Movie: (1985) A smug professor and his students camp out in the rural Arkansas swamp, in hopes of finding a Bigfoot-like creature.
First shown: May 9, 1999
Opening: Crow and Mike’s Cub Scout meeting is crashed by Servo the Brownie
Intro: Now Servo’s a Flemish glass blower; Pearl has a potato-powered evil plan
Host segment 1: M&tB’s flashbacks get fuzzier and fuzzier
Host segment 2: Pearl cooks up a monster legend, complete with haunting, evocative folk song
Host segment 3: Tom takes up whittling in a big way
End: Crow’s tends to his fires; Pearl’s legend biz gets kicked in the ankle
Stinger: “I saw the little creature.” “Nooo!!”
(339 votes, average: 4.59 out of 5)
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• In some episodes, the riffers need a little extra something from the movie to take their riffing from good to great. This is one of those episodes. It starts out as only okay. They keep up with the action with some funny stuff, but it really didn’t have me rolling. But when mountain man Crenshaw arrives, they really have something to work with and they take full advantage of it. The movie itself is stupid but at least it’s watchable. The host segments are mostly good fun. So all in all this one comes out a winner.
• Bill’s thoughts are here.
• References are here.
• This episode was on Rhino’s Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 5.
• Mike gets the title of the movie wrong in his intro on the DVD version (as he did with his “The Touch of Satan” intro).
• It’s fun to hear Kevin and Bill harmonizing as the sing “On the Wings of a Dove.”
• Gypsy is acting weird again. Did Joel completely fix her?
• The whole IMF accreditation thing was created because the suits at the channel were pushing for a “story arc.” So I only give the Brains partial blame on this. But I have to say that with this episode (or maybe the previous one?) the IMF stuff really starts to feel very invention exchangey. Not sure whether that’s a good thing or not.
• Segment one is a clever idea, one of those segments that practically writes itself in response to something really stupid in the movie.
• Segment 2 is saved by Bill, whose delivery is pitch perfect.
• That’s Kevin’s wife Kathleen’s guitar in that segment. She gets a credit at the end.
• An “s-bomb” got missed by Sci-Fi censors, and Rhino left it in.
• Movie observations: What was that whole “let’s play this out” business when the girls returned to the camp? They walk in and you expect something to happen, but they just say hi and go on with the movie. Play WHAT out?? Also, during the yucky outhouse flashback, I need to point out: If you can hose somebody off, that means you have plumbing. If you have plumbing, why are you using an outhouse?
• I have to say that I don’t really feel the white-hot rage Bill feels toward Old Man Pearce. Yeah, his character is a bit of a jerk, but I just don’t find him that despicable. He’s certainly not the movie’s bad guy. In fact, one of the biggest structural flaws of this movie is that there are no real antagonists (except, perhaps, for the derisive locals).
• Segment 3 is also a lot of fun, a good example of a sketch where they take a simple idea and take it to the extreme.
• Riff that’s a bit of stretch: One of the girls is “Mark Knopfler” because she’s wearing a headband. Sheesh.
• We get another fire aboard the SOL. And not the last one this season.
• That’s Brad Keeley as a tourist kid, in a bit that really goes nowhere.
• Again, no cast and crew round up: nobody involved in this movie worked on any other MSTed movie.
• CreditsWatch: Directed by Kevin. For interns Erin F. Erskine and Josh Huschke, who started at the beginning of the season, this was their last show until they were called back for one more a few weeks later.
• Fave riff: “Why don’t you take the skin chair?” Honorable mention: “There’s a red scarf floating in the air!…oh, it’s her.”
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Boogy Creek is a solid ‘4’ for me. Dopey, self indulgent film with lots of goofy characters. Prof Lockhart is a man’s man who has assistants galore. No one wears a bra in this movie, not even Ole Man Crenshaw. Host segs okay and the riffs were good. The movie itself was perfect fodder for riffing and held attention without bogging down the riffs. I speculate that Stick boy and Crenshaw were actually a representation of yin and yang with the Prof as the model of the perfect man that stands at the mid point. I have to go scrub my brain out now.
