8:36 The street that the tractor drives onto from the station has five lanes now. The station is gone and so is the Purina facility that was adjacent Railroad Street in Meridian, Idaho.
When I was kid in the 70s and ads for movies would come on TV, many time's they'd be "Rated R" but I always misheard that as "Radar." MASH was a popular show at that time, and in my immigrant childhood dementia I thought that Radar from MASH was somehow connected with all these "Radar Movies" that my parents didn't want us watching. OH, and then I learned English. LOL!
For those of you who might not know, radar can't be used in saltwater and only limited in geology, since the radar waves are absorbed and converted into heat. In freshwater and archaeology radar CAN be useful, but other methods are often better.
I love how, just after stealing a shipment of radioactive material, one the criminals complains of a sudden, intense sickness, ultimately amounting to absolutely nothing.
Yeah, but it's just uranium-238 anyway. With a half-life of just under the age of the Earth, you'd need to be walking around with the stuff in your GI tract or your lungs (like uranium ore dust) for it to seriously harm you.
I like how the Radar Secret Service has a huge sign outside their office that says RADAR SECRET SERVICE, in case any passerby would miss that this is their secret HQ. Subtle, guys.
“ kind of creepy how there’s no recognizable name for the Chinese Secret Service, now that’s what you call a Secret Service.” -Richmond Valentine (Kingsman)
I had an mst3k sound mod for the original doom game when I was a kid and “why don’t they look” from the cop in the short is one of the clips when you kill a demon. I’ve only ever found one other one and I’ve seen almost every episode.
I was drunk off my ass the first time I saw this and for half the movie I had no idea Lila and Marge weren't the same person. Mike brings that up and I'm sitting here shocked, "You mean they're not?"
Arguably the funniest short in MST3K history. The way they take a dull, boring, educational short film about the dangers of driving and make it so damn hilarious - that's why the show is so awesome!
"Yeah, I know that kid, I played sport with him at school!" *Slides pic of his mangled corpse wrapped around the exposed steering column of a trashed car*
I enjoyed the heck out of this this evening ... looked thru all the amazing funny comments ... it is like a trip back in time with all you wonderful folks ,,,,,, so good to hang with you !
I love this episode. That train short is pure gold and this main feature is so awful. That film is like a 90 minute Adventures Of Superman episode without Superman.
The safety short Officer (William Boyett) on here played Sergeant William 'Mac' MacDonald on the 1968-1975 police series Adam-12. (Also appeared on STNG, Time's Arrow, Judgement Call ) And many others.
I never saw this episode before, even after being a MST3K fan for decades. It was a great showing by Mike and the Bots. I also never realized the importance of radar! I'm going to go out and buy some today!
This movie can be summarized in two words: GRAY BLUR. There's so little distinguishing any one scene or character from another scene or character. Even the music just blends together. I cycle through some of my favorite MST episodes every few years or so, and this is one of them. For some reason, this time, I watch the movie with a more critical eye and I just can't let its flaws go. I haven't seen the original movie so maybe some of these criticisms get corrected. I doubt it. * Towards the end, they drop all pretense of not repeating themselves. The agents have that plan to put their equipment in a helicopter to find the gangsters easier, which I guess might have worked if the gangsters stayed in the barn. But right after, the gangsters just drive around in cars some more, which had no problem being spotted before, making their plan moot. And the gangsters' plan was just to let someone else get spotted first; it had nothing to do with keeping themselves, with the bulk of the material, from being spotted at all. Both sides' game-changing, late-movie plans amount to "do it again, but more," and are both stupid. * When they catch the gangster on the road and bring him in, the agent wasn't going to mention the picture that fell out of his book? Did they even confiscate and search his stuff? * The one agent randomly has a stutter, then he randomly doesn't have a stutter. He's also the only character with a nickname for some reason. * How did the agent know which apartment to go into when he was searching their place? * When the agent got pistol whipped, it looks more like he fell asleep than was clubbed on the head. * How did the agent know the gangsters were in a clearing, and how didn't they hear or notice the helicopter following them? "Radar Obvious Service," indeed. * Am I to understand Marge didn't hear when Mickey got shot? * Maybe the dumbest thing of all, the "Mickey left a little while ago, please don't notice that he's lying dead in plain sight right next to you." * I can't believe it took two people to do the music for this, but thank you, Russell Garcia and Dick Hazard, for the Golden Grahams songs. Finally, some tidbits from The Amazing Colossal Episode Guide (published 1996): * According to Frank Conniff, they originally found and wanted to do this movie during season 2. Like, they really wanted to do this movie, but couldn't get the rights for some reason, and were pretty bummed. Then, during season 5, they were told they could get the rights to the movie and jumped on it...and realized how wrong they were. They were going to say "forget it," but they were desperate for material and this was one of the better movies they were screening, so they didn't have much of a choice. * Kevin Murphy thinks he was the one who wanted the most for MST to do this movie, and also admits that "never have I been quite so wrong." * Kevin also says that "The Last Clear Chance is right up there with my all-time favorite shorts."
