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The Hellcats

From MST3K

209 - The Hellcats
Air Date December 8, 1990
MST3K Director Jim Mallon
Running Time 90 min.
Movie Director Robert F. Slatzer
Year 1967
Cast Ross Hagen, Dee Duffy, Del West, Tony Lorea
Preceded by 208 - Lost Continent
Followed by 210 - King Dinosaur

Contents

The Movie

Synopsis

Fearsome but well-built femme bikers cause low-budget desert mayhem when they begin smuggling Mexican drugs across the border. When they discover a detective hot on their tail, their enigmatic male leader has the gals kill him. Unfortunately, they don't count on the slain gumshoe's ex-girlfriend and brother teaming up to capture them. To do so, the girlfriend dresses up as a biker chick and joins the gang. Real trouble roars up when she is discovered, and violence ensues. [1]

Information

Some of the music was provided by Davy Jones and the Dolphins. [2]

The Episode

Host Segments

Prologue: Joel and the Bots have bad colds. Joel tries to stop before he even starts.

Invention Exchange (Segment One): The SOL crew uses Tom Servo's head to distribute vapor that "may cause flashbacks". The Mads are still riding their Hobby Hogs, while Joel finally gets to demonstrate his Sign-Language Translator.

Segment Two: Servo, typing in his journal, flashes back to the Shatner segment from The Crawling Hand.

Segment Three: Crow, recording his journal, remembers the Zero Gravity segment from Rocketship X-M.

Segment Four: Joel, writing in his journal, recalls the Gobo Sketch from Jungle Goddess.

Closing (Segment Five): Gypsy tries to write in her journal. Everyone discusses their own diaries, the crew reads a letter from Italian fans, everyone has a group hug, and the Mads work through their own pain.

Stinger: The trumpeter gets doused in booze.

Other Stuff

Miscellanea

  • This is MST3K 's only flashback episode. During the production of the episode most of the writing staff was out of town, resulting in the use of footage from previous episodes.
  • Tom amusingly notes his flashback is "before his voice changed".

Obscure References

  • "Ted Bessell's got nothing on that guy!"
Ted Bessell was an actor best known for his role as Donald Hollinger on the 1960s sitcom "That Girl".
  • "Kookie!"
Kookie was a character on the '50s private eye series 77 Sunset Strip. There was also a song titled "Kookie, lend me your comb".
  • "I'm not even supposed to be in this film. They lose me after the bunker scene."
That's a line from the movie Blazing Saddles. A guy says the line to someone dressed up as Hitler in the commissary.
  • "Fine Corinthian leather." -Crow, when Tony Cardoza's name appears in the credits.
Ricardo Montalban did a series of commercials for the Chrysler Cordoba (Cardoza) automobile in the '70s. In the ad he praised the "[soft] Corinthian leather" interior of the car.
  • "Filmed in Zapruder vision, guys." -Tom Servo during the motorcycle shots.
The Zapruder film is arguably the most famous footage of the Kennedy assassination. Servo references it due to the fact that the Hellcats footage is very poorly shot and thus, similar to the Zapruder film; out of focus, rapid camera movement, poor lighting etc.
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