Having watched this several weeks ago (when Pearce passed I felt a need to pay a tribute) it’s so goofy that it’s good fun. I really enjoy it from beginning to end, unlike Sampo. The whole tone of the movie is so silly that it doesn’t need very heavy riffing. But Sampo is right about one thing — when we get to the mountain man the jokes really kick up a notch (what a fine, weird character to take off on. If MST3K had gone on longer, I suspect we might have seen Bill or someone assay his persona in the same way Mike did Torgo).
Despite what you will read below about my feelings on the movie, I do enjoy the episode a lot. The riffing is solid and properly aggressive and the host segments are top notch, fun.
Crow in his Boy Scouts uniform makes him look like a little kid and makes his outcry of, “Bobcats, do or die,” all the more giggle inducing. Tom’s explosion about his Flemish Glassblower costume is also great. It leads to fantastic dialogue among Pearl, Brain Guy and Bobo.
The first segment stories are a fantastic example of Crow’s simple, playful nature and Servo’s pretentious snobbery. Yes, Bobo is a legend and Brain Guy’s song is great. The whittling bit is ok but forgettable. And the final follow up to the legend of Bobo is again great.
Oh the rage, THE RAGE! This is one of those movies that makes me want to kick the writer and director (in this case it’s the same person so he’d get two kicks) square in the junk. RIP Mr. Pierce and all that jazz, but it’s still an incompetent movie.
Some random examples of stupid ideas:
– From the sounds of it this professor has an entire section of his class devoted to the study of the creature. Southern college or not, devoting that much time to teaching crypto zoology would be laughed out of the profession.
– They go to a farm to look around even though the sighting was back in 1964, what the hell did they plan to find? Just tell the story in the freakin’ jeep.
– They have a recorded sighting/incident about a guy who was alone, attacked and when he was found he was in a coma that he died during (i.e. the story is actually 100% speculation).
– Then there’s the magical computer and “mic sensors” they have that can read the weight or height of anything that is moving within a certain range of it. Granted sonar might be able to give you a height reading, but sonar in a forest is just stupid.
– The amount of pompousness from Professor Lockart could feed an African village for a year. And of course everything about Tim adds an extra kick for the writer/director.
And there is one line of dialogue that bothers me every time I hear it: “I reached Deputy Williams by phone and arranged to meet him at the local coffee shop.” This is the opening line of dialogue that ENDS saying the Deputy saw the creature but it started with inflection suggesting we should already know who Deputy Williams is. This is just indefinably bad story telling to say it that way instead of: “I called Deputy Williams, a man who had an encounter with the creature, and arranged to meet him at the local coffee shop.” See, simple.
Saving grace: Tanya’s hot despite her attempts to appear Tom-boy-ish.
Favorite riffs:
[as the deer with a very dark patch of fur wades through the water]
Crow: He has a zipper on his neck.
Mike: It’s a gazelle in a deer costume.
M&tB singing “Wings of a Dove.”
Tom: Boy, Tim’s a real strong blip on my gaydar.
This has always been a fave because the riffing is good and the movie is soooo goofy. I’ve seen the outhouse scene more times than I can remember and still roll on the floor laughing. The movie is so filled with WTF moments I can’t list them all. Just the fact that stickboy walks around the swamps shirtless is wierd enough and what can I say about Crenshaw…it’s crazy.
Fave riff: “We have E gallons”
Four stars.
I saw the original Boggy Creek at Cinema East Theater, when it first came out. I remember walking home afterwards, mildly scared by thoughts of the creature reaching through windows, lurking outside of doors, etc. I watched it again recently, and can only conclude that it was much easier to scare audiences in the ’70s. But the original Boggy Creek at least had a nifty song, sung by Charles B. Pierce, about a character named Travis Crabtree (did that inspire the sketch with Brain Guy singing about the creature?), and this terrific bit of dialog:
“Herb limps because he once accidentally shot part of his foot away in a boating accident. Although he was alone, he made it out of the Bottoms to a doctor.”
How could you top that?
