Those are usually the best movies. Like Beast of Yucca Flats, Prince if Space, and Bride of the Monster, just name a few. But some movies are boring, even with the riffing, like Rebel Set, Radar Secret Service, and Rocketship X-M.
Things the American public was terrified of in the 1950s, in order of severity: - The ever-present threat of Nuclear War - Teenagers That's the whole list
It's an historical orthodoxy that the teenager was invented (in marketing terms) in the 1950s. One manifestation of that is the B-films with "Teenage..." titles.
There's a kinda overlooked riff at 1:10:12 that I always love. "Well, who is it?" "Bill Salisbury, a neighbor of ours." Mike: "He invented the steak." 😂
Don Dohler later took this movie's basic premise of a gang of hoodlums holding a family hostage in their off-the-beaten-path home and used it for his film Blood Massacre. At the end the family of yokels peel their faces off and reveal themselves to be skeletal alien monster things and they slaughter all the thugs.
Show 522 is an example as to why fans should always watch & listen through all the MST credits. From front to back, bottom to top the shows are full of detailed craftsmanship.
All of the acting was quite good. Sure the villain was over the top, but probably that was the director's choice. Performers are blamed many times by other professionals' bad decisions.
That doughy guy skit was great! I feel so bad for all the women that had to be paired up with doughy middle-upper middle aged men in movies during that era.
I was thinking between her parents and Jimmy Reardon's, these movies sure loved to portray these innocent, misguided kids as being raised by the most heartless people.........
The only MST3K movie that I ever enjoyed for its own sake was the one that they watched in the MST3K theatrical film, which was "This Island Earth". Although not nearly as good as "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "Forbidden Planet", or other '50's sci-fi films, it's pretty fun, and it has very nice special effects.
This episode is not that bad. It has an '' alternative theatre " quality to it. I liked the tension of all these characters trapped in the same house 🏡, unable to leave.
"I'm removing you from the custody of your parents." GOOD! They were literally more concerned with the dad's work reputation than listening to their daughter telling the truth that she was innocent.
Are the police even allowed to use pin-up pictures of suspects like that? Did they really not have any other, more appropriate photos of her? This is such a great episode, and proof that if the acting is hammy enough, a movie doesn't need bad special effects and monster-suits to be riffed.
At about 24:00 the Terry actress poses a little like Bonnie Parker (in that famous "cigar" photo). I'm sure that was no coincidence. It's no joke to say that this MST episode is one of my Thanksgiving traditions. I put it aside and wait a whole year to see it, just like any other Thanksgiving story. Plus, it's one of the great episodes even apart from that.
Yeah, This movie ain't no masterpiece, but that fight had me on the edge of my seat. Also it's filmed at Griffith observatory in LA, it was kinda cool to watch because I've been there.
What you have to understand about Hays-era Hollywood was they only cared about morality until the censors signed off on it. Then it was on to the real money of the picture: dames and guns! So the text is "crime doesn't pay", but the paratext is "let's stick these four virile youths* in a room so they can seduce and/or murder each other." * virility and youth not guaranteed
Am I the only one that was kind of invested in the movie itself? I mean, it's not a GREAT movie, and I wouldn't have watched the un-MSTed version of it, but I was kind of legitimately interested in seeing what was happening in the movie, which is unusual for MST3K..
Every once in a while an episode does that to me too. The ending to this movie though had a feel like they didn't know how to end it. It wrapped up way too quickly.
The first time I saw it (only a few years ago) I realised I was actually trying to listen to the dialogue OVER the riffs. I was pretty bamboozled when I noticed.
For once, I think that the film can be watched as a normal movie in which something happens and the audience wants to know what happens and how it ends. I would have watched it on its own and I would have paid to see it in the cinema.
@@sprybug I remember when I first saw this episode and got caught up in the movie. The ending was such a letdown because it just kind of ended. It reminded how bad it really was, despite my interest while watching it.
