History Recap / MysteryScienceTheater3000S12E04TheDayTimeEnded

* NotableOriginalMusic: Tom Servo’s PatterSong, "Concepts!", which is one of the standout host segments of the season, and, incidentally, pretty perfect for this wiki.
-->''[MinskyPickup]''\\
'''Tom:''' So the word\\
On the street\\
Is you got a little movie\\
'Bout time, in particular\\
[[TitleDrop The day it's gonna end]].\\
Well friends,\\
An ordinary [[Theatre/TheMusicMan movie man]]\\
Might make an unassuming\\
ThreeActStructure\\
{{Conflict}} here, an ActBreak there\\
IncitingIncident, HerosJourney\\
All of that Syd Field flapadoodle\\
'''Crow:''' Flapadoodle?

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Kinga's Spray-On Mustard Gas is stated to be "real surplus World War I era mustard gas" but is also implied to be real mustard too. Mustard gas, also called sulfur mustard, was a sulfur-based blistering agent, named for its yellow-brown color and vaguely mustard-garlic odor. It was not actually mustard. [[OverlyLongGag It also wasn't really a gas, but we digress.]]

* EvilSoundsDeep: Dr. Erhardt is two or three octaves [[CreepyHighPitchedVoice less shrill]] than when we last saw him. He chalks it up to being less mad.

* 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. Allegedly, he'll tag the person next to him and say "You're it," just before he goes.

*** [[Film/Innerspace The inside of Martin Short is so spacious]]

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

* CosmicHorrorStory: It isn't, really, but Jonah and the bots get a lot of mileage out of pretending it is.
-->'''Crow:''' ''[as Jenny]'' Man's time is done. All hail the new flesh!

** One more for Jenny: "[[Film/{{Videodrome}} Long live the New Flesh!]]"

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

** "[[Film/BartonFink I'll show you the life of the mind!]]"

** "I'm caught in Myst, the 1993 graphic adventure puzzle video game published by Broderbund!"
** "Few times I been around that track \ But it just ain't gonna happen like that \ 'Cause I ain't no hollaback girl, ain't no hollaback girl...

** "I'm just looking for an honest man," [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] ({{Pun}} intended) as "a Diogenes reference I'm dropping" by Crow when a gas station attendant walks out holding a lantern in the middle of the night. Greek philosopher [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes Diogenes the Cynic]]used to say the same thing while carrying a lantern throughout Athens by daylight (he always said he never found one).

-->'''Jonah:''' One looks like a ninja turtle\\

** Stock riffs: the immortal "You look at it. I'm bitter."

** "I'm just looking for an honest man," [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] ({{Pun}} intended) with "a Diogenes reference I'm dropping" by Crow when a gas station attendant walks out holding a lantern in the middle of the nigh. Greek philosopher [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes Diogenes the Cynic]], a contemporary and critic of Creator/{{Plato}}, said the same thing while carrying a lantern throughout Athens by daylight (he always said he never found one).

** Grant debating whether he's more like Buzz or Woody from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''.

** The immortal "You look at it. I'm bitter."

-->"Guys, come on, don't ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' out on me..."

** When producer Charles Band's name appears: "[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Hey now, prepare yourselves for the Charles Band... Maaan!]]" sung to the tune of the Detroit Spinners' "Rubber Band Man", used for the movie's introduction of the Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy.

** In a separate riff he has Grant call a horse [[WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman Bojack]], "because of that Netflix series. Heh, it's a hoot!"

'''Max:''' ...Yeah, you said that already.

** "This whole movie is like the [[ColdOpen cold opening]] of a ''Series/{{Columbo}}''."

-->'''Crow:''' ''[as 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!

** To the Greek philosopher [[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, Crow has him claim he's 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.

** The teleportation effect looks like, variously, a Fourth of July parade (the guys hum a cacophonous rendition of "Stars and Stripes", the infamous [[NightmareFuel boat scene]] from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', and the opening of ''Series/LoveAmericanStyle''.

*** Humming "Binary Sunset" and riffing on how the son looks like Luke Skywalker.

* OverlyLongGag: During the lengthy, entirely mundane car trip to the airport, Crow gives Grant a rambling diatribe where he coordinates his various appendages by talking them through it like they're separate people.

** "[[Film/TheMusicMan Professor Harold Servo]]" name-drops Syd Field and Robert [=McKee=], two (not directly connected) screenwriters/script doctors, best known for teaching seminars on storytelling, and in particular for propagating the idea of the ThreeActStructure across Hollywood and beyond.

*** As Grandpa Grant wanders around the DerelictGraveyard: "''[[Film/ANewHope Uncle Owen]]: [[Film/RogueOne A Star]] [[Film/{{Solo}} Wars Story]]''."

* TheBusCameBack: Dr. Erhardt, last seen in ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E13TheBlackScorpion The Black Scorpion]]'', pronounced missing in ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E01RocketshipXM Rocketship X-M]]'', and not mentioned since ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E13EarthVsTheSpider Earth Vs. The Spider]]'', returns after ''28 years''. (Although J. Elvis Weinstein himself ruined the surprise on Twitter the very day the season was released.)

* 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.

** When the tiny elf alien alights on Jenny's bedpost in the middle of the night:
-->'''Jonah:''' ''[as Film/MrBNatural]'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E19WarOfTheColossalBeast Knew your father, I did!]]

* {{Infomercial}}: The Mads' Invention Exchange, Spray-On Mustard Gas.

-->'''Servo:''' Did you say "coherent"?

* TalkingAnimal: Ardy's new dog Bonesy, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dog with the Gift of Speech]]!

-->'''Max:''' AAAAHHHH! IT BURNS! IT BURNS! IT'S TOO ZESTY! AAAAHHHH!