Line #111 Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S12E04TheDayTimeEnded


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:"The [[Music/TheTime Morris Day]] Story!"]]
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4	->''"I hope you like long silences and unmotivated stop-motion monsters! Or don't like it, I don't care."''
5	-->--'''Kinga Forrester'''
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7	Film watched: ''Film/TheDayTimeEnded'' (1979)
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9	!!The Segments:
10	[[AC:Prologue]]
11	* 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 dissuaded.
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13	[[AC:Segment 1]]
14	* As the second half of The Gauntlet begins, Jonah grabs some coffee and brings out the Fortune Meal, expanding on fortune cookies with full-course meals that tell your future. Kinga shows off Spray-On Mustard Gas, which despite the name really doesn't go well with hot dogs.
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16	[[AC:Segment 2]]
17	* 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.
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19	[[AC:Segment 3]]
20	* 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?
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22	[[AC:Segment 4]]
23	* 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 long journey of self-discovery and he's only just come back to honor his old boss's last request. To that end, he needs Kinga to help out a bit.
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25	!!The ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' presentation of ''Film/TheDayTimeEnded'' provides examples of:
26	* 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. [[NonIndicativeName It also wasn't really a gas, but we digress.]]
27	* BlackComedy: Kinga spraying Max with mustard gas.
28	* TheBusCameBack: Dr. Erhardt, last seen in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S01E13TheBlackScorpion The Black Scorpion]]'', pronounced missing in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E01RocketshipXM Rocketship X-M]]'', and not mentioned since ''[[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.)
29	* CallBack:
30	** "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E19WarOfTheColossalBeast Knew your father]], [[Film/MrBNatural I did!]]" when the tiny elf alien alights on Jenny's bedpost in the middle of the night.
31	** ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S12E01MacAndMe "Pretty niiiiiice!"]]''
32	** As Jenny: "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S12E02AtlanticRim Oh man. I don't pity this potty, 'cuz I'm here to bring the thunder! Buh-boom!]]"
33	** "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E06Eegah Eegahhh.]]"
34	** Jenny's habit of running around completely unsupervised in dangerous situations is compared to [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E02CryWilderness Paul]].
35	** "Oh no, it's sending us into the movie ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E04Avalanche Avalanche]]''!"
36	* CharacterDevelopment: Dr. Erhardt, entirely offscreen.
37	-->'''Max:''' Wow. I mean, you seem different than I remember. Less shrill.\
38	'''Dr. Erhardt:''' ''[shrugs]'' I'm less mad. That part of me dried up and blew away thanks to my [[JourneyToFindOneself journey of self-discovery]]. It's worked out real nice.
39	* CompositeCharacter: Joked about by the crew, who call Grant "Creator/LeslieNielsen in ''Film/DeathWish''." He really does kind of look like a mix between Neilsen and Creator/CharlesBronson.
40	* CosmicHorrorStory: It isn't, really, but Jonah and the bots get a lot of mileage out of pretending it is, mostly via little Jenny!
41	-->'''Crow:''' ''[as Jenny]'' Man's time is done. [[Film/{{Videodrome}} All hail the new flesh!]]
42	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Kinga's Spray On Mustard is "The only mustard delivery system that evenly spreads mustard in a fine mustard mist, of mustard."
43	* DullSurprise: The standard response of many characters (especially Steve, the teenage son) to whatever stop-motion menace is currently attacking.
44	* EvilSoundsDeep: {{Inverted\|Trope}}. Dr. Erhardt is two or three octaves [[CreepyHighPitchedVoice less shrill]] than when we last saw him, which he chalks up to being less mad.
45	* EyeCatch: "''Space Obelisk'' will be right back."
46	* FreeRangeChildren: Jenny's off in her own little world through most of the movie (literally after the obelisk whisks her away).
47	-->'''Tom:''' ''[as Jenny]'' Mommy, can I go play on the missile test range?
48	* FriendlessBackground: Inverted -- Jonah's Fortune Meal predicts many a lonely future night spent watching, ironically, ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
49	-->'''Jonah:''' Hey, [[WaxingLyrical they were there for me]], okay?\
50	'''Crow:''' Yeah, [[VitriolicBestBuds we won't be]].
51	* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Jenny's pony, after getting beamed to who knows where by the pyramid:
52	-->'''Jonah:''' ''[as the pony]'' You don't know the horrors I've seen, Jenny! That green yurt broke my mind!
53	* GoodOlBoy: Grandpa Grant is a textbook case of the wealthy boardroom type who still thinks of himself as this. 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.
54	-->'''Crow:''' Love it.\
55	'''Tom:''' Feels right.\
56	'''Crow:''' I wear bronzer.
