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

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Making fun of the Renaissance Festival = classic. Many drama students I knew worked there and, um... tended to take their character home with them too often.

Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 12 January 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link

ARGH. I feel your pain, Eric -- my hatred for SCA/RenFesters resulted from having two roommates in UCLA days who were addicts. At first I sorta thought it was charming. Near the end, despite my open and happy addiction to Tolkien remaining strong, I realized when charming became something wrong and to be avoided. And ever since then, I have.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago) link

Heh, meanwhile, here's a treasure of a remark on Space Munity from one of the user comments:

Still it was better than Pitch Black.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago) link

having watched Mitchell again recently, I think the greatest line ever is now "Word on the street is that you're a jerk."

M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 12 January 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago) link

Just pondering Coleman Francis, who gives Ed Wood a run I'm sure for having a moderately interesting vision (in Francis' case, masculinity and a sort of clueless nod to Hawksian group dynamics) and repeatedly shooting himself in the foot.

"Flag on the moon, how'd it get there?" is just as paradoxically telling and dunderheaded as "The horror. The horror."

Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 12 January 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago) link

(MITCHELL x-post)

"Oh a spot in the shade!" (*crash*) "oop!"

Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 12 January 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago) link

"I got soap, I got dog poopie!"

Don't get me started on the Coleman Francis films.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 03:41 (twenty years ago) link

"Why is it that all the men I meet are married, gay, or being strangled by a giant octopus?"

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 12 January 2004 03:45 (twenty years ago) link

"The director's vision: lots of shots of things."

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 03:46 (twenty years ago) link

"That squares my breasts!"

nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 12 January 2004 04:03 (twenty years ago) link

Such a good line you've said it twice!

"That squares my breasts!"

-- Nate Patrin (natepatrin550...), May 25th, 2003.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 04:09 (twenty years ago) link

"you know, as an actor, merlon olsen really hadn't found his instrument yet."

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 12 January 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

"we're going to control the ghetto you and i, young man."

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 12 January 2004 04:15 (twenty years ago) link

"cedar lattice: works every time!"

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 12 January 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago) link

"WHAT are you doing, Mitchell?"

"Want it in a commemorative glass? They got Dick Butkus on 'em."

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 04:18 (twenty years ago) link

"Yeah, well, for you beer is an entree."

M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 12 January 2004 04:21 (twenty years ago) link

"Oh look, they're using the light rock instead of the grunge sound for this scene."

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 12 January 2004 04:29 (twenty years ago) link

"beer got a litle excited"
"that's okay, we can just cuddle"

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 12 January 2004 04:31 (twenty years ago) link

"There won't be a soul around for miles!"
"I'm not bringing mine!"

Sengai, Monday, 12 January 2004 04:38 (twenty years ago) link

"I reproduced asexually while I was out."

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago) link

"Mobsters laughin', really smilin', a man selling herion..."

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:02 (twenty years ago) link

I've always wondered about that reference, what's the exact song they're riffing on?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:03 (twenty years ago) link

"The director's vision: lots of shots of things."

Or: "Now here the director's beginning to lose control of his film. This is characteristic of many young directors: too many ideas. Or, in this case... none at all."

I use this one all the time.

Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:03 (twenty years ago) link

Y'know. MST3K could use a "parsing" thread like the Christgau one.

Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:04 (twenty years ago) link

"Taster's Choice, the final chapter."

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:04 (twenty years ago) link

I've always wondered about that reference, what's the exact song they're riffing on?

It's Chicago's "Saturday in the Park."

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:05 (twenty years ago) link

"You said 'bowling ball' earlier -- what was that about?"

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:05 (twenty years ago) link

"DON'T. EVER. STEP. ON. MY. LINES. KID."

M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:07 (twenty years ago) link

It's Chicago's "Saturday in the Park."

Thank you! One mystery less. :-)

"Buzz off."
"Huh?"
"Buzz off, HUH!"
"No you buzz off!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

(That exchange was also of course the source of the 'tonight on Crossfire' reference I used a little while ago on a Fiddo/Aja exchange.)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:10 (twenty years ago) link

BABY OIL?!?!?! ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:17 (twenty years ago) link

"...what would your momma say?"
"She'd say, 'He's not mine! You can't prove it!'"

