MST3k 409 - The Indestructible Man
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- You found The Indestructible Man. You know you can watch every full episode of MST3k at www.club-mst3k.com right?
A violent criminal called The Butcher is executed and then brought back to life by a scientist using electricity. The Butcher becomes an invulnerable mute and seeks vengeance upon those who caused his execution. (wikia)
"Guy named Squeamy got thrown from the third floor".
"Now they call him Squishy".
My crush on Joel deepens with each movie..
Mike and Kevin were *brilliant* as the cops in the closing host segment. I wish they had brought those characters back.
This film has the same plot as the Chuck Norris movie "Silent Rage" (a psychopath is killed and resurrected as an indestructible mute), which was mocked on Rifftrax. Also, the doctor's lab assistant is played by Joe Flynn, best remembered as Captain Binghamton from "McHale's Navy," and several Disney comedies, such as "The Love Bug," "The Barefoot Executive," "The Million Dollar Duck," and a trio of movies in which he played Dean Higgins of Medfield College opposite Kurt Russell.
i love how some of these uploads have VHS effects. makes it feel so nostalgic
Ken Barber amen! Miss the old days sometimes. Simpler times though I didn’t feel that way then.
Ohhhhh -- this mooovie! All the talking and continuous shots of Lon Chaney Jr.'s watery eyes.
The biggest horror, though, was that the smarmy detective got the dancer fired so she could marry him! Sooo 1950's...
Plus the detective has the creepiest perma-smile.
The detective's name is Dick Chasen and they didn't make a joke about that?!
Low hanging fruit.
Bazing!
Tom Servo float going down like The Hindenburg is hilarious.
This is one of Creighton Chaney's (Lon Chaney Jr.) lesser known films and a silent killer movie at that. He is honestly the best part of this movie.
"controversial but all but forgotten American Psycho." And then a movie was made eight years later and it entered pop culture history.
Same for interview with a vampire
Check 'em ☝️
The question is, would they have been filmed if MST3k didn't mention them?
@@jean-paulaudette9246 They were probably working on it even at the time. They had a lot of trouble finding a director.
Hilarious in hindsight.
Every time you re-watch an episode you find a really great line you missed before, it's a gift that keeps on giving 🤣 I found the show 25 years ago while recuperating from a near fatal accident and although I don't remember much about the year after, I remember Joel, Mike & the Bots being my friends on a daily basis & reinforcing my sarcastic nature
Detective Dick Chasen sounds like a person problem.
I love the running gag of making Detective Richard Chasen some sort of weird sex pervert.
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Narrator: Who in their right mind would believe a man could return from the dead?
Joel: Only millions of Christians.
LOL!
Jesus never existed. Lol
@@AdamWestish Well, his divinity is questioned(for good reason, I might add) but we have Roman historic records that a "Jesus son of Joseph" was making trouble and was later crucified in Judea. That he was a historical character is not an issue(at least last time I've checked) it's all those "miracles" he is said to have performed is the real issue
@@leehollings79 the Romans were the ones who created the myth
@@AdamWestish I mean yeah, they could have spiced up their historical accounts with legends and tales about a miracle worker from the East. But still, I think it'd be easier for them to push "that preacher/cult leader from Judea that you've heard about? Yeah, guy had some crazy magical powers" instead of inventing a person wholesale. I mean, after gods of war, sky and sun, creating a carpenter seems like quite a step down.
Also, I should probably clarify. By Romans I mean the Ancient kind, not the guys who lived in Rome in th early medieval times who were trying to sell Christanity to the rest of the world ;)
shalom
I.ve been watching mst3k for years, and crows stupid voice and laugh never cease to split my sides.
Best Line... MOVIE: "Who would believe that a guy who was declared dead has come back to life". JOEL: "Millions of Christians",
"He should quit his job, strippers make more money" 😂
Truth!
Jim Hensons Birth of a Nation Babies. I wasn't prepared for that spit take.
1:05:28 "How many Squeemys do you know?. Awesome Joel.
'all but forgotten American Psycho' so weird to imagine a day when that was an obscure reference.
The gabfest that is the "talking back and forth in a car" scene seems to go on for weeks.
Was wondering where I've seen the guy who played the detective before. He played Molly Ringwald's grandfather in SIXTEEN CANDLES.
