516 - Alien from L.A.
Air Date	November 20, 1993
AKA	Odeon; Wanda (TV title)
Movie Director	Albert Pyun
Year	1988
Cast	Kathy Ireland, William R. Moses, Richard Haines, Thom Mathews
Preceded by	515 - The Wild Wild World of Batwoman
Followed by	517 - Beginning of the End

Contents 1 The Movie 1.1 Synopsis 1.2 Information 2 The Episode 2.1 Host Segments 2.2 Obscure References

The MovieEdit

SynopsisEdit

A nerdy teenager (Ireland) goes looking for her missing archeologist father and stumbles into a strange underground civilization.[1]

InformationEdit

The name of Wanda’s father, Arnold Saknussemm, comes from Jules Verne’s novel Journey to the Center of the Earth (upon which this movie was very loosely based).

The phrase Dull surprise!! comes from this episode.

The EpisodeEdit

Host SegmentsEdit

Prologue: Crow presides over boot camp at Fort Satellite of Love

Segment One / Invention exchange: Dr. F presents the Vend-a-gut, which makes getting a donor organ as easy as getting a Snickers bar. Mike demonstrates Fridge Udders.

Segment Two: Crow, Tom, and Mike play guess the supermodel. The bots claim it’s Clara Peller. Mike won't believe it. (The clues actually point to Paulina Porizkova.)

Segment Three: Crow, Tom, and Mike sing “My Wild Irish Ireland,” with Tom doing the Kathy Ireland part. Pathetically, Mike starts to think Tom really is Kathy.

Segment Four: Crow, Tom, and Mike play the “guess Kathy’s emotions” game.

Segment Five: Frank is still feeding change to the Vend-a-gut.

Stinger: Kathy says “Yuck!”

Obscure ReferencesEdit

• "I want to watch 'Sisters'!"

Sisters was a TV drama series that aired from 1991 to 1996.

• "And what is the name of your robot?"

Crow is paraphrasing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from Full Metal Jacket. Note also that Mike's crazed facial expression at the beginning of the next segment is a parody of the character Pyle's mental breakdown.

• "Getting dumped in...about an hour."

A parody of the advertising slogan for LensCrafters.

• "He looks like Clint Howard!"

Ron Howard's brother Clint is a prolific B-movie actor, and occasionally appears in films directed by his more successful sibling.

• "Going sideways, Mr. Saknussemm?"

A parody of the spoken-word intro to the Aerosmith song "Love in an Elevator".

• "Hey, it's the Blue Mosque!" "No, the Blue Mosque isn't on a hill!"

The Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque, is an Istanbul landmark.

• "When I squint, you look like Ian Anderson!"

Ian Anderson is the lead singer of Jethro Tull.

• "Saigon. Shucks. I can't believe I'm still in Saigon!"

A parody of the opening line from Apocalypse Now.

• "Has anybody here seen my old friend John?"

A quote from the song "Abraham, Martin & John".

• "It's 'Home Alone 3: The Destruction of Jared-Syn'!"

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn was a 3-D post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie released in 1983.

• "It's a Samurai!"

The Suzuki Samurai was a compact SUV that drastically declined in popularity after a Consumer Reports article suggested that it was dangerously prone to rollovers.

• "Schlepcar!"

A reference to the Sid and Marty Krofft TV show Wonderbug, in which a living jalopy named Schlepcar could magically become the dune buggy of the title.

• "Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry..."

Quoted from "Surrey with the Fringe on Top", a song from the musical Oklahoma!.

• "Hey, it's a Nelson!"

A reference to the pop-metal band Nelson, fronted by Ricky Nelson's twin sons.

• "It's like a Peter Greenaway set!"

Peter Greenaway is the director of such films as The Belly of an Architect and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.

• "Live the good life in the off-world colonies!"

A quote from Blade Runner.

• "You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!"

A quote from the spoken-word outro to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall".

• "Paul Westerberg to the rescue!"

Paul Westerberg is the lead singer of the Replacements.

• "It's the cover of Tommy!"

The Who's Tommy album cover is similar to the background in the shot.

• "Maybe they'll run into Spinal Tap back there!"

A reference to the scene in This is Spinal Tap where the titular band gets lost in the bowels of a concert hall.

• "Tonight, kids- something really scary!"

Mike is imitating Count Floyd, a character from SCTV.

• "Are they on Captain Ron's boat?"

Captain Ron was a 1992 comedy movie starring Kurt Russell.

preceded by: Season 4		MST3K Season 5					followed by: Season 6
		1993 - 1994
501	Warrior of the Lost World	1993-07-24	509	The Girl in Lovers Lane	1993-09-18	517	Beginning of the End	1993-11-25
502	Hercules	1993-07-17	510	The Painted Hills	1993-09-26	518	The Atomic Brain	1993-12-04
503	Swamp Diamonds	1993-07-31	511	Gunslinger	1993-10-09	519	Outlaw	1993-12-11
504	Secret Agent Super Dragon	1993-08-07	512	Mitchell	1993-10-23	520	Radar Secret Service	1993-12-18
505	The Magic Voyage of Sinbad	1993-08-14	513	The Brain That Wouldn't Die	1993-10-30	521	Santa Claus	1993-12-24
506	Eegah	1993-08-28	514	Teen-Age Strangler	1993-11-07	522	Teen-Age Crime Wave	1994-01-15
507	I Accuse My Parents	1993-09-04	515	The Wild Wild World of Batwoman	1993-11-13	523	Village of the Giants	1994-01-22
508	Operation Double 007	1993-09-11	516	Alien from L.A.	1993-11-20	524	12 to the Moon	1994-02-05