History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E02CryWilderness

** "[[Music/{{Survivor}} It's the eye of the me-ee]], [[Film/RockyIII it's the thrill of the me.]]"

** As noted by the guys, after Morgan is [[EyeScream blinded]] by a hawk and stumbles away, he just sort of disappears. In fact, he disappears so quickly, the riffers speculate that Morgan fell into the lake and dissolved on contact with the water.

* EightDeadlyWords: [[invoked]]
-->'''Jonah:''' Now there's a cougar, and I have stopped caring what happens to Paul, completely.

* WorstWhateverEver: They call Jim's huge, green backpack the "Worst Ninja Turtle cosplay I've ever seen."

* YouMakeMeSic:
-->'''Paul:''' Murderer. You and Jim are killing my father.\\
'''Servo:''' ''(as Helen)'' Jim and ''I''.

* Time for the invention exchange. Jonah invents a Thanksgiving musical tradition, by inserting a theremin into a roast turkey. Kinga "invents" the Carvel Ice Cream Cake Clock, rotating the Fudgie The Whale cake pan to make new designs, like Laundry Bag and Lamprey.[[note]]Based on the various Carvel Ice Cream jokes in ''Reptilicus''.[[/note]]

* UnfortunateImplications:

* DesignatedHero: The guys constantly point out how Paul does nothing but cause problems for everyone.

** Upon first seeing Bigfoot, Crow identifies him as ''Homo erectus [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Galifianakis galifianakis]]''. "Paul, come back! I just want you to [[Podcast/BetweenTwoFernsWithZachGalifianakis be on my podcast]]!"

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: When it's revealed, with absolutely no foreshadowing, that Paul's dad was hunting a ''tiger'' and not Bigfoot, Max notes in one of the bumpers that the movie was basically lying to us about being a monster movie.
-->'''Crow:''' ''(as the tiger)'' I'm as surprised I'm in this movie as you are, folks.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jonah is making a red spacesuit and offhandedly mentions how he's always wanted to take a spacewalk, quietly setting up the mystery astronaut (in a red spacesuit) in the credits for [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E14AttheEarthsCore the final episode of the season]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jonah is making a red spacesuit and offhandedly mentions how he's always wanted to take a spacewalk, quietly setting up the "mystery" astronaut (in a red spacesuit) in the credits for [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E14AttheEarthsCore the final episode of the season]].

During Turkey Day '18, both Creator/JoelHodgson and Jonah Ray expressed surprise at how popular ''Cry Wilderness'' was with the fandom, with Joel suggesting that ''Carnival Magic'' would be the fan favorite.

** "Come on, Paul. Humans don't belong on the Film/PlanetOfTheApes."

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Mocked when the 'Bots dress up as raccoons in Segment 2. (They're really more like {{Screwy Squirrel}}s.)

'''Jonah:''' ''(as tiger)'' Ohhhh, [[Disney/WinnieThePooh the wonderful thing about Tiggers]] is ''nothing''. We're ''tigers''. We maul things.

** [[Disney/SnowWhite "Hi ho! Hi ho! It's off to hunt we go!"]]

* CastTheExpert / WriteWhoYouKnow: [[invoked]] Jonah and the bots spend a whole host segment speculating about ''how'' this movie came into existence. They conclude that the actor who portrayed the Mayor needed a movie made, so he called on everyone he knew to portray fictionalized versions of themselves.

During Turkey Day '18, both Joel Hodgson and Jonah Ray expressed surprise at how popular ''Cry Wilderness'' was with the fandom, with Joel suggesting that ''Carnival Magic'' would be the fan favorite.

* MythologyGag: Jonah and the Bots attempts to manipulate Max into giving up the keys to Jonah's spaceship, just like when Joel and the Bots attempted to escape by manipulating Frank way back in "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E01RocketshipXM Rocketship X-M]]".

'''Servo:''' He hasn't come back from buying cigarettes yet...

-->'''Servo:''' ''(pretending to be Red Hawk)'' To be strong as a hawk, one must be generous as a magpie. [[NWordPrivileges I've got a lot]] of [SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX magpie friends...]]

