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I also highly recommend the Lifetime Channel mysteries starring Danica McKellar, the Inspector Mom series. Although there is a genuinely gross moment that's hard for me to watch where Inspector Mom and her kids smear peanut butter all over their clothes and for some reason it turns my stomach in a way the Saw franchise never did.
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Ok tell me if I'm missing something. In Robot Wars, the North Hemi polity has an economy based on a single day tour to a studio lot of 90s America. To get passengers to this lot, the NH uses the very last colossal scorpion battlemech, a weapons platform that must have insane operational and maintenance costs, because the path from wherever to there is constantly attacked by wasteland rebels. The passenger limit is 25.
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Clouseau posted:The drunken aunts vibe is so good. Their Home of the Future (with Wink Martindale) is one of my favorite riffs. Any of their releases is pretty much an instant buy for me.
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zoux posted:Ok tell me if I'm missing something. Yep, that's about the size of it. Yet somehow the battlemechonomy is strong.
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Does anyone else have any jokes that they either didn't get or completely misinterpreted? For myself it took me a little too long to get that Coleman Francis wasn't actually Curly from the Three Stooges.
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muscles like this! posted:Does anyone else have any jokes that they either didn't get or completely misinterpreted? For myself it took me a little too long to get that Coleman Francis wasn't actually Curly from the Three Stooges. My mom the music major had to explain the bit from Century 21 Calling where the lady goes "And presto!" and Mike goes "Well, andante maybe."
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muscles like this! posted:Does anyone else have any jokes that they either didn't get Oh, all the time. I doubt there's a person on Earth who would get every single reference. These days after I watch an episode, I like to look it up on the wiki for the explanation of some of the more obscure riffs.
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muscles like this! posted:Does anyone else have any jokes that they either didn't get or completely misinterpreted? For myself it took me a little too long to get that Coleman Francis wasn't actually Curly from the Three Stooges. A shitload. For my MST3K video I analyzed every riff in Space Mutiny and Cry Wilderness. For Cry Wilderness I didn't fully get 13% of the jokes. Space Mutiny, 18%. Going to guess in the earliest seasons that number could go well north of 30%. 
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It's very likely that there are jokes in this show that the person who wrote the joke has forgotten what exactly they were referring to when they wrote it 30 years ago.
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Powered Descent posted:It's very likely that there are jokes in this show that the person who wrote the joke has forgotten what exactly they were referring to when they wrote it 30 years ago. I read somewhere that Jeannette McCurdy who was in some of the Nickelodeon tween comedy series was a big fan of the show and this would have been before the Netflix stuff and while of course I thought that was cool to hear a part of me wondered "So the kids are really into jokes about Pace Thick and Chunky Salsa?"
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Powered Descent posted:It's very likely that there are jokes in this show that the person who wrote the joke has forgotten what exactly they were referring to when they wrote it 30 years ago. In several early episodes they mention Yards of Leather, which seems to be a porno movie title they came up with as a joke, but when asked about it later, the writers had no memory of what it meant.
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muscles like this! posted:Does anyone else have any jokes that they either didn't get or completely misinterpreted? Jokes I don't get? Definitely. Tons. I'm pretty well versed in American popular culture, even obscure poo poo, but there's tons of references to like old 70s or 80s newscasters or local Minnesota celebrities that I have never even heard of. And I think that's the strength of the writing, much like it was with the good SImpsons and good Futurama: so many of the jokes are one percenters, but they're not one percenters about the same thing. So while there's jokes you won't get, there WILL be jokes that you get but few others do, and when that happens it feels like the show is written specifically for you. Jokes I completely misinterpreted? Yeah, some. Famously in this thread I posted a week or so ago that I always thought the "Guess what I've been doing!" joke in Deathstalker was about the guy doing a LOT of coke, until I screen capped it and noticed that the white stuff in his beard wasn't powdery but sticky.
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Never forget the "I thought you were Dale" situation.
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As a non-American the show has been very educational to me with all its references to obscure celebrities, commercials and brands. I hope that one day I too will get to experience a giant spider invasion of savings at Menards!
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Sardonik posted:A shitload. For my MST3K video I analyzed every riff in Space Mutiny and Cry Wilderness. That's nice, dear.
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Her Dryer posted:As a non-American the show has been very educational to me with all its references to obscure celebrities, commercials and brands. I hope that one day I too will get to experience a giant spider invasion of savings at Menards! That's all regional stuff, I've never seen a Menards in my life. One of the regionalisms in the show that drives me nuts is "hinder". I don't know why, the word is just dysphonious to me
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muscles like this! posted:Does anyone else have any jokes that they either didn't get or completely misinterpreted? For myself it took me a little too long to get that Coleman Francis wasn't actually Curly from the Three Stooges. When Tom was singing "Oh mighty brontosaurus" in Werewolf I thought it was an old Sinclair gas station jingle. It wasn't.
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There's some I didn't get until I watched all of TOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI5mWxIFVbc&t=2613s
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zoux posted:That's all regional stuff, I've never seen a Menards in my life. Really? Hinder has meant "rear part of something" for like 400 years.
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Sash! posted:Really? Hinder has meant "rear part of something" for like 400 years. Anyways they cause 40% of all auto accidents I hear, the women’s ones at least.
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" 'Hold onto your'... Charles Nelson Reilly!" "I was going to say 'hinder' uhuhuhuh"
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Sardonik posted:A shitload. For my MST3K video I analyzed every riff in Space Mutiny and Cry Wilderness. Huh. That’s a lot of jokes. For joke 59, you’re looking for “Armand Assante wannabe”. 576 is “accursed montebank”. Those two jumped out at me on a quick skim. I miss many of the music riffs but catch an embarassing number of riffs that were obviously Frank’s.
