513: The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Movie: A scientist performs bizarre experiments in his basement. When his fiance' is decapitated in a car crash, he bundles up her head and takes it home to keep it alive in what looks to be a casserole pan. Then she and another experiment hit it off and the monster thing experiment escapes and destroys everything.
Opening: This is Mike's first movie, so the Bots have to brief him in on what to say. They've been training him all week and they eventually got as far as: Sid Melton equals little monkey boy.
Host Segment 1: They exchange inventions. Dr. Forrester has a Dream Buster, which he demonstrates by popping Frank's balloons with it. It does have a range up to sixty yards! On the SOL, Mike and the Bots have the Gutter-Bumber-Chute, an umbrella with rain gutters. Crow points out that rather than getting your back wet, it simply sends it towards your feet.
Host Segment 2: Crow and Servo help Mike rig the SOL so that they might be able to get back to Earth. Mike accidently cuts the cheese compressor tube and they play around with it alittle until Gypsy is heard, telling them that it's "not cheese."
Host Segment 3: Mike, Servo, and Crow design hats for Jan, the head in the pan. Some ideas include a Crown Roast hat.
Host Segment 4: Mike shares a childhood memory about how he ran a marathon and afterwards, stopped at McDonalds to get an ice cream cone for him and his mom, but he spent all his money to call his mom on the ice cream so he began to walk. Then he realized he had to go to the bathroom so he stopped at a gas station, but it was one of those where you had to go inside to get the key, so he was too shy to ask. He wet them. There is a silence before Crow shouts out, "Hey Gypsy, better get a rag in case Old Faithful here blows again!"
End: Jan in the Pan visits the SOL via the Hexfield. She talks about how she has gotten her life back on track and everything is good. But Mike spoils the moment by asking if she can make her own gravy. Meanwhile, Dr. Forrester is inspired and tries to take off Frank's head wth help of a chainsaw.
Stinger: Sultry manwoman says: "Who's to tell me to blow if I don't want to?"
Special Notes: This was the first Joel-less episode of MST3K. After he went on to bigger things, the mads blasted Mike up into space so they wouldn't feel so bad about Joel escaping. The theme song as well as the door sequence was changed in-light of the new host. Also, the opening title of the movie reads The Brain That Wouldn't Die, yet at the end of the movie, it reads, The Head That Wouldn't Die.
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