Mystery Science Theater 3000: C/D, S/D.

future war is one of my favorite mike episodes. the showdown in the church is so delightfully stupid.

Best running gag ever:

Mike Nelson: [the sheriff in Laserblast bears a striking resemblance to Hank Williams Jr] Look, are you READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?
Mike Nelson: Man, I've gotta go home and get READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!
Crow T. Robot: Let's find out of he's READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!
Mike Nelson: What do we got, another citizen who isn't READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!
Crow T. Robot: Anyway, all my rowdy friends are coming over later.
Crow T. Robot: I just feel like you're not ready for some football.
Tom Servo: Anything you say can be used to get you READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!
Tom Servo: I'm not ready for football anymore.
Tom Servo: [Sheriff is cracking open a Coke bottle] Hey, he knows how to use a Coke!
Mike Nelson: [In tune with old Coca-Cola jingle] I'd like to teach the world to GET READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!

Hahah I do love that.

Perhaps second only to, "Wooooo, Packers!"

Another brilliant gag from Laserblast -- Hank Williams Jr guy gets in car, Servo starts up a car honk noise.

My theory is that they had no idea if that was really going to be the last one so they went for broke throughout.

And the "PACKERS!!!" one was so insane, you could tell that was a bunch of Vikings fans letting out decades' worth of frustration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iqLhdInGrk

And what the hey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvNzhKTXweQ

My favorite thing about the "Packers!" gag is that it showed up in The Touch of Satan, in the scene in which The Giant Spider Invasion's Robert Easton shows up to conduct a witch-burning. ("Burn the witch!" "Packers! But mostly 'Burn the Witch!'")

Perhaps second only to, "Wooooo, Packers!"

"Packers!" is definitely my all time favorite.

was talking to one of my oldest friends recently and when MST3K popped up in conversation it turned out that he has an uncle, Barry Schulman, who used to work in television and at one point was a VP at Sci-Fi, and he's apparently widely beloved by fans of the show for saving it from cancellation a couple times. very cool! he supposedly even got to keep some of the puppets.

Now I kinda want to go home and do a Laserblast/Hobgoblins double feature.

Ha, tell your friend from all of us that his uncle is an angel of light.

I want to as well, that would be awesome. I wish I had the time to do that. xp

yeah i don't think my friend is overly familiar with the show but i was just like WOAH THAT IS SO COOOOOL (xpost)

Meanwhile the box sets keep rolling along -- I still need to get this one from a couple of months back:

* episode 210- KING DINOSAUR (with short: X MARKS THE SPOT)
* episode 323- THE CASTLE OF FU-MANCHU
* episode 608- CODE NAME: DIAMOND HEAD (with short: A DAY AT THE FAIR) and
* episode 611- LAST OF THE WILD HORSES

New Introduction By Frank Conniff
The Incredible Mr. Lippert (a Ballyhoo Production)
Vintage MST3K Promos
Life After MST3K: Kevin Murphy (this is the first installment of a new series)
Code Name: Quinn Martin
DARKSTAR: Robots Don’t Need SAG Cards
Original Trailers
4 Exclusive Mini-Posters By Artist Steve Vance

And the next one in summer:

310- FUGITIVE ALIEN
318- STAR FORCE – FUGITIVE ALIEN II
617- THE SWORD AND THE DRAGON
624- SAMSON VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMEN

Including
introductions by Japanese cinema historian August Ragone
You Asked For It: Sandy Frank Speaks!
MST Hour Wraps
Life After MST3K: Frank Conniff
MST3K Shorts: Snow Thrills & A Date With Your Family
Lucha Gringo: K. Gordon Murray Meets Santo

I cannot emphasize enough how brilliant it is that we are getting Sandy Frank on film.

I do hope they get back to completing a formal release of the rest of season one; they've done about half now and while it's definitely a woozier/slower show in comparison (but still miles beyond most of the KTMAs), it's still got some winners.

I tried to watch one of the season one eps on Netflix and just couldn't do it, gave up like five or ten minutes in. You got the spirit of the show but they seemed to be missing one great opportunity after another. Might have actually worked better in a way as a basis for people to watch with their friends and do their own riffs, which the show at its peak kind of doesn't leave any room for.

Man, I forgot about the Hank Williams Jr. gag, yeah, that was great!

-Good shooting Xanthar!
-Thanks, Denise.

In Laserblast I thought the music was real cool, specifically a tune playing on the radio in the van. So I went online to seek it and boom there it was on iTunes store! "Billy's Radio #1." Also features the hits "Grandpa and Kathy," "Billy and Kathy," "Tony Discovers Black Spot," "Love Theme After Fight," and "Billy in Mirror/Chuck Goes to Car."

oh god the music jokes in that were killing me

also the car rolling through the gas station "help our accelerator's stuck"

"Billy Preston takes a solo."

Oh god, that stupid hippie.

"You may or may not believe this but I grow my own mary jane!"

"This is the long version of whatever song this is."

Only Love (Pads the Film)

Went camping at one of our beautiful lakes a few weekends ago with some friends. Boated out to a place they had camped before and named Spider Island. Which got me all excited and go "Spider Island, home to the stars!" They didn't get it, of course, not being a nerd about it like I am. Had to keep the refs to myself all weekend. It was torture!

Did you get hot, beefy and sweaty? Were all your friends sultry dancers?

We had that first part down pat. The second, not so much. I did sing the "Gary, Gary" song to myself a few times.

Joel in the NY Times from a couple of days ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/movies/joel-hodgson-on-mystery-science-theater-and-riffs.html

I wonder how much people paid to attend riff camp. The idea just seems strange to me.

have you never read any fan MiSTings

Unfortunately the first rule is that you do not talk about riff camp.

have you never read any fan MiSTings

Not once! I have always stuck to the show and rifftrax.

quite a project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwyaUXuZncw&feature=youtu.be

http://youtu.be/OwyaUXuZncw

wow, pretty great - background music kinda distracting but nice selection of riffs there.

Malcolm Mooney references Rocky Jones on The Lost Tapes!

In other news, I finally got the "Haitian Divorce" reference in Master Ninja II.

I've been watching (probably re-watching) these and yeah the Joel years are miles away better than the Mike years. At least in the overarching narrative/connective skits. You just can't beat Dr. Forrestor and TV's Frank as villains. I think season 3 is my favorite (Pod People still being my favorite ep).

Sandy Frank
Sandy Frank
Dada people come from trees

I was thinking of watching some KTMAs on Youtube, anybody have any recommendations?

Yeah, watch seasons 2-7 instead.

Just kidding, I actually haven't watched much of the KTMA's tho. Can't really seem to settle into them.

really disappointed in the meager selection streaming on Netflix atm

The KTMAs are weird and mixed but there are a few I would earmark:

Phase IV
Cosmic Princess
Humanoid Woman
SST Death Flight
The Six Million Eyes of Su-Muru

there was a KTMA Gamera episode that is to date one of the funniest things they've ever done

The Gamera eps are all pretty classic

I've only seen a couple but I didn't get the point. Why not just rent the original B-movies and come up with your own sarcastic comments?

LOL. Why go to the park and fly a kite when you can just pop a pill?

I'm watching "Space Mutiny" for the first time. 10 mins in and it's already amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa42pxJyq64