Disney-comics digest #657.

[deckerd@agcs.com]

> >>SAMPO!!!
> >>"I got yer Sampo right here!" - Crow T. Robot, _Mystery Science Theater
> >>3000,_ Comedy Central cable network.
> >
> >        Yes, Sampo. Is there something particularily hilarious in it? Is
> >there a joke here I'm supposed to understand?
> 
>  Mystery Science Theater 3000 (abbreviated to MST3K) is a cable
> televison programme here in the US dedicated to bad movies; basically, a
> man and two robots heckle them.  One of the movies in question was called,
> in English, "The Day the Earth Froze" which tells a story about some witch
> trying to capture the Sampo.
> 
This may actually tie in. I dimly remember seeing "The Day the Earth
Froze" and reading somewhere that it's a movie-version of the Finnish
poetic national epic.

--Dwight Decker