If you listen closely, or even if you don't, because I wasn't, when they showed the heroine's beauty pageant mug shot on TV and she screamed "TURN IT OFF", you can barely hear Tom say George C Scott, unless it was Crow. My guitar teacher told me the story that "TURN IT OFF" comes from the movie Hardcore, with George C. It took me a while to pick it up, but Trace says that a lot. In my study of comments, I haven't read anyone relate that, and I read a lot of comments. As for beauty pageants, everyone knows what happens to the losers, right? An endless stream of hospitality rooms and Rodney Dangerfield's.
Oh, yes, I know where "TURN IT OFF!" comes from. I just think that on the chance anyone IS familiar with it they don't want to relay it in the comments. Considering what was... happening in that scene with George C.
Humming the Rockford Files theme while a phone rings out: it's funny that when faced with a competently-made film, the guys tend to be stuck amusing themselves with jokes of only peripheral relevance.
For once, the decisions everybody takes make some kinda sense. I specially liked the discussion about what to do next around the phone or Bill noticing that something is up because of the cigarette butts.
“The next time you want to sample this one back, with my designer Line of Mace Moose.” (Spray) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, the crime wave consisted of TWO (count 'em) teenagers. Also, we learn that while the old farm couple were married in 1910, their only child Ben wasn't born until 1927. In the "Amazing Colossal Episode Guide," writer Paul Chaplin theorizes that they were Yankees fans, and "their favorite team's stupendous performance that year (the '27 Yankees are considered the best ever) sent them howling into their one and only frenzy of desire." He then recognizes the flaw in this logic, since if Ben were conceived during the 1927 World Series, he wouldn't have been born until mid-1928, so it must have been something else.
I listen to Penn Jillette's Sunday School podcast and recently he mentioned doing all the voice spots for Comedy Central back in the day. I thought, "wow I never noticed". Now I'm even more shocked that I didn't notice.
39:07 When Terry read the dates in the family bible why was her first question why the son was in college at age 27 and not why this couple didn't have their first kid until after they had been married for 17 years. That's what I would ask about if I read those dates and I'm mad because the movie never gives an answer. That makes no sense.
Mason Allen Yeah. One of The MST3K writers had the same problem. His theory is that Ma and Pa were huge ‘27 Yankees fans. sol.semo.edu/mst3k/Misc/Old%20Scifi%20era%20MST3K%20site/www.castleforrester.com/media/guide/0522.htm
He could have gone to college after serving in the war under the "G.I. Bill." Many servicemen did back then. Maybe he wasn't their first child, due to a miscarriage, or they had to "try" for a few years.
Mike: "None of this would've have happened if they'd just used the club! " None of this would've happened if they'd just worn sensible shoes!! You have to dress for success you know!
Thanks Will for sharing I hate to say it but I'll have to watch it again I must've paused it eight times but did enjoy the parts I did see two thumbs up Wll 👍🏼👍🏼. thanks 🙋🏽🇨🇦
One thing left out of the credits, "No teenagers were hurt, or even used, in the making of this film."
Teenagers were older back then, it took a while for them to catch up and realize it.
@@Peter-pv8xx They were white too.
No humans, either.
Did people accept older teenagers back then? Mel Torme was like 50 in Girls Town. Mamie Van Doren must have been at least 30.
Came for the riffs. Stayed for Frank's agonized screams.
"You're dirt, Terry. He'd never touch you."
"Society didn't give me enough bullets!"
I just LOST it at the "Ugh I lost my spot...gotta start over...'In the beginning...'" 😂😂😂
That's one of my favorite riffs of the whole series.
Even without the mst3k crew, this film is genuinely hilarious.
Those are usually the best movies. Like Beast of Yucca Flats, Prince if Space, and Bride of the Monster, just name a few. But some movies are boring, even with the riffing, like Rebel Set, Radar Secret Service, and Rocketship X-M.
meh. too much sadistic violence.
"Only thing I read are the comics. I need laughs."
