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

I always skip the skits now too. They're not unfunny, I suppose, but when I watch them, I get like Milhouse waiting for the fireworks factory.

If I feel antsy at all I'll skip them. Long enough episodes as they are, so unless I'm really hanging out I usually pass them up.

I don't hate the skits, but I look at it this way: the length of an MST3K episode is the length of a movie, so watching one is substituting for me watching an actual film. Since the riffs on the films are all I really care about, this (admittedly trifling) time saved makes me feel less guilty about not having spent that ninety-whatever minutes watching one of the thousand or so (probably) not-awful movies that I still want to see.

Most movies are secretly awful and should be given the MST treatment.

It's that kind of mentality that's fueled Rifftrax. And that's not necessarily a good thing.

Even many "good" movies deserve the treatment.

xp syndication, on FOX in the NYC area they used to play hour long chunks of movies (split up into two parts) late night Sundays. this had to have been around the mid 90s or so

My all-time favorite host segment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atM9ZQK7OSo

Just that perfect moment where everything falls out of sync and Joel hits them to set it right again -- brought back SO many elementary school memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-18A4qcKSiA

watched this last night, diiiiied during Servo's segment of the medley, don't mind the lousy camcorder YouTube

This may be my favorite, followed by Crow's extremely profane video deposition for Mike's "blowing up a planet" trial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56NRz0u2ieU

As spotted and shared out by the Facebook account

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1380812_10151724404762153_1971638886_n.jpg

Awesome

! that is so great

I do understand

http://www.xojane.com/entertainment/always-meet-your-heroes-how-mystery-science-theater-3000-has-influenced-basically-my-whole-life

that is pretty great! and those sentiments are 100% otm.

btw I forgot to ask, did anyone else make it out to the Rifftrax Night of the Living Dead? It was a lot of fun -- I've seen that movie at home on my own tv SO many times, and I realized I've NEVER seen it on a big screen. My biggest takeaway from Mike & Kevin & Bill is that the first half of Night of the Living Dead is pretty much 'guy hammering pieces of wood'

?!

Fuck Rifftrax.

:(

Didn't see it so I can't speak to it but...I mean, Night of the Living Dead is a cool movie!

But maybe the spirit of these things changed at some point away from "bad" movies as such, in favor of free-riffing whatever can be riffed? Wouldn't be my thing but that would make more sense.

I think their spirit of having some level of respect and even love for movies changed over to them (meaning the Rifftrax crew, not the Cinematic Titanic one) having respect only for their erudition and wit.

I got my tickets for the final ever Cinematic Titanic performance

so sad... Rifftrax has gotten really stale the past couple of years and now no more CT...

"MST3K was like a code, a secret language of cultural references I desperately wanted to unravel, and to this day when I recognize a long-obscured joke I feel a little thrill of satisfaction. (Like just this week, when I was driving a rental car and listening to the radio for the first time since I last drove a rental car, probably, and the song "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)" came on, and I recognized the words and realized OH, THAT'S WHAT THIS IS.)"

Cracking the cultural code of MST3K takes a little longer for some folks, haha. Guess there weren't a lot of Looking Glass fan forums to stumble onto on Prodigy in the day? Seriously, though, I and many of us can relate to her.

Actually I remember being very glad I'd picked up Rhino's first fifteen of the Have a Nice Day series just before I got into MST3K by a couple of years, because they referenced a LOT of songs from that on there (including "Brandy") -- not because of the comps, I'm sure, but just because that's what they all grew up with and knew.

This is almost the only thing I enjoyed about ''Tormented,'' all the ''...and many more!'' gags about artists whose songs might be linked up with footage of surf dully striking a beach.

IT'S ALL HAPPENING

A long lost Thanksgiving tradition is resurrecting from the grave. The annual Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon will return this year. It's a holiday miracle!

Taking in hours of MST3K after gorging yourself on turkey and family hostility is tradition, but unfortunately the long day of laugh/napping was cancelled when Comedy Central pulled the plug on the marathon back in 1997.

But now it's back as MST3K creator Joel Hodgson and Shout! Factory celebrate the show's 25th anniversary. Beginning at noon (EST) on Thanksgiving Day you can log onto MST3KTurkeyDay.com for six glorious full (and free) episodes of MST3K.

Hodgson is taking episode suggestions via his Twitter, so get on there and DEMAND a Mitchell screening. So glad to have this tradition back!

We gather together to watch cheesy movies...

Do you have a question you’ve always wanted to ask about MST3K? Huzzah! Joel Hodgson will be participating in a Reddit AMA starting at 1 pm
PT / 4 pm ET on Tuesday, Nov. 26th. Submit
your questions and join in the conversation with
Joel and your fellow MST-ies by visiting http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/. The AMA will run until 3 pm PT / 6 pm ET.

I know what to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!

Annnnnd happy 25th anniversary to the show. In combination with the Who 50th it all seems auspicious.

the what?

you've come a long way, baby

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/7078D566-F0BA-4B1D-9418-04AC04E097A9_zpsjhpuuyx4.jpg

Livestream Turkey Day marathon kicks in here in ten minutes:

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

I guessed the first movie correctly!

One of the best.

"Blast Hardcheese!" etc.

A good introductory episode, where the movie would be entertaining by itself, and the commentary is also excellent.

Haha love this next one. Took until the first hint but then I got it. Third ever episode I saw all the way through!

watching now! just in time for I Accuse My Parents

Are you happy in your thanksgiving?

LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR

"Walt Disney interviewing another Snow White."

Hahah I love this skit. Joel's mustaches and wigs...

Haha had forgotten this totally Minnesota-specific joke:

"She spends more now these days than...she did back in Iowa."

"Oooh, THAT'S cold."

subconscious mobile is awesome

jimmy's complicated haircut

"here now what're y'doin in a Cocteau film boy, go home t'your mother"

One of my ALL TIME favorite jokes is coming up in a few minutes. Also one of the subtlest ones they ever did.

Hahaha there it was. (As Jimmy's lurking in front of the diner, Tom -- appropriately -- quietly does the intro vocal part from the DNA remix of Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner.")