"It is sort of hypnotic, isn't it?"
"Hip? Not. Ick!"
"Hip? Not. Ick!"
The story of Hollywood in the early days.
Dr. Forrester: Well, Joel. We've got another cinematic compost pile for you called The Slime People.
Dr. Erhardt: Oh, it's scabby, and bumpy, and absolutely hideous!
Dr. Forrester: But first, another space frolic with our bullet-headed friend Commando Cody.
Dr. Erhardt: Oh, it's scabby, and bumpy, and absolutely hideous!
Dr. Forrester: But first, another space frolic with our bullet-headed friend Commando Cody.
Films watched: Radar Men from the Moon (serial) chapter 6 and The Slime People.
The episode is available in the Gizmoplex here
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The Segments
Segment 1/Invention Exchange- Joel invents eye-popping glasses for cartoons-in-training, and the Mads invent cotton candy that screams when eaten.
Segment 2
- The Bots put a doll of Commando Cody on trial to determine if he's real or fictional.
Segment 3
- The Bots complain about the nonsensical aspects and poor plot structure of the movie. This prompts Joel to explain that, like any movie, it only got made because somebody thought people would watch it. The Bots then come up with a TV show idea of their own, with a strangely familiar premise.
Segment 4
- The Bots fill the Satellite of Love with thick smoke in imitation of the "scary" mist in the movie.
Segment 5
- Joel tries to demonstrate how to bake a pie for robots, but the one he prepared earlier met a predictable fate.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of Radar Men from the Moon (Chapter 6: Hills of Death) has examples of:
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of The Slime People has examples of:
- Anthropomorphic Food: The Mads' screaming cotton candy.
- Eye Pop: Joel's invention is a pair of glasses that imitate cartoon character eye pops.
- MST3K Mantra: Paraphrased by Servo when the others criticize the logic of his show pitch.
- Shout-Out: The courtroom segment pulls the famous Bags of Letters bit from Miracle on 34th Street.
- Who Would Want to Watch Us?: The third host segment has the Bots pitching a TV series to Joel about a man trapped on a desert island by a pair of evil commodores and forced to watch bad TV series with only some mechanical friends made out of pieces of his boat for company. Joel doesn't think anyone would be interested in anything like that.
