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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..."'' |
** ''"Open up your heart and let the Patrick Swayze Christmas in / We'll gather at the [[Road House]] with our next of kin..."'' |
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*** On a sidenote, someone played this song for Patrick Swayze during a radio show a few years after the episode aired. He loved it. |
*** On a sidenote, someone played this song for Patrick Swayze during a radio show a few years after the episode aired. He loved it. |
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* [[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. |
* [["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. |
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{{quote| '''Frank:''' [[Stealth Pun|Oh, Henry!]]}} |
{{quote| '''Frank:''' [[Stealth Pun|Oh, Henry!]]}} |
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* [[Hollywood Giftwrap]]: Dr Forrester's invention exchange. |
* [[Hollywood Giftwrap]]: Dr Forrester's invention exchange. |
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* [[Running Gag]]: Pia Zadora and her Golden Globe, beginning with "Will you buy me a Golden Globe?" |
* [[Running Gag]]: Pia Zadora and her Golden Globe, beginning with "Will you buy me a Golden Globe?" |
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** In the ''[[Cinematic Titanic (Web Video)|Cinematic Titanic]]'' version, Joel quips that they thought Pia Zadora being in this was pretty funny, but now he can't remember why. |
** In the ''[[Cinematic Titanic (Web Video)|Cinematic Titanic]]'' version, Joel quips that they thought Pia Zadora being in this was pretty funny, but now he can't remember why. |
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* [[Shout-Out]]: When Mrs. Claus gets excited about being on television, Tom sings "[[Bye Bye Birdie|Ed Sullivaaaaaaan!]]". |
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* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: Everything in Tom's stocking consists of items that, since his arms don't work (something addressed at multiple times), he can't possibly use. |
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: Everything in Tom's stocking consists of items that, since his arms don't work (something addressed at multiple times), he can't possibly use. |
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Revision as of 21:03, 26 January 2014
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 MST3K would later form Cinematic Titanic and took a second go at the film seventeen years later, this time the full length version.
The episode has examples of:
- An Asskicking Christmas / Crowning Music of Awesome / Lyrical Dissonance / Notable Original Music
- "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.
- "Open up your heart and let the Patrick Swayze Christmas in / We'll gather at the Road House with our next of kin..."
- "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.
Frank: Oh, Henry! |
- Hollywood Giftwrap: Dr Forrester's invention exchange.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: When the Martians shoot the elves.
Joel: He stopped them short! |
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: When Mrs. Claus gets excited over a news crew visiting the North Pole
{{quote| Tom Servo: When she thinks of the mass media, [[A Date With Rosie Palms she touches }}
- Hilarity Ensues: Riffing the climactic "battle".
Tom: Hilarity, guys. Not since the pie fight scene in The Great Race! |
- My New Gift Is Lame: "Weaponized" by the Mads in their invention, the Wish Squisher, which turns great gifts into this trope.
- Running Gag: Pia Zadora and her Golden Globe, beginning with "Will you buy me a Golden Globe?"
- In the Cinematic Titanic version, Joel quips that they thought Pia Zadora being in this was pretty funny, but now he can't remember why.
- Shout-Out: When Mrs. Claus gets excited about being on television, Tom sings "Ed Sullivaaaaaaan!".
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Everything in Tom's stocking consists of items that, since his arms don't work (something addressed at multiple times), he can't possibly use.