MST3k 522 - Teenage Crimewave 

"The fact that you were with men who committed armed robbery makes you an accessory to this crime, and that fact stands as proof of your guilt." Just her luck, she got a judge who never actually went to law school...

The last fifteen minutes were my favorite part. I can just imagine someone's older college-aged sister yelling "Who the HELL taped over my foreign beach films!?"

This is one of those episodes where I actually find myself watching the movie instead of listening to mike and the bots. Doesnt happen very often!

I know a lot of people are pissed at the reaction of Jane's parents, but this was a movie aimed to serve as a precautionary tale to teens. The 40s-50s were loaded with these. Reefer Madness, sinister urge, violent years, etc. The goal was to scare kids from doing bad things. Removing a support system is the easiest way to do it. so the parents were either drunks, negligent, unemployed, or just dicks. It's ridiculous, I know.

Tom Servo: "Is she making a double-nintendo?" LMAO best line from this episode

"You're DIRT Terry; he'd never TOUCH you!" That has to be one of the most quoted lines in MST3K history! I have to laugh every time they use it! And for some reason... I kinda relate.

I also find it interesting that a portion of Teenage Crime Wave was shot at the famous Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, where a portion of Rebel Without a Cause was filmed.

"Society didn't give me enough bullets!" *shakes fist*

The fact that she refused to name the two guys who perpetrated the robbery makes absolutely no goddamn sense.

"Now this is a shower room." "Let the movie BEGIN!"

"Awe go ahead. Let it out. Have a teenage CRY-wave."

"Holy cow! Did you have Rod Serling over for dinner or something?" ha This episode is definitely a classic and in my Top 10 MST3K shows.

I gotta confess, I'm a doughy guy.

*phone rings* "There's that thing again! WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?!?!"

"Luckily I took a class in observatory maintenance!" "I TOO took a class in observatory maintenance!"

If anybody tells me there's no thanksgiving movie I will correct them with a link to this.

34:34 is the best part imo. Servo’s subtle blowing, Crow’s impression of the woman, the way Mike jumps on board and even more absurd than Crow. Perfect example what you can accomplish with three people working on a setup like this

That whole sequence with the cow riffs in the barn is hilarious, classic MST3K!

"answer the phone or the curtain gets it!" XD

I LOVE the way everyone freaks out each time the phone rings; Mike and the bots included (Crow: It's that THING again!!! WHAT DOES IT MEEEAN!!!!")

I love how this episode takes that sudden right turn toward French cinema. One might say an ode to Novelle Vague with an emphasis on the 'vague'.... hrmmmmm. Good episode, though, huh?

Rebel Without a Cause, released in 1955. Final showdown takes place at the Griffith Observatory. Teenage Crimewave, released in 1955. Final showdown takes place at the Griffith Observatory. COOL BEANS.

*dramatic door reveal* I'M MOM NOW

I love the end scene of this movie, which takes place at the Griffith Observatory here in LA. I've been there a few times, but from now on I'll view it as the "climax setting of 'Teenage Crime Wave' ". Well done, sirs.

"You're gonna have to get in line. There're a couple of cows ahead of you..." :)

"I'd like to get a home out in the country, but they're always so far away", I am having the same problem.

"I'm afraid you're going down, kitten. Hard." 🤣🤣 Mike's delivery kills me!

Y'know, when I was in a girl-jail, the standard issue nightwear was far more drab than what they're wearing.

This has got to be the best MST3K EVER!! 1:24:54 was the cherry on top!!!

"Oooo that stung!" "Did you have to shoot him right in the face?" "He came at me with his face!! I panicked!!"

Man, I was having an awful time between bullshit videos, then I finally found something worthwhile. Also, ALL HAIL THE DOUGHY GUY!

"This movie is forty minutes of hard driving livingroom action!" LOL

I have always hated this movie. The fact that Jane's parents did not support her, that always bothered me.

"Can't we have a normal Thanksgiving where we drink and don't talk to each other?" Has Mike been to my house for Thanksgiving? That makes me think so.

28:57 Could I have some pie? Such a perfect line for that action.

Those are some awful parents. And that judge's grasp of the law is tenuous at best. And I don't understand why they even needed to trick Jane into coming along with them on a robbery in the first place. Also, I like how they inexplicably leave the girls together in jail and in the car transporting them to the reformatory, despite the fact that they are supposedly accomplices in the same robbery. It's always a good idea to keep all the accomplices together so that they can get their stories straight and none of them will decide to roll over on the others. And why doesn't Jane rat out the others? Is she afraid of them? Does she not know who they really are? And what's the point of keeping Jane hostage? They should have killed her, and they should have done a better job of making sure the police matron was dead too. And holding a family hostage for several days is a lot of nonsensical effort just to get away. And why is Jane's picture on the TV news a cheesecake photo? Did they not take a mug shot of her? And what '50s TV station would broadcast a photo of a teenager in a swimsuit? This is the decade where married couples with children were depicted sleeping in twin beds, and a story arc involving a married woman getting pregnant caused a scandal. None of this makes sense. Wait, what am I doing? This is a MST3K movie, of course it doesn't make a lick of sense.

MST3K is one of the great American contributions to human culture, along with jazz, John cage, Scorsese, Selby jr

"I'm mom now!" I like the girl that plays Terry, she's cute.

