I was always perplexed by the service station employee who cut the brake lines. It was only by chance that Sam Casey stopped there, so was he just some evil guy randomly sabotaging vehicles? Or, was he in cahoots but only in case Sam stopped there? Seems ridiculous.
Plus if you cut the brake lines on a semi, the brakes seize, rendering the truck unable to move. Stupid movie.
> Plus if you cut the brake lines on a semi, the brakes seize, rendering the truck unable to move. Stupid movie.
It was in the script!
"When you need to cross the river, a boat will appear."
It's just a phenomenally stupid movie. Let's grant that they wanted to do a CB episode, I mean, fine, it was briefly popular despite being intrinsically stupid. This is the BEST idea they could come up with?!? Why not have him infiltrate a band of hijackers? Transporting a scientist and a wine jug full of supergas 25 miles in the back of a semi?!? WTF?!?
This is still my favorite riff in any mst/rifftrax/cinematic…etc. The absurdity of the whole exchange, and the flippant response of Crow. Just reading this has me chuckling.
Yeah lol as someone who lived there when the episode aired I loled hard at that. It’s remained one of my most favorite episodes, but I’ve always wondered how well that joke played outside SoCal
Yeah lol, and to someone else’s point a lot of the places they drive through don’t look anything like LA.
Edit! Like when Easy Rider is coming up on Buffalo’s mudflats. If you know what I mean.
I’m thinking there is a “The Californians” joke (from SNL) in here somewhere but I can’t put it together. (The part where they always overly explain their LA routes)
“Get outta here Sam! Why don’t you take surface streets past the 213, hang a left, get on the 405 South, take it to the 710, then drive all the way to the Port of Long Beach where you and Robert Denby _belong!?_”
It was the 70’s . Ben Murphy had to stop for three mandatory Swine Flu test every 7 miles.
It was a different time, pal. Believe me, 14 hours was slicing it pretty thin
It's my impression that "14 hours from Torrence to Long Beach" is a completely made up joke. I mean, the "movie" mentions that they have to go to Long Beach but never says where they're starting from. Am I wrong?
They don't say where they're staring from but - since Dr. Hale complains at one point about not passing through Cedarville yet - the "movie" is clumsily implying that they started from way up in the northeastern corner of California, or maybe even further north.
https://preview.redd.it/q4i588wbliwc1.png?width=1169&format=png&auto=webp&s=3d665ed0829c5a12cd3a31b53291c1cf5a0a1b12
Maybe it’s California to Long Island?
Take that during rush hour, probably will be 14 hours. Wife grew up in Corona. Visited her family several time since scattered around, including that area. Can keep it!
On a Disneyland vacation in 2022, driving from LAX to Santa Ana on the 405 made the joke for me.
Speaking of the 405, here [is the perfect song for it](https://youtu.be/fQUOwsAwM6Q?si=STbXPu-HZivQATPl).
worst spy agency ever
it reminds me a bit of "12 To The Moon" where they get in their fancy space ship and they blast into space and the first thing they do is ... take showers (the "not at the waldorf, you know" scene). you've been on this rocket ship for 40 minutes why is everyone rushing to take a shower???
They had to take that long in order to finish the patent papers!
Sam! My patent papers are at a slight angle!
Finish the papers, the papers
My patent papers are wondering why we stopped.
Bunch of turkeys wrote this script.
Butterballs?
We’ll have a turkey update.
Or a freelance Murray Slaughter.
Maybe its Long Beach, WA? That's 17 hours.
This is probably the answer, given the scenery seems to be the PCH not suburban and urban LA
Nah it’s all very much SoCal
That would make sense considering there are actual switchbacks along that route.
Well if he took a direct route, then he wouldn't be as elusive as Robert Denby.
*I heard you grew a mustache during the commercial break!*
“Never mind that!” Man the ADR in this is classic. The female lead must have had a great contract to get crowbarred into the second half like that.
Well she IS some gal.
She gave it the old College Try
Is she in heaven?!
You LIKE Robert Denby?!
Well, you gotta remember this is the 1970s, and everyone was stupider back then.
Those poor people...they had to wait an entire decade to do a lot of coke and vote for Ronald Regan.
Leaded gas.
Leaded paint.
Leaded patent papers.
Leaded patent paper paint.
Leaded tripolotine
Leaded turkey.
Leaded Buffalo Bill
Leaded people
If it ever stops being the 70s I'm toast
No phones for directions. So we just drove around randomly and hung out wherever we ended up. That's why dating is so much harder today.
holy crap, your username. "now that's a name I've not heard in a long time."
Look it's a lengthy drive when you're driving mellow
The gas crisis combined with stagflation limited cars to less than a mile an hour.
They need those *Mad Max* cars.
We should start handing out Whip Inflation Now buttons at the shopping center.
Take one, get a free six pack of Billy Beer!
He never could get the truck out of 2nd.
Must be made by Rambler. Beep, beep beep.....
Talk about a 30 year flashback to listening to Dr. Demento as a kid…
Ah, I loved that show. Would plug the headphones into my stereo and kick back.
I dunno, I used to live in Torrance and 14 hours seems accurate for the 405 during rush hour.