Harry Dean Stanton ?
@@thomastuthill5276 That was PRETTY IN PINK.
No matter how many times I watch these. I laugh my ass off. The funniest free videos on the internet...
These...and Red Green (also on You Tube)
"Look, I'll make a deal with ya. You stop the movie and I'll talk."
And how weird is it to see Kevin Murphy in a skit. He was dressed as a cop, but every time he spoke I could only hear Servo.
lmao ''You wanted me, Captain?'' ''For years''
Frank bursting out laughing when Mike says he's Danish... that's great!
One of the rare times they got a guy wrong. The police lieutenant is not the same guy from Catalina Caper. Del Moore is in Catalina Caper. He was also in many Jerry Lewis movies.
"Foot don't fail me now!" 😂😂😂
Spoilers: The foot failed him.
Yes, tell the big monster you just brought back to life that you didn't mean to, that's a good idea.
I think the mistake was more "Let's experiment on the body of the massive serial killer". You don't give fate an opening like that.
They don't even pretend to have a justification, either, like "we need the amoral survival instinct of the criminal mind to break through the veil of death" or some such. Just the Doc doing cancer experiments, and the need for a fresh body, so they get the Butcher. They couldn't wait 45 minutes for a donorcycle crash? It's worth grabbing the most famous body in town for your secret experiment because you can't wait? Why?
This is already more effort than the producers put in.
58:29 Tom's drunk impersonation was priceless.
I love MST3k it's the gift that keeps on giving. For example that opening skit, when I was younger I never knew what they were referencing, I just thought it was funny they switched their voices. But now a few years later its even funnier now that I actually get what they are talking about.
Wait what were they referencing?
@@Irrelevant402 I think @Dragondancer is referring to the technical process using MIDI that you could use to switch the generated voices fairly easily, with the proviso that Crow and Tom are absolutely real robots and not hot-glued found-object puppets.
God, Dr. F leering into the camera during invention exchange is freaking killing me.
Both the Mads are deliciously-disturbing in that bit.
OK, jerk, you get her fired. That's real nice. Ever think about maybe she won't accept your stinkin' proposal? Or maybe she wanted a little time to wrap things up where she was, say goodbye to the place and her friends? Or maybe she just want to keep dancing until the wedding? Nice way to start a marriage.
Also her ex-boyfriend JUST died and the cop's first thought was "Awesome time to ask her out." YIKES.
"I'm gonna kill ya. All three of ya."
"But there's only...one of me."
That is what Chucky said to the Three Stooges.
"Two men sat in a bar room, listening to the newscaster ".....
"...Oh I've heard this joke..."-Joel
LOL one of my all time favorites from Joel.
Now he's in his 50's and he still looks fine
"What if it doesn't work".... (crow)"then we are screwed, blue, and tattooed". I hadn't heard that saying in years!! Thanks for posting this. I really miss seeing the guys on CC.
I've always herd it as "screwed, blued, and tattooed". They changed it to 'blue' because they are cops!
Poor Lon Chaney Jr. This movie should have been called 'The Intoxicated Man'.
mike patrick ...and how!
The Wolf Man on food stamps.
Hey, you try being dead and see how easy it is for you to get going without coffee!
No reason why it should be.
He looks like Moe Howard on a bender.
"Woah! Foot don't fail me now!" First class.
that...and "whatta they waiting for? A putty knife?
Two 10 pointers.
Ignoring the creepy Lon Chaney bugginess @1:10:50, Joel has really pretty eyes!
LMAO "He's a sleeping policeman..." That always cracked me up in Jamaica...you see the street signs that say "Sleeping policeman ahead" - it's what they call speed bumps...XD
Because it's what they're called in the UK.
@@LoneKharnivore i have watched a lot of UK motoring,never hear them called that.
Mike Nelson as the touchy cop at the end.
"Oh great, water heaters that install themselves."
Pretty cool how Chaney is in the short and the feature..
..actually he might not be in this chapter, but he's definitely in The Undersea Kingdom.
***** 12:16
According the IMDB, "bait girl" (which now that I'm writing it, sounds like the awesome name for a useless superhero) was Reita Green, whose acting credits include an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and multiple roles on Ozzie and Harriet.
are you talking about the mute woman with the broken down car?