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I can help with one off the top of my head from Space Mutiny: Susan Powter was an Aussie fitness type person (and might still be for all I know). She had a very close blonde buzzcut, like the character in the movie. Her catchphrase was 'Stop the insanity!' which was very omnipresent around the time the episode aired.
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I have a boyfriend and a best friend who live in Minneapolis and have been there many times, and there are a *lot* of little jokes that I get now and didn't for years.
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#66 of space mutiny should be “shuttlecraft determined to be acute sir” as a geometry joke
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Raskolnikov38 posted:#66 of space mutiny should be “shuttlecraft determined to be acute sir” as a geometry joke It's "cute", not "acute".
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I never saw It’s a Wonderful Life in full until well into adulthood, so my first watch was filled with moments where I said “THAT’S where that came from.”
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I've had too many backwards riff revelations to remember them all but one that sticks out clearly in my mind was when I finally heard Papa Was a Rolling Stone for the first time over a PA system at some store. I'd heard songs by The Temptations before, just never that particular one, and the "It was the third of September" jokes (e.g. Boggy Creek II) instantly starting making sense.
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Narsham posted:I miss many of the music riffs but catch an embarassing number of riffs that were obviously Frank’s. This for real legit impresses me, no lie. I love Frank, but I don't know that I could ever pick out jokes as being written by specific people. I mean, I would guess that Mike and Kevin were the music guys and I'm pretty sure that Frank wasn't a sports guy (and therefore wouldn't have written most--if any--of the sports jokes), but beyond that I have no idea who might have written what.
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:This for real legit impresses me, no lie. I love Frank, but I don't know that I could ever pick out jokes as being written by specific people. I mean, I would guess that Mike and Kevin were the music guys and I'm pretty sure that Frank wasn't a sports guy (and therefore wouldn't have written most--if any--of the sports jokes), but beyond that I have no idea who might have written what. Judging from what folks have said if it's a deep dive into sitcom lore it's probably Frank.
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Sardonik posted:A shitload. For my MST3K video I analyzed every riff in Space Mutiny and Cry Wilderness. Clarifications on some from Space Mutiny: #103 - "Should I spend $20 on Griffey?" is referencing Ken Griffey, Jr./drafting a fantasy baseball team online, which was a new phenomenon in the late 90's #143 - Zubaz, gaudy 90's weightlifting/athletic pants #221 - Annie Sprinkle is a 70's porn actress turned sexual performance artist #240 - "Herve Villechaize's Death Car" - Herve was the dwarf actor best known for playing Tattoo on Fantasy Island #272, #290, #378, #530 - All references to Martin Short's sketch comedy character Ed Grimley, whose defining physical characteristic was a huge cowlick kind of like the actor's weird fauxhawk haircut. "I must say" is one of his catchphrases. #323 - ISO-9001 Certification is a thing for businesses and manufacturers that ensures they meet standardized regulations as dictated by the International Organization for Standardization. It was very big for companies in the 90's to attain certification; I remember the company my dad worked for at that time went through it and he'd grouse about the extra work it was creating for like a year #417 - "This is like the time I got lost at Bally's," a defunct chain of gyms/fitness centers #517 - "He needs a giant Tucks," Tucks Medicated Pads are "cooling" wipes primarily used as hemorrhoid treatment Going through this list I was mostly surprised at how many are on there that I still don't get.
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JethroMcB posted:#143 - Zubaz, gaudy 90's weightlifting/athletic pants For almost a decade there was a joke gift in my dad's family of trading the same pair of bright pastel Zubaz pants as a Christmas present. It suddenly stopped at some point and when someone asked around about it, my uncle in Oklahoma had received them and took them for a legit gift. He apparently unironically wore them to the gym for the next several years.
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Hogama posted:I've had too many backwards riff revelations to remember them all but one that sticks out clearly in my mind was when I finally heard Papa Was a Rolling Stone for the first time over a PA system at some store. I'd heard songs by The Temptations before, just never that particular one, and the "It was the third of September" jokes (e.g. Boggy Creek II) instantly starting making sense. I had the same experience when I first heard Lucky Man by Emerson Lake and Palmer. I think Monster a Go Go is the one that leans on that joke a lot.
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One of my favorite music riffs is there's this sound in Overdrawn at the Memory Bank that sounds exactly like the intro to Fashion by David Bowie and servo calls it out quietly.
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Angry_Ed posted:" 'Hold onto your'... Charles Nelson Reilly!" been meaning to post this all week
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Zubaz still exist.
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ccubed posted:For almost a decade there was a joke gift in my dad's family of trading the same pair of bright pastel Zubaz pants as a Christmas present. It suddenly stopped at some point and when someone asked around about it, my uncle in Oklahoma had received them and took them for a legit gift. He apparently unironically wore them to the gym for the next several years. Lol my dad thought Zubaz was the funniest word and he said it at any opportunity for years.
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Dawgstar posted:Judging from what folks have said if it's a deep dive into sitcom lore it's probably Frank. Similarly, any deep cut jokes about music performance (the presto/andante joke mentioned up the page) or classical name drops (e.g. "Why are they playing Smetana's Má vlast in the background?" from Skydivers) are almost certainly from Mike. Any jokes about Sauk Rapids probably came from Bridget given it's her hometown. Likewise Circle Pines and Mary Jo. As for specific riffs, the joke from Night of the Blood Beast about snapping a frozen dog in two came from Mike and was based on his experience at a veterinarian clinic putting dead pets in cold storage until they could be disposed of.
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JethroMcB posted:Clarifications on some from Space Mutiny: Goddamn, thank you for this, a lot of deep cuts there for sure.
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Sardonik posted:A shitload. For my MST3K video I analyzed every riff in Space Mutiny and Cry Wilderness.
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