-Speaking of watchable movies, The Day the Earth Froze is a nice buffer between Monster a Go-Go and the double whammy of Bride of the Monster and Manos. XXVIII.” However, in the circus short you can a black kid walking by in the shot of the kid chugging a cola. ), and both Host Segments #1 and #2 are great, great stuff. • Increasingly obscure reference: “Hey, it’s Skylab!” Oops, my mistake. The Segments. ), every meal at McDonalds is an Unhappy Meal. Just saying. Promo for this episode: I was wondering what the third bag was for, but it was actually for the mail. Oh yeah, and "They're going clown style!". I’m sixty-four now, and I’m still wondering. Prologue. Opening: J&tB try to pose for a family photo – Both references are pretty out of the blue… The Day the Earth Froze I really liked, "Sister of mine" followed by "You shaved your beard". !” CLANG!-“Mark VII dammit!!”. @ #75: So what circumstances lead you to you and your kids running into dead, floating fish? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampo_%28film%29#/media/File:The_Day_the_Earth_Froze_poster_-_1.jpg Tom’s riff at the high wire act – “It’s Albert Speer nude dining at…..”I don’t catch what he says then.I know who Albert Speer was, but don’t get the rest of the reference.If this has already been answered earlier, my apologies. End: The bots are imprisoned wind, Joel reads a letter, Frank is also wind and still mad Misheard riffs and dialogue would make an interesting Weekend Discussion (at least I don’t think we’ve done it before). The episode: “The Day the Earth Froze,” ep. • This episode was included in Shout’s “Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: The 25th Anniversary Edition” aka Vol. I know, I know… Yes, this act embodies the sadness that is Circus. sad note on Emmett Kelly. We thought the cloak might try something like this. Based on Finnish mythology, this movie traces the exploits of Lemminkainen as he woos the fair Annikki and battles the evil witch Louhi. Looking for some great streaming picks? Use the HTML below. I guess I just don’t get it. Gypsy had some really great fun with her singing. (Although I haven’t actually seen any theatrical Margaret Cho or Sandra Bernhard concerts, so I wouldn’t know firsthand. Marty Feldman, in a role that won’t surprise you. A classic episode, I guess "Unhappy Meal" was kind of a given. 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Tom: “Look, she’s Swedish; I’m guessing they’re blue!”. and "Will somebody put me out? -The Kalevala legend was also used as the basis for a Scrooge McDuck story (“The Quest for Kalevala”) by writer/artist Don Rosa. This seems to be confusing Disney’s Chip and Dale with the Warner Bros. Goofy Gophers, who were the ones who actually did the overly polite routine. ". I still have family, including my Mom, that live in northeastern PA, and I’ve never noticed that their speech sounds like a Minnesota accent. F. BTW, during the end credits of the movie, J&TBs are “surprised” that the evil witch was played by a woman. This is my favorite string of episodes and they really hit their stride at this point in the run of the show. “Where is the many-colored dome of the Sampo?” Crow and Servo misbehave, Gypsy worries about her hair, and the picture comes out badly. Or both. In the opening family portrait skit, Joel is setting the f-stop, adjusting the focus and lighting utilizing a tape measure….man…taking pictures used to be tough.. Crow: “Here comes the Devil!” Joel and the Bots learn the ins and outs of the circus in the short Here Comes the Circus (1946) and then try to make sense of the Nordic fairy tale film The Day the Earth Froze (1959). • How do robots spit? View production, box office, & company info, iCM Forum's Favourite Movies of the 1990s, We Got Movie Sign! • The circus in the short is never named, but it’s the Clyde Beatty Circus. Rosa wrote the tale specifically as a tribute to the Finnish fans of Donald Duck comics, of which there are many If this has already been answered earlier, my apologies. Joel and the Bots learn the ins and outs of the circus in the short Here Comes the Circus (1946) and then try to make sense of the Nordic fairy tale film The Day the Earth Froze (1959). *whistle* No buttons!”, Servo: “No no, they’re doing it clown style!” @ #108: So basically kind of like the gom jabbar. skillwithaquill, This has to be one of my favorite episodes of the entire show. i think i was not part of what they wrote but went with it. It is a labor of love, paid for out of our own pockets. Twenty minutes in, my dad leaned over to my mom and muttered, “Louise, what the hell IS this thing?”. It's weird how I missed this one. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. “Oh Mistress.” There’s something about this one that makes me….zone out.. -On the subject of Duck tours: I would have no idea what you guys are talking about, but last weekend I went to Seattle for a vacation (saw Radiohead; it was awesome) and I kept seeing these truck tour boats driving around with “Ride the Ducks” emblazoned on the side. ****. -While we’re on the subject of Disney, a shot of two chimpmunks in a tree leads the ‘bots to launch into a “After you! I’m surprised Trace didn’t break out the Bullwinkle impression more often, since he’s ridiculously good at it. 23. My first thought was it was a box Frank would be locked in, but it could just as easily be a box with “something” in it. she took her son to the circus and she thought of a lot of jokes from this. “Were you even WATCHING the movie??”