Season Five Episode Nineteen: Outlaw of Gor
Network: Comedy Central
Riffers: Tom Servo, Mike Nelson, and Crow T. Robot
Mads: Dr. Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank
Plot Synopsis: A beefy blond Earth man Cabot and his piggish friend Watney are teleported by a rose quartz to another planet/dimension because The Elder (he has no name, just "The Elder"), ruler of Koroba, thinks that Xeno, the Priest (Jack Palance), has eyes for the throne. The Elder is wrong, though; it's the Queen who wants the throne for herself. Cabot cares nothing for such intrigue, just for the Princess. Watney is seduced by the Queen to help implicate Cabot in the murder of the King. Cabot and his platinum blond midget friend escape off into the desert where they free a slave girl and are just as quickly captured by a bounty hunter.
Host Segments:
Prologue: MatBs are roughhousing on the SOL bridge. Gypsy warns them to stop, but they fail to heed her warnings.
Segment One/Invention Exchange: Servo recovers from the roughhousing. The Mads are really proud of their Really Real Time Machine. But it turns out the time machine is just a box where Dr. Forrester and TV’s Frank can go change into period costumes. MatBs show off the results of their Fabio Kit. Gypsy laughs at them.
Segment Two: MatBs look through a scrapbook of Mike’s stage career. He wore a sailor suit in every show he ever did, even when it was not necessary
Segment Three: Inspired by all the exposed flesh in the movie Mike and the Bots sing the musical revue "Tubular Boobular Joy".
Segment Four: MatBs eagerly read excerpts from the book Palance on Palance, complete with appropriate voices. Things start to get a bit weird when "Jack" writes down about killing a guy.
Ending Segment: MatBs revisit the many buffalo shots from the movie. Back in Deep 13, the Mads are going through dances of the ages for no apparent reason.
Stinger: The Evil Queen tells Jack Palance, “Get out of here, you disGUSting WOORRRRRM!”
Review:
Annoying plucky comic relief, hunky lead, quite a few fanservice-y woman, and Jack Palance. This movie, like Cave Dwellers, feels like it was made because of Conan The Barbarian (though Gor was a popular novel series in itself.) The movie is pretty rough, but it does fall into the so bad it's good territory.
Because it's so bad it's good, it is a goldmine of good riffing. MatBs tear into this movie something awful, and it makes for a great episode. There's plenty of laughs to go around, that's for sure. The host segments were good as well. Tubular Boobular Joy is one of the more infamous episodes in the series, and the Jack Palance excerpts were great. All around, excellent episode that should be watched by all MSTies. 10/10
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