Mystery Science Theater 3000 experiment 609: The Skydivers (with short Why Study Industrial Arts?)
Originally aired August 27, 1994.
Part of the first MST3K Collection, still available at Amazon.
Why Study Industrial Arts? explains why boys, and apparently, only boys should take shop classes even if they think they don't need to. Like Crow said at the end, this was the film the boys watched, while the girls went to the gym "and watched the OTHER film!"
The Skydivers is the typical Coleman Francis pile of incoherency, where husband and wife Harry and Beth run a parachuting school. An old girlfriend of Harry's, Suzy, starts seeing a fired mechanic, Frankie. Beth is secretly having an affair with a new mechanic, Joe. Lots of coffee is consumed, plenty of stock music from scratchy old library records is heard, there are awkward cuts and dialogue, and the movie ends with Suzy and Frankie gunned down by a mob.
Oh yes, we also can't forget another Francis trademark bordering on possible fetish: heavy usage of light aircraft pertaining to the plot.
During the host segments, Crow manages to derail Tom Servo's one-bot planetarium presentation by frequently asking about Uranus. The Mads challenge Mike and the 'bots to a Swing Choir competition, which they win, of course. Crow's day quickly goes to hell as he cuts himself in half vertically while building in Mike's shop class. He then puts himself in a "double jock lock" and refuses help, since he believes he needs to find his way out of it alone. Later on, Crow's new car is strafed by Servo's new plane, and both robots find themselves hung upside down from parachutes while Mike reads a letter.
Good episode.
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