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DivisionPost posted:I don't think that's gonna happen; Mike doesn't necessarily like to work blue either. He and the guys will crank it up for Sketchfest because it's an older crowd of comedy nerds, but I suspect they like to keep things clean at RT Live-branded events for the sake of the families who might be watching. I kinda think it's funnier that way too. Nothing like a good euphemism. Anyway, the show's coming back! Play the party music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTECX5QB6jw
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egon_beeblebrox posted:When the show was still on, I was 12 and my sister was 8, and my 8 year old sister legit liked Hobgoblins enough to get mad at Mike and the bots mocking it. I showed it to her recently, and she said her kid self must have been insane. My dad did that for This Island Earth. He saw it in the theater as a kid, it was one of his favorite movies, and so our watching of the MST was interspersed with "they're leaving out the good parts!"
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Jul 25, 2016 02:35
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Solaris Knight posted:No mention of Pumaman in the episodes list? For shame. I'm sad we didn't hit that stretch goal of convincing a boy from birth that he was Pumaman. I think if we listed all the great ones, we'd be left with an entire episode list. Even the not that spectacular ones have something that cracks somebody up, and the rest will vary depending on which families turned which bits into in-jokes. My friends definitely adopted Agent From H.A.R.M's Bond sting.
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Jul 25, 2016 07:10
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I don't think anyone who's heard about even a fraction of the behind-the-scenes sausage is going to really judge when most people make bad movies. People working with a budget of pocket change and donuts stolen from the boardroom aren't going to make Indiana Jones.
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Jul 26, 2016 17:04
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Jul 26, 2016 17:38
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ZZT the Fifth posted:I kind of enjoyed Operation Double 007 just for how odd it was. Well, that, and the score by Ennio Morricone. How'd he end up working on this? Rent gotta be paid.
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Jul 26, 2016 17:38
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Olds posted:I think there was an interview where he said he took up lesser projects because they gave him leeway to do weird experimental things with his scores, which would explain Exorcist 2 and Diabolik. Man, Diabolik just didn't click for me. I think my expectations were too high for The Final Episode.
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Jul 26, 2016 19:22
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I just finished watching Fargo Season 1, and not only is it a darn fine piece of TV lemme tell ya, but it also cleared up an MST3K reference I didn't originally get in "Red Zone Cuba". I'm like that with Terry Pratchett books. Every couple of years I'll learn something that makes another line in them hilarious. Like Selachii being the clade for sharks, which puts a new perspective on that family's feud with the Venturis (a key bit of fluid dynamics in jet engines).
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Jul 27, 2016 22:04
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I'd say they should do that Muppet Babies anti-drug movie, but I'm not sure they could add anything to it.
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Aug 6, 2016 05:06
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Gavok posted:I think you mean that Muppet Babies, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Alf, Smurfs, Bugs Bunny, Michelangelo, Slimer and Garfield anti-drug movie. Ah, what a time it was to be a child. I'm honestly not sure if the roller coaster scene was just that bizarre or I repressed the rest. Or both.
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Aug 6, 2016 18:22
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I didn't have cable, so my friend would record them on VCR when his family watched them, and then bike the tapes over for us.
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Aug 8, 2016 02:40
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OldTennisCourt posted:What's everyone's favorite short? The only one I really remember is A Case of Spring Fever. Noooooo springs!
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Aug 12, 2016 19:47
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Gaz-L posted:The most amazing thing about this one is how LONG it goes after what should be the end. His golfing buddies are never gonna invite him back.
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Aug 14, 2016 04:40
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In kinda-related news, starting a week from Sunday Comet TV (newish American broadcast station that's half old sci-fi shows and half C-or-lower movies like Gor or Terrordactyl) is going to start airing MST episodes. Naturally the first one is gonna be Manos. I mean I know all this stuff can be seen at any time online, but there's something about just having a piece of the day to curl up on the couch and watch something you've been waiting a week for that appeals to me. And to have MST rejoin that... sweet.
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Aug 26, 2016 20:06
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Mister Kingdom posted:Manos is now on Comet TV. It's weird seeing the show on commercial TV after all these years. In 90 minutes over here, looking forward to it.
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Sep 5, 2016 02:25
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This is actually my first time watching "Manos" and wow. Half an hour into the show and it's still "happy family getting lost off the turnpike".
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Sep 5, 2016 04:31
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I honestly thought Comet was some local Portland thing until I actually looked them up while elsewhere in the country. Until now I'd been watching them for Stargate and because their announcer for commercials clearly loves his job and gets great lines. "If you decide to summon a demon from Hell you're going to need to repair that wall, move your bed back inside, and get new running shoes. So maybe it's better not to do it after all."
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Sep 5, 2016 19:44
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Oh this is SO much better than Manos last week. Attack of the giant leeches. "This statue is made of pure orihalcum. I found it while in my rocket powered submarine last week." Actual line, not their addition. Manos was just bleak, sucked all the energy out of the room. A "good" bad movie has an enthusiasm to it that keeps the energy up. Heck, I even enjoyed Gymkata, for a certain value of "enjoyed".
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Sep 12, 2016 04:21
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Well, Beginning of the End was a good palate-cleanser. Good riffs, good interludes, and grasshoppers crawling on postcards. Next up, I Accuse my Parents.
