Monday, May 24, 2021

Beatles Riffs From Season 4 to Season 7

401 Space Travelers
About 18 minutes in, when the space capsule is making an odd sound, the bots mention that it sounds like such and such a song/band and Joel adds… “It sounds like the last chord in “A Day in the Life”, only they slowed it way down”

402 Giant Gila Monster
None that I heard

403 City Limits
* When one of the characters (I think it was Mick) said "Thank you Albert" Servo replies with "We're so sorry Uncle Albert". (ChibodeeCrocket)

* Near the beginning, Servo hears some music and says... "Sounds like Love Me Do" (MJ)

* A Beatles adjacent riff, found by sol-survivor... When Kim's character is offering aid to the Clippers, right after Joel's "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Goons" riff, one of the characters says "Lady, no one gives nothin' for nothin'" and Tom says "Except Billy Preston".
 

404 Teenagers From Outer Space
* When helmeted space teens emerge from the spacecraft, Joel says... "I am the egg man, Goo Goo Ga Joob"

* While the nurse gives Thor a shot, Joel sings... "Picture yourself on a train in the station "

* Near the end of the episode when Derek is meeting his father for the first time Derek mentions that if the people were to discover their leader is gone it would spark a revolution and that he isn't the only one with that book. Tom says "But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow". (sol-survivor) 

405 Being From Another Planet
* "Number 9, number 9" - Crow during credits

* And there this exchange about a band the Beatles signed to their record label, spoken when we see a burnt hand...
Joel: "Badfinger"
Servo: "I'll say"
Crow: "If you want it come and get it"

406 Attack of the Giant Leeches
* During the short as young Billy sneaks through a window, Joel sings: "She came in through the bathroom window"

* At the end while the guy is underwater looking for leeches, Servo warbles: "I'd like to be, under the sea..." (Maggs)

407 Killer Shrews
None that I heard

408 Hercules Unchained
None

409 The Indestructible Man
* During the short; men on horseback ride by and their head-dress is similar to something a nun might wear. Joel sings "Mother Superior jump the gun"

* Narrator: And then he gave us a most important answer" - Servo: "The Beatles"

410 Hercules Against the Moon Men
None

411 The Magic Sword
Mr. Atari says he didn't hear one but offered his own suggestion...
Servo: Sir George? Where are Sir John, Paul, and Ringo?
Crow: Sir Ringo? Nooooo!!!

And I thought when George conned Estelle into going into the cellar they could have made a Cavern Club pun "George, there's Beatles down here!" (Beetles/Beatles)


412 Hercules and the Captive Women
*During the 2nd Host Segments, Joel & Tom are playing Trivial Pursuit. In regards to a question about a Shakespear play, Servo keeps answering, "The Beatles"

* During the battle, Tom says - "Well, you say you want a revolution, huh?"
 
Image courtesy of Tom's Temple
 
413 Manhunt in Space
None

414 Tormented
* As Tom Stewart climbs to the top of the lighthouse, Servo sings, "The long and winding stairs"

* Tom Stewart: "You know how many records I'd have to sell to pay for that thing?" - Crow: "More than Elvis and the Beatles!"

* The blind lady says, "I know exactly what you are", and Joel adds a line from Lennon's Instant Karma - "You're a superstar, that's what you are"

415 The Beatniks
Mr. Baylis says to the singing 'Nik, "They've really got a hold on you?", and Servo responds by singing those words. The Beatles covered this Smokey Robinson song, titled... "You Really Got A Hold On Me"

416 Fire Maidens of Outer Space
As plane lands...
Joel: "It's the Beatles"
Bots: "AAAHHH!"
Joel: "It's been a hard days..."

417 Crash of Moons
During the General Hospital short
Woman: "well, he wanted to do it" -- Joel: "In the Road"

418 Attack of the The Eye Creatures
None heard (sol-survivor) 

419 The Rebel Set
None, but during the short, they had one they could have done one... When Johnny is running towards the camera, Servo does the usual "Run Von Ryan", but it also would have been the perfect spot for a joke about "A Hard Days Night". As Johnny's scamper resembles the Beatles running from fans at the beginning of that film

420 Human Duplicators
This one's a maybe, at the end as Kolos stands in the yard waiting to beam up, Crow has him say.... "I was at the airport. I was in a cab here... that's all I saw"... A member of the MST3K board says that this is similar to something George Harrison said after the final US tour when a reporter asked him if he got to see much of America.

421 Monster A-Go Go
* While high pitched notes play, someone says "Ravi Shankar's tunning up"

* When the monster happens upon a group of gals, they scream and Servo says "The Beatles!" like Ed Sullivan

422 Day the Earth Froze
During a song, Joel spots George Harrison's sitar teacher... "Hey it's Ravi Shankar"
 

423 Bride of the Monster
* When bearded Professor sneaks into Bela's house, Joel says, "Lenin?" and Tom softly replies.... "McCartney"

* Bela says "It was 20 years ago today" and Crow adds, "Sgt Peppers taught the band..."

