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...to be not heard about by anyone.
- Tom Servo


The Movie[]

Main article: Boggy Creek II: and The Legend Continues...(film)

Synopsis[]

An anthropology professor leads a small team of students in a search for a mysterious creature in rural Arkansas.

The Episode[]

Host Segments[]

BOGGYCREEKPOTATO

Mike offers his potato to Pearl

Prologue: Mike and Crow are in uniform for their cub scout meeting, but Tom's choice of a brownie costume due to his body style and keen eye for a bargain ostracizes him. Crow declines to think of Tom as a "she-belo."

Segment One: Tom's second choice of Flemish glass blower costume fares no better, while down in Castle Forrester Pearl prepares to use grade school science to control the world's power. Things go wrong when Bobo misunderstands Pearl's command to get large quantity of potatoes and the SOL crew are unable to supply an acceptable replacement foodstuff.

BoboCreek-0

Observer sings of the legend of Bobo Creek

Segment Two: Crow and Tom are fighting until Mike breaks them up, only to forget why he came there in the first place. The bots and Mike decide to use flashbacks to help him remember.

1006 3

Presenting van Gogh's "self portrait with bandaged ear"

Segment Three: Inspired by the movie and smelling a buck, Pearl invents the legend of the Monster of Forrester Swamp complete with Brain Guy singing a folk song about the mysterious creature. The SOL crew repeatedly observe that the monster is Bobo.

Segment Four: Tom has taken up whittling in a big way, opting to commercialize and expand his interest into big business with WHITLtech.

Closing (Segment Five): Lord a'mercy, Crow has to tend to his fires, until the Bots get bored with playing "Smelly Mountain Man and Baby Critter" and leave Mike to clear up the mess. Meanwhile, the Legend of Forrester Swamp gift shop receives an eager young visitor whose dreams are shattered when the Legend makes an appearance.

Stinger: "I saw the little creature." "Nooo!!"

MST3K cast[]

Regular cast

Guest cast

Trivia[]

  • Kevin Murphy’s wife Kathleen’s guitar is the one used in Host Segment Three.
  • The word "shit" got missed by Sci-Fi Channel censors, and was later cut out. Rhino left it in for the DVD release.
  • According to an interview with Bill Corbett, the show was compelled to cut out a great deal of the outhouse scene because of how unpleasant it was.

Obscure References[]

  • "Way to go, Servo! You're better than that guy who wrote that thing about remembering stuff!"
Crow is apparently referring to the French novelist Marcel Proust, who wrote À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, the title of which has been translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past and In Search of Lost Time. The novel, which has been called "the greatest novel of the 20th century", deals with themes of memory and the passage of time.
  • "This is Rich Man, Poor Man font!"
A reference to the 1976 TV miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man.
  • "We will march into the Forbidden Zone."
A reference to Planet of the Apes (delivered by Tom Servo, voiced by Kevin Murphy, who also played Professor Bobo, who was himself a recurring Planet of the Apes reference).
  • "It was the third of December..."
Servo is misquoting the opening line from the Temptations song "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone".
  • "Yes sir..." "...I'm ready for some football."
A reference to the Hank Williams Jr.-sung theme to Monday Night Football, and also a callback to the recurring "Are you ready for some football?" gag from Laserblast.
  • "Sir, he's at the game with 75,000 insane Hog Callers!" "They're calling insane hogs?"
The mascot for the University of Arkansas athletic teams is the Razorback, a term for a feral pig, and thus fans of Arkansas' teams are known as "Hog callers."
  • "Wanna contribute to our fund for the War Against Northern Aggression?"
A term used by Neo-Confederates to refer to the American Civil War.
  • Crow and Servo sing the lyrics to Ferlin Husky's "Wings of a Dove" to the movie's theme music at several points.
  • "It's the Orval Faubus museum!"
Orval Faubus was the governor of Arkansas during the 1950s, and is best remembered for resisting federal efforts to desegregate Little Rock's public schools.
  • "I'm gonna look at Oui for a while."
Oui is a "men's magazine" formerly published by Playboy Enterprises.
  • "It's William Perry!"
William "The Refrigerator" Perry is a former defensive lineman for the Chicago Bears who played during the late 1980s.
  • "Lucy Braless!"
A punning reference to actress Lucy Lawless, best-known for playing the title role on Xena: Warrior Princess.
  • "A bunch of Shmoos are attacking!"
The Shmoo is a fictional creature from the comic strip Li'l Abner. It is small, white, and blob-shaped.
  • "Viv Savage, Research Assistant!"
Viv Savage was one of the keyboard players for the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap.
  • "Pat Conroy at home!"
Novelist Pat Conroy's works are heavily influenced by his experiences growing up in the South with an abusive father.
  • "It's the Arkansas remake of Wages of Fear!"
The Wages of Fear is a 1953 film about truck drivers hauling explosives through a South American jungle.
  • "Checking on the land they bought from the Clintons!" "Now they stumble on the Rose Law Firm billing records!" "Ken Starr witness!"
Allusions to the Whitewater scandal, in which President Bill Clinton and his wife were accused of using the office of Governor of Arkansas to arrange real estate deals that profited themselves.
  • "A wolf?" "Do you think it will survive?"
A reference to the Los Lobos album "How Will the Wolf Survive?".
  • "Ranger Rick goes berserk!"
Ranger Rick is a children's nature magazine with a raccoon mascot by the same name.
  • "Call the Pinkertons for me!"
Agents of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency were often hired by industrialists to infiltrate and sabotage labor unions, and to "protect" factories and mines from striking workers.
  • "Now *this* is the boat they should have taken over that mountain in Fitzcarraldo!"
Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 film about a Peruvian rubber baron who transports a large ship over a mountain at great expense and peril. Director Werner Herzog famously insisted upon actually hauling a full-sized riverboat over a mountain, rather than using miniatures or other special effects to depict this.
  • "Hey, Mark Knopfler is hot!"
Mark Knopfler is the former lead singer and guitarist of Dire Straits.
  • "You can take a seat on the skin chair!"
An allusion to Ed Gein, a serial killer arrested in Minnesota in 1957, who became infamous for making clothing and furniture from his victims' remains.
  • "You kidnapped Gene Shalit!"
Gene Shalit is a bushy-haired former movie critic for The Today Show.
  • "Snap into a Slim Jim!"
Quoted from a series of Slim Jim commercials featuring wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage.
  • "The woods are just crammed with those Y2K survivalists."
This episode aired near the height of panic about the "Year 2000 problem", during which some people believed that wide-spread computer failures would occur when their clocks changed to 2000 (as a result of many computers being programmed with the year as a two-digit number, e.g "99" for "1999"), perhaps leading to a complete societal breakdown. The crisis was averted by an aggressive campaign to update the essential systems in time.
  • "Go ahead. Make my day!"
The Brains quote this line while Charles Pierce is on screen holding a gun and that could be considered a reference within a reference. Pierce was the author of the original treatment of the Dirty Harry film Sudden Impact and is usually credited as the original author of the infamous line. It's unknown if the Brains knew this fact at the time of filming.

