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Jack Frost (episode)

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813 - Jack Frost
Air Date July 12, 1997
AKA Morozko
Father Frost
The Crystal Star
Movie Director Aleksandr Rou
Year 1964
Cast Eduard Izotov
Natalya Sedykh
Aleksandr Khvylya
Preceded by 812 - The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
Followed by 814 - Riding with Death


Contents

The Movie

Synopsis

Russian fairy tale dealing with Ivan (Izotov) and Nastenka (Sedykh), who go through the strangest situations to be with one another. Ivan is transformed by a Mushroom Pixie into a bear and is almost baked by an evil witch who controls trees. Nastenka is given the Cinderella treatment by her mother and her sister, who is jealous of her long braided hair. Jack Frost (Khvylya) himself doesn't appear until late in the movie. [1]

Information

The Episode

Host Segments

Bobo and Brain Guy bond
  • Prologue Michael Nelson is Lord of The Dance! With his footwork hidden behind the console Gypsy is underwhelmed.
  • Segment 1 With Pearl away Brain Guy and Bobo argue about who's going to be in charge. Brain Guy teleports Mike down to help arbitrate. Brain Guy complains about Bobo's disgusting hygiene needs while Bobo counters that Brain Guy had B.O. Brain Guy is shocked to discover that he does in, in fact, have body odor despite not having a body. Mike uses Brain Guy's embarrassment to fast talk him into watching the movie on the Satellite of Love. Brain Guy teleports Mike back into his rightful place just before the movie starts.
  • Segement 2 In order to better explain the cultural context of the movie Crow brings in Russian-American standup comic Yakov Smirnoff (Patrick Brantseg) on the Hexfield. His tired 80's humor about the USSR goes over poorly.
  • Segment 3 Crow gets turned into a bear. Meanwhile Brain Guy and Bobo have found an uneasy peace. Eventually they find common ground for conversation discussing how awful Pearl is. Back on the Satellite of Love Crow has partially eaten Tom Servo. Mike scolds him for taking his bear simulations to the extreme.
  • Segment 4 Crow finds an even worse person than Yakov Smirnoff to be his expert on Russian culture: a sausage wholesaler who doesn't even address them directly (Paul Chaplin)
  • Final Segment Tom puts on a dress, glues large eyes to his dome and attempts to be cute. Unfortunately his cute manner of speech makes him impossible to comprehend. Bobo and Brain guy get drunk and begin to argue about which is the best ape movie ever made. The bring Mike down to settle the argument. Pearl returns with her own opinion on the ape movie issue.
  • Stinger "Bring on my fiance!"

