1013: Danger Diabolik
Movie: Based on an Italian comic book series, the lead villian, Diabolik, has big heists and tries to foil the government. But everything goes wrong for him when they discover his secret hide-out and he gets trapped in liquid gold.
Opening: Servo can't maintain altitude and Mike discovers an SOL Employee Handbook jammed up his hoverskirt. The handbook is written in Pearl's own style of being able to do anything she wishes to Mike and the Bots.
Host Segment 1: The ship starts to yaw and Mike and the bots find Pearl in a playful mood, messing with them with the use of her new joystick from Radio Shack. The joystick breaks and accidentally sends the SOL headed back to Earth. Down in the castle, Pearl is slightly upset; up in the SOL, Crow has motion sickness. Despite her dispair, she still is able to send them their last movie.
Host Segment 2: Mike is packed, rice and all, and ready to go. Crow's got all his stuff in a garbage bag; and Tom is trying to figure out what to do with all the extra Toms around the ship. He starts blowing some of them up when he, himself blows up, meaning HE was a fake.
Host Segment 3: The residents of the Castle are getting on with their lives: Pearl has accepted an offer to be dictator for life of Qatar; Bobo has a promising interview at the zoo; and Brain Guy's got lots of stuff going on.... I guess.
Host Segment 4: Crow is frightened to go to Earth, what with all the wars and murders and diseases and wild pigs running around. Mike sings a song to allay his fears, which perks up Crow but scares Servo into hiding under the desk.
End: With Servo driving, the SOL endures a violent landing on Earth. Mike, Crow and Servo share a one-bedroom, garden level apartment in Milwaukee and settle in to watch movies. Ironically, the movie they watch seems "oddly familiar" to Crow.
Stinger: Valmont looking to sea, asking "Is that stud coming?"
Special Notes: This was the last episode of MST3K. After this episode was shot, the set was dismantled, sold on e bay, and the cast moved on as well. The movie they watch in the last segment is The Crawling Eye, which was the 1st MST3K episode on Comedy Central (see episode
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