EPISODE #203: The short of "The Phantom Creeps" has a few Dead comments:
Lugosi & his stooge are escaping, and pick up (plot convienence)
a hobo hitchhiking who has long hair and a beard.
JOEL: "Are you guys going to that Dead concert? Yeah? Did you hear Pigpen died?"
SERVO & CROW: "Pigpen's dead? Oh no!"
SERVO: "If Pigpen's died, I don't want to live either."
Soon after, the car plunges over a cliff;
JOEL: "What A Long Strange Trip It's Been."
Lugosi decides to use the bum's body as a ringer for him, so...
His wife is asked to identify it, and says: "I'll go, I must know..."
JOEL: "If Pigpen is still alive."
EPISODE #206: During the film "The Ring Of Terror," an autopsy is being done
and a skeleton hanging near a wall says...
SERVO: "How's it goin' so far? I gotta eat soon.
I've got a Grateful Dead concert to go to."
Later, as the elderly "hero" creeps through a cemetary for a fraternity prank...
JOEL: "Everyone's buried here: Jim Morrrison, the Unknown Soldier, the Dead..."
EPISODE #208: During the film "Lost Continent" Caesar Romero is going through some
records to find somtething new for him to further embarass himself with the girl...
SERVO: "Hey look! The Dead, Mel Torme, here's one of mine. Huh?"
EPISODE #301: During the opening host segment, Joel is asking the 'bots if
they could change their names, what would their new name be:
SERVO: "Well, personally, I've always been partial to 'Sugar Magnolia.'"
During the film "Cave Dwellers" the Scientist is showing his daughter some
shiny object that is supposed to have mythical powers.
SERVO: "A rearview mirror. Stronger Than Dirt!"
EPISODE #304: During the film "Gamera vs. Barugon"
SERVO: "So if Gamera craves fire, what does Barugon crave?"
CROW: "Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia, natch."
EPISODE #306: A few Dead related comments during the film "Time Of The Apes":
A Two & A half Ton Truck drives by with cheesy psychedelic paint....
Joel: "Hey it's Ken Kesey & The Merry Pranksters!"
A scene of lights flashing at different times elicit the
following comments:
JOEL: "Suddenly we're at the Fillmore."
SERVO: "Hey, it's a Joshua Light Show."
EPISODE #314: "Mighty Jack" features all to many truly bad moments, including the
copious use of bank turns to pad the film. During one of these, some country music
is played, and...
Servo (singing): "You ain't woman enough to take my 'Mighty 'Jack.'"
EPISODE #317: JOEL (during the short "Home Economics"): "Hey! there's Neal Cassidy!
I didn't know he went to college!"
EPISODE #318: During the ultra-lame pieced together STAR FORCE - FUGITIVE ALIEN
II film, when the Colonel's authority is questioned to land on some planet, he exclaims
"bunch of idiots!" and...
SERVO: "Ship Of Fools."
EPISDOE #319: During "The War Of The Amazing Colosussal Beast", the Colossol Man is
chasing a van that has food in it....
CROW: "Truckin' like the doo-da man."
EPISODE #320: During the short "Posture Pals" the school-teacher is instructing
the boys on how to walk with good posture....
JOEL: (in falsetto): "...and you truck like the doo-da man.:
SERVO: "Got your chips cashed in."
EPISODE #405: During opening the opening credits for the film "Being From Another Planet,"
weird music is being played...
JOEL: "You know, this sounds exactly like Jerry Garcia's first album."
EPISODE #415: The first host segment in "Beatniks" features the Boys doing a
"You're probably not a Beatnik if...:"
JOEL: "You own a monthly bus pass..."
CROW: "Unless it's to Ken Kesey's Bus..."
ALL: "You're not a Beanik."
EPISODE #501: During the film "Eegah" the Pith helmet wearing scientist guy asks
his daughter for help with his tie as he has a lame (much like the film) arm.
Roxie (daughter): "Here, I'll do it. Does it have to be this one?"
SCI Guy (in pseudo-admonishing tone): "Young lady that happens to to be one
of my favorite ties."
Roxie: "But this color...."
SCI Guy: "You gave it to me four years ago."
Guys: "Wah, wah, wah..."
Roxie: "Why, it's lovely!"
Crow: "Jerry Garcia designed it."
EPISODE #508: During Double 007, there is a cut away back to a yacht from a scene in a plane...
Crow: "We now return to Ship Of Fools."
EPISODE #515: Wild Wild World Of Batwoman has some of the Batgirls guarding a vault. The bad guys
need to get by, so the poorly diguised (and vaguely European) scientist gives them soup with some
"happy pill" in it, which causes them to act like they are tripping.
