Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S06/E22 Angels Revenge

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Film watched: Angels Revenge


The MST3K treatment provides examples of:

Crow: "Hey... This is a lot like Charlie's Angels!"
Servo: "Yeah!"

  • Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure: Tom Servo's Shame-ometer measured the embarrassment of talented and/or well-known actors appearing in a bad movie in Lawfords, after Peter Lawford's uninspired turn in Angels Revenge.
  • Male Gaze: Early in the movie, we get a shot straight up a ladder as a woman is climbing it, and Crow quips "Hey, you're giving away the plot!"
  • Money, Dear Boy: Mike and the Bots theorize that Jack Palance and Peter Lawford had to have been paid entirely in Scotch, and laments that Jim Backus wouldn't have had to be in the movie, had he gotten residuals from Gilligan's Island.
    • This was also at the lowest point in Arthur Godfrey's career, who was at this point desperate for work.

Mike: (as Godfrey) You're all fired!

    • Though Jim Backus didn't have to worry about that. After all, according to Crow, this was his first film after he died.
  • Self-Parody: The bots' decisive action to end Mike's Fonzie impression is a callback to how his Steve Urkel impression took over all the host segments in San Francisco International Airport.
  • The Seventies: All of the host segments have something to do with The Seventies.
    • During the end credits of Angel's Revenge, Mike and the bots ponder who invented the '70's.
  • Something Person: "This looks like a job for Girl Woman!"
  • Stock Sound Effects: Lampshaded.

Servo: Okay, sound by Hanna-Barbera, fine.

Crow: All right, y'know what? I'm just giving in, and looking at the breasts.
Mike: No, don't...