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Mystery Science Theater 3000 Season 5 Episode 7

I Accuse My Parents

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AIRED: 9/4/93

Movie Plot: I Accuse My Parents A teenager's dysfunctional family life leads him into trouble with a night club dancer and the mob. Also riffed was the short: "The Truck Farmer". Intro: Crow paints Servo flesh toned because he has "Pinnochio Syndrome". Segment One: Joel invents an orgainizer for your junk drawer that holds some really odd stuff. In Deep 13, the Mads invent a cake mix that includes an exotic dancer, who is accidentally baked into the cake by Frank. Segment Two: Joel analyzes the 'bots drawings of their ideal families. Segment Three: The crew re-enacts the night club scene from the movie. It goes well until the music stops. Segment Four: The crew tries to find the cause of Jimmy's (the kid in the movie) social illness. They discover he is just stupid. Segment Five: The 'bots try to rob Joel of hamburgers. They get out the heavy artillery to do so. In Deep 13, the exotic dancer from the cake tries to seduce Dr. Forrester. Stinger: Dad laughs at Mother's hat.moreless

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You'll love It! One of my favorite MST3Ks.

9.4

By meowpuppy, Jun 19, 2007

This is one of my favorite episodes of MST3K. It has it all: cheesy 1960's dialog, implausible action scenes, cool sixties music and clothing, and a morally upright heroine who can hold her own in a difficult situation. And she gets the guy at the end! The riffs were fast and furious and the short, "What to do on a date" is probably even better than the movie itself. It's cool to learn about the social mores from a different era. The way teens from the sixties dressed and acted is so different than today's cool cats. And the girs' haircuts were to die!! I just loved it!!moreless
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That’s right, I cried, and not from sadness, not from joy, but the horrid pain from this movie.

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By TheSwordDancer, Jul 30, 2006

WHY! Why must the evil doctors touchier the crew (and us viewers) with such mind numbing crap!

Eck, this movie wasn’t a science-fiction movie, nor action nor did it have anything to do with the normal bad movies we see on this show. Which really made this episode a bit of a let down, but not enough for me to complain,

But I tell you, the plot was so mind numbingly bad the crew and there comments almost didn’t help. But I survived, as well did the crew to watch more bad movies another day.

This may have not been the crews’ best moment, but it’s still another great episode of MST3Kmoreless
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Frank Conniff	TV's Frank [2-6]
Jim Mallon	Gypsy [1-8]
Joel Hodgson	Joel Robinson [0-5]
Kevin Murphy	Tom Servo [2-10], Professor Bobo [8-10] & Cambot
Mary Jo Pehl	Magic Voice [4-7] & Pearl Forrester [7-10]
Trace Beaulieu	Crow T. Robot [0-7] & Dr. Clayton Forrester [0-7]

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Bradley J. Keely

Rodney

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- (after Jimmy's mother comes to the party drunk)
  Girl: (laughs) She's drunk!
  Crow: It's funny.
  Older woman: How shocking!
  Joel: Eleanor Roosevelt's pissed!
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- Charlie: Nobody's gonna take you away from me. Nobody.
  Tom: Not even me, see? I'll kill me before that happens!
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- Tom: (as Jimmy stands in line at the bank) Uh oh, I think he's gonna give Mr. Potter his newspaper.
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- Joel: (as a plane dusts crops in the short) Charley Varrick is employed.
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- (in the short, a man piles carrots on a truck, and another man walks up)
  Crow: Oh, the great Hank gets to work on the truck!
  Tom: Now, lay off! I'm sick today!(coughs)
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- Crow: (as the movie's title appears) The John Bradshaw story!
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- Tom: So, how about a little sugar for Happy Chef over here?
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- Joel: Wait a minute, this is an episode of Insight.
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- Crow: (as Jimmy) Can I rob you?
  Joel: Do you have any bullets?
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- Joel: Life on the lam, an affordable vacation!
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- Joel: (as the sentence is handed out) Thank God I'm white!
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- Kitty: Please hear my plea...
  Tom: Not guilty!
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- Jimmy: Church?
  Al: That's right.
  Joel: Forget it!
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- Al: You can have it back any time you want.
  Joel, Crow and Tom: At Alice's Restaurant!
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- Crow: I'm just gonna run away! I got peanut butter and underwear, and that's all I need!
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- Crow: Well, here's our little fugitive!
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- Charlie: You tell the police and you'll get 20 years.
  Crow: Free? With no obligation?
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- Tom: If I had parents, I'd accuse them right now.
  Crow: I accuse her hair.
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- Charlie: What's going on between you two?
  Crow: Cheap love, why?
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- Kitty: To lead us down the lane...
  Joel: To hell.
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- Crow: (as Jimmy watches Kitty sing) Yes, Satan, speak to me through this song!
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- Joel: (seeing the band) It's the Silo of Power horn section.
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- Tom (repeating the song lyrics) The kiss way to the promised land?
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- Kitty: Are you happy...
  Crow: Define happy!
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- Shirley: Jimmy's got a girl!
  Crow: Let's strip him!
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- Joel: (as Kitty and Jimmy kiss) This is one successful shoe salesman; open mouth, close sale!
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- Crow: (seeing a clock) The clock is bugged!
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- Crow: Can I show you something in a size me?
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- Mother: Fix mother a drink, James. I'm exhausted.
  Tom: From drinking so much.
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- Crow: (as Dad comes in) Suddenly the Thin Man enters.
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- Tom: It's a booze progressive dinner here.
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- Crow: (as if reading the note) Buy yourself another mother.
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- Jimmy: I accuse my parents.
  Crow: We have a title!
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- (during the short)
  Narrator: Here in Southern Texas, we have an additional problem.
  Crow: Texans.
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- Joel, Crow and Tom (at different times): It's my birthday tomorrow.
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- Tom: It's the essay contest kid!
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- Joel: Cafe. I've heard of that place!
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- Crow: (about Jimmy's goodbye note): I'll put it here next to Mom's suicide note.
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- Joel Hodgson's favorite episode.
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- This episode is available on VHS and DVD from Rhino Home Video.
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- Car 54, Where Are You?:
  Joel describes Al as 'Officer Toody'. Gunther Toody was one of the main characters on Car 54,Where Are You?
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- It's A Wonderful Life:
  When Jimmy is at the bank, Tom says that he is going to give Mr. Potter his newspaper. This refers to the scene in It's A Wonderful Life where George's Uncle Billy inadvertently gives Potter the reciepts from the Bailey Brothers Building & Loan.
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- Charley Varrick:
  Mentioned by Joel in the short, Charley Varrick was a movie released in 1973 which starred Walter Matthau as a crop duster and sometime bank robber who stumbles into a Mob operation after robbing a bank.
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- The Thin Man:
  Mentioned by Crow as a lookalike for Jimmy's dad, The Thin Man was a mystery novel by Dashiell Hammett which was the basis for a series of movies.
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- John Bradshaw:
  Mentioned by Crow in the opening movie credits, John Bradshaw is an American author and lecturer credited with popularizing such ideas as the dysfunctional family.
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- Alice's Restaurant:
  Al said "You can have it back any time you want." and the crew followed with "At Alice's Restaurant!" The actual lyric from the Arlo Guthrie song "Alice's Restaurant" is "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant".
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