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Red Zone Cuba

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619 - Red Zone Cuba
Air Date December 17, 1994
AKA Night Train to Mundo Fine
Movie Director Coleman Francis
Year 1966
Cast Coleman Francis, Tony Cardoza, John Carradine
Preceded by 618 - High School Big Shot
Followed by 620 - Danger!! Death Ray

Contents

The Short

Speech: Platform Posture and Appearance

Synopsis

Through liberal use of the knee test, looking good and standing tall, the secrets of public speaking are revealed.

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The Movie

Synopsis

A trio of convicts joins up for an assault on a Cuban stronghold. After they are captured, they plan to escape before they face the firing squad. They eventually make it back to the American Southwest, where they go from town to town, robbing and killing before the law gets to them at the end. That is pretty much all there is to it.

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The Episode

Host Segments

Prologue: Mike arrives just in time for tonight's Lotto Draw, learning that Tom is a great lotto machine and that you need a lot of lotto numbers.

Segment One: While Mike gets the all important power ball, 509, Frank reveals he's kinda in deep to the mob for 50 large. But thanks to some minor re-direction, Dr. F gets the beating intended for Frank.

Segment Two: Frank tries convince Dr F that he still has so much to live for and rouses the horribly injured man from his death bed, but questions his posture...

Segment Three: While the strain of the movie convinces Mike he's Carol Chaning, Frank reads and relays the mountain of the "hope you die" cards and calls Dr F has been receiving due to his imminent death.

Segment Four: As the strain of the movie causes Mike to cycle through yet more celebrities he believes himself to be, Frank tries to announce Dr F's passing, but he yo-yos between life and death. At least until the mob come back for a second go at him.

Closing (Segment Five): Mike and the Bots sing a happy perky song to lift their spirits after the movie, while Dr F has recovered enough to "thank" Frank.

Stinger: Blind lady plays the piano.

Notes

The movie in this episode is the source of the frequent callback, "I'm Cherokee Jack." In context, the character is a bit of fifth business, an okie who convinces the gang to fly to Cuba. M&TB are bowled over by his pie-eyed delivery of this introductory line. The riff is often repeated when a new character appears unannounced or says something unexpected.

Obscure References

  • "Oh, Moe's gonna kill me!"

A reference to Curly from The Three Stooges. Coleman Francis somewhat resembles him.

  • "Hey, Petey the Plane!"

A reference to a running gag from an earlier Coleman Francis episode, The Skydivers.

  • "It's a Shining Path fantasy camp!"

The Shining Path is a Peruvian guerrilla/terrorist group.

  • "This train is bound for glory, this train..."

Lines from "Land of Hope and Dreams", a pretty obscure Bruce Springsteen song.

  • "It's Fee Waybill!"

A guy in the movie vaguely resembles Fee Waybill, lead singer of The Tubes.

  • "I guess I'm a dreamer." "...Montreal."

This is a reference to a Groucho Marx joke about a pun on the song title, "I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All."

  • "Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Curly?"

A parody of the line spoken by Edward G. Robinson as Little Rico in the 1931 gangster movie "Little Caesar".

Video Release

  • Commerically released on VHS by Rhino Entertainment in October 1997.
  • Commerically released on DVD by Rhino in April 2002.


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