A songwriter's wife, frustrated about not having a honeymoon with her husband for a year after their marriage due to his work schedule, fantasizes about new home decor with matching colored phones, with the help of a fey bespectacled angel.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon is also the title of a 1942 film starring Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers.
This short was included on Shorts Vol 3, released by Rhino Entertainment on VHS in Janurary 2001, and on DVD in August 2004 as an limited time exclusive bonus for ordering MST3K: The Essentials from a specially created Rhino site.
The Movie
Synopsis
Night of the Blood Beast
A test pilot named Johnny (the guy cheating with Bruno VeSota's wife in Attack of the Giant Leeches) returns from a pioneering near-space flight, completely intact physically (save for a small gash on the forearm) but unresponsive and apparently dead.
A team from a NASA-like base housed in an old radio station recovers his body and then the facility loses electrical power and communication with the outside world. The pilot, who was only mostly-dead, gets better and returns to normal ambulatory functioning, but with strange new blood cells and, it seems, prawn-like embryos in his abdomen.
Soon, the body of Dr. Wyman, the lead physician, is discovered suspended upside-down in the exam room - headless - assailant unknown; the adult alien makes a brief appearance at the base and then flees, and Johnny pleads with his colleagues for understanding of this new life form, whose intentions he somehow seems to sense.
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This was released in one of American International's prepackaged double features. It was paired with Roger Corman's She Gods of Shark Reef (1958), which had gone unreleased for a year and a half.[1]
This episode was originally broadcast on Thanksgiving day with a string of related host segments. The host segments described below were shown during reruns.
Prologue:
Concerned about their personal security, Crow and Tom taze, mace, and spray green dye all over Mike.
Segment One:
Dr. F has a traumatic trombone recital thanks to Pearl's constant haranguing, but it turns out Crow is an awesome trombonist!
Segment Two: Decorating with phones, Gypsy sings a little song.
Pregnant Crow?
Segment Three: Pearl makes Dr. F apologize
Segment Four: Crow claims he's pregnant with the spawn of the Blood Beast.
Segment Five:
Crow’s rant about babies disrupts Mike’s attempts to read letters.
Pearl wants Dr. F to act like a baby.
Stinger: The doctor says, “Wounded animal that large isn’t good.”
Other Notes
Two versions of this episode exist: one shown during the premier on Turkey Day '95, and a second one used for subsequent rebroadcasts. The episodes differ only in their host segments; the theater segments are identical.
Both the Turkey Day and rebroadcast versions of this episode were included in the Volume 16 release. The special Turkey Day intro segments for the preceding episodes were also included as a special feature.
The lyrics for Gypsy's song in the second host segment are a combination of Hello Goodbye and one of the musical numbers from Duck Soup. Possibly the first time this has been done.
Dr. F's exclamation of "Mother! Blood!" in Host Segment Three is a reference to the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho, when Norman Bates discovers his "mother's" murder victim.
A reference to the movie and TV series The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. In the TV series, the line was usually spoken by Charles Nelson Reilly, whose character in the show, like the angel in the short, was a bespectacled and somewhat effete.
"He's trying to have a Montclair Moment!"
A reference to an old advertising campaign for Montclair cigarettes.
Louie Nye was a comedian whose popularity peaked during the 1950s.
"I wouldn't have to dress like Tipper Gore!"
Tipper Gore is the wife of former Vice-President Al Gore. In the late 1980s, she was noted for advocating warning labels ("profane language," "objectionable for children," etc.) on record albums that were marketed to or that might be bought by children or teens; the allusion is as much to Tipper's 1950s attitude as it is to her fashion sense.
A reference to Monty Python's Flying Circus and the sketch "Blancmanges Playing Tennis" from the show's seventh episode.
"This is like 'Alien Autopsy'!"
A reference to a 1995 Fox TV special that showed footage that proported to be taken from the autopsy performed on the body of an alien who died in the crash of a UFO in Rosewell, NM in 1947. The footage was later revealed to have been a hoax, but since the production values on the "autopsy footage" wouldn't have met Roger Corman's standards, you probably should have guessed that in the first place
