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Includes dancing through the kitchen, living room, and bedroom as the home magically modernizes before our very eyes. The companies wanted to show the new products in a film, but subtly, noncommercially, and with sponsor identification kept to a very minimum. Planning on the film began about a year ago, when new merchandising efforts to promote the new color handsets, speakerphones, kitchen phones and other products were just getting underway. A weird plot, strange characters, surreal imagery and lots of singing and dancing make for an extremely entertaining film. Broadway choreographer Gower Champion directed this stylized musical fantasy, in glorious fifties Technicolor, to push the Bell System's new color-coordinated telephones. Mike: (as Gumby) Hey, you can throw things through Dad! I'm gonna get an anvil.Delightful musical made to promote color telephones as a decorator accessory in the home.

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Comfort Food: Crow asks Mike to get them Dizzy Grizzlies note For those that weren't around in the mid-90's, those were bear-shaped graham cracker cookies, that were coated with chocolate on one side.To get them through the trauma of the robot slaughter from the Gumby short. After seeing the short, Crow and Servo spend a host segment doing a skit about poor innocent robots being victimized by obnoxious clay creatures. They can't even finish it because they're so distraught. Mike implies that Gumba has 'threatened to make into a bowl' for all the damage the robots have done.Again at the end when Mike riffs that Gumby's parents have put him to hard labor without food or water for seven days running.Dodgy Toupee: The guys briefly debate whether the black object on Gumbo's head is a matador's hat or one of these.Fantastic Racism: What does Mike think one of the robots is painting on Gumby's house?īrain Guy: Actually, it was a titch pathetic of us, I'm afraid.

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Faking the Dead: In order to try to scam his way to a free coffin, Servo calls up the film's distributors and claims that he his friend died while watching it.He panics and tries to back out, but ends up having to pay shipping both ways on his coffin (on Mike's credit card). Forced Perspective: A gratuitous shot of Bobo being held in Brain Guy's fist, as punishment for dressing up like an ape.Gaslighting: In Universe, along with the film.Pearl's penguin prank is an attempt to trick Mike and the 'Bots into believing that they forgot an appointment to wear costumes right now!, driving them into a humiliating panic. Golf Clubbing: Crow pretends to be a screaming skull and Mike panics and attacks him with a golf club.Gone Horribly Right: During a host segment, Crow has set himself up like a screaming skull in order to scare Mike.One little ' Raarh' sends Mike into screaming hysterics. Worse, Mike (still gibbering in panic) gets a hold of a bat and then a golf club. Then they calm him down by convincing him it's just Crow pulling a prank.Only for Crow to perform another little 'scream', sending Mike into screaming hysterics again and swinging the golf club, taking the top of Servo's head in his panicked attack. Hearing Voices: Referenced and parodied.Servo: Hehehe, boy, do they look stupid.Ĭrow: Yeah, at least we maintained our dignity.

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Informed Attribute: Many jokes are made from almost the beginning of the movie about how creepy Mickey is, but he doesn't really do anything that threatening or even disgusting in the film.

He's seen skulking around, but since he's the gardener and actually lives on the grounds, that's not very unusual at all.

Jump Cut: During the movie, there's a very noticeable skip in the film stock, causing Servo to dub Jenni's voice: 'The film broke and it was horrible!' as she fearfully runs into Eric's arms.

Kubrick Stare: How Mike and the Bots react to Bobo's failed prank.

Make-Out Point: Partway through the movie, Tom realizes that, at that point, people would be starting to neck instead of being frightened and invites Mike to have a go.

Mike is disgusted instead and tries to shoo him away.

Metamorphosis: In the first host segment, Tom Servo has become a beautiful butterfly! By the second segment, he's back to normal.

Mike: You guys might be tempted to make a ' Smoke on the Water' reference here, but I urge you to refrain.

Offer Void In Nebraska: Crow's response to the disclaimer at the film's start.

'Offer void in Utah, Florida, and Arizona.

Overly Long Gag: Mocking the movie's premise (that a skull is, by itself, inherently terrifying), Mike goes on freaking out at the sight of a screaming skull (' Raaarh.') well past the point where it's obviously Crow.