“ | "Right now it's more of a teenage crime ripple." | ” |
- Crow |
The Movie[]
- Main article: Teen-Age Crime Wave (film)
Synopsis[]
A troubled young woman named Terry tricks an innocent schoolmate into helping her commit a crime. They are caught and convicted, but escape before being sent to prison. They hide in a farm house, holding the family hostage with the help of Terry's criminal boyfriend.
The Episode[]
Host Segments[]
Prologue: Mike and the Bots are preparing another escape attempt, while Mike wants to keep things low key, the Bots insist on running through all the required WWII POW escape movie cliches.
Segment One (Invention Exchange): Mike continues to try and keep their escape attempt quiet, while down in Deep 13 Dr. F has come up with mace mousse and takes great delight in using Satan's Jockstrap repeatedly on TV's Frank. The SOL crew's liquid rocket pack escape attempt fails due to the fact the LOX tank was filled with the brined salmon lox and not Liquid Oxygen. Crow doesn't get why this should make a difference.
Segment Two: Inspired by the movie, Mike and Bots pay tribute to the important role Doughy Guys played in history.
Segment Three: Mike and the Bots create the first deli in space, S.o.l's!
Segment Four: Crow sings the "Mystos!" song while Mike, Tom, and Gypsy act out Mentos-esque vignettes
Closing (Segment Five): While Mike and Crow very briefly discuss the issues raised by the movie, Tom delivers the letters to read. Down in Deep 13, Frank is now dressed as the superhero Doughy Man, which just makes him a more inviting target for Dr. F to mace him again, and again, and again...
Stinger: Jane leaps to her feet and screams "TURN IT OFF!"
MST3K cast[]
- Michael J. Nelson - Mike Nelson
- Trace Beaulieu - Crow T. Robot / Dr. Clayton Forrester
- Kevin Murphy - Tom Servo
- Frank Conniff - TV's Frank
- Jim Mallon - Gypsy
Trivia[]
- Unusual credits: Frank keeps accidentally hitting the button and returning the camera to Deep 13, upon which Dr. F keeps macing him.
Callbacks[]
- “Mitchell!”
- “Want some?” (Daddy-O)
- “Thank God we have Radar!” and “Why don’t they look?” (Radar Secret Service)
- New Petitions Against Tax
S.O.L's Deli Names of Actors from Previous Experiments
- "Try the Miles O' Beefe!" - Cave Dwellers.
- "The Mr. B Natural Diet Plate" - Mr. B Natural
- "A cup of Pia Zadora Soup" - Santa Claus Conquers the Martinas
- "The Vince Van Patty Melt" - Master Ninja I and Master Ninja II (supposed to be Timothy Van Patten)
- "The Sid Tuna Melton with Monkey Boy Fries" - Lost Continent and Radar Secret Service
- "The Manos Ham of Fate Rueben" - "Manos" The Hands of Fate
- "Joe Don Baker Baked Potato" - Mitchell
- "The Meritt Stone Wheat Crackers" - Earth vs the Spider, Tormented, The Magic Sword, and War of the Colossal Beast.
- "The Monte Christo Markham" - Master Ninja II
Obscure References[]
- "I've gone blind from forging a thousand Nazi documents."
- Crow is taking on the Donald Pleasence role from The Great Escape.
- "Dig this, Babylon Sisters."
- "Babylon Sisters" is a song on Steely Dan's 1980 album Gaucho.
- "We're having a crime wave, a teen-age crime wave..."
- Reference to the Irving Berlin song "Heat Wave".
- "Oh, Elvis Costello's backup band."
- While Elvis Costello was probably best known for working with his backup band The Attractions, on his first album, My Aim Is True, he was backed up by the band Clover, which would later break up, with various members joining The Doobie Brothers and forming Huey Lewis and the News.
- "I'm thinking it over!"
- Famous reply of Jack Benny in a sketch on The Jack Benny Program in which he is being robbed (the running gag of Benny's stage persona was that he was extremely frugal).
“ | Robber: "Your money or your life!"
Benny: (silence) |
” |
- "Was born in the wagon of a traveling show...."
- Opening lyrics to the song "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", which was a popular single from Cher.
- "Deuteronomy is a hoot..."
- The Book of Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Torah and the Old Testament. It describes the Laws passed down by Moses to the Israelites.
- "I hear the secrets that you keep, when you're talking in your sleep..."
- Lyrics from "Talking in Your Sleep" by The Romantics.
- (Shot of cigarette butts all over the floor.) "Holy cow! Did you have Rod Serling over!?"
- Referencing how the original The Twilight Zone host and writer Rod Serling was known to be a heavy smoker.
Catchphrase[]
- "He'll never touch you, Terry. You're dirt."
- The catchphrase is actually a misquote from the movie line: "You're dirt, Terry, he'd never touch you."
Video releases[]
- Commercially released on DVD by Shout! Factory in July 2015 as part of Volume XXXIII, a 4-disc set along with Daddy-O, Earth vs the Spider, and Agent for H.A.R.M..
- The DVD includes the Ballyhoo Motion Pictures features Film It Again, Sam: The Katzman Chronicles and Tommy Cook: From Jungle Boy to Teenage Jungle, as well as a theatrical trailer.
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 |