The first Boggy Creek would have made a great MST episode. I was shocked that it was the 7th highest grossing film (per IMDB) of 1973. But it was STILL a far superior film to Boggy Creek II and the Legend Continues. Crenshaw is the really horrifying creature, enough to give me nightmares if I take time to think about him too much. So much of BCII is just icky exploitation, with the two girls, one of whom (Leslie) I kept hoping would snap an ankle and be left to die in the woods, and Tim’s inability to wear a shirt, and the smarmy tone in general. As lame as the first Boggy Creek movie is, it has a sense of innocence lacking in the sequel that makes all sorts of difference.
Quick point: So the creature is carnivorous, or rather omnivorous, and hunts amphibiously, managing to remove the deer’s head as if it were a pop-top, with no fuss & no muss? Neat!
This episode is great. I’d rate it 4.5. The whole “old man” Crenshaw (the guy’s in his, what, 50s?) bit must have been insane to film. Also, I really like it when the SOL crew picks up on a musical cue and runs with it throughout the whole movie, like, say, the Pumaman theme, or Wings of a Dove in the case of this movie.
This movie is so weird though, and I don’t mean for the obvious reasons. Pierce delivers his dialogue so casually sometimes, which suggests a kind of realism, but that makes those moments where he and the movie are trying to be dramatic all the more ridiculous. And while the overall pace and style make it feel almost like a travelogue or documentary, he throws in those moments where you’re supposed to be scared in the traditional monster movie sense, and those two overall styles just don’t fit together. Not that you ever get too scared, to be sure, but the movie tries a couple of times with the radar scene and the stuck in the mud scene. And afterwards you immediately realize that there was never any danger at all, and then you’re thrown right back into the lighthearted narrative style. So that makes this movie a, what, mockumentary monster comedy?
Anyway, whatever it is, it’s an MST episode I can watch over and over again, and it’s one of the highlights of the Sci-Fi era.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to tend to my fires.
Not one of my favs, I actually enjoy the first half better than the second half. Overall, it’s just kind of blah.
I’ve fallen asleep every time I’ve tried to watch this one. The only time I saw the second half was when I started it where I left off the day before.
I don’t know what it is exactly, but this one is perfect for me when I’m in the mood to have MST on but not necessarily pay attention. It’s a bit slow in a soothing sort of way. “We’re going camping and you’re gonna watch.”
>>>The whole “old man” Crenshaw (the guy’s in his, what, 50s?) bit must have been insane to film.
I’m wondering if they even told the guy he was in a movie. Maybe that was just all him…
Definitely one of my favorite episodes. Everything clicks from me, from Pearl’s desperate potato plan to her “Legend” scheme (Bobo!), the movie itself and the arrival of Crenshaw. The riffing is fast and furious, with far more hits than misses. Just watching Tom getting worked up with anticipation as the girls get stuck in the mud is worth the price of admission. And finally, one of the best stingers in awhile – “I saw the little creature….” Definitely one of my ‘comfort’ episodes I can pop on when I need to be cheered up.
‘Hellooo Tim!’
First, while i live near Arkansas, everytime i see this movie i wished i lived further away form Arkansas. Secondly, Mr. Pierce’s character ‘doc’ isn’t quite the antagonist some feel him to be. true, as a college “professor” he does freely plant his flag, hunker down and tell you his personal agenda ad nauseum, but, i guess that comes with the territory and the upsetting shorts. in fact, as is pointed out there is no “bad guy” just one or two reasonibly hot chicks and a lot of stupid, stupid people.
Finally and in closing…’where’s the money, you sonuvabitch?!?’
This one is in the regular rotation for us, my favorite riff “they’re calling insane hogs?”
This may be, might be- the best ever. Old Man Crenshaw is rich- his performance goes down as one of the greatest in cinema history. His “that’s a man’s woman” comment is worth the price of admission. I can’t express enough on how Boggy Creek II is a gift from whoever, or whomever designed the film universe. Now, let’s wrestle, or join the hog callers, read a Sears Catalog, or just be a plain ole cracker. *****
This is my all-time favorite episode, this is my desert island episode, the episode I use to introduce newbies to the show….as far as I’m concerned this episode has it all. Great movie, great riffs, and fun host segments.
