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

Cool! We just watched the documentary on the MST3K disk that implied no one but the "make out guy" was still alive and willing to talk about the movie.

Ha, weird implication -- both her AND her dad, AKA Manos himself, are alive and well. Hell, he's appearing in the sequel.

TWENTY YEARS OLD TODAY, people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AJVZuQuD6M

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR TORVALD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

let's all stuff our pants with newspaper in their honor

det doot doot do det det doot

That's my lunch break taken care of!

"Good salesman!"
"Bad salesman!"
"Inka Dinka Doo!"
"Now if you want to see your daughter again, you'll do..."
"Now let us pray. Lord..."
"Huh?"
"You could hurt me?"

INVISIBLE ELVES!!!

also...

"That's just one guy... its just one guy doing all those lines!"

I love Joel's tone through all that 'one guy' bit. He sounds so disappointed.

Complete stylistic antithesis: Servo's vacationing housewife monologue near the end.

"I'm inTENSly stupid!"

The lady acquaintance and I have been digging through the classics, watching miscellaneous Joel eps. She had never seen Mitchell, we just watched that the other day and boy, does it still hold up, totally worthy of its classic status. Really don't know if I could even make a top ten riffs from it, just so consistently good.

Put 'em on your feet! Give your dogs a treat! What a comfortable shoe...

"Great big buttery moon up there...sidewalk looks like ice cream if you squint right..."

lool i love mitchell

the scenes with the hooker-girlfriend are my favorite

i can't remember any lines but if you say them i will lol @ them

"3M ... innovation ... research ..."

"This is a police investigation!"
"Oh, really, I thought it was just some slob wandering around my house."

"Mah, mah, mah, mah 'partment."

http://www.siff.net/cinema/detail.aspx?FID=261&id=46043

Debating over the VIP package

oh who am i kidding, hell yes it's worth it

Yeah, gotta do it. I love the fact he's just keeping on his own wonderfully bemusing path.

Agreed. Joel being, well, Joel.

"Mobsters laughing, really smiling, a man selling heroin!"

hahaha i was just thinking of that part when i woke up today

it's a cold day for pontooning.

I got "favorited" by Bill Corbett on Twitter yesterday and it was the happiest day of my life. True story.

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/6838/corbettfave.jpg

I bow down to u

That's awesome

Nicely done!

http://i.imgur.com/Gk3rh7f.jpg

hahaha

yesss

okay lol @ this

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#q=He+tried+to+kill+me+with+a+forklift

Been watching more and more episodes and I'm becoming convinced - and forgive me if I've already said this in one way or another - but there's a real difference between basically two kinds of episodes...ones where the movies is kind of crappy and lame and goofy and dated, which they make fun of, and movies that were really made with total contempt for their audience, which they hate. Thinking here of Catalina Caper's jokes that are funny to no one, plot that's involving to no one, rock and roll that doesn't rock, etc. Or how the bots clearly loathe Monster-A-Go-Go more than Manos, though the latter is certainly bleaker and more unsettling (though maybe just as empty in terms of nothing happening).

Like, a b-movie or a shoddy dub like Gamera can be good camp material, but you really get the sense of glee when they get to serve justice to a movie that was made specifically and solely so that something could be on-screen at a drive-in and what difference does it make if it's done well. And The Giant Gila Monster's greatest sin is just how lazy and shitty the "giant"-ness is: there's not one damn shot that gets the gila monster in the same frame as the cast, and so as bad as Earth Versus The Spider may be, there's at least some measure of effort there that lets Joel and the bots get into the spirit of things and focus mainly on the absurd Fifties behavior and decision-making of the cast, not to mention that one old guy ("Who ARE you?").

Dunno if this really holds up or if it's just in my head, but it's been bouncing around in my head.

dune reference is a bonus

Manos: The Yarn of Fate

Been watching more and more episodes and I'm becoming convinced - and forgive me if I've already said this in one way or another - but there's a real difference between basically two kinds of episodes...ones where the movies is kind of crappy and lame and goofy and dated, which they make fun of, and movies that were really made with total contempt for their audience, which they hate. Thinking here of Catalina Caper's jokes that are funny to no one, plot that's involving to no one, rock and roll that doesn't rock, etc. Or how the bots clearly loathe Monster-A-Go-Go more than Manos, though the latter is certainly bleaker and more unsettling (though maybe just as empty in terms of nothing happening).

Like, a b-movie or a shoddy dub like Gamera can be good camp material, but you really get the sense of glee when they get to serve justice to a movie that was made specifically and solely so that something could be on-screen at a drive-in and what difference does it make if it's done well. And The Giant Gila Monster's greatest sin is just how lazy and shitty the "giant"-ness is: there's not one damn shot that gets the gila monster in the same frame as the cast, and so as bad as Earth Versus The Spider may be, there's at least some measure of effort there that lets Joel and the bots get into the spirit of things and focus mainly on the absurd Fifties behavior and decision-making of the cast, not to mention that one old guy ("Who ARE you?").

Dunno if this really holds up or if it's just in my head, but it's been bouncing around in my head.

I think that is pretty solid. This may be my own hazy thinking, but I feel as though the Mike and the 'bots were 'meaner' as the show entered the Sci-Fi years; more vicious toward the film and those involved, like the attacks on the director in Hobgoblins, or lines like 'Sure I'm an unappealing actor in a bad movie! Sure!' in Time Chasers. I had no problem with it, but I know a pal of mine disliked it because she felt, even when Joel disliked a film, there was amiable-ness/gentleness in his mockery rather than outright 'ugh, this sucks'.

Hulu has 25 of these now, fwiw:

http://www.hulu.com/mystery-science-theater-3000

Hulu also has a bunch of Cinematic Titanic and Rifftrax

Amazon Prime has a ton of them too

Anyone notice the cameo in the new season of Arrested Development?

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/arrested.jpg

It happened so fast, I was like, "Was that . . . ? Did they . . .?" The only line I made out was Crow saying, "This is the gayest Starbucks ever."

Flag on the moon... how did it get there

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1011653_10151616045967153_744313408_n.jpg

"Mah mah mah mah Mitchell..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRaXI8O1IKM

can anyone give me some new recommendations for underrated good episodes?
aside from the usual suspects

Seen Hobgoblins? The Human Duplicators? I dunno if either of those qualify as "usual suspects" (which I think of as being Manos, Pod People and the like), but they stand out for me even after not having seen them for years.

is "Girl in Gold Boots" considered to be a usual suspects episode, because I really love it to bits; ditto "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank"

I haven't seen Hobgoblins or Human Duplicators! Thanks crypto!

Girl in Gold Boots is A+, such a weirdass movie. And yeah, Overdrawn is rad.

Also, I'm pretty sure The Brain that Wouldn't Die *is* a usual suspect, but it gave me one of my most oft-quoted (non-Simpsons) TV-derived lines ever: "WAYS!"

ooh I've never seen that either!