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The Incredible Melting Man

Season 7, Episode 6, Aired Feb 24, 1996

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An astronaut becomes a melting man and terrorizes a neighborhood. Meanwhile, Crow's Earth vs. Soup screenplay gets made into a movie...but the results are not what he was looking for.

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Beth McKeever

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Helena Espinosa

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Trace Beaulieu

Crow T. Robot & Dr. Clayton Forrester
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D'oh, she's gonna get lipstick on it!

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By Lazlo25, Nov 09, 2010

[#32]

Even though future Oscar winner Rick Baker design the special effects for The Incredible Melting Man, this 1977 jam still makes the 50 worst list at number 32.

Oh, boy. This movie was a literal mess. An astronaut returns from space, somehow, only to find his face has been melted. He must get human cells to stop his face from viciously melting, which means going on a killing spree. His plan backfires. Ugh. This hast to be the goriest film MST3K ever did. Thankfully, M&TB have some great quips on the flick. Tom's Ted Nelson single was a funny addition to the obnoxious fanfare. And the boys really know how to get the disturbing scenes worthwhile (i.e. the nurse running through the window, the kids smoking (?!!)). The host segments really stole the show here. For one thing, it was a spoof of the Brains experience of making the Movie. For another thing, it departs from the usual Pearl snubbing Dr. Forrester scenario from the season, which I haft to say was a little tiresome after a while. It was a treat to see the "exercise in healing" segments. I defiantly recommend this episode IF just for the host segments.

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- Mike: I learned it was impossible to look good in the '70's.
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- Tom: Once again we learned that NASA is staffed by two or three people, tops.
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- Crow: (as Steve finishes melting) He just threw himself up!
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- Crow: (as Steve approaches the power plant) Have you noticed how not a single power plant in not a single movie has never been locked or inaccessible?
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- Mike: There's pudding in the Melting Man, to make him moister.
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- Ted: I am a doctor. Crow: Not a belly-itcher!
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- Tom: (as the little girl stands next to some bushes) She's deep in left field at Wrigley!
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- Dr. Nelson: Take care of things for me. Dr. Loring: Sure, Ted. Don't worry. Dr. Nelson: You know, whenever anybody says to me, 'Don't worry,' that's when I start to worry. Tom: Well, I wouldn't worry about it.
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- Mike: We learned that some cats can open the refrigerator, get the milk, bring the milk from the middle of the kitchen, throw it up in the air, drop it on the floor, shatter it all over the place.
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- Mike: The Incredible Melting Man: He's Incredimeltable!
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- Gen. Perry: I could really use a drink about now. Tom: Gimme a drink!!!
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- Mike: (as the movie's title appears) The George Hamilton Story.
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- Crow: So how many monster movies end with a janitor scooping a monster into a garbage can?
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- Crow: The movie comes into sharp focus whenever Ted Nelson is on the screen!
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- Mike: They turned Barefoot In The Park into an action movie.
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- Tom: (in the opening space scene) How much did you guys like Jupiter? I think we just blew it up. Sorry, over.
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- The host segments were based on the writers' frustrations with movie executives stemming from MST3000: The Movie.
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