"Eh, Deuteronomy's a hoot!"
That one got me so good.
I wonder what Terry and Mike would have thought of the "Song of Solomon". 🤔🤨 🤭🤩 😏🥵
I like this movie. It’s so quaint in 2020 while I watch the world being torn down around me.
“Where’s Mom?”
“I’m Mom now!”
"Can't we just have a normal Thanksgiving where we drink and don't talk to each other?!" So true!!
Ah, mine rarely come out so well.
Alcohol was banned under prohibition in the 1920s, as were teenagers in the 1950s.
That's why the doughy man went to the speakeasy.
Things the American public was terrified of in the 1950s, in order of severity:
- The ever-present threat of Nuclear War
- Teenagers
That's the whole list
It's an historical orthodoxy that the teenager was invented (in marketing terms) in the 1950s. One manifestation of that is the B-films with "Teenage..." titles.
@@PizzaDinosaur Oh...polio, too.
Up until the 1990's if your parents suck enough. No, you're a specific example
Here comes the floppy arm of the law .
There's a kinda overlooked riff at 1:10:12 that I always love.
"Well, who is it?"
"Bill Salisbury, a neighbor of ours."
Mike: "He invented the steak." 😂
God, that "mystos" clip is genius
And a PERFECT target, too! 🤭 😆
Don Dohler later took this movie's basic premise of a gang of hoodlums holding a family hostage in their off-the-beaten-path home and used it for his film Blood Massacre. At the end the family of yokels peel their faces off and reveal themselves to be skeletal alien monster things and they slaughter all the thugs.
A Don Dohler movie with aliens and yokels in it? You don't say!
Bringing heaters up to the mountains? Good idea, it gets cold up there... oh, he means guns.
Teenage Crime Wave is the name of my The Clash cover band.
Awesome name!
The Doughy Guy skit has to be in the top 5 skits of all time.
"You're workin' for me!" "Can I have the day off?" lol
Fun Fact! The utility infielder listed in the credits, Patrick Brantseg, went on to voice Gypsy in the ninth and tenth seasons!
I thought it was the Patrick Brantseg who played for the Twins
"He came at me with his face! I panicked!"
**cigarettes all over the ground**
"Holy cow! Did you have Rod Serling over for dinner?"
Not bad! (I would've guessed Edward R. Murrow.) 😉
"Deuteronomy is a hoot."
Indeed 😊
The moment I accepted Mike as Joel’s replacement was when he put a stop to Crow’s Star Wars opening scroll reference at 6:04
Mike being excited to see who he thought was DeForest Kelly just killed me for some reason
sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssNESdRUNk!
Show 522 is an example as to why fans should always watch & listen through all the MST credits. From front to back, bottom to top the shows are full of detailed craftsmanship.
The son has about a half dozen chances to jump this creep and his 100 Ib girlfriend. Take them both down with one big lunge.
I actually really like this movie. The riffs are great, but the acting is exceptional--especially the old couple.
All of the acting was quite good. Sure the villain was over the top, but probably that was the director's choice. Performers are blamed many times by other professionals' bad decisions.
I was just thinking that the old couple really did a good job of playing an old couple.
@@DunmoresMovieMania the acting for the old couple was good it was the acting of the villains that was fucking terrible.
That doughy guy skit was great! I feel so bad for all the women that had to be paired up with doughy middle-upper middle aged men in movies during that era.
Is it any better now, when twenty years old actresses are paired up with actors who are fit but 50-60 years old?
King of Queens.
I love Lucy anyone?
Has anyone else wondered how Jane would do in an essay contest?
Is it her birthday today?
Literally every day
Nice "I Accuse My Parents" callback.
I was thinking between her parents and Jimmy Reardon's, these movies sure loved to portray these innocent, misguided kids as being raised by the most heartless people.........
"Youth is better in every situation!" "Youth is better, old is stupid!"
