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Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Wasn't one of the other initial plans for the Gizmoplex to have the 1-10 episodes available ad-free for only a limited time, and then eventually slap ads on them?

# ¿ Oct 28, 2023 16:35

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 21:12

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Sydney Bottocks posted:

Call our 900 number and vote!

Hobgoblins, Werewolf, Final Sacrifice, Pumaman - they did a lot of just absolutely bonkers movies in the 9th season.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2023 19:43

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Thank god they're swapping to a real set. Now I hope its better than the Netflix one, which just seemed kind of lifeless to me.

Maybe I'm just a crank and things aren't the way that they were when I was a kid.

# ¿ Nov 7, 2023 22:41

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Season 11 having a referencing to Mount Airy Lodge (all you need to bring/is your love of anything) was finally my chance to enjoy a joke about a regional ad.

Though, living in the midwest now I can enjoy all of the Menards references on a much deeper level than everyone else.

# ¿ Nov 14, 2023 22:50

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Gaspy Conana posted:

Other than Joel and Emily I'd LOVE for them to lose the cast. Please get these famous people out of my MST3k.

My unlikely wishlist for this show:

- Physical sets that feel they have dimension like in the old show. Even the netflix set felt kinda flat somehow?
- Bots that 'feel' like the Kevin Murphy/Bill Corbett bots. Maybe not impersonations but at least consistent characterization and voices that have similar registers.
- Make GPC dumb again. Name is fine but that character was so endearing and now it's just 'girl' which tbh kind of defeats the purpose of the change. There's also a perfectly good lore reason for her dumbness.
- New mads that aren't famous but just really funny individuals with excellent chemistry.

I think the writing has been pretty great.

I hope they pull off reaching their goal or have a contingency plan because I'd of course rather not-ideal MST than no MST.

Yeah I'd cosign all of this. A thing that bugs me a little bit and maybe I'm just being really picky and I only notice this because I was told it, but I don't love that the actors aren't doing the puppeteering. Bill isn't as handy a guy as Trace is, but after a few episodes he figured out how to make Crow emotive anyway.

# ¿ Nov 22, 2023 17:45

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

They should replace the little MST3K globe in the corner with a QR code to the fundraising page.

EDIT: I really think they need to be a lot more annoying asking for money. I've seen two commercial breaks and nothing about it other than the understated crawl on the bottom. We should all be deeply annoyed about how much they're begging for cash. It doesn't feel like they're in a multi million hole with little time left!

Clouseau fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Nov 23, 2023

# ¿ Nov 23, 2023 16:16

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

I do wonder if, after time, people will consider the revival seasons as right on par with the rest of the show. I remember a time when the Scifi episodes were largely considered less than their CC counterparts, which people don't really do anymore.

In fairness to the new episodes as well, the old show had an awful lot of breathing room in most of the seasons to have meh episodes, whereas today where our best hope is for 12 episodes.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2023 23:27

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

We'll start here.
"At goofy clown face."

# ¿ Dec 12, 2023 17:26

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

I've always dug The Painted Hills. It was funny to watch an extremely mid Lassie movie.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2023 17:43

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Phase IV is a classic I've seen multiple times including recently in theaters. The original ending which was cut from release is amazing.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2024 15:01

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

I've wanted to watch one of those director's editions or whatever of Touch of Satan where you see a better transfer, because I always have been curious about how the exterior shots looked interesting, but the transfer they had for that episode was loving awful.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2024 15:20

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

I think Patton and Felicia are fine but they get saddled pretty heavily with plot stuff, which isn't that interesting. I wish they just made funny little segments, I'm not invested in the lore.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2024 16:17

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Yeah the season eight segments have really grown on me- the Brain Guy planet is one of the funniest runs they had there. Imo, the difference is that that plot was pretty much just an excuse to give the mads a new setting for 3-6 episodes. The new stuff just feels very plotty and not gag focused and I'm just not interested in it.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2024 06:12

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Mary Jo really throws herself entirely at Pearl, and its a bummer people were so lovely to her about it.

There's the obvious reasons why a certain segment of fans would be terrible about it, but then also there's that whatever is new MST3K is doing is bad (I remember people getting upset that they were releasing the scifi eps on dvd!! there were still comedy central episodes to do!) and the old stuff is unimpeachable classics.

Now to get back to my complaints about the new seasons...

# ¿ Mar 19, 2024 16:10

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Yeah she got hate mail and it bummed her the gently caress out. Nerds hate change + misogyny.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2024 16:40

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Zamboni Rodeo posted:

Mary Jo and Bridget have some riffs on Rifftrax and everything they do is just loving magical. If you've never seen them you're really missing out.

The drunken aunts vibe is so good.

This "short" (30 minutes!) is one of my favorite riffs: https://www.rifftrax.com/wonderful-world-of-tupperware

# ¿ Mar 19, 2024 17:59

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

I think it was less Easy Rider and more exploitation off of growing anxieties about California's biker gangs, Hunter S Thompson's book Hell's Angels came out in 67.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2024 02:20

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

HopperUK posted:

The not-really-a-joke phrase that's lodged in my brain is Observer saying cheerfully that he's invited his friends over "to watch Sliders in my room." I have no idea why that's so funny to me.

That's one of those things where I wonder how annoying Sliders commercials were on Sci-Fi at that moment, since that was one of the other Sci-Fi originals then.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2024 15:13

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Merlin's Shop is one of my favorites - its also the episode that I decided I would start recording the show for (yes, that means I started recording with the last aired on cable episode)

"Its a book of magic."
"With a popomatic."

# ¿ Apr 10, 2024 04:22

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Hogama posted:

Rob Schrad

(I actually just wanted to highlight this one in particular because Rob Schrad is the creator of Scud: The Disposable Assassin and he's written about how he was a guest writer on MST3K.)

I know Schrab directed season 12. The credits for Santa Claus Conquers the Martians credits a Rob Schrad - is it the same guy? Did they typo his name in the credits?

# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 21:22

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Wild! I never knew that.

Too bad they didn't take any of his jokes, but I think the season 12 segments looked a bit better than those in 11.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 21:55

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

I kind of think the movie being shorter than an episode is an asset to it. The movie is a really good intro to the show if you have no context for it, the This Island Earth itself isn't particularly bad, and it ends before you get bored.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 17:10

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

"we'll start right here"
"At goofy clown face."

# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 13:23

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

The riffing in the 13th season is my favorite of the revivals- the pacing is much better. Emily and her cast is a lot of fun. The real miss for me is the dumb plot arc stuff. I'm a real Johnny about them: I don't care.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 20:41

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 21:12

Clouseau: Aug 3, 2003; My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

For some reason, Hobgoblins has been one of my absolute favorite episodes since I first saw it on reruns on scifi. I think largely its because I don't really find the movie nearly as painful as they do - its just a poor Gremlins knockoff - and the first segment with them being annoying kids on the couch and then later the cardboard cutouts segment crack me up.

Stay away from those juice boxes!!!!

# ¿ May 8, 2024 18:24

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