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“The Crawling Hand” quotes from Mystery Science Theater 3000

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“The Crawling Hand” · Season 1

In this episode: Joel Robinson (9), Crow T. Robot (6), Tom Servo (2), Paul (1)

[In a diner, some kids are dancing around a jukebox. The owner of the diner walks up and turns it off.]

OOwner

No dancing, not allowed.

This is just like Footloose.

[Moments later in the same diner, when Marta is about to say something.]

CACrow [as Owner]

No acting, not allowed.

. . .

[Marta shows her rat in a cage for her science experiment at the diner]

OOwner

No rats.

JAJoel [as Owner]

Unless they're on the menu.

[Paul and Marta are engaged in a passionate embrace on the beach.]

Hey! Is this From Here to Eternity?

No, it just seems like an eternity.

[Buxom Marta, changing into her swimsuit behind a rock, loudly converses with Paul on the other side of the rock.]

MMarta

Paul... what does it mean, I'm "stacked"? And you're "not with it"?

"Stacked"?

CACrow [as Paul]

"Stacked" means you're really smart.

PPolice Officer

Did you hear anything... footsteps... a door opening?

CACrow [as Officer]

The sound of one hand clapping?

[NASA doctor Weitzberg scans Paul, recovering in the hospital, with a geiger counter.]

WDr. Weitzberg

Not a trace. Not a solitary trace.

Must be a talent meter.

[Stranded and virus-infected astronaut Lockhart begs for NASA scientists to push his capsule's remote self-destruct button]

[as Lockhart/David Bowie] This is Major Tom to Ground Control...

[even later, as Paul attempts to throttle the diner owner while under the hand's influence]

[as Owner] No strangling, not allowed.

[Crow and Servo tell Joel off in that he always wins every game he makes the Bots play- due to their non-functioning arms- and leave him alone]

[addressing Cambot] Cambot, I want you to remind me of something: next time I make a robot, no more free will. That's it; and now we've got commercial sign.

Hey, why's she wearing a swimsuit with a codpiece?

Oh, just for the halibut. Heh, sorry.

Stop it, you're giving me a haddock.

Oh, you're a pain in the bass.

You have no sole.

[as Sheriff Townsend/Skipper to Paul] Where's the little body, little buddy?

Let's see... if I were an arm, where would I hide? My sleeve, of course!

[later, to Joel] What's buggin' that hand anyway?

Oh, he's got a personal vendetta against anyone with a full body.

[Paul is driving out of town when he gets attacked by the severed hand, perfectly parking the car to a stop without crashing while still fighting the hand off]

See, you can tell it's a low-budget movie because they can't wreck the cars.

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