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

I've never actually watched any of the Sci Fi Channel episodes. Were there good ones? They looked ... less than.

Oh, they're great! Though I generally feel the "Mad's" stuff from that era went downhill, the riffing was plenty good.

You're doing yourself a major disservice skipping out on those final seasons, poly. Some of them are all-time. Check:

Space Mutiny
Time Chasers
Werewolf
The Final Sacrifice
Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
Horrors of Spider Island
Diabolik

The Sci-Fi eps more or less require you to skip the host segments.

I'd add Giant Spider Invasion to that list.

The Sci-Fi eps more or less require you to skip the host segments.

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I was saying this in a slightly softer way, but to be specific I like the isolated bots + Mike bits of those segments much more often than when the Mads are a part of it, so that distinction is kind of important imo.

Yeah Sci-Fi wanted them to have a continuing plot of some kind so the mads segments are kinda weak.

Final Sacrifice is all-time classic though.

I didn't watch the Sci-Fi episodes for years, but when I started watching them on youtube it was like finding lost treasure

Ditto! Agreed about skipping all Mads segments and most M&TBs ones, but if you can get past new Crow there's lots of good riffing.

I dig having Baron Vaughn on the show

More interviews floating around -- oddly enough, the one via StarWars.com is the best of that bunch; it goes deeper in some directions I haven't seen in the other pieces:

http://www.starwars.com/news/weve-got-movie-sign-joel-hodgson-talks-star-wars-and-mst3k

Good interview- hits on some of our recent discussion upthread.

BTW, doubling back a few posts: some Sci-Fi episodes I'm particularly glad to have seen for one reason or another. None of these stick out in my mind as super all-time classics the way some Comedy Central episodes do, but I've also seen all of these a maximum of one time each, so it's a bit more impressionistic re: memories of laughing fits at particular points, or just a memorably strange movie.

Touch of Satan
Agent For H.A.R.M.
Time Chasers
The Mole People
Invasion of the Neptune Men
Horror of Party Beach
Werewolf
Final Sacrifice

RIP Rex, your headstone movie was too good to be MSTied

http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-rex-reason-star-island-earth-228925

His name was really Rex Reason? Hero.

Anyway, Turkey Day Marathon starts in half an hour:

http://mst3k.com/events/turkeyday15/wheretowatch/

crossing our fingers that the youtube app on our ps3 has updated to allow streaming ...i had to watch it on the ipad last year

your headstone movie was too good to be MSTied

And ranks as possibly one of their worst episodes too, if it ranks.

So excited to force family to watch this yet again!

First up, Outlaw of Gor. The score so far:

Comedy Central: 1
Sci-Fi: 0

One of the first episodes I finally saw as it ran. Glad this is going to be on demand at Yahoo because looks like streaming on my phone isn't happening...

ps3 stream is working! yaaay

This Island Earth was better at the Minneapolis convention. Still a decent movie tho.

mst3k.com stream not working

Ah cool, YouTube on my iPhone IS working. Maybe it just started a little later.

i have never seen this one before...this movie is really, uh, something

Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot? Cabot?

oh man, that's one i really can't do. i can't remember if we even finished it or not, the plot just kinda... continues. and yeah, that one dude is reeeeeeal hard to take. no fault on the riffing, just one of those where the movie itself is so irritating that you kinda can't deal.

That montage of man ass at the end . . .

Haha I love _Outlaw_, it's just so ridiculous. They could never do enough wannabe Conan movies for me.

And now _Eegah!_! Two for two for me here.

Ditto!

Favorite riff: the screeching sound accompanying Roxy's trip down the giant slide.

the song he sings by the pool is outstanding

Oh wait, it's Arch Hall Jr. that's the celebrity I most closely resemble.

Two of my favorite-ever MST3K moments in this: "Watch out for snakes!" obviously, and Joel putting his hands over the bots' mouths when Roxie asks, "Do you know where Deep Canyon is?"

I am William Burroughs ... I am William Burroughs ... I am William Burroughs ... I'm Rose Kennedy.

You know, this episode has one of my all time obscure lines. After Eegah smacks Arch Hall Jr and they all cheer, first Tom does a whiny voiced complaint supposedly from Arch, then Joel adds "Come on, you stupid zinge." Zinge? Am I hearing that right?

"Whatsa matter Mister Miller?"
"Sit down, Pieface. It's a long list."

I love how much they hate Arch Hall jr

Gorgo.

Comedy Central: 2
Sci-Fi: 1

Tuned in earlier just in time to catch the end of Eegah!, fell hard for Joel's response to the narrator banging on about the book of Genesis: "Ahhh, that's totally out of context!"

Gorgo is such a boring turd not even mst3k can save it.

Have we done an MST3K POX itt yet?

Godzilla vs. Megalon
Santa Claus Conquers the Marians
Monster a Go-Go
Manos: The Hands of Fate
The Atomic Brain
Village of the Giants
The Creeping Terror
San Francisco International
Racket Girls
Red Zone Cuba

I knew Racket Girls would be on your top 10

I'm constantly perplexed by MSTies' coolness toward that episode.

Teenagers from Outer Space is 4th up today.

Oh, perfect. What an amazing episode. (It's Thanksgiving lunch here it turns out so I've had to miss this and Gorgo.)

I have to stop now for dinner. Hoping for a few more Sci-Fi eps for you all.

Yes, _Danger! Death Ray!_ is next. Finished the meal and cleaning here so I'm just going to happily enjoy this and whatever the final one is.

was skyping with VegemiteMum for a while a missed most of teenagers. i've never seen this one

I am William Burroughs ... I am William Burroughs ... I am William Burroughs ... I'm Rose Kennedy.

I quoted this from memory w/out seeing that scene today... but do you know it is a parody of contestants identifying themselves on the quiz show "To Tell the Truth"? (apparently it's being revived next year, but the classic period was 1956-78)