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Film watched: ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]''
This was the first [[Christmas Episode]] of the comedy series. It became a holiday staple on the [[Comedy Central]] cable channel in the years following its 1991 premiere, helping it become one of the series' most popular episodes and introduced the film to a new generation in the form of younger MS-Ties.
Some of the original cast of [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] would later form ''[[Cinematic Titanic]]'' and took a second go at the film seventeen years later, this time [https://web.archive.org/web/20120305081910/http://www.cinematictitanic.com/showguide.php?showname=Santa_Claus_Conquers_the_Martians the full length version.]
=== The episode has examples of: ===
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** ''"Open up your heart and let the Patrick Swayze Christmas in / We'll gather at the [[Road House]] with our next of kin..."''
*** On a sidenote, someone played this song for Patrick Swayze during a radio show a few years after the episode aired. He loved it.
* [["Gift of the Magi" Plot]]: Dr. Forrester and Frank, with the inversion being that, since they're ''evil,'' they sold ''each other's'' stuff to pay for the presents.
{{quote|'''Frank:''' [[Stealth Pun|Oh, Henry!]]}}
* [[Hollywood Giftwrap]]: Dr Forrester's invention exchange.
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* [[Hilarity Ensues]]: Riffing the climactic "battle".
{{quote|'''Tom:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|Hilarity, guys.]] Not since the pie fight scene in ''[[The Great Race]]''!<br />
'''Crow:''' Not since the mudslide scene in ''[[McLintock!]]''!<br />
'''Joel:''' Not since the wagon race scene in ''[[The Hallelujah Trail]]''!<br />
'''Crow:''' Not since the chess-playing scene in ''[[The Seventh Seal]]''!<br />
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