MST3K 516: Alien from L.A.

Last year, I looked at three episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 I was tempted to call "Star Wars ripoffs." This year, the thought came to me that I could watch the episodes that might be "Indiana Jones ripoffs"... although for some reason it's a little harder to come up with a definitive list of them right away. There are plenty of movies in the Mystery Science Theater "canon" that feature intrepid explorers pressing into the unknown (in, of course, a variety of "cheesy" ways), and now that Indiana Jones himself is connected to the 1950s it's that much easier to make connections with movies from that era. However, I decided in the end to only consider those episodes featuring movies made after 1981, and came up first of all with "Alien from L.A.", a Golan-Globus production (Dr. Forrester informs Mike that he's wanted to inflict that team on him for quite some time), starring 1980s supermodel Kathy Ireland. However, looking good doesn't necessarily mean sounding good...
( 'The Hot Indiana Jones Chronicles.' )