Synopsis Greydon Clark strikes again. A group of Gremlins Hobgoblins arrive in a really tiny flying saucer at a movie studio in the 1950's, but their powers to make fantasies come true have tragic results and force a security guard to lock them in a film vault. Don't worry about any of this freaking you out, because we learn all this through the magic of exposition. Yes, the security guard who locked them up has become quite the expert on these things. Probably because the only people he had to talk to over the last 30 years were exceptionally dim and greasy teenagers. Well the latest exceptionally dim, greasy teenager is the star of our film! Makes you feel that much better already, doesn't it? Our auteur spends the first half hour of a 90 minute film establishing the following things: * Some teenagers really really like to have sex. * Some teenagers are socially awkward. * You don't get good help if you offer minimum wage and lousy hours. Because you didn't know this already, right? The rest of the movie explores what happens when prop comedy goes bad. Oh yeah, there's also a sequence at a thinly populated bar called the "Club Scum". If nothing else convinces you that yes, there is evil in this world, these scenes will. Think, this movie was paid for and foisted on an unsuspecting public--not blown up at the Nevada Test Site. Quotes and References * "Paige Sullivan..." Servo is singing the name to the tune of "Ed Sullivan" from the musical Bye Bye Birdie. * "This is a really cheap bio-pic on Jim Morrison..." Jim Morrison was the lead singer of the '60s band The Doors. * "We built this wing with the profits from DC Cab!" DC Cab is a 1983 comedy movie starring Mr. T and Gary Busey. * "The true story of Neil Peart." Neil Peart is the drummer for the Canadian progressive rock band Rush. Note that Crow mispronounces his last name as "Pert", rather than "Peert". * "They made love in their Chevy van, and that's NOT all right with me!" Crow is paraphrasing the song "Chevy Van" by Coven. Note that the van featured in this movie is actually a Dodge rather than a Chevrolet. * "They've stumbled onto Mel's Rock Pile!" "Mel's Rock Pile" was an SCTV sketch. * "Invest in arbitrage and read Jay mcinerney!" Arbitrage is a term used in stock trading and other forms of high finance. Jay mcinerney is best known for his 1984 novel Bright Lights, Big City, which was turned into a movie starring Michael J. Fox. * "I don't like Shari Lewis' new show." Shari Lewis was the creator and host of the educational TV show Lamb Chop's Play-Along, whose title character was a hand puppet. * "This guy gets his kicks calling about used Vegas!" The Chevrolet Vega was a compact car built during the 1970s. * "Wilkommen, bienvenue..." A reference to "Wilkommen", a song from the Broadway musical Cabaret. * "'Hobgoblins' is usually shown on a double bill with 'The Harder They Come'." The Harder They Come is a 1972 film starring reggae musician Jimmy Cliff. * "Pinky! Brain!" A reference to the Animaniacs characters Pinky and the Brain. * "Fresh Fish!" A reference to a Laurel and Hardy sketch in which they sell fish out of a truck. * "The Koalas are attacking! We hate QANTAS! Grrrrr!" The bots point out the Hobgoblins resemblance to Koalas, making reference to the fact that QANTAS is the national airline for Australia, the animal's native country.
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