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== [[MST3K]] ==
== [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] ==
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Mike is unimpressed with Servo's new foam-latex "trucker" body:
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Mike is unimpressed with Servo's new foam-latex "trucker" body:
{{quote| '''Mike:''' You have no butt!<br />
{{quote| '''Mike:''' You have no butt!<br />
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''The city of Pompeii was doin' fine''<br />
''The city of Pompeii was doin' fine''<br />
''until Vesuvius blew its top!'' }}
''until Vesuvius blew its top!'' }}
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: The series of truck-based [[Double Entendre]] gags. Most famously, ''Transformers'' fan "Dinobot" (after the ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' character) had one of these gags quoted in his signature ''immediately'' after his Usenet [[Tagline]]:
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: The series of truck-based [[Double Entendre]] gags. Most famously, ''Transformers'' fan "Dinobot" (after the ''[[Beast Wars]]'' character) had one of these gags quoted in his signature ''immediately'' after his Usenet [[Tagline]]:
{{quote| ''Dinobot has spoken. My rigid grill structure is bearing down on your unprotected cargo door. -- Tom Servo Riding With Death''}}
{{quote| ''Dinobot has spoken. My rigid grill structure is bearing down on your unprotected cargo door. -- Tom Servo Riding With Death''}}
** Dinobot's voice actor, [[Scott McNeil]], was actually convinced to say the "rigid grill structure" line in-character at a convention.
** Dinobot's voice actor, [[Scott McNeil]], was actually convinced to say the "rigid grill structure" line in-character at a convention.
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* [[Reverse Funny Aneurysm]]: Mike's riff of "We'd like you to consider Scientology!" when thugs attack Casey in the second part of the "movie" takes on new meaning in these times of ''[[South Park]]'' and Anonymous.
* [[Reverse Funny Aneurysm]]: Mike's riff of "We'd like you to consider Scientology!" when thugs attack Casey in the second part of the "movie" takes on new meaning in these times of ''[[South Park]]'' and Anonymous.
** Mike also does a riff about Sam getting his "swine flu results" as part of a larger running gag about this clearly being the 1970s. In light of the swine flu scare of 2009, however...
** Mike also does a riff about Sam getting his "swine flu results" as part of a larger running gag about this clearly being the 1970s. In light of the swine flu scare of 2009, however...
* [[Vindicated By Cable]]: TV broadcasts of the ''Riding with Death'' were getting few and far between when ''[[MST3K]]'' gave it a brief bump into the limelight.
* [[Vindicated by Cable]]: TV broadcasts of the ''Riding with Death'' were getting few and far between when ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' gave it a brief bump into the limelight.


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