Filmflix Presents: Grey is the New Black

Jail officer :" Ladies now take a shower !. " Crow T. Robot :"Let the movie begin !" ha ha.

Society didn't give me enough bullets!

25% of crimes in this country are committed by teenage youth! Great! Lets ignore the 75% committed by everyone else :D

The film is definitely ideal MST3K fodder.

[Looking at the picture of the son]: "That him?" "No, he's actually more three-dimensional."

This is my new favorite Thanksgiving movie.

Every time i think i know my favourite MST3K episode i watch another one and have to revise, i just love em all

"get movin big eyes.." "ok fat ass" My favorite...

Damnit...now I wanna watch the French film at the end of the credits XD

Ya know, with all its faults, it's actually a pretty darn good film.

"I'm the guy with the pushed in face!" LoL!!!

Very under rated episode. One of my favs. It grows on you.

8:36 standard-issue juvie heels!

I played this movie just to see Mike's Mystos face.

T&A sold on the news even in the olden days

"You've got it all wrong....=You're working for me" "Can I have the day off?" lol...

"Somewhere a deer is smiling."

"IT'S THAT THING AGAIN! WHAT DOES IT MEEEEEEAN?!!"

Family Bibles are such an institution here that they're admissible as i.d. to be able to get your driver's liscense.

34:25 MITCHELL! 1:17:27 MITCHELL!

I gotta say, unlike the vast majority of teen movies MST3K took apart over the years, this one at least has actors who appear young enough to plausibly BE teenagers (albeit just barely 18/19/almost 20 year-olds).

At about 13 minutes in the short haired girl said, "With any luck they won't be found for an hour. We'll be FIFTY miles away by then." So they're going to drive away from the scene of a murder at only 50 MPH?

Lol @ the line, "you ever seen me on MacGuyver?".

10:30 Missed opportunity to riff the cop saying “once you get used to it.” “I did two years there, had a blast. Slumber parties, a new 45 record every month, and I didn’t even get shivved!”

That short haired chick is a hottie, sad to think she is dead and buried rn, she was still a hottie

"I like milk!" Imagine if he teamed up with the "I like coffee!" guy from Skydivers.

Tonight at juvenile hall, the immature orchestra will play.....

The judge was the school principal on Leave It To Beaver.

Try the Manos Ham of Fate! XD

Good movie I can watch this movie again.

... The Neil Simon film version of *IN COLD BLOOD*.

Neighbor sees the floor littered with cigarette butts. "Holy cow! Did you have Rod Serling over for dinner?"

Here comes the floppy arm of the law.

Someone did their homework for this movie. At 21:00 Terry looks like she's imitating a famous photo of Bonnie Parker.

Hello all of two other people who thought to watch this on Thanksgiving like I always do. Here’s a happy one to you and yours.

Love it when the dark and beautiful Sue England plays the heroine....I finally see her in this film, and she did a good job, too.

At around 21:00 Terry poses like a photo of Bonnie Parker. I'll bet that isn't a coincidence.

This isn't anything like the time we had the People's Limbanese Army here.

gotta love the location of this story...Lancaster & the Antelope Valley....cool place.... I like both the girls...real cuties...

"Oh, this is how the Hubble got screwed up." That's funny, I thought they said that Mike broke the Hubble...

"Tonight on "Cryptic Hoodlum"..."

@1:22:30 - Yep, my whole theory that TV's Frank is a secret Kryptonian comes full-circle. Oh, what would Jor-El and Superman think about the Doughy Man disguise? And then the episode abruptly breaks into a subtitled foreign movie...

10:45 “My folks were at home. They weren’t the ones who went on the date.”

LMAO! "Do you mind if I hang my Snoopy poster?"

I think this is the only time I've ever found it hard to listen to the riffs because I was ACTUALLY interested in the film Holy Moely

This movie wasn't bad. Granted, it was nothing special, but it was decent enough. But the riffing brought it from mediocre to excellent :)

Try the 'Manos Ham Of Fate' at the Space Deli 7:51 31:39 34:07 34:37 58:33 1:06:00 1:12:09 1:12:33

I hate this movie because it's so annoying, but these guys make it SO worth it.

The Governor called, you're grounded!

I just realized Al the Seed Salesman / Jerry Lee Lewis lookalike had a small part in "The Space Children" in the Thunderer control room.

Okay I just realized what gave me the idea to cut my hair super short.

1:06 (sees the dozens of cigarette butts on the floor).."did you have Rod Sterling over here for dinner?? :)

"you cross us up,the old lady is dead" "am I get through to you?" "I'm thinking it over"

"MITCHELL !!!!!"

I lose it every time the antagonist shoots the family friend/hunter and Mike says "Somewhere a dear is smiling". hahaha

@tripoli911 "VA-VA-VA-VOOM!" LOL

34:30 Love it! I have the song on my iPod. One of the great songs of the 80s!

It always astonishes me the number of MST3k fans have have negative reactions to people pointing out the silly things in the movie. You do realize that's the main point of the show right?

I thought Mollie McCard actually did a good job performing as the gun moll. The actor who played Ben was from a family of actors - his sister was the very hot Debra Paget. He later became a very good movie make-up artist.

. Female Gangsta, COLEEN GREY, also in PHANTOM PLANET !!

34:25 "Mitchell!" XD