This episode actually got me interested in other Charles B. Pierce films. The original “Boggy Creek” isn’t a bad little creature feature, the “Bootleggers” is a cool little violent flick…kind of like a bloody “Dukes of Hazzard”…and if you love horror, you have to track down “The Town that Dreaded Sundown”…this is a truly scary film, and probably Pierce’s best work.
Can someone tell me:
Crow makes a riff about the “Mad Dog provided by” credit… yet in the MST cut version, there was no mad dog. In the comments for the IMDB version, a lot of commenters say that the mad dog scene was lame. Could anyone tell me where it originally was? There seemed to be a cut in the place just before Tom says “Hey, the tomb of the unknown cracker,” so I suspected it had been there, but I don’t know.
“These river bottoms…”
Hands-down one of my favorite episodes of the entire series.
Oh, one more thing, and the only other thing I have to say about this movie: I enjoy it for some reason. But my roommate at the time didn’t, and one day when I said I was going to put on an MST, he said, “You’re not going to play the one with the bitchy women in the Jeep, are you?” So now that’s how I think of it.
Seriously, it’s true… Tanya and Leslie’s scene in that Jeep had to have been the most irritating bit I’d seen in a long time.
Colossus Prime #3: From the sounds of it this professor has an entire section of his class devoted to the study of the creature. Southern college or not, devoting that much time to teaching crypto zoology would be laughed out of the profession.
I don’t know. There are some college courses available out there so inane that cryptozoology looks respectable in comparison.
I was reading the references, I think there is a slight error in the description of the “McLintock!” riff, but either they finished both movies the same way… but I think he spanked O’Hara in “The Quiet Man” not “McLintock”.
A great episode. A slightly competent filmmaker tells a genteel PG stupid southern horror story, which makes it ripe for riffing. I wonder if Jimmy Clem is even older than Pierce?
Always nice to see Brad Keely. I could listen to Servo sing Wings of a Dove all day.
You have to give some credit to Charles Pierce. Unlike a few past topics
you can’t say Boggy Creek is not “memorable.” It does show effort, not
always to good effect, but…..
About Tim’s fetish for bare chested displays, a future topic might be
people in Mst3000 movies who fail at sexual magnetism. Obviously
Tim, but there’s also the Biff Slabcheese’s cougar girlfriend in
Space Mutiny (although from Youtube clips she seemed more “effective”
in one of the Porky’s films).
Oh, and I agree about #18. The girls’ jeep scene was quite
irritating, especially since the bots didn’t even get to
see any mud wrestling. Clearly not up (or down?) to WWE standards.
The last time I saw this episode it struck me the professor guy was actually kind of sympathetic. I didn’t like him, or his habit of spewing exposition and horrible flashbacks on people, but he seemed to be genuinely curious about the Boggy Creek legend and to want to understand the creature as best as possible.
Usually a professor in an MST3K-grade movie is a waddling bundle of arrogant disdain; this one’s able to suggest that he actually likes his subject and wants to know more and to share that knowledge.
Under the Missed Riffs file: the characters wander into a general store in a tiny Arkansas town populated by the weird locals and nobody makes a Lum and Abner joke? Clearly despite their callbacks to Fibber McGee, Molly, and Jack Benny they didn’t have a resident old-time radio fan on staff.
We have attached our egos to you!
Not being a sports fan, this riff always got me. Mighty Jack has a a nice comment on his forum about this:
“I’m always impressed with how sharp the riffing is on this episode. Take the scenes at the football game. How they astutely dissect the social/psychological aspects of the game. From our clothing, the way we cheer in hopes that our collective mojo can -by force of will- make our team play better, and how we invest so much of our own ego’s into the game.”
………
4 stars. One one my most watched episodes by virtue of its inclusion in Rhino V.5 (all Sci-Fi Channel shows). I must have first seen it on TV because I recall hoping, along with Tom and Crow, that the girls would indeed “mud wrestle.” They sure looked good in those cut-off shorts. Goofily charming, I enjoy the movie, and the outrageous characters give Mike & the Bots plenty of riffing fodder. Host segments are mostly dumb (a common occurrence in Season 10).
