around in a bowl.]] [[BabysitterFromHell On the other hand, she's]] ''[[BabysitterFromHell very]]'' [[BabysitterFromHell good at browbeating them into submission.]]
* {{Malaproper}}: Referenced in the film.
-->'''Servo''': Is that right? Maybe I should check my ''dictionotomy''.
* MistakenIdentity: Crow accidentally sells his soul to a guy named ''Stan''.
* UnfortunateNames
-->'''Servo''': Emby Mellay? That's not a name, it's a bad Scrabble hand.
* ProductPlacement: In the film.
-->'''Crow:''' Why do I suddenly feel hungry for '''''Carnation Ice Cream?'''''
* RefugeInAudacity: Making fun of the elderly is taken to the same extent in this episode as mocking Joe Don Baker for being fat is in ''FinalJustice''.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Servo's killer Grandma.
* RunningGag: Jokes about Walnuts, pauses and Jodie's Maverick. And rednecks.
* TemporarySubstitute: Steffi the babysitter.
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