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Werewolf

Season 9, Episode 5, Aired Apr 18, 1998

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Movie Plot: Werewolf An author stumbles onto an archeological dig and becomes a werewolf. Intro: Mike hits his head and thinks he's James Lipton from Inside The Actors Studio. He thinks Crow is Ray Liotta and asks him weird questions like whether he smells like apples or not. Segment One: Crow whacks Mike with the clown hammer so he becomes himself again. Then, Mike climbs down a ladder the Nanites made to try and escape, but he winds up in Castle Forrester. The 'bots make insults through the radio, but Mike doesn't hear them. Segment Two: The crew discuss who they would want in their werewolf movie. They turn out to be relatives of famous people(like Joe Estevez), except for Crow, who could only come up with Ray Liotta. Segment Three: After watching the second werewolf crashing his car, Mike and the 'bots do the doo-wop song 'Where, Oh, Werewolf?'(like 'Leader Of The Pack,' get it?) They all dress up in poodle skirts. Segment Four: As they leave the theater, Crow stops short and Mike trips over him. Their essences mingle(ewwwwww!) and Mike becomes a wereCrow. He becomes more and more like Crow through the rest of the movie. Segment Five: Mike is almost fully Crow. Tom has essence of Mike to make Mike normal again, and some of it splashed on to him, making him a wereMike. In the castle, Pearl wants to inject the essence of a wolf into a man. Observer got a peasant, but all Bobo can find is a cocker spaniel. Pearl and Oberver makea hate-Bobo club. Stinger: Natalie says, 'Dis iss absoluuty fahsinattng.' (Translation: 'This is absolutely fascinating.')moreless

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Michael J. Nelson

Mike Nelson [5-10]
Mary Jo Pehl

Magic Voice [4-7] & Pearl Forrester [7-10]
Kevin Murphy

Tom Servo [2-10], Professor Bobo [8-10] & Cambot
Patrick Brantseg

Gypsy [8-10]
Bill Corbett

Crow T. Robot [8-10] & Observer aka Brain Guy [8-10]
Beth McKeever

Magic Voice [8-10]

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This is absolutely fascinating!

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By Headbanger15, Sep 05, 2009

Most of the films the MST3K crew ripped on were usually made in the 50s - 80s. But here's a movie that was made in 1996, barely 3 years old at the time of the episode's release. It's always fun to see MST3K destory a lot of more recent films - that's why Rifftrax was made!

As for the movie, there's no excuse for it to be made the way it was. Joe Estevaz makes an appearance at the beginning, but after 20 minutes, he disappears from the film completely, obviously trying to save his own dignity. The rest of the film basically involves several archaeologists who get into a random fight and then one of them falls onto a skeleton which is actually that of a werewolf...and a very badly made one at that, with the body of a human and the head of a dog...with ear bones to boot! The archaeologist turns into a werewolf and is eventually killed.

Then the whole plot changes. Now there's a scientist named Yuri (yeah, his name is Yuri) who experiments with the werewolf and turns a security guard into one, who eventually dies after crashing his car off the road. Then another guy named Paul gets into a fight with Yuri and gets scratched, turning into a werewolf as well. Yuri is eventually killed off and Paul settles down with his lover Natalie who has become a werewolf too. TUSK!

This movie is amazingly bad. The acting is terrible. Most of the cast are American but they talk with such exaggerated accents. The girl Natalie is one of the worst actresses I've ever seen. She can't say "Werewolf" to save her life. There's also some recurring gag where the character Yuri keeps changing the color of his hair. First it's brown, then it's black and then in the bar scene, it looks gray. The werewolves themselves look nothing like werewolves. They look more like bears with bat faces being controlled by some puppeteer behind them and Yuri's death looks so stupid. "He's scratching himself with his own **** Crow says. But the best part of the episode has to be the End Credits bit. The music in the movie was overwelming to hear. It deserved to get a good riffing and it got it with Mike and the Bots singing along. TUSK!

Another bad movie given the good old MST3K treatment! Thanks Mike, Kevin and Bill! TUSK!moreless
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Tusk!

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By Lazlo25, Jun 17, 2009

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Digging up as number 40 on the list is 1996's Werewolf. Even though Joe Estevez has a appearance in this turkey, it would soon prove that when everything goes wrong with a movie, nobody would take it seriously. The citizens of Flagstaff screened the movie on the big screen, but the reaction to it was so awful, it went straight to video. In all of its stupidity Werewolf does have one redeeming factor. The cover of its video jacket was unique in the morphing of a man into a werewolf, which made the video look promising. But, just because the cover's great doesn't mean the movie's on par with it!

The recent movies are the ones I like to look forward to. I don't know why, but I do. Sometimes however, these recent-ies can have problems and can affect the riffing. And this this thing is unbelievable. I mean, men becoming werewolves at night by a skeleton? Werewolf driving? Actors not speaking clearly? Bad effects? Holly crap, this is a great episode! I mean, the movie gives much for M&TB to work with. The things quips, driving sequences, morphing scenes and countless other riffs on the film were a hoot! The best part was the ending credits song. Something attempts to goes up and the guys knocks 'em down! Host segments on the other hand were hit and miss. Hit was the Where O, Werewolf song, miss was the were-Crow parts. But, the episode overall is truly a classic of the Sci-Fi era. Check it out!

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Whatever you call it, warwilf, wurwoolfe, wirwalf, this is MST3K at its finest--because the movie is at its worst.

