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

"Love wears a mask..."

"...a tight leather mask!"

And another revival due to this really nice ramble of an interview with Trace Beaulieu. Lots of details I didn't know about, and I think rightly spends a lot more time on his work pre and post-MST3K than on the show itself. Good stuff.

wow, nice

thanks ned

looks like Joel and some other original MST cast members are putting together something new:

http://www.cinematictitanic.com/

the text is conspicuously absent of any acknowledgement of Rifftrax, and is kinda vague about exactly what this is going to be. but the the "gentle and easy to swallow" part makes me wonder if it's going to be slightly more family-oriented, and the references a release by Christmas that's comparable to "Eegah" and "Manos The Hands Of Fate" would imply that they're going to be licensing campy cult movies for DVD release, as opposed to the Rifftrax model that allows for more current/popular releases.

thats kinda disappointing, i had just accepted joel was a weirdo genius & would be in bill watterson-style principled retirement forever

joel hasn't been retired though? i thought he was script doctoring for a while?

He'd been working at his own pace for some time on various things.

Not sure about this news; I'm kinda with Ethan. Still, also having Trace, Josh, Frank and Mary Jo together in the mix is of interest. (Also, all five of them were in that Darkstar game that still hasn't been released, I think.)

i knew trace was writing gags for americas funniest home videos - what scripts was joel doctoring?

So I go over to mst3k.com and I also read this:

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THE 'BOTS ARE BACK!
We are excited to announce some very big news for MST3K fans.

But first, some housekeeping: For reasons that will become apparent, we need to ask those of you who reach our site using the URL MST3K.com to update your bookmarks, and please use the URL MST3Kinfo.com. Many of you use this URL already, but if you get to us via MST3K.com, starting next week you won't be able to anymore.

The reason is that, next week, MST3K.com will become a new destination for a brand new site, created by a reconstituted, relaunched Best Brains Inc.

Or, as they put it when they contacted us about this: The 'Bots are Back!

Beginning November 5th, BBI will be launching its very own website at MST3K.com. The site will feature brand-new animated adventures of Crow, Tom Servo and Gypsy. We're told the goal is to have one new adventure each week (though "some settling may occur with shipping," they added). The Web site will also feature work from the original series (which BBI is now calling "the legacy series"), behind-the-scenes footage and other material culled from the BBI vault.

Also on the site will be BBI's first online store, featuring all new merchandise. (This means that the BBI merchandise section of our site has been taken down. )

The new adventures of the 'bots are being produced by BBI President, MST3K series writer and the returning voice of Gypsy, Jim Mallon. He will be joined on this new experiment by veteran MST3K series writer and performer Paul Chaplin (who will be on the writing team and will be providing the voice of Crow) along with new writing and performing talent.

We know this is going generate a lot of buzz among the fan base and you all probably have a zillion questions. So do we. Many will be answered on Nov. 5th. More will be answered soon after. Jim told us that the site and project "are going to grow in a very organic fashion and we're going to let the characters and the story take us in the direction they want to take us." We at Satellite News can't wait to see it.

What does this mean for Satellite News? The biggest change is that we will no longer be known as "The official MST3K Web site," and this marks the end of our 10-year arrangement with Best Brains as the official voice of the old Info Club. Jim has, however, declared us, "The Official MST3K fan site." We still have close ties to BBI and whenever they have news you'll see it here first, along with news about the rest of the former cast and crew members of our favorite cowtown puppet show. For us, this is just one more topic in the growing list of MST3K-related news it's our job to report.

We have some interesting plans for our site as well, so be sure to stay tuned!

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Okay, this is just getting ridiculous.

It's like all those competing versions of the Drifters.

When Kevin and Frank re-team, it will be time to get excited all over again.

i duno. joel, trace and frank doing shit together is pretty damn exciting.

Yeah, this is true. I admit I haven't seen too many Josh episodes.

Just watched Giant Leeches and Girl from Lovers Lane last night.

"Big Stupid?"

"Heterosexual experience."

oh, and the Don Martin shoes.

"...this isn't the answer."

And then in the leech movie, dumpy overweight pig husband muttering under his breath to tightly-packed, pert-bosumed saucy cat wife wearing mini kimono: "Quit wearing my things."

That is one grimy movie, that one.

"Here you go, Miss Shelby."

It's like everyone except my favorite Best Brains members Michael Nelson and Kevin Murphy are trying to do their own "The New Adventures Of Mystery Science Theater 3000". :(

uh www.rifftrax.com

I watched the show for 4-5 years, but u guys scare me

thanks?

joel, trace and frank will always be the "real" mst3k for me.

joel, trace and frank will always be the "real" mst3k for me.

-- chaki, Friday, November 2, 2007 1:32 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^

if crow isnt trace he can fuck off

trace is awesome

You worked with him a bit, right?

(You probably say that upthread, actually.)

yeah for awhile. we talked about mst3k a couple times. my bro was a much bigger fan of the show than i was (and i thought it was great) and when he visited town i introduced him to trace, who talked to him about the show for 30 minutes and gave him a signed dr clayton forrester photo.

New Crow has his moments, but it's the interstitial shit on the Sci Fi episodes that's really tedious.

the interstitial stuff btwn Frank-Dr. F was occasionally better than the feature, tho.

everybody stop saying "frank" without the "tv's" honorific

uh www.rifftrax.com

Damn.

thx ethan

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g169/lordparsec/JoelandBots.jpg

<3 <3 <3

New Crow has his moments, but it's the interstitial shit on the Sci Fi episodes that's really tedious.

-- Lolpez, Friday, November 2, 2007 9:39 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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the interstitial stuff btwn Frank-Dr. F was occasionally better than the feature, tho.

-- Dr Morbius, Friday, November 2, 2007 9:41 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Neither of them made it to the Sci Fi channel though.

I was probably wrong to side with Fujiwara upthread. These days, I dig MST3K a little bit more than the entire concept of movies.

ban Eric

from ILF

there's an admin there?

Hooboy.

http://www.mst3k.com/

Rifftrax have enjoyably increased in consistency and quality over the last 10-15 episodes or so. Unfortunately initial Film Crew DVDs are near the very low end of MST3K episodes.

joel, trace and frank will always be the "real" mst3k for me.

skitwise definitely but I'll lose my shit during any era of the movies themselves.

these days I'll ffwd through any interlude that doesn't feature frank, sweet frank

yeah, the actual movie parts never really lost teh funny.

anthony totally otm about frank

I'm guessing any possibility of a DVD release of any of the classic episodes is pretty much nil, right?

They've released like 10 boxsets of 4 classic episodes each so far.

I was gonna say! They've been chugging out regularly, but they're a total mix of what they have the rights to at any given time, and have covered everything from the first to the final season.

http://www.rhino.com/mst3k/index.lasso

(Actually I'm kinda pissed with myself now, turns out they've pulled Volumes 9 and 10 -- I have nine but wasn't able to find ten, and now I know why!)