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King Dinosaur

Season 2, Episode 10, Aired Dec 22, 1990

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Movie Plot: King Dinosaur The Planet Nova is attacked by a dinosaur. Also riffed was the short: "X Marks the Spot". Intro: Joel reads beat poetry to the 'bots. Segment One: In Deep 13, Frank accidentally squishes Dr. Forrester with the elevator. Joel invents a very stinky sock. Segment Two: Crow wonders how good of a judge he is of others' actions. Segment Three: It's the Joey the Lemur song. Segment Four: Joel becomes the Emotional Scientist. Segment Five: Joel explains the concept of Robert Lippert. In Deep 13, the Mads go to a Kurosawa film festival. Stinger: Aftermath of gator wrestling.moreless

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Nathan Molstad

Jerry

Trace Beaulieu

Crow T. Robot [0-7] & Dr. Clayton Forrester [0-7]
Kevin Murphy

Tom Servo [2-10], Professor Bobo [8-10] & Cambot
Frank Conniff

TV's Frank [2-6]
Joel Hodgson

Joel Robinson [0-5]
Jim Mallon

Gypsy [1-8]
Alexandra Carr

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By Lazlo25, Feb 02, 2010

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Do you like cheese? Stinky cheese? Then that's the kind of cheese you'll get from 1955's King Dinosaur! On the planet Nova, a team of scientists goes on an exposition and finds a T-Rex who's just an iguana made to look like one. They also befriend a lemur which is actually a kinkajou, and that's it.

Our short is X Marks the Spot, a safety film about an accident victim's goofy driving habits recapped in Heaven's court room (I'm not making that up). Keep your eyes peeled for George Mathews playing another guardian angel.

This is one of the better season 2 episodes. The riffing on the film is sharp, and I enjoyed J&TB's stabs at the iguana and gator wrestling match. The Satan callback was nice, but I think that one was used a bit too much here and there. The riffing on the short is also sharp and it commences the education cheesefest attacks to come later in the series. The host segments are all good, but the Joey the Lemur sketch seems a bit embarrassing for Joel to do. This one's worth checking out.

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"King of the Dinosaur" is an atrocious sci-fi movie mixed with a laughable short "X-Marks the spot" about a drunken, terrible driver who dies and the angel supposedly looking out for him.moreless

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By marvelfan89, May 24, 2007

Hilarious episode, might be one of the funniest of Season 2.
One hilarious morale short which turns out to be more funny than serious and one terrible monster movie by acclaimed bad director Bert. L Gordon.

Words can't describe how stupid the first short is, however, it's typical of the shorts produced in the 1950's: Very simpleminded, one track, often trying for morality but
in the process neglecting a lot of other elements and coming across as a joke.

"X-Marks The spot" isn't about a puppy having an accident, it's about the spot where a man died, a terrible man who was a bad driver. He allegedly has a guardian angel but this angel is nothing short of mediocre. When the man dies in an accident, the angel tries to defend the man but only because the angel wants to be free of responsibility for the loser.

It's really a hilarious short. My favorite part has to be the part where the head angel has a Sports Timekeeper score of the number of fatalities and injuries occuring on the earth every minute. More I think about it, it's funny because it's true a lot of people just don't care and it's no wonder fatalities are so high especially with cars.

The main movie "King Dinosaur" is supposedly about a group of scientists who arrive on a planet "Nova". Well the problem and reality aren't even logical here as "Nova" looks just like planet Earth and hell even has the same backgrounds and animals earth has!! LMAO. I really don't understand what the point of the movie was. As well the title "King Dinosaur" is misleading as hell. There is no dinosaur, the "dinosaur" is actually an iguana projected to look bigger (a common camera trick easily executed and done on a lot of low budget flicks).

Well the scientists don't really have much patience and the highlight of the film has them dropping an Atom bomb wiping out all the animals on the planet from existence.

Crow Robot even has the funny line "Thanks for annihilating everything I know".

Maybe this was the common way of thinking back then especially from a military point of view destroy anything that threatens you. Anyways, one hilarious short and a terrible movie produces a lot of laughs.moreless
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- During "The Emotional Scientist" sketch, you can see that the title card is a reuse of the Act III card from "The Explorers" sketch in show 208: "Lost Continent." They simply pasted "The Emotional Scientist" on the backside.
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- Commissioner Magee: The loss of life, or any disabling injury to a war worker, means a definite setback to our war program. Crow: If you kill yourselves here, we can't kill them over there.
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- This episode is on Disc One of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 XXIII DVD set. Extras include a documentary on Robert Lippert, the producer of this and several other MST3K movies, as well as the movie's original theatrical trailer.
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- In the film, the expedition adopts a lemur and calls him "Joe." This inspired the MST crew to make a Joey the Lemur puppet and write a theme song. They would later revisit this sketch in episode 611: "Last of the Wild Horses."
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- Includes X Marks the Spot, the first non-serial short in MST3K history.
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