Episodes 105-110: Share your screenshots and favorite riffs!

[Lesley]

As a refresher:

You can submit one to three screenshots in comments on each post. Please keep your images at minimum 800px x 600px and 72 dpi. File type does not matter.

If you’d ALSO like to throw in a favorite riff, choose one that’s relatively short. Remember to include the timestamp of where it happens in the episode. Ideally the riff should make sense when used in context with the screenshot(s) you’ve chosen. Riffs are optional, though, and if you’d rather just share screenshots, that is fine too.

All of this info will be collected and may be used in the Gizmoplex library! Your contributions are greatly appreciated, even if you can’t participate on every post. There’s zero pressure to do EVERY episode. Whatever you can do will help.

106 The Crawling Hand
107 Robot Monster
108 The Slime People
109 Project Moonbase
110 Robot Holocaust

[ColdStorage]

Robot Monster:

“Some people really have a strange idea about foreplay.” (Servo, 53:47)
(time code is for the riff; the shot is at 58:03)

“I think I’ll crush grape jelly in my neck until the clocks come home.” (Joel, 01:18:27)

[jamesismadagain]

Slime People!

I personally love the image of the Slime Person poking his head up from the bushes, just saying

[FastidiousRobot]

106 The Crawling Hand

Servo at 14:10 - “Well, he still has good teeth.”

[FastidiousRobot]

107 Robot Monster

Crow at 41:42 - “This is what comes from teaching apes sign language.”
(still is from 1:16:39)

[FastidiousRobot]

108 The Slime People

Crow at 27:00 - “The dipstick on this thing is enormous!”

109 Project Moonbase

Joel at 55:36 - “Isn’t she something?”
Crow - “Yeah, and the girl ain’t bad either.”

110 Robot Holocaust

Crow at 37:40 - “She looks like the new Lily Munster.”

[ArtCrow]

That green colored theater is just so wrong.

[rodneylives]

It’s a lot of work to find, snap and upload screenshots, but here are some favorite moments:

The whole segment about SPACOM (“Spackem”) in Project Moonbase is an early highlight.

Also in Project Moonbase is “Dirk Squarejaw!” an early version of the kind of name that would later be used to riotous effect in Space Mutiny.

It’s also great hearing Joel and the bots react with indignation to Colonel Briteis getting treated badly by her commanding officer, and throughout, possibly due to being based on a Robert Heinlein story, but just as likely due to the movie being made in the 50s.

The segment after Commando Cody where the bots try to figure out how bumblebees fly, and their heads explode.

Robot Holocaust is an underrated episode in general.

[ArtCrow]

“Commando Cody Theme Song” is a great sequence too (especially since they were struggling big time to come up with fresh material for those never-changing opening credits).

[optiMSTie]

Episode 106 - The Crawling Hand

#1

(image taken at approximately 26:39; riff taken at approximately 26:46)

Servo: “Soon-to-be-naked is better than not-naked-at-all.”

#2

(image/riff taken at approximately 38:54)

Servo: “It’s the nighttime coughing, aching, sneezing, stuffy head, fever, so-you’re-being-chased-by-a-human-hand medicine!”

#3

(image taken at approximately 50:27; riff taken at approximately 50:34)

Crow: “C’mon, spit it out! Cough it up!”

[optiMSTie]

107 - Robot Monster

#1

(image/riff taken at approximately 42:33)

Crow: “He comes from a planet where they evolved from apes and water coolers.”

#2

(image/riff taken at approximately 1:05:08)

Servo: “What’s so scary about an alien that looks like the mascot of a college football team?”

#3

(image/riff taken at approximately 1:22:57)

Servo: “Kind of like a miniature version of King Kong.”

[optiMSTie]

108 - The Slime People

#1

(image/riff taken approximately at 31:22)

Servo: “They’re talking into a Pez dispenser!”

#2

(image/riff taken approximately at 37:29)

Crow: “Like the film?”

#3

(image/riff taken approximately at 39:23)

Servo: “Must be that new Hi-C Ecto Cooler.”

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109 - Project Moonbase

#1

(image taken approximately at 59:47; riff taken approximately at 59:52)

Joel: “Art design by MC Escher.”

#2

(image/riff taken approximately at 1:02:18)

Crow: “Battery pack separating from frisbee…”

#3

(image taken approximately at 1:16:09; riff taken approximately at 1:16:04)

Crow: “Uh, this is the way the first Wallenda died.”

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110 - Robot Holocaust

#1

(image/riff taken approximately at 16:45)

Servo: “Must be cold in that room.”

#2

(image taken at approximately 35:17)

Servo: “Which one of them is Ginger and which is Mary Ann?”

#3

(image taken approximately at 1:22:45; riff taken approximately at 1:27:10)

Joel: “Okay, honey, am I a fruit or a vegetable?”

[JakeGittes]

I don’t know if you want host segments, but this was a big one so I included it just in case. The very first “I thought you were Dale” from The Crawling Hand

43:44 - “Hands, so, young looking, Mrs Berke I thought you were Dale!” - Joel

[optiMSTie]

If we’re doing host segment screenshots, I’d like to throw in some as well!

106 - The Crawling Hand

#1

(image taken at approximately 3:56)

#2

(image taken at approximately 1:13:39)

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107 - Robot Monster

#1

(image taken at approximately 32:35)

#2

(image taken at approximately 1:36:11)

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108 - The Slime People

#1

(image taken at approximately 3:18)

#2

(image taken at approximately 3:38)

#3

(image taken at approximately 27:54)

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109 - Project Moonbase

#1

(image taken at approximately 32:57)

#2

(image taken at approximately 1:10:11)

#3

(image taken at approximately 1:35:30)

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110 - Robot Holocaust

#1

(image taken at approximately 4:21)

#2

(image taken at approximately 1:14:00)

[ZeitgeistMeister]

I have a “discovered riff” from The Crawling Hand, though I admit it might be common knowledge to cinephiles. Last night I was looking for garbage to watch for about an hour, and through Tubi I came up with The Mysterious Mr. Wong, starring our old pal Bela Lugosi. The female lead was Arline Judge, and I looked her up to see if she’d done anything good. In the Wikipedia article it noted she was called One-Take Sally. I remembered Joel going on about that in some episode, and eventually remembered it was Ep. 106, speaking of Mrs. Hotchkiss. Well, that role was played by Arline Judge. I had assumed the riff was just one of Joel’s inner monologs, but it had actual substance. Turns out Arline didn’t have a great career, but she was really good at marriage – or marrying anyway. She had seven husbands.