424 Manos
None that I heard

501 Warrior of the Lost World
Servo sings "Eight Legs a Week", while Natasha and the Warrior walk through spiders. When Natasha is surrounded by guns, Tom laughs nervously and says “Uh, give peace a chance?”

502 Hercules
Joel's invention is Instant karma. Joel quotes the song in his intro and later Dr. F says… “Well we all shine on, don’t we Mr. Robinson” before he sends them the movie

503 Swamp Diamonds
"Lovely Rita, Meter Maid" - Servo (sung while lady cop talks with the Captain)

504 Secret Agent Super Dragon
After spy searches through a nightstand drawer, Joel says... "Only to find Gideon's Bible"

505 The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
“Hey, there’s George Harrison!” – Joel as ship sails into a city that recalls India

506 Eegah
Eegah drops Roxy off in his cave and Tom sings a few lines from a Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney duet... Arch Sr: "She's, mine" - Servo: "The doggone girl is mine"

507 I Accuse My Parents
None

508 Operation Double 007
* Bad guy says to another... "Oh, and lose the Ringo hat" - Servo

* While a dude with a bushy mustache (something something) knife wound, Crow says... "I am the walrus, koo koo ka...joo..."

* During the scene with the killer nun, Servo sings... "Mother Superior jump the gun!"

* Man answers the phone: "Hello, hello!"... Joel: I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello!"

* At the airport while the band plays, there are a few that are Beatle/Brit/Liverpool related... Servo sings - "Well shake it up baby..." from the Beatles cover, "Twist and Shout" (Chibodee) And Joel adds 2 more - "Man it's kind of like the British Invasion is waiting for a flight out" and - "They call it the Mersey Beat; in time you'll be screaming for mercy"

* Baddie says, "I warn you, be careful how you answer..." and Servo cries out, "The Beatles!"

509 Girl In Lovers' Lane
I didn't find any Beatles quips. But there was an opportunity as one of the prostitutes was named Sadie. And while she didn't make a fool of everyone, she almost made off with all of Danny's cash and managed to get a fry-cook fired Sexy Sadie, your the latest and the greatest of them all.

510 The Painted Hills
None that I heard

511 Gunslinger
Little Man: You gonna let it be?

Tom: Speaking words of wisdom? (Big Quiet)

512 Mitchell
None that I heard

513- The Brain That Wouldn't Die
* Kurt: Imagine... Mike: All the people living for today... (Big Quiet)

* In a sleazy bar with butch looking gals, Tom says, “Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a woman” (MJ)

514 Teen-Age Strangler
No riffs, but during the host segment about true love, John & Yoko are mentioned in a list of couples. And the Yipe Stripes girl in the movie name drops the Beatles.

515 - Wild World of Batwoman
* When we see a close up of a drummer playing, Mike says "Just when I thought this movie couldn't get worse Ringo is in it" (ChibodeeCrocket)

* When the SOL crew are thinking of a way to show cheating is bad, Crow wakes up all of a sudden and says "The Beatles" (ChibodeeCrocket)

When the robbery victim says "Come and get it", Servo quips, "The Badfinger murders". Badfinger was a band the Beatles signed to Apple. Paul wrote their big hit, "Come and Get It" (MJ)

* When Bruno VeSota walks up with Goober, Mike has the woman who greets them say... Are you the Beatles? Ah, you must be the Beatles" (MJ)

* During the seance, when the fake Chinese or Japanese is spoken, Crow says "Yoko no!" (MJ)

516 Alien From L.A.
Crow sings from "A Day in the Life" Woke up, fell out of bed...
517 Beginning of the End
During the final Host Segment, Mike uses a postcard of The Beatles to demonstrate the film's SFX. "The grasshoppers! Aahh! Are attacking The Beatles! Aahh!"- Mike (Big Quiet)

518 The Atomic Brain
When we see an airplane landing, Mike sings a little Back in the USSR… “Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC”

519 Outlaw
None heard (sol-survivor)

520 Radar Secret Service
None that I heard

521 Santa Claus
When Santa is covered by hundreds of letters, Crow says.. "Ha, ha, I'm more popular than Jesus!"

522 Teen-Age Crime Wave
None that I heard

523 Village of the Giants
* When the punk teens enter the Go-Go, Mike says - "Oh, I thought the Bugs were gonna be here". Might be a reference to the Beatles.

* "Hey, isn't that the Asian performance artist who broke up the Beau Brummels?" - Servo

* When blonde says to Opie "Why don't we"... Crow: "Do it in the road"

* During the spider scene, there is a guitar twang and Tom sings, "It's been a Hard Days Night"

524 12 To The Moon
Towards the end of the film... Dr. Heinrich: "Listen!" - Mike: "Do you want to know a secret"

And Crow sings a little Ebony and Ivory as two men speak to each other

601 Girls Town
* During Paul’s "Lonely Boy", Mike complains about the length of the tune and says… “A teen song from Bangladesh” - Which references the benefit concert organized by George Harrison in 1971

But no “Mother Superior jump the gun”?

602 Invasion USA
The reporter asks cowboy if he can ask him a few questions. Servo has the cowboy quickly answer... "The Beatles!"

