#59 in Mighty Jack's Top 100
Amazing Colossal Grade: Whenever a square bugs me, I reach for a bowl of crunchy, munchy Rebels - they're all the kicks a growing Glenn needs.
Movie Pain: Low - My favorite of the biker flicks
Riffing: Wildly funny!
Skits: Funny with warm character development
A film about kicks! And a
speed racer who gets mixed up with some bikers and their "Virgin
Goddess": A failure as both a stock car driver and dancer, Rod Tillman
finds his true calling as an undercover agent. And, well... he's not very good
at that either.
One outstanding host segment
(Wild Rebels Cereal) is coupled with some nice theater work. J&TB's add
lyrics to a song -"My lunch goes BLEEA!"- and they are now
starting to really let fly with the pop culture references -TV's Batman
& David Letterman are both used for laughs.
Also; character
assassinations bloom, and why not! What with folks like... Fats: who's smarter
when he's dead. Banjo: played by former light heavyweight champ Willie
"the Wisp" Pastrano; the articulate Jeeter and of course, kicks craving Linda. All are such large, loony targets that the SOL gang easily pummels them
at will.
This episode also explains
Gypsy's role on the satellite (looking for Richard Basehart, she makes a quick appearance in the theater - which Joel calls "the Mystery Science Theater" for the first and only time). Strangely, this episode has no stinger -and there were so many wonderful candidates.
Host Segments
Intro: Gypsy is feeling blue so Joel shuts down the SOLs
higher functions. Invention: The Mads ride their Hobby Hogs while Joel takes a
bite of 3-D Pizza. Segment 1: Intellectual
bikers. Segment 2: Wild Rebels cereal. Segment 3: Joel sings a song to Gypsy. Afterward,
Tom & Crow jump him like the cheap thugs in the movie. End: Joel lifts everyone’s spirits, which confuses
Dr. F. Stinger: There wasn't one. The ACEG
list's the Alaimo dance as the stinger but this sliver of film never aired. Here's a stinger concept put together by The H-Man at YouTube to see how it might have looked...
Notable Riffs
* "And the glaucoma players, man I can hardly
read this." - Servo on the credit
* "Hi my name's Rod and I'm a gasaholic." -
Hi Rod." - Joel/All
* "Chicken began to cackle." "Leave my
chicken out of this." - Banjo/Crow
* "No man, the bread ran out." - "Oh,
so you couldn't bread your chicken." - Rod/Joel
* "It's Joe Namath!" - "No, it's Marcia
Brady all grown up and back from college." - Crow/Joel
* "Citrusville, City of Progress! Where everyone
is juiced!" - Crow
* "Do not induce vomiting." - "The
movie will do that for you." - Servo/Crow
* "Ah, there's the squeaky swamp... And the
exploding bush!" - Servo
* "It's Spiro Agnew and Spiro Agnew in 'The
Parent Trap'!" - Joel
* "Live fast, die young, and leave a fat,
bloated, ugly corpse." - Servo
* "Hey, there's a highway right next to the
railroad tracks. They'll never find us there!" - Servo
* "Whoa! That's a lot of slang for one
sentence." - Servo
* "You didn't learn a thing last night, did you."
- "Well, I did, but I don't think we can use it to rob a bank" -
Linda/Joel
* "Your square baby, so square you look like a
box." - "Yeah but there's a surprise inside." - Linda/Joel
* "Banjo, your just too high strung." - Joel
* "Yeah crack the funny." - "And you've
got a funny crack." - Rod/Crow
* "Uh oh, here comes the sermon on the Gran
Torino" - Servo
Riffs Explained
The camera pans up on Linda,
starting from her legs, and Crow quips... "It's
Joe Namath". He says this because the scene echoes a commercial
the former Jets QB did for Hanes Beautymist pantyhose in 1974. In it, the
camera pans up Joe's legs and the point is made that they can make even
Namath's legs (with his surgery scarred knees) look good.
"Here come the Fuzz,
here come the Fuzz" - All
A take off on the old
"Here come the Judge" comedy routine done by Dewey
"Pigmeat" Markham (1904-83) and later used by Sammy Davis Jr. on the
TV show "Laugh In" and Flip Wilson on the "Andy William's
Show" (as well as his own show)
Stuff and Nonsense
* The smart, fast Willie
Pastrano was champ from 1963 to '65 and used to spar with a young Ali (who
affectionately called the fighter, "Sweat Pea")
* Lead actor Steve Alaimo
co-wrote the song, "Melissa", with Gregg Allman. He was also one of
the founders of TK records (So you can blame or thank him for "KC and the Sunshine
Band")
MST cut out his best song in the film, you can see it here... YouTube - Also, the person who posted that video pointed out that the scene was shot at Trader John's in North Dade County across the street from the Junior College
Available on DVD: Collection
Volume 9
