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

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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

Been Netflixing some of the episodes, and holy fuck I forgot how riotous the "Circus on Ice" short was.

-"Women are torn apart like fresh bread!"
-"It's Jules & Jim on ice!"
-"Spot the man in this chorus line."
-the entirety of the "fawn getting shot" sequence
-the best delivery/timing of the word "YES!" ever in a riff, via Joel

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ktqvi6yo_80&search=circus%20on%20ice

― nate p. (natepatrin), Thursday, 6 July 2006 02:42 (eighteen years ago) link

4. San Francisco Intl (windbreakers! davey!)

Oh yeah, that's another POX choice.

I think Season 6 was pretty clearly the strongest, from a joke-writing standpoint.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 6 July 2006 05:06 (eighteen years ago) link

thank god this thread exists.

haven't read anything yet, but why was the show cancelled?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not sure why the Sci Fi network canceled them, but after 11 years I wasn't surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised. (Didn't Sci Fi pick them up after Comedy Central - or whatever it was then - dumped them?)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

They did, yes.

But more important news -- the debut of RIFF TRAX!

Welcome to RiffTrax.com, an innovative new site featuring the hilarious DVD commentaries of Michael J. Nelson, head writer and star of the legendary Mystery Science Theater 3000!

Do you feel that some of the movies coming out of Hollywood are just, well, missing something? At RiffTrax, you can download Mike's running commentaries and listen to them along with your favorite, and not so favorite DVDs. It's like watching a movie with your funniest friend. And it's easy to do. Just check out our FAQ; more than likely, you have the tools to do it already.

Don't just sit back and take whatever Hollywood throws at you. Transform the DVD experience with RiffTrax. It's
the most fun you'll ever have at the movies.

And what is the first movie he's doing?

ROADHOUSE

I am so happy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

(Interestingly, the voting indicates that the movie people want him to do next is The Matrix. This could be what prompts me to see it.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 July 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

no servo, ...

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I will take what scraps I can.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

omg the Matrix! :-)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

JUST BRING THE SHOW BACK FOR FUCKS' SAKE

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link

that would be awesome, but ya know, easier said than done!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 21 July 2006 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Haneke or Breillat films, please.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

needs the Trace B/Kevin M/Dr Frank or some version of an on-mic partner

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 21 July 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

The FAQ on the site indicates that others may yet join him. ;-)

Meantime, the next DVD set has been confirmed -- out the end of August!

Episodes are:

* 212- GODZILLA VS. MEGALON
* 503- SWAMP DIAMONDS (plus short: WHAT TO DO ON A DATE)
* 514- TEEN-AGE STRANGLER (plus short: IS THIS LOVE?)
* 810- THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION

The collection also includes these extras:

* "MST3K Video Jukebox" (15 songs from the series)
* "Photo Gallery"
* "Outtakes" (we're told this actually means about 15 minutes of the best moments from "Poopie 2")

August 29 is the confirmed release date; with the usual suggested retail price.

Ah, a clean copy of Teenage Strangler -- I'm so happy.

"AND I DIDN'T STEAL NO BIKE NEITHER!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link

(Actually that whole episode is crammed with great lines.

"Mistress Ayesha, I'm here for my beating.")

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 July 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Godzilla vs. Megalon. I like this episode a whole bunch. One case where the homo-coding of the two main bachelor characters is actually not off-base.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 22 July 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Haneke or Breillat films, please.

Yes!

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Sunday, 23 July 2006 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I've got to ask, whatever IS the origin of this insanely brilliant new handle?

One case where the homo-coding of the two main bachelor characters is actually not off-base.

Not to mention the dorky kid in hot pants and Oscar Wilde as heavy.

Oh and lest we forget:

"Stand by for action!"

"REX DART, ESKIMO SPY"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 July 2006 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I've got to ask, whatever IS the origin of this insanely brilliant new handle?

Check the "Someone explain Cat Fancy to me" thread.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Sunday, 23 July 2006 16:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah clarity. (I only noticed the start of the thread...oh right, finals week and I was busy as hell. Then I was on vacation for the further revive!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 July 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyway, listened to the Rifftrax thingamadooz. It's about the same as the various Mike-only DVD commentaries, alternately pretty funny and kinda flat, but worth $2 for a download and not too hard to sync up with the film. Most unexpected joke: an Iron and Wine reference.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 July 2006 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha wow, in what context?

― Marmot 4-Tay: Hold these goddamn chickens! (marmotwolof), Sunday, 23 July 2006 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

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