Mystery Science Theatre 3000

Mike, Tom Servo and Crow watch the movie This Island Earth and it ends with the two scientists, Cal and Ruth, making it back to Earth with the help of the alien from Metaluna, Exeter. Cal and Ruth leave Exeter's ship before it runs out of fuel in a biplane. Exeter dies of a wound caused by a stowaway alien from Metaluna and the ship crashes in the ocean. After the movie, the evil Dr. Forrester feels confident that Mike's sanity has been crushed after watching this B movie... but Mike is, as always, okay and perfectly sane.

Alex

Revealing mistake: After the second movie sign, when everyone gets into the theater and sits down, there's a very obvious cut, as all the characters cut immediately from the position that they sat down in to a completely different position. (00:28:05)

csteel310

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Mike: Joe, I'm in one of these boxes, find me.

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Trivia: When Mike puts on the Manipulator Arms, you can hear Torgo's Theme from 'Manos: The Hands of Fate' for a bit in the background.

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Question: This applies to the TV series as well as the Movie. How are the "watching the movie" segments filmed? Are they literally sitting in front of a large screen? In some of the TV episodes, Joel/Mike is seen pointing to something on the screen. And do they film each segment as one, or is it cut into different takes?

Gary O'Reilly

Chosen answer: They sit in front of a big screen -- or rather Joel or Mike sat. The puppeteers crouch down below the row of seats and hold up special black puppets to project the silhouettes. They did do takes for segments of the movies. I imagine it would be painful for the puppeteers to crouch for 90 minutes!

Carl Fink

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