@@j.rebekah8605 Eh, actually I had a pretty bad day. Sometimes it rains and sometimes the sun shines. I’m just waiting for the clouds to part. Hope you’re doing well.
John Howard actually starred alongside Carey Grant in The Philadelphia Story and was awarded a Hollywood Star upon his death. Howard spent twenty years after acting to teach high school English. Sam Newfield, the director, made more then 250 feature films during his career, considered the most prolific director of the sound era and would pretty much make anything if he was paid.
The guy playing Mickey Moran was actually the lead in a really great film noir called "Detour"...You'd never know it from his performance in this laugher.
One of the best parts of this episode is the outtake where Frank knocks half the set over by throwing one of those cards off the easel a little too hard.
I have a feeling that Radar Secret Service is going to have a lot of trouble staying secret if all they use are cars with chrome acorns on the roof and loud, low-flying helicopters.
If they hadn't slowed down to read those signs. They might have beaten that sign. "Studys have shown 80% of traffic accidents are caused by you 4 guys"-moe the bartender.
R.E.D. uh, plus it seems as if they confused RADAR waves with television which is transmitted via radio waves, also the basis for RADAR but with differences that these kids don't understand while RCA, NBC, CBS, etc. all do.
I was a teenager on a farm and I always had lots of chores. We also drove by age of 11 or 12, something local cops didn't find amusing. Nice pun on name Exclusive Films. Radar was awesome here.
Thanks for using your channel to upload great pieces of humor filled videos. People like you and analog kid make this world just a little more bearable.
You have to love how stupidly optimistic movies of this era were, where even the most mundane of technological advances would mean the end of the world's major problems.
I was recently in a really bad car wreck. Could've been brown bread. But that short about traffic safety was just great. The MST3K bois always make things better :)
This is speaking from my memories as a tyke watching these in the 90s, combined with my current retrospective on this watch-through..as you'll guess by being on 520, i'm halfway through watching every episode.. goddamn, if a more perfect show was never made haha. I just miss this show so i love both hosts & enjoy it all, even watching the ones so shiesty the bots can't save it (hercules & being from another planet come to mind) though love Rifftrax, really glad they still are cracking us up
Yes, Radar gives us EXACT locations of Random metallic objects. I LOVE how RADAR uses Graviton's, and Graviolis to Amplify the RADAR signal that is Present in everyday life, and turns those RADAR trace residuals into Readable RADAR informatioin that the RADAR recognition and decription device can then De-RADAR-ify. RADAR!!!!!!!!! or DIE..
Hehehe, such a good episode for a very dull movie! You can't beat the short, though. "Why don't they look" has to be one of my favorites. lol And I love the Goodfella's helicopter part, too. Good thing we have Hinder 90 to protect us! :) Thanks for the upload.
Wow! RADAR - acronym for Radio Detection and Ranging - nothing in this movie that has to do w/radar is possible. Radar isn't a metal detector, you can't sit in your office & keep tabs, visually, on your agents' cars on the highways. Radar is simply bouncing radio waves through the air and, when there is an object in the path of the waves, they bounce back, letting you know there is something there and the distance whatever the waves hit is from the source. This flick makes radar look like some sort of magical technology that can do anything! What a goof!
With all those dopey jokes made about that metal sphere on top of the agents' car, you could make a drinking game out of it. Anything to make this turgid turkey more bearable.