* DissonantLaughter: The movie basically has an EverybodyLaughsEnding at the end of the first act, when Paul (somehow) finds his dad in the middle of the woods. It becomes a RunningGag, especially with outmoded Native American sidekick Jim, "our crown prince of fun!" Segment 3 hypothesizes that they've all been diagnosed with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudobulbar_affect the pseudobulbar effect]].

-->'''Bobo:''' So, they always keep a useful moron around to pin the blame on! ''[laughs]''\\

* FallGuy:
-->'''Observer:''' Off the record, [Forresters] never see anything through to completion! ''[laughs]''\\
'''Bobo:''' So, they always keep a useful moron around to pin the blame on! ''[laughs]''\\

* UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}}: Referenced. When "Visto International" appears in the opening credits, the riffers wonder if that's the name of the production company or the font used for the credits.

-->'''Servo:''' ''(pretending to be Red Hawk)'' To be strong as a hawk, one must be generous as a magpie. I've got a lot of magpie friends...

-->'''Crow:''' Come here, you little disease vector.\\

*** "Paul? [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E04Werewolf I loved your letter to the Corinthians.]]"

* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX:
-->'''Tom:''' ''[as Red Crow]'' [[IceCreamKoan To be strong as a hawk, one must be generous as a magpie...]] I've got [[NWordPrivileges a lot of magpie friends]]...

-->'''Jonah:''' ''(as Paul)'' Uhhhhh I made that! Last summer when I was carrying my transistor radio and a can of Coke! Yeah, that's the ticket, yeah!

-->'''Pearl:''' Oh! Right! We just, uh, wanted to... check in on you.\\

** "Paul? [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E04Werewolf I loved your letter to the Corinthians.]]"

''[Observer smiles and points at Bobo.]''

-->'''Crow:''' Step aside, Paul. Let the poorly dubbed adults handle this.\\
...\\
'''Red Hawk:''' Grownups don't believe in anything... but themselves.\\

-->'''Crow:''' Yeah, let's table this for now.\\

-->'''Jonah:''' I accept a photo of a chainsaw sculpture as scientific ''proof!''

** Crow speculates that Will and Jim have pseudobulbar affect.
-->'''Servo:''' The neurological disorder causing bouts of unprompted, uncontrollable laughter!\\
''[everyone laughs]''

-->'''Crow:''' Come here, you little disease vector.
-->'''Jonah:''' ''(as tiger)'' Ohhhh, [[Disney/WinnieThePooh the wonderful thing about Tiggers]] is ''nothing''. We're ''tigers''. We maul things.

...\\

** Jim's apparently uncontrollable jovial laughter.

** [[Series/TheHoneymooners "One of these days, bang! Zoom!"]]

* SpecialEffectFailure: [[invoked]]

-->'''Servo:''' Let's just assume it's Bigfoot, even though we can't see his face. They probably rented the suit for a week, but could only afford the mask for a day.

-->'''Crow:''' Hey! Dad's allergic to styrofoam! I gotta save him!

-->'''Observer:''' Oh, don't be sad, Kinga. Emotions are for lower lifeforms, like dogs and ''[points at Bobo]'' this guy.

** Upon first seeing Bigfoot, Crow identifies him as ''Homo erectus [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Galifianakis galifianakis]]''.

* TechnologyMarchesOn
** Remember radio? Crow doesn't, despite he and Servo [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E03TheDeadTalkBack having had their own call-in show]] at one point.
--->'''Crow:''' Hey Jonah, what's a radio?\\
'''Jonah:''' It's like a podcast you can't control.
** Remember encyclopedias? Remember [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta Encarta]]? Neither do the bots, despite having ruthlessly mocked both (and preemptively predicted the rise of [[Wiki/TheOtherWiki Wikipedia]]) in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E20SpaceMutiny Space Mutiny]]''.
--->'''Crow:''' Ah yes, Wikipedia the print edition, at last.

-->'''Jonah:''' Hey. Okay...
-->'''Servo:''' Uh...
-->'''Crow:''' The ''hell...?''

-->'''Crow:''' Hey, Jonah, what's a radio?\\

* LiteralMinded:

** This episode begins a trend of Kinga taking her invention exchange from a riff on the previous movie.

* VisibleBoomMic: Worse. In the scene where Jim wrestles the bear, one of the cameras creeps into the right side of the shot for a few seconds. Jonah and the bots turn to look at it, apparently so stunned that they can only say, "Okay..."