. I’ve had fun pondering just what “The Box” is. It's family photo time on the SOL! Good storytelling. That makes so much more sense! • The acrobat is both Dag Hammarskjöld and Albert Speer. If you value this site, we would be delighted if you showed it by making an occasional donation of any amount. The only conversation between two females comes when Leminkeinin’s mom is told that her son has perished. J&tB are just in mid-riff when the explanation comes. • There are not one but two Ross Perot references in this episode. “You’ll never see the pretty face of your sister again.” Sometimes the special effects in these look better than today’s over-abused CG effects. It’s always kind of bored and confused me. who naturally manages to completely botch the whole thing, though he does manage to plough a field of snakes...?\rBut when everything seems lost in a blizzard -- and I'm not talking about the plot -- the village finally mans up and confront the evil witch with... soothing harp music...?\rAnyway, the sun is released and the happy villagers can go back to wreck havoc on nature.\rThe movie is preceded by the short -- Here Comes the Circus -- a lovely tale about the nightmare inducing trauma that is the circus.\rLook out for the Klu Klux Clowns, the devil, the freaks, the Amish clown, a woman who swings both ways, STELLA, doing it clown-style, Sigfried \u0026 Roy, full contact Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, goats, Bird Lancaster, the magic of Ulysses S. Grant, Sampo, snake ploughing, a talking road, a cruising cape, a bag of Homer Simpson, easy abductions, the creation of the Tristar logo, disco inferno, a flaming moose, the Swedish Moses of soul, a Scandinavian riot, the Little House on the Tundra, and the most emotion ever expressed in Sweden.\rEnjoy!\r(SAMPO!) Watch fullscreen. I love seeing them terrified of the clowns, but at least they had some respect for an Emmett Kelly look alike. Joel: This is music that ‘Up With People’ [i]rejected[/i]. • Another obscure reference: Crow’s silly voiced: “I thought it was a costume ball!” is a reference to a movie called “Start the Revolution Without Me.” 422 The riff: Matter-of-factly noted by Tom as we see a quick and random shot of a bear dancing on its hind legs, spinning round and round. So yeah, I think I liked it. If this seems like a petty nitpick, it’s because it is, and I apologize sincerely. • Local riff: “Mini golf at Crosslake.” It’s still around. Sampo for all !! In my favorite part, the hero's quest requires he journey over water. #123 Nice portrait of a rural American family at the Drive-In being confronted with this Scandinavian weirdness. Host segment 1: The bots have some ideas for clown acts but Joel is no help The log ride scene may be my iconic memory of MST3K, the essence of the show for me. Which leaves Gypsy Rose Me in HS#3… while I don’t consider Gypsy to be a great character, I have enjoyed her more recently, and you can’t deny that this is one of her crowning moments on the show. I seem to be on fire!”. So many great riffs. The short provides lots of fodder for a constant stream of great riffs. My favorite mst3k episode is The Day the Earth Froze. I can’t even remember the color of your eyes.” Probably because this was during the height of the Cold War. This film is a good example of the weirdness you get when trying to translate fairy tales into film. I also like when they're asking what Sampo is.The circus short was absolutely amazing. 3 years ago | 5 views. • As I noted in 1993 when I introduced this episode on national TV during Turkey Day, the movie DOES explain what a sampo is. • Tom gently joshes fellow Minnesota entertainer Garrison Keillor’s “Prairie Home Companion” during the long, tedious harp attack. • Naughty riff: “HE’s got delusions of grandeur. What I find amusing is how much those Minnesota accents sound like the accents of folks in the Northeastern corner of Pennsylvania, where I now live. Once again it's courtesy of award winning director Aleksandr Ptushko.\rThis time it's a story based on the Kalevala -- a Finnish folk story or something similar.\rAnyway, a witch kidnaps a young woman and steals the sun in order to have the woman's brother make her a Sampo -- a device that sort of does something with gold and salt and apparently is essential for the survival of a small village.\rWhy that is and what the deal is with the salt is anybodies guess.\rHowever, our Sampo maker brings a love struck young prince Valiant wanna-be along (what is it with that hair in Ptushko movies?) Misheard riffs and dialogue would make an interesting Weekend Discussion (at least I don’t think we’ve done it before). Gross. Movie: (1959) Nordic fantasy tale, based loosely on the Kalevala, about a wicked witch’s schemes to get, and later regain, a magic mill. The only difference I’ve noticed between their accent and the one here in central NJ is my Mom pronouncing “Narrowsburg” as “Narrisburg”. I’m totally watching this episode tonight. Films watched: Here Comes the Circus (short) and The Day the Earth Froze The short Here Comes the Circus is about the Clyde Beatty Circus and features legendary clown Emmett Kelly.. The last part was especially nice with Crow and Tom Servo floating in those bags! It’s not so much the heat as it is me.”. CLANG!-“Mark VII!” CLANG!-“Mark VII! Like the storytellers of old, when it was really cold and monotonous, and…. Oh, and Frankly(! did any notice during Snack-tion when Crow knocks off Toms head (and hits Joel at the same time) and Trace says, i broke him.