Touch of Satan

(Jody and her Dad [well, not her dad, it turns out. Some guy, probably a minion of Satan] have a heartfelt talk.)
Crow (singing): Is this the little demon I carried?

A take on the song “Sunrise Sunset” from Fiddler on the Roof, which is actually referenced a lot on “MST3K” for some reason (a lot of musicals are referenced on this show, I’m guessing because the Mike, Joel, and the ‘bots just have such fine singing voices). Fiddler on the Roof is based on the Broadway play about a Russian Jewish milkman who watches his three daughters fall in love in untraditional ways—one marries a (rather dorky, in my opinion) tailor instead of the old wealthy family friend picked out for her, another marries a Communist and runs off to Siberia, and the youngest marries a Catholic (!). And then all the Jews are run out of town. It’s a strange movie, but has a lot of great, memorable songs including “If I Were a Rich Man,” “Masel Tov,” “Miracle of Miracles,” “Tradition,” and “Sunrise Sunset”, which the father sings at his eldest daughter’s wedding (this would also explain Tom’s reference to it in Manos: the Hands of Fate).


(various scenes of a shed)
Crow: Do you know what everybody calls her? Jody “Two Shed” Strickland.
(when the shed burns down)
Crow: Now they’ll have to call her Jody “No Shed” Strickland.

This actually refers to a bit from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, in which Eric Idle interviews Terry Jones, who plays a musician whose nickname is “Two Shed,” despite the fact that he only owns one shed (although he was thinking of building another). It also contains a line that always makes me laugh: “Get your own musical program, you fairy!” Now if you can’t laugh at that, then what can you laugh at, I ask you?