MST3k 522 - Teenage Crimewave

A group of teenage criminals (as suggested from the title) dance and sing their way into the hearts of their victims. That is, until one guy gets shot in the face.
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[@gzeusone6532]

"The fact that you were with men who committed armed robbery makes you an accessory to this crime, and that fact stands as proof of your guilt." Just her luck, she got a judge who never actually went to law school...

[@analogkid01]

It was the 50s - the bar was a lot lower then. (Get it? The *bar*? I got a million of 'em....)

[@antony716]

analogkid01 Obviously, you don't. I tease because I appreciate

[@seanspencer4962]

+DialectiCube being cool

[@angisweety]

the biggest question is WHY WAS SHE STILL THERE? when the guys got out of the car to rob the doughy guy, they didn't drag her along. why wasn't she a block away by the time the cops pulled up?? i woulda been...

[@benrichardson5662]

Voxel Composer yeah, boys?! What kind of girl likes those?!

[@EverythingMustG0]

The last fifteen minutes were my favorite part. I can just imagine someone's older college-aged sister yelling "Who the HELL taped over my foreign beach films!?"

[@mattwest1742]

It took re watching the last 15minutes to fully understand this comment :P

[@craigcampbell626]

The crappy beach film's called c'est la vie and the older college-aged sister should be thankful it was taped over.

[@BULL.173]

Oh boy, that takes me back to the mid 90's. Well before my family even had cable. NBC was broadcasting Jurassic Park for the first time on television. It was a really big deal. My store bought blank VHS tape shit the bed so 8 year old me had to scramble. I ended up grabbing one of the tapes my dad used to record Live Aid in 1985. He acted as if I had wiped my butt with a Honus Wagner baseball card. Ahhh, the good old days.

[@youtmeme]

😂😂😁😁

[@Celluloidwatcher]

I also find it interesting that a portion of Teenage Crime Wave was shot at the famous Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, where a portion of Rebel Without a Cause was filmed.

[@Emiliapocalypse]

Celluloidwatcher I didn’t realize parts of this were filmed there as well. Thanks for the trivia!

[@DantetheHegehog14]

This must be the Mel Brooks spoof. "Movie Without a Plot"

[@kd4pba]

Was "The violent years" shot in Griffith park?

[@StoneColdSergio]

Tons of films have been shot there. It's a famous LA landmark, probably easy to get a permit for big studios.

[@scottdavis0801]

This is one of those episodes where I actually find myself watching the movie instead of listening to mike and the bots. Doesnt happen very often!

[@ontxtteredwxngs]

same it's probably my favorite movie even without the riffing. it's not perfect but it's way better than the others.

[@meoshaarnold9497]

I agree!

[@StoneColdSergio]

I feel the same way about The Girl in Lover's Lane. I always fall in love with the girl 😪

[@nospam3327]

These old exploitation juvenile delinquency films are the best. The Violent Years is probably my favorite, but this one is good too. She's 5' nothing, 105 pounds, but If armed, this girl is also dangerous!! 😀

[@number1fool]

I know a lot of people are pissed at the reaction of Jane's parents, but this was a movie aimed to serve as a precautionary tale to teens. The 40s-50s were loaded with these. Reefer Madness, sinister urge, violent years, etc. The goal was to scare kids from doing bad things. Removing a support system is the easiest way to do it. so the parents were either drunks, negligent, unemployed, or just dicks. It's ridiculous, I know.

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

"Scare 'Em Straight", as the trope goes.

[@Cyraxior]

Reefer Madness came out in 1936. It was ahead of its time.

[@terrytobias7572]

"You're DIRT Terry; he'd never TOUCH you!" That has to be one of the most quoted lines in MST3K history! I have to laugh every time they use it! And for some reason... I kinda relate.

[@bull_honk]

Tom Servo: "Is she making a double-nintendo?" LMAO best line from this episode

[@N1CK0FDEST1NY]

If anybody tells me there's no thanksgiving movie I will correct them with a link to this.

[@number1fool]

I watch this every thanksgiving

[@ontxtteredwxngs]

addams family values, too, since there's that whole play about the first thanksgiving

[@charlesd.mercuryii9963]

The fact that she refused to name the two guys who perpetrated the robbery makes absolutely no goddamn sense.

[@cloroxtoiletbowlcleaner1201]

She didn't know them. It was a blind date set up by the short-haired chick. That's why.....I'm assuming, anyway.

[@Arthurian_Rabbit]

She wasnt trying to narc, just like in the scene where she doesnt narc on Terri in their cell.

[@FuckYouWhosNext]

its true she was set up on a blind date rememeber? Terry asked if shed like to meet a nice boy! anyway dont look too deeply into it. you should really just relax :)

[@k9px]

@@Arthurian_Rabbit you dont own loyalty to your enemy...

