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[[caption-width-right:323:The story of Aleister Crappie!]]

--> ''"Every time I meet a guy, he's either married, gay, or getting killed by a giant octopus!"''
-->-- '''Tom'''

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--> ''"Every
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[[caption-width-right:323:Our special tonight is ''Devil Fish'', with Satanic string beans and deep Lucifered potatoes!]]

-> '''Mike:''' "Every
time I meet a guy, he's either married, gay, or getting killed by a giant octopus!"''
-->-- '''Tom'''
octopus!"



* Mike comes to a startling revelation that there is a secret government conspiracy that seeks to erase all trace of his existence... then the 'Bots find his missing wallet and everything's fine again.

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* Mike comes to a startling revelation has recently discovered evidence that there is there's a secret government conspiracy that seeks to erase all trace of his existence... then existence, forcing him to go on the run to escape their agents. It turns out that he just lost his wallet, and the 'Bots find his missing wallet and giving it back means that everything's fine again.



* Due to a mix-up in the phone book, people have been calling Castle Forrester for cruise ship reservations. Pearl is glad to take the money, but now she has to fool the two guests who boarded before they "left port" into thinking they're actually on a cruise ship. The SOL crew is assigned ice to make ice {{sculptures}}: Servo makes himself a drink, Crow makes a perfect replica of Creator/{{Michelangelo}}'s ''Art/{{David}}'', and Mike makes a puddle after trying to weld his ice with a blowtorch.

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* Due Mike seems to lose his wallet again and freaks out, only to find it in his shirt pocket. Meanwhile, thanks to a mix-up in the phone book, people have been calling Castle Forrester Forrester's number was put in an ad for cruise ship reservations. Pearl is glad Bobo managed to make 2500 reservations before he told Pearl, but she was all too eager to take the money, money. She ended up leaving 2,498 of the guests "onshore", but she now she has to fool the two guests who actually boarded before they the castle "left port" into thinking that they're actually on a cruise ship. The She has Brain Guy zap a tray of ice cubes to the SOL so the crew is assigned can make sculptures for the buffet table, but Servo uses his ice to make ice {{sculptures}}: Servo makes himself a drink, Crow makes a perfect replica of Creator/{{Michelangelo}}'s ''Art/{{David}}'', gin and tonic, and Mike makes turns his ice into a puddle after trying to weld his ice it with a blowtorch.
blowtorch. Crow, meanwhile, manages to construct a massive replica of [[Creator/{{Michelangelo}} Michelangelo's]] ''Art/{{David}}'' out of only four ice cubes.



* Servo and Crow wonder if dolphins are really as smart as they say, so Mike places a call down to Sea World to ask. Turns out, they are indeed very smart - and they do NOT like being mocked.

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* Taking note of Stella's job as a dolphin trainer, Servo and Crow wonder if dolphins are really as smart as are some of the smartest creatures on Earth, considering that all they say, so do is swim around, eat fish, make clicking/squeaking noises, and perform the occasional trick. Mike places a call down to Sea World to ask. Turns ask Blowie the Dolphin if the claims are true, while the 'Bots continue to mock dolphins everywhere. As it turns out, they dolphins are indeed very smart, smart - and enough to have constructed highly advanced warships, with which they do NOT zap the SOL since they don't like being mocked.
mocked. Their retaliation only ceases when Mike apologizes to Blowie.



* An electrician has come up to install new outlets. They apparently don't like being mocked either, which the crew learns harshly when the dolphins come back.

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* An Pearl has sent an electrician has come named Rick up to the SOL to install new outlets. They apparently Based on Bob's rather derogatory crack at fellow electrician Peter, Mike proceeds to mock him relentlessly. Rick notes that electricians like him have been getting a lot of lip since the film came out, and since they don't like being mocked either, which the crew learns harshly when they formed a mutual defense pact with the dolphins come back.
to look out for one another. As such, with one phone call from Rick, the dolphin warship comes back to zap the SOL some more. They don't leave until Mike apologizes to Rick, and really sugarcoats it in the process.



