112 Untamed YouthHey, would you look at that! MST3K finally gets it's first exploitation flick and boy is it's tone all over the place. The flick is about problem-causing teens that are sent to work at the cotton mill of a very crooked fellow. The film bounces back and forth from a serious (cautionary?) tale about the abuse of the teens that work there and the sleazy fellow that runs it to a light-hearted " don't let the man bring you down" musical romp. I'll give it this though, the rougher spots are well done, and some of the musical numbers are pretty catchy.
Verdict: 3/4-Watchable! Weird tone shifts. While it's still awkward, there was some good acting and decent writing behind parts.
This is one of the rare season 1 episodes that almost everyone can agree is pretty decent when it comes to the riff quality. I've seen it on a few top lists and I can see why. This episode is pretty good throughout. It had a very "Robot Holocaust" riff style to it. Not hilarious, but smooth and decent.
Intro: Tom has a tapeworm
Invention Exchange: Joel's anti-smoking pipe, The Mads' tongue puppets
Seg1: Greg Brady tribute
Seg2: We see what's inside Gypsy's head
Seg3: Gypsy's sick
End: How to be like the goofy guy
Overall: These segments where amusing for the most part. I enjoyed seg 3 the most, it also gave us our first Tom Servo clone!
Verdict: A smooth episode that kept my interest and left me chuckling throughout.
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