[@Arthurian_Rabbit]

@@k9px No, but you can owe loyalty to your own morality. And its not like narcing was going to help herself or anyone else anyways. The system already proved to be against her.

[@doodstormer]

"Society didn't give me enough bullets!" *shakes fist*

[@chrisparker1123]

"Holy cow! Did you have Rod Serling over for dinner or something?" ha This episode is definitely a classic and in my Top 10 MST3K shows.

[@themightycelestial]

I gotta confess, I'm a doughy guy.

[@ajjackson1526]

Do you hate springs?

[@wickedmuffin76]

Are you afraid to be a doughy gal?

[@zachy7777]

God bless you

[@sydneyslaughter7163]

doughy guys in movies nowadays are almost always the best characters

[@Lawsonjamesx]

"Awe go ahead. Let it out. Have a teenage CRY-wave."

[@PerryPlanet]

"Now this is a shower room." "Let the movie BEGIN!"

[@HenryvKeiper]

*phone rings* "There's that thing again! WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?!?!"

[@MrManlyGuy01]

34:34 is the best part imo. Servo’s subtle blowing, Crow’s impression of the woman, the way Mike jumps on board and even more absurd than Crow. Perfect example what you can accomplish with three people working on a setup like this

[@Capng123]

That whole sequence with the cow riffs in the barn is hilarious, classic MST3K!

[@ontxtteredwxngs]

I always feel so bad for the cows though lol

[@Kitschensyngk]

"Luckily I took a class in observatory maintenance!" "I TOO took a class in observatory maintenance!"

[@maximilianoruiz2779]

I love how this episode takes that sudden right turn toward French cinema. One might say an ode to Novelle Vague with an emphasis on the 'vague'.... hrmmmmm. Good episode, though, huh?

[@hafaball]

"answer the phone or the curtain gets it!" XD

[@terrytobias7572]

I LOVE the way everyone freaks out each time the phone rings; Mike and the bots included (Crow: It's that THING again!!! WHAT DOES IT MEEEAN!!!!")

[@IceLordCryo]

*dramatic door reveal* I'M MOM NOW

[@sferrell1000]

I have always hated this movie. The fact that Jane's parents did not support her, that always bothered me.

[@customcartoons]

Scott Ferrell Not only that, the movie seems to suggest their shunning of Jane is to be expected, as though most parents in the 1950's would react that way. I can't tell.

[@sferrell1000]

customcartoons That is very true, I never thought of it that way, but it expected parents to be of the"what would they say at the country club" school of thinking.

[@SteelyBud]

Scott Ferrell Well, from what my family has told me, my great-grandfather's parents didn't support him when he shot Archduke Ferdinand. So I sort of know how you feel.

[@sferrell1000]

Captain Bud Sturguess But was he on a date with someone he shouldn't have been

[@SteelyBud]

Yes. Some Serb tart, with her dress scandalously revealing her ankles. You know the kind.

[@GSeward]

I love the end scene of this movie, which takes place at the Griffith Observatory here in LA. I've been there a few times, but from now on I'll view it as the "climax setting of 'Teenage Crime Wave' ". Well done, sirs.

[@SteelyBud]

Y'know, when I was in a girl-jail, the standard issue nightwear was far more drab than what they're wearing.

[@wickedmuffin76]

"I'd like to get a home out in the country, but they're always so far away", I am having the same problem.

[@t1p9d]

Those are some awful parents. And that judge's grasp of the law is tenuous at best. And I don't understand why they even needed to trick Jane into coming along with them on a robbery in the first place. Also, I like how they inexplicably leave the girls together in jail and in the car transporting them to the reformatory, despite the fact that they are supposedly accomplices in the same robbery. It's always a good idea to keep all the accomplices together so that they can get their stories straight and none of them will decide to roll over on the others. And why doesn't Jane rat out the others? Is she afraid of them? Does she not know who they really are? And what's the point of keeping Jane hostage? They should have killed her, and they should have done a better job of making sure the police matron was dead too. And holding a family hostage for several days is a lot of nonsensical effort just to get away. And why is Jane's picture on the TV news a cheesecake photo? Did they not take a mug shot of her? And what '50s TV station would broadcast a photo of a teenager in a swimsuit? This is the decade where married couples with children were depicted sleeping in twin beds, and a story arc involving a married woman getting pregnant caused a scandal. None of this makes sense. Wait, what am I doing? This is a MST3K movie, of course it doesn't make a lick of sense.

[@jw6842]

"I'm afraid you're going down, kitten. Hard." 🤣🤣 Mike's delivery kills me!

[@djgizmoe]

"You're gonna have to get in line. There're a couple of cows ahead of you..." :)

[@whoisdickieschnabel]

"Oooo that stung!" "Did you have to shoot him right in the face?" "He came at me with his face!! I panicked!!"

