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Robot Monster

Season 1, Episode 6, Aired Jan 02, 1990

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The crew watch a post-apocalyptic movie and two Commando Cody shorts while trying to figure out surrealism.

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Joel Hodgson

Joel Robinson
Jim Mallon

Gypsy
J. Elvis Weinstein

Tom Servo & Dr. Larry Erhardt
Trace Beaulieu

Crow T. Robot & Dr. Clayton Forrester
Jann L. Johnson

Magic Voice

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It's an Armageddon weddin'!

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By Lazlo25, Aug 24, 2010

[#33]

Robot Monster is so atrociously bad, that soon after its release, the movie's director, Phil Tucker, attempted to kill himself with a gun. He missed. Released in 1953 in 3-D, Robot Monster utilizes not only the terror and fright instilled by bubble machines, but also the macomb realism of an alien in a gorilla costume with a diver's helmet!

Our short is Chapter 4 and 5 of Radar Men from the Moon.

This is one of the better Season 1 episodes. The delivery of the riffs are a bit smoother and the quality of it is very enjoyable, especially on Ro-Man and the two annoying kids. There's also some improvement of the riffing on the serial, but trying to tackle the entire thing can get tiresome. There is some evidence during the beginning of the fifth installment. Host segments are hit and miss, but better thought up then previous episodes. All in all, defiantly worth a look. I think this episode would succeed more is if the movie was riffed later.

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- This episode is on Disc One on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 XIX DVD set. Extras include a reminincense of the episode by J. Elvis(Josh) Weinstein, the original movie trailer, and 'Larry Blamire Geeks Out,' where filmmaker Larry Blamire gives backstory and other tidbits about the film.
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- (at the beginning of the wedding) Prof. George: Dear Lord, You know that I am not trained for this job. Crow: Acting?
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- Tom: What's so scary about an alien that looks like the mascot of a college football team? Crow: He must be from Texas A & M. You know, Ape and Monster!
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- (seeing two prehistoric animals fight) Tom: Oh-ho-ho! The movie's been attacked by a nature film! Crow: It's Gecko-Roman wrestling! Joel: Alligator turnovers all around.
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- Johnny: These woods are full of spacemen. It's either them or us. Come on. Joel: I'd rather it be you.
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- Tom: When you shoot down a Cody, do you call a ranger or do you call an air traffic controller?
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- (as the second short begins) Joel: Just think of it as getting a booster shot twice in the same day by the same doctor. Crow: Yeah, Dr. Mengele.
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- Tom: describing Cody with his helmet on): Jack O'Lantern, Private Eye.
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- Joel: Calling all cars, calling all cars. Be on the lookout for two men and a babe. May be armed with a giantic exeperimental brassiere. You know what to do: strap it on and parade around singing show tunes.
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- (One of Cody's men is workking on a nose cone) Crow: Hey, this bra is coming along nicely!
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- (in the first short, Cody jumps out of the car before it blows up) Joel: Hey, that scene wasn't in last time. Crow: That's 'cause they didn't get the film back from the drug store yet. Tom: Upon further review, the refs find that Cody is dead. The play stands, Cody is dead.
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- During the first short, Josh 'J. Elvis' Weinstein, the guy who plays Servo, unexpectedly sneezes. J. Elvis acknowleges this in the intro he gives on the DVD of the episode.
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