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Mystery Science Theater 3000

Legend of the Dinosaur

RReporter

Everyone is asking the same question...

Why am I watching this?

[Towards the end of the movie, the titular dinosaurs finally appear and go on a confusing sort-of-a-rampage.]

It made more sense before there were any dinosaurs. I'm starting to miss that part of the movie.

Viking Women and the Sea Serpent

[An opening card states "This is an Iowa State College Production."]

Iowa State College: The high school after high school!

SSServo [singing]

If I could join the FFA, my life would be complete, I'd till the soil, I'd bale some hay...

[High school girls attend an assembly. Someone, possibly the principal introduces the speaker in silence.]

JAJoel [as Principal]

Your Period and Mine: A Lecture.

CACrow [as Principal]

Hello. Am I on? Is this thing on? You wanna look at that, Helen?

[A matronly woman steps up to the podium on stage.]

MWMatronly Woman

Today, I'd like to tell you about several girls I know very well.

SAServo [as Matronly Woman]

...and why I'm being fired.

[Kay is discussing college with her family.]

She consulted Robert McNamara.

And Ayn Rand!

[As Kay sends her application letter.]

She got a real thrill out of dropping that letter in the box.

(chuckles maniacly)

Be cool! Be cool! Come on! Be cool! Just... Oh, that's good! Now let's get out of here.

[In the next scene, Kay gets her acceptance letter.]

SAServo [as Kay]

It's here already! Oh, shoot! I mailed it to myself!

It's from Ed McMahon! It says I may already be a winner!

[Kay meets her roommate Jean for the first time.]

CACrow [as Jean]

[in a Curly Howard voice] Hi! Howya doin'? We're gonna have a great time! We're gonna be pals!

[At a costume design class]

Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho?

[A football game is starting.]

Hey, look! It's the Woodstock of the 50s! Vic Damone's on next.

JAJoel [as audience member]

Play "Whipping Post"!

[A band leader with a fuzzy hat is marching forward.]

[in marching cadence] I'm a Q-tip, what are you!

[During the game, two cheerleaders gesture downward with with pom-poms.]

JCJoel, Crow, Servo [as Cheerleaders]

Look, look, look at my crotch. Look, look look at my crotch. Loooook at my crotch. Yay!

[Kay and her college roommates are having their usual gab session. Nearby, a lamp with Kay's name on the lampshade is seen.]

Hats off to Ray, the whimsical lampshade.

...but then Kay came up with that all-important question.

JAJoel [as Kay]

How do Pop-Tarts work?

KKay

What are you doing to major in, Helen?

. . .

LLouise

What are you going to take, Jean?

JAJoel [as Jean]

I'm going to take Bob for everything he's got!

. . .

KKay

You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to teach.

JAJoel [as Kay]

Because I can't do.

[One of the four young women plays with little kids, in preparation for motherhood]

JAJoel [as little girl]

...WHAT? We have to be subjugated to men?!

[Near the end of the piece, shot of a building named "Home Economics".]

Joel [as announcer] Home Economics, starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

VOVoice Over

What is "Home Economics"?

Boy, you'd think they would have told us by now...

[As the girls, now seniors, walk along.]

Hey, it's Abbey Road.

JCJoel, Crow, Servo [singing]

Here we come, walking down the street...

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