After Charles B. Pierce’s recent passing I watched the original Boggy Creek movie and quite enjoyed it. A more serious affair, it expands on the “flashbacks” seen in BG2 for the entire film. It highlights “dictator-for-life” Pierce’s love of nature and almost hippie-like eco-consciousness. Recommended and easily watched instantly online via Netflix or IMDb.
The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
The whole thing plays as a love-letter to backwoods Arkansas. Using testimonials and performances from authentic locals, the film is done in documentary style, combined with amateurish re-enactments. It’s a great concept; the creature moves along the creek, tormenting a new protagonist every couple of years. So instead of conventional plot or character development, one gets a series of scares/non-events, ending with the climactic sequence which commences with a redneck man sitting down on a toilet, only to be interrupted by a sasquatch.
Yes, these river bottoms…
Oh, poopie…s/b “BC2”
Favorites:
*”His name is Tributary?”
*Mike’s exaggerated interpretations of Doc’s long, pausing stares at Leslie at the campsite as she asks about mundane, normal things like her blush, etc:
“Blush? What the hell is blush?”. Pause2 after Leslie suggests going to town to get a motel: “I don’t understand anything she’s saying”. Pause3 after shes asks if Doc and Tim will be leaving them a rifle: “What is she saying now?”. A little later in the tent, Tanya listens intently to Leslie. Mike: “Now I can’t understand her”.
*Servo(adding to Doc’s narrative about the creature having “torn off into the woods”): “We only assumed that he had only torn off though. It’s possible that he beat cheeks or busted a hump”.
This is definitely one of my favorite episodes. The riffing is great and I kind of like the actual movie. Oh sure, it’s goofy, but I never found the professor to be overbearing. Also, I enjoy these kind of “lost in the woods, chased by a quasi-supernatural creature” movies (yeah, I dug the Blair Witch).
“I *am* that wild man.”
Why does Tim spend the whole movie shirtless? A little something for the ladies?
“Get in there.” “You’re in so much trouble… jumping over the moon…”
“Hey, look at that. A whole beach full of research assistants.”
So, why can the Boggy Creature apparently breath underwater?
I think Old Man Crenshaw might be one of the best characters ever in an MST3k movie. You never get any feeling that this is an actor playing a man who’s lived his whole life in a shack next to a an Arkansas swamp. And I adore all that Southern-y, flowery, slightly Faulkner-esque dialog they give him (or he improvised)…
In fact, I’d say the acting was actually pretty good across the board (with a few exceptions). The small-town locals really seemed like small-time Arkansas folk. The professor really (to me) had the air of a professor about him.
“Girl at Swimming Hole … Pam Pierce” Yeeousah… In fact in the end credits there are a huge number of Pierce’s . I’m surprised they didn’t even mention that in the riffing…
This is really only about me, but why is it that I immediately knew that Brad Keeley was wearing a Warren Moon jersey at the end? Why does my mind hold onto trivia like Warren Moon’s jersey number from a decade ago? (And I liked that scene. Keeley did a good job at innocent-sounding anger. “You tricked my Mommy! You’re a bad lady!”)
I’ve seen a recent photo of Jimmy Clem; he’s lost a lot of weight since his Crenshaw days.
The scene where the deer gets attacked by the creature has baffled and disturbed a lot of MSTies, ’cause it looks like the movie crew actually killed a real deer and cut its head off. That patch on its neck while it’s swimming (which Crow likens to a zipper) is probably where they stitched its head back on to shoot that scene, and there was probably a stagehand swimming underneath it using the corpse like a puppet. And eugh, now I’m making myself disgusted.
Sampo: “An “s-bomb” got missed by Sci-Fi censors.”
I rewound this a few times when watching the DVD the other day. It’s almost as if they “bleeped”[1] so quickly in the middle of the word that you end up hearing enough of the word anyway. As if they broadcast “sh-t”…
[1] — i.e. went to silence.
