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Things I liked about the movie:
The title.
The end.
This is my vote for the worst episode. This is probably the episode that finally killed the show once and for all. I think the reason they chose this movie for the show is to make a statement to the world that they were betrayed and everyone will die now. After watching the part of this I could stay awake for, I felt like killing myself, too. The movie was filmed in major-depress-o-vision. It’s like a black hole that sucks everything into itself and nothing can escape. Not even light or laughter.
A very brief synopsis of the movie: It’s Hamlet, the Shakespeare play. Hamlet’s dad is dead and Hamlet is depressed and suicidal. His dad’s ghost visits him and tells him that his (Hamlet’s) uncle killed his dad and married his mom. So he conducts a play in front of his uncle in which he basically tells him that he knows uncle killed dad. A complex series of suicides and murders takes place in a few minutes and everyone dies, including Hamlet. It might be sad, except I don’t think anyone would still be awake at the end of this version.
To start with, it’s black and white and very poorly lit. It seems to have been filmed in a concrete structure designed to be as bleak as possible. Between the slow plot, depressing cinematography, and blasé riffs, I can’t think of anything good about this episode.
Opening: Tom Servo is now Htom Sirveaux.
Intro: Crow has a name change too; Mike interrupts Pearl's plan with Three Card Monty -- which she loses, allowing Mike to pick the movie.
Host segment 1: Crow & Tom's plan to be the ghost of one of Mike's dead relatives quickly unravels.
Host segment 2: Crow & Tom give Mike a preview of their percussion version of "Hamlet."
Host segment 3: Time once again to play "Alas Poor Who?"
End: Crow & Tom show off their Hamlet action figure, with real soliloquy action; in Castle Forrester, a snotty Fortenbras demands his due.
Stinger: Claudius does a double take.
Riffs:
Servo: She's trying to Section VIII her way out of the movie.
Mike: Hamlet will be back... in Thunderball!
Crow: Moe, Larry and Horatio.
Servo, as play begins: And now the tragedy of King Vitamin.
Hamlet: Give us a taste of your quality.
Crow as Hamlet: I said quality, not idiocy!
Servo: At least when they're doing this, the Germans can't be up to any mischief.