MST3K - A Case of Spring Fever

From the episode Squirm.

Cast:
Crow - Bill Corbett
Mike Nelson - Michael J. Nelson
Servo - Kevin Murphy

© 2008 Shout! Factory, LLC

[FerHivore]

I can’t believe I’m defending this, but at least it’s the only educational film I’ve seen where the other characters are genuinely annoyed by the protagonist’s obsession with the subject of the video.

It really should’ve ended with him getting checked into an institution and remarking that the lock to his room wouldn’t work without springs as his wife tearfully says goodbye.

[MrRyan-wujx]

I like how his golf buddies actively hate him.

[TheRealMr_Chaos]

Rod Sterling: Somewhere between here and forever a man learned that even
the most innocent of wishes can result in the most terrible of
nightmares. A wish that is not easily waved away. For when you make a
deal with Coilly the cost is always far too high. Now Gilbert must spend
eternity preaching the wonders of that seemingly happy imp. If you
wish to hear the Sermon of the Spring you can find a seat on a couch
that is always ready for you... in the Twilight Zone.

[Falcovsleon]

"Where does Coily fit into God's plan for us?"

[chrisbg]

Silent Hill really went cheap with this guy's personal hell.

[drhall]

"Well I still don't have to fix the couch so eat me."
That line kills me every time. 😂

[slacknhash]

"Wait a minute, Coily, I never wished for an absence of springs! I just wished that I'd never see another spring! You could have made me selectively blind to springs! Or made these springs in the couch spring out and damage my eyes beyond repair! You suck at cruel irony!"
"... um... *noooo* springs? Hee hee hee hee? ... aw, geez, Gilbert, you're right. My existence is a joke. Hand me that gun. I'm gonna check out right now!" (click) "Oh, right. springs... (sob)"

[EverDownward]

This short is absolutely hilarious on its own. Not only does this one dope cause the apocalypse of springs, and humanity as a circumstance, but later after wishing everything back to normal there must have been some sort of unsaid stipulation because then he becomes Coiley's avatar, just constantly spewing scientific facts about the importance of springs while all of his friends are just getting more and more pissed off.

[PetProjects]

"Oooh, I'll show Coily! I'm gonna digitize everything!"

[MrTommyg]

3:33 "So Coily waited all eternity for this moment and he backs down almost instantly?"

[kevd]

I have a feeling that Golf with Spring-Loving Gilbert would be a lot like playing with Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

"You see, although the ball appears solid and quite hard, it is in fact highly flexible...we call it elastic...and the club deforms the ball by pumping kinetic energy into it, enough to bounce off the club head, fly through the air, and onto the green, in accordance with Newtonian law. The green, by the way, is not actually green. It 'appears' green because green is the only color in the visible spectrum the chlorophyll in the grass does not absorb. Unless you were a bee, and could see into the ultraviolet range of the spectrum. The carbon fiber in a modern club is..."

"NEIL, WE HAVE 17 MORE GODDAMNED HOLES LEFT."

[KyleRayner]

"I could name thousands of springs."
"... And I will!"

[Maupin]

What Gilbert never got around to discovering was that his wish to never see any springs again canceled the very concept of a coefficient of restitution - which is why no other human being is visible during the time his wish was in effect: He had killed the entire human race and was in the process of entering one of the more ironic Hells.

[TheAdam]

"Try it eight more times. Maybe it'll work"

Everybody's sarcastic reaction towards Fox expressing interest in making another Fantastic Four movie.

[halfNERD]

This must have been a rejected twilight zone episode.

[originalindigodingo]

"come back, zinc. come back.. ."

I thought the Simpson's made this stuff up.

[debraprince]

"There's still butter and meatloaf". Our family still uses that line often.

[NightAtTheOpera]

All these years later, this is still one of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen.

[brandonosgood]

Coily: “Hey! The door!”
Tom Servo: “I owned your ass fat boy, get back here!”

[tabbygail]

"Spring lovin bastard". Gotta find a use for that one.