Youth, the freshmaker
"I'm not a violent man but if you take my last stamp, I'll kill you"
"Did you have to shoot him RIGHT in the face, Ted? "
best lines, laugh every time
My favorite is "Ooh, right in the... uh... shoulder! Yeah."
My favorite: “What’s got into you?”
“Muenster cheese”
Anybody else live here? Franz Liszt
Is that him? Well he’s more three dimensional..
Y'know, when I was in girl-jail we didn't get to wear silk nighties like these girls did...
You clearly went to the wrong girl-jail.
they're wearing spike heels too👠
This is the first MST3K I watched where I actually enjoyed the movie and wanted to know how it ended! LOL
The only MST3K movie that I ever enjoyed for its own sake was the one that they watched in the MST3K theatrical film, which was "This Island Earth". Although not nearly as good as "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "Forbidden Planet", or other '50's sci-fi films, it's pretty fun, and it has very nice special effects.
Yeah that's how I felt about "The Leechwoman" from Universal Pictures💓. It's one of my favorites along with "The Deadly Bees!" 😆🐝
''Get moving, big eyes. ''OK, fat ass'' lmao
This episode is not that bad. It has an '' alternative theatre " quality to it. I liked the tension of all these characters trapped in the same house 🏡, unable to leave.
"I'm removing you from the custody of your parents." GOOD! They were literally more concerned with the dad's work reputation than listening to their daughter telling the truth that she was innocent.
In the dad’s defense, he did try to make up for not standing by his daughter’s side.
Can’t say the same thing about the mom.
Are the police even allowed to use pin-up pictures of suspects like that? Did they really not have any other, more appropriate photos of her?
This is such a great episode, and proof that if the acting is hammy enough, a movie doesn't need bad special effects and monster-suits to be riffed.
+BugPope I joked moreso of the fact that of all the pictures the parents could provide and it was a pinup!
It's the old bad movie and TV thing of using what's obviously the actors' glamour shots, taken to its ridiculous extreme.
BugPope, have I seen you around the Retsupurae comment section? ;)
You'll find me here, there and on baby bat videos.
Voxel Composer is from around there too. The Venn diagram of Retsupurae and MSTies is a circle within another circle.
At about 24:00 the Terry actress poses a little like Bonnie Parker (in that famous "cigar" photo). I'm sure that was no coincidence.
It's no joke to say that this MST episode is one of my Thanksgiving traditions. I put it aside and wait a whole year to see it, just like any other Thanksgiving story. Plus, it's one of the great episodes even apart from that.
Mine too-with "I Accuse My Parents" for a double dose of melodrama and callous parenting.
Happy Thanksgiving to anybody watching this movie.
you mean depressing thanksgiving.
The fight at the top of the rotating thing is cool!
Yeah, This movie ain't no masterpiece, but that fight had me on the edge of my seat. Also it's filmed at Griffith observatory in LA, it was kinda cool to watch because I've been there.
BEST Mads' invention segment....EVER!!! hahahahaaaaa
How is this a crime prevention movie when our lead is wrongfully sent to prison?
I think they were trying to go for a "be careful who you associate with"-type moral.
What you have to understand about Hays-era Hollywood was they only cared about morality until the censors signed off on it. Then it was on to the real money of the picture: dames and guns!
So the text is "crime doesn't pay", but the paratext is "let's stick these four virile youths* in a room so they can seduce and/or murder each other."
* virility and youth not guaranteed
Because it's not a crime prevention movie, it's a delinquentsploitation movie.
That station wagon is boss! If they'd been smart enough to get camping supplies, they could've hid out a lot longer in the wild.
LOL, about the 2:00 point when Crow says "I've gone blind from forging 40 nazi documents" that is Totally a The Great Escape reference...
+Eddie Schirmer Kind've a give away when Tom hummed the tune too
Same with contacts at the Swiss boarder. 😆
Donald Pleasance not being so not pleasant for a change, if still a pain in the ass. Going blind just before the big break out? Thanks a lot, Don.