57	* HaHaHaNo:
58	-->'''Kinga:''' What are you looking so fuzzy-hearted about?\
59	'''Max:''' Oh, nothing. I just feel like, you know, Jonah and I have become really good friends.\
60	'''Kinga:''' Aww. ''[chuckles, nods -- then straight-arm punches him in the head, [[QuipToBlack cut to opening credits]]]''
61	* {{Infomercial}}: The Invention Exchange, as usual. The Mads' invention: Spray-On Mustard Gas.
62	-->'''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 [[SuddenlyShouting to my TUBEMEAT!!]]
63	* JourneyToFindOneself: Dr. Erhardt apparently went on one offscreen, meeting aliens, topping empires, finding and losing love...
64	-->'''Dr. Erhardt:''' All part of my ongoing journey of self-discovery, that's worked out real nice.\
65	'''Max:''' ...Yeah, you know, you said that already.
66	* LameLastWords: The Fortune Watermelon contains a four-volume book elaborating on Jonah's entire future 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.
67	* 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 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.
68	* MeaningfulName: Mearth, the planet between Mars and Earth (pronounced "mirth").
69	* MixAndMatchCritters: "A pretty pair of [[{{Claymation}} claymated monsters]]," as Jonah says during "Concepts!"
70	-->'''Jonah:''' One looks like a [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles ninja turtle]]\
71	Made of lava\
72	With a quintuple-decker mess of mammaries,\
73	And the other is a big mean kitty-cat doggy\
74	Who for no reason\
75	Bites on the other one!
76	* MellowFellow: The new-and-improved Dr. Erhardt.
77	* MissingMom: Kinga's mother is revealed by Erhardt to be [[Creator/KimCattrall Kim Cattrall]]. She is pleasantly surprised by this revelation.
78	--> '''Kinga:''' No wonder I'm such a [[Series/SexAndTheCity Samantha]].
79	* {{Multiboobage}}: One of the monster aliens appears to have five pairs of breasts, which Jonah and the bots comment on multiple times.
80	* NobodyPoops: One of the reasons this trope exists is brought up.
81	--> '''Crow:''' Look, I appreciate the cinéma vérité approach, but do we really have to wait here while she goes tinkle? What's the point? Why?
82	* OverlyLongGag:
83	** 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.
84	--->'''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!
85	** "Door's open. ''bwoong'' Door's open. ''bwoong'' Door's open. ''bwoong'' Door's open. ''bwoong''."
86	--->'''Jonah:''' ''[as Grant]'' Will somebody '''shut that GLORY-LOVIN' DOOR!!'''
87	* 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.
88	* RandomEventsPlot: In the third host segment, Tom explains (in a PatterSong) 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 Jonah and the bots snap in the theater.
89	-->'''Servo:''' [[InadvertentEntranceCue Did you say "coherent"?]]
90	* RuleOfThree:
91	-->'''Dr. Erhardt:''' I ''said'' I was on an ongoing journey of self-discovery that's worked out real nice.\
92	'''Max:''' Okay, wow. He just paid that off a third time.
93	* RunningGag:
94	** Elderly main character Grant becomes a frequent target, with Jonah and the bots citing his love for steak (and later, "steak milk") and his tendency to blame "bikers" for everything that goes wrong.
95	** "Hand commands!"
96	** Every time the younger husband tries to call emergency services, Jonah and the bots have him accidentally call Sal's Pizzeria instead. And then the character becomes obsessed with getting a pizza.
97	** On various long shots on the house, which looks vaguely like a Nativity stable from a distance:
98	--->'''Jonah:''' Wise men still seek [[UsefulNotes/JesusChrist Him]].
99	** Stock riffs:
100	*** The immortal "You look at it. I'm bitter."
101	*** Over a futuristic DerelictGraveyard: "I love this bold new direction in Thomas Kinkade's work!" after the season's many digs at the self-declared "Painter of Light"'s schmaltzy, sentimental landscapes.
102	* SanitySlippage: After the credits roll, Tom Servo and Crow hallucinate a beautiful vision of the domed city from the final scenes of the movie.
103	-->'''Jonah:''' Guys, come on, don't ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' out on me...
104	* SeinfeldianConversation: Grant talking to himself, debating whether he's more like Woody (because he's a cowboy) or Buzz (because he's so cool) from ''Franchise/ToyStory''.
105	-->'''Tom:''' Well, I guess I don't have to decide today.
106	* ShoutOut:
107	** When producer Charles Band's name appears: "Hey now, prepare yourselves for the Charles Band... Maaan!" sung to the tune of the Detroit Spinners' "Rubber Band Man", used for ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''[='s=] introduction of the Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy\|2014}}.
