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The Thing That Couldn't Die

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805 - The Thing That Couldn't Die
Air Date March 1, 1997
Movie Director Will Cowan
Year 1958
Cast William Reynolds
Andra Martin
Jeffrey Stone
Carolyn Kearney
Preceded by 804 - The Deadly Mantis
Followed by 806 - The Undead


Contents

The Movie

Synopsis

The Thing That Couldn't Die

A young woman plays with a divining rod and ends up finding much more than water in this horror movie. Instead of the desired liquid, the woman finds a 400-year-old human head, and it's still alive. The horrific creature, seeing that the woman is properly innocent, hypnotizes her into looking for the rest of his body. [1]

Information

  • The opening credits reused the music from the opening credits of This Island Earth.
  • Of the 101 films made by director Will Cowan, this was the only feature - all of the rest were shorts. This was also the last film he directed.

The Episode

Host Segments

The Observers
  • Prologue Tom Servo unveils his newest art show, "Crow: A Thousand Years of Tyranny". As the name indicates, it's less than flattering. Crow is ironically paying for the whole thing and is a bit concerned about the negativity...until clowns on velvet are mentioned.
  • Segment 1 Servo ignores the clowns in his new painting; kittens in a meat grinder is more suitable for Crow. Then, Gypsy alerts them that the Satellite of Love is caught in a tractor beam that drags them to a new planet and creates a temporary Tom Twin. They are now in orbit around the planet of The Observers, which is now also the abode of Pearl and Bobo. The Observers want to observe her experiment and have set their guests up with nice accommodations. The Observers then secretly discuss their plans to dissect and display Pearl and Bobo in their museum.
  • Segment 2 One of the Observers is now on the SOL to observe in person. He annoys and insults the hell out of them, so they eject him from the ship, sans brain.
  • Segment 3 The gang plays Risk until they are interrupted by Finnegan, teleported from Mike's memory via the Observers. Except Mike doesn't know the utterly annoying geek, who beats him up. Crow wants Mike to think of Adrienne Barbeau; Mike mishears him and thinks of Roman Emperor Hadrian, who beats him up. He finally thinks of Ms. Barbeau, who, um, beats him up.
  • Segment 4 Crow debuts his new documentary, Crow T. Robot's Bram Stoker's The Civil War. Per most of Crow's reports and documentaries, his facts are far from straight and the credits are longer than the documentary.
  • Final Segment Servo and Mike plot to scare Crow out of his mind by using Servo's disembodied head. The wig gives way as Mike thrusts the head forward; repairs are ensues. Pearl goes to bed, haranguing the Observers and Bobo the whole time.
  • Stinger The Observers offer you their brains.

Other Notes

Guest Stars

Miscellanea

  • Unusual credits: Pearl snores through the credits.

Quotes & References

  • "THE BIG VALLEY!"
The Big Valley was a Western TV series from the late 1960s.
  • "It looks medieval!" "...on yo' ass!"
A reference to a line spoken by Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction.
  • The tune Servo sings periodically when Jessica is mentioned is "Jessica," an instrumental song by the Allman Brothers Band.
  • "Can we scare you to death?"
A reference to the 1971 horror movie Let's Scare Jessica to Death.
  • "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!"
A quote from a 1970s margarine commercial.
  • "Have you ever seen The Children's Hour?"
References a play by Lillian Hellman, later adapted into a movie. The story deals with two teachers at a boarding school who are accused of lesbianism.

Notes


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