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By fireballil, Aug 03, 2007

When the movies are really bad, then the SOL crew is at their best, and Werewolf is a good example. The story revolves around the skeleton of a werewolf found at an archaeologist dig and how one of the people involved uses it to turn others into werewolves. The bad accents, terrible dialogue and underwhelming plot make it good fodder for Mike and the 'bots. Mike uses a long ladder to try and escape, but winds up in Castle Forrester. Otherwise, he gets beat up in this episode--he hits his head and thinks he's James Lipton, then gets hit on the head again to snap out of it. Then he runs into Crow and turns into a wereCrow. Inbetween, they sing a song about a werewolf who crashes and dies, and try to figure out which famous person's relative to put in their werewolf movie. A typically great show.moreless
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- Included in the 20th Anniversary Edition dvd set with First Spaceship on Venus, Laserblast, and Future War.
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- The wolf in the last host segment was played by Kevin Murphy's dog, Humphrey.
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- Tom: (as the movie title Werewolf comes up) I don't know, you had him last!
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- (werewolf song) Mike: Steve's a werewolf, but hes my guy He's different from the rest, I don't know why But my mother and pop, they disapprove But no one can stop us, for its true loove! Crow: Loove? Mike: It has to rhyme. Tom: Ooohh! Mike: Where, oh werewolf, I've every-werewolf Where, oh where, oh where is my werewolf? (spoken) Listen up, girls! (singing again) Late one night, we drove in his car To make out, it wasn't that far. Tom: Take the Hiawatha exit and turn left at the stop sign. Mike: (spoken) Excuse me, Carol, who's story is this? Tom: Sorry! Mike: (singing again) The moon was full, he pulled me close I held his paw and I touched his cold nose. Crow: That means he's healthy! Mike: But just then his hairy paw caused the wheel to slide! I screamed, too late! We hit a tree, he died! Where, oh werewolf, oh I've looked every-werewolf Where, oh where, oh where is my werewolf?
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- (Yuri is attacked by Paul as a werewolf) Tom: (as Yuri puts his arms in front of his face) I'll disguise myself as my own arms! Mike: (singing) Wonder Woman! Crow: Hang on, my contacts fell out. Hang on... Mike: (as Yuri starts bleeding) He's just scratching himself with his own wristwatch.
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- Crow:: (hearing a door slam) Oh! That was the sound of the director giving up and leaving.
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- Mike: (crickets can be heard over the soundtrack) Crickets are trying to drown out the soundtrack. Crow: Go crickets!
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- Pearl: Should we start a 'we hate Bobo' club? Observer: Let's!
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- Crow: (as Carrie looks for Paul) You know, it's economical not to have a story line, cause then you can just film people saying things.
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- (describing Noel) Tom: The man in the yellow hat arrives to calm things down. Crow: Lewis Leakey in Every Which Way But Loose. Mike: Vanessa Redgrave for Banana Republic.
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- Mike: (as Native Americans chant during the opening credits) It's a song about how loose their slots are.
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- Tom: This is very moving... in that I want to move out of the theater immediately!
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- Crow: Cinematography by Haskell Wexler...'s cat.
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- Crow: Surprise ending written and conceived by a tubeworm.
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- Mike: (as Paul runs away) Jacket makes him look like a werewaiter.
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- Crow: Not a good sign when the action in your movie is upstaged by a mural.
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- Tom: The movie that takes its time and hangs around in bars.
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- Mike: (describing the biker in the pool hall) Chubby Ramone.
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- Mike, Tom, & Crow: (as Noel enters the lab) Grandma!
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- Crow: (as the wolf attacks) And 1, and 2, and step change and shuffle and 7 and 8, and werewolf!
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- Tom: (over a closeup of Paul) Issac Mizrahi in the role of a lifetime.
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- (seeing the ceiling fan again) Mike: DeNiro. Snipes. The Fan. Crow: Now come on!
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- (as Paul is reading a book) Mike: He's reading 'So You Think You're A Werewolf'. Tom: By Tom and Virginia Woolf.
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- (as Paul transforms) Tom: You know, he's not my idea of a werewolf. I mean, he's somewhat hirsute... Mike: Well, you know, turns out he's not a werewolf, he's just Greek.
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- (as Paul gets his first victim) Crow: Butterfly kisses gone horribly wrong. Mike: Butterdie kisses.
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- Tom: (as the wolf crawls) He's a wereworm.
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- Man in jeep: You ruined the mood. Tom: And what a mood it was!
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- Crow: Are we supposed to assume that a month passes every few minutes here in Flagstaff?
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- Mike: The antidote to being a werewolf just might be Imodium AD.
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- Crow: Flagstaff. I can't believe I'm still in Flagstaff.
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- Mike: (seeing a ceiling fan) The movie's biggest fan.
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- Mike: (as the security guard/werewolf drives) An American werewolf in traffic.
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- Mike: From the land of sky blue murders.
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- Tom: (as Sam, while Paul enters the house) Why don't you head down to the crawlspace, I'll be right there to kill you.
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- Crow (describing the Keeper) Dictator for life, Santa.
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- Crow: (describing Paul as he enters the party) He's a Rent-a-Center Andy Garcia.
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- Crow: The Sheltering Sky moved quicker than this movie.
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- Tom: (as a full moon appears) Oh, I ate too much. I am a full moon.
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- Mike: (as a baby cries) Infants are such babies.
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- Noel: At the risk of sounding nuts... Crow: I've replaced my toes with grapes.
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- Tom: (describing Joel) He's Winnie the Pooh.
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- Mike: (as Joel and Bill shoot the first werewolf) Somehow Janet Reno's behind this.
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- Noel: Skin-walker. Mike: Texas Skin Ranger.
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- Crow: (describing Yuri) He makes Ted Danson look like Gavin McLeod.
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- Crow: The Ford Ranger: the official truck of The English Patient.
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- Mike: (seeing the werewolf's skeleton) It's Crow T. Werewolf.
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- Tom: (as Joe's hair flies all over the place) Chia Estevez.
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- Crow: (as Yuri and Tommy fight) Rock-em Sock-em Archeologists.
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