Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S09/E08 Touch of Satan



Film watched: Touch of Satan

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation has examples of:
"Crow: You can't use Amazing Grace in a devil movie!"
 * Amazing Freaking Grace: "Public domain, we don't have to pay anyone! Hahahaha!"

"Jody: Who are you? Mike: My name is Margret Rawhide Chew."
 * Awesome McCoolname

"Tom: So in the end, Satan wins, I guess? Mike: Yep, pretty much a shut-out for Satan."
 * Brick Joke: Near the beginning, when Jodie first goes to the pond where he meets Melissa, Crow says "Now the credits are going to unspool backwards, right?" Guess what happens in the movie's end credits?
 * Downer Ending: In the film.

"Servo: Is that right? Maybe I should check my dictionotomy."
 * Dumb Blonde: Steffi, who somehow fails to notice anything unusual about a talking gorilla and an "omnipotent" alien who carries his own brain around in a bowl. On the other hand, she's very good at browbeating them into submission.
 * Malaproper: Referenced in the film.

"Servo: Emby Mellay? That's not a name, it's a bad Scrabble hand."
 * Mistaken Identity: Crow accidentally sells his soul to a guy named Stan.
 * Unfortunate Names

"Crow: Why do I suddenly feel hungry for Carnation Ice Cream?"
 * Product Placement: In the film.

"Melissa: Then stay. Just one more day. Mike: Oh, you mean STAY!!!"
 * Refuge in Audacity: Making fun of the elderly is taken to the same extent in this episode as mocking Joe Don Baker for being fat is in Final Justice.
 * Remember the New Guy?: Servo's killer Grandma.
 * Running Gag: Jokes about Walnuts, pauses and Jodie's Maverick. And rednecks.
 * Shout-Out: When Lucinda kills the police officer, there's a joke about calling Harvey Keitel in to "fix" things.
 * When Melissa talks Jodie into staying at the farm after aforementioned murder:


 * Take That: When Melissa's grandma-sister Lucinda sits in front of her mirror, an annoyed Crow complains that now "a withered old Billy Zane is going to come out and give her a withered old Coeur De La Mer".
 * Temporary Substitute: Steffi the babysitter.