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

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

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 February 2013 07:15 (eleven years ago) link

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

Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Saturday, 9 February 2013 07:23 (eleven years ago) link

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

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 9 February 2013 07:41 (eleven years ago) link

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

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 9 February 2013 07:41 (eleven years ago) link

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

Debating over the VIP package

Jaq, Saturday, 9 February 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link

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

Jaq, Saturday, 9 February 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link

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

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 February 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link

Agreed. Joel being, well, Joel.

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 February 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link

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

Pheeel, Sunday, 10 February 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link

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

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 10 February 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link

it's a cold day for pontooning.

a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 10 February 2013 23:26 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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

ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 13:21 (eleven years ago) link

I bow down to u

That's awesome

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link

Nicely done!

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

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

mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link

hahaha

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link

yesss

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link

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.

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link

dune reference is a bonus

mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link

Manos: The Yarn of Fate

tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 18 April 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link

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'.

blatherskite, Friday, 19 April 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Hulu has 25 of these now, fwiw:

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

Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:11 (eleven years ago) link

Hulu also has a bunch of Cinematic Titanic and Rifftrax

mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:13 (eleven years ago) link

Amazon Prime has a ton of them too

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 03:49 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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."

Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

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

Kissin' Cloacas (Viceroy), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

"Mah mah mah mah Mitchell..."

the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link

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

Kissin' Cloacas (Viceroy), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link

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

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link

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.

the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link

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"

OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link

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.

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link

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!"

the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link

ooh I've never seen that either!

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link

Dooo it!

the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:16 (eleven years ago) link

xp just reading "WAYS" is enough to make me laugh. Nobody else ever gets that when I use it IRL.

Anyone else going to the RiffTrax Live "Starship Troopers" tomorrow?

Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link

Episode I definitely do not recommend: The Last Chase.

I've spoken elsewhere on the board about 15-year-old me's crush on Chris Makepeace and had I known about/been able to get a hold of, a MST'd version of a Makepeace flick at that age, I probably would've been in my own personal version of heaven, but the episode itself (on YouTube, not worth the link) is unwatchable. KTMA-era, so a lot of that unwatchability is literal, but the comedy is non-existent as well. I abandoned it after about 30 mins.

the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link

Haha I love "WAYS" as well. That whole film, cripes.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link

I just watched Catalina Caper last night and the riffs were really sharp and funny. I don't think it gets talked about as much as others. Of course Sidehackers is one of my all-time favorites but I think that's on most people's top lists as well.

Also, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.

Kissin' Cloacas (Viceroy), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link

Time of the Apes

President Keyes, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link

haha yeah! WHY DOESN'T JOHNNY CARE?

Kissin' Cloacas (Viceroy), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link

Catalina Caper! Didn't know if it was classic or not; my MST3K intake in high school was limited to the short run syndicated version that came with Mike Nelson intro'ing each episode as Jack Perkins (anyone remember this?) and then a small handful of tapes that I got through a friend. I think CC was on one of the tapes; Pod People and Amazing Colossal Man are the only ones I can remember offhand airing during the syndicated run.

I love that MST3K/Catalina Caper was the only reason for at least a decade that I had any idea who Jacques Tati was.

the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link

catalina caper is awesome, cemented my Joel love

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link

my MST3K intake in high school was limited to the short run syndicated version that came with Mike Nelson

Yeah was that the one that was like an hour long and they cut the episodes into two? I remember watching something like that but it was Jim Mallon hosting. Aside from a few tapes that was all I had until I got cable... now we're all spoiled with youtube and torrents.

Kissin' Cloacas (Viceroy), Thursday, 15 August 2013 01:45 (eleven years ago) link

Sorta scary to think that if I had YouTube back when I was in high school, I would have left the house even less.

the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Thursday, 15 August 2013 01:47 (eleven years ago) link

and am I the only person who thought Josh Weinstein's Tom Servo voice was the best? I mean, Kevin Murphy seemed to have better delivery & was in an era of better writing, but Josh's Servo is kind of my favorite.

Kissin' Cloacas (Viceroy), Thursday, 15 August 2013 01:48 (eleven years ago) link

xp I know! It was bad enough with just midis, IRC and Doom... no wonder everyone says the kids of today are lazy.

Kissin' Cloacas (Viceroy), Thursday, 15 August 2013 01:50 (eleven years ago) link

midis + slow dial-up (+ the shittiness of 90s television) = I may as well go outside and play.

the vineyards where the grapes of corporate rock are stored (cryptosicko), Thursday, 15 August 2013 01:53 (eleven years ago) link


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