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Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S07/E02 The Brute Man

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Films watched: The Chicken Of Tomorrow(short) and The Brute Man

The Chicken Of Tomorrow is an educational short about how eugenics and gasoline mean bigger chickens on your dinner table.

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Treatment of The Brute Man provides

  • Baleful Polymorph: After Pearl goes on a date with a sleazy Casanova Wannabe, Clayton slips him a mickey that turns him into "the Chicken of Tomorrow".
  • Non Sequitur Scene: In-universe. During The Chicken of Tomorrow, when one chicken says, "That's what you think, big boy!" the trio reacts, with Crow exclaiming, "That was weird!"
  • Big No / Mood Whiplash: When Pearl leaves with Sandy, Dr. Forrester has an odd reaction.
 

Forrester: Mother, NoooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooOOOO!!!! (shrugs, smiling) Ah, well. He's not the first oily man that's taken Mother to the mat.

 
 

Servo: Turns out you can purchase one of these babies with no cash!
Mike: With no cash?!
Servo: Yep. It's called the "no-cash" method.

 
  • Landlord: Servo spends the episode's host segments trying to buy a house with no funds ("It's called the No-Cash method") and no clue what he's doing so he can become one of these. Mike shrugs and says that Servo's going to jail because of this.
    • Cranky Landlord: In a manner of minutes after closing the purchase after the movie, Servo officially becomes one of the ten worst landlords according to the Village Voice, which does indeed have an annual list.
  • Not So Stoic: Not perfectly stoic, but one of the few times Mike avoids a simple chuckle or snicker and instead doubles over and tries to muffle a series of laughs.
  • Old Shame: On the volume 22 DVD set, an interview with Mary Jo Pehl (who co-wrote the episode) revealed that she felt The Brute Man was one of their weaker shows and probably shouldn't have been done. In particular, she felt the film had an uneasy quality to it, being that Rondo Hatton's disfigured face was basically exploited for the plot.
  • Only a Flesh Wound: The crew remarks that Hal moved slowly before getting shot afterwards...he walks exactly the same: too slowly for them.
  • Really Gets Around: When Helen tells The Creeper to go to her bedroom, to hide, Tom's reaction was pretty surprised.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The Creeper's a distinctive figure on city streets, but people seem to pass him by without blinking an eye:
 

Servo: (as random citizen) Hey, Creeper!
Crow: (as Creeper) Hey, person.

 

"Creeper, Creeper, Creeper... you give me the creeps!"

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