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Sep 26, 2016 06:08
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Evil Mastermind posted:Ah yes, that's the one where the kid accuses his parents. A good example of the meandering style of movie from the 40s. Sadly the broadcast had issues so I missed the part where the kid accused his parents. I'll need to catch the missing bits later.
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Sep 26, 2016 21:00
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:Jonah Ray wears skate shoes. I'm guessing He looks like the kind of guy who has slippers shaped like bear feet.
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Sep 26, 2016 22:57
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Diabolik900 posted:
I only recognize Jonah and Joel there. Could someone list the rest so that I can put faces to voices when it airs?
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Sep 26, 2016 23:56
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MrAristocrates posted:The three on the right are Hampton Yount (new Crow), Elliot Kalan (former head writer for The Daily Show and new head writer), and Baron Vaughn (new Servo). Thanks.
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Sep 27, 2016 00:14
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It's short and stupid, but I have a soft spot for sodium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqAxcs9lC1U
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Nov 4, 2016 06:31
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I don't remember the first episode I saw, but I remember that we didn't have cable so some friends would record it and we'd bike over to pick up the VHS tape and return the previous one.
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Nov 4, 2016 20:50
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Jet Jaguar posted:Watched I Accuse My Parents last night, such a great experiment. Plus The Truck Farmer is one of those really dark shorts that I love. "Thank God I'm white" is one of those jokes that you really really wish was less funny today than when the show first aired.
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Nov 11, 2016 08:14
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rydiafan posted:I nominate I Accuse My Parents. Everybody's terrible in it, except maybe Hamburger Sandwich Man. The guy who basically says "you don't need to take any responsibility for your actions, this is all bad parenting"?
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Dec 1, 2016 05:10
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I watch Svengoolie pretty often and I think it's the sincerity that sells these sorts of things. The awareness that you're doing something dorky while neither apologizing for it nor trying to make it "ironic" by hamming it up or anything.
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Dec 4, 2016 07:03
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On the one hand, Comet needs to buy some more episodes; this is my fourth time watching Killer Shrews. On the other hand, this is my fourth time watching Killer Shrews  I don't even like dogs usually, but something about them in those ridiculous costumes makes me go all dawwwwwww.
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Dec 19, 2016 05:11
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Random Stranger posted:A better movie would have set that up where he as an avalanchologist was trying to warn about dangerous avalanche conditions and insisting that the resort be closed until they could clear the danger ("There's an unprecedented snowpack on that mountain and it could fall on us at any minute!") but Rock Hudson won't listen ("Shut down on Fourth of July weekend? Are you mad? Besides, we have little avalanches all the time and no one gets hurt."). And then a snow-shark shows up.
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Apr 17, 2017 23:49
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Bicyclops posted:Add "people who want Gypsy to be a big dumb dragon voiced by a dude" to my list of pet peeves too, I guess. One of the more common complaints everywhere seems to be some variation of "They've ruined Gypsy with the new 'sexy' voice!" It took me by surprise, but that went away quickly. And "now you're MISTER cabinet" was such a great and unexpected riff that it sold me on her.
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BJPaskoff posted:Starcrash was the wrong episode to introduce my girlfriend to MST3K with. I thought the Star Wars rip-off would lead to some good riffing, but the riffs are slower than the other episodes I watched. Maybe it's hard to mine humor from an already absurd sci-fi plot that has no grounding in reality? Anyway, she got more into trying to follow the plot of the movie than Jonah and the bots. There's no wrong way to enjoy an MST3K episode. Except for that review a few posts back. My only real complaint about the new series is that a good chunk of the intermediary skits feel VERY rushed. Ever done that improv thing where you do a scene, and then need to do it again in half the time so you're stepping on lines and falling over each other? They feel like that. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Apr 19, 2017 |
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Egbert Souse posted:The Time Travellers wasn't terrible, even though it was basically a rip-off of George Pal's The Time Machine. Though, I loved how a lot of the special effects were basically magic tricks and it actually portrayed time travel in a clever way. Agreed. That was pretty clever.
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boner confessor posted:it's also just lazy. this is a show that drops obscure literature references and some super deep cut material, they dont need to resort to cheap insults There are ways to go blue and be funny, but there are vastly more ways to use blue language as a substitute for being funny.
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Apr 20, 2017 00:15
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remusclaw posted:The theme in my head still says Joel who works at Gizmonic Institute, and involves the creation of his Robot friends. Same.
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Apr 20, 2017 00:16
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Lord Hydronium posted:Oh no, I tripped on a sand! What the heck was up with Akton?
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Apr 21, 2017 06:25
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Mace Bacon posted:There's your answer. Well THAT would have had things make a lot more sense. Turn a dude into an alien and I can much more easily accept defrosting microwave hands and immunity to death rays and such. Not sarcastic there.
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Apr 21, 2017 19:17
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Magic Hate Ball posted:The drones cracked me up. "Woah! Woah, watch out-" Reminds me of the Rifftrax Live for Starship Troopers, where they "celebrated" the shower scene by having a gorilla-gram and cutting to the stage camera.
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Apr 22, 2017 05:43
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Seriously, they need Moon 14 t-shirts.
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Isometric Bacon posted:Oh man. I just finished Beast in the Hollow Mountain. I think this is my favourite one yet. Such a slow plodding movie, and BAM! Crude stop motion dinosaur out of nowhere! I've seen worse westerns. I've seen better ones too, of course.
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