Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S05/E04 Secret Agent Super Dragon
Film watched: Secret Agent Super Dragon
The MST3k treatment provides examples of:
- Bond One-Liner: Joel educates the bots on the concept of the "post-kill pun".
Servo: Ironically, death softens the blow of the pun! |
- Leitmotif: Well, not really; but there's a little musical motif that is used prominently in one scene, not so prominently in another scene, and this is the basis of Servo's Super Dragon Theme (see below).
- Political Correctness Gone Mad: Crow tries his hand at scriptwriting again with the psycho-babblicious "The Spy Who Hugged Me"...
Joel (Holly Affirmations): You understand, Mr. Windamhill, that even though we are sharing a sexual tension between us... I must kill you. |
- Right-Hand-Cat: According to Dr. Forrester's Supervillain Symposium, every Supervillain must have a strange or exotic animal.
- Robot Buddy: Crow and Servo build "Minsky", a little robot with an annoyingly repetitive Catch Phrase and no off switch. Joel is not amused.
- Years later, they'll get their comeuppance when Mike will build a blue robot which Servo and Crow think is cool, til... DESTRUCT! DESTRUCT! DESTRUCT! DESTRUCT! DESTRUCT!
- Running Gag:
- Super Dragon's habit of snatching cigarettes right out of other characters' mouths:
Crow: Secret Agent Super Rude! |
- The ongoing subtext that Super Dragon's cover story is as transparent as window glass:
Crow (as side character): Hey, "Secret Agent" is crossed out and "Lawyer" is written in! |
- Super Dragon Failing his Spot Check:
Servo (As Super Dragon, in the Big Bad's lavishly decorated office): Um, you got any art here? |
- Weird Trade Union: implied during Dr. Forrester's Supervillain Symposium, when he notes that a Supervillain is, in essence, a small-business owner.
- What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome??
- "Boy, you're really proud of that clay squirrel, aren't you?"
- Servo's treatment of the Secret Agent Super Dragon theme (adapted from some incidental music used in one scene) seems a bit redundant and dull. Joel decides to liven it up a bit. Hilarity Ensues.
- Played with during the film's opening credits, which roll over an image of a telephone, a pistol and a burning cigarette.
Crow: Wow, I bet the hero of this movie is really cool! He smokes! And carries a gun! And... makes a lot of phone calls. |
- What the Hell, Hero?: Comments frequently call Super Dragon on his afore-mentioned Jerkass qualities, particularly during the Cyanide Pill scene.
Joel: "What a jerk. He just wanted to get the guy's goat right before he died." |