"I dunno. You got an airbrush on ya?"

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:18 (twenty years ago) link

"its a wet TEACHER contest"

Pablo Cruise (chaki), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:30 (twenty years ago) link

"We've never heard such great disco."

"The whole building just lost on Price is Right."

"My period!"

Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 12 January 2004 06:12 (twenty years ago) link

"We've never heard such great disco."

Ah, not quite -- it was the even better/more telling 'seen' rather than 'heard.'

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 06:14 (twenty years ago) link

Fuck. I'm the type to have my day ruined by a not-quite-right MST3K reference (of course, I'm probably ruined well into February from this thread)... good thing I'm minutes from bedtime.

Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 12 January 2004 06:15 (twenty years ago) link

Manos.
Hands of Fate.
That's all.

Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 12 January 2004 06:15 (twenty years ago) link

"Do you have any idea how you were framin' back there?"

Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 12 January 2004 06:16 (twenty years ago) link

"...the *haunting* Torgo theme."

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 06:27 (twenty years ago) link

can anyone give me an episode ID for the following:

"Now let's get those clothes off!"

That line has haunted me for years, in a comic sort of way.

Aaron A., Monday, 12 January 2004 06:45 (twenty years ago) link

"Now finish the job!"

Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 12 January 2004 07:19 (twenty years ago) link

"Oh look, they arrested Harlan Ellison!"
"Good."

nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:30 (twenty years ago) link

"reynolds wrap: keeps freshness in, can't keep mitchell out."

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago) link

"I'll take Larry Czonka's breath away..."

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago) link

That episode is laden with almost too much goodness.

"Time to settle in with the Book of Mormon."

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago) link

I'm late for my ice dancing lessons.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

"Joel...the human body."

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 02:44 (twenty years ago) link

*singing* "Sixteen men on a dead Dodge Dart!"

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:05 (twenty years ago) link

I watched Manos yesterday. My favorite line was (and I'm doing this from memory): "Every shot of this movie looks like the last known photograph of someone."

NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago) link

One of my faves too, that one.

"It's the DEVIL and it's FUN!"

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 02:40 (twenty years ago) link

A detailed report on that comedy thing Bill, Kevin and Mike were at. Sounds like it was a blast and a half (and it's always strange seeing photos of Bill without Brain Guy makeup).

News of Interest reported there:

Is it true that each writer had a "specialty" area, one for pop culture, one for sports, etc.? "Not really," said Bill, "although if we needed to know something about sports, we would go to Paul Schersten." Added Mike, "And if we needed to know something about obscure vaudevillian actors, we'd ask Frank. He was our 'go to guy' for vaudeville."

When asked if they had indeed heard from any angry actors or filmmakers, the inevitable shouting of "Joe Don Baker!" was heard from the audience. "We're not worried about Joe Don," replied Bill, "we can easily outrun him. Or should that be out-fast walk him?"

"I've got one thing to say to Joe Don," added Kevin, "Go ahead on." Kevin also mentioned that they had received an extremely angry letter from Gremlins director Joe Dante after they gave the MST treatment to Marooned, aka SPACE TRAVELLERS. "It's supposed to be some kind of monumentally epic tribute to Sixties space travel," said Mike. "Let me tell you something. It's not."

...

Questions were then taken from the audience. While nothing new was asked, there was one surreal moment when a woman angrily demanded to know why THE FINAL SACRIFICE was MSTed. It turned out she was Canadian, and actually liked the film. "Why?" asked Mike. "Because of its accurate portrayal of life in Canada?"

After the audience Q&A, the Sklar brothers wrapped things up by asking if there were any upcoming projects in the works. It turns out there are several. After the April 20th DVD release of Reefer Madness, Mike will be contributing audio commentary to the DVD of Carnival of Souls. Also, all three are in discussions to provide commentary for upcoming Three Stooges DVDs, and they're also all working together on a book about, naturally enough, the state of bad movies today.

Meantime, the Satellite News site sez a new DVD box set in March with Mike and Kevin both adding commentary. I liked Mike's brief bits on Vol. 4 so this could be fun. No word on what episodes in particular.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 January 2004 05:26 (twenty years ago) link


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