Connections
References
"I'm going on that plane, and me can't go with me"
Crow (as a character is thrown out of a window): "Out you pixies go!"
Crow: "He snatches a plum role in the television sitcom 'Mama.'"
Joel: "I've always depended on the kindness of strangers."
Joel: "I was working the day watch out of Illinois, U.S.A."
Servo: (singing as a ninja backflips off a wall) "Make 'em laaaaaaaaaugh, make 'em laaaaaaaaugh..."
Crow: "Goodnight, Mr. Chen, wherever you are."
Crow, Joel, and Tom (as a car flies into the air): "Flubber!"
Tom: "It's what Film Ventures International is famous for, like 'The Pink Panther' and the James Bond credit sequences."
Mr. Christiansan hoist the main bow
Tom: "It's what Film Ventures International is famous for, like 'The Pink Panther' and the James Bond credit sequences."
Joel: "Phrase it in the form of question."
Someone in the film says "It's a family affair," and Servo hums the theme song from the TV series.
"He's the ugly, no he's the bad!"
Crow: "'Ironside,' in color"
"Someone's broken Ape law"
Crow mentions that Joyce Van Patten appeared on "The Good Guys."
"This dialoge lifted from Than Came Branson"
Crow: "Dick explodes across the television screen with shows like 'The New Dick Van Dyke Show,' 'The Partners,' 'When Things Were Rotten,' and 'Eight Is Enough.'"
Crow: "Dick explodes across the television screen with shows like 'The New Dick Van Dyke Show,' 'The Partners,' 'When Things Were Rotten,' and 'Eight Is Enough.'"
"M-, -ax; Max!"
Crow mentions that Joyce Van Patten appeared in "The Don Rickles Show."
Crow: "They're just trying to keep away from the set of 'What's Up, Doc?'"
Crow: "Don Dick Van Vito Patten Corleone"
Tom: "All of a sudden, it's a 'Barnaby Jones' wrap-up."
Title mentioned
Crow: "Then there's Vincent, who is truly abysmal in 'Apple's Way' and 'Three for the Road' and then became the bionic boy."
Crow: "Then there's Vincent, who is truly abysmal in 'Apple's Way' and 'Three for the Road' and then became the bionic boy."
Tom hums "The Rockford Files" theme song.
Joel: "Is that Starsky?"
Crow: "Dick explodes across the television screen with shows like 'The New Dick Van Dyke Show,' 'The Partners,' 'When Things Were Rotten,' and 'Eight Is Enough.'"
Crow: "Then there's Vincent, who is truly abysmal in 'Apple's Way' and 'Three for the Road' and then became the bionic boy."
Tom sings the "Wonder Woman" theme song.
Crow: "It's 'The Other Side of the Mountain.'"
Crow: "It's the 'Battle of the Network Has-Beens.'"
Tom: "It's the 'Circus of the Second-Rate Stars.'"
Crow: "Dick explodes across the television screen with shows like 'The New Dick Van Dyke Show,' 'The Partners,' 'When Things Were Rotten,' and 'Eight Is Enough.'"
"Use the nunchucks, Luke....trust your feelings..."
Crow: "He was also in 'The Happy Hoofer Goes to Washington.'"
Tom (sings): "Stayin' a guy, stayin' a guy!"
Mentioned by name several times, referencing the fact that Timothy Van Patten, who plays Max, was a regular cast member on that TV series.
Crow: "If you look at some of the other 13-episode action shows from that era, like 'Manimal,' 'Misfits of Science,' 'Supertrain,' it was pretty good - 'Tales of the Gold Monkey' - they were all inspired yet clearly superior to this piece of junk."
Crow mentions that Joyce Van Patten appeared on "The Mary Tyler Moore Hour."
Crow: "Then James Van Patten gets a small role in the short-lived western 'The Chisholms."
Crow (as Max): "Sure thing, Mr. H!"
Tom: "Next, on a very special 'Trapper John.'"
"Meanwhile in the movie 1941"
Joel (sings): "Tumble out of bed and stumble in the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition"
Tom: "Clubber Lang? These are fictional characters you're talking about."
Crow: "If you look at some of the other 13-episode action shows from that era, like 'Manimal,' 'Misfits of Science,' 'Supertrain,' it was pretty good - 'Tales of the Gold Monkey' - they were all inspired yet clearly superior to this piece of junk."
Joel: "I'm a stranger in paradise."
Crow: "If you look at some of the other 13-episode action shows from that era, like 'Manimal,' 'Misfits of Science,' 'Supertrain,' it was pretty good - 'Tales of the Gold Monkey' - they were all inspired yet clearly superior to this piece of junk."
Crow: "'Scarecrow and Mrs. King,' in color"
Crow: "If you look at some of the other 13-episode action shows from that era, like 'Manimal,' 'Misfits of Science,' 'Supertrain,' it was pretty good - 'Tales of the Gold Monkey' - they were all inspired yet clearly superior to this piece of junk."
"There's a little trouble." Crow: "In Big China!"
Joel: "Be very afraid."
Mentioned by Tom
"It's Over the Top"
Crow (as ninjas approach): "It's those turtles! They moved next door."
Crow: "You've never given up on anything in your life!"
Joel: "Timothy Van Patten is 'Hard to Kill.'"
"He looks like a Henson rat!"
Tom: "Hey, what is this - 'Dream On' all of a sudden?!"
He's gonna stab him in the throat like Godfather III
Features
Master Ninja I (aka 'The Master') is the featured movie in this 'MST3K' episode.
Spoofs
mentioned in dialogue: "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Geribal"