* Pearl's guests are confused as to why Mike and the Bots keep cutting into the movie, so Pearl adjusts the camera to make them look more Italian. The filter accidentally gets turned up too high and things get very racially insensitive.

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* Pearl's Cambot has been given a new image/sound filter to make the crew look vaguely Italian. Pearl calls to explain that she fitted Cambot with the filter, since her guests are have grown confused as to why Mike and the Bots 'Bots keep cutting into the movie, so movie. When Bobo wants to adjust to another level, he and Pearl adjusts start fighting over the camera to make them look more Italian. The filter control. In the process, the filter accidentally gets turned up too high high, turning the crew into blatantly racial and things get very racially insensitive.
ethnical insensitive stereotypes.



* As Mike and the 'Bots debate ideas for other cross-breed monsters like the Devil Fish, Pearl's "cruise ship" is serving dinner. Things soon get violent.

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* As Mike and the 'Bots debate ideas for other cross-breed monsters like the Devil Fish, Pearl's like a poodle and a fly, or a snail and a parrot. On the "cruise ship" ship", Brain Guy plays [[Series/TheLoveBoat Isaac the bartender]] while Pearl has dinner (cold cereal) served, barely being able to keep things together. Bobo, acting as the captain, is serving dinner. Things soon too busy eating to hear the couple asking when they'll be allowed on-deck, so Pearl hits him to get violent.
his attention. Bobo promptly goes nuts and starts throwing his dinner everywhere, forcing Pearl to tranquilize him multiple times.






* OverlyLongGag: Crow and Servo laugh over the entire end credits; you get tired of it after a bit but it loops back around to being funny again.
* TheRedStapler: Parodied -- supposedly the film was so widely seen that its dopey electrician character created a negative stereotype of electricians. Rick the electrician, sent up to repair the SOL during Segment Three, mentions that guys like him have been getting a hard time from people ever since ''Devil Fish'' came out. Mike proves their point by insulting him -- until Rick reveals that the electricians have [[BrickJoke formed an alliance]] with the dolphins for protection, forcing Mike to apologize as the ship comes under attack by the dolphins yet again.%%InUniverse

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* OverlyLongGag: Crow and Servo laugh over the film's entire end credits; you get tired of it after a bit but it loops back around to being funny again.
* TheRedStapler: Parodied -- supposedly the film was so widely seen that its dopey electrician character created a negative stereotype of electricians. Rick the electrician, sent up to repair the SOL during Segment Three, mentions that guys like him have been getting a hard time from people ever since ''Devil Fish'' came out. Mike proves their point by insulting him -- until Rick reveals that the electricians have [[BrickJoke formed an alliance]] with the dolphins for protection, forcing Mike to apologize as the ship comes under attack by the dolphins yet again.%%InUniverse
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** [[VideoGame/PaRappaTheRapper "Kick, Punch, it's all in the mind."]]

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mike tries to make an ice sculpture by ''welding'' ice cubes together, and winds up with a puddle instead.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mike tries to make an ice sculpture by ''welding'' is also given four ice cubes together, and winds up with which to make a puddle instead.sculpture.
-->'''Mike:''' I, uh, I tried to weld mine, and, uh, [''gestures to small puddle''].
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* OverlyLongGag: Crow and Servo laugh over the entire end credits; you get tired of it after a bit but it loops back around to being funny again.
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!!The ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation has examples of:

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!!The ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' presentation of ''Film/DevilFish'' has examples of:

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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: A tiny one, but when the sheriff declares the lab assistant's death a murder rather than a suicide, Mike and the Bots joke about it as if he decided it on a whim. However, the scene where the cops investigate the crime scene and point out some good reasons why it's probably staged as a suicide, along with the murder and coverup scene, featured a lot of female nudity and apparently had to be cut from the episode.

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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: AdaptationInducedPlotHole:
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A tiny one, but when the sheriff declares the lab assistant's death a murder rather than a suicide, Mike and the Bots joke about it as if he decided it on a whim. However, the scene where the cops investigate the crime scene and point out some good reasons why it's probably staged as a suicide, along with the murder and coverup scene, featured a lot of female nudity and apparently had to be cut from the episode.
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** As the victim who looks like Rob Reiner is groaning in pain, Crow whispers, "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E16PrinceOfSpace Macken]]."

