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822 - Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
Air Date	December 6, 1997
Movie Director	Douglas Williams
Year	1983
Cast	Raul Julia Linda Griffiths
Preceded by	821 - Time Chasers
Followed by	901 - The Projected Man

Contents 1 The Movie 1.1 Synopsis 1.2 Background 2 The Episode 2.1 Host Segments 2.2 Quotes & References 2.3 Video Release 3 References

The Movie

Synopsis

In a "dystopian" corporate future society, "Processor Third Class" Aram Fingal (Raul Julia) is caught "scrolling up cinemas," or watching movies - specifically, Casablanca - and is diagnosed and treated to a virtual reality vacation known as "doppling", where he can take the form of an animal. At the doppling facility, a visiting school brat decides to switch some routing tags around, and that's when things start to go haywire...

Background

• Loosely based on a short story by John Varley, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank was originally broadcast on the New York City PBS affiliate WNET in 1983, and was partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.^[1]
• The movie was shot on videotape in order to take advantage of cutting-edge (for their time) digital graphics and special effects.
• The wild-animal footage was taken from the documentary Animals Are Beautiful People.
• The film is riddled with plot holes, and good reason, as the film did not complete production.

The Episode

Host Segments

Opening: Crow cashes in on his 'loved by millions' catch phrase, "You know you want me baby!"

Intro: Mike tries a few catchphrases himself, and like usual, fails miserably (We're all out of toner!). Pearl, assissted by Ortega, starts her own public-TV station in order to enrich herself through pledge drives.

Segment One: Tom and Crow order a monkey from "Instant Monkeys Online". It escapes, urinates on Mike's shoes, and throws stuff. The bots named the monkey Henry Kissinger "because of his scalp".

Segment Two: Mike keeps fighting Henry, and we get to see a "very special pledge week special of a special pledge week special", "Pearl! Pearl! Pearl! Pearl! Pearl!" which features a duet by Pearl and Brain Guy.

Segment Three: Tom wants to be 'doppled' to the nanite world and cause trouble. He soon regrets it.

End: Bobo tries to talk Henry down, but Henry turns the tables on Bobo, and convinces him to throw things like microwaves. The bots are scared at first, but of course, when Mike takes action, the Bots scorn him. Meanwhile, Pearl counts her 'pony playing from some well meaning liberals'.

Stinger:"Mum... 'm I nuts?"

Quotes & References

• Public Pearl intro music.

Same music used on the Mystery Science Theater Hour. The reference made by Pearl (and the screenshot shown on the monitor) for "Michael Nelson's Lord of the Dance" is a callback to the introductory host segment in Jack Frost.

• "But I'm signed to play Archbishop Romero!"

A reference to the 1989 film Romero, in which Raul Julia played the assassinated Salvadoran archbishop Óscar Romero.

• "I hear the transpod comin'/It's comin' round the bend..."

A parody of the Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues".

• "They must have a Jack in the Box in the food court!"

A reference to an E. coli outbreak that occurred among customers of Jack in the Box fast food restaurants in 1993. Or, alternatively, just a comment on the general unpopularity of the restaurant chain.

• "Come/As you are/To my mall/To my atrium, yeah yeah"

Referencing the Nirvana song Come As You Are.

• "Elizabeth Clare Prophet and David Duchovny look on."

Elizabeth Clare Prophet is the leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant, a religious movement that has been widely denounced as a cult. David Duchovny is an actor best known for starring as Fox Mulder on The X-Files. The two Novicorp bigwigs bear a striking resemblance, respectively.

• "Appearing tonight, Slayer!"

Reference to the popular thrash metal band from California.

• "It's a Viv Savage Christmas ornament!"

Viv Savage was one of the keyboard players for the fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap.

• "That's sexual harassment, and I'm going to take it!"

A reference to an anti-sexual harassment PSA from the early 1990s, in which a woman stands up to her lecherous boss by saying "That's sexual harassment, and I'm not going to take it!"

• "I've got a fever for the flavor of Fingal!"

A play on a Pringles advertising slogan from the 1980s.

• "Eating Raul!"

A reference to the 1982 black comedy film Eating Raoul.

• "We just lost Watson." "He came here, we wanted him."

A reference to Alexander Graham Bell and the first words ever spoken over telephone: "Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you."

• "Fashion"

Tom Servo says this a few times while the computers make various noises which sound very familiar to the electronic beat of Fashion by David Bowie.

• "You can't always get what you want.."

A reference to a part of the Rolling Stones song of the same name, sung by a chorus. A choir is heard in the background as an angelic Appolonia is floating down from the sky.

• "maruba fruit"

This term used in the film for the fruit the monkeys use to get drunk should actually be "marula fruit" as pointed out here.

Video Release

• Commerically released on DVD by Rhino in November 2003 as part of The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 4, a 4-DVD set with Space Mutiny, Girl in Gold Boots, and Hamlet, the DVD was later pulled in January 2010 due to Rhino no longer obtaining the rights to distribute Mst3k.
• The DVD features an intro by Mike Nelson, specifically taped for the release.

References

1. ↑ http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Overdrawn_at_the_Memory_Bank_1983.aspx

preceded by: Season 7		MST3K Season 8					followed by: Season 9
		1997
801	Revenge of the Creature	1997-02-01	809	I Was a Teenage Werewolf	1997-04-19	817	The Horror of Party Beach	1997-08-16
802	The Leech Woman	1997-02-08	810	The Giant Spider Invasion	1997-05-31	818	Devil Doll	1997-10-04
803	The Mole People	1997-02-15	811	Parts: The Clonus Horror	1997-06-07	819	Invasion of the Neptune Men	1997-10-11
804	The Deadly Mantis	1997-02-22	812	The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies	1997-06-14	820	Space Mutiny	1997-11-07
805	The Thing That Couldn't Die	1997-03-01	813	Jack Frost	1997-07-12	821	Time Chasers	1997-11-22
806	The Undead	1997-03-08	814	Riding with Death	1997-07-19	822	Overdrawn at the Memory Bank	1997-12-06
807	Terror from the Year 5000	1997-03-15	815	Agent for H.A.R.M.	1997-08-02
808	The She-Creature	1997-04-05	816	Prince of Space	1997-08-16