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Everyone loves MST3K, and I'm here to reignite a long-dormant Internet Argument, updated for a new century: Who is the best host?? JOEL  Funny stoner. Fairly Light-Hearted. Robots' Dad. MIKE  Annoyed temp. Robots' dumb older brother. JONAH  I think he's an inventor/space trucker? Robots' friend. I'd say Mike. He was my intro to the show; I just think he's funnier than Joel and Jonah. Also, feel free to discuss favorite episodes; favorite quotes; etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3oD4UNKw8A egon_beeblebrox fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Apr 27, 2020 |
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Apr 27, 2020 23:10
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It goes Mike Jonah then Joel for me, I ended up really like Jonahs two seasons and am bummed there wont be more. Mike being exactly on the bots level is why it worked for me. The canned wassail bit isnt him pulling back and disengaging from the bit like the other two hosts would, its fully going for it and taking the whole thing at face value and finding some wassail to get out of it. Jonah gets second for being a more active Joel and the sketch "Fashion of Hollow Mountain" being incredible.
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Apr 28, 2020 01:43
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For me it's Jonah then Joel then Mike, but I like all three.
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Apr 28, 2020 03:12
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I never understood the way nerds all got into huge rows about this. I liked the movie variety during the Joel era more than say SciFi's run, but all of the writers brought neat things to the table. Before the netflix seasons, I usually leaned towards late Joel era, since it had all of the writers on board but I was hesitant about the new seasons, but they were made with a lot of love and reminded me of the magic of watching this show as a kid.
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Apr 28, 2020 09:26
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who the gently caress is jonah?
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Apr 28, 2020 11:06
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banned from Starbucks posted:who the gently caress is jonah? egon_beeblebrox posted:JONAH He's the host of the Netflix seasons.
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Apr 28, 2020 11:34
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I really like Jonah, I wish he had two more seasons at least. I also dont get why the live shows werent recorded and released, but I chalk that up to Joel being Joel
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Apr 28, 2020 11:56
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the correct answer is always tom servo
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Apr 28, 2020 16:42
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the best character is cambot
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Apr 28, 2020 16:54
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You guys are all clowning around if you don't think it's Joel. E: Crow is the most iconic robot of all time
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Apr 28, 2020 17:01
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I wish I had watched MST3k as a kid and built up the attachment to and affection for it that Gen Xers have as a result of years of reruns and tape trading, because by the time I was in a position to watch it YouTube existed and it was way easier and more fun to just watch 5-10 minute clip compilations of the good parts of bad movies on their own than sit through an hour of sketches and riffing to get that same material.
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Apr 28, 2020 17:54
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*walks into thread and puts my leg up on something* hey guysSleeveless posted:I wish I had watched MST3k as a kid and built up the attachment to and affection for it that Gen Xers have as a result of years of reruns and tape trading, because by the time I was in a position to watch it YouTube existed and it was way easier and more fun to just watch 5-10 minute clip compilations of the good parts of bad movies on their own than sit through an hour of sketches and riffing to get that same material. That's fair, MST3K is a product of its time for sure. If I were a millenial and some geezer tried to get me into the show I'd probably think it was boring as gently caress. You kinda had to be there I guess. You could even argue that public access TV shows like MST3K started out as were the precursor of youtube shows. Like Red Letter Media scratches the same kind of itch for me that MST did. Guys talking about movies with bad jokes and irony and stuff.
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Apr 28, 2020 18:35
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The Pussy Boss posted:*walks into thread and puts my leg up on something* hey guys This gets more and more true. It's fun to go back and date all the references, especially to now-dead politicians and now-dead celebrities. "Benazir Bhutto is holding him up!"
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Apr 29, 2020 08:03
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Mike did a really good job I'd vote for him to be sent off into space and to be tortured by robots 2020.
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Apr 29, 2020 14:43
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Sleeveless posted:I wish I had watched MST3k as a kid and built up the attachment to and affection for it that Gen Xers have as a result of years of reruns and tape trading, because by the time I was in a position to watch it YouTube existed and it was way easier and more fun to just watch 5-10 minute clip compilations of the good parts of bad movies on their own than sit through an hour of sketches and riffing to get that same material. The shorts were always better than the feature length ones just because if the movie was too lovely to laugh about (and there were a good few of those) it was over in like twenty minutes
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Apr 29, 2020 18:22
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Mike, Joel, blank empty space, Jonah
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Apr 29, 2020 20:03
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I could never get into Rifftrax because I felt like they were having to force more of their jokes on account of the movies usually being better than the usual MST3K fare, but also because I missed the breaks and inventions. Like, I don't want just disembodied voices heckling the movie, I want to hang out with my robot buddies (and that other doofus, i guess).
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Apr 29, 2020 21:03
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I mostly watch mst to fall asleep and tbh I've never loved the host segments, and I found this youtube channel where a dude finds the best available prints of mst3k movies and then overdubs the riff track. Some of the scans are really high quality, some aren’t but I'd check him out if that sounds appealing at all https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl5WCUORYcBuUnIZ7C3pTpA
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Apr 29, 2020 21:33
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https://twitter.com/JoelGHodgson/status/1255519374112444425
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Apr 29, 2020 21:34
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How did they get zoom and modern webcams aboard the SoL, this violates all known science facts
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Apr 29, 2020 21:36
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zoux posted:How did they get zoom and modern webcams aboard the SoL, this violates all known science facts You should really just relax
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Apr 29, 2020 22:38
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Its really hard to pick between the original hosts but Joel treats the bots like they're family and I just think its real cute 
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Apr 30, 2020 00:24
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Joel, Emily, Jonah, backstabber.
