Line #30 Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E09TheHellcats


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2	[[caption-width-right:317:Backgrounds illustrated with a Technicolor yawn.]]
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4	Film watched: ''Film/TheHellcats''
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6	The episode is available in the Gizmoplex [[https://www.gizmoplex.com/mst3k/season:2/videos/mst3k-043-thehellcats here]].
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8	!!The Segments:
9	[[AC:Prologue]]
10	* The SOL crew have caught colds, and nobody is particularly happy.
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12	[[AC:Segment 1/Invention Exchange]]
13	* Joel manages to ease everyone's colds by turning Servo into a humidifier, though he reads a warning that the vapor "may cause flashbacks". The Mads haven't invented anything this week (they're still riding the Hobby Hogs from ''Film/WildRebels''), but Joel finally gets the chance to present the invention he made in the last episode: a universal sign language translator that you speak into.
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15	[[AC:Segment 2]]
16	* Tom, typing in his diary, flashes back to the rubber hand segment from ''Film/TheCrawlingHand''.
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18	[[AC:Segment 3]]
19	* Crow, speaking into a tape recorder, flashes back to the funny/unfunny-when-floating segment from ''Film/RocketshipXM''.
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21	[[AC:Segment 4]]
22	* Joel, writing his diary, flashes back to the camera matte sketch from ''Film/JungleGoddess''.
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24	[[AC:Segment 5]]
25	* Gypsy tries to "write" in her diary, and this leads the SOL crew to bond over the fact that they ''all'' keep diaries, even if the 'Bots are reluctant to say so. Even the Mads share a tender moment thanks to witnessing their familial relationship.
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27	!!The [=MST3K=] treatment of ''Film/TheHellcats'' provides examples of:
28	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Crow's "Hey, Bill, your rear's done" gets approval from Joel and Servo.
29	* AlmostFamousName: Crow insists the Davy Jones in the credits is the same one from Music/TheMonkees. An annoyed Joel snaps the name is spelled wrong (Davey) and Jones would have had to have been 14 if he were actually working on the film. [[invoked]][[note]]The film was actually made in 1967, when a 22-year-old Jones was already working in the band and sitcom.[[/note]]
30	* BigNo: The Mads' reaction when Joel guesses they're watching a biker movie. Nobody's really sure why, though.
31	* CallBack: ''Constant'' references to Ross Hagen's previous appearance in ''Film/TheSidehackers''
32	* ContinuityNod:
33	** Servo says his flashback from Season 1 was before [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E01RocketshipXM his voice changed]].
34	** Joel finally gets to show off his sign language invention that he wasn't allowed to do the previous episode.
35	* CreatorCameo: Joel and the bots think the actor playing the crime boss's [[TheDragon dragon]] was the director. It's unknown if Best Brains actually thought that or just thought having the flunky be the director was funnier. (The director actually played the crime boss.)
36	* DitzyGenius: Gypsy takes her turn writing her diary in the last segment, dictating a letter to Creator/RichardBasehart by talking into a typewriter, and has her usual VerbalTic of repeating the last thing anyone says in a singsong voice (''"...Dia-ryyy..." "...Pa-perrrr..."''). She also immediately twigs to Joel's reference to Creator/FriedrichNietzsche and the latter's concept of EternalRecurrence:
37	-->'''Gypsy:''' ''[[Literature/AlsoSprachZarathustra Also sprach Zarathu-straaaa]]''...
38	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Twice in the movie are scenes of the bikers suggestively spraying shaken beer all over themselves and other partiers. Crow remarks, "I hope that's ''beer''..."
39	* FlashbackCut: All three host segments, shown as Joel and the 'Bots writing in their diary. The ''Colossal Episode Guide'' said [[ClipShow this was done to save on scripting time]], but ironically they took just as long as a normal episode to write.
40	* IJustWantToBeLoved: TV's Frank [[CutenessOverload melts (down)]] over Joel and the 'Bots heartwarming group hug at the end of the episode:
41	-->'''Frank:''' ''Why can't we know love the way they know love?!''
42	* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: Tom writing in his diary.
43	* MrExposition: The two detectives from the funeral who awkwardly lay out the plot, dubbed Sgt. Exposition and Det. Plotpoint by Joel.
44	* MondegreenGag: The slurring of several cast members' lines makes them ripe for reinterpretation.
45	-->'''Joel:''' Tractor mortars?!\
46	'''Servo:''' Pottery wheel?
47	* NoodleIncident: And a healthy dollop of HoYay on Joel's part, too.
48	-->'''Crow:''' Did I ever tell you about the time Joel had be dressed as Creator/JudyGarland and had me sing show tunes to him all night? I have a lot of pain.
49	* {{Pun}}:
50	-->'''Servo:''' "Scab"? How do you suppose they ''picked'' him?!
51	* RhymesOnADime
52	-->'''Servo:''' Hi! I'm Shelley. Hehe. Rub my belly! Hehehe!
53	* RunningGag
54	** "That's the number __!" (a CallBack from ''Film/TheSidehackers''.)
55	** The biker sent to recover a drug stash from an impounded bike becomes "Kooky the Motorcycling Clown" for the duration of his scenes (mostly thanks to the inappropriately wacky music in them).
56	* ShipTease: Tom briefly tries to hit on a fire hydrant in the film.
57	* SickEpisode: Which is especially impressive, since Crow, Tom, Gypsy and Magic Voice are all mechanical.
58	* SideEffectsInclude: The medicine Joel and the 'bots take warns "may cause flashbacks".
59	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Joel and the Bots groan when they see Ross Hagen's credit, knowing that they're in for it.
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61	->[[TheStinger "Ahlafenawaholgin YOU, man!"]]

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