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

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haven't read the whole thread but just in case, MST3K def does make the transatlantic humour jump. i was a limey on temporary secondment to your fair shores in the early '90's and it quickly became mandatory viewing for me on comedy central. the giggle-rating was kind of kept at a simmer all the way through but they'd poleaxe you with tangential gag-bolts at pretty regular intervals.

when they broke out an Andy Capp gag from nowhere that was so obscure that no-one who wasn't from england would've got it, i knew i was in the presence of pure genius.

went down well with nachos and a case of bud

― john clarkson, Sunday, 19 February 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm fond of "Attack of The The Eyeball Creatures"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 19 February 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

they just didn't care.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 19 February 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Nedrick, bring a hard drive with you when you visit next, I will hook you up. I've got three "rough cuts", but the other two are from Season 10 and are thus less "priority". You sit through a lot of the movie to get the handful of random bits you haven't seen before, but it's interesting enough.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 19 February 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I love you, sir. But I hope that was already clear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 February 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

"Permission to kiss you on the lips, sir!"
"Denied!"

(Every episode including KTMAs and every random bit of extra comes out to around 160+ Gb.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 20 February 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

That's nothing. I should finally get a separate drive. Will plot with you later about this as my trip plans come together.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 February 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Meantime, I give to you all word of box set number 9:

Our friends at Rhino Home Video have given us the list of episodes to be included in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 9 DVD set. They are... wait for it....

104- WOMEN OF THE PREHISTORIC PLANET
207- WILD REBELS
613- THE SINISTER URGE (with short: KEEPING CLEAN AND NEAT)
812- THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES

As a bonus for "Women of the Prehistoric Planet," Rhino has taped a short intro to the episode with Irene Tsu, who played Linda in the movie. There will also definitely be a bonus intro to "The Sinister Urge" with Conrad Brooks, who played Connie.

Women of the Prehistoric Planet is of course the real kicker since that's only the second Josh Weinstein-era episode (after The Crawling Hand) to get a video/DVD release. And the other three are all winners, so yay! These bonus intros they mention could be fun.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 March 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, here's a good treat that provides a not-often-heard take on the show -- Jim Mallon, the show's producer and o' course the voice of Gypsy, who got interviewed by Rhino recently for its podcasts. Give it an ear!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

So I finally have all the MST3K episodes (excluding the ultra-early KTMA ones that no one has), specials, and ephemera in handy-to-transport AVIs.

What do I win? Does Cthulhu open up a dimensional gate so I can proceed to Level Two?

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link

you get to deathmatch against jim mallon

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

You win my undivided attention.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

We're wiiiild rebels
crunchy fruity rebels

― p@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Possibly my favorite ever song they did.

"JUST POUND THEM DOWN
YOU STUPID CLOWN
THEY'RE WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLD."

(I know I quoted that up above but hurrah for a redo.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

And for anyone else crazy to try:

http://mst3kbt.blogspot.com/

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

the "creepy girl" song was always a favorite of mine.

"the second E is a grammatical thing, otherwise it would be Crepy Girl"

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

What are people's thoughts on Mike's Legend Films commentaries? I only have Carnival of Souls and it's decent, though nowhere near MST3K quality.

The idea they had to sell their services as an extra commentary track for regular DVDs was brilliant, sad that nobody's taken them up on it. Maybe they could do a Kevin Smith and just record commentaries for current movies then create a subscription download service?

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Destroy - Pearl, Bobo and Brain Guy. The movies and riffing on the later Sci Fi episodes were still pretty decent, but the interstitial shit is just tedious.

― marcos lopez (mucho), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

"Torrent does not exist..."

fuck i want to die. :(

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link

"Torrent does not exist..."
fuck i want to die. :(

Try torrent-finder...

― Fsck Washing Ong's Hat (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm still missing several of what DAP marks with a "T" and possibly and "S" or two. But I haven't been tearing my hairs out over it, admittedly.

Anyway, yes, I have been enjoying the Buddha nature for most of 2006, welcome to the club!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link

You win my undivided attention.

Ditto.

Like, what do I have to do?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Shorts. So many shorts. I think some of these are on Youtube as well, if you happen to prefer Youtube.

I love this series, but being in the UK I've only managed to see three full episodes(plus the movie, which was the only one which they've ever been allowed to show on normal tv) due to the frustration involved in trying to download 700meg files on capped broadband.

But I do love me some Mitchell.
"I'm King Hussain!"
"Did I tell you I'm Italian? Let me restate that!"

― eyeless in gazza (Phil A), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link

You hurt me in my heart.

― eyeless in gazza (Phil A), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I finally rented Manos from Netflix, and I actually couldn't get through it. Not to knock the riffing, but the movie is just so freaking boring. I think I got through about five minutes of women rolling around in the dirt, before I turned it off. The shorts work much better for my attention span.