Memorable Quotes[]

Servo: And the legend continues... to be not heard about, by anyone!
[During a scene set amongst ardent University of Arkansas football fans.]
Mike: A razorback hat lacks the quiet dignity of a cheese wedge.
[Tim is on the phone with someone who wants him to get Doc Lockhart, who is at the University of Arkansas football game.]
Tim: Get him? Sir, he's at the game with 75,000 insane Hog Callers!
Crow: They're calling insane hogs?
[As a subplot comes to an entirely unsatisfying end.]
Servo: And so, the completely pointless stretch of movie whimpers out like a small, dying rat.
[Narrator "Doc" Lockhart introduces himself and his travelling companions.]
Doc: Leslie Ann Walker. All I know about her is she's a good friend of... Tanya Yazzie, my prize student.
Servo [as Doc]: Prize student in that she gets Cs, but she's really cute.
Mike [as Lockhart]: We're goin' camping, and you're gonna watch.
[Doc enters a backwater country store which has no obvious merchandise, other than a turquoise, plastic pith helmet.]
Crow [as Lockhart]: Do ya'll have any turquoise, plastic pith helmets?
[Doc and party get ready to leave the backwater country store.]
Mike: Ya'll like to contribute to our fund for the War against Northern Aggression?
[Tim is walking around shirtless]
Crow: Geez, kid, do a push-up.
[In a flashback scene, the Creature and a farmer stare at each other through the farmer's barn.]
Mike [as the Creature]: Well, I'll be damned... farmers do exist!
[Shirtless Tim walks up to someone's front door.]
Crow [as Tim]: Can I borrow a cup of shirt?
[Tanya, with long dark hair and apparently wearing no undergarments, runs through the woods.]
Servo: Lucy Bra-less!
Leslie[Over a walkie-talkie.] Tanya, do you read?
Mike [as Tanya]: Third grade level!
[Doc is looking at his "radar" set up in the woods as his two assistants test it out.]
Servo [as Doc]: Boy, Tim's a real strong blip on my gaydar.
. . .
Doc[over CB] Tim?
Mike [as Tim]: Yes, Dad... I mean professor-who-is-in-no-way-my-dad-giving-me-a-role-in-his-movie?
[Doc is in the woods, as Leslie watches for the creature on the radar back at base camp.]
Leslie[over the walkie-talkie] He's close to you!
Doc: My left or my right?
Servo: Well, which way are you facing, idiot?
[Doc finishes narrating as his group begins walking up some stairs to Crenshaw's place.]
Mike [as Doc]: I put Tim in the front of the line to absorb the first hail of bullets.

Video Release[]

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