Quotes & References

  • "These names are all Russian for Alan Smithee."
Alan Smithee was a traditional name used by directors who wanted to disavow any connection with a movie they had worked on.
  • "Hey, Tom Petty."
Tom Petty is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Mentioned because the actress playing evil stepsister Mafushka really does bear a strong resemblance to Petty.
  • "It's all right if you love me..."
First line of the Tom Petty song "Breakdown." The lyrics are here.
  • "Hey, listen. It's Spock in really fast motion!"
This is a reference to a major plot point in the Star Trek episode Wink of an Eye.
  • "Ah, Roseanne."
Reference to Roseanne Barr (also known, at various times, as Roseanne Arnold or simply as Roseanne), an American actress and comedian best known for her portrayal of plus-sized housewife/blue-colllar worker Roseanne Conner in the sitcom Roseanne.
  • "Great, I'll bet Pippi Longstocking's in this."
Pippi Longstocking is the lead character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. In addition to books, Pippi has appeared in films and on TV--the Swedish TV series (1969-70) was re-edited into four feature films, which were released on American TV in the 1970s and 1980s; a Soviet film was made about Pippi in 1982; an American film about Pippi was released in 1988; an animated film was made in 1997; and HBO spun the animated film into a cable TV series (1997-1999). The reference seems to be due to Pippi's ubiquity in films and TV and a mistaken idea that Lindgren's books were set in Finland, rather than Sweden.
  • "Is this a biopic of Holly Hobbie?"
Holly Hobbie is an American writer and artist. Her most famous creation--a little girl with a large bonnet wearing a long, quasi-nineteenth century patchwork dress--is named for her.
  • "I'm a domestic goddess."
From Roseanne Barr: "I hate the word housewife; I don't like the word home-maker either. I want to be called Domestic Goddess." (There's also a 2003 book called How to be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking by Nigella Lawson.)
  • "The moon is out, there's plenty of light..." "Chernobyl's on fire, it's great!"
On April 26, 1986, a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Subsequent explosions and a fire sent a radioactive plume of fallout--four hundred times that released by the bombing of Hiroshima--over much of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, as well as large portions of northern, western and eastern Europe. It was the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history.
  • "Back into Harpo's chest."
Reference to the Marx brothers' movie, Duck Soup (1933).
  • "This is the factory where they make Beanie Babies."
Beanie Babies were small collectible stuffed animals that were, effectively, beanbags. Marketed by Ty Warner, they have been made in a number of Eastern countries, including China, Korea and Indonesia.
  • "Jack Klugman!"
Jack Klugman is an American actor of stage, screen and TV. He is best known for his role as chronic slob Oscar Madison in the long-running TV sitcom The Odd Couple.
  • "M is for the many times you beat me. O is for the other times you beat me..."
Parody of an old song by lyricist Howard Johnson (1887-1941) and musician Theodore Morse(1873-1924) called "M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me). There appear to be several versions of it. You really need to see the mawkish lyrics to appreciate Crow's line, so here they are:
M is for the million things she gives me
O means only that she's soft to hold
T for the things she tries to teach me
H is for her heart of purest gold
E for her eyes with love light shining
R means right, and right she'll always be--
Put them all together they spell 'Mother,'
A word that means the world to me.
  • "Don't come around here no more..."
First line of the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song "Don't Come Around Here No More." The lyrics are here.
  • "Awww, Penny Marshall was an adorable child!"
Penny Marshall is an American actress, comedienne, producer and director.
  • "Surge!"
Surge is a soft drink that contains (at least in Norway, where it is still sold) 14.5 mg of caffeine. Despite Mountain Dew containing more caffeine than Surge does, there is an urban legend which says that Surge has more caffeine than two cups of coffee. Hence, Tom Servo's comment when Nastinka knits Mafushka's socks at breakneck speed.
  • "Danny Bonaduce IS Sleeping Beauty."
Danny Bonaduce is a radio and TV personality, comedian, pro wrestler and actor. As a child actor, he was best known for his role as middle son Danny Partridge in the 1970-74 sitcom The Partridge Family.
  • "As God is mah witness, Ah'll nevah go hungry again!"
Slight misquote (and mimicry of) of the end of Scarlett O'Hara's climatic speech in Gone With The Wind (1939): "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill--as God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
  • "Boy, Ah say, boy!"
Quote from (and mimicry of) the pompous cartoon rooster, Foghorn Leghorn.
  • "Mmm, Claratin-D!"
Loratadine (which is marketed under a number of names, including Claratin-D) is an antihistamene that fights allergies. The ads for it often feature scenes of nature, such as beautiful meadows and sunrises.
  • "Now I gotta keep stirring the sauce, returns these guns to Jimmy..."
Crow is quoting a line from Goodfellas.
  • "Or me, Jerry Quarry!"
Jerry Quarry was champion boxer during the late 1960s.
  • "The Ozark Mountain Daredevils plan their next album."
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils were a 1970s Southern rock band known for their long hair and beards.
  • "Ivanushka! Try me on a Plazaburger!"
The Plazaburger is a hamburger served at the Plaza Tavern in Madison, Wisconsin. It's just a hamburger with secret sauce on a long wheat bun--anything else (like lettuce, tomatoes or mushrooms) has to be requested separately and costs extra.
  • "Yeah, that looks like Crazy Horse!"
A reference to a monument to the Lakota warrior Crazy Horse being carved into a mountain in South Dakota.
  • "Am I Kirok?"
A reference to the Star Trek episode "The Paradise Syndrome".
  • "Norman, the loons! Kill them!"
A parody of a line from On Golden Pond.
  • "The minute you walked in the joint, ba-dum."
This is a line from "Big Spender", a hit song from the Broadway musical Sweet Charity.
  • "Do I look like Simon Le Bon?"
Simon Le Bon is the lead singer of Duran Duran.
  • "...get me some French-fried potaters, mmmm..."
An impression of Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade.
  • "From the land of sky-blue waters..."
The jingle from a Hamm's Beer commercial from the 1950s.
  • "It's like having Andrea Dworkin make you over!"
Andrea Dworkin was a radical feminist writer whose critics frequently accused her of demonizing the entire male gender and claiming that all heterosexual intercourse was tantamount to rape.
  • "There's still one thing I have to do." "Join the band Nelson!"
A reference to the pop-metal band Nelson, fronted by Ricky Nelson's twin sons.
  • "This is an Earth First! fantasy."
Earth First! is a radical environmentalist group.
  • "Robert Mapplethorpe's Strega Nona."
Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was known for the sadomasochistic content of his work. Strega Nona is a children's book about a witch who takes on a dim-witted helper.
  • "Bob Keeshan is Mr. Natural."
Bob Keeshan was "Captain Kangaroo," a children's TV host with a pageboy-style haircut. Mr. Natural was an alternative comics character with a long white beard.
  • "It's the Crystal Cathedral North!"
The Crystal Cathedral is a megachurch in Garden Grove, California founded by televangelist Robert Schuller.
  • "Classic case of Munchausen by proxy syndrome!"
Munchausen by proxy syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person feigns illness on another person's part in order to gain sympathy.
  • "It's a Mrs. Creosote!"
Mr. Creosote was a gluttonous character in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
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