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War Of The Colossal Beast:

  • Hilarious in Hindsight: In the episode Mike plays Glen reading the usual fan letter, whose writer names Joel as their favorite character. Mike would, of course, find himself the subject of a lot of hatred from those kinds of people a year later.

Mr. B Natural:

  • Crowning Moment of Funny: Mr. B, shame on you! HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY?!
    • "You know, I think Oscar Wilde only wished he was this gay."
      • "See Buzz, it's fun to be psychotic!" Really, the entire sequence where Mr. B interpretive dances the various instruments is hilarious due to both its own Narm and Joel and the Bots' shocked commentary.
    • "Ha ha...that's nice, MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!"
    • The debate between Tom Servo and Crow on whether Mr. B was a man or not, culminating in Crow's horror at Tom Servo's Unfortunate Implications.
 

 Crow: Mr. Servo, you've GOT to be kidding me! Let's assume for the moment that Mr. B Natural IS a man. My heavens! What a confusing message to send to little kids! Already, there's the painful feeling of isolation, the horrible, scarring acne - and Mr. Servo here would have us place a cross-dressing man with a clarinet slap dab in their bedrooms! Why not men in Little Bo Peep costumes with stinky cigars explaining the facts of life to our unsuspecting daughters? I, for one--

Joel: Mr. Servo, your rebuttal!

Tom: Yes! Yes! Mr. Crow! I don't think we should stop there! Let's break down ALL the barriers. Hairy men in Spartan costumes holding bake sales on shady boulevards! Naked jock-strap wrestling! Big, wonderful--

(Commercial sign)

 
    • The show actually topped this by featuring Mike Nelson's real-life wife, the lovely and talented Bridget Jones Nelson, as a dead ringer for Mr. B. Natural in the gathering of the MST3K Rogue's Gallery during the 1995 Turkey Day Special, which is featured on the Mystery Science Theater 3000: XVI [Limited Edition] collection of episodes.
    • The manufacturing company, C.G. Conn (which is still around) gets one, too; after watching the short, one fan emailed them to ask if this was the same company responsible for "Mr. B Natural"; the response was, "Yes, and don't hold it against us."
    • Having Buzz play the same loud, fast jazz music from the previous scene during a slow dance.
  • Fridge Horror: As pointed out by Tom Servo:
 

 Mr. B Natural: And don't be so sure I wasn't in the garden with Mr. and Mrs. Adam.

Servo: *nervous laugh* Yeah, you were the snake.

 
 

 Joel: Mr. B, you're hot!

Joel: (dreamily) Oh, Mr. B...

 
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