Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S03/E15 Teenage Caveman

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    • E01 Girls Town
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    • E14 San Francisco International
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    • E15 Kitten With a Whip
    • E16 Racket Girls
    • E17 The Sword and the Dragon
    • E18 High School Big Shot
    • E19 Red Zone Cuba
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    • E21 The Beast of Yucca Flats
    • E22 Angels Revenge
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    • E23 The Amazing Transparent Man
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    • E24 Samson vs. the Vampire Women
  • S07
    • E01 Night of the Blood Beast
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    • E02 The Brute Man
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Film watched: Teenage Caveman with shorts Aquatic Wizards and Catching Trouble

The MST3K treatment of Catching Trouble provides examples of:

• The Bully: Ross is kinda one but Crow carries it a little further.

Crow: Throw him (bear cub) down a few times, Ross! What're you scared of him? C'mon beat him up!

• Celebrity Resemblance: Crow thinks the Seminole looked like Emo Phillips & does a killer impersonation of said comedian.
• Mama Bear: Sadly doesn't appear but boy do the bots really want to see her enter the fray.
  • Which probably means Ross shot her offscreen.
• Rooting for the Empire: The guys root for the wild cat and bear cubs when they try to escape.
• Shout-Out: To Apocalypse Now
• Take That: This short is followed with a host segment entitled "Catching Ross", wherein Joel brutally torments an action figure modeled after Ross while Tom mocks it. Fans complained when the short was put on a collection without "Catching Ross" included.
  • The Catching Ross skit is a supreme example of both Crowning Moment of Funny AND Crowning Moment of Awesome!
• Unfortunate Implications: Even behind the very jokes there is a sense of great contempt towards the people who made the short in contrast to the show's usual ribbing, though this wouldn't be the only time (Invasion of the Neptune Men)