@@SpamEggSausage and real pointy t!ts?
At 1:02:24 you can see Lon Chaney in the Bradbury Building, which was used as a set in "Blade Runner."
1:10:42 One of the best host segments ever. Sometimes the whole movie is just a setup to one great host segment. The Bots are riffing on a moment from, I think, Sidehackers.
38:48 one of my favorite lines from Crow 😂☠
And the operator says, '40 cents more for the next 3 minutes' It's been years since I heard that song. Dr Hook. Can't beat him. The best ever.
Sylvia's Mother. Love that song.
@@WildBillCox13 Holy Cow, Shel Silverstein wrote that song! And "A Boy Named Sue"! Was there anything that man couldn't do?
@@michaelccozens I'm an old fan of Shel's. "The Winner" is my fave.
God, Tarantino dialog doesn't go on for as long as the scenes in this movie!
+Exhausted Elox And most Tarantino dialogue is brilliant and wonderful to hear. This film? Not so much.
Anyone else think that Lon Chaney Jr looks like that guy who played Bates on Downton Abbey?
Also, 1:05:54 is my favorite line in the episode :D
1:00:37 "Whoooa, foot don't fail me now." got a laff from me.
44:10 "The Killer awoke before dawn" . Nice reference to the Doors' "The End"
44:10
Packed with minerals, booze really satisfies!
4:04 Two years after this episode's airing later, Interview with the Vampire was turned into a film.
4:13 Eight years later, after the show's first run was over, American Psycho was also turned into a film.
"She's a regular Nina Totenburg isn't she" - Tom Servo. An NPR host reference. I love it! It's nerd inception.
I’m more of a Sylvia Poggioli person, myself
I love the opening skit of this episode :D
Three minutes in and tom/crow is singing the floyd? God I love this show.
This has surpassed Bride of the Monster as my favorite MST3K episode of all time
I can't believe this was the only episode that had a sketch based around the Bots' voices being switched. They could've done a bunch of silly little things as a result. Position changes in the theater to begin with, and you can go on from there. Either way though, this is one of those episodes where I like the live-action segments more than the movie itself.
well of course YOU'D say that, clayton
oh sure, so long as YOU like it, Doctor Forrester
oh no i have been beaten by two months to reply sarcastically to a 3 year old post
16:00 I am going to start calling people crumbs, starting today.
Narrator: Who in their right mind would believe a man would return from the dead?
Joel: "Only millions of Christians"
who stole the idea from the egyptians.
Hey, we all know the story of Easter, where on the third day, Jesus rose again, and said unto his disciples...”Brrraaaiiinnnsss...”
To be fair, though, not all denominations show Jesus as a zombie. In some denominations, he’s a lich.
Actually. Superman, Jason, Optimus Prime, Godzilla, Chucky, the Wolfman, and Micheal Myers have.
@@Chunkboi Jesus doesn't need brains. His followers do.
Lol that The Wall reference at the very beginning. The references is why we love mst3k.
🎶Toys in the attic, he's craaazy.🎵
Written by the same two ladies behind The Atomic Brain.
No wonder the film reeked. 😴
By the time this came out Lon, ( A hopeless Alcoholic) Had resigned himself that he'd never be free of his Famous Fathers' shadow! He'd been dealing with it since the early 40 s! His "Universal stuff" was o. k. but he did a series of 1 hour movies that showed before the Co-features in the early 40 s that were very good ! He got to play a different character in every one! And his "Wolfman" is classic!
41:53, not actually true, your hand sends the pain signal to your spinal nerves your spine sees that it is pain and tells your hand to pull back. The signal than goes to your brain and you can decide if that was a good choice or not. It's an autonomic reflex, it can be suppressed if you're ready, if not you don't get a say in it (like breathing).
"From the smell of this, I'd guess we're under Barstow" 😂
Gotta love a movie from the era when horses were cheap and extras were cheaper
And white people did lame acting.
Joe Flynn of McCalle's Navy. Why is it always me? Ledbottom. I remember the old telephone booths. I grew up with them.
McHale
16:52
Holy crap, a 200 Motels reference? I didn't know anyone else saw that
Wow... the first 10 minutes of this movie is "Exposition Theater"!!!!
Poor Lon Chaney Jr.
+TheMaskedNerd And to think the height of his career was reached when he had a role in High Noon (1953).