[@illmsg77]

This has got to be the best MST3K EVER!! 1:24:54 was the cherry on top!!!

[@MooseCall]

Rebel Without a Cause, released in 1955. Final showdown takes place at the Griffith Observatory. Teenage Crimewave, released in 1955. Final showdown takes place at the Griffith Observatory. COOL BEANS.

[@prometheusunbound7628]

[Looking at the picture of the son]: "That him?" "No, he's actually more three-dimensional."

[@emh12089]

"This movie is forty minutes of hard driving livingroom action!" LOL

[@WhiteTiger225]

25% of crimes in this country are committed by teenage youth! Great! Lets ignore the 75% committed by everyone else :D

[@approximeat]

"Can't we have a normal Thanksgiving where we drink and don't talk to each other?" Has Mike been to my house for Thanksgiving? That makes me think so.

[@mikezylstra7514]

Or my house, Thanksgiving 1965. (that Friday, my dad proclaimed no more holiday family gatherings at our house)

[@PirateLordRogan]

Man, I was having an awful time between bullshit videos, then I finally found something worthwhile. Also, ALL HAIL THE DOUGHY GUY!

[@kevinkettell1092]

Jail officer :" Ladies now take a shower !. " Crow T. Robot :"Let the movie begin !" ha ha.

[@ButtSolution]

Filmflix Presents: Grey is the New Black

[@ORam...]

28:57 Could I have some pie? Such a perfect line for that action.

[@TalkernateHistory]

"I'm mom now!" I like the girl that plays Terry, she's cute.

[@onegathers]

MST3K is one of the great American contributions to human culture, along with jazz, John cage, Scorsese, Selby jr

[@Damar158]

Society didn't give me enough bullets!

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

Every time i think i know my favourite MST3K episode i watch another one and have to revise, i just love em all

[@katcandoo]

Very under rated episode. One of my favs. It grows on you.

[@AWin187]

"get movin big eyes.." "ok fat ass" My favorite...

[@straker454]

Damnit...now I wanna watch the French film at the end of the credits XD

[@radiofiendify]

The film is definitely ideal MST3K fodder.

[@marcguerra1854]

"I'm the guy with the pushed in face!" LoL!!!

[@uthertheking]

I played this movie just to see Mike's Mystos face.

[@HylianFox3]

Youth is better / in every situation Youth is better / old is stupid

[@proud2bpagan]

Family Bibles are such an institution here that they're admissible as i.d. to be able to get your driver's liscense.

[@RobertMuldooJP]

"You've got it all wrong....=You're working for me" "Can I have the day off?" lol...

[@RevanDuvalcane]

Ya know, with all its faults, it's actually a pretty darn good film.

[@mikezylstra7514]

Too much anxiety for me. Not my favorite.

[@sternechamere]

This is my new favorite Thanksgiving movie.

[@j.rebekah8605]

Lol

[@saltytrey]

At about 13 minutes in the short haired girl said, "With any luck they won't be found for an hour. We'll be FIFTY miles away by then." So they're going to drive away from the scene of a murder at only 50 MPH?

[@terrytobias7572]

That's probably the top speed of the car; they didn't go much faster then.

[@lednails]

T&A sold on the news even in the olden days

[@dadahyena]

"I like milk!" Imagine if he teamed up with the "I like coffee!" guy from Skydivers.

[@pockypurse]

"IT'S THAT THING AGAIN! WHAT DOES IT MEEEEEEAN?!!"

[@theyetidude]

"Somewhere a deer is smiling."

[@Lazyguy22]

8:36 standard-issue juvie heels!

[@Capng123]

I gotta say, unlike the vast majority of teen movies MST3K took apart over the years, this one at least has actors who appear young enough to plausibly BE teenagers (albeit just barely 18/19/almost 20 year-olds).

[@dougjb7848]

10:30 Missed opportunity to riff the cop saying “once you get used to it.” “I did two years there, had a blast. Slumber parties, a new 45 record every month, and I didn’t even get shivved!”

[@colinhalliley111]

The judge was the school principal on Leave It To Beaver.

[@thooperbilliam]

Lol @ the line, "you ever seen me on MacGuyver?".

[@TheSalamandrin]

Tonight at juvenile hall, the immature orchestra will play.....

[@thedocofgreen2018]

That short haired chick is a hottie, sad to think she is dead and buried rn, she was still a hottie

[@priceman141]

Try the Manos Ham of Fate! XD

[@Lazylizardgear]

It always astonishes me the number of MST3k fans have have negative reactions to people pointing out the silly things in the movie. You do realize that's the main point of the show right?

[@benrichardson5662]

Lazy Lizard Gear yeah we're joining in!

