811 - Parts: The Clonus Horror
Air Date	June 7, 1997
AKA	Clonus The Clonus Horror
Movie Director	Robert S. Fiveson
Year	1979
Cast	Keenan Wynn Peter Graves Dick Sargent Timothy Donnelly
Preceded by	810 - The Giant Spider Invasion
Followed by	812 - The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?

Contents 1 The Movie 1.1 Synopsis 1.2 Information 1.3 The Island Controversy 2 The Episode 2.1 Host Segments 3 Quotes & References 3.1 Running Jokes 3.2 Riffs 3.3 Video Release

The MovieEdit

SynopsisEdit

A small cadre of Olympic-caliber athletes is raised in an isolated compound that looks like a cross between a holiday resort fortress and a modern-day sports camp for Aryan youth. Drilled, trained, fed, and intellectually numbed into a state of blissful ignorance and eager obedience, they are adult orphans under paternal care and bred for one purpose only: parts for organ harvest. [1]

InformationEdit

The Island ControversyEdit

The film's director, Robert S. Fiveson, has accused the 2005 Michael Bay movie The Island of being a Clonus ripoff, and along with producer Myrl Schreibman, eventually sued for plagiarism. He ended up settling out of court for an undisclosed amount. [2] [3].

The EpisodeEdit

Host Segments Edit

Prologue: Mike has decided to grow a mustache. The Bots are supportive. Initially.

Segment One: True to form, the Bots are less supportive of Mike's choice to shave off his mustache. Meanwhile down on the planet, the camping Mads are awoken by the arrival of a trio of young Space Children who've run away from their parents.

Segment Two: The Mads are forced to play with the space children, causing various degrees of mental and physical pain for all involved.

Segment Three: At the end of her rope, Pearl convinces Mike and the Bots to put on a public TV style kids program to distract the kids. Aiming nice and low at first, but as they get fancy, they lose their audience.

Segment Four: Drawing from their own lives, Pearl, Bobo and Observer each give the space children "that" talk.

Closing (Segment Five): Crow has gotten a nose job and Mike can't look away, while down on the planet the Mads have just gotten the space children to the sleep. The soothing poem Tom has written is perfect to keep them that way, but it's musical accompaniment is not.

Stinger: "Sure!"

Quotes & ReferencesEdit

Running JokesEdit

• References to Biography
  Featured actor Peter Graves was the host of the A&E television series Biography, which is exactly what it sounds like. At the time the episode was made, this reference was contemporary, but as of this writing (2007), Biography-as-it-was is being rapidly forgotten.

• There are a number of references to the female protagonist's "truncated nose"; at one point, Mike makes a comment that she fell asleep on a "dermabrasion" wheel. Dermabrasion  is a process in which skin is scraped and resurfaced (sometimes with a wire brush) to smooth its appearance and texture.

• The kids in the host segments are a reference to the Star Trek episode "And the Children Shall Lead".
  

• The Spanish children's television show that the SOL crew puts on is NOT related to Dora the Explorer or spin-off Spanish children's shows, as those shows started after MST3K went off the air. The joke gains new meaning in this day and age.

RiffsEdit

• "TODAY!"
  Taken from the chorus of the Neil Diamond song "America".

• "Parts: The Village People Horror!"
  "The Longtime Companion Olympics!"
  "Winner of the International Jeffrey Games!"
  "Terrance McNally holds weird auditions!"
  "Clonus: The Boys in the Band Horror!"
  All are references to gay icons: the disco group The Village People, the film Longtime Companion, the film Jeffrey, noted gay author Terrence McNally, and the play/film The Boys in the Band.

• "I got into Hamburger U.!"
  Hamburger U. is fast-food giant McDonald's training school.

• "Oh, I have the vapors!"
  A reference to Scarlett O'Hara, the female protagonist of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind.

• "Oh, that was a good loose meat sandwich!"
  A type of Sloppy Joe sandwich originated in Iowa made famous by Roseanne Barr who started a specialty restaurant based on the sandwich, and even promoted it on her TV show Roseanne.

• "His feet are making a Don Martin noise."
  "Splot, splot!"
  Don Martin was a MAD magazine cartoonist known for creating characters with over sized feet that made strange noises when walking.

• As the clone escapes, the bots hum the "underground" music from the NES game Super Mario Bros..

• "So, he's running through fields of wheat." "Wheat."
  A reference to Woody Allen's Love and Death.

• "Watch, he'll run into Chauncey Gardiner coming the other way."
  Chauncey Gardiner was an idiot played by Peter Sellers in Being There.

• "So we aren't at war with Eurasia?"
  An allusion to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

• "It's the James Galway porn theater!"
  James Galway is an Irish classical musician.

• "Soundtrack by Yngwie Malmsteen."
  Yngwie Malmsteen is a guitarist known for his extremely fast guitar riffs.

• "Monty will take Messina, while I sweep in from the North!"
  A loosely paraphrased line inspired by Patton.

• "No one's guarding my father!"
  Said by Al Pacino in The Godfather.

• "Are you one of them preverts?"
  Keenan Wynn, who plays the reporter in this film, said this line as Colonel Bat Guano in Doctor Strangelove.

• "Parts is parts!"
  A short-lived advertising slogan used by the Wendy's fast-food chain in the early '80s.

• Yeah, saw the Dead there, saw the Dead there..."
  Fans of the American rock band :Grateful Dead, called "Deadheads", often followed the band from city to city and attended dozens of their concerts.

• "And, he bumps right into Bruce Willis."
  In the movie Die Hard , Bruce Willis' character spent a lot of time climbing around in elevator shafts.

• Mike's speech to Pearl in the third host segment ("There is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away") is taken verbatim from Raiders of the Lost Ark, spoken by Belloq (Paul Freeman).

• "The Ravenite Social Club."
  The Ravenite Social Club was a club in New York City used by the Gambino crime family.

• "It's the all white version of Salaam Bombay!"
  Salaam Bombay! was a 1988 Hindi film portraying homeless children in the streets of Mumbai.

• "Got to get to the sculpture garden!"
  The footbridge in this shot looks identical to the footbridge over Interstate 94, which leads to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

Video ReleaseEdit

• Commerically released on DVD by Rhino in October 2007 as part of The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 12, a 4-DVD set with The Rebel Set, Secret Agent Super Dragon, and The Starfighters.
• The DVD features a trailer for the original film as well as an interview with director Robert Fiveson specifically taped for the release, discussing the making and genesis of the film as well as The Island controversy and the MST3K take on his film. He even credits the MST3K fans interest and knowledge of Clonus with helping his case.

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