I like the bots getting increasingly annoyed by Joel's doughnut jokes
1:10:40 Typical sleepy eyed Joel look- SO CUTE!!
CraftyLittleDevil He always looks just a little baked
Meow Cat
Just a little
Me too, I love how he always looks tousled and so beyond stressed for so long that he just fumbles along mostly. That boy is A-Dorable.
I love the story behind that look; apparently Joel put it on to try to imitate how he looked in the first episode. The first episode was filmed after Joel realized that building some of the puppets and props was going to be more difficult than he thought, and he was forced to pull a 2- or 3-day work bender to get it done in time for shooting. So, he looks sleepy because he was very, very sleepy. So was everyone else, I assume, but it's harder to tell on the Bots.
He apparently also has indestructible clothes...
Ha! I never noticed that!
Uh... that have bullet holes in?
Hey, his name was "the butcher", so he must have either worked at Giant Foods, or was a really bad killer type.
If i didn't know better, i'd swear that's Joe Flynn in his pre-McHale's Navy days as that scientist's lackey.
It IS! LOL
The chief scientist also played Inspector Henderson in The Adventures of Superman.
that is Joe Flynn! I remember seeing that the 1st time I saw this...his name in the credits, that is (besides the movie, I mean).
9:21 "Billy looks like William Frawley!"
I actually have Undersea Kingdom on DVD… it was a present along with the Gene Autry serial The Phantom Empire.
Did they give you the receipts?
Tom Servo, Mr. Sensitivity!
1:24:45
"Hey, it's the world famous Duluth Lift Bridge!"
"When in Duluth..."
Floyd,Python and Zappa within 1st 20 minutes..too funny!
(1:30:49) Nelson. Murphy. They're Cops.
Rated R Starts Friday at a theater near you. Check newspaper for showtimes.
1:30:49
Did he ever take an indestructible dump
Flush...🚽
Love the Misery reference at 8:36
They sing that Joel makes his robot friends from special farts...
How odd...I was thinking poor Lon Chaney Jr. I was going to post that very thought and someone had the exact same sentiment!
The sad thing about this awful movie is that the actor got throat cancer and couldn't speak, so they simply had him lumber about making weird faces.
Chaney was so wrecked by booze that this 1, being 1 of his last flicks, he couldn't even speak, at least coherently enough so they wrote that into the script: when reanimated, all that juice needed to zap him back fried his vocal cords.
Actually, he just had cancer surgery and couldn't speak...that's why he had no dialog.
Close Kent, but this is Lon Chaney Jr., not Sr. He was in movies for 15 years after this (until 71, 2 years before his death).
BoojumFed MANY THANX FOR THE ACCURATE INFO!..LC JR did pretty well as the devil/ host in a European tv series; fine support as a warlock servant to V Price in the HAUNTED PALACE-and lastly SPIDER BABY which benefits from his professional touch...
@@miyoshiumeki Most interesting. Thanks for the info.
I remember that cop playing Molly Ringwald's crazy, liberal grandfather in 16 Candles. He was hilarious in that...
Harry Dean Stanton
man oh man.. rock climbing, sandstorm AND hypno-helio static-stasis got NOTHING on the Car Scene!!
I bet the worst part of being revived is waking up in a pool of your own voided bowels... ew
Shits got real
Hard to say which was the best MST3k episode, but this ranks right up there. The boys outdid themselves here with a movie that was pretty funny in its own right. Lon Chaney's alcoholism caused him to lose his dialogue memory, hence his role here consists of hardly any lines, just a lot of squinting of his eyes. "Hey, Lon, act like you've got the DTs!"
The sewer jokes later on are so worth sitting through this turd of a movie.
That's just a rumor that doesn't seem to have any basis in fact. D :
when crow does the kid saying "Diane"! lol
This movie was made back in a time when , Men where Men and the Sheep were scared.
*were
BAAAAAAA!BAAAAAAA!
15:46 hey the Mountain Goats song!
He certainly ain't as strong as the TUPPERWARE MAN! Watch out when he burps!
OH, WE"VE GOT MOVIE SIGN!!!!
(25:00) "My in-laws came to visit." D'oh!
cut around the meat -------- i love you guys
The RELAVITVELY Indestructable Man.