Films watched: Undersea Kingdom (Episode 1) and Attack of the Giant Leeches.
The episode is available in the Gizmoplex here, and on Shout! Factory here.
The Segments:
Prologue
- Joel turns out to have left the Holo-Clowns from the last episode's Rainy Day Fun Sketch turned on for a few weeks, and they’ve become more than a little unhinged from their continued existence.
Segment 1/Invention Exchange
- Tom recites a haiku inspired by his experience with the Holo-Clowns. Dr. Forrester uses Frank as a test subject for Patches, a leech that sucks all the desire to smoke straight out of a person’s bloodstream. Joel presents the Insty-Adolescence Kit and demonstrates it on Tom, turning him into a pimply, greasy, emotional, smart-mouthed teenager.
Segment 2
- Joel and the 'Bots ponder how they’d each take over the world. Specifically, what they’d wear when they do it, the complex plot they’d come up with to do it, and how they’d make the world pay. An unassuming Dr. Forrester provides visual aid.
Segment 3
- Over coffee, the crew reflect on how the movie reminds them of various unusual dreams they've had.
Segment 4
- Impersonating the backwoods yokels from the film, the SOL crew sing “A Danger to Myself and Others”.
Segment 5
- Joel tries to understand the motives of the giant leeches, then reads a letter. In Deep 13, Patches has been sucking Frank’s blood for a little too long. Dr. F then discusses various employment opportunities with the now-sapient Patches.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of Undersea Kingdom (Episode 1: Beneath the Ocean Floor) has examples of:
- Actor Allusion: Intentionally invoked or not, when Ray "Crash" Corrigan starts swinging on ropes, the guys accompany it with ape noises. Corrigan was most famous as an Ape-suit performer.
- Companion Cube: After the episode, Crow claims not to have been affected by being blindsided by a short, only to call attention to his Billy action figure. He has the doll in the rest of the host segments.
- Hypocritical Humor: During the riffing:Crow: I hate when they talk during the... (has a realization)
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of Attack of the Giant Leeches has examples of:
- And I Must Scream: The Holo-Clowns are painfully aware of their circumstances.Clown: (to the other clown) SHUT UP! SHUT UP! YOU THINK I LIKE IT, BEING STUCK HERE IN LIMBO WITH YOU?! NO!!! GET DOWN ON YOUR ORANGE-AND-YELLOW KNEES AND KISS MY CLOWN FEET THAT I HAVEN'T KILLED YOU!!
- Continuity Nod: In an unusual bit of direct episode-to-episode continuity, Joel accidentally left the Holo-Clowns (played by Paul Chaplin and Mike) from the last episode on for three weeks, which made the clowns go crazy.Joel: Hi everybody, welcome to the Satellite of Love, my name's Joel Robinson. About three weeks ago, I came up with this Holo-Clown Sequencer to cheer up the 'Bots but now I can't get it to turn off and it's getting hard to sleep at night and I'm tasting metal!
- Fashion-Victim Villain: Invoked by Joel and the 'Bots when they discuss this trope during one of the sketches.
- Funny Background Event: While Joel is explaining the problem he's having with the holoclowns, one of them is beckoning Gypsy to come closer, setting her up to be asked if she'd like a salted nut roll.
- Holodeck Malfunction: Joel's Holo-Clown simulator from the previous episode got stuck on the hexfield for the past three weeks, with the previously Non-Ironic Clowns becoming aware they're trapped in a tiny simulated room and don't even really exist, slowly driving them insane, which in turn is keeping Joel and the 'Bots up all night and making them crazy.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: Joel's invention, the Insty-Adolescent Kit, turns Servo into a pimply, adolescent with a persecution complex.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Joel has to shut off the Holo-Clowns the hard way, even as they beg him not to. Played for Laughs.
- The Insomniac: The Holo-Clowns being on nonstop for three weeks is keeping everyone else up.
- Mythology Gag: As part of the demonstration of the Insty-Adolescent Kit, Joel makes Tom go through puberty.note
- Monster Clown: The friendly Holo-Clowns from the last episode have gone completely insane as a result of Joel being unable to turn them off for the past three weeks.
- Must Have Caffeine: Tom even has coffee inside his gumball-head.
- They Killed Kenny Again: TV's Frank gets all of his blood sucked out of his body by Patches the Leech.
- Throw It In!: Servo's head falls off as they exit the theater at the end of the movie.
- You Won't Feel a Thing!:Dr. Forrester: Now this leech [snip] when applied to the neck or head area, will suck any desire to smoke out of Frank.
Frank: [loudly protests]
Dr. Forrester: But this won't hurt a bit.- The leech, of course, turns into a Brick Joke at the end. Frank didn't do so well.