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Escape 2000

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705 - Escape 2000
Air Date March 2, 1996
AKA Escape from the Bronx
Movie Director Enzo G. Castellari
Year 1985
Cast Mark Gregory, Henry Silva, Valerie D'Obici, Timothy Brent
Preceded by 704 - The Incredible Melting Man
Followed by 706 - Laserblast


Contents

The Movie

Synopsis

"Leave the Bronx. You are ordered to leave the Bronx."

Corporate-controlled death squads roam the wasteland that was once the Bronx in search of members of a rebel alliance of street gangs.[1]

Information

  • On the wall in the apartment of Trash's parents is a large black and white poster of 'Mark Gregory' from the first movie "1990: The Bronx Warriors."
  • Carla Brait cameos as the Ironman leader from the first movie "1990: The Bronx Warriors."
  • Director Enzo G. Castellari cameos as the Radio operator with the mustache.
  • The full death toll in the uncut version is 174. There are 110 killed in shootings, 40 in explosions, 9 by flamethrowers, 1 by stabbing, 1 off-screen kill, 4 unknowns, 6 electrocutions, 2 bashed in the face with a helmet and 1 face turned to red mush after being hit with a shotgun butt.

The Episode

Host Segments

Gypsy on fire

Prologue: Crow holds his annual auction to help the Really Good Cause, which he is not sure of. His first item? A penny. His second item is a nickel and his third item is a dollar.

Segment One: Crow accidentally lights the SOL on fire while trying to burn an ant with a magnifying glass near a pile of oily rags. Luckily, Gypsy takes care of everything. Meanwhile, Dr. F is forced to put his mother Pearl into a home. As in, locked in a little playhouse in the main room of Deep 13.

Segment Two: Mike sets up Crow with his biofeedback machine, giving Crow a nice warm feeling. As Crow continues to relax, several small fires start across the ship.

Segment Three: Mike plays the big boss, nearly choking Servo with cigar smoke. Crow doesn't understand all of the slang terms for getting Mike another beer.

Segment Four: Servo recovers from his smoking jag as the Mads call. Dr. Forrester has determined the ratings are too low, and so he introduces Timmy Bobby Rusty, who disturbs the crew. Alas, the ratings remain low, so Timmy Bobby Rusty is promptly dropped.

Segment Five: Tom lowers himself from a helicopter as Mike reads a letter. In Deep 13, Toblerone's laughter disturbs Dr. F. He comes over to yell at Clayton after the mad scientist complains and rescues Pearl from her home.

Stinger: Toblerone spits and laughs.

Other Notes

Timmy Bobby Rusty

Guest Stars

Obscure References

A squib is a type of explosive charge used to simulate gunshots in movies.

  • "What are the Mercury Seven doing here?"

Mercury Seven refers to the astronauts who participated in the Mercury missions.

  • "They're NOT getting the Tom of Finland posters!"

Tom of Finland was an artist known for the overt homoeroticism of his work.

  • "Sir, would you at least take a Watchtower-"

A reference to The Watchtower, a magazine published by the Jehovah's Witnesses.

  • "Lorenzo Lamas is Gino Vanelli"

Spoken by Mike when Trash walks by in his (now-dead) parents' apartment. Lorenzo Lamas was the main actor in the popular 90's TV series Renegade. Like our main hero, Trash, all he pretty much did was ride around on his Honda motorcycle, wear black leather and jeans, manfully scowl, and shoot some bad guys along the way. Gino Vanelli is a pop music singer recognizable for his manly curly Italian hair. The resemblance between Trash and Gino is astounding.

  • "Daaah, I gotta call Schneider!"

Schneider was the building supervisor on One Day at a Time, a sitcom from the late 1970s and early '80s.

  • "They tossed him onto the streets of Rio Bravo!"

Rio Bravo was a 1959 Western movie starring John Wayne.

  • "She's got a Bobbi Flekman voice!"

Bobbi Flekman was a character played by Fran Drescher in This Is Spinal Tap.

  • "Steve Dallas, Terrorist."

Steve Dallas is a character from the comic strip Bloom County.

  • "Sonia Braga looks on."

Sonia Braga is a Brazilian actress.

  • "They re-showed the Theismann injury..."

Joe Theismann was the quarterback for the Washington Redskins until he suffered a career-ending compound fracture during a 1985 game.

  • "She's so pop-u-lar!"

Crow is singing one of the many interpretations of the chorus to the Peter Gabriel song "Games Without Frontiers".

  • "Comin' in low out of the rising sun. Scares the hell out of the executives!"

A parody of a line from Apocalypse Now.

  • "Uh, guys, I sweated all over the GORP!"

GORP (Good Old Raisins and Peanuts) is another name for trail mix.

  • "SEGA!"

A reference to 1990s Sega video game commercials, which ended with a frenzied scream of "SEGA!!!"

  • "Shoot 'em all. We'll make more!"

A parody of the slogan from a series of Doritos commercials featuring Jay Leno.

  • "Motion in the ocean/ His air hose broke! Lots of bubbles/Lots of trouble!"

Quoted from the B-52's song "Rock Lobster".

  • "Go ahead and hate your neighbor/Go ahead and cheat a friend..."

Mike is quoting "One Tin Soldier", the theme song from Billy Jack.


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