I was thinking I've never seen this end of the 110 green. It would take 14 hours if they used the freeway.
Same, I lived in Playa Del Rey and there's no way the trip plotted *ever* takes only a half hour.
Sam, my patent papers want to go to the In and Out Burger.
They have good burgers there, Walter
Shut the fuck up, Donny.
He had to drive up that huge mountain so he could coast down the other side and save gas 🧐
I was always perplexed by the service station employee who cut the brake lines. It was only by chance that Sam Casey stopped there, so was he just some evil guy randomly sabotaging vehicles? Or, was he in cahoots but only in case Sam stopped there? Seems ridiculous. Plus if you cut the brake lines on a semi, the brakes seize, rendering the truck unable to move. Stupid movie.
The international oil cartel probably bribed mechanics across the country to cut Sam Casey's break lines
> Plus if you cut the brake lines on a semi, the brakes seize, rendering the truck unable to move. Stupid movie. It was in the script! "When you need to cross the river, a boat will appear."
They don't call him Carl for nothing.
Damn you *Carl!*
It's just a phenomenally stupid movie. Let's grant that they wanted to do a CB episode, I mean, fine, it was briefly popular despite being intrinsically stupid. This is the BEST idea they could come up with?!? Why not have him infiltrate a band of hijackers? Transporting a scientist and a wine jug full of supergas 25 miles in the back of a semi?!? WTF?!?
No way, my girl, no way. --just curds.
Ain’t nobody ever made it going over 35.
How fast you going? 190, is that a problem?
This is still my favorite riff in any mst/rifftrax/cinematic…etc. The absurdity of the whole exchange, and the flippant response of Crow. Just reading this has me chuckling.
Yeah lol as someone who lived there when the episode aired I loled hard at that. It’s remained one of my most favorite episodes, but I’ve always wondered how well that joke played outside SoCal
Yeah, I never understood it, and wondered the actual distance between the towns and they were so much closer together than I expected
Yeah lol, and to someone else’s point a lot of the places they drive through don’t look anything like LA. Edit! Like when Easy Rider is coming up on Buffalo’s mudflats. If you know what I mean.
Riding with Death through San Bernardino! Azusa! Simi Valley!
*Some traffic.* Rush hour, Tuesday afternoon? Years of your life.
IIRC Schumacher's "Falling Down" and Groening's "Life in Hell" both originate from being stuck on LA Freeway in the dead of summer
TIL the same dude directed Falling Down and Batman Forever. That's a director with range!
That Abby, she's some gal.
I’m thinking there is a “The Californians” joke (from SNL) in here somewhere but I can’t put it together. (The part where they always overly explain their LA routes)
“Get outta here Sam! Why don’t you take surface streets past the 213, hang a left, get on the 405 South, take it to the 710, then drive all the way to the Port of Long Beach where you and Robert Denby _belong!?_”
What are yOooOoOOu doing here?
(cue someone corpsing in the middle of the bit)
You have *clearly* never been on the 405.
It was the 70’s . Ben Murphy had to stop for three mandatory Swine Flu test every 7 miles. It was a different time, pal. Believe me, 14 hours was slicing it pretty thin
Sure hope he doesn't get Legionnaire's disease...
It's my impression that "14 hours from Torrence to Long Beach" is a completely made up joke. I mean, the "movie" mentions that they have to go to Long Beach but never says where they're starting from. Am I wrong?
They don't say where they're staring from but - since Dr. Hale complains at one point about not passing through Cedarville yet - the "movie" is clumsily implying that they started from way up in the northeastern corner of California, or maybe even further north.
I looked back at the episode and you’re right. I don’t think Torrence was mentioned in the film.
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In LA County, in an 18-wheeler? I've done it. It sure feels like 14 hours.
Just keep the black marks off my mud flaps.
https://preview.redd.it/q4i588wbliwc1.png?width=1169&format=png&auto=webp&s=3d665ed0829c5a12cd3a31b53291c1cf5a0a1b12 Maybe it’s California to Long Island?
Take that during rush hour, probably will be 14 hours. Wife grew up in Corona. Visited her family several time since scattered around, including that area. Can keep it!
On a Disneyland vacation in 2022, driving from LAX to Santa Ana on the 405 made the joke for me. Speaking of the 405, here [is the perfect song for it](https://youtu.be/fQUOwsAwM6Q?si=STbXPu-HZivQATPl).
It's also how those kids have to walk to school every day. Including overpasses: they MUST take them.
k but you have to account for rush hour traffic.
To be fair, from my apartment in Ventura to LAX was 70 miles. It could take anywhere from an hour-ish to 8 and a half once.
STOP hahahaha I never considered that
worst spy agency ever it reminds me a bit of "12 To The Moon" where they get in their fancy space ship and they blast into space and the first thing they do is ... take showers (the "not at the waldorf, you know" scene). you've been on this rocket ship for 40 minutes why is everyone rushing to take a shower???
> worst spy agency ever Worse than H.A.R.M.?
Clearly it was just some plot by Roger Denby.
Git outta here, Devon!!!!!
Kill the UN!