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Mystery Science Theater 3000 Season 10 Episodes
Season 10 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1998 - 1998
Episode 1
The Projected Man
Sat, Mar 14, 1998
A scientist's experiment to project things with light goes horribly wrong and he seeks revenge against the ones who sabotaged him in the first place. Meanwhile, the SOL crew is dragged back through a wormhole and find themselves back in their old time period complete with Ethan Hawke movies. Pearl and her minions are drawn to an abandoned castle where Pearl finds evidence that she's returned home to Castle Forrester (that and the ability to play the piano at will). Inspired by the device in the movie, Crow and Tom "project" significant objects belonging to Mike but it becomes evident to him that their procedure isn't quite what they said it is. Then, based on the popularity of the scientists in the movie, Mike convinces Prof. Lembach to stick around while Pearl looks through an old family diary where she discovers her family has always been involved with conducting weird experiments. An experiment of the Bots' gives Crow the touch of death but Mike doesn't believe it until he feels the results first hand. In the end, after being resurrected in the theater, Mike establishes a new foundation and offers grants to whoever's idea seems more worthy of it. Pearl then establishes herself in Castle Forrester.
Episode 2
The Phantom Planet
Sat, Mar 21, 199892 mins
The movie depicts our old future complete with overcooked asteroids posing as planets and thick headed astronauts investigating them. Meanwhile, Mike defends his ability to impersonate Andy Rooney against Tom and Crow in an Andy Rooney-off, which only infuriates Gypsy. Pearl is just getting moved into Castle Forrester when her send-away doomsday device arrives - some assembly required. One part gets shipped to the SOL by mistake though and Tom and Crow beg Mike to let them keep it despite the radioactivity. Mike and Tom then discuss how to represent the importance of focusing on the "good and beautiful" mentioned in the movie before Mike goes out to do some work on the ship. Prof. Bobo unintentionally terrorizes the castle by dragging a chain around in a daze. Later, Crow and Tom are inspired to get into glass armonica music based on the weird control mechanisms from the movie, an interest Mike unintentionally ruins. Crow then decides to be a Solarite while Pearl's neighbors have the nerve to offer them a house warming party.
Episode 3
The Pumaman
Sat, Apr 4, 199891 mins
A whiny Aztec superhero battles Donald Pleasance because he wants his mask back. Meanwhile, Tom battles Short Man's disease by inserting lifts in his hover skirt and acting like a tough guy. Pearl announces her annual Castle Forrester Ball in which every in the world is invited, but no one comes except Ortega, and only because Observer invites him over to watch Sliders in his room. Inspired by the movie, Mike contacts the Nanites to see if he can get the dry look, but gets Shelli because no one else is available. She takes his request a little too seriously. The Bots then declare Mike to be the great Coatimundi Man but all Mike wants is to get the last of the cold sesame noodles. The Bots move on then to use their genuine magic Aztec mask to take control of folk singer Roger Whitaker because they didn't think anyone else was worth controlling. By the end of the movie, Crow's finally had enough of the whole deal and submits his resignation to Mike and then decides to visit the SOL looking for work almost immediately afterward. Pearl, dismayed by the failure of her ball is visited by Roger Whitaker before he's intrigued by the shindig going on in Observer's room.
Episode 4
Werewolf
Sat, Apr 18, 199893 mins
An archeology supervisor turns people into werewolves for some unclear reason and the emotionless heroine falls head over paws for one of the victims. Meanwhile, an accident leads Mike to believe he's James Lipton and he interviews Crow as Ray Liotta until he's hit on the head with the clown hammer. Once back in his own mind, Mike tries to climb down to Earth via a rope ladder and ultimately finds himself in Castle Forrester while Pearl and her minions are eating breakfast. Then, after discussing who they would want in their own werewolf movies, the SOL crew sings a song about Mike's werewolf date gone horribly wrong. Another accident ensues the SOL when Mike trips and cuts himself on Crow only to find himself becoming a were-Crow and he's perfectly comfortable with that. In the end, Mike is a full blown were-Crow and Servo offers him a dose of Mike-essence to turn him back to normal. Pearl introduces her experiment to transfer the essence of a wolf into a man, an experiment which Prof. Bobo foils by not understanding the differences between dogs and wolves.
Episode 5
The Deadly Bees
Sat, May 9, 1998
A withdrawn cranky Englishman decides to unleash his killer bees onto the people of Seagul Island because no one cares about him. Meanwhile, the SOL crew runs through past episode clips of their daily soap opera lives until things return to normal. Observer and Observer visit Castle Forrester to find that Pearl's Observer has become domesticated by his constant contact with humans and they decide to take him back to their reconstituted planet and destroy Earth along the way. Later, Crow is smitten with love by the old smoking hag in the movie until he and Tom decide to try raising swarms of blood sucking insects. Mike then decides to communicate as the bees do with the help of a bee costume and shaking his booty while Crow waits patiently for news on his Just For Men hair coloring. In the end, the mysterious bowler hatted character who appears at the end of the movie decides to just pop by the SOL. Meanwhile, Pearl and Prof. Bobo convince their Observer to stay with them (through song), but the other Observers don't take kindly to that. They battle Pearl's Observer to a stand still until Prof. Bobo distracts them all with chili dogs and Observer turns his two opponents into Wisconsin dwelling Packers fans.