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Jun 1, 2020 13:31
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Jonah's stuff wasn't allowed to "breathe" as much, it felt too rapid-fire, but the heart and mind was in the right place and I'm so grateful we got some modern MST3k. Sucks that it didn't go further, but that's Netflix I guess.
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Jun 1, 2020 13:58
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Remulak posted:Joel, Emily, Jonah, backstabber. As a filthy casual viewer, what'd Mike do?
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Jun 1, 2020 16:11
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I want to talk about a little about the best and worst episodes of MST3K. I think there's movies that MST3K vastly improves (Space Mutiny, PUMAMAN, Jack Frost) and movies that, no matter how hard anyone tries, can't be improved with commentary (Mighty Jack, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies). Basically a lot of the 60's material is insufferable garbage, and the best stuff has something else going for it, like Donald Pleasance doing literally anything. Also I'm on team "I hate all the skits, please stop and get back to the movie"
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Jun 1, 2020 21:20
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Sodomy Hussein posted:Also I'm on team "I hate all the skits, please stop and get back to the movie"  .
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Jun 1, 2020 23:54
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I like the skits more than the movie half the time
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Jun 2, 2020 00:09
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I feel like Mike and Joel, in that order, are two stages in an upper midwestern man's bildungsroman, ending with becoming a zenlike Joe Cera type, talking the ears off of his friends about the evolution of maritime law as it pertains to the St. Lawrence Seaway at the fish fry. Jonah is just a nice kid. What I'm saying is that the final season should have had Joe Cera in it, making comments like, "You know, while the design is somewhat ungainly on that blood beast suit, you can tell the craftsman responsible put a lot of love into its construction, and it feels downright petulant to catalogue fault in a pure expression of affection from a man for his vocation."
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Jun 2, 2020 01:31
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I can't really say that I like any one of them over the other. They had their own styles with strengths and weaknesses. Mike was more constantly funny, the sci-fi era had better movies, but they also had a tendency to push a lot of really unfunny jokes and that got obnoxious, something that rifftrax still does. Supercalifragilisticexpiali-wacky! was the worst skit in the history of the series. Joel wasn't always funny but when he was it great and had some pretty good smartass quips, he seemed more sincere and less try hard, and his family like bond to the bots was cute. He could be a little too cautious when it came to language and content for my taste and his references were dated even for the time (I think?). Some of the movies where just bad and not funny at all. Jonah seems like a good balance between Mike and Joel. He's good hearted like Joel and constant like Mike. The movies are mostly good but the quips feel a little too fast at times, maybe that's not a bad thing idk. Tom and Crow are the best. mysterious frankie posted:I feel like Mike and Joel, in that order, are two stages in an upper midwestern man's bildungsroman, ending with becoming a zenlike Joe Cera type, talking the ears off of his friends about the evolution of maritime law as it pertains to the St. Lawrence Seaway at the fish fry. Do you mean Joe Pera?
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Jun 2, 2020 01:40
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Linux Pirate posted:Do you mean Joe Pera? Crap, I did.
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Jun 2, 2020 01:41
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Linux Pirate posted:Supercalifragilisticexpiali-wacky! was the worst skit in the history of the series. Alternate title for that skit, "This is what Mike Nelson actually believes".
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Jun 2, 2020 01:54
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banned from Starbucks posted:who the gently caress is jonah? Jonah Ray. He's more known for podcasting I believe. I think he was one of the hosts of the Nerdist.
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Jun 2, 2020 02:12
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Linux Pirate posted:Do you mean Joe Pera? When was Joe Pera involved with MST3K? Joe Pera Talks With You on Adult Swim is a really great show. Super charming and funny in a unique way.
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Jun 2, 2020 02:16
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I used to watch this as a kid, on the Comedy Channel before they renamed it. Somewhere at home I have a few Thanksgiving 24 hour marathons on vhs lol. Also Joel is by definition the best host. Kudos to anyone who to this day, when someone starts a sentence with 'in the not too distant future' , responds with 'Next Sunday, AD.' In conclusion keep circulating the tapes Slippery fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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Jun 2, 2020 02:46
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RestingB1tchFace posted:When was Joe Pera involved with MST3K? Joe Pera Talks With You on Adult Swim is a really great show. Super charming and funny in a unique way. he wasnt mysterious frankie posted:I feel like Mike and Joel, in that order, are two stages in an upper midwestern man's bildungsroman, ending with becoming a zenlike Joe Cera type, talking the ears off of his friends about the evolution of maritime law as it pertains to the St. Lawrence Seaway at the fish fry.
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Jun 2, 2020 02:47
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Remulak posted:Joel, Emily, Jonah, backstabber. Who's Emily? What did I miss!?
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Jun 2, 2020 03:02
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MonsieurChoc posted:Who's Emily? What did I miss!? Shes the live show host, which I only know because it was mentioned in the streaming thing they did. I really do not understand why those werent recorded and made for sale
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Jun 2, 2020 04:24
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I find Jonah to be wildly unfunny, in every thing he does. I don't think he was a good host, but again just my crappy opinion. Mike rules.
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Jun 2, 2020 04:39
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Flaggy posted:I find Jonah to be wildly unfunny, in every thing he does. I don't think he was a good host, but again just my crappy opinion. Mike rules.
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Jun 2, 2020 04:51
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