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I'd forgotten how good Squirm is, actually. Servo doing the Looney Tunes theme and the "Merry Christmas!" during the short, and the perfectly timed recurring "Mr. Beardsley?" jokes killed me.
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Sash! posted:The dumbest mandate. Young Man's Fancy, Day at the Fair, the Auto Show Whatever the Hell that was, KEEPING NEAT AND CLEAN, Are You Ready for Marriage, the one where Union Pacific implores us to not get run over by trains, the time a demon and an angel battle for the soul of a bread delivery man, and that kid that cheated on the test outstrip many of the full length movies in awesome riffs. Don't forget about "Mr. B Natural" and "A Case of Spring Fever."
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Apr 25, 2017 02:31
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The auto show opera is also top quality just because of its weirdness. It feels like she is dragged off into the Dreaming by some kind of Evil Consumer Product Boggart dressed in a mask, only to spend eternity in a twilit sing-song world filled with kitschy 50s utopian stuff. It's like The Sandman met Fallout.
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On the other hand there's ones like the freezer sales pitch which is just death outside of the one or two bits of weird misogynistic objectification the short indulges in.
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Gaz-L posted:On the other hand there's ones like the freezer sales pitch which is just death outside of the one or two bits of weird misogynistic objectification the short indulges in. Hey, I liked Servo going nuts over freezers was great.
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Apr 25, 2017 03:08
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My favorite shorts are probably The Truck Farmer and A Date With Your Family. I do mention "two pints of oysters and the new vegetable" a lot while grocery shopping--it's from the short about being a homemaker and the perils of letting the husband buy groceries.
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Apr 25, 2017 03:17
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My favorite short has to be "Catching Trouble" with the wildlife expert torturing animals. "Russ tries to wash off the evil, but nothing doing."
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The Truck Farmer is probably one of their most brutal shorts.
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Jet Jaguar posted:My favorite shorts are probably The Truck Farmer and A Date With Your Family. I do mention "two pints of oysters and the new vegetable" a lot while grocery shopping--it's from the short about being a homemaker and the perils of letting the husband buy groceries. The oysters & turnip was from a RiffTrax short, Buying Food. Those are also good, and only a couple are re-riffed MST3K shorts.
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Century 21 Calling is a funny short. I watched The Land That Time Forgot tonight and I love that they continue the tradition of making fun of Germans and dumb white guys with guns. I love how they kept doing Doug McClure's voice as Phil Hartman's Troy McClure voice. Also, there was one bit where they did an extended riff on Dinosaurs (the 90s puppet sitcom) that was hilarious.
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mangler103 posted:My favorite short has to be "Catching Trouble" with the wildlife expert torturing animals. This is my favorite short and the 'Catching Russ' skit is fantastic.
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Apr 25, 2017 04:53
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Brain Guy and other brain dudes were great especially since they gave us this segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bV4-w2H5qE
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Apr 25, 2017 05:21
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The home economics short from the Viking Women episode doesn't get enough love. Along with being filled with hilarious riffs, it's a downright quaint little window into the roles and expectations of women in the time it was made. Spacebump posted:I had only watched a handful of MST3k episodes as a kid and wanted more after watching the revival. The first old one I watched was Time of the Apes. The ending of that movie makes no sense with the cuts they made. (and from reading what was cut online, still doesn't really make sense.) Any must see classic episodes? (I don't care what era of the show they are from.) Along with what everyone else has recommended, you should watch the rest of the Sandy Frank movies, especially the Fugitive Alien movies. Fugitive Alien gave us one of the show's most beloved musical bits.
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The Home Economics Story is a great one. Body Care and Grooming, too. I love how the narrator gives that poor girl a dressing down and Servo just says "Look at that sidewalk."
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"Is This Love, or just rough sex with Michael Douglas??"
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The Time Travelers was a pretty solid episode, but I was left kinda frustrated by the movie. And I can't tell if it's due to cuts they made (like to the ending) or just that the movie itself is uneven. Like what happened to the mute outsider dude? There's juuuust enough charm and craft in there that I'm left wishing it was fleshed out a bit better either way. Anyone know how the remake is?
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The ending kind of sucks in my opinion, and most people misinterpret it to mean that it they get pulled back from their idyllic future and are caught in a time loop, but they're nit; it's just the other versions of them beginning their journey. It's the movie's way of letting us know that once something is embedded in time, it's always there, but because of the weird repetitive, rush, thing, it comes off as menacing, like the original travelers are caught in a loop. I think they cut it because it because the only riffs you can make are the Tom Servo-esque "Okay, we get it, yes, it's a time loop. It's a time loop, sure. Come on, I wanna go home!"