Episode 6
The Space Children
Sat, Jun 13, 1998
A short depicts perky kids exploring the wonders of push button phoning. Meanwhile, on the outskirts of a missile base, a blob from Heaven convinces children to do his bidding against the nuclear arms race. Tom starts his own kissing booth but Mike isn't exactly satisfied with the results. Pearl then sets up conference lines between the SOL and Castle Forrester, though the connection isn't exactly clear. The Bots then ram a wrecking ball into Mike for impersonating the boy from the short. Later, as the SOL dabbles in model rockets, Pearl starts her own space program to send monkeys (specifically Prof. Bobo) into space, though Prof. Bobo's sentience and lack of intelligence leads him to be off the rocket when it blasts off, which allows it to veer back around and slam into Castle Forrester. Crow is then scarred by the little shorts Jackie Coogan wears in the movie and decides to design his own lacy fashion sketches for him instead, which sickens Tom and Mike to no end. In the end, the blob from Heaven visits the SOL on the assumption they're harboring nuclear weapons. Tom admits he might have one.
Episode 7
Hobgoblins
Sat, Jun 27, 1998
Mike and the Bots suffer through the 1988 B movie "Hobgoblins (1988)," the story of tiny goblin-like creatures who attack a group of teenagers.
Episode 8
The Touch of Satan
Sat, Jul 11, 199892 mins
A wandering mellow '70's man is invited to stay at a walnut farm where he falls in love with a witch obsessed with "Amazing Grace." Meanwhile, while Crow and Tom go caroling for Wassail, Prof. Bobo and Observer are tortured in their own ways by Steffi, the babysitter hired by Pearl to watch over Castle Forrester while she's on vacation. Inspired by the movie, Mike decides to start a walnut farm and finds it'd grueling work while Servo starts growing pecans with the greatest of ease. Crow then gets the idea that he's a witch and asks Mike to bury him in stones to see if he can feel pain, though it becomes obvious that there's a reason why he can't. Servo's homicidal grandmother then assaults Mike with a pitchfork. In the end, Crow believes he's sold his soul to Satan to obtain ultimate power but Mike points out he accidentally sold it to a CPA named Stan. Steffi continues tormenting Observer by trying to read him "Green Eggs and Ham" and locks Prof. Bobo in a pet taxi.
Episode 9
Gorgo
Sat, Jul 18, 199897 mins
Mike and the Bots gorge on "Gorgo (1961)," a maudlin monster mess featuring two giant mother-and-son lizards and a Samuel Beckett lookalike. Leonard Maltin shows up to hawk his movie guide, which inexplicably praises the film.
Episode 10
The Final Sacrifice
Sat, Jul 25, 199892 mins
The power goes out on the SOL, to which Servo and Crow take full advantage of by looting the satellite. Pearl unveils her plan to take over the world one person at a time and spontaneously starts off with Servo. While dealing with bad cases of Hockey Hair (to which Mike is conveniently immune), Servo defends Canada's honor with a song of tribute, which eventually turns violent when Mike and Crow join in. Mike's immunity to Hockey Hair leads to a case of Grizzled Old Prospector Syndrome and the bots form a muffin-based sewing circle cult while still remembering the need for human sacrifices. Meanwhile, Pearl almost takes over her first follower before he's suddenly taken over by the Traveler's Group.
Episode 11
Devil Fish
Sat, Aug 15, 199892 mins
A carnivorous sea monster preys on humans off the coast of the Italian parts of Florida. Meanwhile, while Mike worries there's a government conspiracy whenever his wallet goes missing, Castle Forrester is mistaken for a cruise ship by two unobservant vacationers, which makes Pearl need ice sculptures from Mike and the Bots. The SOL crew then offend a Sea World dolphin by claiming its intelligence is nothing to brag about, which leads to a Dolphin War Ship attacking the ship not once, but twice when Mike later makes fun of the electrician Pearl sends up based on the electrician in the movie. The vacationers become confused by the movie breaks so Pearl and Prof. Bobo install a filter on Cambot's feedback that makes Mike and the Bots all look vaguely Italian, though it becomes apparent just how sensitive the adjustments really are. In the end, as Crow and Tom debate what combinations of animals would be scarier than the movie's monster, Prof. Bobo acts as the Captain of the Castle (and by Castle, he means Ship). Things get out of hand when he's interrupted during dinner and Pearl is forced to put him down.
Episode 12
The Screaming Skull
Sat, Aug 29, 1998
A Gumby short depicts our happy-go-lucky yet obliviously cruel hero using toy robots to do his chores, but then he has to put them down when they rebel against their clay overlords. Meanwhile, the movie features a widower and his new bride being haunted by the vengeful skull of the widower's dead wife and its gardener servant. Outside of the theatre, Tom reveal's he's a beautiful butterfly that only blends in with himself, though a series of industrial accidents reverts him back to his original form (though he still has his proboscis). Meanwhile, down in Castle Forrester, Pearl and her minions play a confusing and expensive prank on Mike and the bots using penguin costumes and a non-existent appointment, a prank which the SOL crew fails to fall for twice in one day. The Gumby short has a serious negative effect on Crow and Tom, who try dealing with their pain by creating their own scale model clay based robot massacre. Later, Crow and Tom try to scam a free coffin from American International Films based on the warning in the beginning of the movie, though it goes awry when the operator identifies who she's talking to. The bots then try playing a harmless prank on Mike by disguising Crow as the screaming skull, which quickly turns harmful as Mike is determined to destroy the Crow skull by any means necessary. At the end of the day, Tom's coffin arrives and he has to max out Mike's credit card in order to pay for the return shipping. Mike is not amused.
Episode 13
Quest of the Delta Knights
Sat, Sep 26, 199892 mins
Pearl sits in on part of "Quest of the Delta Knights (1993)," this week's experiment, as part of her annual review, and Leonardo da Vinci stops by to insist the guy playing him in the film is a mook.