812 - The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
Air Date	July 14, 1997
AKA	Diabolical Dr. Voodoo The Incredibly Mixed Up Zombie The Incredibly Strange Creature: Or Why I Stopped Living and Became a Mixed-up Zombie The Teenage Psycho Meets Bloody Mary
Movie Director	Ray Dennis Steckler
Year	1964
Cast	Ray Dennis Steckler (as Cash Flagg) Carolyn Brandt Brett O'Hara
Preceded by	811 - Parts: The Clonus Horror
Followed by	813 - Jack Frost

Contents 1 The Movie 1.1 Synopsis 1.2 Information 2 The Episode 2.1 Host Segments 3 Quotes & References 3.1 Video Release

The Movie

Synopsis

Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little does he know that she is the sister of a gypsy fortune teller whose predictions he had scoffed at earlier. The gypsy turns him into a zombie and he goes on a killing spree. [1]

Information

The title was originally going to be The Incredibly Strange Creature: Or Why I stopped Living and Became a Mixed-up Zombie, but Columbia Pictures threatened writer/director/star Ray Dennis Steckler with a massive lawsuit, thinking that the title was too similar to their upcoming Stanley Kubrick film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Steckler was amazed that Columbia would feel so threatened by his little $38,000 film. He phoned the studio to straighten things out, but couldn't make any progress until he demanded that Kubrick get on the line. Then Steckler simply suggested the new title - Kubrick accepted, and the whole thing was dropped. [2]

The Episode

Host Segments

{C}Prologue: It's Walkathon season and Mike is being hit up by Crow who's walking on behalf of Walkathon, which is an acronym (Walkers At Large Kinetically Altruistic Through Hygiene Or kNowledge). Tom is walking for Helping Children Through Research And Development which is also turns out is an acronym, full name: Hi, Everyone. Let's Pitch In 'N' Get Cracking Here In Louisiana Doing Right, Eh? Now Then. Hateful Rich Overbearing Ugly Guys Hurt Royally Everytime Someone Eats A Radish, Carrot, Hors d'oeuvre, And Never Does Dishes. Eventually, Victor Eats Lunch Over Peoria Mit Ein Neuesberger Tod.

Segment One: As Tom sings the praises of beefy tees to spread awareness of Hi, Everyone. Let's Pitch In 'N' Get Cracking Here In Louisiana Doing Right, Eh? Now Then. Hateful Rich Overbearing Ugly Guys Hurt Royally Everytime Someone Eats A Radish, Carrot, Hors d'oeuvre, And Never Does Dishes. Eventually, Victor Eats Lunch Over Peoria Mit Ein Neuesberger Tod, the SOL crew detect the launch of a spacecraft, it's Pearl in The Widowmaker who is attempting to return the Space Childern to their parents. Down on the planet Brain Guy and Bobo have a voice only link to the satellite as they fight over who is sending the movie up, during which Bobo hurls his dung at Brain Guy.

Segment Two: Inspired by the movie, Crow attempts to read Mike's fortune using Tom's head as a crystal ball, but it's all just a grand scheme to extort 50 cents. Things go wrong and Mike ends up giving them the money out of pity.

Segment Three: Crow and Servo sport new pompadours like the foreign guy from the movie, convincing Mike of the need to update his look too. A quick session with Shelli the Nanite gives him a really high pompadour, so high that Rocket Number 9 reveals it's a danger to communication satellites.

Segment Four: Crow hires Ortega to cater the movie break, but while he and Tom love the spread, Mike can't get over his appalling personal hygene. Mike's barbs shame Ortega, leaving him no choice but to douse his own face with acid.

Closing (Segment Five): The Bots have convinced Mike to take a ride on their rollcoaster, The Screaming Lemur, but perhaps they really should have considered adding a track. Meanwhile Pearl has finally reached the Space Children's huge and omnipotent parents, turning down their offer of coffee and carrot cake to say her goodbyes and flee.

