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"This movie stops at nothing - and stays there."
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Film watched: The Beast of Yucca Flats, with shorts Money Talks! and Progress Island USA
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of Progress Island U.S.A contains the following tropes:[]
- Call Back: "That nose wheel feels mushy."
- Take That: The whole sketch makes a Running Gag out of Mike and the bots contradicting the narrator's overly triumphalist rambling ("There's something for everyone..." "...like flights out!"), building up to the final joke:
Narrator: The Spaniards called it "Puerto Rico"... |
- With Lyrics: Tom Servo sings with the bouncy commercial-jingle music. "Strawberries, marshmallows, tinfoil and fudge and some dingle-balls hanging from trees..."