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Film watched: Robot Wars
The Segments:
Prologue- Kinga and Max meet with Dr. Kabahl, the strange and mysterious financier from the future. With the Mads deep in debt to him after the repairs to the Gizmoplex and Kingadome, Kabahl uses his incredible knowledge of the future to give them a way to recoup their losses: find a second host.
Segment 1/Invention Exchange
- Jonah presents Meat Cute, seasonings that spice up any meat dish with the taste and hilarity of romantic comedies. Kinga announces The Simulator of Love, a new Gizmoplex feature that will allow visitors to experience all the real pain and torture of being trapped in space and forced to watch bad movies while in a virtual environment.
Segment 2
- The 'Bots make fun of Leda and Annie as they share some vapid girl-talk during their shifts on Mega-2. When a Centros attack starts up, Jonah plays both ditzy Diane and slovenly Drake as he reports the ongoing situation while they gossip.
Segment 3
- Jonah gives the 'Bots his sales pitch to 1990s Crystal Vista, a perfect encapsulation of civilization in the 90s and all the pop-culture that came with it.
Post-Intermission
- Crow and Servo talk about Stumpy's talent for analogies. Crow tries a few of his own.
Segment 4
- The crew use Stumpy as a shining example of how to be the perfect bumbling sidekick for any cinematic hero. Max considers it to be an inspiration.
Segment 5
- Seeing as how Robot Wars had no actual robot war to speak of, the 'Bots compensate with their own no-holds-barred battle to the death. As the Deep Hurting transport bus arrives at Moon 1 with the equipment to install Kinga's Simulator of Love, Kinga decides to get some further use out of the Gizmonic technician assigned to the delivery.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of Robot Wars has examples of:
- April Fools: The premiere of the episode started with a joke played on the viewers courtesy of the feed during the episode intro failing and the return of White Dot on the screen prior to the April Fools message appearing and the episode resuming normally.
- Call-Back:
- "Say, Miss Interocitor."
- The "BANG!" riff from Cry Wilderness returns as Leda wields her pistol.
- "Blast Hardcheese!"
- Continuity Nod: Jonah reprises his "Mean Jonah" character from the previous episode as he commentates on Crow and Servo's personal robot war.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus meets Funny Background Event: When Leda is riffling through her dossier, one partly-obscured page is clearly an order sheet for an electrical retailer, what with the list of various Duracell batteries and corresponding part codes. During Crow and Servo's own robot war, as the two bots knock the everlasting snot out of each other, one item of wreckage lying by Scorpion!Servo's foot is a certain black copper-topped cylinder...
- Jerkass: Drake, lampshaded during the "stewardess" sketch.Servo: You know how there are people who are so close to being hot, but there's that one thing that ruins it?...Drake's whole thing is that one thing.
- The '90s: Jonah's entire sales pitch for 1990s Crystal Vista and its themed attractions such as the Pulp Fiction Luncheonette, the Wrath Mountain rollercoaster, M.C. Hammer's masseuse "Can Touch This", and a movie theater that plays Titanic on an endless loop.note . Even the internet service is pure 90s as it runs on slow modem dial-up.
- Second Episode Introduction: Two of them, in fact: Dr. Kabahl, the mysterious financier from the future, and Emily Conner, the new second test subject.
- Shout-Out:
- "Oh no, her glass menagerie!" "Oh, Tennesee Williams, you should've applied for grant money."
- "Use a spoon. It will hurt more."
- An early scene of Mega-2 in battle inspires the riffs "We love you, spider!" and "I promise not to kill you!", a nod to the They Might Be Giants song "Spider".
- "First you get the horn, then you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women!"
- "Secret tunnel!"
- The staff-fighting demonstration features references to Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome ("Bartertown Buffet: Two Men Enter, Nobody Leaves Hungry"!), The Wicker Man (2006) ("Not the bees! Argh! My eyes!"), Robin Hood Daffy ("Ho! Ha-ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin!"), Annie Get Your Gun, and Mortal Kombat ("ERMAC Wins! Babality!")
- "Anyways, here's Wonderwall"
- "Moving to the country, gonna eat a lotta peaches"
- Servo sings the Underground theme from Super Mario Bros. when Leda and Annie explore the Crystal Vista basement.
- "Daphne and Velma: The Early Years."
- "Come and knock on our door / We've transponders for you / Where the robots have wars and wars and wars / beep-boo-ba-dee-boo!"
- "At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within this basement?"
- "We'll steal a Thunderbird and drive off a cliff!"
- The scene of Drake and Stumpy walking through the desert at night with flashlights prompts Tom to whistle a familiar theme.
- In the last host segment, ring announcer Jonah introduces Tom as, among other things, "the littlest MegaDeus".
