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

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i love how the henchmen all have slightly different black tank tops

and the hermit who sounds like Doctor Teeth

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 November 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link

My my my my Mitchell.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 November 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link

Okay so Manos has to be number one, any guesses on number two? I'm kinda stumped.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 November 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link

Gamera?

slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Thursday, 24 November 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link

f.s.v.o. Gamera

slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Thursday, 24 November 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link

Good guess!

Anyway, Mitchell.

"Cross to fireplace."

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 November 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link

"I usually take mine with a Ding Dong in it but ok"

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 November 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link

(We've been having dinner and soon dessert here since around noonish so I'm only catching this as catch can but I do appreciate episodes where I can drop in any time and it's hilarious.)

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 November 2016 23:12 (seven years ago) link

Mitchell!

slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Thursday, 24 November 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link

Ha, Space Mutiny makes so much sense at number two. Framing stuff is totally convoluted as a standalone but the movie itself and the number they do on it is top notch.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 November 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link

SANTA

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 November 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link

And of course Manos. I've got 'Debbie''s book on order and I can't wait to read it.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 November 2016 01:16 (seven years ago) link

Trace's Crow works a lot bluer, I am v fond of him

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 November 2016 01:22 (seven years ago) link

I think it was this thread that got me to REALLY love ''Big buttery moon up there... sidewalk kinda looks like ice cream if you squint at it.'' But it was my brother who got me to appreciate all the chase scene riffs (''Mitchell II: The Cloverleaf'') and, re: ''this is a police inevstigation!'': ''Oh, really? I thought it was just some slob wandering around my *house.*''

Underrated: the shitty marine conclusion to the film, especially ''Let's rip off the last scene from Key Largo, Mitchell!''

walk back to the halftime long, billy lynn, billy lynn (Doctor Casino), Friday, 25 November 2016 05:29 (seven years ago) link

i love that whole section

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 November 2016 05:48 (seven years ago) link

ohhhhh they're chasing the BOAT

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 November 2016 05:48 (seven years ago) link


Trace's Crow works a lot bluer, I am v fond of him

Counterpoint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ZCZOW8eT0

and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Friday, 25 November 2016 15:07 (seven years ago) link

3M!

Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 November 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link

What's great is that they also made a 3M joke in Pod People when it came to the "It stinks!" song.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 November 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link

Well, by gum, the bonus things for today Joel announced ARE indeed all that:

On Monday, I also promised that – since we didn't have any new episodes ready to show you on Turkey Day – I'd send a special treat on Friday to make it up to you.

And you know, I know it's a treat some of you have been wanting for a long time – maybe even since we first ran this advertisement in The St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch on Turkey Day of 1988, when our very first episode, Invaders From the Deep, premiered on KTMA.

So yeah, some of you already guessed it, but let's make it official:

I'm happy to tell you that we finally found master tapes for two of the three "lost KTMA episodes" of MST3K: Invaders from the Deep, and Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars.

I actually thought we had discovered copies of these episodes at one point during the Kickstarter last year, and I was really excited that I'd be able to finally share them with you… and then it turned out that we hadn't found them, and it was a real bummer. But then, earlier this year, a few final boxes turned up. And there they were: the very first episodes of MST3K ever made.

So yeah: If your Kickstarter rewards include any of the "Classic MST3K Bonus Episodes", the two "lost episodes" are now waiting for you – a special "Happy Turkey Day" present from all of us at MST3K.

I didn't go this route, but presumably these things are going to circulate from here realllll quickly.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 November 2016 00:12 (seven years ago) link

FWIW, this means that the final episode that has never circulated at all is the original riff on Star Force: Fugitive Alien II, which was the third KTMA episode overall. But presumably it's out there...

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 November 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link

Meantime, word from MST3Kinfo that Tony Zarindast -- the man who gave us <I>Werewolf</I> -- has passed:

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=23507

His IMDB page is worth boggling at thanks to the English language titles alone. A one-man mini-Cannon:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0953494/

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 December 2016 22:06 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

Whoa, they're showing a Season 1 ep on "CometTV", a standard-def broadcast channel. I've never actually seen one of these.

And can see why, this shit is pretty ropey, even for these guys.

THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Monday, 2 January 2017 04:28 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, I've tried, and the best I can really say is that it's a BIT tighter than KTMA MST. What's remarkable is how quickly it gels in Season 2 - still some tough eps in there, and a little bit samey between the three grim, ugly CCI "rebel" pictures and the four flat sci-fi snoozers from Lippert... but Catalina Caper is one of the first classic eps, and Kevin and Frank don't need any warming up at all. Ring of Terror and Godzilla vs. Megalon, too...

mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Monday, 2 January 2017 05:44 (seven years ago) link

Season 1 is choppy but sometimes the 'what the' nature of the films then carry it all.

Will be seeing Trace and Frank again at SF Sketchfest in a couple of weeks.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 January 2017 06:43 (seven years ago) link

my recollection, which i can't really verify, is that mike nelson came on board between seasons 1 and 2. i think people really underrate his influence as a writer on the show; there's this tendency to conflate mike nelson the person with mike nelson the character and treat him as someone who magically appeared on the show in the middle of season 5.

increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 2 January 2017 12:56 (seven years ago) link

My sister gave my son a set of MST3K dvds for xmas. He'd never seen them before. I haven't watched it in 20 years. There was definitely uneven quality, but we had a great time watching them together.

