The Day the Earth Froze
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| 422 - The Day the Earth Froze | |
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| Air Date | January 16, 1993 |
| AKA | Sampo |
| Movie Director | Risto Orko, Aleksandr Ptushko |
| Year | 1959 |
| Cast | Andris Oshin, Eve Kivi (billed here as Nina Anderson), Anna Orochko, Ivan Voronov (billed here as Peter Sorenson) |
| Short | Here Comes the Circus |
| Cast | Emmett Kelly |
| Preceded by | 421 - Monster A-Go Go |
| Followed by | 423 - Bride of the Monster |
| “ | If you think you know what a sampo is, write it down on a piece of paper, throw it away and try not to think about it. You'll be glad you did. | ” |
| — Tom | ||
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The Short
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SynopsisEdit
Watch and enjoy a wide variety of circus acts - if you dare!
InformationEdit
The MovieEdit
SynopsisEdit
Finnish hero Lemminkäinen woos the fair damsel Annikki. When an evil witch named Louhi kidnaps Annikki in order to compel her brother Ilmarinen the blacksmith to build a Sampo, Lemminkäinen and Ilmarinen travel to the witch’s lair to rescue the maiden. Ilmarinen builds the Sampo, then he and Annikki return home. Lemminkäinen tries and fails to get the Sampo from Louhi. Lemminkäinen returns home. Lemminkäinen and Annikki get married. Lemminkäinen’s attempt to steal the Sampo has angered Louhi, so she steals the sun, plunging the world into frozen darkness. Lemminkäinen’s village bands together to bombard the witch with the music of sacred harps, which turns her to stone. Lemminkäinen releases the sun and everyone rejoices!
InformationEdit
“The Day the Earth Froze” was loosely based on the Kalevala (The Songs of Kaleva), the national epic poem of Finland, which Elias Lönnrot compiled from a large collection of Finnish folktales and folk songs and published in 1835.
The EpisodeEdit
Host SegmentsEdit
Prologue: It's family portrait time on the SOL, and Crow and Tom just aren't cooperating.
Segment One (Invention Exchange): The Bots continue to misbehave. Joel and the Bots show off Snack-tion, treats based on various ninja weapons, such as ninja throwing cookies and the Five Ladyfingers of Death. The Mads have invested Frank's retirement money in Unhappy Meals, fast food meals that contain unfortunate surprises. Alas, they haven't sold as quickly as Dr. F had hoped.
Segment Two: Inspired by the short, Crow and Tom discuss putting together their own twisted clown act, which turns out to be extremely deranged. However, Joel gets the last laugh.
Segment Three: Joel and the Bots discuss what a Sampo might really be. They come to the conclusion they shouldn't worry too much about it. Finnish viewers, all five of them, quietly crack up as Sampo's nature is genuinely unknown and the film's version is just the popular misconception.
Segment Four: Gypsy performs her amazing one-woman show: "Gypsy Rose...Me!"
Segment Five: Crow and Tom pretend to be imprisoned wind in bags similar to the movie while Joel reads a letter. Joel reads a letter and leaves them in their not-so-nice smelling bags. In Deep 13, Frank puts himself in a bag to sulk about his money, and Dr. F cuts him loose.
Stinger: "What’s going to become of us now?!"
Obscure ReferencesEdit
- "From the land of sky-blue waters..."
- The jingle from a Hamm's Beer commercial from the 1950s.
- "The Secret Storm!"
- The Secret Storm was a soap opera that aired from 1954 to 1974.
- "The Adventures of Fjord Fairlane!"
A reference to The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, a movie starring Andrew Dice Clay.
- "It's Body Wars!"
- Body Wars is a ride at Disney's Epcot Center.
- "Kind of a goofy Scandinavian 'Double Dare'!"
- Double Dare was a game show that aired on Nickelodeon during the late 1980s and early '90s.
- "Mark VII! Mark VII! Mark VII, dammit!"
- Mark VII Productions, which produced TV series such as Dragnet, had a logo that depicted the words "MARK VII" being stamped into a metal sheet.
- "Aguirre, the Wrath of God!"
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God was a 1972 film about a Spanish conquistador in 16th-century South America.
- "Hey look, it's Skylab!"
- In 1979, the abandoned NASA space station Skylab re-entered Earth's atmosphere, and much of the debris landed in western Australia.
- "We'll call her 'Trudy'."
- A reference to Local Hero, in which a rabbit is injured and named by protagonist Mac after an ex-girlfriend.
| preceded by: Season 3 | MST3K Season 4 | followed by: Season 5 | ||||||
| 1992 - 1993 | ||||||||
| 401 | Space Travelers | 1992-06-06 | 409 | The Indestructible Man | 1992-08-15 | 417 | Crash of Moons | 1992-11-28 |
| 402 | The Giant Gila Monster | 1992-06-13 | 410 | Hercules Against the Moon Men | 1992-08-22 | 418 | Attack of the the Eye Creatures | 1992-12-05 |
| 403 | City Limits | 1992-06-20 | 411 | The Magic Sword | 1992-08-29 | 419 | The Rebel Set | 1992-12-12 |
| 404 | Teenagers from Outer Space | 1992-06-27 | 412 | Hercules and the Captive Women | 1992-09-12 | 420 | The Human Duplicators | 1992-12-26 |
| 405 | Being from Another Planet | 1992-07-24 | 413 | Manhunt in Space | 1992-09-19 | 421 | Monster A-Go Go | 1993-01-09 |
| 406 | Attack of the Giant Leeches | 1992-07-18 | 414 | Tormented | 1992-09-26 | 422 | The Day the Earth Froze | 1993-01-16 |
| 407 | The Killer Shrews | 1992-07-25 | 415 | The Beatniks | 1992-11-25 | 423 | Bride of the Monster | 1993-01-23 |
| 408 | Hercules Unchained | 1992-08-01 | 416 | Fire Maidens of Outer Space | 1992-11-16 | 424 | Manos: The Hands of Fate | 1993-01-30 |
