Robot Monster
From MST3K
| 107 - Robot Monster | |
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| Air Date | January 1990 |
| Running Time | 66 min. |
| AKA | Monster from Mars Monsters from the Moon |
| Movie Director | Phil Tucker |
| Year | 1953 |
| Cast | George Nader, Claudia Barrett, John Mylong |
| Short | Radar Men from the Moon - Chapter 4: Flight of Destruction Chapter5: Murder Car |
| Short Director | Fred C. Brannon |
| Year | 1951 |
| Cast | George Wallace |
| Preceded by | 106 - The Crawling Hand |
| Followed by | 108 - The Slime People |
Contents |
The Short
Synopsis
After safely returning to Earth, Cody tells the head of U.S. security about Retik’s plot to invade Earth. Meanwhile, Retik's minions need money to buy a new truck to house the super ray gun, so Retik tells them to kidnap Cody and hold him for ransom. Unable to get Cody, they kidnap his assistant Jean. The henchmen take off with her in an airplane and bail out, jamming the controls. Cody comes to the rescue in his rocket suit, and successfully rescues Jean. Retik reprimands his underling Krog for failing to carry out his mission. Krog orders his men to pull a payroll heist, which succeeds in raising the needed cash.
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Clayton Moore (better known as TV's Lone Ranger) plays the villainous turncoat Graber.
The Movie
Synopsis
A young boy named Johnny (Gregory Moffett), who is fascinated with outer space, is on a picnic with his widowed mother (Selena Royle), older sister (Barrett), and younger sister (Pamela Paulsen) when he meets a pair of archeologists (Mylong and Nader) exploring a nearby cave. Later, as the family sleeps, he has a dream — that the Earth has been attacked by a alien named Ro-Man, using the "calcinator death ray," and that he and his family and scientist Nader are the only survivors. They try to elude capture by Ro-Man (played by actor George Barrows in a gorilla suit with a diving helmet), who turns out to have some very human failings despite his computerized mentality. Several members of the family are killed, but Ro-Man is destroyed by his controllers when he decides he'd rather experience human emotions. [1]
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The Episode
Host Segments
Invention Exchange: Deep 13 goes first with their flaming whoopie cushion. Joel unveils the Cumber-Bubble Bund.
Segment Two: The Bots cannot fathom the physical properties of Commando Cody and blow up.
Segment Three: Joel is afraid of Ro-Tom.
Segment Four: Joel discusses surrealism with the Bots.
Ending Segment: The SOL crew discuss the movie while wearing garbage bags. Dr. F wonders about his experimental subject.
Obscure References
- "Lookin' through the knothole in Grandma's wooden leg."-Sung by Joel whenever we see Ro-Man lumbering around on the hillside.
From an old children's folk song. "Looking through the knothole in Grandma's wooden leg/ Who'll wind the clock up when I'm gone/ Go get the axe, there's a flea in Susie's ear/ And a boy's best friend is his mother."
- "It's Miller Day!"-Says Crow T. Robot upon a close-up shot of a wristwatch wearing actor soldering electronic circuits.
This is a reference to the Miller Genuine Draft "It's Miller Time!" ad campaign of the 1980's.
| preceded by: Season 0 | MST3K Season 1 | followed by: Season 2 | ||||||
| 1989 - 1990 | ||||||||
| 101 | The Crawling Eye | 1989-11-28 | 106 | The Crawling Hand | 1989-12-26 | 111 | Moon Zero Two | 1990-01-30 |
| 102 | The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy | 1989-12-05 | 107 | Robot Monster | 1990-01-02 | 112 | Untamed Youth | 1990-02-06 |
| 103 | The Mad Monster | 1989-12-12 | 108 | The Slime People | 1990-01-09 | 113 | The Black Scorpion | 1990-02-13 |
| 104 | Women of the Prehistoric Planet | 1990-02-20 | 109 | Project Moon Base | 1990-01-16 | |||
| 105 | The Corpse Vanishes | 1989-12-19 | 110 | Robot Holocaust | 1990-01-23 | |||