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Oh my god. Oh my god. Loves of Hercules. The Hydra fight. That obviously painted cow masquerading as a bull. The ridiculous amazon headgear. Some random dude just fondling and harassing women during the "trial" before being unveiled as Hercules' sidekick. Hercules' penchant for just lifting heavy things and walking around with them. The loving living trees with struts clearly propping them up so they don't fall over. The loving sasquatch fight out of nowhere at the end. At some points I was laughing so hard it hurt. My girlfriend refused to believe the movie wasn't an intentional comedy. E: also the season has been good / great / amazing so far.
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Der Shovel posted:Loves of Hercules. [spoiler]Hercules' penchant for just lifting heavy things and walking around with them. I loved the wormy sad little voice they used talking as him whenever he did that.
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Egbert Souse posted:I love how they kept doing Doug McClure's voice as Phil Hartman's Troy McClure voice. Well Troy IS based on Doug, so it is a thematically appropriate joke.
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Wow, I'm rewatching the series in order, and in episode 205, Joel says he was going to do the jumping bean bag chair as the invention exchange but decided to do something else. Almost 30 years later, it shows up in an episode. I wonder if he just has a notebook of weird invention ideas, or if the idea just stuck in his brain.
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There's an episode of Sifl & Olly where a caller calls in about a jumping bean bag chair too. I suppose it's not a terribly difficult concept to come up with.
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Light Gun Man posted:There's an episode of Sifl & Olly where a caller calls in about a jumping bean bag chair too. I suppose it's not a terribly difficult concept to come up with. That's true I suppose. The joke's right there.
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Apr 25, 2017 18:46
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The band singer being Har Mar Superstar was an absolute blast from the past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g98QXm42mmA
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Compendium posted:Brain Guy and other brain dudes were great especially since they gave us this segment: We also got the hilarious bit where he has his brain taken away from him, and when he tries to do a brain power thing we hear the brain power noise, but it's slowed way down.
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I was just watching The Gunslinger the other day, and was pleasantly surprised to notice they use the same sound effect when Dr. F. is trying to explode Frank's head, Scanners-style.
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I love Pearl, Bobo, and Brain Guy. I particularly love that it's "Brain Guy"
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Gypsy's IMDB editing software sextuple-posted!
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My favorite Brain Guy thing is from RiffTrax's take on The Night Dracula Saved the World, a lame TV special starring Judd Hirsch that's basically a low-budget 1970's Hotel Transylvania. During the intro, they introduce all the different monsters, including a zombie. The zombie shambles out with white face-paint, black paint around the eyes and a purple hooded cape. The RiffTrax guys are all, "BRAIN GUY?!" and Corbett mutters to himself, "I'm in this...?"
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Having never listened to Rifftrax, I have no idea what Corbett's real voice sounds like, so I basically picture it to be Brain Guy's.
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The imdb trivia section has always been full of idiots. 
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Could be worse. The now homeless forum posters might move there.
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Bicyclops posted:Having never listened to Rifftrax, I have no idea what Corbett's real voice sounds like, so I basically picture it to be Brain Guy's. It's pretty much the same. Also, watch some rifftrax.
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It's a shame, because I like actual trivia like "This person was supposed to be played by a different actor who dropped out at the last second" or "There was a sequel planned called Beetlejuice goes Hawaiian."
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The Ape of Naples posted:It's pretty much the same. Watch Rollergator. I need others to share my pain.
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Bicyclops posted:Having never listened to Rifftrax, I have no idea what Corbett's real voice sounds like, so I basically picture it to be Brain Guy's. The Ape of Naples posted:It's pretty much the same. Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW0fdFKJjWY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmMqZIH7idQ
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Jet Jaguar posted:My favorite shorts are probably The Truck Farmer and A Date With Your Family. I do mention "two pints of oysters and the new vegetable" a lot while grocery shopping--it's from the short about being a homemaker and the perils of letting the husband buy groceries. I remember that "two pints of oysters" short from Rifftrax; it was where I finally learned about products that weren't Grade A.
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Bicyclops posted:Having never listened to Rifftrax, I have no idea what Corbett's real voice sounds like, so I basically picture it to be Brain Guy's. Just his Crow voice, really. If you're going to give RiffTrax a try, though, I'd highly suggest Jack the Giant Killer. It's a fun, campy adventure movie from the 60's with lots of stop-motion and goofy magic effects. Feels enough like a regular MST3K movie and it's available on Amazon Prime.
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