MST3K 2424 - Maradonia: The Shadow Empire (Johnsonverse)

"I'd much rather be in the "Evil Empire" than be friends with Maya."

- Emily

"I got an idea: how about we make our own prophecy involving the Troubles?"

- Crow

Synopsis
Two teenagers named Maya and Joey discover the land of Maradonia, and end up fulfilling a prophecy. They must change the future of the land and evade the Evil Empire.

Information

 * According to people involved in the film, director Dr. Gerry Tesch squandered his family's money making the film, getting them evicted from their house.

Host Segments
Prologue: Crow, Tom, Gypsy, M. Waverly, and Growler play Monopoly and have a fight over it. Emily's attempts at breaking them up fail miserably.

Segment One: The Bots refuse to talk to each other, and on Moon 13, Kinga and Dr. Matt can't stop laughing. Emily comes up with an "instant pizza", which is a mini-pizza that expands to a regular one in 10 seconds "or it's free". Meanwhile, Kinga and Dr. Matt counter with a fan that gets hotter and never stops. They explain that they're laughing because they're excited for their latest experiment. The Bots have made up when it's movie sign.

Segment Two: The Bots are crying over the movie. Emily attempts to cheer them up by trying to fill in the many, many plot holes, but makes them cry even more. Kinga and Dr. Matt celebrate by throwing a birthday party, even though it's not their birthday.

Segment Three: As Crow and Tom continue crying, Gypsy, Waverly, Growler, and even Cambot and Magic Voice begin sobbing at how bad the movie is, and the Mads invite various guests, including Dr. Forrester, TV's Frank, and Dr. Erhardt, to their "World Domination" party, as well as having writer Gloria Tesch hand out unsold copies of the Maradonia books as gifts; this makes Dr. F. proud of his daughter for how evil she is.

Segment Four: Emily begins crying after one last failed attempt at cheering up the Bots. The Mads' party has almost every guest going crazy at reading Maradonia, but not crazy enough to lose their sanity, as a few of them throw their books at them.

Segment Five: After a failed letter reading, Emily and the Bots are about to surrender to the Mads when they get a message from Apollyon, assuring them that they survived worse movies in the past such as Manos, The Castle of Fu Manchu, and Invasion of the Neptune Men, even though Emily never watched any of them. He invites the SOL crew to join his "Club of Evil"; they end up politely turning it down. Kinga throws a fit as the party guests leave, and slaps Dr. Matt, whose head lands on the button.

Stinger: "Mom! We're going to the beach!"

Regular cast

 * Emily Marsh - Emily Connor / Magic Voice
 * Nate Begle - Crow T. Robot
 * Conor McGiffin - Tom Servo
 * Yvonne Freese - Gypsy
 * Grant Baciocco - M. Waverly
 * Russ Walko - Growler
 * Rebecca Hanson - Kinga Forrester
 * Matt McGinnis - Dr. Matt Claude van Damme

Guest cast

 * Conor McGiffin - King Apollyon
 * Trace Beaulieu - Dr. Clayton Forrester
 * Frank Conniff - TV's Frank
 * J. Elvis Weinstein - Dr. Laurence Erhardt
 * Emily Marsh - Gloria Tesch