Not a bad effort with this one, really liked the host segments,and I found in this one the riffing came a lot easier than it has with other episodes in this season, or at least that’s the vibe I got from this. Of course there’s so much to work with here with this movie, though I have to say it’s not particularly “bad” or “cheesy”. Indeed, it’s actually a decent “B” movie, though I have to agree Crenshaw is the scariest creature in the film, and Charles B Pierce running around in cutoffs plus his skinny son running around shirtless for half the film was also disturbing. All in all though the movie wasn’t that bad, and Pierce to be fair wasn’t a bad director and in fact had a pretty good career. This one ranks four stars for me.
Solid four star episode for me. The last fourth when Crenshaw shows up is definitely the highlight.
I’m surprised no one has yet mentioned one of my favorite riffs, one that I thought of everytime I passed by a Waffle House when I spent last winter in Asheville, NC:
Drivin’ down the road
Looking for a Waffle House
Drinkin’ lots of Wiiiild Turkey!
That and the little BCM telling his story to his mom, reindeer and all.
Add me to the list of those who kind of like the movie’s (and the riffing’s) casual pace. Everything simmers along at a pleasant speed. It’s not one of the most fall-down, pound-the-floor-with-your-fists funny episodes ever, but it’s a good one that only gets funnier as you watch, leading up to the horrific yet compelling Crenshaw (“I’m immodest, tee hee”).
This must have had me laughing for days:
“THERE’S A SKID MARK ON THE CEILING!”
“An “s-bomb” got missed by Sci-Fi censors.” -When did this happen????
Pretty good episode, Bigffot looked ridiculous, the girl with the headband was hot though.
“As blue smoke pours from my motor.”
“We’re going camping, and you’re gonna watch.”
@mike, #35
During the first scene with the radar/sonar thingie. At the end, when they think Tim’s been eaten by Boggy, he suddenly bursts in and surprised them. Everyone jumps. Then Professor Arkansas Hat says, “Boy! You scared the sh-t out of us.”
#35: When Tim surprises the Professor, Tanya and Leslie at the camp by saying “Boo!”, Doc says “Boy, you scared the s*** out of us.” I noticed that the Sci-Fi missed that, too.
This is an entertaining episode, with plenty of laughs, especially once Crenshaw shows up. I agree that Crenshaw is portrayed really well. Was this actor actually acting? Or was he just himself and Pierce filmed him?
For some reason I always think that one of the girls yells “I saw the little creature!”, and I’m surprised when it’s Doc’s line.
Charles keeps filming his son with his shirt off, as if he thinks that is appealing to anyone. Kind of like how Arch Hall Sr. thought that his son would become the next Elvis if he kept having the poor kid sing. In fact this could be a great double feature “Eegah” and “Boggy Creek II”.
My wife dislikes watching this one because of the horrible combo of the tiny shorts on Doc and the powerful funk of Crenshaw – which you can almost smell coming off your TV.
For me, it’s an average episode. Lots of good laughs but never really takes off. I give it three little creatures out of five.
Click my name for a full review.
#38 & #39
Thanks, I have to go back and check that out, its been awhile since i’ve seen this one. I forgot this episode was on Volume 5.
My chief memory of this episode is that I’ve never seen a movie that does a worse job of following through on its promises of danger. Maybe it’s as #6 says: the movie tries to scare you every now and again but then it’s right back to being a pokey travelogue program with zero sense of urgency or pacing. For me, anyway, it’s not much fun, and it took me three tries to get through the episode completely because the movie just (ahem) bogs everything down.
I give it 5 stars.
Now, this may sound unmanly, but I think Servo looks adorable in his Brownie uniform.
I like all of the host segments in this episode, but I do think that the last one is pretty weak.
Boggy Creek II is one of those MST3K movies that’s quite watchable. Unlike last week’s lame fish-monster in Dr. Z, the Boggy Creek creature, is an excellent costume.
Boggy Creek II is the second movie in season 10 to get someone’s age completely wrong. First we had Buzz in The Girl in Gold Boots. A “young man” who is anything but young. Here we have the opposite, an “old man” who isn’t all that old. Hell, the old guy who rented the boat to our main characters is older than Crenhsaw, but he still calls him an “old man”. Okay, so Crenshaw might be in his mid-50s, at best, but he is not the “old man” that everyone calls him.
Favorite riffs:
Every time that Servo and Crow sing “On the Wings of a Dove.”
