Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S03 E11 It Conquered the World

Films watched: Snow Thrills (short) and  It Conquered the World

Snow Thrills is a short about winter sports.

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation contains these tropes:

 * Running Gag: The host and his robots poke a lot of fun at Peter Graves' closing speech...in the span of the episode ending.
 * Overly Long Gag: Graves' speech is played not once, not twice, but three and a quarter times after the movie. (On the SOL, in Deep 13, over the credits, and as The Stinger.)
 * Then there's the repeated references to Peter Graves as James Arness.

"Dr. Paul Nelson: He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature... and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection, they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved! There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from man himself.

(Fanfare plays.)"