MST3K 322: Master Ninja I

I had come out of "San Francisco International" with a sort of feeling like "I'm glad I had an idea of one Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode to watch, but what am I going to watch next?" Then, it came to me that Clu Gulager had also appeared in one other episode, "Master Ninja I," and it seemed like enough of a connection to me... although I did wonder a little if it amounted to "picking one of the coconut candies out of the box so I'm not stuck with it at the very end." The episode didn't seem to make much of an impression on me when I first saw it, for all that I later saw a comment by someone who seemed quite impressed by it... but, remembering to some small extent how my first viewing, as with many other episodes, would likely have been spreading it into "host segment to host segment" chunks over four days, I decided it's always worth trying something again.
( 'I hear his theme music; he has to be around here somewhere.' )