MST3K: The Wild Rebels

Episode Rating: 2 stars

Plot: A really bad race car driver is asked by the cops to infiltrate a crappy motorcycle gang and watch them commit crimes.

Opening: Gypsy feels depressed. Joel gives the bots jobs to do to free up some of Gypsy's brainpower so she can say what's wrong.

Invention exchange: Gypsy's Joel's new best friend. Frank breaks Forrester's concentration, and then introduces Hobbie Hog. Joel makes three-D pizza like Star Trek Chess. Crow: "It's even better with the 3-D glasses. I feel like I'm really here!"

Host segment 1: Great thinkers who were bikers. Crow hurts Gypsy's feelings.

Host segment 2: Wild Rebels cereal.

Host segment 3: Joel seranades Gypsy, then Servo and Crow beat him up.

End: Joel and the bots decide that all the crappy ideas in the movie were intentionally self-mocking. Frank agrees, and gets a nasty injection because of it.

Stinger: None.

Music: Wild Rebels Cereal

They're Wild Rebels,
Crunchy, fruity rebels.
Pouring milk on them is like shooting off a gun.

Wild Rebels,
Punchy, crunchy rebels,
Don't bust your teeth on something sweet and hard!

They won't get soft or squishy,
Better eat 'em or your a sissy,
Just pound 'em down, you stupid clown, they're wild!

Zingers

"What you call home, Rambo calls hell."

"Guys, it doesn't get any stupider than this."

Doughy Cop: No witnesses, no evidence..
Joel: No jail, no handcuffs, nothing.

"It's called operation weasel-snitch."

"Hi Rod! Remember you're undercover don't tell anybody!"

Socrates the Biker: Get some ammunition!
Crow: How are they gonna remember what kind of guns they got?
Servo: This is the movies, Crow. Bullets are bullets.

Sleazy Girl: Whatever strikes your fancy.
Tom: Well personally I like guys in clown suits.

"Banjo, you're just too high strung."

Lame Hero: So I've cracked a funny.
Crow: And you've got a funny crack.

"It's Spiro Agnew.... and Spiro Agnew in the Parent Trap!"

Albert Bikerstein: We can't go cross country.
Crow: And we can't go straight up. Remember when we tried that?

"Officer down! Officer down! I need bearclaws!"

"Live fast, die young, leave a fat, bloated, ugly corpse."

"You know, I'm gonna miss her and all her murderous ways."

My Thoughts

On the film: No one seems to bother explaining why the former racecar driver is willing to risk his life to help the police. Must be a good samaritan or something. Yep, just your off the rack collection of characters from start to finish, with all the depth of a sidewalk crack.

I think you can tell that even the writers were having trouble stomaching this crap. The end segment was probably a bit of a vent for them.

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