Stinger: "What do you think we came here for...to eat?" retorts the Foreign Guy.

Quotes & References

• "Passaic, NJ - where America's day begins!"

Passaic is a city in Northern New Jersey. It is known for its industry and is an area of constant urban renewal.

• "I think Corky St. Clair choreographed this."

Corky St. Clair is the flamboyant homosexual choreographer played by Christopher Guest in Waiting for Guffman.

• "Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dull."

A reference to Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance.

• "Andrei Gromyko looks on."

Andrei Gromyko was a prominent Soviet politician in the 1980's.

• "And now, funnyman Hermann Göring."

Hermann Göring was a prominent Nazi politician--the commander of the Luftwaffe (the German air force), the highest in the Nazi hierarchy to issue orders about the planned institutionalized genocide of the Jews, the originator of the phrase "the Final Solution" to describe that genocide, and Hitler's designated successor. Having surrendered to the Allies on May 9, 1945, he was tried at Nuremberg (along with numerous other major war criminals), was found guilty, and was sentenced to death by hanging. On October 15, 1946, the night before his scheduled execution, Göring committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill.

• "Renée Richards is Wendy Carlos in Glen or Glenda?"

Both Renée Richards and Wendy Carlos are famous male-to-female transsexuals, and Glen or Glenda? was an Edward D. Wood, Jr. film about a transvestite.

• "Bill W., theatrical manager."

Bill W., aka William Griffith Wilson, was the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

• "Let's hear it for Hank and Larry!"

Hank and Larry are homosexual lovers from the play and film The Boys in the Band.

• "You did it, you finally did it, damn you all to hell!"

Charlton Heston's line at the end of Planet of the Apes which has a similar beach shot.

• "I'm going to Las Vegas to drink myself to death."

Referring to the actor staggering from the water who looks a bit like a drunken Nicolas Cage, whose raging alcoholic character Ben Sanderson in the 1995 film Leaving Las Vegas travels to that city on a mission to commit suicide by booze.

• Rock songs are referenced when the guitar player sings:
  • "Livin' on reds, Vitamin C and Cocaine..." - Grateful Dead, "Truckin'"
  • "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery..." - Bob Marley, "Redemption Song"
  • "London calling, yes, I was there too..." - The Clash, "London Calling"
  • "I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree..." - Stever Miller Band, "The Joker"
  • "My Anaconda don't want none unless you've got buns, hun..." - Sir Mix-A-Lot, "Baby Got Back"
  • "Legalize it..." - Peter Tosh, "Legalize it"

Video Release

• Commercially released on DVD by Rhino Entertainment in May 2006 as part of The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 9, a 4-DVD set with Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Wild Rebels, and The Sinister Urge. The DVD was later pulled due to rights issues with Women of the Prehistoric Planet, which made Volume 9 out of print and very hard to find.
• Shout Factory! later released it as a single, which is only sold through their website.

preceded by: Season 7		MST3K Season 8					followed by: Season 9
		1997
801	Revenge of the Creature	1997-02-01	809	I Was a Teenage Werewolf	1997-04-19	817	The Horror of Party Beach	1997-08-16
802	The Leech Woman	1997-02-08	810	The Giant Spider Invasion	1997-05-31	818	Devil Doll	1997-10-04
803	The Mole People	1997-02-15	811	Parts: The Clonus Horror	1997-06-07	819	Invasion of the Neptune Men	1997-10-11
804	The Deadly Mantis	1997-02-22	812	The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies	1997-06-14	820	Space Mutiny	1997-11-07
805	The Thing That Couldn't Die	1997-03-01	813	Jack Frost	1997-07-12	821	Time Chasers	1997-11-22
806	The Undead	1997-03-08	814	Riding with Death	1997-07-19	822	Overdrawn at the Memory Bank	1997-12-06
807	Terror from the Year 5000	1997-03-15	815	Agent for H.A.R.M.	1997-08-02
808	The She-Creature	1997-04-05	816	Prince of Space	1997-08-16