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Recap / Mystery Science Theater 3000 S04 E06: Attack of the Giant Leeches

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"Oh look, it's the Undersea Football All-Stars."

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"Looks like an e.e. cummings book cover."

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:



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