108	** "This whole movie is like the [[ColdOpen cold opening]] of a ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode."
109	** When Jenny finds a tiny glowing green pyramid in the yard, Crow is shocked: "Good ''Lord'' [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Snoopy]]! What did you ''eat''?!"
110	** When the small alien appears in Grant and Ana's room, Jonah says, "[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Well, howdy-ho!]]"
111	** In the first host segment, Jonah brews up some coffee using Tom Servo’s head as a coffee pot. The ensuing caffeine rush gives Servo a MotorMouth, ending with him yelling “[[Series/SavedByTheBell I’m so excited! I’m so excited! I’m so... scared!]]”
112	** As the dad drives the car down the road at night:
113	--->'''Jonah:''' ''[as KITT]'' [[Series/KnightRider Michael, why am I a Subaru now?]]
114	** "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).
115	*** Servo made the same reference (un-Lampshaded) in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E01NightOfTheBloodBeast Night of the Blood Beast]]''.
116	** [[Memes/TheSimpsons "Are you steaming hams down here again?"]]
117	** Tom has Steve name one of the horses [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Applejack]]. Also fitting, since Shout! Factory [[BitingTheHandHumor also owns Friendship is Magic's distribution rights]].
118	*** Mild ActorAllusion as Creator/FeliciaDay voiced [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E13ThePerfectPear Applejack's mother]]; also Creator/PattonOswalt did [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E14StrangerThanFanFiction two]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E6CommonGround episodes]].
119	** In a separate riff Crow has Grant call a horse [[WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman Bojack]], "because of that Netflix series. Heh, it's a hoot!"
120	** "[[Theatre/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.
121	** "There's a [[Literature/TheMonsterAtTheEndOfThisBook monster at the end of this scene]], and it's me."
122	** [[Music/MadnessBand "Don't watch that! Watch this!]] ''[[WaxingLyrical One Step Beyond]]!''"
123	** 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''.
124	** "So this is where Music/{{Boston}} album covers go to die. Huh."
125	** Jenny again: "[[Film/BartonFink I'll show you the life of the mind!]]"
126	** One more for Jenny: "[[Film/{{Videodrome}} All hail the New Flesh!]]"
127	** [[ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy "I am Groot."]]
128	** "Creator/LeslieNielsen in ''Film/DeathWish''."
129	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Y_vEKbZhU The Cavity Creeps]]: "'''WE. MAKE. HOLES IN TEETH!'''"
130	** "I'm caught in ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', the 1993 graphic adventure puzzle video game published by Creator/{{Broderbund}}!"
131	** "Few times I been around that track But it just ain't gonna happen like that [[Music/GwenStefani 'Cause I ain't no hollaback girl, ain't no hollaback girl...]]"
132	** As usual, giving the horses Series/MisterEd voices.
133	*** "...Ain't no hollaback horrrse, ain't no hollaback horrse..."
134	** Thanks to the subject matter, probably the most ''Franchise/StarWars'' references in one episode in a season full of them.
135	*** Humming "Binary Sunset" and riffing on how the son looks like Luke Skywalker/"bargain-bin Creator/MarkHamill".
136	*** "I'll try." [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack "Do or do not. There is no try."]]
137	*** "''[[Film/ANewHope Uncle Owen]]: [[Film/RogueOne A Star]] [[Film/{{Solo}} Wars Story]]''" as Grandpa Grant wanders around the DerelictGraveyard.
138	** [[Film/{{Innerspace}} The inside of Martin Short is so spacious]].
139	** [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty "SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!"]]
140	* TalkingAnimal: Ardy's new dog Bonesy, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Dog with the Gift of Speech]]!
141	* TechnologyMarchesOn: Joked about InUniverse. The idea of a house that works automatically and cars that operate by voice command aren't nearly as much in the realm of crazy scifi as they were when the movie was made, as the crew point out.
142	--> '''Crow (as Jenny):''' ''(smugly, after Jenny commands the family's truck to shut off)'' Thanks, Siri! Any other little jobs you need done around here?
143	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Grant and his steak-milk, according to Jonah and the bots.
144	* VisibleOdor: Kinga's Spray-On Mustard Gas leaves a lingering, sickly yellow cloud.
145	-->'''Max:''' AAAAHHHH! MY EYES! IT BURNS! IT BURNS! IT'S TOO ZESTY! AAAAHHHH!
146	* WellDoneSonGuy: Dr. Erhardt baits Kinga and Max thusly:
147	-->'''Dr. Erhardt:''' Unless you ''don't'' want to do right by your absent, yet yearned-for fathers?
148	----
149	->''[[TheStinger A tiny green imp materializes in front of Jenny, who smiles in delight.]]''

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