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

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.

No way Nelson, Murphy or Corbett get involved, right? Rifftrax is kind of a gravy train for them right now. (And Bridgett and Mary Jo have been involved with it of late as well.)

Then it looks like it's doing pretty well.

By the way, why do you feel mixed about this idea? I'm not sure they'd tarnish the series with a well meaning reboot, even if it turns out not quite as good.

I feel like this would be a perfect thing to pitch to Netflix, similar to others that have done the same.

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Yeah, they'd have to get the original cast in on this or I would feel pretty unsure about the whole idea.

Original cast as far as the puppets go, I can see another new host working.

The core Rifftrax trio already indicated last year when rumors went around that this wasn't for them, precisely because they're doing so well with their own project as noted. (Two to one says they fully appreciate the simplicity of the setup.) They already did their own kinda-MST3K revival with The Film Crew and that didn't last.

As for why feeling mixed, even if (as I half assume) that Trace, Josh and Frank are all on board (and even then I'm not sure about Frank, they'd really need only Trace and Josh to completely start from ground zero) and all, I kinda feel the same way as I am about the Twin Peaks revival. I'm curious but I'm not gung-ho. Joel's a quietly remarkable fellow for sure and I only wish him the best, though.

So awesome. What a coincidence, I watched "The Lost Continent" last night.

Bluh. Yeah, I dunno. Even if it was Joel, Trace Crow and Kevin Servo in the theater - which seems unlikely but sort of necessary for this to not feel 'off' or indistinguishable from the other post-MST3K "sort of like MST3K" side projects - it's betting a lot on everybody still being as funny and on-point as they once were. All comes down to the writing team and sometimes you can't get a group dynamic to gel again. Especially if there are accumulated ill feelings about old slights and ongoing compensation inequities. It is true that there are tons more MST-type movies and shorts awaiting the treatment, and I would be more likely to watch this on Netflix, say, than to purchase individual RiffTrax episodes. I guess even if it was only as funny as a middling Sci-Fi-era episode, that'd still be nice, but the risk is that it's just totally lacking the magic and becomes the Star Wars Prequels of MST.

It wouldn't be Kevin, it would be Josh. Kevin's already ruled himself out as noted.

Ive been to lots of Rifftrax events and Cinematic Titanic events and I can say that there is way more magic when the CT crew are doing their thing. I'd be super happy if they were working together again under the official brand.