908 - The Touch of Satan

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Mystery Science Theater 3000: Season Nine: 908 - The Touch of Satan
By Jason krietsch on Saturday, April 10, 1999 - 3:12 pm:

Whenever I watch this show and come to the point when they say "Enhace your movie soundtrack with tiny fart sounds!" I think of some Rush song, don't ask me which one, I can only listen to them for a tenth of a second.
It's the one with the high pitched music. (yeah, that helps a lot right?) And they sing about what sounds like "invisible airwaves". I have no clue what it's called. But I hear farts in the song.


By Matt Thomas on Thursday, December 09, 1999 - 10:35 am:

I don't know a lot about Rush, but from the lyrics, maybe it's "Sprit of Radio."


By Callie Sullivan on Sunday, February 03, 2002 - 3:26 pm:

I do have to ask: does Mike always wear those sandals?!

Great lines:

(A cat runs past)
Farmer: “Is that you, Robert?”
Mike: “‘Robert’ the cat.”
Farmer: “You’re supposed to be in bed, you little rascal.”
Tom: “With ‘Andrew’ the dog.”

Tom (singing):
“What do you get when you fall from grace?
You only get cast into perdition.”

“Sightsee in your own time, Beelzebub!”
“Get off the road, man goat!”

“It’s the first Richard Carpenter music video.”

“I’m not going back, Jim!”

Jodie: “I’ve never been on a walnut ranch.”
Tom: “How many head of walnut do you have?”

“This is my unbelievably sweaty dad.”

Melissa: “This is where the fish lives.”
Jodie: “Why did you run?”
Tom (as Melissa): “Cos this is where the fish lives.”
Mike (as Jodie): “You’re kind of an idiot, aren’t you?”
(Jodie kisses Melissa)
Crow (as Jodie): “This is where my tongue lives.”
Tom (as Melissa): “Please, not in front of the fish.”
Melissa: “Tell me about yourself – who you are, all of that.”
Tom (as Melissa): “… where your fish lives.”

“I sure love the Yelling Channel.”

“I like to sniff my blinds before I go to bed.”

“Did a plucked turkey in a wig just talk to me?”
“Er, front desk? There’s a mummy in my room.”

Melissa: “She’s my great grandmother.”
Mike: “She’s not that great.”

“Look out! Walnut stampede!”

“You don’t mind if I chew on this stick insect, do ya?”

“Cabin 5 is not on the lake per se.”

“There’s been a walnut uprising!”

“Did the sun just go nova out there?”

“The editor got called out the room a lot, I guess.”

(The villagers chant ‘Burn the witch’)
Mike: “Oh, and Go Packers too, but mostly Burn the Witch.”

“Hey, Hoss has lost some weight!”

Tom (singing to the tune of Amazing Grace):
“This song is in the public domain.
That’s why we used it twice.”

“Well, I’m gonna go puke on the Maverick.”

“Gah! Where’d they find the 590 watt lightbulb?”

“Grandma’s flash-paper bathrobe turned out to be a mistake.”

“In the wake of the tragedy the town built a better grandma – stronger, with a steel frame and a sprinkler system.”

“I should say goodbye to the fish, I suppose.”

“Wow, look at the smoke. Everybody must be burning their grandmas today.”

“The only known shots of Bigfoot in a T-shirt.”


By Todd Pence on Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 10:36 am:

This movie was still better than "The Blair Witch Project."


By Chris Diehl on Monday, March 10, 2003 - 11:35 pm:

I loved what Crow said during the ending. "Oh great. Now we're going to hell because you wanted seconds."


By MikeC on Sunday, May 09, 2004 - 3:29 pm:

Let's see here. The film itself wasn't THAT awful. I can see with a speedier director, better actors, and a slightly more refined script, this being a tidy TV-movie thriller or something. The major problem is the pace; as the crew astutely points out, the pausing gets boring after a while (okay, a short while). And some asinine bits ("ZA!", "This is where the fish lives") destroy any chance at suspense.

I'm not saying the film is art or anything, but it is somewhat intelligent. I would have liked to know whether or not Melissa's sister was ACTUALLY a witch or not--actually, a pretty chilling scene when the townspeople sing "Amazing Grace" while burning her.

The skits are somewhat low-wattage, although the framing bits with Steffi are fun. The beginning is the best part with the long credits sequence and the many jokes about Satan.

Favorite joke: "Were they interested in keeping an audience in the '70s?"


By MikeC on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 1:00 pm:

The guy playing Mr. Keitel the neighbor was in "The Giant Spider Invasion," but he was also the Klingon judge in "Star Trek VI." He has an incredibly interesting filmography--check him out--Robert Easton.


By Anonymous on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 3:32 pm:

This is perhaps the best MST3K episode to air after....... *AHEM* You-Know-Who left. The funniest bits in this episode were the two most confusng "Double-You-Tee-Eff?" moments in the movie: "This is where the fish lives" and "ZA!" Some great riffing in this episode as well. The host segments were mostly forgettable, but not the attacking grandma one. That one had me on the floor. Overall an excellent episode.


By MikeC on Friday, January 06, 2006 - 2:46 pm:

This confused my friend, but the voice of "Satan" in the movie is done by whoever is appealing to Satan, right? During the flashback, "Satan" is voiced by Melissa, while in modern times, it's Jodie.

Also, what the Samuel Langhorne heck does this touch of Satan do, theological implications aside? Why doesn't Melissa toast her sister and move to L.A. or something? Who is Luther anyway--a descendant of Lucinda?


By Gordon Lawyer on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 5:57 am:

I think I may have found an homage to this episode in a role-playing game called Low Life (which is a post-post-post-post-apocalypse setting where you play creatures which would have survived the time when the Hoomanrace was tossing about their nukuler bombs, like cockroaches and twinkies). One of the sects that exists in this setting is Stanism.


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