Amazing Colossal Grade: Manning likes goofballs and creepy girls, but felt the experiment was a bit of a drip
Movie Pain: Medium - The idiotic stabs at humor are hurtful
Riffing: Induced mostly smiles
Skits: Very funny, the highlight of this episode
An attempt at riffing on an
(intended) comedy. Tommy Kirk stars in this teen beach flick about a stolen
scroll. The comic relief is Exidor (Robert Donner) from "Mork &
Mindy" fame, who embarrasses himself by stumbling and bumbling and coming
off shameful rather than funny.
Joel and the Bots struggle
in the riff department, perhaps owing to trying to add comedy to a comedy. The delivery was a little flat for me, the humor levels ran lukewarm. They offer
up corny puns (Pringles, Rubens), some rhyming games with the name
"Lakopolous" (He's totally Psychopolous") and a lot of
"rich white kid/master race" jokes, which grow stale after a while.
The host segments are good.
The Bots robotic prayers (including a reluctant blessing for Tweeky"), the
Mads "Tank Tops", Joel's look at the '60s, and Tom's "Creepy
Girl" song; all brought a smile to my face.
Caper’s not a horrible
experiment, but there's little side-splitting in it. It's an average episode as
compared to others in the MST hit parade.
Host Segments
Intro: The Bots say their prayers. Invention: Tank Tops and
Tickle Bazooka. Segment 1: Joel remembers
the 60's. Segment 2: "Creepy Girl"
song. Segment 3: A weaker skit; Frank's
Tupperware party. End: Joel uses a chart to
try and understand the movie. No Stinger -But if I
chose one? Dozens of beach guys wander zombie-like towards the unsuspecting
creepy girl
Notable Riffs
* "Nice Measurements. 36 - 2... 85?" - Joel
* "Hey, was she in the movie 'David and
Lisa'?" - Crow on the Creepy Girl
* "Don't trust a guy with a dumb Crayola
hat." - Joel
* "Meanwhile, in the dark, impenetrable void,
Jean-Paul Sartre was a-movin' and a-groovin'." - Crow
* "Ah, the clean smell of kids who know they rule
the world." - Crow
* "Hmmm, look at this. 'White People Voted the
Best People in the World'!" - Servo
* "...Charlie Moss has got a groovy sister. You
know who else thinks so?" - "The football team?" - Tommy/Joel
* "I just thought I'd take my morning
constitutional." - "Ewww! Here on the beach??" - Mr.
Duvall/Servo
* "Monkey love pile on me!" - Joel as Charlie
* "Hey do the "Jerk", the
"Idiot", the "Moron"..." - Crow
* "Oh, yeah, feel real good about kicking a
fish's butt. That's real nice." - Joel
* "Hey look everybody, I found a new script, and
this one's even funnier." - Servo
* "AMF Vomit?" – Servo
Riffs Explained
"And Donald goes in
where the others have been" - All
This riff was inspired by a
scene in the movie The Dirty Dozen". This was #15 in the operation
countdown (and Franco goes in where...). John Cassavetes played Victor Franco
and earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for the role.
Stuff & Nonsense
* The "Creepy
Girl" Ulla Strömstedt, was a "Swedish Junior Ice Skater" who toured with the Ice Capades in 1951. She later starred as Scandinavian Oceanographer, Ulla Norstrand, in TV's "Flipper". Ulla pased away from unknown causes on on June 13, 1986 at age 46.
* The "Obscure"
singer on the Boat the gang mocks? That's Carol Connors. She was a member of
the "Teddy Bears" (To Know Him is to Love Him), dated Elvis and
co-wrote "Hey Little Cobra", "With You I'm Born Again" and
the "Theme from Rocky". Guess she got the last laugh boys.
* Ted Mikels, director of
the MSTed "Girl in Gold Boots", was this movie's cinematographer.
Available on DVD: Collection
Volume 1
