History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S12E04TheDayTimeEnded

Film watched: ''Film/TheDayTimeEnded'' (1979)

An ordinary [[Film/TheMusicMan movie man]]\\

-->'''Grant:''' Foot don't fail me now! ...No, right foot. No, that's my hands! Oh, now we're exiting -- hands, put on the signal... Left hand! Put on the -- guys, we gotta start working together here!

** [[Music/{{Madness}} "Don't watch that! Watch this! ''One Step Beyond!''"]]

* VisibleOdor: Spray-On Mustard Gas leaves a lingering, sickly yellow cloud!

* FriendlessBackground: Inverted -- Jonah's Fortune Meal predicts many a lonely future night in watching, ironically, ''Series/{{Friends}}'':

-->'''Max:''' Has this happened to you? I want to add condiments to my [[CallBack TV's Son of TV's Frank]]furter, but this bottle applies the mustard unevenly to [[SuddenlyShouting my TUBEMEAT!!]]

'''Tom:'''So the word\\

an ordinary [[Film/TheMusicMan movie man]]\\

* GoodOlBoy: Grandpa Grant is a textbook case. Jonah and the bots morph into "rugged men of a certain age that still have that virile look in their eyes" and grill up a [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Flintstones-sized]] steak in the second host segment. Subverted in that they keep slipping in hints of vulnerability.

* NotableOriginalMusic: Tom Servo’s PatterSong, Concepts, which is one of the standout host segments of the season.

-->'''Grant:''' I find the extremities respond best to positive reinforcement.
* PatterSong: Tom Servo's "Concepts" song. Of course, it's to the tune of "Ya Got Trouble", from ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'', one of the most well-known American patter songs.

** [[Music/{{Madness}} "Don't watch that! Watch this! One Step Beyond!"]]

->''[[TheStinger A tiny green imp appears in front of Jenny, who smiles in delight.]]''

** Tom has one of the characters names one of the horses [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Applejack]].

** "[[Film/TheMusicMan Professor Harold Servo]]" name-drops Syd Field and Robert [=McKee=], two (unconnected) screenwriters/script doctors, best known for teaching seminars on storytelling, and in particular for propagating the idea of the ThreeActStructure across Hollywood and beyond.

** "[[Film/TheMusicMan Professor Harold Servo]" name-drops Syd Field and Robert [=McKee=], two (unconnected) screenwriters/script doctors, best known for teaching seminars on storytelling, and in particular for propagating the idea of the ThreeActStructure across Hollywood and beyond.

** When the tiny alien alights on Jenny's bedpost in the middle of the night:

** To ''Series/KnightRider'':
--->'''Jonah:''' ''[as KITT]'' Michael, why am I a Subaru now?
** To the Athenian philosopher of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes Diogenes the Cynic]], a contemporary and critic of Creator/{{Plato}}, when a gas station attendant walks out holding a lantern in the middle of the night, claiming to be looking for an honest man. Diogenes, who said the same thing while carrying a lantern throughout Athens by daylight, always said he never found one. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] ({{Pun}} intended) as "a Diogenes reference I'm dropping" by Crow.

** Tom has one of the characters' name one of the horses [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Applejack]].

->''[[TheStinger A tiny alien appears in front of Jenny, who smiles in delight.]]''

* CallBack: When the tiny alien alights on Jenny's bedpost in the middle of the night:

** On various long shots on the house, which looks vaguely like a church from a distance:

** The elderly main character Grant is a frequent target for Jonah and the Bots, citing his love for steak (and later, "steak milk") and his tendency to blame "bikers" for everything that goes wrong.
** Every time the younger husband tries to call emergency services, Jonah and the bots have him accidentally call Sal's Pizzaria instead. And then the character becomes obsessed with getting a pizza.

** In the first host segment, Jonah brews up some coffee inside Servo’s head, giving him a major caffeine rush. Tom Servo announces “[[Series/SavedByTheBell I’m so excited! I’m so excited! I’m so... scared!]]”

* ShoutOut: When the small alien appears in Grant and Ana's room, Jonah says, "[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Well, howdy-ho!]]"

[[caption-width-right:350:''The Day Time Ended'', The [[Music/PrincesAssociates Morris Day]] Story!]]

* RunningGag: The elderly main character Grant is a frequent target for Jonah and the Bots, citing his love for steak and his tendency to blame "bikers" for everything that goes wrong.

* FamousLastWords: The Fortune Watermelon contains a four-volume book elaborating on Jonah's entire life. Jonah skips to the end, to see what his last words will be. [[spoiler:Allegedly, he'll tag the person next to him and say "You're it," just before he goes.]]

* TheBusCameBack: Dr. Erhardt returns after his long absence, though J. Elvis Weinstein himself ruined the surprise on Twitter the very day the season was released.

* Just like Grandpa Grant, Jonah and the Bots are enjoying some steak-grilling and idle chatter about how they want to die... and then bikers show up to wreck the fun.

* Script-doctor Harold Servo helps Jonah and Crow write ''The Day Time Ended''... by introducing them to Concepts! Who needs a coherent plot or logical characters when you have Concepts?

* Kinga and Max are visited by the last person anybody ever expected to see again... Dr. Forrester's original assistant Dr. Erhardt. He's been traveling the cosmos on a journey of self-discovery and he's come back to honor his old boss's last request. To that end, he needs Kinga to help out a bit.

* MissingMom: Kinga's mother is revealed by Erhardt to be... [[Creator/KimCattrall Kim Cattrall]].

* RandomEventsPlot: In the third host segment, Tom explains to the tune of "Trouble" from ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'' how the movie is just a bunch of random ideas thrown together with no rhyme or reason, which never lead to any kind of point. This comes right after the appearance of the monster aliens finally makes them snap in the theater.

* Jonah continues his work on Kinga's movie vault while Tom and Crow are busy snatching up various odds and ends. Max's suspicions that Jonah may be planning something are quickly eased.

* LastRequest: Before his death, Dr. Forrester had asked that his ashes (and by extension TV's Frank's, whose ashes got mixed in with his) be scattered through space to the song "Idiot Control Now" from ''Pod People''. Erhardt has the ashes, which he liberated from a dresser drawer in Gizmonic Institute two episodes ago, but he needs Kinga to provide the song as she has all of Dr. F's old experiments stored away.
* MissingMom: Kinga's mother is revealed by Erhardt to be... Kim Cattrall.
* RandomEventsPlot: A host segment explains to the tune of "Trouble" from ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'' how the movie is just a bunch of random ideas thrown together with no rhyme or reason, which never lead to any kind of point. This comes right after the appearance of the monster aliens finally makes them snap in the theater.

* TheBusCameBack: Dr. Erhardt returns after his long absence. Unfortunately, J. Elvis Weinstein himself ruined the surprise on Twitter the very day the season was released.

* TheBusCameBack: Dr. Erhardt returns after his long absence.

* RandomEventsPlot: A host segment explains to the tune of "Trouble" from ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'' how the movie is just a bunch of random ideas thrown together with no rhyme or reason, which never lead to any kind of point.

* LastRequest: Before his death, Dr. Forrester had asked that his ashes (and TV's Frank, whose ashes got mixed in with his) be scattered through space to the song "Idiot Control Now" from ''Pod People''. Erhardt has the ashes, which he liberated from a dresser drawer in Gizmonic Institute two episodes ago, but he needs Kinga to provide the song as she has all of Dr. F's old experiments stored away.