Season Two Episode Two: The Sidehackers
Network: Comedy Channel
Riffers: Tom Servo, Joel Robinson, and Crow
Mads: Dr. Clayton Forrester, Frank w/Assistants Gerry and Sylvia
Plot Synopsis: Rommel, a mechanic/sidehack-style racer, meets JC at a weekend race. JC, an entertainer, wants Rommel to join his act after watching a sidehack race, but Rommel turns him down. Paisley, JC's abused girlfriend, throws herself at Rommel, then cries rape when she is turned down. To avenge the "violation" of his girl, JC arranges for Rommet beaten down and Rita killed. Rommel decides to get revenge.
Host Segments:
Prologue: It's cleaning day aboard the Satellite of Love, and the Bots are not being very cooperative.
Segment One/Invention Exchange: The Bots promise to behave, so that they can stay up, for the movie. Joel invents a radiated Pet Slinky. Dr. Forrester creates a Slinky Body so he can be in two places at once. Joel critizes the Mads for stealing his ideas again.
Segment Two: JatBs perform the Sidehacking Song.
Segment Three: The SOL crew wonder why sidehacking hasn't caught on. The figure out that sidehacking isn't that good since there's no way to call it.
Segment Four: Everyone has Rommel hats, and JC and Gooch from the planet Fivethehardway drop by the SOL and decide to get Rommel.
Ending Segment: JatB are unhappy that they've had two straight movies with downer endings. They decide to sing the stirring "Love Pads the Film". They read some letters. Frank still isn't sure which button to push.
Review: Talk about an unexpected genre shift. The movie goes from an obscure racing movie with a romantic twist, to some vengeance plot. Talk about a strange leap from one to the other. The main villain was pretty hammy, and.. that's about it.
The riffing in this movie was great. I noticed that they actually did a few call backs from Season One, like "No x, not allowed" or a riff on Robot Holocaust. They also made more than a few jokes that were a nod to "Rommel you maginficent b******." Funny the first time, but kinda got old fast. Another strong episode. 8/10
Trivia: Portions of the film were edited out due to the fact that the writers didn't watch the entire movie before accepting it for riffing. The edited part shows Rommel's fiancee Rita being raped/murdered rather graphically. After this movie, they made sure to watch every movie beforehand before accepting/rejecting it.
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I repeat the cheese is in the grater!