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

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there's no way anyone under 35 gets most of these references

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 November 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link

the lead in Laserblast died at 37 and was in the original production of Hair

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 November 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link

he was Rocky in the Roxy cast of Rocky Horror :D

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 November 2018 02:26 (five years ago) link

i never knew he died so young tho :(

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 November 2018 02:27 (five years ago) link

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

dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 19 November 2018 02:33 (five years ago) link

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!

dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 19 November 2018 02:38 (five years ago) link

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.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 November 2018 04:50 (five years ago) link

definitely. i forgot about all the bizarre scenery changes

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 November 2018 05:21 (five years ago) link

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., Monday, 19 November 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link

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...

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 November 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link

they do a whole bit about that in the MST3K credits

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 November 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link

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

Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 November 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link

"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."

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 19 November 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link

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

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 November 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link

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.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Monday, 19 November 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link

you know what happens when you assume

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 November 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link

your ass gets blasted!

Evan, Monday, 19 November 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link

O_o

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 November 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link

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

kurt schwitterz, Monday, 19 November 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link

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"

dub pilates (rushomancy), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 00:27 (five years ago) link

xpost EXACTLY

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link

Mac and me is p good

YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 22 November 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link

i think my kid brother & sister liked this movie.

the older brother is Beans Baxter <3

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 November 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link

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.

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 November 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link

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

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 November 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link

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

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 November 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link

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?

Evan, Friday, 23 November 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link

Tiffing. Yes

Evan, Friday, 23 November 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link

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

Evan, Friday, 23 November 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link

(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)

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 November 2018 00:42 (five years ago) link

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

Evan, Friday, 23 November 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link

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

YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 23 November 2018 03:33 (five years ago) link

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

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 November 2018 04:44 (five years ago) link

sorry, the day that time ended

anyway #steakmilk

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 November 2018 04:52 (five years ago) link

WISE MEN STILL SEEK HIM

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 November 2018 05:15 (five years ago) link

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

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 November 2018 05:29 (five years ago) link

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.

adam the (abanana), Monday, 26 November 2018 06:22 (five years ago) link

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

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 26 November 2018 07:15 (five years ago) link

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.

adam the (abanana), Monday, 26 November 2018 08:19 (five years ago) link

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.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 December 2018 05:40 (five years ago) link

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

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 8 December 2018 10:15 (five years ago) link

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.

blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 21 December 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link

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

blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 21 December 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link

"Tuuuuubular."

"SHUT UP!"

Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 December 2018 05:06 (five years ago) link

...and the bad fathers who love them

YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 21 December 2018 05:32 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

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.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, 2 March 2019 04:50 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

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).

zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

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

Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 June 2019 04:36 (five years ago) link

No Retreat...is a lot of fun.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 3 June 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link

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

Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 June 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link


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