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

Batwoman, surely. :-D

"Their five year mission: to be hot hot HOT"

yup, batWOMAN

and it's something else, even without the MST3K treatment ...

Yeah, agreed -- I did like it when Rhino did the occasional inclusion of the movies straight up without the riffing, just for the extra footage and to see how they made so many utterly useless movies actually watchable by increasing the pace by default. (The Skydivers being a classic example.)

END! END! END!

I grew up watching this when we got cable around 1995 or so, so I only knew the Mike Nelson Comedy Central years. F-ing CLASSIC in every way. Recently after discovering the Rifftrax I started seeking out old episodes to watch. Right now I'm working through season 3, which has Joel, and I had never seen before. To be honest the riffs aren't quite as fast-paced as I would've hoped. The movies I've seen so far (Cave Dwellers, Pod People) are so god-awfully bad it makes up for it when that's the case.

Joel does the interacting-with-movie via his silhouette more than Mike. I'm loving the skits more than I thought I would...Joel is a real funny guy and has a nice Intelligent Stoner look to him that kinda suits the show.

Pretty much sums up how I feel about the Joel vs. Mike thing. Mike's episodes were generally better written with faster riffs inside the theater, but almost too slick. Joel was a much more likable host, but some of those really early episodes are way draggy.

yeah, I can get with this. and I grew up watching the mike eps too.

just re-watched WURRWULF last weekend. was dying at the werewolf driving a car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsFGo5sHrwA

I do prefer the joel skits in general. the mike ones could sometimes get a little too... corny?

Yeah, I'm watching the Pod People one right now. At the second skit break they setup a wall of keyboards and started making fun of New Age music and minimalism, and played a couple minutes of "bay area" ambient jams! The next break was simply them jumping around in Pee Wee-inspired hysterics, with really silly synth music playing. Brilliant and hilarious!

Jesus demonoid has the complete collection as a 142 GB download!!

I really loved it when Joel would act all butthurt over the 'Bots not playing along during skits. Or the few times he came off as scary discipline parent.

There was a nice meanspirited nastiness to some of those earlier skits (the Orville Redenbacher one, for instance) that was just missing in the era of Mike.

"GOVERNMENT cheese!"

Was rocking First Spaceship to Venus the other night. The "Thanks, LEN!" riff makes me laugh way too much. (But the guy really does look like a Len. There could be nobody more Len than him.)

I really liked Joel.. he was so sullen. Quit watching not long after Mike took over.

man i'm excited to see the beatniks again

I always liked that the bots more or less had the upper hand over Mike. And they did have some classic host bits, like the one where Crow goes back in time to tell Mike not to take the job at Deep 13, changing the future and leaving them with Mike's abusive brother Eddie.

I am one of those weird people that likes Joel and Mike.

I think most folks like em both! just that people usually have a pretty strong preference. but they're both cool.

Yeah, I like them both too. I really, really liked Mike in bit parts before hosting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__0C1lxp1Q4

I am one of those weird people that likes Joel and Mike.

Cosign.

I really, really liked Mike in bit parts before hosting.

He was great at those, it's the one regret I had with the host shift since he couldn't very well play against himself. I love him as JC from The Sidehackers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTKWAgiZs5M

And of course:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R88T3ZHbvDM

"Well, we seem to have caught you at a bad time..."

man i'm excited to see the beatniks again

Been too long for me as well.

"Shuddup Iris."

torgo's theme = instant lols

currently watching 'the leech woman' on youtube. "now...ACT!"

Google vid searching MST3K unleashes quite the treasure trove of full length, DL-able eps, btw.

currently watching 'the leech woman' on youtube.

I love whenever actors recur in movies. The oily dude she offs in the last half hour or so was the guy in The Unearthly who kept using too much Noo Yawk attitude and slang and so Joel and the Bots piled on the Dead End Kids lingo.

man i'm excited to see the beatniks again

"one word to anyone and I'M GONNA MOON YOU!"
"you're gonna what?!?"
"MOOOOOOOOOOON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!"

(from the movie, not a riff)

anyway, i caught onto the show during the Joel era. i stopped watching just after Mike replaced Joel (for reasons that had nothing to do w/ whether or not i liked Mike more than Joel). over the years, i've caught up w/ the Mike-era episodes which have been quite revelatory & enjoyable when i finally get around to seeing them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38MVSgCtF0k

Based solely on in-theater riffing, I'm almost positive I could make a list of my top 5 episodes from Mike's episodes in season 5 and season 6 alone.

One of the many classics.

Haha the whole end of season 5 is one hit after another. Even the completely ridiculous Radar Secret Service.

"The director's mistress, ladies and gentlemen."

At least Santa Claus finally got the official nod but there's Radar Secret Service as mentioned, Alien from LA, Village of the Giants, Teenage Crimewave, 12 to the Moon...

Ugh, Kathy Ireland's voice!

Man, every. single. joke in Village of the Giants's Whiskey-a-Go-Go scene is killer!

"Whuh-whuh-where DID THEY COME FROM?!!?"

"OBVIOUSLY the TURTLE GAMERA can't BE FAR BEHIND!"

There were never enough Willow jokes for me.

i still know all the lyrics to the sidehackers song, by heart XD

there is/was a hilarious torgo screensaver created like 12 years ago that plays the theme as he walks around sweeping up your screen, it's really cheesy and great.. still out there on the internets, says google, but afaik not in any updated version i can use

"Hi, I'm the adult child of an alcoholic and I've got great big thighs."

sidehackin is the thing to do, and it doesn't hurt to have a low IQ..

from season 6:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2f0nfrgaK4

All the skits on the Pod People episode make me so happy.

otm, greatest skit ratio of any episode probably. Adam Bruneau was talking earlier about the "You are magic, aren't you Trumpy?" sequence which is just so dead-on perfect, in and out of the theater. "What, did he come from the Planet Goofball? Did he come here in a little clown car?! Criminy."

Also, of course, HIDEOUS CONTROL NOW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3CDX3Q5UxY

Speaking of MST3K Bergman parodies, is their "Death and Taxes" Turkey Day ad online somewhere?

back when i first saw pod people, i seriously considered making my own "im a virgin" tshirt. didn't go through with it. for better or worse.

Idiot control, yes!!! Sooooo much fun.

Mike's episodes were generally better written with faster riffs inside the theater, but almost too slick.

You and comedy! Not everything can be as shabby and uneven as Hellzapoppin!

Wow I hadn't seen one of Mike's episodes in a long long time. Joel kills Mike in everything but the riffs. From villains to theme music to skits to the way he interacts w the robots.