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

like the legend of the phoenix

you know one area where i actually would be kinda okay with them making more of this show? Shorts! Soooo much alarming, dopey, doublethinky public-domain stuff that would be way more easily identified and found these days, I think. Also maybe suitable for today's low-attention-span viewer, or something like that. Anyway, the shorts are some of my all-time favorite bits (except when they're doing serials, which are usually just kinda baffling).

"We leave you with this question, if you enjoyed "Catching Trouble" in any way, there's something wrong with you."

Yeah, it might be a tall order for them to get the right tone with full-length movies in this era of Birdemic and Sharknado. But shorts will always work.

They should do Kony 2012

There is something magic about finding an MST3K short you haven't seen before. "Days Of Our Years" is my current favourite - some inspired riffing here.

"So his name is Joe Joe?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvhskXf_5XU

i saw that crazy springs short recently after seeeing it years ago, it may be one of my favorites

also gumby robots forever

Ack, no! Sci-Fi era shorts! *makes the sign of the cross with index fingers and hisses*

u are such a snob

Sci-Fi era was pretty dope

Actually, I like all of the Sci-Fi shorts quite well excepting "Spring Fever." Why? Because SHUT THE HOLY FUCK UP COILY!!!!!!!!

NO SPRINGS HAHA

I did always feel like they kinda missed a lot of opportunities with Coily, but maybe that's because I'd seen the short itself before. Though I do love "So he waits all eternity for someone to say this one thing and then backs down almost immediately?"

Recent favorite shorts (on top of the obvious holy duo of "Mr. B Natural" and "Hired!")

Johnny At The Fair - "Johnny feels dark hands pressing him onward; the voices in his head get meaner."
Using Your Voice - "Carlessness?! Oh!" "And get a good wire rack."
Date With Your Family - "Father feigns eating, draws Junior out, then disowns him!"

My top 10 shorts:

Catching Trouble
The Home Economics Story
Mr. B Natural
Junior Rodeo Daredevils
Circus on Ice
Hired!
Last Clear Chance
Design for Dreaming
Why Study the Industrial Arts?
The Chicken of Tomorrow

Also, my god, is Last Clear Chance dark!

As soon as I pushed "submit post," I regretted not finding room for "Progress Island USA."

industrial arts is great

I love Racket Girls so much I could cry.

(Shouldn't have had that third margarita.)

<3

"Progress Island USA."

"Look, just come here!"

I try to imagine some kind of spring company lobbyist pushing to get a spring awareness video funded, so kids out there can stop taking springs for granted, and inspire some extra spring sales in the process. Maybe spring companies were ready to push a new direct to consumer box of "back-up springs" and needed some supplemental material to try to prompt the new market as part of a campaign. Maybe during presentations to the spring company ceos they had a prototype glass box with a spring in it that you can break during an emergency, to be wall mounted next to the fire extinguisher.

https://twitter.com/tpt/status/583626368677646337

(for Twin Cities ilxors only, I imagine)

Oh man...

Oh. Well ...

https://twitter.com/tpt/status/583632923049332738

Was practically gearing up for it to be new episodes from the tone.

Yeah. I guess hanging out with the guy would be HUGE NEWS for me too, but not so much anyone else.

I saw him twice at Parkway already, and interviewed him there too, so that's off the bucket list.

so weird that they haven't brokered a vimeo deal for a new season yet; seems like a slamdunk

Let's watch the kids go to their fates
They'll disappear in-to the woods
It will be days be-fore they're found
Cornjob will be blamed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOBibhv7Q_8

I don't care

LOL

Haha

Why doesn't PK care?

I still love that this exists. Can't wait for October.

https://www.facebook.com/synapsefilms/photos/a.223878337640179.72639.193094600718553/1075839579110713/?type=1&fref=nf

This is as it should be

https://twitter.com/FrankConniff/status/626524488323190784

And why not?

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/08/the-25-episode-history-of-mystery-science-theater.html

As recommended by TV's Frank himself

https://twitter.com/FrankConniff/status/630808765613404162

Needs more "Time Chasers!"

Meanwhile, a new story on Manos, with all the weird up to date details around the restoration. And bonus TV's Frank.

http://www.playboy.com/articles/the-battle-over-the-worst-movie-ever

Quote of the year in any article, BTW:

“J.R.R. Tolkien’s kid catches shit,” Joe Warren says, “but he just wants to protect his father’s work. Same thing.”

"Hi, I'm Max Keller."
"I'm a seagull."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k/description

Yeah...I dunno. I'm terribly mixed on this idea.

Remind me again who is and who is not involved in this effort?

Exactly! I'd love to know more about all this, BTW:

Even though I've always wanted to bring MST3K back, it wasn't that easy. Thanks to the Last Will and Testament of one eccentric old heiress, the rights were tied up for years. It took time to work those issues out, but with the help of my friends at Shout Factory, a special chokehold I perfected in WuDang that I like to call “The Persuader,” and a night I had to spend in a haunted house as a term of the the old lady’s will, we succeeded.

But this summer, we finally got all of the rights cleared up… and like Orpheus, we can now descend into hell to hang out with a couple of wisecracking robots.

Somehow this is making me think of that weird series of cartoons they did a decade back where it just the bots and only (I think) Jim Mallon and Paul Chaplin doing the voices. Did anyone see those? (Probably says as much upthread...)

When did that go up? Having trouble gauging whether it's doing really well or really not well.

In the short term, I'd love to know if another Turkey day marathon will be happening.

It just went up today.