I might eventually make myself watch this again but I wasn't too impressed with the first viewing. Even the writers seemed to have struggled with it, and consequently the scripting wasn't very good. For large parts of the episode Joel and the bots talked over the actors, which I found really annoying because I couldn't follow what little plot there was!
Also, I know that they have to cut out parts of the original movie to make the episode fit an hour, but there were some bizarre cuts in this one, leading to confusing plot inconsistencies like the 'heroine's broken heel on her shoe and then a reference to her having spent a day in hospital when, last time we saw her, she was fine!
I have to admit that this is one of three MST3K episodes that I fell asleep while watching and didn't bother to rewind the DVD to see what I had missed. The other two are "Last of the Wild Horses" and "Crash of the Moons".
It’s definitely worth a second watch – it was chock-full of great lines!
Undersea Kingdom, chapter two
Joel: “Look at all those horses.”
Tom: “How did they get them under the sea, anyway?”
Joel: “Sea horses?”
A rider gallops towards the city
Soldier: “Open the gate!”
Crow (making a crashing noise): “Too late!”
The rider gallops rapidly through the gate
Tom: “Open the back door! He can’t stop!”
“Looks like a set the Monkees would end up on.”
Unga Khan: “I wanted them alive!”
Soldier: “They are alive.”
Joel: “Well, then, everybody’s happy!”
I cracked up laughing at the soldiers galloping out of a cave with a low roof, to the accompanying sounds of pain from Joel and the bots as if the soldiers were all banging their heads on the roof!
“Oh, look, it’s the three horsemen from ... no, the four horsemen ... no, the several horsemen of the apocalypse!”
Main movie
“Who is Detective Division?!”
Benton: “You stinkin’ rotten mouthpiece.”
Tom: “That’s Mr stinkin’ rotten mouthpiece to you.”
Lowe watches Eva walk past
Joel (as Lowe, appreciatively): “Oh, momma.”
Crow: “That’s his mother?!”
Lowe: “How ‘bout a steak after the show?”
Tom (as Eva): “He always offers me beef.”
Lowe opens Benton’s letter to Eva
Joel (as Lowe): “Well, it says here, ‘Dear Eva, don’t eat too much steak. Love, Charles’.”
Narrator: “[Lowe] replaced [the map] with a fifty dollar bill.”
Joel: “And a pork chop.”
Tom: “No-one will be seated during the frightening letter-folding scene.”
The scientists wheel Benton’s body into a machine
“A little late for a CAT scan!”
Bradshaw: “He’ll be more famous dead than alive.”
Joel: “That’s most artists!”
The scientists look at the volt meter
“You see, it goes all the way up to 11.”
“Oh, Jeez, I’ve seen calf liver cuter than him!”
Chasen: “A hamburger might be a good idea.”
Joel (as Eva): “Meat, again?!”
Eva: “Do you have a first name?”
Chasen: “Dick.”
Crow: “That figures.”
Narrator: “Who in their right mind would believe a man had returned from the dead?”
Joel: “Only millions of Christians.”
Chasen: “You wanted me, Captain?”
Joel (as the Captain): “For years!”
Captain: “You ever hear of the Butcher having a twin brother?”
Crow: “Does it go to the tune of Alexander’s Ragtime Band?”
Chasen: “They found a notebook in Bradshaw’s lab.”
Tom: “It said, ‘Aaaaargh!’”
“Check out the narcoleptic!”
“He’s a sleeping policeman!”
“Guess I’ll climb into this Metallica video.”
“This is like the Close Encounters of the Turd Kind.”
“It’s the Treasure of the Sewer Madre.”
“I wonder who the stool pigeon was?”
“Let’s sneak up on him really loudly.”
“This is kinda like Macbeth ... only it’s not good at all.”
“Yeah, too long, hard to watch, bad luck for the performers who act in it ...”
Chasen: “The important thing to remember is, it is all over.”
Joel/Tom/Crow: “Thank God!”
They seem to use that "no-one will be seated during the ... scene" joke a lot. Don't get me wrong, I always laugh at it.
Oft-repeated lines can frequently be the funniest, I find. The one that never fails to make me smile is when, for example, one character takes a piece of paper from another, or one character beckons to another, and Mike says in an irritated voice, "Would you give me that?" or "Would you get over here?"