“ | John 'Pterodactyl' Shaft | ” |
- Joel |
“ | I think someone's gonna get the shaft. Could be the viewer. | ” |
- Crow T. Robot |
The Movie[]
- Main article: The "Legend of Dinosaurs" (film)
Synopsis[]
A young scientist investigates an area where giant reptiles have been reported.
The Episode[]
Host Segments[]
Prologue: Taking their cue from the "Paul McCartney is Dead" hoax of the late '60s, the Mads start a "Joel is Dead" rumor. They make a pretty decent case, quite honestly.
Segment One: Joel demonstrates the way special effects can be used to make a person look really small. A little boy visits the Satellite of Love and shakes Joel like a rag doll.
Segment Two: Joel & the Bots put on a wacky sitcom, complete with laugh track, canned applause, and groaningly bad jokes. (This clip appears on the MST3K Scrapbook tape.)
Segment Three: To prepare the Bots for the film's upcoming dinosaur action scene, Joel shows off his model lizard, which breathes real fire, by the Bots are underwhelmed.
Segment Four: Summer's coming up, and that means MST3K is going on hiatus! Joel & the Bots discuss what they plan to do until the show starts up again. Servo: "I'm gonna fill my head with cocoa butter and surf till I drop!"[1]
Notes[]
- This is the final KTMA episode.
- Host segments 1 and 3 were apparently aired in the wrong order: in host segment 1, Joel refers to their "earlier" segment about the dinosaur...he's actually referring to host segment 3.
- This was the only KTMA episode to feature a special guest, which in this case was a young boy named Ralph Smith and his mother (off-screen).
Obscure References[]
- "The LEGEND! OF! DINAH SHORE!!"
Dinah Shore was a singer from the 40s and 50s, here noted only for her resemblance to the word "dinosaur."
- "...in the Land of the Loooost!"
The theme song to the 1970s TV show Land of the Lost, about a family stranded in a strange world that was home to (among other things) dinosaurs.
- "I thought this was Japan, not China."
A reference to Chinese water torture.
- "One of my robotic laws is 'Annoy at all costs.'"
A reference to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
- "Four hundred and fourty-eight toothpicks...I gotta go watch Wapner."
Servo is imitating Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man.
- "My God, it's Dorka!"
A play on Orca, a 1977 horror movie about a killer whale.
- "Getting to know You."
A reference to the song "Getting to Know You" from the musical "The King and I" by Rodgers & Hammerstein.
- "Who's the pterodactyl cat? Who's the sex machine and not a hat? Shaft! Good God! Huh!"
A play on the "Theme from Shaft" and "War".
- "It's a headless horse...man!
A reference to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
- "Flicka! I guess they took the head to use in The Godfather."
A reference to My Friend Flicka and The Godfather.
- "When there was no fowl, we ate crawdad. When there was no crawdad, we ate sand."
A reference to Raising Arizona.
- "In the land of Dairy Queen, we treat you right."
A reference to a Dairy Queen commercial.
References[]
preceded by: -- | MST3K Season K | followed by: Season 1 | ||||||
1988 - 1989 | ||||||||
K00 | The Green Slime | Not aired | K08 | Gamera vs Guiron | 1989-01-08 | K16 | City on Fire | 1989-03-19 |
K01 | Invaders from the Deep | 1988-11-24 | K09 | Phase IV | 1989-01-15 | K17 | Time of the Apes | 1989-04-02 |
K02 | Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars | 1988-11-24 | K10 | Cosmic Princess | 1989-01-22 | K18 | The Million Eyes of Sumuru | 1989-05-07 |
K03 | Star Force: Fugitive Alien II | 1988-11-27 | K11 | Humanoid Woman | 1989-01-29 | K19 | Hangar 18 | 1989-05-14 |
K04 | Gamera vs Barugon | 1988-12-04 | K12 | Fugitive Alien | 1989-02-05 | K20 | The Last Chase | 1989-05-21 |
K05 | Gamera | 1988-12-11 | K13 | SST- Death Flight | 1989-02-19 | K21 | The "Legend of Dinosaurs" | 1989-05-28 |
K06 | Gamera vs Gaos | 1988-12-18 | K14 | Mighty Jack | 1989-02-26 | |||
K07 | Gamera vs Zigra | 1988-12-31 | K15 | Superdome | 1989-03-12 |