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** As the victim who looks like Rob Reiner is groaning in pain, Crow whispers, "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E16PrinceOfSpace "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E16PrinceOfSpace Macken]]."
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* BriefAccentImitation: At one point, Bob says "I knoooow!" (which was also used as the stinger). But he says it differently than the rest of his lines in the movie. Tom observes: "Was this guy dubbed by [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} J. Peterman?"]]

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* BriefAccentImitation: At one point, Bob says "I knoooow!" (which was also used as the stinger). But he says it differently than the rest of his lines in the movie. Tom observes: "Was this guy dubbed by [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} [[Creator/JohnOHurley J. Peterman?"]]Peterman]]?"
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* NoodleIncident: One has to wonder how exactly Pearl "left port" and stranded all the other guests who'd booked a cruise with them. She shuts down the question quickly and decisively.
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--> ''"As usual, there's noodles in Bob's throw-up."''
-->-- '''Crow'''

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--> ''"As usual, there's noodles in Bob's throw-up."''
''"Every time I meet a guy, he's either married, gay, or getting killed by a giant octopus!"''
-->-- '''Crow'''
'''Tom'''
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* WithLyrics: At one point, Tom croons "Devil Fish in looooooooove" along with a particularly moody piece of soundtrack music.
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%% * 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.

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It is available to stream [[http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/mystery-science-theater-3000/mst3k-devil-fish/55ad6c3369702d04de3e5002 here]].

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It The episode is available to stream [[http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/mystery-science-theater-3000/mst3k-devil-fish/55ad6c3369702d04de3e5002 in the Gizmoplex [[https://www.gizmoplex.com/mst3k/season:9/videos/mst3k-182-devilfish here]].
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* Due to a mix-up in the phone book, people have been calling Castle Forrester for cruise ship reservations. Pearl is glad to take the money, but now she has to fool the two guests who boarded before they "left port" into thinking they're actually on a cruise ship. The SOL crew is assigned ice to make ice sculptures: Servo makes himself a drink, Crow makes a perfect replica of Michelangelo's David, and Mike makes a puddle after trying to weld his ice with a blowtorch.

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* Due to a mix-up in the phone book, people have been calling Castle Forrester for cruise ship reservations. Pearl is glad to take the money, but now she has to fool the two guests who boarded before they "left port" into thinking they're actually on a cruise ship. The SOL crew is assigned ice to make ice sculptures: {{sculptures}}: Servo makes himself a drink, Crow makes a perfect replica of Michelangelo's David, Creator/{{Michelangelo}}'s ''Art/{{David}}'', and Mike makes a puddle after trying to weld his ice with a blowtorch.

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* BeyondTheImpossible: Using just four or five ice cubes, Crow somehow sculpts an exact replica of Michaelangelo's ''Art/{{David}}'', only ''larger than the original''. Naturally, most of it is off-screen, [[TakeOurWordForIt so we have to take everyone's word on how impressive it is]].

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* BeyondTheImpossible: Using just four or five ice cubes, Crow somehow sculpts an exact replica of Michaelangelo's ''Art/{{David}}'', only and ''larger than the original''.original'' to boot. Naturally, most of it is off-screen, [[TakeOurWordForIt so we have to take everyone's word on how impressive it is]].
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Using just four or five ice cubes, Crow somehow sculpts an exact replica of Michaelangelo's ''Art/{{David}}'', only ''larger than the original''. Naturally, most of it is off-screen, [[TakeOurWordForIt so we have to take everyone's word on how impressive it is]].

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mike tries to make an ice sculpture by ''welding'' ice cubes together, and winds up with a puddle instead.




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* WithThisHerring: To help pass off Castle Forrester as a cruise ship, Pearl asks Mike and the bots to make her some ice sculptures. To accomplish this, she gives them a single tray of drink-sized ice cubes.
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** [[Series/FawltyTowers "Yes dear. I'm doing it, dear."]]
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* Pearl's guests are confused as to why Mike and the Bots keep cutting into the movie, so Pearl adjusts the camera to make them look more Italian.