Servo: "Stanley Owsley is smiling somewhere."
Later, the bad guys are giving the soup away to everyone...
Servo: LSD 25 for you (over and over)
EPISODE #516: During "Alien From L.A." a white-haired & be-bearded colleague of Kathy
Ireland's scientist dad is carrying her luggage....
Servo: Jerry Garca takes her bags.
SAME SCENE, A BIT LATER
Servo: Well, anyway, I gotta go - I gotta finish tie-dying my bedspread upstarirs.
Starwolf left some soy milk and tofu in the fridge.
EPISODE #522: Teenage Crimewave - While being held hostage, the
old man is reading the Bible.
Hood: What other vices you got Pop?
Mike: I love Cherry Garcia.
EPISODE #602: During the film "Invasion USA", the Soviets are bombing San Francisco...
Servo: Ya know what? They're probably gonna bomb the Grateful Dead!
Crow & Mike: yeah, woo hoo, etc.
Servo: No, no, Starship!
EPISODE #603: During the short "Selling Wizard," the voice-over guy keeps ratling on and on and on
about freezer lights....
Crow: Turn on your FLOODlight
During the long host segment the quintiscential Grateful Dead bit:
(Gypsy is wearing a shaggy blonde wig & tie dye dress; Mike is wearing
a tie dye shirt, head band & holds a guitar; Tom has a kerchief head band
and has a small guitar strapped on; Crow has a shaggy grey beard & hair,
small round glasses with colored lenses ala' Jerry Garcia)...
Gypsy: At Alpine Valley, they did "Love Light" into "Sugaree" into "Dark
Star" into "Love Light" into "Sugaree" into "Love Light" into...
Mike: Can anyone tell me why we're dressed like this, again?
Tom: Mike, remember the name of the movie is THE DEAD TALK BACK. We're
The Dead! Get it?!?
Gypsy: And then the moon came out & it was like Jerry WILLED it!!!
Crow: C'mon, Mike! Freak, freaky, freely dude!!!
Mike: (Hesitantly) Alright...Freak...Freaky...Freely? (Music begins)
(Mike sings real twangy vocals to Grateful Dead-like music)
Been riding on that Cosmic Freight Train feeling bad...
And don't you come around her anymore! (To Crow) Take it!
(Crow begins a LONG guitar solo. Mike and the other bots stand around
patiently. Mike smiles, politely as the solo drags on...At one point
Mike tries sing another line from the song, but is drowned out by
Crow's continuing guitar solo. Mike and other Bots wait...and wait...
and wait...and wait...Crow continues...Mike takes off his headband and
wipes at his eyes with it. Gypsy moos, nervously. Mike is looking REAL
bored by about now...The Transmission Light from Deep 13 blinks...Cut
to Deep 13...Frank and Dr. Forrester are asleep standing up, leaning
against each other. Frank starts sucking his thumb, contentedly. Cut
back to the Satellite of Love. Crow is STILL playing. Mike & Tom are
playing a game of chess, while Gypsy whispers moves into Mike's ear.
Cut to exterior of the Satellite. Earth hangs serenely in the background.
The entire cosmos is filled with Crow's droning guitar solo. Cut back
to interior of Satellite. Everyone is back to normal, except Crow who
is still dressed as Garcia and still plucking away at his guitar. Gypsy
is reading "War and Peace" out loud to herself. Tom is playing solitaire.
Mike is folding tiny, little Bot clothes. Crow continues! Movie Sign is
flashed...)
Tom: Ha!!! Thank GOD!!!
Gypsy: Movie Sign?
Mike: Oh, we got Movie Sign! (Mike and other Bots scatter, but Crow keeps
playing his solo. Door sequence starts. Cut back to the counter
where Crow is still playing his guitar solo. Mike runs in...) Crow!!!
We got Movie Sign!!! (Crow ignores him and keeps playing...Mike
finally grabs Crow by the head-piece & forcibly drags him off)...
While entering the theater, Crow loses his wig...
Crow: Hey! My Jerry hair!
Next host segment, Crow is still dressed like Garcia, and still jamming the same song....
Mike: Hey, Cap'n Trips! Do you want to give it a rest?
Crow: Almost done Mikey!
EPISODE #610: Paula and her gang of thugs are robbing a couple of teenagers on lovers lane, when they discover that
the young man has only $11...
Paula: Maybe he has something else to offer...
Servo: I've got a Jerry Garcia tie.
EPISODE #815: While escaping from the baddies, an old scientists steals a beat up panel van...
MIKE: "And I get the Deadhead van."
CROW (singing): "Don't you let that Deal go down."
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