Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S06/E16 Racket Girls

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.
"This is like a stag film produced by the League of Women Voters."
—Tom Servo, Mystery Science Theater 3000


Film watched: Racket Girls with the educational short film Are You Ready For Marriage


The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation contains the following tropes:

  • Father, I Want to Marry My Brother: The short prompts Crow to ask Mike for Servo's hand in marriage.
  • Flashback Stares: Spoofed during the short when, during a close-up shot of one of the characters blankly staring at the camera, Mike and the 'Bots make it appear as if she's having a Vietnam War flashback, complete with gunfire noises.

Crow: Ma-rines, we are leaving!

Mike: (after cut away from close-up) Sorry, back in Da Nang there...

Servo: "Police cars, not dissimilar to these, were called to the scene. This is a narrative approximation of something that may or may not have happened."

Mike: This director has out-Wooded Ed Wood!

  • Waxing Lyrical: Dr. Forrester in the last host segment, performing the wedding of Servo and Crow:

Dr. Forrester: Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life. Electric word, life, it means forever and that's a very long time.

  • Wrestler in All of Us: The wedding of Crow and Tom Servo in the second-to-last sketch is stopped by a sudden wrestling match. Mike and the 'Bots create wrestling personas after the film.
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