"I used to have cartilage..." That damn near killed me!
Am I the only one that was kind of invested in the movie itself?
I mean, it's not a GREAT movie, and I wouldn't have watched the un-MSTed version of it, but I was kind of legitimately interested in seeing what was happening in the movie, which is unusual for MST3K..
Every once in a while an episode does that to me too. The ending to this movie though had a feel like they didn't know how to end it. It wrapped up way too quickly.
The first time I saw it (only a few years ago) I realised I was actually trying to listen to the dialogue OVER the riffs. I was pretty bamboozled when I noticed.
You are one of the three so far ;-)
For once, I think that the film can be watched as a normal movie in which something happens and the audience wants to know what happens and how it ends. I would have watched it on its own and I would have paid to see it in the cinema.
@@sprybug I remember when I first saw this episode and got caught up in the movie. The ending was such a letdown because it just kind of ended. It reminded how bad it really was, despite my interest while watching it.
If you listen closely, or even if you don't, because I wasn't, when they showed the heroine's beauty pageant mug shot on TV and she screamed "TURN IT OFF", you can barely hear Tom say George C Scott, unless it was Crow. My guitar teacher told me the story that "TURN IT OFF" comes from the movie Hardcore, with George C. It took me a while to pick it up, but Trace says that a lot. In my study of comments, I haven't read anyone relate that, and I read a lot of comments. As for beauty pageants, everyone knows what happens to the losers, right? An endless stream of hospitality rooms and Rodney Dangerfield's.
I've heard them make that riff in a few different episodes and wondered if it was a Hardcore reference. Guess this confirms it!
Oh, yes, I know where "TURN IT OFF!" comes from. I just think that on the chance anyone IS familiar with it they don't want to relay it in the comments. Considering what was... happening in that scene with George C.
“Slim Whitman, chauffeur.” And then the yodel! Absolute gold!!😂😂
Smug Looks: The Film.
why are they wearing spike heels in jail?
More importantly is why did you notice that?
35:57 "Two teenage girls and a yute-" "And a hwhat?" "A yute!"
I thought there were 2 yutes
You didn't tell me you had a seed catalogue!
That mousse mace gag....that's just too funny.
Somebody finally told Kevin how to pronounce Ayn Rand!
"Okey-dokey, Mister Vocabulary...what does 'pistol-whip' mean?!" XD
This is Jim Rockford, leave your message after the beep.
Did you have Rod Serling over for dinner?
Humming the Rockford Files theme while a phone rings out: it's funny that when faced with a competently-made film, the guys tend to be stuck amusing themselves with jokes of only peripheral relevance.
For once, the decisions everybody takes make some kinda sense. I specially liked the discussion about what to do next around the phone or Bill noticing that something is up because of the cigarette butts.
Just a teenage crimewave! Just a teenage crimewave
They're all crime-ded
This episode is gold.
1:28:15 - Best ending ever!
"You didn't tell me you had a SEED CATALOG, old man!!" 🤣🤣🤣
This is like Quentin Tarrantino under the Hayes Code.
not enough feet
“The next time you want to sample this one back, with my designer Line of Mace Moose.”
(Spray)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Satelite of Love REALLY liked that one line, didn't they?
Keep in my mind how nervous I am though
So, our heroine didn't exactly have the biggest impact on the plot in the end, did she?
Practically zero.
Characters didn't really have arcs in this film
@@koboldengineering7687 This film didn't really have characters, period lol
She at least has nearly the greatest MST3K "call back" line ever, at 51:45.
"See, I was just at the Stubby Kaye auditions!"
Thanks you for uploading! It's nice to see the uncut SOLies skit again.
The cops weren't around any of the twelve thousand times Terry called Jane Little Eva so her attempt at clearing her isn't going to help.
Y'know you just leave that gun laying around, some klids gonna pick it up and start playing with it!
Yeah but that's their RIGHT.
lol
Born in the wagon of a traveling show. Born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus. Born in the bayou. Born in the USA. Born TO BE BAD.
go ahead, let it out. have a teenage cry wave.
