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The "Legend of Dinosaurs"

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K21 - The Legend of the Dinosaurs
Air Date May 21, 1989
Running Time 92 min.
AKA Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds,
The Monster From Mt. Fuji
Movie Director Junji Kurata
Year 1977
Cast Tsunehiko Watase, Nobiko Sawa, Shotaro Hayashi
Preceded by K20 - The Last Chase
Followed by 101 - The Crawling Eye

Contents

The Movie

Synopsis

A geologist snoops around a remote area where, it is said, dinosaurs once roamed. There have been reports of late that the huge lizards are still alive. Wonder of wonders, they are.[1]

Information

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. 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]

Obscure References

  • "...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.

  • "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.

Notes

  • This was 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.

References

  1. ↑ Satellite News


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