And yeah, trying to download these things over broadband was a big pain for me too. I gave up a while ago.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahahahahahaha oh Manoshand.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

My favorite short has got to be the one about "a date with your family." Priceless.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

"The Girl With The Golden Boots" still completely slays me.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

there's not enough red zone cuba love on this thread

― Bea Arthur - Lost COmic GEnius ? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 July 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Red Zone Cuba would be in my POX, if there were one, along with for sure:

Racket Girls
Mr. B Natural
Village of the Giants
The Creeping Terror
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Home Economics Story

hmm... I should come back to this one.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 3 July 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

POX (episodes):

Alien from LA
Manos
Zombie Nightmare
Catalina Caper
Puma Man
Rocketship X-M
Teenagers From Outer Space
Mitchell
The Starfighters
Angels' Revenge

Pretty much all the shorts after "Phantom Creeps" finally ended are totally classic. I'm going to give a special shout-out to the under-appreciated "Progress Island, U.S.A."

My appreciation for the Coleman Francis trilogy is a different type of beast entirely.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 July 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

In no real particular order:

The Incredible Melting Man
Alien from LA
Zombie Nightmare
Catalina Caper
Pod People
City Limits
Tormented
Village of the Giants
Jack Frost
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

This is probably the most successful thread I've ever started. What does that tell you?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Space Mutiny is underrated.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd take an MST3K thread over the flip out over/anticipate Arular thread, to be honest.

My ten:
Space Mutiny [xp!]
Wild World of Batwoman
Incredible Melting Man
Zombie Nightmare
Hobgoblins
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
Manos: the Hands of Fate
Puma Man
Master Ninja

― nate p. (natepatrin), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" as being a much better movie than Mike & the bots thought it was. Not that it was all that great of a movie, but it wasn't the "Monster A-Go-Go" trainwreck they seemed to think it was.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, it seemed mostly competent, if kinda lame. still, it made a good episode!

Puma Man and Space Mutiny are probably my favorite Sc-Fi Channel episodes.

― latebloomer lives in a fucking castle that is so sweet (latebloomer), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Racket Girls is clearly the most underrated episode, judging the POXs so far. Seriously, the non-dud punchlines in that one just keep coming. It's relentless.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

The problem is that I don't even remember that one.

Google google... Oh! The one with Michael Stipe. Yeah, that's a good 'un.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I will fight anybody who bad-mouths The Phantom Creeps.

― The Yellow Kid (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 06:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Space Mutiny is underrated.

BIG MCLARGEHUGE!

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i love the part where hard beefslab or whatever is screaming as he's about to crash, then awkwardly stops screaming as he realizes, "oh wait, i'm supposed to jump off"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's Mike Nelson as "Jack Perkins", host of the Mystery Science Theater hour (when Comedy Central would split the re-run episodes during the week into two parts with the hosting segments tacked on):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2aMSb8P9Sk

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:40 (eighteen years ago) link

omg MST3K vs Radiohead!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X5E2jF6hx4&search=mst3k

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link

ok, one more...The 1998 Summer Blockbuster Spectacular!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK_fizEQFOE&search=mst3k

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Racket Girls is clearly the most underrated episode

Absolutely a killer episode. Monk is great.

"He's one of the undead, boss."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

"I just got contacts."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Top Ten Underrated (no Mitchell or Manos, etc)
1. Warrior of the Lost World (megaweapon! liver face!)
2. Gamera vs. Guiron (hello/hello! zabriske point!)
3. Time Chasers (food court of the future! vermont!)
4. San Francisco Intl (windbreakers! davey!)
5. Riding With Death (mellow! abby!)
6. Girl In Lovers Lane (big stupid! heterosexual experiences!)
7. Tormented (sessions presents! beatnik!)
8. City on Fire (good morning! barry newman!)
9. Zombie Nightmare (tennis! canadian club!)
10. Fire Maidens from Outer Space (the secretary! more padding!)

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm still going with Rocketship X-M for "most underrated", since it was the episode that made me fall in love with the show, so many years ago. (Uh... fifteen years ago. I was watching the show beforehand, but I taped most of the first [1991] Turkey Day Marathon, and watched those episodes again and again and again.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't they do a special in 1998 for the Academy Awards, too? (I was pregnant at the time and just really sick with the flu, but the riff of Captain Smith setting sail on Titanic sticks with me: "I'm gonna sink this bitch.")

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"Not since Fire Maidens in Outer Space has there been such a thrilling ladder scene."

i downloaded the 4th and 5th seasons and have been forcing everyone who comes to my apartment to watch them.

― p@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

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