Servo: “Threaten them with your physique.”
Crow: “Me and the castrato will check it out.”
The entire reaction of Mike and ‘Bots to Chuck’s “batch”. I love Crow tries to get out of the way when he first notices it.
Crow: “God bless you half-man half-pig.”
I must also mention how funny, and a little sad, a scene outside Crenshaw’s is. It’s when Chuck’s got a gun on Crenshaw, who tires to fire his shotgun, only to discover that the shells are missing. Chuck removed the shells already and proceeds to take them out of his shirt pocket. It is done in such a slow, awkward way that the action’s intent is completely deflated.
One of my top 5 favorite episodes for sure. I think this movie gives them alot to work with,Dr.Batch,The One they call Tim,Krenshaw,and Lucy Bra-less. She sure is a man’s kind of woman.
Favorite riffs
“Bobcats do or die!”
“Cutting off power to New York,London,Tokyo,Fond du Lac.” By the way if you find yourself in Fond du Lac stop in at Chimera Hobby Shop.
“Unless,Mike you’re huge and pink you must have some potatoes around there.”
“Pierced Chuck a $1.49 a pound.”
“Good for dumping poisons.”
“A bearded egg in a tie.”
“They’re calling insane hogs?”
“A razorback hat lacks the quiet dignity of a cheese wedge.”
“I am that wild man!”
“We’re looking for the Boogy Creek creature. I married her!”
“Thank goodness for the Jeeps braking distance of 500 yards.”
“Okay sniff your arm sweat,calm down.”
“There’s something that always intrigued me. Those underpants.”
“They’re checking on the land they bought from the Clintons.”
“My wonderful discovery! Let’s kill it.”
“It was a lewd gesture now that I think of it.”
“I put Tim in front to absorb the first hail of bullets.”
Now I’m done,I got to tend to my fires.
Goodnight Tim wherever you are.
one other thing: as i understand it, Crenshaw is driving around the river bottoms in his Sanford and Son pickup. it craps out in the middle of a swamp so he decides “WTF, might as well build a lean-to here and live off the land for the rest of my life?” or did i miss something? i get from his interrogation of “doc” that he probably knows the fine art of moonshine production and distibution, but didn’t he kind of have a plan at some point?
Not much memories of this besides the scene where the girls jeep/truck got stuck in the mud. Those shots took forever. In fact it was pointless besides showing you how to use a wench.
lol @ JimmyBruce #46…. I think you mean “winch”… but it sort of works the other way too, I guess :lol:
You know Bill Clinton Love himself some muddy bottoms also.
Sorry. Also what gave with Tim not keeping a shirt on. He had body of toothpick.
I love this one. It seems to me that Pierce wanted to make a kind of myth-based docudrama, perhaps along the lines of the old In Search Of… TV series, complete with interviews and flashbacks and narration, but his imagination exceeded his filmmaking acumen.
M&tB got on top of this one early, I think, with jokes about the actress who played Tanya (Serene Hedin – “Now that’s a half-hearted attempt at a porn name”) or the lack of a music score under the opening credits (“Hey, Frank, where’s the music?” “It should be ready by the time the movie hits those dollar theaters”), and didn’t really let up, especially in the scene at the gas station. (“Do you guys have any turquoise plastic pith helmets?”)
My favorite part of the movie might be Crow’s voiceover at the end: “The Monster Studies program went under after that. Tanya and Leslie brought me up on charges, of course. And Tim just wandered off and no one’s seem him in years.”
Another solid outing. On rewatching, I like it was a lot funnier than I remember it being. My favorite riff is (farmer to the cow): “You’re in so much trouble. Jumping over the moon!” Runner up (when camera zooms on BCC in barn): “Slash? Rob Zombie?” As for the one they call Tim, laugh at his scrawny physique all you want, he was at least competently portrayed by Chuck Pierce, probably the best acted (and least annoying IMHO) of the four leads, and count your blessings: after all, we could have been seeing his father, Charles B. “In Over His Head” Pierce shirtless (shudder). BTW, is it ever explained just WHY the creature killed the deer, carried it around, and then just dropped it in the road?