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Summary: A Classic...
Review: The funniest MST3K episode ever! I even hosted a party with a huge group of Friends, and we laughed from beginning to end. I hear that Joe Don Baker is still after the guys for this one :) Clever from beginning to end, and a landmark episode with the departure of Joel. I'd recommend this for the first time buyer.
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Summary: The once and forever joel legacy.
Review: This, one of the best MST3k episodes creates a touching ending for Joel Robinson's reign of the theater leaving the corridor open for lovable Mike to take over as host everyone should see this show. END
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Summary: MY FAVORITE MST3000 EPISODE
Review: I just watched mitchell last night. It is one of my favorite episodes. I love MST3000 and would recomend this tape to any MST3000 fan. The dialog is even funnier then the average episode. This is also a milestone episode with the loss of one caracter abut the addition of an excellent replacement. The movie Mitchell was such a waste of film. It is amaxing that many of the actors became well known. MST3000 has made an excellant choice making fun of this waste of time. I laughed all the way through it and will watch it again. I am looking forward to seeing every episode. END
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Summary: Some of the best riffs ever heard, also the last Joel show.
Review: This one of the best episodes released by Rhino, and one of the top twenty all-time episode ever. This also marks Joel's last episode as host. It also installs Mike as the new host. 'Joe Don Baker is Mittens', says Crow in the opening credits, as Joe Don stars in one of his many ill-fated 70s cop show pilots. Since this episode, Joey Joe Jo has vowed to exterminate the Best Brainers, if ever he spies them. The host segments are particularly funny, as Gypsy mistakes the Mads plan to kill their new temp Mike, as a plan to off the beloved Joel. With Mike's help, she gets Joel off the SOL. The Mads are worried about the experiment, until Mike presents his timecard for signing... END
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Summary: Joe Don Baker IS Mitchell
Review: A very sad day in the MSTie universe. This show marks the LAST appearance of Joel Hodgeson as "Joel" BUT does introduce us to Mike Nelson as "Mike" so all is not lost. Joel's departure from the SOL marks the saddest moment in T.V. history (apart from the last episode of "Little House on the Prairie" you know, the one where they blow up all the houses! Shocking! Really, it happened!) The movie itself can only be described as "White-trash-sploitation." Joe Don Baker is the ever un-cuddly Mitchell who has to stake out some heroin smugglers or investigate the murder of a Mexican thief or something and sleep with Linda Evans (BABY OIL!) and get in a heliocopter-aeroplane and hit a boat with a thing and drive an old-lady to someplace with a box and Andy Kaufman chases him with the gun and then the "Cop-and-a-Half" kid starts yelling and something else and it's all good. A must see! And don't forget, "Booze IS good food!" END
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Summary: My, my, my, my...MITCHELL!
Review: Joels swan song, and also a classic ep. in its own right.what movie producer ever thought that a film that features a fat, bloated, drunken, slovenly, all around miserable and un-likable main character would be a GOOD idea? Joe Don Baker IS "Mitchell," a cop on the case of...well, aparently he starts out on some case involving Jon Saxon but then gets assigned to sit in front of some old mobsters house for weeks on end and then comes home and gets beat up by thugs for no apparent reason and then finds hooker Linda Evans in his house, sleeps with her without question ( a VERY disturbing scene, trust me) and yet arrests her for possesion of pot. there's some talk of a heroin shipment, Mitchell shoots some guy in a park, then there's a boat chase and a big shoot out and your left wondering what ever happened to Jon Saxon and then Mitchell sleeps with and arrests the hooker again and its the end. I get the feeling a lot of the reson this film plays so badly is that it was edited for content...the original trailer for the film on the DVD lists it as rated R, which means Comedy Central had to chop out some offending scenes...and yet they leave in the shot of Mitchell in bed with Linda Evans grabbing a six pack of Shlitz Beer off the end table next to a big bottle of Johnsons Baby Oil, which to me was far more repulsive than any graphic violence or language they may have had to edit. the sketches of course revolve around the escape of Joel: Gypsy over hears the Mads discussing doing away with somebody after the experiment, assumes its Joel, and sets out to find a way to get him off the ship and to safety. I wont spoil the whole thing for those who havent seen it, but its a perfect transition as Joel leaves and is replaced by MST3K head writer Mike Nelson. "oh my my my my Mitchell..."
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Summary: MITCHELL-even his name says, "Is that a beer?"
Review: Joel Robinson and his robot buddies Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo take on Joe Don Baker and his "defining" performance in MITCHELL. Joel and the 'bots make fun of Joe Don's every move: as he sleeps in the back of a squad car in his first scene (Joel: Our hero, ladies and gentlemen.), watches Martin Balsam (Joe Don: Mr. Cummins! Joel: Stop or my heart'll explode!), tail him in 25 MPH car chase (Crow: They couldn't shake a trolley! Tom: The only exciting thing is VANISHING POINT is being filmed on the other side of the canyon), and sleep with Linda Evans, right down to the fact that Mitchell has a bottle of baby oil on his nightstand (All: AHHHH!)! This movie also features Merlin Olsen as Balsam's butler, an extra smug John Saxon as a mob lawyer Mitchell takes-on, an annoying scene with an annoying kid (Crow: The inspiration for COP AND A HALF.), and lots and lots of Schlitz (too many riffs to list on that, but you'll be laughing). And after all that, we bid good-bye to Joel and bid welcome to his successor, temp Mike Nelson.
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Summary: Joel's last
Review: I'm really more of a Mike fan, but this is a great episode. They identify Joe Don Baker perfectly as the lumpy, sweaty man that he is. I don't think he was required to eat a bucket of chicken before each take for the role of Mitchell, but I think he did anyway. Mitch stumbles through this plot in which he drinks over 80 beers and MEETS a prostitute...
If you haven't seen this show or this episode, I guarantee you that you will not be sorry for purchasing this. And this show ushers in the Mike era, so it's great.
And to give some reasoning for my choice of Mike Nelson over Joel Hodgeson: Mike delivers jokes better than dazed-looking Joel (c'mon, don't take offense), and he is also generally funnier.
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Summary: M-M-M-M-Mitchell
Review: "Mitchell" is one of the best episodes of MST3K. The movie, an awful cop thriller starring a beefy Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, Merlin Olsen, Linda Evans, and John Saxon, is so bad that it is hard to imagine what they were thinking when they made it. By the way, this ended up being the last episode of the original host of the show.
The DVD is shown in its original 1.33:1 aspect ratio. The intermission scenes look bright and sharp, slightly better than broadcast quality. The scenes of "Mitchell" look soft and scratchy, with rough sound. However, it still looks a bit better than my old video. As a special feature, the disc contains the original theatrical trailer for "Mitchell," which contains the memorable tagline, "He's brute force with a badge." Interestingly, the trailer includes some scenes that were cut out of the MST3K version, such as a scene of a villain getting his hand crushed in a car door by Mitchell, and a short scene of Mitchell getting harassed by the chief. Unlike some other MST3K DVDs, the uncut version of the film is not included. It is, however, available on a hard-to-find bare-bones DVD from Brentwood.
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