[@bespectacledheroine7292]

Hello all of two other people who thought to watch this on Thanksgiving like I always do. Here’s a happy one to you and yours.

[@williammatthews693]

Neighbor sees the floor littered with cigarette butts. "Holy cow! Did you have Rod Serling over for dinner?"

[@shadowman2192]

34:25 MITCHELL! 1:17:27 MITCHELL!

[@BigWillyG1000]

Here comes the floppy arm of the law.

[@kelvintorrence5994]

Good movie I can watch this movie again.

[@AdamAtYourService]

This movie wasn't bad. Granted, it was nothing special, but it was decent enough. But the riffing brought it from mediocre to excellent :)

[@ANTINUTZI]

... The Neil Simon film version of *IN COLD BLOOD*.

[@sertorrhenclegane]

Or the Desperate Hour.

[@ANTINUTZI]

The musical *ANNIE GET YOUR GOON.*

[@sertorrhenclegane]

Thomas Cervasio A stirring adaptation of Truman Capote's The Ref.

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

Someone did their homework for this movie. At 21:00 Terry looks like she's imitating a famous photo of Bonnie Parker.

[@rachelgonzales90]

"Oh, this is how the Hubble got screwed up." That's funny, I thought they said that Mike broke the Hubble...

[@Celluloidwatcher]

Love it when the dark and beautiful Sue England plays the heroine....I finally see her in this film, and she did a good job, too.

[@bhmch39]

The Governor called, you're grounded!

[@FallenPixel]

LMAO! "Do you mind if I hang my Snoopy poster?"

[@dougjb7848]

10:45 “My folks were at home. They weren’t the ones who went on the date.”

[@Hollyberrystreats]

So the only picture they had of the sweet, innocent girl was that pin-up shot?!

[@AvengerII]

@1:22:30 - Yep, my whole theory that TV's Frank is a secret Kryptonian comes full-circle. Oh, what would Jor-El and Superman think about the Doughy Man disguise? And then the episode abruptly breaks into a subtitled foreign movie...

[@specialpatrolgroup92]

I think this is the only time I've ever found it hard to listen to the riffs because I was ACTUALLY interested in the film Holy Moely

[@mikezylstra7514]

I have that problem with "Girls' Town."

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

At around 21:00 Terry poses like a photo of Bonnie Parker. I'll bet that isn't a coincidence.

[@TheAccountsSuck]

This isn't anything like the time we had the People's Limbanese Army here.

[@MudkipzLuvr]

I gotta ask: what the hell is the movie at the end called? I've tried searching for the characters but nothing comes up.

[@MudkipzLuvr]

Never mind! It's called C'est La Vie.

[@johnellizz]

Try the 'Manos Ham Of Fate' at the Space Deli 7:51 31:39 34:07 34:37 58:33 1:06:00 1:12:09 1:12:33

[@PatTheBatmanFan]

"Tonight on "Cryptic Hoodlum"..."

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

Hoodlum was a big word among parents in the mid-50's. And there actually was a lot of teenage crime then. Example: we had a 16 yr old neighbor kid involved in a 8 guy crime ring including armed robberies. This was no run down neighborhood.Very Catholic middle class.

[@PCGamer77]

36:20 Shouldn't the "Joe Don Baker Baked Potato" *always* come with extra sour cream (and butter)?

[@EternalGuardian07]

I hate this movie because it's so annoying, but these guys make it SO worth it.

[@zzubuzz]

1:06 (sees the dozens of cigarette butts on the floor).."did you have Rod Sterling over here for dinner?? :)

[@SteelyBud]

I just realized Al the Seed Salesman / Jerry Lee Lewis lookalike had a small part in "The Space Children" in the Thunderer control room.

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

And the TV newsman looks like the judge in THE VIOLENT YEARS (though I don't really think it is).

[@Hollyberrystreats]

Okay I just realized what gave me the idea to cut my hair super short.

[@dan.downing]

I lose it every time the antagonist shoots the family friend/hunter and Mike says "Somewhere a dear is smiling". hahaha

[@analogkid01]

Yes, deer.

[@TheDeadhead76]

"you cross us up,the old lady is dead" "am I get through to you?" "I'm thinking it over"

[@lwc2009]

gotta love the location of this story...Lancaster & the Antelope Valley....cool place.... I like both the girls...real cuties...

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

He called it a "storm cellar" There ain't no storms there. Earthquakes maybe, but no storms.

[@dougjb7848]

6:40 Why is the judge’s office in the guest bedroom of a quiet house in the suburbs?

[@analogkid01]

@bawoman - it's from 1990, it's called "C'est La Vie," directed by Diane Kurys.

[@PlasmateIncognito]

so no opening sequence and instead of a stinger i get a french film i still loved it, anyone else catch the reference to hp lovecraft?