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Post by msmystie3000 on Dec 26, 2012 10:05:17 GMT -5
Not to mention, in MITCHELL, "The lunatic is on the grass.....".
I also got a kick out of J&TB's "Were A Danger To Ourself & Others".
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Post by jimmydoorlocks on Dec 26, 2012 11:04:18 GMT -5
I loved Mike as Morrissey, too. He should have showed up more often, yowza...
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Dec 26, 2012 21:51:23 GMT -5
I'm just now remembering another one that's a callback to Starfighters; in any episode after Starfighters where there's a shot of jets in flight, or any shots from the window of an airplane, Nelson and the Bots break into the "refueling music": "daaaahhhh dah dah daaaahhhh... daaaahhhh dah dah daaaahhhh..."
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Dec 26, 2012 22:03:51 GMT -5
One that gets me every time is in "Final Justice," where Joe Don is chasing Palermo, who is dressed as a priest... Speaking of priests, I loved the scenes toward the end of The Rebel Set where Edward Platt, disguised as a priest, has bolted from the train and is making a run for it with all the money from the Chicago heist, and every time he appears on-camera, Servo starts singing old hymns as if he were running and breathless.
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Dec 26, 2012 22:16:38 GMT -5
I loved Mike as Morrissey, too. D'ahh ha ha hahh, what an awesome bit. Honestly, that's the first time I've seen that bit in years. Still, it just can't compare to Bridget Jones as Lisa Loeb:
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Post by Monophylos on Dec 26, 2012 22:47:18 GMT -5
Lisa Loeb? I thought that was Courtney Hole!
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Dec 27, 2012 18:17:55 GMT -5
Well, I'm watching Angels' Revenge right now and, of course, I'm remembering another one: that cheesy music that comes in when the Angels' van crashes into the drug processing plant compound, that stupid bastardized rip-off of Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra ("2001 Theme") -- and Servo chimes in, "vaguely Strauss -- but not!"
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Dec 27, 2012 18:19:45 GMT -5
Lisa Loeb? I thought that was Courtney Hole! No, she's with Pearl Hole... But, seriously... I'd totally forgotten about Lisa Loeb -- I'm not entirely up on my '90s alt-pop -- and I had to hit Google to refresh my memory, and it was just my luck that one of the first "hits" was a YouTube link to the exact video of the exact song that MST3K parodied in that Hexfield bit: a dreary, monotonous tune called "Stay" that was a big hit in the mid '90s. The set designers mimicked the look of the video perfectly -- the bare room, the moody light and shadow -- and Bridget was brilliant in that bit, totally nailing the hair, the clothes, the glasses, the voice, the simpering little-girl temper tantrum body language of Lisa Loeb in that video:
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Post by jimmydoorlocks on Dec 27, 2012 21:22:48 GMT -5
If I ever get a band together, we're so going to do a punk version of "Night Train to Mundo Fine".
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Post by msmystie3000 on Dec 27, 2012 21:35:56 GMT -5
I loved Mike as Morrissey, too. He should have showed up more often, yowza... MAN! That skit ROCKED! I may not be a Morrissey fan but Mike as Morrissey was perfect...not to mention hot!
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