An overly obvious '70s wanderer hits on a witch while a babysitter watches over Castle Forrester.An overly obvious '70s wanderer hits on a witch while a babysitter watches over Castle Forrester.An overly obvious '70s wanderer hits on a witch while a babysitter watches over Castle Forrester.
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Did you know
- TriviaMary Jo Pehl was absent from this episode as she was traveling to L.A. to shoot segments featuring film critic Leonard Maltin for the next episode of MST3K.
- GoofsCrowe cracks a joke as the shack burns in the movie, and his mouth continues to move for a moment after he finishes talking.
- Quotes
[the title "The Touch of Satan" appears]
Mike Nelson: The touch of Satan... softens your hands while you do the dishes.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Familiar Faces: Top 13 MST3K Halloween Episodes (2016)
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Touch of Hilarity
This episode is another honorable mention in my book. This was a 70's film that was trying to cash in on the religious horror train sort of, you can easily see why this never boarded.
Not a whole lot I can really say about this except as usual Nelson and the bots are good as usual. This episode has a lot of funny and memorable riffs really like it when they riff on the music which is a strange music choice as it's so calming most of the time and Tom Servo is just humming and sing to some of it; he even sings a made up song which just cracks me up. Another scene where the couple goes through this poppy field and we heard Tom and Crow just fake sneezing, yeah looking at that scene almost made me sneeze.
My favorite riff is when Crow say if were watching a "Hallmark" movie; strangely from how the story goes this feels almost in a twisted sense like it could have been a film for the "Hallmark Channel" if they ever decided to do films for the Halloween season. Strangely this film is almost more watchable than most of the films that channel puts out. I could easily picture certain Hallmark or Arrowverse alumni (since some Hallmark actors and actress are on those shows) like Lacey Chabert, Danielle Panabaker, Summer Glau, Melissa Benoist (wonder if their fan or watch MST3K) or any other to play the lead girl if Hallmark decided to go the Halloween route and made a remake of this film.
Really like the host segments one where Crow is being stoned because he's accused of being a witch. It's just funny as we see the stones just keep piling on him as high as a Jenga tower and Mike is just really breathing hard doing the stacking; of course Crow being a robot these stones would harm him, let alone he' s not a witch.
Another which I love is with Mike as he's being attacked by Tom Servo's crazy grandma that is armed with this tiny toy pitchfork. It's just hilarious and cute as we see the crazy grandma constantly going at Mike, let alone the fact Tom even has a grandma or any family line at all. Just seeing the Grandma Servo I'm surprised that there was never any doll, plush toys or any Halloween decorations of that servo and all the other MST3k crew.
This episode has the touch for hilarity.
Rating: 3 and a half stars
Not a whole lot I can really say about this except as usual Nelson and the bots are good as usual. This episode has a lot of funny and memorable riffs really like it when they riff on the music which is a strange music choice as it's so calming most of the time and Tom Servo is just humming and sing to some of it; he even sings a made up song which just cracks me up. Another scene where the couple goes through this poppy field and we heard Tom and Crow just fake sneezing, yeah looking at that scene almost made me sneeze.
My favorite riff is when Crow say if were watching a "Hallmark" movie; strangely from how the story goes this feels almost in a twisted sense like it could have been a film for the "Hallmark Channel" if they ever decided to do films for the Halloween season. Strangely this film is almost more watchable than most of the films that channel puts out. I could easily picture certain Hallmark or Arrowverse alumni (since some Hallmark actors and actress are on those shows) like Lacey Chabert, Danielle Panabaker, Summer Glau, Melissa Benoist (wonder if their fan or watch MST3K) or any other to play the lead girl if Hallmark decided to go the Halloween route and made a remake of this film.
Really like the host segments one where Crow is being stoned because he's accused of being a witch. It's just funny as we see the stones just keep piling on him as high as a Jenga tower and Mike is just really breathing hard doing the stacking; of course Crow being a robot these stones would harm him, let alone he' s not a witch.
Another which I love is with Mike as he's being attacked by Tom Servo's crazy grandma that is armed with this tiny toy pitchfork. It's just hilarious and cute as we see the crazy grandma constantly going at Mike, let alone the fact Tom even has a grandma or any family line at all. Just seeing the Grandma Servo I'm surprised that there was never any doll, plush toys or any Halloween decorations of that servo and all the other MST3k crew.
This episode has the touch for hilarity.
Rating: 3 and a half stars
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- hellraiser7
- Oct 12, 2020
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