Joel: It's a tribe of Pippi Longstockings!
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Pippi Longstocking is the heroine of a series of children’s books by Astrid Lindgren: a girl with gravity-defying braids, superhuman strength, and enormous wealth who lives alone...
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My sister found this photo in an ad for a local restaurant. (I kid you not.) That bean looks like it's in a very unfortunate position.
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Crow: Natalie Wood!
Servo: Now, these are scenes we didn’t see in The Searchers.
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Natalie Wood (1938-1981) got her start as a child actress in such films as Miracle on 34th Street (1947). The Searchers is a 1956 John Ford Western starring John...
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Joel: [As Shep’s poisoned scene goes on.] Oh, don’t you chew the scenery, don’t you…drop it, drop it!
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In the theater world, the phrase “chewing the scenery” is used to describe an actor who over-emotes or acts especially melodramatically.
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Crow: [As Shep barks to the sky, in pain.] I’m comin’, Lizabeth! I’m comin’ to join ya!
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On the TV series Sanford and Son, which aired from 1972-1977, when Fred Sanford (played by Redd Foxx) wanted to manipulate his son, he...
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Joel: Crawl, come on, you’ve never given up on anything in your life, crawl!
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A paraphrase of a line from the 1989 movie The Abyss, starring Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. The actual line, spoken by Harris...
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Crow: [As Shep writhes on the ground in pain.] What is this, Camille?
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Camille is a 1936 tearjerker of a film starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor. Based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas, it tells the story of a courtesan in Paris who falls in...
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[Shep wriggles on the ground in pain.]
Joel: This exercise will give your dog buns of steel.
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Buns of Steel was an exercise video that came out in the 1980s, focused on developing the gluteus maximus muscles.
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Servo: [As Shep lies there, poisoned.] Probably having hallucinations right now of a little wagon coming out of the kitchen cabinet.
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In Purina Chuck Wagon dog food ads in the 1970s, a dog would chase a tiny horse and covered wagon team across a kitchen floor.
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Joel: [As Shep, after Lin has poisoned him.] I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.
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“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing” is a line from a 1970s ad for Alka-Seltzer.
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Joel: [As Shep, after Lin throws him out.] Yeah, I thought so. I get better service at Planet Hollywood.
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Planet Hollywood is an international chain of restaurants featuring movie memorabilia. It was launched in 1991 with backing from various...
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[Lin has just thrown Shep a piece of poisoned meat, which he has eaten.]
Crow: Oh no, get the ipecac.
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Doctors no longer recommend the use of syrup of ipecac in the case of accidental poisoning—instead, call a poison control center.
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[Lin throws Shep a piece of poisoned food.]
Joel: [Sung.] Puppy Chow, for a full year, until he’s full dead.
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This is a parody of a late 1970s/early ‘80s advertising slogan for Purina Puppy Chow: “Puppy Chow for a full year, till he’s full grown.”
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[Lin is trying to poison Shep.]
Servo: [Evil laugh, as Lin.] Souvlaki?
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Souvlaki is the fast food of Greece: some sort of meat, usually beef, lamb, or pork, that is sliced thinly and served wrapped in a...
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[Tossed food to Shep.]
“So that’s the way it is, huh?”
Crow: Uh-huh, uh-huh.
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A line from “That’s the Way (I Like It),” a #1 hit for KC and the Sunshine Band in 1975.
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Servo: That’s an odd taste.
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In a host segment in MST3K #404, Teenagers From Outer Space, Dr. Forrester spritzes his mouth with breath spray, performs a bit of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a Resusci-Annie doll, and remarks, “That’s an odd taste.”
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Crow: Little does he know Lassie switched food. He’s eating Kal Kan!
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Kal Kan was a brand of canned dog food, but the manufacturer changed its name to Pedigree starting in 1988.
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