803 - The Mole People
Air Date	February 15, 1997
Movie Director	Virgil W. Vogel
Year	1956
Cast	John Agar Cynthia Patrick Hugh Beaumont Nestor Paiva
Preceded by	802 - The Leech Woman
Followed by	804 - The Deadly Mantis

This article is about Episode 803. For the Mads' Mole People assistants, see Gerry and Sylvia.

Contents 1 The Movie 1.1 Synopsis 1.2 Information 2 The Episode 2.1 Host Segments 2.2 Quotes & References

The Movie

Synopsis

Three archeologists accidentally discover an underground civilization where survivalists enslave tortured, mutant Mole Men and sacrifice beautiful women to enforce population control. When the mutants revolt, the humans must escape. [1]

Information

• The original ending had Bentley and Adal blithely strolling away together, headed for wedded bliss. The studio insisted that a new ending be shot two weeks after filming was completed, because they were reluctant to imply an interracial relationship! After all, Adal was a Sumerian!?!

• The intro by Dr. Frank Baxter, gesture professor, was supposed to lend some semblance of credibility to the movie. Perhaps, he thought, by waving his hands around a lot and showing nutty visual aids, the audience wouldn’t quite listen to the outlandish gobbledegook that came out of his mouth. Take note that this man was not a professor of any science whatsoever. He was an English professor. Probably set Southern Cal's English department back decades by appearing in this film too.

• The 1st host segment features the first of several instances where Crow falls from a great height.

• This film stars three repeat offenders from a previous film. John Agar and Nestor Paiva were also seen in Revenge of the Creature. Ward Cleaver learned how to a capable second banana to John Agar by 'yes-and'-ing Cesar Romero in Lost Continent.

The Episode

Host Segments

Prologue: Crow’s kooky novelty eyes make him a “Space Child”

Segment One: Space Child Crow is overthrown. Bobo suffers through the 32nd Annual Lawgiver Daze Tom offers baked goods and Crow takes a fall from his mile-high pie

Segment Two: Mike pretends to be the goofy gesture professor calling on the Hexfield. Crow and Tom won’t allow it

Segment Three: Tom tries and fails to play the guitar and sing a ballad about what he’s been up to for the past five thousand years or so

Segment Four: Crow the archeologist, searching for evidence of a previous Crow, has a breakthrough, and suddenly remembers Mike

Segment Five: Crow believes there’s life beneath the floorboards of the SOL . . . and he’s right. On Earth, the Lawgiver is presented with a hunky gift, Minnesota Vikings running back Robert Smith

Stinger: Nestor “The Load” Paiva reaches his limit

Quotes & References

• "Oh, these are the people who make that nice Mexican sauce!"

​Molé sauce (or simply molé --- "molé sauce" is redundant) is a concoction made from peppers, spices, and unsweetened chocolate. Molé comes in a myriad of varieties.

• "Mike, I don't love you anymore because the mountains are crumbling [possibly mumbled: 'into the sea'?]"

Could be a reference to the Led Zeppelin song "Thank You" ("If the mountains should crumble to the sea, there would still be you and me.") which in itself is probably a reference to the Ben E. King song "Stand By Me" which also talks of mountains crumbling into the seas.

• "Oh, Pilate's favorite! What I wouldn't give to be spat upon!"

Paraphrase of "Ohh! What wouldn't I give to be spat at in the face! I sometimes hang awake at night dreaming of being spat at in the face." from Monty Python's Life of Brian .

• "Earthquake, shut up already, damn!"

A parody of the song "Housequake " from Prince's 1987 album Sign 'O' the Times.

• "It's baby Jessica! She's digging her own way out!"

​A reference to Jessica McClure , a toddler who was trapped in a well in Midland, TX on Oct. 14, 1987. (The ensuing media circus has also been lampooned by The Simpsons.)

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