207 - Wild Rebels
Air Date	November 17, 1990
MST3K Director	Jim Mallon
Running Time	90 min.
Turkey Day(s)	November 28, 1991, 2pm
Movie Director	William Grefe
Year	1967
Cast	Steve Alaimo, Willie Pastrano, John Vella, Bobbie Byers
Preceded by	206 - Ring of Terror
Followed by	208 - Lost Continent

The Movie

Synopsis

In this routine biker film, Rod (Alaimo) is a former stock-car racer who joins the police department. He infiltrates the Satan's Angels motorcycle gang to stop a bank robbery by the malevolent trio of bikers bent on terrorizing South Florida. [1]

Information

Watch for former boxing champ Willie Pastrano as one of the bad boy bikers.[2]

Silent but deadly Fats was played by Jeff Gillen, who also appeared as Santa Claus in The Christmas Story. [3]

The Episode

Host Segments

Prologue: Joel shuts down the higher functions of the Satellite of Love so that Gypsy can speak about why she is depressed.

Invention Exchange (Segment One): Gypsy finishes her talk with Joel so he can breathe again, but he's a little out of it, from the lack of oxygen; the Mads demonstrate their Hobby Hogs for children who look up to bikers, and Joel creates 3-D Pizza, based on 3-D chess from Star Trek.

Segment Two: Joel and the Bots talk about the intellectuals who rode motorcycles and started gangs. The Algonquin Round Table was known as Satan's Sardonics.

Segment Three: The SOL crew makes a commercial for Wild Rebels cereal.

Segment Four: Crow and Tom Servo talk about Gypsy's talents, and Joel sings a song to Gypsy in the style of the film...until the other Bots jump him.

Closing (Segment Five): Joel is surprisingly chipper after the movie's dour ending. He cheers the Bots up by helping them make more fun of the movie, resulting in a party. The Mads are confused until Frank figures it out.

Stinger: For some reason, none.

Obscure References

• "What's the extra E for?" -Joel, after William Grefe's name comes up in the credits. "The extra E is for extra--" -Crow. "Uh-mm, ixnay!" -Servo.

There was a famous TV ad campaign on New York City cable during the '80s for a phone sex line featuring "watersports". The number was 970-PEEE; their slogan was "The extra 'E' is for extra PEE!"

• "Silly rabbi. Kicks are for Trids!" -Joel

This phrase is the punchline to an old joke. There are a few different versions, all of which lead to a variation of the Trix cereal advertising slogan "Silly rabbit. Trix are for kids!"

• Why don't you let the shotgun sing a song?

Paraphrases a lyric from Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who.

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, The Sinister Urge, and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, 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.