Anyway, this project is a few months along, but I'm just seeing it for the first time today:

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/142390

how's life, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 17:40 (seven years ago) link

It must happen

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link

how old is he? cuz damn, by now there are a bunch of refs on every show that a 30yo wouldn't get. (I understand they're still entertaining outside of that.)

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link

He's 12. And yeah, there were refs in there that I don't even get, but still enough laughs to make it worth watching for him I guess.

how's life, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link

Shout Factory does the exhaustive job of explaining every single reference in the annotations of the full episodes they've put up on youtube. Probably meant to be viewed in the spirit of a commentary track.

Evan, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 18:04 (seven years ago) link

"Hmm, I don't understand this joke." (Checks footnotes) "Oh, I see. Crow thinks this person looks like a particular 1970s character actor." (Milk comes out of nose.)

duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link

loool

how's life, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link

i think the original appeal was partly that people born in the '60s and '70s shared the experience of watching dreadful movies on TV when "there was nothing else on," which is now extinct

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, the passage of time inevitably demonstrates how much of a snapshot it all was. But a possible comparison point -- Monty Python was just as explicitly steeped in its own time and place, and TV culture, and won a wider audience beyond that which (AFAICT) continues to the present. That said it's all so much legacy now.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 January 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Some more backers-only news from Joel -- take this bit as you choose:

And in the meantime, the great news is the new shows are turning out really fine. It’s so interesting seeing Jonah, Baron and Hampton’s riff styles emerge, and remember: like some of you, Jonah, Baron and Hampton grew up watching Mystery Science Theater, and as you’ll soon see, movie riffing is in their DNA! It's also just amazing how great Felicia and Patton did as the next Mads. I’m just knocked out. They’re obviously both such talented pros, but they totally bring it to these new episodes.

Now, from what I can tell – and based on showing the pilot to a few close friends – it’s a slightly different tempo than the movie riffers of yore. To me, that makes sense. It’s simply a function of new people (both writers and performers) coming in contact with these films and the show format. And you know, even though it’s an updated version of MST3K, I really feel like the original spirit of the show is still there. Hope you think so too.

So yeah: when the new episodes come out, I hope you'll give your ears time to adjust to the “now sound” of MST 2017. I think you'll like what you hear!

No formal release date still.

Plus, Funko are making Crow and Tom Servo figures:

https://funko.com/blogs/news/londontoyfair17mst3k

Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 January 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link

Oh and having said this:

Will be seeing Trace and Frank again at SF Sketchfest in a couple of weeks.

This was in fact unsurprisingly a treat. (It was a week ago and the perfect antidote to a stupid day, obv.) The movie in question was a truly dire demi-film noir obscurity, Walk The Dark Street, starring pre-Rifleman Chuck Connors as a clenched-jaw Korean War vet psycho:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_the_Dark_Street

A perfect experience down to the horrible transfer. Written and directed by the guy who wrote Robot Monster, Wyott Ordung (no, really). Further MST3K connection out of nowhere: the guy who played the leering assistant in Racket Girls, "Joe," plays a store clerk at one point. If you have seventy minutes to kill, here's the film straight up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6LOyoHZy_c

Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 January 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link

Wow Joel sounds really uncomfortable with the result...

Evan, Friday, 27 January 2017 20:22 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBAZFJnpcV4

tried watching this, it's pretty weak. he doesn't seem to have a funny bone in his body.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 27 January 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I have questions

http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/2469/not-too-distant-future-dark-horse-reveals-partners

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 February 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link

Though I see it's part of a broader effort:

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=23877

The licensing program is helmed by Elie Dekel, of Dekel Brands. Strategic partners for licensing and merchandising on board thus far include:

· Dark Horse (serialized comics, graphic novels, coffee-table book and gift items)
· FUNKO (vinyl figures, and FUNKO-POP figures)
· Changes (t-shirts, tops, sweatshirts)
· Insight Editions (Ultimate Episode Guide, trivia books, journals)
· Great Eastern (buttons, patches, stickers, pins, gifts and novelties)
· Just Funky (gifts, beverage/barware, key chains, auto accessories, table-top gifts)
· Zen Monkey Studios (t-shirts, sweatshirts)

Most interested in an Ultimate Episode Guide -- I wonder if it's meant to be a collation of the original book plus the four seasons that followed (plus the forthcoming one, I guess).

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 February 2017 23:48 (seven years ago) link

Okay, the word just came down via a mailout from Joel:

The new season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 will premiere on Netflix on April 14, 2017.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 05:53 (seven years ago) link

:D

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 06:51 (seven years ago) link

14 EPISODES DROPPING AT ONCE

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 08:59 (seven years ago) link

god i hope this doesn't suck

jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link

predicting that we'll hate episode 1, think they improved by episode 4

duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link

This is all happening right before Kate and I go on our mid-April vacation so I'll watch the first episode, ponder at it, then come back after vacation and see what everyone's shouting about.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link

Oh and we have cast photo:

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cast.jpg

Should I be concerned the backdrop looks...flat?

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link

Also, the neo-Mads in white? Huh.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link

xpost probably makes it easier to roll that pile of dough in the middle around

duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link


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