(FYI) Mike was part of team mst3k from the start (but) didn'tget on screen until mid season five
Same with Bill I believe…
Was he part of the original KTMA crew like Trace, Joel and (I think) Jim?
So, the crime wave consisted of TWO (count 'em) teenagers. Also, we learn that while the old farm couple were married in 1910, their only child Ben wasn't born until 1927. In the "Amazing Colossal Episode Guide," writer Paul Chaplin theorizes that they were Yankees fans, and "their favorite team's stupendous performance that year (the '27 Yankees are considered the best ever) sent them howling into their one and only frenzy of desire." He then recognizes the flaw in this logic, since if Ben were conceived during the 1927 World Series, he wouldn't have been born until mid-1928, so it must have been something else.
The "Mystos" skit is hilarious but for younger viewers please look up Mentos ads (otherwise I would think it makes no sense haha).
The fresh maker!
Probably where Dave Grohl got the idea for the Big Me video.
That Rockford bit was awesome!!!! XD
One of my favorite MST3K episodes. Thanks for uploading!
Wow, this actually has a Thanksgiving theme. They could have played this on the Turkey Day Marathon!
I listen to Penn Jillette's Sunday School podcast and recently he mentioned doing all the voice spots for Comedy Central back in the day. I thought, "wow I never noticed". Now I'm even more shocked that I didn't notice.
Who's taking the mugshots down at booking? This is totally inappropriate - 37:00
DOUGHY GUYS!
"Is she makin' a double nintendo?"
I have met Ernest Borgnine and his lovely wife Tovah at the Milwaukee Circus Parade in the mod 90's.......what wonderful people.
"You guys rotate crops?"
1:04:20 is so quality. I’m glad I know what the Rockford Files are so I could get the joke!
39:07 When Terry read the dates in the family bible why was her first question why the son was in college at age 27 and not why this couple didn't have their first kid until after they had been married for 17 years. That's what I would ask about if I read those dates and I'm mad because the movie never gives an answer. That makes no sense.
Mason Allen Yeah. One of The MST3K writers had the same problem. His theory is that Ma and Pa were huge ‘27 Yankees fans. sol.semo.edu/mst3k/Misc/Old%20Scifi%20era%20MST3K%20site/www.castleforrester.com/media/guide/0522.htm
He could have gone to college after serving in the war under the "G.I. Bill." Many servicemen did back then. Maybe he wasn't their first child, due to a miscarriage, or they had to "try" for a few years.
@@matthewkoch6937 The old man didn't look like the most virile stud in the corral.
Agreed, it's a bit strange. Perhaps they needed to justify the actors for the parents looking too old to have a son of college age....
Holy Cow! Didja have ROD SERLING over for dinner? 🚬🚬🚬
Tres screams,"it's ringing again.. WHAT DOES IT MEAN!!!
Mike: "None of this would've have happened if they'd just used the club! "
None of this would've happened if they'd just worn sensible shoes!! You have to dress for success you know!
They would've gotten away with it if they shot the matron so she couldn't identify them.
Anyone notice at 23:58, they misspelled Dan Aykroyd's name wrong?
I grew up during this time, and everyone was more content with their station in life than people are today.
When he's being punched in the face at the end, boiiiiioioioioing, boiiiiioioioioing.... roflmao
I wish I'd known the "crime spree" consisted of people sitting in a room for an hour. An hour of watching a war hero being emasculated. Fun times.
Thanks for posting. I love the mike Nelson episodes
Thanks Will for sharing I hate to say it
but I'll have to watch it again I must've paused it eight times but did enjoy the parts I did see
two thumbs up Wll 👍🏼👍🏼. thanks 🙋🏽🇨🇦
I always get this one mixed up with The Sinister Urge and The Violent Years.
watch this every Thanksgiving! thanks!
Looking for Mr. Bland-Bar