Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S09/E13 Quest of the Delta Knights

Film watched: Quest of the Delta Knights

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation contains examples of:

 * A Day at the Bizarro: Pearl, upset with Mike's mental health and upbeat nature despite repeated viewings of bad movies, swaps places with him for the first quarter of the show. Pearl dons a jumpsuit and riffs alongside the 'bots in the theater, while Mike hangs out with Bobo and Brain Guy back at the castle.
 * The Alleged Robot: While Gypsy repairs the original Crow, she gives Mike and Tom a "loaner Crow" that she's been tinkering with. He can't speak coherently, he shakes constantly and smoke keeps belching out of him - but he's got a killer stereo!
 * And Now for Something Completely Different
 * Call Back: In the opening host segment, Crow goes in for repairs and is temporarily substituted with a less than optimal Fake Crow. When the real Crow returns, he says that Gypsy needs Fake Crow immediately; some other guy's Crow got trashed and he needs a loaner. The Call Back part is the fact that there is another Crow - the one who stayed in the past over the course of Time Chasers.
 * Loaner Crow is actually one of the older versions of the Crow puppet from either the KTMA days or early Comedy Channel era.
 * Did Not Do the Research: Many jokes about Leonardo being from Vinci instead of being named da Vinci. That actually is what his name means.
 * The Brains almost certainly knew that, and were mocking the ham-handed way the movie introduced Leonardo. In real life, da Vinci was his title (not an inherited surname) because he really was from Vinci. He also had a last name patronymic title: di ser Piero, as in "son of Piero." But it's admittedly hard to make jokes about that one.
 * Notable Original Music: "Air on a Delta Knight," as performed by the Sir Thomas Neville Servo Consort of the Middle Ages Just-After-the-Plague Singers, and arranged by Sir Thomas Neville Servo himself.
 * Running Gag: Hanson jokes concerning Tee's hairstyle, Tee "pitying the foo'."
 * Special Guest: Leonardo da Vinci shows up in an ornithocopter-spaceship and complains (in a thick Brooklyn accent) about the movie's portrayal of him, calling the twerp in the film a "mook." When Servo wonders how Leo's still alive, the feisty Italian takes it as a threat and goes for his gun. At the end, Mike concludes that it's not a good idea to ask what Leonardo da Vinci does for a living.