603 The Dead Talk Back
None that I heard

604 Zombie Nightmare
* While the Zombie stalks its victims, some music pops on and Servo sings, "Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head", then Mike tacks on a few more lines from "A Day In The Life".

* Servo also sings a few lyrics from the Beatles "With A Little Help From My Friends" (what would you do, if I sang out a tune...) But he does it like Joe Cocker because the zombie's herky-jerky movements resemble Joe when he performs.

* Chibodee notes this reference to a band the Beatles discovered and signed to Apple records... During the opening credits when they show the band, Servo says "Hey I saw them open for Badfinger".

605 Colossus and the Head Hunters
* During a skit, Servo sings "Taxman"

* While long-haired, bearded men run, Mike says... "The Ringo Starr gang"

* At the Headhunters camp...
Mike: "Look at that, it's Paul McCartney's head on a pole"
Servo: "yay!"
Crow: "Don't get me down or anything. It's not like I'm being defiled"

* After the movie when they start to read the letters Gypsy sings a snippet of "Michelle" (sol-survivor)

606 The Creeping Terror
Mike sings these lines as a guy drives up a hill - "Now somewhere in the black mountain hills of Dakota there lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon"

607 Bloodlust
As Jondor walks by, Mike quips... "I shouldn't let Brian Epstein dress me"

608 Code Name: Diamondhead
* In the short, Crow notices that Admiral Halsey joins in the parade. Halsey was a real person, mentioned in a Paul McCartney tune. (Correction by sol-survivor)

* During the film, Crow makes a crack about Ravi Shankar P.I.  

609 Skydivers
None

610 Violent Years
None
 

611 Last of the Wild Horses
* Mike spots a horse with shaggy main and says... "That horse has a Beatles wig!"

* And the alt-universe Mads mention that they have the Beatles in their universe. (Big Quiet)

612 Starfighters
* During the opening credits the guys sing "JET! Ooooh, oooh"

* As a pilot looks upwards, Servo spouts, "And marshmallow skies"

* During the Servo chorus, we hear a bit of Blackbird in the lyrics "Take these broken wings and learn to fly..."

* "...38's in World War II, the 86's in Korea" - "V-8 and the One After 909" - Col. Hunt/Servo

Of Note: Mike makes a comment about "Run For Your Life", but he's referring to the Ben Gazzara TV drama which ran from 1965 to 1968, not the Beatles song.

613 Sinister Urge
None

614 San Fransico International
As politicians step off an airplane, Tom says, "Ladies and gentlemen, the parents of the Beatles!"

615 Kitten With A Whip
When the Politico goes to Jody's room, the door read 9 and Mike says..." Number 9. We are standing still. ", from the White Album track, "Number 9"

616 Racket Girls
* At the very beginning of the film, there is an extended scene of a wrestling match. Crow points out that "No wonder people went nuts over the Beatles, this was all they had." (Correction by sol-survivor)

* When Peaches and the creepy European guy are running behind the car, Mike riffs in a Euro-accent, "Hey, vy don't ve do it in the road? No one vill be vatching us." (Supplied by Mr. Atari)

* At about an hour and 15 minutes on my timestamp during one of the endless wrestling matches someone shouts "The Beatles." (ash2)

617 Sword and the Dragon
None that I heard

618 High School Big Shot
None: Not even a "Baby You're A Rich Man" sing-a-long

619 Red Zone Cuba
None that I heard

620 Danger! Death Ray!
Spoken while the naked girl works on her bad art... "Hey, she paints as good as Linda McCartney" - Crow

621 The Beast of Yucca Flats
* During the money short, dad picks up juniors budget and reads - Crow sez... "Helter Skelter, very nice"

* As the clock ticks, Mike and sings... "Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head"

* Crow, speaking in the same drone as the narrator: "Father Mackenzie, darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there"

622 Angels Revenge
None

623 Amazing Transparent Man
* During the "Days of Our Years" short, as the Reverend looms large near the camera, Servo says, "I'm bigger than Jesus"

* During the film Tom sings Paul McCartney's "Spies Like Us" several times.

624 Samson vs the Vampire Women
* When Queen Serena rises, right after the Magic Eye picture reference, Servo sings "Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head" from A Day in the Life. (sol-survivor)

The Movie: This Island Earth
None heard (sol-survivor)

701 Night of the Blood Beast
During Gypsy's song, she sings; "... Hello, hello, hello. I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello!"

702 Brute Man
None that I heard

703 Deathstalker and the Warriors From Hell
Near the end, as a note plays on, Crow notes... "They're playing the chord from "A Day in the Life"

704 The Incredible Melting Man
When the General gets off the plane Crow shouts "Woo hoo the Beatles... Oh there's nobody here"
 

705 Escape 2000
After spotting a character in a hat, Crow says... "It's real hard to find genuine Ringo caps anymore." (MJ)

and when a character (Trash or Strike) says, "Come on, Come On" and Mike adds... "Please please me!" (Wolf99x)

706 - Laserblast
Nothing specific, but Crow did make reference to a guy who played on a few of their songs when he said... "Billy Preston's getting a solo"

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