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* Pearl's guests are confused as to why Mike and the Bots keep cutting into the movie, so Pearl adjusts the camera to make them look more Italian.
Italian. The filter accidentally gets turned up too high and things get very racially insensitive.
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--> ''"As usual, there's noodles in Bob's throw-up."''
-->-- '''Crow'''
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* LamePunReaction: Servo jokes about the Devilfish having "[[UpToEleven eleventacles]]." Mike groans audibly. He also groans at Servo's "We're experiencing ''tentacle'' difficulties!".

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* LamePunReaction: Servo jokes about the Devilfish having "[[UpToEleven eleventacles]]."eleventacles." Mike groans audibly. He also groans at Servo's "We're experiencing ''tentacle'' difficulties!".
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* CelebrityResemblance: The crew notes Miller's resemblance to Music/LouReed.
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'''Servo:''' ''(as the Devil Fish)'' "I'm a recovering alcoholic. I can't eat that guy."

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'''Servo:''' ''(as the Devil Fish)'' "I'm a recovering alcoholic. I can't eat that guy.""\\
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** The editing of the uncut version is a lot less incoherent and random than the [=MST=] version. The Brains used an international video print of the film that was significantly reedited from the original, leading to a lot of bizarre and unmotivated cuts and transitions between scenes.
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'''Servo:''' "Say goodbye to the beer for me!"
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* SelfDeprecation: According to Pearl, the guests were fine with the movie segments, but they were confused by the breaks caused by the host segments (aka "Whatever it is you do up there").


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* TakeThat: "Still a better edited movie than ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''."
* TimmyInAWell: How Cambot alerts Mike and the 'bots to the Italian filter.
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* Mike comes to a startling revelation that there is a secret government conspiracy that seeks to erase all trace of his existence... his wallet has gone missing.

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* Mike comes to a startling revelation that there is a secret government conspiracy that seeks to erase all trace of his existence... then the 'Bots find his missing wallet has gone missing.
and everything's fine again.



* Tom Servo and Crow wonder if dolphins are really as smart as they say, so Mike places a call down to Sea World to ask. Turns out, they are indeed very smart - and they do NOT like being mocked.

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* Tom Servo and Crow wonder if dolphins are really as smart as they say, so Mike places a call down to Sea World to ask. Turns out, they are indeed very smart - and they do NOT like being mocked.



* An electrician has come up to install new outlets. They apparently don't like being mocked either.

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* An electrician has come up to install new outlets. They apparently don't like being mocked either.
either, which the crew learns harshly when the dolphins come back.



* As Mike and the Bots debate ideas for other cross-breed monsters like the Devil Fish, Pearl's "cruise ship" is serving dinner. Things soon get violent.

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* As Mike and the Bots 'Bots debate ideas for other cross-breed monsters like the Devil Fish, Pearl's "cruise ship" is serving dinner. Things soon get violent.
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* Mike finds his wallet and everything's fine again. Down below, Pearl has turned Castle Forrester into a fake cruise ship and is trying to entertain the two guests that managed to board.

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* Mike finds his wallet and everything's fine again. Down below, Pearl has turned Due to a mix-up in the phone book, people have been calling Castle Forrester into a fake for cruise ship and reservations. Pearl is trying glad to entertain take the money, but now she has to fool the two guests that managed who boarded before they "left port" into thinking they're actually on a cruise ship. The SOL crew is assigned ice to board.
make ice sculptures: Servo makes himself a drink, Crow makes a perfect replica of Michelangelo's David, and Mike makes a puddle after trying to weld his ice with a blowtorch.
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* BigStore: After accidentally getting their phone number into a cruise line ad and Bobo taking 2,500 reservations, Pearl converts the castle into a very fake-looking ocean liner to scam the two early-arrival guests. (She also mentions that she sailed the castle out of port before the rest of the passengers could board, [[InsaneTrollLogic to which Mike and the 'Bots respond with nervous, uncomprehending laughter]].)

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