Season Five Episode Four: Secret Agent Super Dragon
Network: Comedy Central
Riffers: Tom Servo, Joel Robinson, and Crow T. Robot
Mads: Dr. Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank
Plot Synopsis: When an old colleague is killed, Secret Agent Super Dragon comes out of retirement to investigate a case of poisoned chewing gum that leads inexplicably to an international crime syndicate planning to take over the world with psychotropic drugs smuggled in phony Ming vase.
Host Segments:
Prologue: The Bots build a robot named Minsky, and Joel assumes that its annoying and repetitive behavior is just the opening act of its capabilities. He's wrong.
Segment One/Invention Exchange: Joel is about to destroy Minsky, but the Bots stop him.. Or do they? Down in Deep 13, Dr. Forrester is away at a class reunion. Frank is flying solo and comes up with Virtual Comedy. Dr. Forrester returns in time to inject a bit of realism to Frank's virtual stand-up gig. JatBs show off Micro-Golf, a very small version of golf.
Segment Two: Tom's jazzy "Secret Agent Super Dragon" theme certainly isn't commercial and is mildly repetitive, but Joel knows just how to spice it up.
Segment Three: JatBs read through Crow's latest screenplay: "The Spy Who Hugged Me", a sensitive 90's style film.
Segment Four: JatBs discuss the vital nature of spy-movie post-kill puns. Crow quickly gets tired of Servo's bad puns.
Ending Segment: Dr. Forrester has a supervillain conference call with the Satellite of Love, teaching the basics of starting up your own supervillain franchise.
Stinger: Henchman jumps Super Dragon, complete with xylophone accompaniment.
Review:
This was one of the first Eurospy James Bond knockoff flicks shown on MST3K, and let me tell you this was one stinker of a movie. The acting was rough, the plot nonsensical, and the dubbing bad. In other words, perfect riffing material!
I thought the riffing in this movie was very superb. The goofy plot was ripe for riffing, and they did not disappoint. I loved the bit where the hero was smacking around and interrogating Ross the gum salesmen. That is just an absurd job to have. The host segments were great, and I did enjoy the new bot Crow and Servo made. The whole supervillian bit was great as well. Overall, excellent episode, and the best episode thus far from this season 9.5/10
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