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

i'm now looking up kim milford's imdb biography, which goes from

"In 1970 he was awarded the Faith and Freedom Award by the Religious Heritage of America for his portrayal of the Prodigal Son in ABC Directories series "Round Trip"."

to "in addition, he's on some bootlegs of the Aug-Sept '72 Jeff Beck concerts."

this is in fact the second mention of his stint in the jeff beck group in the one-paragraph biography, suggesting milford's imdb biographer has serious issues with short-term memory loss

and because i know you wanted to hear it here's one of the bootlegs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3xWs10GiLM

it's pretty horrible!

Milford and Mark Hamill were buds IIRC, and of course they appeared together in Corvette Summer.

Cry Wilderness was a nice way to end it, it definitely was one of last season's best.

definitely. i forgot about all the bizarre scenery changes

just a headsup: the laserblast sdtk is available on itunes. "Billy's Radio" #s 1 AND 2, "Tony Discovers Black Spot," "Chuck's Car Gets Blasted," "Billy and Kathy Make Love." all right there.

Laserblast gets TWO AND A HALF stars in the Leonard Maltin movie guide... ie higher than Taxi Driver and Blue Velvet. He was really impressed with the stop motion work...

they do a whole bit about that in the MST3K credits

And then two years later he ended up cameoing as himself in an episode!

"laserblast" is an embarrassment of riches with all the crummy effects shots, the car-salesman FBI agent, "ready for some football," the pointless eddie deezen crap, etc., but maybe what's most unique is the real lazy aimless hangout vibe that winds through the first 1/2 to 2/3 of the film, just sunny california and a sullen blonde guy killing time. quoth tom, "there's a point when it stops being a movie."

the "ready for some football" cop was a regular on "Mary Hartman Mary Hartman"

I still haven’t seen the Laserblast episode but I’m going to go ahead and assume that Taxi Driver is an objectively better film.

you know what happens when you assume

your ass gets blasted!

O_o

taxi driver doesn't have eddie deezen soo...

just a headsup: the laserblast sdtk is available on itunes. "Billy's Radio" #s 1 AND 2, "Tony Discovers Black Spot," "Chuck's Car Gets Blasted," "Billy and Kathy Make Love." all right there.

― andrew m.

what track would you say is the laserblast equivalent of "knockin' on heaven's door"

xpost EXACTLY

Mac and me is p good

i think my kid brother & sister liked this movie.

the older brother is Beans Baxter <3

ok this is the most LA thing I’vd ever heard

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095560/trivia?tab=tr&item=tr0707017

The McDonalds scenes were all shot in City of Industry, CA, just outside Los Angeles. The set was a real-life McDonald's built specifically for crew member training and filming television commercials. Everything inside worked, but it never served a real customer. When it wasn't being used, it was locked up behind a chain link fence. It has since been torn down, then in 2006 was rebuilt but has never been open to the public. See filming locations for the exact address.

Haha can’t way to see all this. Probably not this weekend but we’ll see.

Atlantic Rim was ok ... then again lunch made me sleepy so i missed a fair bit zzz

There’s a thing on rifftrax right now where all the main MST3K talent from the past is tiffing together on a stage and it’s warming my heart... when did this happen?

Tiffing. Yes

Oh I just saw the big reunion sign behind them just now

(Asylum movies are almost always 20% actiony craziness and then the rest of it is 80% ppl standing around in rooms padding out the rest of the movie)

2016, ok. Thanks google. I’m out of the loop

These are pretty good so far; as good as the best eps of last season I think. Atlantic rim is pretty dire and so new that it doesn’t feel right. Like you need 15-20 years of remove before it works

yeah i agree. the land stopped by time is already v funny

sorry, the day that time ended

anyway #steakmilk

WISE MEN STILL SEEK HIM

the Concept Song made me cry-laugh. bonafide Elliot Kalan magic if I ever heard it

I watched through to The Day Time Ended -- is there a story about how this movie happened? It's bonkers. IMDB contributers think the stop motion monsters were dinosaurs, but I don't know. The animation is actually pretty good, but the monsters and alien don't fit in with the rest of the movie at all.

xxxxxxp https://i.imgur.com/1RRZnVy.jpg

I noticed that the MST3K version cut out around half of the Mcdonalds scene. I know they cut, but I was surprised they chose that material to cut.

Phew, okay, got through all six at last (saw the first two last week, was home sick today so I knocked off the rest). More thoughts later but Killer Fish is some goddamn hilarity.

i started in on Mac and Me and i had forgotten how much i loved these guys

Moved recently and got a Roku and discovered to my pleasant surprise that Pluto (which has a 24/7 MST3K channel AND a Rifftrax channel) and Tubi (which has the Shout Factory episodes on demand) exist.

Forgot how annoying the motorcycle in Warrior of the Lost World was btw

"Tuuuuubular."

"SHUT UP!"

...and the bad fathers who love them

Watching the Mac and Me episode was kind of a surreal experience, since I actually saw this film in theatres. Some context: when I was 10, my parents and I went to go see Midnight Run but the lady at the ticket counter basically shamed my mother about taking her child to that film and pressured my parents towards Mac and Me instead. To say that it is the worst movie that we ever saw theatrically is no small claim; other movies I saw in theatres as a child included Poltergeist 2 and Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold.

Anwyay, the episode itself is pretty funny, and the film gives them plenty to work with. Also, they don't make note of it, and I couldn't spot her myself, but apparently Jennifer Aniston is dancing somewhere in that McDonalds sequence.

I'm somewhat disappointed but hardly surprised that the It's Just a Show podcast verdict on Racket Girls is that it's ungood, as opposed to a clear series high point (which it is).

I would agree with you there, it's amazing! But I won't speak ill of my fellow hosts on Megaphonic. :-D

Meantime, Joel's announced he's doing one last live tour with the bots; no Jonah this time, if that factors into a decision of whether to go or not. Full details here:

https://mst3klive.com/

The two movies are, per the Kickstarter note:

"No Retreat, No Surrender"

A self-conscious teen becomes a martial arts master under the tutelage of Bruce Lee’s ghost. Featuring fresh-faced Jean-Claude Van Damme as a brooding hit man and a Bruce Lee lookalike, who looks nothing like Bruce Lee.

"Circus of Horrors"

A garish 1960s British thriller showcasing mod circus acts, plastic surgery, and animal attacks by stagehands in fur suits. Warning: Features the pop hit “Look for a Star” over and over again.

If you want to sample that, er, glory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlmtAwYme64

No Retreat...is a lot of fun.

Yikes

I was booked to be in a fun show starting right now but instead I’m sitting in Lenox Hill Hospital waiting to find out if I’m getting a stent or open heart surgery (the latter being the more likely scenario). Ordinary, everyday life is precious.

— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) June 13, 2019

oh damn...well i hope taking care of it now will take care of it for a long time.

He got through it!

Update: I had quadruple bypass surgery and I just got out of the ICU with a good prognosis for recovery. So grateful to all who sent me such warm wishes. I love all of you.

— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) June 18, 2019

yaaaay

And updating that news above, Frank's back with The Mads are Back crew; he talks about his surgery a bit at the start.

https://soundcloud.com/user-340711944/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood