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Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell

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703 - Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell
Air Date February 17, 1996
MST3K Director Trace Beaulieu
AKA Deathstalker 3: The Warriors from Hell
Movie Director Alfonso Corona
Year 1988
Cast John Allen Nelson, Carla Herd, Thom Christopher
Preceded by 702 - The Brute Man
Followed by 704 - The Incredible Melting Man


Contents

The Movie

"My name is Prince, and I am funky."

Synopsis

John Allen Relson goes to a Renaissance Fest with a camera and crew and all Hell breaks loose. But really it's not as great as that. In all seriousness, Deathstalker is just a snide cracker who is stuck being chased and clobbered by every person he runs into. When Crow says, "I'm glad he gets hit a lot" you'll agree. He meets a princess and she dies, then he meets her again (or was that her sister?) and she doesn't die this time. Oh, and they have to find a stone and save all creation from some bald, 5'8" evil villain who dresses like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard.

Information

Do the swords in this movie strike you as a bit, well, dull and fake?

Make sure you watch Troxartas make a fist around the sword David Relson jabs into him during the climactic fight scene. Yep. Those are some seriously fake swords.

The Episode

Host Segments

Crow's New Hair

Prologue: Mike introduces Tom and the Satellite of Love as we wait for Crow to show up. Crow has a new lease on life as he has traded in his lacrosse mask for a toupee.

Segment One: Dr. Forrester is accosted by his mother who has a parasite and is begging for attention. The robots egg him on by pretending to work for a McDonald's wannabe fast-food burger joint.

Segment Two: The Bots throw a Renaissance Fest for Mike and fleece him for all he's got. Mike loves every second of it because he had never been to one on Earth.

Segment Three: Mike comes back for more, but Tom and Crow have lost interest. They do humor him a little, but in the end they all try to go and pet the dead camel.

Segment Four: Dr. F goes to the store to get Mother some Robitussin and she is in need of entertainment. Crow/Art happens to be walking by the view screen when he is nabbed to read "Love's Sweet Throbbing Gondola." Yuck.

Segment Five: Mike reads a letter and Tom eventually succeeds at hammering out a new Great Ring of Power, a la Lord of the Rings. We jump cut to Dr. F walking a glass of tainted milk out to mother (in an homage to a famous scene from Suspicion). At the last second, Clay turns on himself and chugs sweet freedom from Mom.

Stinger: Trashy Chick's Mom saying, "Potatoes are what we eat!"

Obscure References

Dr. F takes care of Mother
  • "These two? The Merchant and Ivory of Mexico."

A reference to Merchant Ivory Productions.

  • "So...Michael McDonald is fighting the guy from Loverboy!"

Michael McDonald was the lead singer for the Doobie Brothers during the late 1970s. The Canadian rock band Loverboy is best known for its 1981 hit "Working for the Weekend".

Later, during the fight, Servo sings lines from the Doobies hit "Takin' it to the streets" whenever 'Michael McDonald' appears on screen. At the end, Mike cuts off Servo as he launches into "What a Fool Believes".

  • "Go Blaze!"

A reference to American Gladiators, a TV show where contestants compete against bodybuilders in a series of events, created in 1989 and revived in 2008; Blaze was one of the Gladiators in the original version. The practice fight in the film resembles the event "Joust" from the show.

  • "A Power Rangers coin, everyone!"

A reference to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, specifically the first three seasons, where the heroes derived their powers from special coins infused with mystic energy.

  • "Lodac, are you talking to the toilet again?"

Lodac was the villain in The Magic Sword

  • Nick and Nora Charles

Witty husband and wife detective team created by Dashiell Hammett in the Thin Man

  • The fog cruises in on little cat feet

Parody of the opening line of Carl Sandburg's poem 'Fog' from Chicago Poems

  • She got it from a man who said "Brandy ... my love and my lady is the sea"
  • A port on a western bay that serves a hundred ships a day

Lines from the song Brandy by Looking Glass

  • He's Hasselhoffing it big-time

Sucking in his gut, a la David Hasselhoff on Baywatch.

  • Our long national nightmare is over

Gerald Ford's words on pardoning Richard Nixon.



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